Chapter 37: The Gold-medal Sparring Partner That Hits Three Birds With One Stone
“Hello Mr. Sun, this is our Martial Arts School’s gold medal Sparring Partner Ge Bai. She will provide sparring for you and your Pet Beast shortly.” Hu Ming very calmly introduced Ge Bai to Flower Shirt, with a tone of voice that made it seem as if Ge Bai was truly a senior Sparring Partner at the Martial Arts School.
“Please wait just a few more minutes. Our two Sparring Partners need to do a work handover.”
Ge Bai smiled at Flower Shirt, then walked straight to the Green-capped Water Arrow Turtle and its Beast Tamer.
Seeing someone come to take over, that Beast Tamer also breathed a sigh of relief.
He hurriedly introduced the sparring work situation to Ge Bai.
It wasn’t difficult actually. This Striped Ghost-Eyed Lynx was here to train agility. It had already trained for two days, but the progress wasn’t particularly fast. An attack frequency of one per second was already the Lynx’s evasion limit.
Its Beast Tamer had signed a goal-based contract with the Martial Arts School. The final requirement was to stably and proficiently evade 5 instant attacks.
This had no requirement for attack intensity, only for attack frequency. Big Willow’s Wind Blade was really suitable.
Ge Bai calculated Big Willow’s Wind Blade situation, wondering how much the Wind Blade’s proficiency could improve after a few days of training. Just thinking about it made her very happy!
“I’m counting on you!”
After the Trainer quickly finished introducing, he stuffed the Touchscreen Control Panel and a Headset into Ge Bai’s arms all at once.
“The recording isn’t complicated. When your Pet Beast increases the attack frequency, just note the time point. Wear this Headset; you can communicate with the sparring customer anytime.”
After the two finished speaking, the Trainer didn’t delay a single second. He knocked on the Green-capped Water Arrow Turtle’s Turtle Shell and said helplessly.
“Alright, Ba Turtle, no more fussing. It’s time to get off work.”
Hearing the words “get off work,” the Green-capped Water Arrow Turtle immediately opened its eyes, its little green bean-like eyes cautiously glancing around.
After confirming that its own Beast Tamer wasn’t deceiving it, it nimbly extended its four limbs, its short little Turtle tail even shaking out afterimages.
Like full health resurrection, it showed no trace of its previous listless state. It held its neck high and strode with a gait that recognized no kin, paddling its little short legs toward the Doorway.
Its Trainer followed behind the Turtle with a speechless expression, not even having the face to greet Flower Shirt before directly leaving.
Ge Bai watched the Turtle’s retreating figure and found it truly amusing. Fortunately, her own Big Willow wasn’t this kind of personality.
Ending up with this kind of Pet Beast would really be worrisome.
She turned her gaze to the paying customer, adjusted her Headset, clicked the talk button, and said.
“Mr. Sun, are you ready? Can we start?”
The Striped Ghost-Eyed Lynx had been standing in the center of the Venue all along, ready to continue training at any time.
“No problem.”
After Flower Shirt answered nonchalantly, he walked back to the other side of the Training Ground, leaned against the wall to sit down, and gave Ge Bai an OK hand gesture.
Ge Bai patted Big Willow. “One Wind Blade per second, oh Big Willow. Reduce the attack intensity a bit. We’re mainly training the skill’s firing frequency, stability, and accuracy.”
Big Willow shook its Willow Threads. “Got it, Bai Bai. Don’t worry.”
Snap, snap, snap, snap.
One Wind Blade per second wasn’t much pressure for Big Willow.
In less than a minute, Big Willow’s Wind Blade hit the Striped Ghost-Eyed Lynx. The Lynx merely retreated two steps after being hit, losing a few hairs but not injured.
Ge Bai breathed a sigh of relief. This meant Big Willow’s current Wind Blade intensity control was appropriate.
Flower Shirt on the opposite side was initially not too reassured, staring tightly at the center of the Venue. Seeing that this round was about the same as before, he gradually relaxed.
“Big Willow, for Wind Blades at this frequency, how do you feel about the consumption?”
She wasn’t really here to make money anyway. Letting Big Willow get training was the main goal.
“It’s fine. At this frequency continuously, it feels like it can last about two hours.”
Ge Bai nodded. It was about the same as her estimate.
“Don’t just imitate that Water Arrow Turtle. Its Water Bullet attack path is straightforward. You can make the angles trickier to force an attack on that Lynx every minute.”
After watching a bit more, Ge Bai noticed Big Willow was somewhat constrained, so she couldn’t help but remind it.
“Ah, this works too?”
Big Willow had thought it was best to do like with the Water Arrow Turtle. Hearing Ge Bai say this, it got fired up and threw itself even more wholeheartedly into this game.
Ge Bai watched for a while, then sat down beside Big Willow, placing the Touchscreen Control Panel properly on her knees in front of her. But her thoughts had long flown to the Spirit Plant Cultivation Atlas.
[Type: Weeping Ancient Willow]
[Age: Spirit Plant organism age 212, Spiritual Sense birth age: 11]
[Spiritual Power Value: Zero Order Third Level (29/300)]
[Beginner Attribute: Wind Element]
[Skills: Willow Whip-Proficient (64/200); Wind Blade-Proficient (59/200); Storm Willow Blade Hammer-Beginner (2/100); Wind Weave Domain-Beginner (2/100)]
It seemed like it wouldn’t take half an hour to grind the Wind Blade skill to Proficient. She just didn’t know how many Skill Points it would take from Proficient to Profound Meaning, and then to Profound Meaning mastery.
Ge Bai also didn’t forget the System Task weighing on her.
[Defeat (Repel) Spirit Plant Spirit Beast Task Progress: Below First Order (7/100), Above First Order (0/10)]
[Task Completion Time Limit: 14 days 19 hours.]
It seemed the previous battle with Silver Armor Vajra didn’t count as repelling. Ge Bai could understand this judgment.
But then why didn’t the current sparring with the Striped Ghost-Eyed Lynx count as repelling either?
Ge Bai flipped through the Touchscreen Control Panel and pulled up the Striped Ghost-Eyed Lynx’s basic information:
[Type: Striped Ghost-Eyed Lynx]
[Name: You Hu]
Was Lynx feline? Ge Bai looked at the Striped Ghost-Eyed Lynx’s name and zoned out a bit. Eh, whatever, feline or canine didn’t matter.
She shook her head to focus, then continued looking down.
[Age: 1 year 7 months (Juvenile)]
[Spiritual Power Value: Zero Order Third Level (171/300)]
[Skills: Night Stalking, Claw Assault, Agile Leap]
Cultivated quite averagely. Ge Bai learned from the customer notes that this Lynx was mainly here to train agility, in hopes of mastering the Agile Leap skill.
But from the current sparring situation, it hadn’t even touched the edge of that skill. Its agility could be considered failing among feline Pet Beasts.
She decided to chat with Flower Shirt and adjust the battle method to exploit a task bug.
One stone two birds wouldn’t do; she needed one stone three birds to be satisfied.
“Mr. Sun, I just checked the Striped Ghost-Eyed Lynx’s previous training records at our Martial Arts School.”
“I’ve also carefully observed the actual sparring situation. With your You Hu’s Aptitude, it should progress faster.”
“What do you think, should we adjust the sparring method? On the basis of this current sparring, make some changes.”
“For example, every 10 minutes do a burst evasion drill. This would be more interesting for the Pet Beast, more in line with Actual Combat, and have better Training Effect.”
Ge Bai clicked the Headset talk button and seriously began her persuasion.
