"The Nether Ring Monarch! The Nether Ring Monarch came out! Wait, no—if it's already out, why is the Trick-Selling Marten still screaming like that? What's attacking it in there?"
"Don't forget, the Nether Ring Monarch can Teleport. Maybe it attacked the Trick-Selling Marten before coming out."
"But the timing's wrong. Little Treasure was outside when the Trick-Selling Marten screamed. Maybe its Substitute attacked."
"Huh? Just a Substitute? Could a Substitute make the Trick-Selling Marten scream that badly?"
"Haven't you seen Little Treasure's earlier matches? Its Substitute looks exactly like the real thing, and it hits hard. It must have been given plenty of energy."
"At this level, what pet beast's Substitute looks different from the original? Even if the Nether Ring Monarch isn't very proficient with Substitute, nobody could tell them apart. All anyone sees is a black shape."
"Little Treasure isn't that black, is it? I saw it as soon as it appeared."
"That's because it appeared under the lights!"
"Damn it! That blasted Evil Abyss Field is hiding the fight from me again!"
"I don't think that's Evil Abyss Field."
"Then what is it?"
"The Trick-Selling Marten used Evil Shadow Gnaw!" Tao Jia announced from the commentary desk. "But it looks like the attack missed the Nether Ring Monarch! The Trick-Selling Marten was hit instead!"
Both Evil Shadow Gnaw and Evil Abyss Field appeared to the crowd as a vast cloud of black miasma. The former, however, formed countless shadows within it, their color slightly darker than the surrounding haze. Any Beast Tamer whose eyesight had been enhanced through feedback could generally make them out.
Chen Zhuo analyzed the situation calmly.
"The Trick-Selling Marten was caught by Darkness Shadow Control and couldn't break free, so it used Evil Shadow Gnaw, which only requires it to know where its