On the field.
A gray star array lit up before Hou Xiangyu.
A light-gray pet beast shaped like a scale weight, yet soft-looking rather than hard, floated above the star array.
Knowing that the opponent only had one Fire Fang Dog, Hou Xiangyu did not send out the slightly weaker Ba Xue Butterfly. Instead, he respectfully summoned the Scale Control Puppet.
Hou Xiangyu looked at the Fire Fang Dog across from him, already poised to strike, with admiration in his eyes.
He had only watched the Hundred New Tournament on the first day to get a general sense of the contestants' abilities. He had not followed it in the days afterward.
Except for this morning's quarterfinal match.
Although he had not watched all of Qiao Sang's previous matches, he had heard her name.
After all, there were only a few standout contestants in the Hundred New Tournament, and the reports kept featuring them.
As the only contestant to have initially contracted a Fire-type pet beast, and someone Sha Duo had publicly named as a future opponent, it was hard for people not to notice her.
That morning's match had indeed lived up to the media coverage. With her tactics, she had perfectly demonstrated what it meant to defeat the strong with the weak.
The tactics had been ingenious.
But many people overlooked the fact that tactics also required a pet beast strong enough to carry them out.
In just one match, the Fire Fang Dog had already displayed four skills: Shadow Clone, Flame Charge, Flame Vortex, and Spark.
There was also the scene of it stepping across chunks of stone on the collapsing ground as it charged toward the Twin-tailed Land Turtle. Without a certain level of reaction speed, how could it have done that?
It was hard to believe