Lin Ze sat in the waiting room with his eyes closed to relax.
The people from Tianyu Academy left in despair as early as the top 16 competition.
Tan Yong has already gone back to the lounge.
Currently, only Lin Ze and Guo Xinyi are left in the waiting room.
The girl sat next to him, staring at Lin Ze's side face with bright eyes. She didn't know what she was thinking, and a blush flashed across her pretty face from time to time.
After a while.
Lin Ze suddenly opened his eyes.
Guo Xinyi was startled and quickly looked away, feeling somewhat guilty for no reason.
Fortunately, Lin Ze didn't notice her little movements and was still immersed in his own thoughts.
"There is still one last game left, and we should be able to activate new achievements."
Lin Ze thought secretly in his heart.
According to past rules, once you win a competition between beast masters like this, there is a high probability that you will be able to activate new achievements.
"It would be better if there were soul crystals in the achievement rewards."
Lin Ze's soul strength now reaches 47 points.
As long as you can acquire one or two more soul crystals, and supplement them with the continuous strengthening of the protoss gems, you should be able to increase your soul strength to 50 points in about two to three months.
By then, his spiritual attainments and actual combat abilities will undergo a dramatic improvement.
After calming down, Lin Ze gathered his thoughts, said something to Guo Xinyi, then held the bronze medal tightly, closed his eyes and entered the virtual realm.
When he opened it again, he had appeared in the spacious arena.
Two lines of clear text floated in the void.
[Ningjiang College-Lin Ze] vs [Canghai College-Yuan Zhen]
[Countdown: 3 minutes and 45 seconds]
Looking not far across the way, a young man with a tough face was looking at him with careful eyes.
Obviously it was his opponent in this match, Yuan Zhen, who was recognized as the most likely to win the championship.
The two looked at each other speechlessly.
Yuan Zhen stared at Lin Ze with complicated eyes, and his thoughts were ups and downs deep in his heart.
Frankly speaking, he doesn't think highly of Ningjiang College in his heart.
Before the rookie competition started, this academy, which was not even in the top eight last year, was not taken seriously by Yuan Zhen at all.
His goal from beginning to end was only the first-year chiefs of the top five colleges, Tianyu College, Sandstone College and Danding College.
Even speaking arrogantly, these people are just stepping stones for Yuan Zhen to win the championship and become famous in the Federation.
In his opinion, no one is his opponent in this rookie competition, and the championship is almost within his grasp.
——Until Lin Ze appeared.
When he first heard that Lin Ze had defeated Yang Qi using only soul skills, Yuan Zhen was shocked beyond words.
He couldn't believe it.
But in the following games, he witnessed Lin Ze's amazing spiritual skills with his own eyes.
Because of this, he finally had to admit that a powerful enemy that he needed to deal with carefully had appeared.
Before this, Yuan Zhen never thought that he would encounter such a strong opponent, and the opponent was from Ningjiang College, which he had not paid attention to before the game.
Nothing is more wonderful than this.
"I don't know who this person is. He is about the same age as me, but his spiritual skills are so terrifying."
Yuan Zhen's eyes flickered.
He has always claimed to be a genius, and his talent in spiritual arts is far beyond that of ordinary people.
But compared to Lin Ze, it is far inferior.
With only soul skills, Yuan Zhen could kill a second-level beast at most, but he could only hold on for a moment against a third-level beast, and it was almost impossible to counterattack.
Not to mention the unimaginable thing like killing a fourth-level pet beast instantly.
"Could it be that he is the next generation successor carefully cultivated by some big family? There are only a handful of beastmaster families that can cultivate such a person, and none of them has the surname Lin..."
Yuan Zhen was thinking about it, but out of the corner of his eye, he saw that Lin Ze had withdrawn his gaze and looked around with interest.
It seems that the arena he is in at this moment deserves more attention than his opponent in the final.
Seeing this, Yuan Zhen couldn't help but frown, feeling a little unhappy about being slighted in his heart.
Immediately afterwards, this unhappiness turned into a high fighting spirit.
"Wait and see, I will let you see my strength later. Don't think that you can look down on others because you are highly skilled in soul arts. It is not certain who will win!"
Yuan Zhen's eyes showed a passionate fighting spirit.
Sensing the gaze from the other side, Lin Ze turned around and looked, with a half-smile appearing on his face.
The countdown quickly came to the last ten seconds.
The audience outside the virtual realm held their breath and stared at the picture on the light screen, fearing that they would miss the next battle.
Countdown to ten, nine, eight... one!
The moment the number returned to zero, Yuan Zhen's eyes suddenly focused, and a light flashed in front of him. A tall and massive stone statue made of blue rocks appeared out of thin air.
Everyone watching the battle suddenly became excited.
"Here it comes, it's a giant stone statue! Yuan Zhen's ace pet beast!"
"Tsk, tsk, a fifth-level earth-type pet beast."
"I checked just now. This giant stone statue is among the fifth-level beasts, and its combat power seems to be in the middle or upper reaches!"
"Not only that, the defense of this stone beast is extremely strong, which can restrain Lin Ze's soul skills. If Lin Ze cannot cause enough damage to the giant stone statue, then there will be no suspense in this battle."
"Wait a minute, look, Yuan Zhen seems to have summoned a second pet beast!"
In the midst of the discussion, someone suddenly noticed that after Yuan Zhen summoned the giant stone statue, he did not stop there. Instead, there was light emerging in front of him.
In the blink of an eye, another pet beast appeared on the ring.
Everyone was startled and quickly looked at it.
The new pet beast that appears is a giant centipede.
It has an arthropod-like trunk seven or eight meters long, and hundreds of legs and feet.
The strong, bulbous body is covered with thick brown bristles, and its appearance is hideous and ugly, making it look extremely penetrating.
"Desert centipede!"
Many people watching the battle widened their eyes in surprise.
The Desert Giant Centipede is an earth-type beast that lives in dune areas and desert grasslands. It is good at burrowing underground and waiting for prey to pass by before suddenly emerging from the ground to attack.
Its claws, legs and feet are highly venomous.
Of course, more importantly, this is a fifth-level pet beast.
"It's actually the second fifth-level pet beast!"
"Damn it! Yuan Zhen actually hid his strength!"
"Hidden so deeply..."
Many people looked surprised.
In previous games, Yuan Zhen only summoned giant stone statues to fight.
Many people thought that Yuan Zhen did not summon the second pet beast because it was only at level 4 and had relatively weak combat power.
He had no idea that his second pet beast would also be of the fifth level.
This is obviously hiding clumsiness!
Wait until the finals and give your opponent a big surprise.
After coming back to his senses, everyone looked at Lin Ze with eyes full of pity and regret.
"Lin Ze is in trouble now."
"Yeah, it's very difficult to deal with a giant stone statue alone, and now you have to add a giant desert centipede to it, it's no fun at all!"
"It's a pity. If there was only one fifth-level pet beast, Lin Ze might really be able to win."
"There's nothing we can do about it. Who would have expected that Yuan Zhen would hide so deeply and actually have two fifth-level beasts? After going through all the rookie competitions, how many people can have two fifth-level beasts?"