"Morning, Boss Xu!"
Early the next morning, Xu Ran ran into someone he knew as soon as he reached the square outside the Beast Tamer Association.
"Morning." Looking at the beaming, energetic Su Xiaoxiao before him, Xu Ran chuckled. "Are you taking part in this exchange too?"
"Yep!" Su Xiaoxiao nodded emphatically, linked arms with Gu Ling beside her, then glanced around and lowered her voice. "Actually, I got in through connections!"
"Our families are old friends, so Uncle Gu is taking me along to broaden my horizons." Su Xiaoxiao giggled. "School just let out for the holidays!"
"It's fine. I'm only going to have a look too." Gu Ling linked her arm through Su Xiaoxiao's in return, wearing a somewhat helpless smile. "They've changed this exchange into sparring matches. I don't know whether they'll divide us up by our Contract Beasts' ranks."
"If they don't, I'll just be there to make up the numbers."
In that respect, with her Contract Power still short of the second tier, she really wasn't much different from Su Xiaoxiao.
"My dad told me you've already reached the third tier, Boss Xu?" Gu Ling looked enviously at Purple Cloud following behind Xu Ran. "That was way too fast!"
"I had a few lucky encounters." Xu Ran smiled calmly. "Enough about that. Is anyone else coming?"
"Yes." Gu Ling nodded. "There's also..."
Before she could finish, a voice rang out from far away on the other side.
"Morning, everyone!"
As the voice faded, an enormous white figure raced toward them.
"Awooo~"
A full eight meters long and two stories tall with its head raised, the Frost-Dust Wolf howled at the sky, Elite Rank power surging around its body and pride gleaming in its eyes.
But when it caught sight of the washbasin-sized "little thing," Can