Most competitions were lively, hot-blooded affairs. Battles between pet beasts and contests between Beast Tamers could easily fire up the crowd.
Of these, spectacular underdog victories and fierce clashes between evenly matched opponents were the most thrilling.
Almost everyone seated here was a school administrator, and they had watched more matches than they could count.
They rarely reacted to steady, predictable preliminary matches like these.
Even when they watched closely, it was only to analyze the other schools' competitors.
Their emotions only stirred when students from their own schools were involved.
But this preliminary match, neither an underdog victory nor an evenly matched clash, left all of Area B silent for a few seconds before an uproar rose like a cloud of dust.
"Did you see that? Did you all see that?! What's with that Flame Listening Dog? Does it have eyes in the back of its head?!"
"How did it do that? How did it teleport right onto the Sea Gnawing Raccoon?!"
"That Flame Listening Dog's battle instincts are incredible!"
"When the Torrent Trait activated, I thought we might have a real contest. I never expected Qiao Sang from Saint Water High School to deny her opponent even the slightest chance of a comeback..."
"Honestly, Zhou Jing from Pinhai High School isn't bad either. She just had rotten luck and ran into a freak."
"Speaking of which, I barely remember Zhou Jing from the last two tournaments. All I remember is that one of her pet beasts was from another region. I didn't expect her to perform this well this time."
"That's normal. You've probably only started coming to the Competition Venue in the last two years, right?"
"How did you know?"
"Because their third year is these students' last chance to compete in the National Campus Beast Taming