Beast Taming Patrol

Such frequency of use meant that Qiuqiu could now use this skill as a regular skill in battle.

After the breakthrough of Devouring of Nihility, Lin Su, adhering to their prior agreement, began arranging a new skill training plan for Qiuqiu.

Qiuqiu's daily training still involved Shadow Magic.

With the breakthrough in Devouring of Nihility, this had become the only skill Qiuqiu had not elevated to Level III, and reaching Level III in this skill was equivalent to having five sub-skills reach Level III simultaneously, which significantly enhanced Qiuqiu's capabilities.

Besides this, Lin Su arranged two new dark-element teaching skills for Qiuqiu as supplements.

After all, compared to Qiuqiu, Qiuqiu's teaching skills were indeed few.

The two new skills were decided upon after discussions between Lin Su and Qiuqiu.

By now, Qiuqiu could be considered fully developed.

Possessing Shadow Escape, which was almost as fast as Dark Travel Light, its agility attribute could be considered maxed out.

With Flying Knife Skill as a mid-to-long-range attack skill and Devouring of Nihility as a close-range attack skill, Qiuqiu's output was also very high.

Besides these, Substitute, Shadow Clone, and Transforming Shadow significantly boosted Qiuqiu's self-preservation ability.

Thus, it was necessary to develop some special combat styles for it and select skills according to the developed combat styles.

Lin Su suggested that focusing on Evil Mockery as the main output, Qiuqiu should develop a taunting-style combat strategy, mainly to ensure that after using Evil Mockery, Qiuqiu could avoid being hit by others as much as possible, maximizing the effect of Evil Mockery.

Taunt, poison, play dirty as much as possible.

And to maximize this combat strategy, Qiuqiu was still missing a skill.

Dark element teaching skill, Dark Trap.

This skill could create traps of certain depth and range in shadowy terrains, hindering the movements of enemies.

It had no effect on flying pets but was surprisingly effective against non-flying pets.

Combined with Qiuqiu's Evil Mockery, the effect was excellent.

Besides this, Qiuqiu also needed another combat strategy to account for situations where Evil Mockery might not work.

The second combat strategy was named Agility-based Combat Style by Lin Su, using Shadow Escape, Flying Knife Skill + Substitute, and Shadow Clone as the core to maximize agility and flexibility, coupled with the attacks of Flying Knife Skill and Devouring of Nihility to ensure that the enemy could not hit him while he gradually inflicted damage on the opponent, ultimately defeating them completely.

Like the first combat strategy, this one was also missing a key skill.

Dark element teaching skill, Pitch Black Wings.

This skill simply allowed dark element pets to have the ability to fly.

It compensated for Qiuqiu's deficiency in aerial combat, making Qiuqiu capable of high-altitude combat like Qiuqiu.

Most importantly, this was Qiuqiu's own choice.

It stated that Dark Trap was utterly useless against the team leader, and if it didn't take to the skies soon, the upcoming team competition would probably see it hung up and beaten by the team leader.

Under the few days of training and the enhancement of the Dream Crystal Stone from the Beast Taming Tower, Qiuqiu's Dark Trap had already reached Level II, though Pitch Black Wings still needed some time.

The preliminary tournament was still ongoing.

Four days ago, the second round of eliminations had ended completely. After a day of rest, the Beast Taming Union announced the list of those who had advanced from the two rounds of eliminations and the final grouping for the round-robin matches.

The over three hundred qualifiers from the eliminations were divided into more than sixty groups to compete in the round-robin battles, each group consisting of six people.

Inside each group, every two people would battle once, with each group fighting only once a day, totaling fifteen matches.

During these fifteen matches, each person only needed to battle five times, averaging one battle every three days.

Ultimately, the two with the highest number of victories from each group would advance to the finals.

And Lin Su's luck wasn't very good.

He was grouped with a Beast Tamer who had contracted a pet of the Emperor species.

It wasn't Yan Susen, but the Closed-door Disciple of the Beast Taming Union Chairman mentioned by Yan Susen, named Ji Chuheng.

Clearly, Ji Chuheng was certain to advance, so the others in his group could only compete for the sole remaining spot.

In the three days since the round-robin matches started, Lin Su had only fought once, and since his opponent wasn't very strong, the battle ended very quickly.

And according to the battle order already arranged in advance, he would face Ji Chuheng on the fourth day of the round-robin matches.

…

"Ding ding ding~"

A crisp email notification sound rang out, and Lin Su, who was playing with the naïve junior researchers in the lab, noticed he had a new email thanks to Qiuqiu's reminder.

He subconsciously opened his communicator, clicked on the inbox, and started reading. Read new chapters at My Virtual Library Empire

Soon, a smile appeared on Lin Su's face.

The content of the email informed him that his identity verification had passed and instructed him to arrive at District 11's Beast Taming Union headquarters tomorrow for the Cooperation Oath.

After waiting for so long, things were finally settling.

The Cooperation Oath, unlike the Cooperation Camp, could be completed in one day. The email did not reveal the specific content of the oath, only the meeting place.

And after completing the Cooperation Oath, he would be eligible to custom-tune his Jade.

"Ding dong~"

The lab's doorbell rang at that moment, and soon Qin Nan stepped inside.

"Did your identity verification pass?" Qin Nan casually pulled out a chair to sit down, propping his head up to ask.