"Finally, it's time to hand out the rewards."
Inside his Exclusive Room, Lu Ran stretched.
He had waited forever.
At present, he was still unquestionably first on Third Infinite City's Extraordinary Pet Ranking.
As for second place, that belonged to Pluto.
Last time, after Pluto asked whether Lu Ran would still be going to Fifth Infinite City and received an affirmative answer, he breathed a sigh of relief, then headed back to Fifth Infinite City.
But shortly after Pluto reclaimed first place in Fifth Infinite City, White Tiger Sister over there stepped up and kicked him straight down.
Pluto became number two again.
He fought for ages without winning his spot back... it was quite an ordeal.
After all that running around, he ultimately returned to home base, keeping things harmonious between the two cities.
Among the top ten, aside from the rather mysterious John Doe, the other nine people's identities were no longer secrets.
Pluto came from The Stars, one of Third Infinite City's Four Great Guilds.
In tenth place was Fang Lan, an independent from Green Sea City, with a family background in veterinary medicine and a reputation as a popular cute-pet blogger.
She was the only Beast Tamer still on Third Infinite City's ranking whose Pet Beast had not fused with a trait.
Of course, that was largely thanks to her control over Green Sea's Poison-Type territory, which let her continually strengthen her Pet Beast with large quantities of wild Poison-Type resources.
Of the remaining people, three came from the Four Great Guilds.
Third Infinite City's Four Great Guilds were The Stars, Dragon Palace, Circus Troupe, and Mountains and Rivers.
As things stood, each guild held one of the ten spots on the Extraordinary Pet Ranking.
The other guilds, lacking the considerable strength of those four, naturally