My starting summon is a small skeleton

Chapter 171: 169 Semi-finals (Subscription Request)

Lu Wu said he wanted to see the Hengheng Monster cry, and indeed it did cry.

Cradling its neck area that was torn open, revealing a large wound dripping with blood, the Summoned Beast, the Hengheng Monster cried with tears streaming down like rain.

Her crying broke the audience in the arena as well.

Originally, Team 002 was already disliked by the audience because they were an outsider team.

Now, with such a harsh move that almost killed the Hengheng Monster's Summoned Beast and caused such a lovely girl like the Hengheng Monster to cry, the audience's hatred value maxed out instantly.

Lu Wu's frown deepened as well.

He clearly wasn't pleased either.

Even though he had said he wanted to see the Hengheng Monster cry, this was not the kind of crying he had meant to see.

After all, although the Hengheng Monster wasn't very smart, she was not a bad person, and Lu Wu couldn't really categorize her in the same class as Ye Qingxue.

More so, he saw the Hengheng Monster as someone to tease and bully for fun.

Seeing this silly creature bullied so severely, Lu Wu couldn't find joy in it.

And what was more important, he interpreted Fang Bai's challenge to himself.

This really got to Lu Wu.

Just that one look was enough to make Lu Wu note it down heavily when writing his diary at night.

However, the discontent of Lu Wu and the audience did not affect the outcome of the battle.

In the end, Team 002 left as victors, while Team 073, the Hengheng Monster, carried their severely injured Summoned Beast to the medical room.

Lu Wu thought for a moment, then took Dudu to the medical room to offer his condolences to the Hengheng Monster.

After all, from Fang Bai's challenging expression, it seemed that the Hengheng Monster was implicated by him.

Lu Wu originally thought that going there at this time might make the Hengheng Monster think he was there to mock her, causing her not to show him a good face.

However, to his surprise, the Hengheng Monster's face lit up with joy when she saw him come in, rushed in front of Lu Wu, took Lu Wu's hand in front of Dudu, and dragged Lu Wu into the medical room.

"You came just at the right time. The medical room only has the 'Healing Grass' on duty. It used a Healing Skill on Mimi and Mimi fell asleep. Could you check how my Mimi is doing now?"

"Not much scope..."

"What?"

"Nothing, I said let me take a look."

Lu Wu diverted his attention from elsewhere and checked the cat lying on the bed, which was recovering.

...

Name: Two-tailed Spirit Cat (One-time Evolution)

Power: 2 Stars (Elite)

Quality: Black Iron

Attribute: Fire

State: Coma (Just severely injured, though treated, the wound recovered but exhausted a lot of physical and spiritual energy, needs rest and recuperation for a while)

Weakness: Grass, Wind

Basic Skills: Bite (Master), Cat Step (Master), Cat Claw (Master)...

Advanced Skill: Fire Cat State (Master)

Talent: Agility Enhancement (Basic)

Fire Attribute Enhancement (Basic)

Description: Don't look around; this is Mimi...

...

Lu Wu felt like his home system was making things out of nothing; he hadn't been looking around.

He swore!

After all, there wasn't much to look at.

Lu Wu touched his nose and refocused his attention on this Mimi.

He spent some time helping Mimi concoct some body-nurturing potions.

For Lu Wu, this wasn't very difficult.

He had been furiously studying for half a year, had a rich reserve of knowledge, and although he didn't specialize in breeding plans for Two-tailed Spirit Cats, creating a plan for nourishing or conditioning its body was quite simple.

Lu Wu spent about an hour to come up with the plan, and after system verification found no problems, he handed the plan over to the Hengheng Monster.

Just as Lu Wu handed over the plan for treating the cat to the Hengheng Monster, a deafening cheer suddenly burst from the entire arena.

"What's going on?"

Lu Wu was startled. He had been busy with the plan and hadn't noticed the situation outside; the Hengheng Monster's two teammates immediately approached and explained.

"It's the match between 003 and 066, 003 won!"

"How is that possible!"

Lu Wu was full of disbelief.

He knew the strength of both teams, and by 003's strength, they shouldn't have been able to beat 066.

"Did 003 hide their strength? If they really hid their strength, why would they agree to be threatened by me during the preliminary rounds?"

Lu Wu couldn't figure it out.

But there was no need to think about it; seeing it would tell.

Lu Wu hurriedly left the medical room and rushed towards the arena.

When Lu Wu arrived at the arena, it was all over.

At this moment, Team 003 was enjoying their moment of victory right in the center of the arena.

And the entire audience kicked off a carnival of joy.

At that moment, each spectator looked as thrilled as if they had won a five-million-dollar lottery, overwhelmed with surprise.

Initially, they had placed all their hopes on team 042, having little expectation for team 003.

Their only wish was for team 003 not to let team 066 clean sweep through them, and not to lose too disgracefully.

Unexpectedly, in today's match,

the goblins of team 042 underperformed, while team 003, the dark horse, once again displayed their characteristic resilience and surprisingly overcame the foreign team 066.

They became the only team from Jiangnan in recent years to defeat a foreign opponent.

How could the audience not be thrilled?

They were absolutely uncontrollable with excitement!

At this moment, the arena echoed with chants of '003 is awesome' and '003 is invincible,' the slogans initially meant for 042 earlier in the day.

Even the banners had been hastily changed to team 003's.

What was initially dominated by team 042 in the morning now entirely revolved around team 003.

It's fair to say, with this battle, team 003 had made a name for themselves, completely replacing team 042 as the new hope of Jiangnan.

However, Lu Wu wasn't too concerned about this.

After all, he was broad-minded, and team 003 had indirectly helped him; if not for them, Lu Wu might not have made it into the top eight.

He was more curious about how team 003 had won, and he found his answer upon seeing the summoned beast in the arena.

…

Name: Iron Blade Mantis (One-time evolution)

Power: 3 stars (Elite)

Attributes: Metal, Grass

Quality: Bronze (Enhanced)

State: Weakness (state of weakness entered after using a special potion combined with a skill explosion, expected to last about 2 days)

Basic Skills: Drill Blade Cut (Master), Mantis Strike (Master), Block (Master)…

Advanced Skill: Iron Blade Cutting (Master)

Talents: Agility Enhancement (Basic)

Talent: Blood Burning Explosion (Active), which, after use, can increase one star in power, making the summoned beast's attacks more ferocious.

Description: Yup, you read that right—it's drugged up.

…

Upon seeing the attributes of this summoned beast, Lu Wu understood exactly what had happened.

One thing was the power of the summoned beast had increased by one star, and the other was that team 003 had used unsporting methods to win against team 066.

However, Lu Wu knew this but felt no overwhelming righteousness to call out and expose team 003.

He thought it best to pretend he hadn't seen it; after all, it wasn't him who lost.

Besides, team 066 weren't exactly saints either; they had tried to compete with him over the fish earlier, so let them lose now, he thought.

After satisfying his curiosity, what Lu Wu was most interested in now was the schedule for the next day's matches.

"If only we could be matched against team 003 tomorrow, it would be relatively easier to win as they'll be in their weak phase."

Lu Wu quietly mused, looking forward to tomorrow's match schedule.

Soon, tomorrow's match schedule was released.

018, 054, 066, 073

Four teams eliminated, leaving just two matches to be played tomorrow.

In the morning, it's team 003 against team 044, and in the afternoon, team 002 against team 042.

Clearly, fate didn't seem too fond of Lu Wu, as team 044 had snagged the easier match against team 003.

That left Lu Wu somewhat regretful, causing him to sigh deeply.

But he forgot he was still at the arena.

As the captain of team 042, although overshadowed somewhat by team 003, he still attracted considerable attention.

His sigh was noticed by many who were watching him.

Among those close to Lu Wu was Fang Bai, the captain of team 002.

Ever since Lu Wu took the little goldfish, Fang Bai's hatred for him had been soaring.

Now, he even came over to directly provoke.

"What's up? Scared? If you're scared, you can just forfeit; it's not like it's your first time!

You're pretty skilled at this."

Lu Wu couldn't be bothered with such pointless bickering and turned to leave.

He had to leave; this guy was full of animosity, and Lu Wu feared a physical confrontation might occur if he stayed.

But his departure made Fang Bai act even more arrogantly.

It also made the audience think Lu Wu was truly afraid of team 002, causing his popularity and the attention on him to drop considerably.

They turned their hopes more towards team 003.

As for that, Lu Wu didn't have much to say or care about it; the semi-finals were starting tomorrow.

Who was capable and who wasn't would be known tomorrow!

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