Chapter 35 Li Yi’s First Monster Pet

The Lightning Rat’s new skill, Fast Movement, was somewhat different from Lightning Flash. Although Lightning Flash also increased movement speed, it would release electric attacks in the process.

These electric attacks not only extended the Lightning Rat’s attack range, they also carried an electric shock effect. This was something that Fast Movement could not compare to.

Fast Movement gave the Lightning Rat an awesome speed boost, helping it to dodge attacks.

Li Yi studied the Lightning Rat carefully. He was a bit surprised. He did not expect that one Breakthrough Status would make it jump all the way to Grade 9 strength!

It was now only one step away from becoming Bronze-tier!

Of course, this last step was the most difficult to get through. At some point, training is no longer enough, one must rely on actual combat experience to get past this bottleneck.

After the Breakthrough, the Lightning Rat’s also got a little bit bigger. It was now almost the same size as Garfield.

Li Yi could not help but sigh. The Lightning Rat’s growth potential was really extraordinary. It actually was able to grow pretty quickly!

Looks like Garfield had not let him down. He made the right choice!

In the days that followed, Li Yi continued to train the Lightning Rat.

With the non-stop training, the Lightning Rat’s combat skills continued to improve.

It already had the basics of a qualified monster pet. However, Li Yi could clearly feel that the Lightning Rat’s strength had reached a bottleneck. It was now getting very difficult to improve.

Indeed, the last step before breaking through to the next strength tier was the most difficult.

However, once it broke through, it would be a qualitative leap!

After a long period of intense training, the Lightning Rat would often run out of energy or accidentally injure itself.

Whenever that happened, Li Yi would give it the [ Recovery ] Status. Then, it would continue to fight.

Although this was a little tough on the Lightning Rat, it would have to endure it in order to get stronger.

Otherwise, it had no hope of survival in this world.

It trained for more than ten days straight.

Li Yi was making ample preparations for this year’s Beast Master Competition.

One day, early in the morning, Li Yi heard someone knocking on the bedroom window.

Li Yi sat up, his eyes hazy.

Rubbing his eyes, he suddenly felt that something was wrong.

Wasn’t he on the sixth floor? Why was there someone knocking on the window?

He quickly looked over and, to his shock, found an owl standing outside the window!

The owl, covered in brown feathers, was about the same size as Garfield.

Li Yi walked over and saw that the owl had a letter in its mouth.

On the envelope was written “Jianghai First Beast Master Academy”.

He hurriedly opened the window. The owl placed the envelope in Li Yi’s hand, then turned around and flew off. Li Yi tore open the envelope and took out its contents.

There was a map.

Only two points were marked on this map. One was Jianghai City, and the other was the location of the Beast Tamer Academy.

There was a route connecting in the middle. It seemed that this map was trying to show him how to get to the Beast Tamer Academy.

The Beast Tamer Academy was located at a place in the north of Jianghai City called the Forest Ruins.

Li Yi continued to flip through the map. On the back he found the competition rules written out.

“Lead your contracted monster pet through the Forest Ruins. If you make it through successfully, then you have passed the trial.”

“Note: The Ruins are home to a large number of wild Beasts. Please make preparations in advance.”

Li Yi nodded slightly. There were only a few days left before the trial began.

Was there anything else he needed to buy?

He still had seven million yuan left. Money was no issue. He still had to buy things like Spirit Feed.

As for the rest, Li Yi would have to think of it.

There were many kinds of tools and drugs that could be used to enhance a Beast’s performance, but to be honest, they wouldn’t be of much use to him.

Those enhancement tools, in fact, were just positive Statuses. He already had plenty of those.

After pondering for a moment, Li Yi felt that there was nothing to buy for the time being. Anything he could buy wouldn’t be of much use to him.

In preparation for the trial, Li Yi packed his bags.

He packed all the essential items for the journey, putting them into the backpack he normally wore. He also made sure to pack enough Spirit Feed.

Next, Li Yi took out his Contract Crystal.

Those who participated in the trial had to have a contract relationship with their monster pet.

Li Yi felt that he wouldn’t have trouble contracting the Lightning Rat. After all, they had spent so much time training together. He and the Lightning Rat had become close friends.

If he tried to contract it now, the success rate should be extremely high.

He took out the purple Crystal and pointed one end of it towards the Lightning Rat.

The very next moment, the Crystal shot a beam of purple light towards the Lightning Rat.

The light enveloped the Lightning Rat. At first, it felt a little uncomfortable, but gradually, it began to adapt to the changes.

Then, the purple light that had shot out of the crystal struck into the Lightning Rat.

The light connected Li Yi with the Lightning Rat. Then, it disappeared.

[ You just successfully contracted Monster Pet: Lightning Rat! ]

Li Yi was beginning to feel curious when suddenly he saw a flash of light. The Lightning Rat turned into a ray of light and was sucked into the Contract Crystal in his hand.

He picked up the Crystal and took a close look at it. He could vaguely see a figure inside the Crystal. It was the Lightning Rat.

The Lightning Rat was now inhabiting a space inside the Crystal. From the looks of it, the contracting process had been successful!

Following that, all Li Yi had to do was think, and the Lightning Rat received a telepathic message telling it to come out of the Crystal. Li Yi was a little surprised. It was as if he had a private telepathic communication channel with the Lightning Rat. This must be one of the benefits of contracting a Beast.

Now, he could make the Lightning Rat fight in full accordance with his wishes.

The contract was very useful. Before, Li Yi had to use the Recall Status, which was a bit tedious.

From now on, he would be able to direct the Lightning Rat in a very well-coordinated battle. At the same time, Li Yi could feel a surge of power emanating from his body.

The source of the power was the Lightning Rat. This was another effect of the contract.

The strength of a Beast Master was tied to his Monster Pets. The stronger the Monster Pet, the stronger its Master.

At present, the Lightning Rat’s strength was only Iron-tier Grade 9, so it didn’t actually empower Li Yi all that much. However, it still made him several times stronger than an ordinary person.

After completing the contract, Li Yi continued the Lightning Rat’s training.

With the high degree of coordination made possible by the contract, during the next battle, it was as though Li Yi and his Lightning Rat were fighting together as one

Li Yi’s coordination greatly improved the Lightning Rat’s attack and dodge abilities.

During the battle, Li Yi could stand on the sidelines and collect information.

Controlling the Lightning Rat in this way would greatly increase its performance in actual combat.

In short, now that they were bound by the contract, both Li Yi and the Lightning Rat’s strength would increase in tandem.

Three days passed very quickly.

It was finally time for them to embark on the trial. Early that morning, Li Yi took his backpack, the Contract Crystal and the map and headed towards the Forest Ruins.

Li Yi had finally become a Beast Master, but he knew that this was only the beginning of a long journey. Entering the Beast Master Academy was his real starting point!