Astral Pet Store (WN)

Chapter 86: Fall

Translator: Henyee Translations  Editor: Henyee Translations

The Lightning Rat received Su Ping’s orders and felt the old experiences of going through all the hellish lessons coming back. In the next second, it coated its fur under lightning bolts and entered full concentration.

Thunder Shadow Image!

After another flash of blinding light, two more Lightning Rats joined the battle.

The All-round Thunder Prison they unleashed had its range tripled and almost covered the entire stage. A large thunder strike came down upon the Thunder Basilisk and swallowed it up.

Infuriated, the basilisk spat out a fire beam to fend off the lighting bolt. The conflicting attacks created quite a beautiful sight to behold.

 2Whoosh!

As Su Ping instructed, three Lightning Rats dashed toward the basilisk from three directions while preparing different skills.

Ye Hao grinned and silently applied an astral rune onto the basilisk’s body. This one was meant to speed up the creature’s energy output.

The basilisk aimed its whip-like tail at the closest Lightning Rat. With a “poof,” the shadow was destroyed. The energy brought by the Thunder Rush and the Thunder Armor was also detonated like a bomb. Still, such energy was not enough to break through the basilisk’s hide.

Next, the basilisk shot out another fire beam which overwhelmed another fast-approaching shadow. The attack melted all the ice in its way and made the whole area look blurry.

The Lightning Rat was quickly losing control of the shadows it created. It was expected that the shadows would get hit that soon.

“This is too easy.” Ye Hao humphed in disdain. He knew those rats were fake, but he’d get rid of them nonetheless so his opponent wouldn’t hide smart tricks in them.

Wait, where’s the real one?

The Lightning Rat was occasionally blinking out of existence as it used Thunder Flash to move, preventing everyone from knowing its exact location.

Thunder Flash was one of the ten most powerful secret arts available to the thunder family, which was said to allow its user to almost unpredictably teleport around. A pet unable to catch the rat could only bear its rapid assault like a stationary practice dummy.

But in this case, the Thunder Basilisk was extremely tough thanks to its superior dragon blood. Maybe the rat could knock off more of its scales, which wouldn’t hurt at all.

“Petty tricks are nothing compared to true strength!” Ye Hao smirked again.

The Lightning Rat appeared right above the basilisk’s head and made another “flashbang” before the basilisk had time to react. When the basilisk was too blinded to defend itself, the rat clawed at its opened maw.

People heard another thunderous roar from the basilisk. But this time, it sounded in pain.

Ye Hao regained his sight and saw a large gash almost splitting one side of the basilisk’s mouth. If the wound was any deeper and reached all the way to its neck, the basilisk’s jaw would have come off.

The Lightning Rat reappeared several meters away and gazed at the basilisk carefully. There was blood and the residue of some gray energy lingering on its claw. What the rat used was not a lightning attack, but Claw of the Undead. This energy-enhanced attack was enough to harm the basilisk where its defense was weak.

“Got you.” Su Ping smiled in satisfaction.

Everything happened within five seconds so nobody knew how the seemingly losing Lightning Rat suddenly gained the upper hand. It was the turn for the Thunder Basilisk to look pitiful.

“What just—”

The settlers were just as dumbstruck as the students. They saw the Lightning Rat using the same moves as before, but in a completely different way. Such an ingenious tactic had improved the effect of Thunder Rush several times.

Su Yanying just couldn’t believe that the battle could turn out to be this easy for the Lightning Rat. She only saw her partner rushing there and using its claw in a direct attack, and everything was done.

Ye Hao spent a moment looking at his wounded pet and suddenly showed a cruel look.

Roar!

The Thunder Basilisk screeched hysterically and floated in the sky. It gathered the intense power of lightning until its entire body became a shining globe.

Then the creature aimed its attack at the place where Su Yanying and Su Ping were standing.

“No—”

Su Yanying immediately knew what Ye Hao was trying to do. He was forcing the Lightning Rat to protect its master from the attack. As an offensive pet bad at defense, the rat would get into serious trouble at this rate.

To make it worse, the effect of Frigid Brine had locked up Su Yanying’s feet. The basilisk could have frozen her to death if its master instructed it to.

“You asked for it.” Su Ping frowned. He had more than one way to kill the basilisk back there but didn’t find that necessary. But then…

He sent another order to the Lightning Rat, who responded by showing a bloodthirsty look.

Ye Hao asked the Thunder Basilisk to go into the sky so the Lightning Rat couldn’t reach it. But this was no longer helpful when the rat could use Thunder Flash to freely and rapidly go where it wanted.

The rat reached the basilisk’s bleeding mouth in a millisecond and unleashed several attacks at the same time.

Bloodthirst Bite, Claw of the Undead, and finally, Thunder Slash.

Boom.

The “healthy side” of the basilisk’s mouth exploded.

Losing focus, it had its skill interjected and allowed the Lightning Rat to see another opportunity to attack.

The rat jumped onto its back and used Thunder Rush.

The basilisk was hurled toward the ground as if it were being knocked away by a hammer. The falling momentum made a large crater on the stage floor and caused the entire stadium to quake.

As the clouds of dust settled, people saw its tail helplessly slumped over the edge of the crater, while its body was further below.

For a moment, the stadium stayed deathly quiet.