Divine Beast Creator
Chapter 2833: Chapter 2834: New Opponent
In the afternoon’s competition, Feng Yuan thought it would be easy, but he unexpectedly saw someone he had met a few times before, or rather, someone who had once traveled with him on that Maomu City’s officially rented cruise ship.
"Trouble, it’s a Legendary Level Beastmaster."
He chuckled, pretending to be unconcerned, and said that he wasn’t worried about Xiao Ji and the others. Even if they lost, it wasn’t a big deal, since there were three more battle opportunities. As long as they could win two more matches, they could still advance.
As for whether they could beat them? Feng Yuan wasn’t sure either. After all, the opponent wasn’t like the previous Beastmaster, who was at the Fake Legendary Level. An old Legendary Level Beastmaster wasn’t one to be taken lightly, especially considering the numerical advantage the opponent held.
As expected, Wei Dingbang unceremoniously released four Spirit Beasts, which were the Legendary Level Telekinetic Brown Bear, the Legendary Level Ancient Wood Spirit Fox, the Legendary Level Wind and Thunder Falcon, and the Legendary Level Inferno Mastiff.
Apart from the relatively rare Telekinetic Brown Bear and Wind and Thunder Falcon, the other two Spirit Beasts were quite common. However, being able to grow to a Legendary Level existence means rarity no longer matters much.
Even the most common Spirit Beasts, at the Legendary Level, are on par in strength with those rare Spirit Beasts.
The previous Beastmaster had three Spirit Beasts, but only two counted as combat power, making them relatively easier to deal with. However, now facing an old-school Legendary Level Beastmaster with four Spirit Beasts, Feng Yuan felt Xiao Ji and the others might struggle.
Additionally, Feng Yuan knew that Legendary Level Beastmasters usually have two backup beasts. However, due to development stages, these probably hadn’t reached Legendary Level strength yet.
The specific strength stage is hard to guess. It’s not just related to the Beastmaster’s age, but also their talent and adventures. Some might quickly gather a full team of Legendary Level Spirit Beasts, while others with bad luck might take a decade, which wouldn’t be surprising.
Simply judging by the Beastmaster’s age, one can’t determine the entire situation of the team, of course, this is limited to Beastmasters who recently entered the Legendary Level Stage. For someone like Qi Chen, one doesn’t even need to ask to guess the strength stage they’re roaming around. Adventures also have limits.
At least before the Ascension Stone came out, Legendary Level wasn’t that commonplace.
Xiao Ji looked seriously at the four Legendary Level Spirit Beasts across, releasing its always-retracted two Netherworld Crows, ready to get serious.
Without needing Feng Yuan’s reminder, it could tell that the opponent was different from the morning opponent. Those four Spirit Beasts stood there, faintly forming a defensive formation. At least aiming for a sneak attack, no matter who is chosen as the target, the other three could immediately come to assist.
This was from years of cooperative combat forming such tacit understanding. Even if Xiao Ji and the Flame Chasing Furry Dog underwent special training, they couldn’t reach this level. The opponent naturally just did it.
Understanding this, Xiao Ji got a bit nervous because this opponent seemed tough to handle.
As the battle whistle began, Xiao Ji unfolded the Crystal Domain in the air, while the Flame Chasing Furry Dog didn’t immediately unfold the Blazing Earth Realm. Expectedly, the ground began to bubble with rainbow-colored bubbles, colorful broken small floating crystals emerged from the ground and hovered in the air.
The Illusion Crystal Stone Domain is a type of special Crystal Domain, not counted within fixed attribute domains, with the effect of doubling all enhancement, reduction, and status change effects.
It’s a standard Crystal Domain. Compared to attribute domains, once this domain is opened, the opponent can easily guess your intentions. Of course, whether the opponent will use the opportunity to utilize the Illusion Crystal Stone Domain for something is uncertain.
After all, the Illusion Crystal Stone Domain covers a wide range, so any Spirit Beast can gain benefits within it. Hence, opening such a domain tests a Beastmaster’s command ability.
How to maximize the reduction of the opponent using the Illusion Crystal Stone Domain’s potential and benefits is a key focus when using such a domain. However, the opponent starting by opening the Illusion Crystal Stone Domain made Xiao Ji and the Flame Chasing Furry Dog inadvertently underestimate them.
In their perception, opening with such a Crystal Domain is a pure rookie move.
Feng Yuan rubbed his chin and muttered,
"This might be a trap, luring out a state ultimate move, and conveniently put some states on themselves."
Seeing the Telekinetic Brown Bear, Feng Yuan had already guessed what the opponent intended to do. But of course, this wasn’t definitive, they might simply want to rush to open the Crystal Domain at the start.
Though Feng Yuan felt this possibility was low, seeing it’s an old-school Legendary Level Beastmaster, they couldn’t possibly make such foolish commands.
The Flame Chasing Furry Dog roared, directly using Brave Roar to boost its and Xiao Ji’s attack power, a wise choice, or perhaps after being tricked by Feng Yuan many times, this time, it didn’t step into the trap.
The emerald Shelter of the Ancient Wood Spirit Fox just shimmered, and the Telekinetic Brown Bear’s fists gathered white light, punching forward fiercely, with the sound of glass shattering, the deployed Illusion Crystal Stone Domain shattered.
If the opponent used a slightly slower release augmentation ultimate move, they wouldn’t gain the extra boost due to the shattering of the Illusion Crystal Stone Domain.
Of course, for opponents originally intending to utilize states, this wouldn’t impact them. If they wanted to take advantage, they would face wasting time on deployment.
However, in actual combat, this small advantage and disadvantage wouldn’t bring much impact.
"They dodged the trap."
Veronia glanced at the fading light on the Inferno Mastiff’s claw and muttered. Only the Ancient Wood Spirit Fox casting enhancement wasn’t being cautious, if a negative effect was used on this side, the Inferno Mastiff’s Calamity-breaking Claw could deliver a strong hit to a beast releasing negative effects.
As for the Wind and Thunder Falcon? It was merely charging up, looking at the rapidly gathering dark clouds, Veronia thought and muttered,
"Could it be, they don’t like the Crystal Domain?"
"Probably not, just using it in a unique way."
Feng Yuan had already guessed the opponent’s battle style. Disliking the Crystal Domain wouldn’t be accurate. While it couldn’t perfectly fit their team, the Illusion Crystal Stone Domain wasn’t just chosen randomly.
It appears to only offer various change effect augmentations, but in practice, many tricky moves can be executed.
Like this opening move, whether the opponent follows up or not, he could gain benefits since doubling the augmentation effect isn’t a joke.
If boosting, unless using rapid release moves, they’ll find with the Telekinetic Brown Bear’s Domain Shatter they miss out on benefits or even lose time.
If applying negative effects, the Inferno Mastiff’s Calamity-breaking Claw is there waiting. Even if doing nothing, he gets a strengthened augmentation effect.
Moreover, this move prevents the opponent from opening a Crystal Domain from getting surrounded with a Crystal Domain-centric offensive.
The reason is simple; the Telekinetic Brown Bear’s Shattering Formation doesn’t just affect its own Crystal Domain but can directly shatter already deployed Crystal Domains and environments.
In Feng Yuan’s view, this opening move was quite decent, considering all aspects.
Of course, problems weren’t absent; this opening couldn’t affect Xiao Ji deploying the Underworld Domain in the sky. But that’s understandable, perhaps due to habit, not many people deploy Crystal Domains in the sky.
It’s not surprising. Initially, battle mainfields were on the ground, even if early skirmishes involved both flying Spirit Beasts, the fights were in low altitude areas.
The reason is simple: command issues, if the Spirit Beast flies to high altitude, not to mention difficulty in issuing orders, most Beastmasters might not even know what’s happening up high.
The opponent wasn’t targeting the sky as a result, allowing Xiao Ji to successfully deploy the Underworld Domain and perform Domain Awakening.
Initially, Xiao Ji tried to test, but after seeing the Telekinetic Brown Bear’s Shattering Formation, it immediately changed its mind.
The Underworld Domain in the sky was for catching the opponent off guard. If they wanted to shatter it, jumping up could still reach its deployed Underworld Domain.
Xiao Ji didn’t wish to waste the already deployed Underworld Domain, and it also wanted to probe the opponent.
Post-domain awakening offers two uses: directly draining energy for maximum enhancement of ultimate move power and effect, or treating it as a Crystal Domain enhancement for extended augmentation.
With the Telekinetic Brown Bear around, Xiao Ji decided against holding onto the awakened Underworld Domain. It spread its wings, Netherfire began to gather, the awakened power of Underworld Domain started heavily augmenting its performed ultimate moves, the Netherworld Crow silently flew outside the Crystal Domain, its crimson eyes fixed on the Telekinetic Brown Bear in the field.

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