Skeleton’s Training Manual - Chapter 59

Chapter 59: 059 Crystal Slime

The organizing team of the Quancheng Cup was really determined to continue their shady arrangements right to the end.

Although they arranged a seed team for Lu Wu’s team in their first battle, this seed team was basically composed of weird summoned beasts.

Without needing to touch them, Lu Wu could already tell these summoned beasts’ attributes.

He clearly knew that these three summoned beasts could be easily restrained by his team’s fighting strategy.

Not to mention anything else, just the [Ice Breath] by the frozen bird that covered a wide range would be a hard time for them.

So this battle, if nothing unexpected happened, would be yet another crushing victory.

Regarding this, Team 023 seemed to know it well, and even seemed to have already accepted their fate.

When communicating with Hao Zhijian, Li Yi expressed that victory was second and competition was first.

He behaved like he just wanted to enjoy the game, as if he had completely given up.

If Lu Wu had not touched the slime remnant left by the Slime while they were shaking hands over there, he would almost have been convinced.

…

Crystal Slime

Strength: 1 Star

Quality: Iron

Status: Eat, eat, eat…

Skills: Self-freezing (Mastery)

Three consecutive ice arrows (Proficient)

Slime attack (Proficient)

Weaknesses: Fire, Earth, Thunder, Grass

Comment: Don’t freeze me, it’s useless, unless you’re better at ice than me.

…

When Lu Wu saw the attributes of this [Crystal Slime], his eyes suddenly narrowed, then he looked at Li Yi with eyes full of interest.

This kid was very scheming!

They obviously had a killer weapon that could constrain their fighting strategy, but he still behaved like “I can’t do it, I can’t beat you, don’t beat me up”.

“This was to surprise us, wasn’t it? Unfortunately, I found out early.”

Almost at the same time when Lu Wu discovered the crystal slime’s attributes, the pre-match conversation time was over and the game was about to begin. Hao Zhijian also returned to Lu Wu arrogantly. Lu Wu seized the opportunity and whispered in his ear.

“I’ll direct the battle later, let all the summoned beasts listen to my command during the game!”

After speaking, Lu Wu set his eyes on the ring.

Almost at the same time, the referee announced the start of the game.

Following the referee’s whistle, Team 023 immediately launched the attack.

“Slime, use Slime Attack!”

“Swamp Monster, use Mud Ball!”

“Paralysing Moth, use Paralysis Powder!”

Seeing the opponent using their regular attack flow, Lu Wu calmly responded. “Tuan Tuan, use the earth spikes to interrupt the paralysing moth’s skill!”

“Skeleton, dodge the attack! Frozen Bird, fly up to dodge!”

Lu Wu had decided to hold back first to figure out the opponent’s strategy before acting in response.

He was worried that Team 023 had another killer weapon besides the slime.

So, he decided to fight steadily and play defensive, and hardly attacked.

Lu Wu’s response surprised Team 023.

They had studied Lu Wu’s team before, and they knew that Lu Wu’s Team 233 had only a single fighting strategy, which was the pig-bird tactic of “icing the sky and spiking the ground”.

They had already prepared a countermeasure to let Team 233 suffer when they activated the pig-bird tactic. But in the end, they didn’t even use the tactic and instead chose to play a more regular game with them.

This caused them a little headache.

What made them even more clueless was that their team was commanded by all three of them at the same time, while Lu Wu’s was commanded by him alone.

Theoretically speaking, if just one person was in command, it should indeed be better than three together.

It was easier for coordination and controlling the rhythm of the game.

But that was only theoretically speaking, and in the actual combat, this often resulted in a mess.

After all, if only one person was in command, it meant that Lu Wu had to observe, integrate and control the entire fight at the same time.

Just a slight mistake could easily lead to a complete defeat.

So under normal circumstances, it was always three people who directed together, and all three commanders cooperated tacitly at the same time. One-to-three commanding like what Lu Wu was doing was still rare in competitions, at least in novice-level competitions.

It was also the first time Lu Wu showed this side of him, which stunned all the spectators.

It was the first time they discovered that Lu Wu, the pretty-faced mascot of Team 233, had such a skill.

Even the game commentator couldn’t help but commend. “Fantastic, I didn’t expect Participant Lu Wu to be so skilled at commanding. It’s amazing that one person can command three summoned beasts at the same time. It seems that he really has something to be able to become the captain of Team 233.”

The commentator’s words, coupled with Lu Wu’s current performance, completely changed the spectators’ view on Lu Wu, making him grab the limelight.

This made Hao Zhijian a little bit discontented, and his expression was not good.

Just now he did not understand why Lu Wu had to take over the command of the game when they could have won with just one wave of attack. And now, he realised that Lu Wu just wanted to show off.

And his expression changes were all captured by Li Yi on the opposing side.

Li Yi, who was having a headache due to Lu Wu’s steady fighting, raised the corners of his mouth into a smile.

“Captain Hao, what’s the matter with you? I’ve been anticipating a battle with you so much. And it turns out that you’re just standing in the ring?”

To be honest, these summoners were all dirty-minded.

His sentence directly pierced into Hao Zhijian’s inflated little heart, so he immediately grabbed the command of the frozen bird.

“Frozen Bird, ice needle attack, shoot at that slime.”

After all, the frozen bird was Hao Zhijian’s summoned beast. His command immediately made Lu Wu lose his command of Frozen Bird. It immediately shot out a few icy-blue ice needles straight at the slime, but they were blocked by the defensive skill [Dirty Water] of the swamp monster on Slime’s side.

This caused Lu Wu to frown, but before Lu Wu could respond, Li Yi on the other side responded first.

“That’s it?”

“Captain Hao? You are a little bit too weak. You can’t even fight me, how are you able to fight the so-called fateful battle? The three students at the spectator area must be trying hard to hold back their smiles.”

Li Yi’s “arrow” stabbed right at Hao Zhijian’s weak spot, and Hao Zhijian suddenly felt that there were three pairs of mocking eyes staring right at his back.

“Hao Zhijian, calm down…”

“Calm the f*ck, frozen bird, use [Ice Breath]!”

The furious Hao Zhijian directly gave his order, and the frozen bird immediately moved, spreading out its wings and activating [Ice Breath], and the cold wind blew towards Team 023 and covered them up.

“Now! Slime, use self-freezing!”

Li Yi seized the opportunity and gave the order. The summoned beasts of Team 023 gathered together. At the same time, the slime froze and formed a circular ice ball, protecting itself along with the swamp monster and paralysing moth from the frozen bird’s big move.

“What?”

Hao Zhijian’s expression changed, but this was only the beginning.

Once [Ice Breath] was over, the slime’s ice ball shattered, and three icy-blue arrows flew out and shot directly at the frozen bird.

“Frozen Bird, use the ice shield!” Lu Wu gave the order immediately.

But it was too late. Having just activated a big move, coupled with the alternate commanding between Lu Wu and Hao Zhijian which made the frozen bird hesitate. When it reacted and activated the ice shield, it was already too late, and it was shot down directly by the three ice arrows.

This was not the only killer move. When Lu Wu’s team was focusing on the frozen bird, the swamp monster and the paralysing moth of Team 023 attacked Tuan Tuan together.

A small-range swamp, plus a paralysis needle easily took down Tuan Tuan.

So far, the two main forces of Team 233 had all been defeated.

The corners of Li Yi’s mouth raised, he could already see the victory!