Chapter 134

“Leaf-eared Cat, stop using your spiritual energy and deactivate your hidden state. Don’t activate your innate skill, ‘Cloak of Nature’ anymore.”

“From now on, activate ‘Sunbathe’, your plant-type recovery skill. You can slowly recover the physical strength and spiritual energy you consumed previously.”

Through spiritual communication, Annie ordered the Leaf-eared Cat, who was hiding on a tree branch.

At the same time, she did not forget to remind the Leaf-eared Cat to be careful of the Metal-feathered Eagle’s attacks.

“Leaf-eared Cat, after you expose your location, the Metal-feathered Eagle circling above the arena might shoot its metal feathers at you like before.”

“Therefore, you must always pay attention to dodging the attacks from above.”

“Although you are unable to use other skills when you activate ‘Sunbathe’ to recover, you can still dodge the attacks like the Metal-feathered Eagle did previously, so as to deplete its spiritual energy and its feathers.”

“If the Metal-feathered Eagle doesn’t have any intention of attacking you from a distance because of its limited number of metal feathers, in that case, try your best to absorb the sunlight during this period of time to recover the spiritual energy and physical strength that you depleted previously.”

Furthermore, in the spiritual communication between Annie and the cat, Annie especially emphasized the opportunity to launch a counterattack against the Metal-feathered Eagle.

“As long as the Metal-feathered Eagle takes the initiative to reduce its flying height to below the crowns of the trees in the forest and tries to use its four sharp eagle claws that have been enhanced by its metal-type innate skill ‘Metalize’ to fight you in close combat, at that time, activate your ‘Wood Spear Thrust’ and ‘Vine Whip’ to trap it in this forest!”

“Then, use your aggressive attack, ‘Green Leaf Flying Daggers’, to completely suppress it!”

“Don’t give it any chance to fly back into the air!”

The Leaf-eared Cat, who was lying on a tree branch and slowly panting, received the instructions from Annie.

On a large tree opposite the battlefield, a thick tree branch suddenly shook.

The reason that the tree branch shook was not because of the gentle breeze that blew past the evaluation section of Starlux Gym.

Instead, it was because there was an especially dense “leaf” on the tree branch that had actually grown four limbs and stood up!

This cluster of particularly dense green “leaves” was the Leaf-eared Cat that had activated its innate skill, ‘Cloak of Nature’.

As the Leaf-eared Cat stood up from the tree branch, the green leaf patterns all over its body began to retreat towards its head.

After removing the concealment effect of the innate skill, only its ears and neck had some green tree-leaf patterns on them.

Although the green tree-leaf patterns that covered its entire body had already been completely retracted, there was still a faint, tender green glow surrounding its pure-white fur.

However, this light-green glow that represented plant-type spiritual power was completely different from the plant-type spiritual power that the Leaf-eared Cat had used when it activated its innate skill, ‘Cloak of Nature’.

When the Leaf-eared Cat activated ‘Cloak of Nature’, it would release the plant-type spiritual energy in its body and turn it into a cloak made from leaf-shaped spiritual energy. It would drape the cloak over its body to camouflage itself among the bushes and trees.

On the other hand, when the Leaf-eared Cat activated ‘Sunbathe’, it would absorb the surrounding sunlight and continuously produce new plant-type spiritual power in its body to slowly recover.

Therefore, the green glow that represented the plant-type spiritual energy was actually a glow that was emitted from the Leaf-eared Cat’s body.

It was also because of this that when the Leaf-eared Cat was in the midst of recovering, its body would sway along with its breathing, causing the faint green glow to appear.

Even in this battlefield that was filled with greenery, this flickering soft green glow was especially striking.

The spectators in the spectator stand had been leaning forward as they searched the battlefield for the Leaf-eared Cat.

At that moment, they also noticed the Leaf-eared Cat that had taken the initiative to reveal its location.

“Hey! Guys! I found Miss Annie’s Leaf-eared Cat! Look over there! It’s on that tree!”

“No wonder we couldn’t find it earlier. It turns out that it wasn’t hiding in the bushes but had climbed up a nearby tree!”

“Looks like when the Leaf-eared Cat fell into the bushes, it activated its innate skill, ‘Cloak of Nature’, to conceal itself.”

“Yeah. Then, with the help of the rustling of the leaves when it fell into the bushes, it quickly climbed up the nearby trees and remained motionless.”

“In that case, why did Miss Annie suddenly let the Leaf-eared Cat reveal its location? It took a lot of effort for it to seize the opportunity and hide in an unexpected location. It could have attacked again when the Metal-feathered Eagle was not paying attention!”

“I think it’s probably because of the consumption of spiritual energy and physical strength. Don’t forget that in the previous round, as the initiator of the attack, the Leaf-eared Cat’s spiritual energy consumption and physical strength were much higher than the Metal-feathered Eagle that defended first before attacking.”

“So, after Miss Annie realized that the effect of ‘actively letting the Leaf-eared Cat interfere with and suppress the Metal-feathered Eagle’ was not ideal, she started to switch from the offensive to the defensive?”

“I agree with you. Everyone, look. There’s a faint, tender green glow emanating from the Leaf-eared Cat’s body.”

“The Leaf-eared Cat has clearly activated the plant-type spirit beast’s recovery skill, ‘Sunbathe’. I think that the activation of this skill is the simplest and most direct evidence!”

As this point of view was raised, the spectators in the spectator stand all focused their attention on the Leaf-eared Cat, afraid that they would miss something.

Just like the audience had suggested, the originally pure white and flawless fur of the Leaf-eared Cat was glowing with a faint green light.

“Eh! It’s really the ‘Sunbathe’ recovery skill! I didn’t expect Miss Annie’s Leaf-eared Cat to have learned this skill that allows it to absorb sunlight to slowly restore its spiritual energy and physical strength!”

“After all, this is the greatest advantage that the Leaf-eared Cat, a plant-attribute spirit beast, has during a drawn-out combat. As the Beast Tamer of the Leaf-eared Cat, Miss Annie will clearly make use of this advantage.”

“So, Miss Annie is planning to use this method to force Giles to let the Metal-feathered Eagle take the initiative to attack the Leaf-eared Cat? Just like how Giles made the Metal-feathered Eagle stay in the air previously.”

“The current situation is much more complicated than before. If Giles doesn’t think of a way for the Metal-feathered Eagle to stop the Leaf-eared Cat from activating ‘Sunbathe’ as soon as possible, the spiritual energy and physical strength that the Metal-feathered Eagle had made the Leaf-eared Cat deplete with great difficulty would be slowly restored.”

“However, when a spirit beast activates the skill ‘Sunbathe’, it is unable to use other skills. This means that when the Leaf Cat is facing the attack of the Metal-feathered Eagle, it is unable to immediately counterattack and can only continuously dodge.”

“As the Beast Tamer of the Leaf-eared Cat, Miss Annie must know this as well. Therefore, I think that Miss Annie made the Leaf-eared Cat take the initiative to expose its location and even activated ‘Sunbathe’, a particularly eye-catching skill, in order to make the Leaf-eared Cat behave like the Metal-feathered Eagle from before and lure the other party to attack first before retaliating.”

“Perhaps the Leaf-eared Cat will also pretend to reveal a flaw so that the Metal-feathered Eagle will approach it. Then, it will suddenly use a skill that it has never used before to attack the Metal-feathered Eagle.”

“Therefore, this is clearly a trap! However, in order to prevent the Leaf-eared Cat from activating ‘Sunbathe’ to restore its spiritual energy and physical strength, Giles and the Metal-feathered Eagle have to step into this trap!”

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