novelraw Chapter 1497 The Ice Kingdom
Chapter 1497 The Ice Kingdom
Qiao Sang and Ya Bao walked out of the foreign personnel screening area.
"Search?"
Little Treasure Hunter floated over, looking surprised, and called out, indicating, "So fast?"
Qiao Sang hummed in agreement and said, "The inspector saw that I was an A-level Beast Tamer and let me through directly."
"Teeth."
Ya Bao nodded in agreement.
Qiao Sang took out her phone and checked the time. Seeing that there was still about an hour until 3 PM, she asked:
"Teacher, where do we go next?"
Michaela thought for a moment and said, "The Ice Arena is said to be hosting an ice sculpture competition today. If Little Treasure Hunt wants to participate in such competitions afterward, you can go and see what it's all about."
"Looking around~"
Little Treasure Hunter showed an interested expression.
Ice sculpture? Little Treasure Hunter definitely can't do that. This country is full of ice sculpture masters. Even if Little Treasure Hunter participated in a small ice sculpture competition, he wouldn't get a top ten ranking. Qiao Sang thought to himself, then asked:
"Can we still get in even though we didn't buy tickets in advance?"
“No need,” Michaela said. “Ice Kingdom holds similar competitions every now and then. It’s not a very big competition, and you can buy tickets even if you go now.”
Upon hearing this, Qiao Sang said no more and nodded, "Okay."
Ten minutes later.
Inside the large arena, which was entirely made of ice sculptures, the air was bitterly cold.
The audience was scattered, occupying only about half of the seats.
Section E, Row 23
Josan, Michaela, and Toothbone sat side by side on ice chairs.
"Teeth!"
After sitting for a while, Ya Bao felt uncomfortable and jumped onto his beast tamer's lap.
Lu Bao, unusually, took the initiative to crawl out of her backpack and sit on the chair.
On the field, nearly a hundred ice sculptors are carving ice sculptures simultaneously.
Among them are people with pets, and there is even an ice sculpture that is nearly 100 meters tall, where people and three pets are carving together.
Qiao Sang glanced at the scene and remarked, "Isn't this supposed to be a fairly large-scale ice sculpture competition?"
Michaela laughed and said, "No, the largest ice sculpture competition in the Ice Kingdom is basically held during the coldest weather of the year. Ice sculptors from all over the world will come, and the participants are all high-level ice sculptors."
Qiao Sang gestured with her eyes towards the direction of the ice sculptures that were being carved by people and their pets together, and then asked, "Why are some ice sculptures carved by people and their pets together?"
“Because this person is both an ice sculptor and a beast tamer,” Michaela explained. “If he is a beast tamer, he can allow his contracted pet to carve alongside him. Therefore, many pets in the Ice Kingdom hope to find a skilled human ice sculptor to form a contract with, so that they can participate in some large-scale ice sculpting competitions without any effort.”
Their own beast tamer really needs to learn some knowledge, otherwise he'll keep asking this annoying human. Tingbao, who was listening to the conversation, glanced at his own beast tamer and thought to himself.
Qiao Sang, completely oblivious to Ting Bao's inner thoughts, frowned and said:
"If that's the case, wouldn't it be unfair to hold an ice sculpture competition?"
Michaela slowly said, "Pets are part of a Beastmaster's strength. Joint ice sculpting is like a team battle between beastmasters. Perfect coordination is needed to win the competition. Sometimes, it is much more difficult for a Beastmaster and his pet to ice sculpt together than for a person and his pet to ice sculpt alone."
Qiao Sang subconsciously imagined Lu Bao effortlessly carving an ice sculpture with her superb skills, only to have it instantly destroyed with the help of herself and Ya Bao. She immediately felt a deep sense of agreement:
"Sculpting ice sculptures together seems to be quite difficult."
"Steel rights?"
As soon as I finished speaking, Gangbao's voice rang in my mind.
Does Lu Bao know how to ice sculpt? How come it doesn't know?
"No, it's just that Lu Bao is an ice-type, and I felt that if anyone among you could do ice sculpting, Lu Bao's image would be the most suitable, so I imagined it."
Steel Treasure: "."
"Search!"
Just as Qiao Sang and Gang Bao were talking, Xiao Xun Bao showed an interested expression and barked, indicating that it wanted to participate in the competition!
I knew Qiao Sang would be tactful:
"There are so many professional ice sculptors in the Ice Country, and everyone has several years or even decades of ice sculpting experience. Even if you participate, you probably won't get a very high ranking."
"Looking around~"
Little Treasure Hunter barked, indicating that it was okay; it was fine as long as it got tenth place.
In its view, tenth place is already a very low ranking.
Qiao Sang: "."
I don't think you can even get tenth place. Qiao Sang thought to herself as she looked at the scenes being sculpted by the contestants on the field. Suddenly, something occurred to her, and she continued tactfully:
“Look at everyone else sculpting, they basically use their own skills. It seems like you don’t have any skills that are suitable for ice sculpting.”
"Search."
Little Treasure Hunter looked at the arena and saw that, apart from the individual human contestants, all the other pet contestants and human-pet combinations were indeed using skills to carve.
Flower-shaped pets are carving with leaves that shimmer with green light, mantis-shaped pets are carving with their sickle-like claws, and snake-shaped pets are carving by biting with their teeth.
Michaela said, "Pet sculptors do indeed mostly use skills to carve, which makes them more adept at it."
"Search."
Little Treasure Hunter thought about his skills and realized that he didn't seem to have any skills suitable for carving, so he couldn't help but sigh heavily.
"Tingting".
At this moment, Tingbao looked at a certain player on the field and called out, "Boss, I remember you know this skill."
Little Treasure Hunter followed the direction of the gaze and saw a muscular Fighting-type pet with its claws glowing with a rich white light, using the Brick Break skill to create an ice sculpture.
"Search!"
Little Treasure Hunter's eyes suddenly lit up, and it cried out, indicating that it could also use tile splitting to create ice sculptures!
Qiao Sang's lips twitched slightly as she said:
"The skill of splitting tiles is not suitable for carving intricate details."
Sure enough, as soon as he finished speaking, the muscular fighting-type pet on the field lost control of its strength, and with a "crack," the ice sculpture shattered in two.
"Search."
Little Treasure Hunter sighed.
"Tingting".
Tingbao thought for a moment and called out, indicating that the contestant on the field had a large body and large claws, but the boss was small and had even smaller claws, so there shouldn't be any problem.
Xiao Xunbao glanced at Tingbao, thinking to herself, "Why doesn't this make me happy?"
"Search."
A moment later, Little Treasure Hunt let out a cry, indicating that it thought what Old Six said made sense.
After a two-second silence, Qiao Sang finally compromised and said, "You can sign up for an ice sculpture competition to try, but don't spend too much time on it. If you feel it's not suitable, just stop. You have many other competitions to participate in."
"Looking around~"
Little Treasure Hunter nodded.
An hour later, a group of figures appeared out of thin air in a five-star hotel.
After checking in, Michaela, along with Jossan and Toothbone, took the sightseeing elevator up.
Qiao Sang stood in the elevator, looking at the scene in the lobby below, and said:
"It seems like this hotel doesn't have that many ice-type pets."
Whether at the ice sculpture competition or on the street, almost 80% of the pets are ice-type, while the pets in this hotel only account for about 30%.
Michael looked down and said:
"This hotel is specifically for foreign tourists. Many hotels in Iceland are made of ice, and even those that aren't made of ice don't have any heating systems. This hotel is perfect for summer, so we'll stay here."
During the conversation, the elevator arrived at the top floor.
"Looking around~"
Upon entering the suite, Xiao Xunbao immediately removed the ring and took out the water tank that Lu Bao needed.
"Ice Saint".
Lu Bao pointed to a location.
"Looking around~"
Little Treasure Hunter diligently helped carry it over.
After the water tank was placed, it blinked its eyes and looked at Lu Bao.
"Ice Saint?"
Lu Bao looked at it and called out, as if to say, "Do you have something to say?"
"Looking around~"
Little Treasure grinned and called out, indicating that he wanted to ask if the other party could help make some ice cubes in the meantime.
Without saying a word, Lu Bao exuded a visible chill.
The next second, five square blocks of ice of the same size condensed in front of them.
"Xunxun~" Little Xunbao exclaimed happily.
Qiao Sang sat on the sofa, checked her phone for a while, and said:
"It seems that Ice Kingdom hasn't been offering Ice Ribbon Fruit as a prize in any competitions lately."
“Ice Crystal Fruit is a material needed for Ice-type Royal-level pets, and it’s not common even in the Ice Kingdom. It’s normal that there aren’t any competition prizes for it right now.” Michaela said while arranging the flowers and plants she had prepared earlier. “You don’t necessarily have to look for Ice Crystal Fruit in the competition prizes. You can obtain it through other channels. You can find Ice Crystal Fruit by posting a quest at the Beast Taming Center in the Ice Kingdom. Anyway, we have a long time to wait.”
"Understood." Qiao Sang said, then opened the Beast Taming Center's official website and posted the relevant task.
"Teeth!"
Suddenly, Ya Bao barked, indicating that it wanted to go for training.
Penjami stiffened and silently moved to the side, trying to minimize her presence.
After Qiao Sang finished issuing the task, he put down his phone and asked, "Teacher, does this hotel have an outdoor training ground?"
“No,” Michaela said. “But there’s a public open-air training ground less than a hundred meters away where you can train.”
Qiao Sang started the navigation directly, saying:
"I'll take Ya Bao and the others to training first."
After successfully locating the device, Qiao Sang placed the phone in front of Xiao Xunbao and said, "Let's go here."
"Search."
Little Treasure pointed to the ice on the ground and barked, indicating that it wanted to practice ice sculpting.
Qiao Sang said, "You can practice at the training ground. The temperature outside is low, and the ice won't melt easily."
"Looking around~"
Little Treasure Hunter gave a "that makes sense" look.
Its eyes glowed blue.
At that moment, Michaela suddenly remembered something and said:
"Meimei, you should come with us. Ya Bao needs your help with training."
"Teeth!"
Ya Bao called out, indicating that they should go together!
Penjami: "."
"Investigate further."
Jiu Bu Gu quickly barked, indicating that it wanted to go too, and that it wanted to accompany Lu Bao during training.
Lu Bao glanced at it, which was taken as tacit agreement.
"Looking around~"
A blue light flashed in Little Treasure Hunter's eyes.
Immediately afterwards, the group of figures, along with the five ice blocks, vanished into thin air, leaving only Michaela and Xiaoxiaopi in the suite.
Xiaoxiaopi glanced at Michaela, then looked at the somewhat empty living room, and sighed.
It's so boring being with this human.
Open-air training ground.
Steel Treasure's size gradually increased.
The people and pets around glanced at the white light and Jiu Bugu, which were gradually growing larger, realized something, and quickly retreated.
Soon, only Ya Bao and his friends remained in the open-air training area.
"Search."
Little Treasure Hunt stood to the side, its claws glowing with a rich white light, carefully controlling its strength as it sculpted the ice block.
"Steel Race".
Before long, Steel Treasure completed its evolution.
As it evolved, its aura began to emanate outwards.
The air and the ground trembled simultaneously.
Penjami and Kyuu, who were helping with the training, sensed something and looked over with surprised expressions.
At the same time, several "crack" sounds rang out, and all five ice blocks shattered.
Little Treasure Hunter: "!!!"
Little Treasure turned its head and looked angrily at Steel Treasure, about to speak.
But at that moment, Steel Treasure glanced at it indifferently.
Little Treasure Hunter felt his hair stand on end and, startled, quickly turned his head away.
"Search."
When Xiao Xunbao realized that he had actually been intimidated by Lao Si's imposing aura, he was a little annoyed and forced himself to look at Gangbao again.
Just as it looked over, Steel Treasure's body glowed white again, and its size slowly decreased.
The air and the ground returned to calm, no longer trembling.
"Search."
Little Treasure Hunter breathed a sigh of relief for no apparent reason.
It immediately showed an envious expression.
The Emperor-level pet is so majestic.
I don't know when I'll be able to become an Emperor.
A moment later, Steel Treasure returned to the form of Steel Power Emperor.
Qiao Sang looked at it and asked, "Did it just leak some of its domineering aura?"
She had seen Emperor-level pet beasts before, such as Penjami and Jiu Bugu, but none of them caused the air to vibrate as soon as they appeared like Gangbao.
I remember this didn't happen when Steelix temporarily evolved last time.
"Steel Power".
Gangbao thought for a moment and nodded.
It should be.
Qiao Sang asked again, "Can't you control the dominant aura yet?"
"Steel Power".
Gangbao glanced at its beast tamer and barked, indicating that its evolution would only take a few seconds and there was no time to control it.
Qiao Sang paused for a moment, then said without changing her expression:
"You can try to control each temporary evolution you undergo afterward, ideally like a sense of oppression, so that you can control it at will."
"Steel Power".
Steelbao nodded.
This won't do. Steelball's temporary evolution lasts too short. He needs to try to control the Dominator's aura and successfully execute Gravity Rewrite. It will probably be a long time before he can ask Michael the questions he wants to ask. Josan fell into deep thought.
"Steel Power".
Gangbao called out in his mind, indicating that if she couldn't wait, they could lie to her.
Qiao Sang suddenly looked up and met Gang Bao's gaze.
Then, the man and the beast looked at each other and smiled.
"Tooth, you guys train first. I'll take Steel to a nearby area to try out temporary evolution again." Qiao Sang looked at Tooth and the others who were training and said, "Otherwise, the ice block that Little Treasure is carving will break again."
She was mainly saying this to Penjami and Kyuubuku.
"Search."
Little Treasure Hunter looked deeply moved.
Our own beast tamer is very thoughtful.
Two hours later.
A group of figures appeared out of thin air in the hotel suite.
A table full of food was laid out on the dining table.
Michaela sat at the dining table, just about to speak.
But at that moment, Qiao Sang said with a look of surprise and delight:
"Teacher! Steel Treasure has awakened Gravity Rewriting!"
"Steel Power!"
Gangbao nodded, his face beaming with joy.
Michaela: "???" (End of Chapter)