Astral Pet Figure
45

45: Fear

“Tikus Lightning!”

Su Yanying leaped in fear, after seeing the Lightning Rat being crushed by the disturbed ground. No matter how strong the power of understanding the Lightning Rat had, it was a low-level pet. Su Yanying thought this attack could badly mistreat the Lightning Rat!

The lifted dust clouded his view of the Lightning Rat. Su Yanying called out to the Fanged Tiger and told him to go in there to help the Lightning Rat.

"Lele, get your pet to stop now!"

Su Yanying wanted to end the fight immediately. Suddenly, he realized that Lan Lele was surrounded by a wall of earth. It was likely that Lan Lele could not hear it.

It's bad!

Meanwhile, the Fanged Tiger had dashed to the spot. His huge body scattered the dust, revealing the Lightning Rat.

The Lightning Rat was on the ground, safe and sound, which surprised Su Yanying.

He had just seen the Lightning Rat destroyed. How can it remain unharmed?

The explosion!

The explosion!

Suddenly, the ground started to shake again. One after another, three more walls were added outside the three original earth walls, adding more protection for Lan Lele.

Su Yanying was still dumbfounded.

Whahuh?

What does this mean?

Did the Earth Buddha surrender to the attack?

However, if the Earth Buddha had been curled up behind all those defensive walls, there was not much he could do.

After all, the Earth Buddha was at the fifth rank and was a pet of the stone family with defense as a strong outfit. The strongest pet he had was the Fanged Tiger who was in the middle position of the fourth rank. There was nothing a Tiger could do to an Earth Buddha.

A moment later, the earth wall slightly loosened and a hole appeared. Lan Lele walked out from behind the wall, stuck out her neck to peek and make sure outside was harmless. "What the hell is going on?" He asked Su Yanying in confusion.

"Are you asking me?" Su Yanying was confused.

“Just now, Zangzang felt such great danger that it locked me there. I'm very confused. What could be dangerous on the training ground in our academy? As I see it, nothing seems to come out of its place.” Lan Lele was confused.

"That sense of danger?" Su Yanying was filled with questions.

Everything was fine at the time. What danger might occur?

Moreover, his pet did not capture any clues about the danger and they did not give him such feedback.

"Is Zangzang wrong?" Lan Lele turned around. In the shadow behind the earth wall, he could see through the hole where the Earth Buddha was hiding there. It was shivering and all four of its eyes showed fear.

"That's weird ..." Lan Lele tilted her head, completely confused.

Su Yanying noticed how scared the Earth Buddha was. He was no less surprised. Pets are not sophisticated creatures and fear is not a fake. That is, there was something that happened just moments before that made the Earth Buddha feel danger and become frightened by it.

But he was there the whole time. He never saw anything.

"Wait a minute. Haven't you..” Su Yanying recalled that towards the end of the battle, the Earth Buddha fled immediately after the sneak attack on the Lightning Rat occurred.

The Lightning Rat was unharmed, so the Earth Buddha must have missed its target. In principle, the Earth Buddha should hit while the iron is still hot.

Except, there was something else that made the Earth Buddha surrender.

Something that the Earth Buddha feared.

Could this thing ... be the Lightning Rat?

A flash of shock flashed across Su Yanying's eyes.

Is that possible?

As a pet with an advanced lineage, Earth Buddha was proud. How could it be feared by a low-level Lightning Rat?

"Lele, have your Earth Buddha come here," Su Yanying said suddenly. To prove his theory would be easy. A simple test will be done.

Lan Lele did not understand his friend's intentions, but he still told the Earth Buddha to do so.

The will of the master cannot be broken. Although the Earth Buddha presented his resistance to Lan Lele, he stepped over.

Only, the Earth Buddha was extremely slow.

"Thunder Mouse, do it," Su Yanying said in his mind.

Receiving orders from his master, the Lightning Rat crawled up and stood up slowly. Despite this being a rat, it can walk forward with the same graceful, light, and noiseless demeanor seen in cats.

Su Yanying and Lan Lele were good students, but their vision was limited. No one could distinguish the hidden strength and ruthlessness within every move of the Lightning Rat. That attitude and attitude showed that the Lightning Rat could launch an alarming attack at any moment like an assassin hiding in the darkness!

The Earth Buddha who was heading towards Lan Lele became even more frightened when he saw the Lightning Rat stepping slowly. The Earth Buddha had practically stopped. Around his feet, the ground trembled. Dirt and sand crawled up from his feet to every corner of his body. The Earth Buddha was strengthening his defenses for protection.

Su Yanying's eyes twinkled. He asked the Lightning Rat to return and then told the Fanged Tiger to get closer to the Earth Buddha who showed no particular reaction. Instead, the Earth Buddha breathed a sigh of relief as the Lightning Rat moved away, as if a huge burden had been lifted. The ground shell that covered the Earth Buddha broke into flowing sand and fell to the ground.

"I'm right."

Su Yanying was surprised by what he saw.

It was the Lightning Rat.

The Earth Buddha was afraid of the Lightning Rat!!

It was the Earth Buddha, a famous pet of the stone family, a star among pets.

However, the Earth Buddha was afraid of the Lightning Rat that could be seen anywhere…

“There must be something I don't know. So, the Lightning Rat knew of other skills, other than the 'Image of the Many Thunder Shadows'. It has other powerful abilities!”

The moment Su Yanying made such an assumption, excitement surfaced in her eyes. Just this one "Some Thunder Shadow Images" was enough to thrill him. There are other possible skills!

The owner of the shop did not mention this. Is he unconscious too?

The training was great!

“That shop is more than trustworthy. But I think this business is not good considering how unpopular this business is. Few people know about this store. I had to go there more often before the store became popular. Maybe I can get a member card or something ..."  Su Yanying had already started to let his mind go wild.

“Yingying?” Lan Lele was surprised to see Su Yanying grinning at herself. Was it Su Yanying who frightened the Earth Buddha?

Su Yanying regained consciousness. He had no time to explain. "Help me with other pet exercises as well."

“Eh, sure.” Lan Lele did not think too much about it.

He did not read the fact that the Earth Buddha was terrified. His attention is not on pets, to begin with. If he was willing to devote more effort to raising his pet, given his family's wealth, he could easily become a student to be exhibited in the academy's newspaper.

Later then.

Su Yanying sent the Fanged Tiger, Fallen Phoenix, and Ugly Stone Beast one after another. He noticed that the three pets he had left in the dorm had made progress as well.

While their progress was not so noticeable when compared to the Lightning Rat, their combat power had at least increased by half. The Fanged Tiger was below the fifth rank and would never be able to compete with the Earth Buddha. However, the Fanged Tiger could not only fight the Earth Buddha for a short while, the former was not harmed!

As Su Yanying's usual training partner, Lan Lele could feel the change as well. He was surprised to see that in just three days, Su Yanying's three pets had experienced a drastic increase in their abilities, as if they were using drugs!

Could this be the result of a boarding service at the pet store?

Lan Lele's eyes blinked. As the daughter of an entrepreneur, she was born with a keen business sense. He knew that the store could generate great commercial opportunities!

Shortly after, the training ended. Su Yanying looked at the time. The turn is almost over. He did not continue to prevent his pet from spending more energy. They were not pushed to their limits in that training fight.

"Let's go."

Su Yanying was in a good mood. He didn't think that he could take the crown at this year's tournament. But, after the results of the practice and feeling the change from his pet, he was sure he had a chance to win the championship!