Chapter 1042: Night Ring King

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Along with the broadcast, the TV screen switched to surveillance footage.

It was precisely the moment the Clothes-Changing Totem was captured.

"Xun... xun..."

Little Treasure stared blankly at the television, feeling as if a bucket of ice water had been poured right over his head.

His heart went completely cold.

The Clothes-Changing Totem had been caught. Then what was the point of him training so desperately to evolve? In the future, whenever people saw him, would the only thing they think of be the image of him getting instantly KO'd by the Clothes-Changing Totem?

Despair. Deep, profound despair.

Listless and utterly crushed, Little Treasure turned around and floated back toward the bedroom.

It finally happened... Qiao Sang sighed inwardly, momentarily at a loss for words.

"What's wrong with the Ghost Ring King?" Seeing this, Mikayla couldn't help but ask.

Qiao Sang lowered her voice and said, "Didn't he get publicly defeated by the Clothes-Changing Totem last time? He trained so desperately to evolve early just so he could defeat the Clothes-Changing Totem with his own hands in front of everyone."

So that's why... Mikayla suddenly understood.

She had been wondering why the Ghost Ring King had suddenly become so incredibly diligent.

As thoughts flashed through her mind, Qiao Sang finally called out, "Little Treasure."

"Xun... xun..."

Little Treasure turned his head, his eyes hollow.

"I recorded your evolution. Do you want to watch it?" Qiao Sang pointed to the set-up camera and asked.

"Xun... xun..."

Little Treasure shook his head, turned back around, and continued floating toward the room.

After he went inside, the door slammed shut with a heavy thud.

Qiao Sang and Yabao's group looked at each other in silence.

Mikayla glanced at the tightly closed door and said, "I'll head back first then. Now that the Ghost Ring King has evolved, Professor Flauda should have been called over immediately to examine him. But looking at his current state, it's better to let him calm down. We can leave the examination for tomorrow."

"Alright." Qiao Sang nodded. 

"Goodbye, Teacher."

Mikayla vanished from the spot.

"Gui... gui?"

At this moment, Guinauke let out a cry, asking if it was still hired.

It had also seen the news and understood that the target it was searching for had already been captured.

"Gang Zhan."

Gangbao translated right on time.

Qiao Sang coughed slightly and said, "Next time. If there's another target to find next time, I'll definitely call you."

"Gui... gui."

Guinauke nodded and let out a cry.

"Gang Zhan."

Gangbao translated.

It said to remember to pay the remaining points for this time.

Qiao Sang picked up her phone and immediately transferred the remaining nine points over.

"I've sent it." She showed her phone to Guinauke.

"Gui... gui."

After glancing at it, Guinauke said goodbye, dived straight into the computer screen, and vanished.

The living room fell into a temporary silence.

"Yap... yap?"

A few seconds later, Yabao pointed toward the bedroom and cried out with a slightly worried expression, indicating that Little Treasure seemed very unhappy.

"I know." Qiao Sang sighed.

"Lu Di."

Lubao cried out with a calm expression, offering to use Healing Soundwave on Little Treasure to put him back in a good mood.

Qiao Sang thought about it and said, "Better not. Once the effects of Healing Soundwave wear off, he'll still remember the Clothes-Changing Totem thing."

The living room fell into a brief silence for the second time.

"Qing... qing."

Suddenly, Qingbao called out, indicating she had an idea.

Qiao Sang and Yabao's group instantly locked their eyes onto her.

"Qing... qing."

Qingbao blinked her eyes, pitching her plan with an innocent, harmless expression.

Since Little Treasure wanted to catch the Clothes-Changing Totem with his own hands, why don't we just go break it out, and then let Little Treasure catch it again?

Qiao Sang: ...

Lubao: ...

Gangbao: ...

"Yap... yap!"

Yabao's eyes lit up, and he let out an excited cry, thinking it was a great idea.

"That idea is rejected." Qiao Sang shot him down ruthlessly.

"Yap... yap..."

Yabao's eager expression instantly deflated.

If his Beast Tamer said no, then it was definitely a no.

Hearing this, Qingbao wasn't particularly disappointed.

The living room fell into silence for the third time.

After a few brief seconds, Qiao Sang dropped the phrase, "I'll go talk to Little Treasure," and walked toward the bedroom.

Arriving at the door, she gave it a knock.

About three seconds later, the door swung open automatically.

Qiao Sang stepped inside and saw the silhouette of Little Treasure squatting in the corner of the wall. She closed the door behind her and asked, "You're not crying, are you?"

Little Treasure’s body stiffened abruptly.

"The Clothes-Changing Totem is King-level, and you're General-level. It's completely normal for you to lose to it." Qiao Sang formulated her words carefully and said. 

"Even Yabao and Lubao couldn't possibly defeat a King-level pet while at the General-level."

"Xun... xun!"

"Xun... xun!"

Little Treasure turned around, his face covered in tears and snot.

But I lost so terribly, and so many people saw it, and it even made the news!

"You browse the internet every day, so you know that there's new news every single day." Qiao Sang comforted. 

"People just watch for the novelty. They remember fast, but they forget even faster. If you search for news about the Clothes-Changing Totem now, it'll definitely all be about its capture. No one is going to remember you getting defeated by it."

"Xun... xun..."

Little Treasure sniffled.

Really?

"Really." Qiao Sang nodded.

"Xun... xun!"

Little Treasure burst into a loud wail.

But as long as you search online, you can still find it! A lot of people will still see it!

Little Treasure cares about others' opinions way more than I thought... Realizing this, Qiao Sang said:

"What everyone remembers forever will always be the grandest tournaments or the most classic matches. Secret realm rifts and Clothes-Changing Totems appear here every day. Forget about yesterday's matter, even the Clothes-Changing Totem itself will be forgotten by people in a few days. But no one will ever forget the fact that you and I won the championship together back in the Central Hollow Region Tournament."

"Xun... xun..." Little Treasure stopped crying and stared blankly at his Beast Tamer.

Qiao Sang continued: "As long as we participate in even grander tournaments and stand on larger stages, whenever people see you, they will only think of your performance in those matches."

"Xun... xun..."

Little Treasure still felt a bit down.

But there are still so many videos online of me getting instantly KO'd by the Clothes-Changing Totem.

"What if those videos didn't exist?" Qiao Sang said.

"Xun... xun?!"

Little Treasure's eyes snapped wide open, shining brightly.

Qiao Sang smiled and said: "Did you forget? When we were participating in the regional tournament, the teacher mentioned that some contestants completely delete all events related to themselves online to prevent opponents from researching them."

"Xun... xun!"

"Xun... xun!"

Little Treasure nodded frantically in excitement

He remembered, he remembered!

Seeing this, Qiao Sang almost burst out laughing. Controlling herself, she maintained her previous expression and said, "We can also look for a pet with that kind of capability to delete the information."

"Xun... xun!"

Full of excitement, Little Treasure wiped his nose and impatiently floated to his Beast Tamer's side with a cry, indicating that they needed to find one immediately!

Qiao Sang handed her phone over, saying with a hint of amusement in her voice: "You post the mission."

"Xun... xun~"

Taking the phone, Little Treasure eagerly logged onto the official website of the Imperial Beast Taming Academy and typed in the mission requirements with a dead-serious expression.

Finally handled... Qiao Sang breathed a sigh of relief internally. Then, remembering something, she closed her eyes and entered the Beast Codex with her consciousness.

The pages flipped, quickly arriving at the page dedicated to Little Treasure.

Name: Night Ring King (Little Treasure) 

Attributes: Ghost, Psychic, Dark

Level: King-level (1,000,000/10,000,000) +

[Traits: First Trait: Absorption Grade: S (MAX), Status (Transcendence), Description: (Can use the ring to store all physical objects; current internal capacity is 10,000 cubic meters)

Second Trait: Phasing. Grade: S (MAX), Status (Transcendence), Description: (Can bypass the opponent's barriers or substitutes to attack)

Third Trait: Telepathy. Grade: C (139/1,000), Status (Available), Description: (During double battles, can read allies' attacks and evade damage from their moves)

Fourth Trait: Cursed Body. Grade: C (16/2,000), Status (Available), Description: (When attacked, has a 30% chance to inflict the Disable status on the target

Fifth Trait: Aura of Intimidation. Grade: A (1,486/10,000), Status (Exceptionally Useful), Description: (Exudes pressure on opponents, making them feel an aura of dominance)

Sixth Trait: Destiny Bond. Grade: A (1/10,000), Status (Exceptionally Useful), Description: (When attacked, the opponent will also take damage. If the user faints, the opponent will faint along with it. Cannot be triggered consecutively.)

Seventh Trait: Bad Dreams. Grade: B (1/2,000), Status (Useful), Description: (Inflicts damage on sleeping opponents.)

Hidden Trait: Accursed Body. Grade: B (78/2,000), Status (Useful), Description: (When attacked, has a 50% chance to inflict the Disable status on the opponent)]

Skills: Lick (1,083/2,000) +, Hypnosis (20,000/20,000) max, Dream Eater (Beginner 23/100) +, Barrier (Master 3,654/5,000) +, Telekenesis ( 20,000/20,000) max, Teleport (Secret Art 20,000/20,000) max, Shadow Control (Ultimate 20,000/20,000) max, Will-O-Wisp (Ultimate 14,754/20,000) +, Substitute (Ultimate 15,865/20,000) +, Taunt (Master 2,299/5,000) +, Brick Break (Master 4,098/5,000) +, Shadow Ball (Perfection 8,644/10,000) +, Illusion Light (Competent 1,754/2,000), Light Wall (Proficient 432/500) +, Spatial Shift (Ultimate 20,000/20,000) max, Psychic Headbutt (Master 3,876/5,000) +, Scare (Beginner 78/100) +, Misfortune Curse (Master 3,542/5,000) +, Trick (Novice 12/100) +, Shadow of Darkness (Ultimate 10,854/20,000) +, Imprison (Competent 1,088/2,000) +, Spatial Lock (Competent 1,019/2,000) +, Retaliate (Beginne 1/100) +, Wonder Room (Beginner 1/100) +, Shadow Penetration (Beginner 1/100) +]

Ghost-type, Psychic-type, Dark-type... Dark-type...

Dark-type?!

Qiao Sang was genuinely shocked.

Her level of shock right now was not a bit lower than when she first saw Yabao evolve and realized for the first time in the data that a pet could awaken a super-tier skill from its bloodline due to evolution, that feeling as if her brain had been heavily struck by a hammer.

She clearly remembered that the Night Ring King form only had the Ghost attribute

How did a Dark attribute suddenly pop up?

Wasn't that an attribute exclusive to the evolution chain where a Treasure Hunter Ghost evolves into a Treasure Hunter Spirit?!

Could it be because Little Treasure was a shiny-mutant variant?

But that didn't make sense either, Little Treasure already had the Psychic attribute...

Could it be because the Ghost Mist he absorbed back then contained too much Dark-type energy?

But that shouldn't be possible either. She had never heard of a pet awakening a related attribute just by absorbing another type's energy...

But speaking of which, no wonder Little Treasure's original body color turned black after evolving into the Night Ring King. Could it be because he was influenced by the Dark attribute...

All sorts of thoughts flashed through her mind in an instant. Qiao Sang slowly exhaled a breath, suppressing her racing heartbeat, and looked further down.

Regardless of why Little Treasure gained the Dark attribute, it was a good thing overall. Learning Dark-type moves would definitely be much easier in the future.

She remembered that Little Treasure had wanted to awaken the Destiny Bond trait back then, but unfortunately, that was a Dark-type trait, and pets without the Dark attribute couldn't awaken it.

Now that he had the Dark attribute, maybe he could try... Just as she was thinking about it, Qiao Sang saw the words Destiny Bond.

Destiny Bond?

Holy crap, Little Treasure actually awakened the Destiny Bond trait?!

The heartbeat she had just suppressed went wild and accelerated once again.

Qiao Sang was both shocked and overjoyed.

She was shocked because she had just thought about this trait only to find that Little Treasure had already awakened it, and overjoyed because Little Treasure now possessed it.

She still vividly remembered the scene where a Phantasm Fox possessing this trait, despite being a whole level lower than Yabao, directly forced out Yabao’s Blaze trait.

If Little Treasure found out he had awakened this trait, he would absolutely die of joy... Calming her mindset, Qiao Sang continued looking down.

Bad Dreams...

Yet another Dark-type trait.

This trait was also quite good. Paired with Little Treasure's Hypnosis, it could inflict damage even while the opponent was asleep.

She looked at the newly awakened skills of Little Treasure.

Retaliate, a high-tier Dark-type skill. Using this move before taking damage allowed the pet to forcefully return the damage of the last move received back to the opponent.

Little Treasure's defense was too low. If the damage from the final move received was too massive, he probably wouldn't be able to return it...

Wonder Room, a high-tier Psychic-type skill. It creates a bizarre space where, within a certain period of time, all pets inside this space swap their physical defense and defensive traits.

Qiao Sang's eyes lit up.

This skill was amazing. Little Treasure's current biggest shortcoming was his defense, and over 90% of pets at the same stage had higher defense than him. With this skill, that flaw could be completely compensated for.

If he encountered an opponent with defense even lower than Little Treasure's, he could simply choose not to use this skill.

Train it! This skill absolutely had to be trained!

With an excited mood, Qiao Sang looked at the final skill.

Shadow Penetration...

Shadow Penetration?

That super-tier skill, Shadow Penetration, used by that Witch Mystic Fiend?

Qiao Sang blanked out for a moment, an unspeakable pleasant surprise surging from the bottom of her heart.

The super-tier skill Shadow Penetration allowed for both bizarre movement and the absorption of incoming skill attacks.

Back then, that Witch Mystic Fiend had relied on this exact move to fend off several of Yabao's group all by herself.

Although Little Treasure hadn't awakened any powerful offensive means, relying on these traits and skills, he was fully capable of achieving victory against stronger opponents, something that was incredibly difficult to do once a pet reached the King-level stage.

Qiao Sang took a deep breath, stabilized her excited emotions, and brought her consciousness back to reality.

At first glance, she saw Little Treasure holding the phone, typing seriously, seemingly replying to something.

"How is it? Did you find a pet that can wipe out the online news?" Qiao Sang asked with a smile.

"Xun... xun~"

While typing, Little Treasure let out a cry, indicating not yet, but over a dozen people had already signed up, and he was currently filtering through them.

Qiao Sang was stunned for a moment: "So many people have already taken the mission?"

"Xun... xun~"

Without even lifting his head, Little Treasure nodded.

I wasn't inside the Beast Codex for very long, how could so many people have accepted the mission... Qiao Sang suddenly had a bad feeling in her heart and asked: "How many points did you offer as a reward?"

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T/n: Now, we're done with our least fave story tropes. Now, how about our most favorite? Mine's That one money-hungry/misunderstood mc but always sacrifices themselves for the sake of the other's (I'm looking at you Kim Dokja, Loid/Lloyd, Cale Henituse, Klein Morreti, Chungmyung, etc.)  and found family too.

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