Chapter 25: Have a good meal

“Let’s run two laps to warm up first,” Qiao Sang continued.

After Fire Fang Dog put on the weighted rings, it adapted quite quickly. It could walk with no problem, but just walking with weights wouldn’t achieve any particularly noticeable training effects.

“Ya.”

Fire Fang Dog nodded, having no objection to Qiao Sang’s arrangement.

This time, Qiao Sang chose to run with Fire Fang Dog.

Under Qiao Sang’s encouragement, after Fire Fang Dog painstakingly finished two laps, it looked at Qiao Sang with a face full of despair.

You call this a warm-up?

Qiao Sang was breathing heavily. After two laps, her own body was also a bit overwhelmed.

It seems I still need to exercise in the future…

When Qiao Sang recovered her breath, she took out her phone and checked the recorded running time.

During the morning run, Fire Fang Dog averaged about 18 minutes per lap.

Now, with the weighted rings, the first lap was 29 minutes and 03 seconds, and the second lap was 38 minutes and 42 seconds.

Qiao Sang noted it down in her phone’s memo, preparing to compare the running times later.

“The warm-up is over. Next, use Ram ten times on this tree.” Qiao Sang brought Fire Fang Dog to the梧桐 tree where she had read her book in the morning.

“Ya~”

Upon hearing this, Fire Fang Dog plopped down on the ground, letting out a weak cry.

“Don’t you want to become stronger?” Qiao Sang asked.

After spending a few days with Fire Fang Dog, she knew that its personality was strong, and its willpower was also excellent. Although it had only battled others four times, each time it charged to the front without fear of injury.

Become stronger?

Fire Fang Dog slowly got up, its eyes becoming resolute.

Didn’t it contract in the first place to come out, get stronger, and find more opponents?

Qiao Sang was very pleased with the change in Fire Fang Dog’s eyes. She recalled the first time she met Fire Fang Dog.

At that time, Fire Fang Dog was repeatedly hitting the tree trunk with its small body, and it had the same resolute gaze as now.

Thinking back now, it felt like a very long time had passed.

“Maybe this training will even allow you to master the skill you wanted to learn last time,” Qiao Sang said with a smile.

“Ya?”

Fire Fang Dog looked at its Yu Beast Master with a face full of question marks.

“The skill you wanted to learn when I first saw you at the Pet Base,” Qiao Sang explained.

“Ya?”

Fire Fang Dog became even more confused.

When did it have a skill it wanted to learn?

“If you didn’t have a skill you wanted to learn, why were you hitting the tree? Could it be that you were practicing Ram?” Qiao Sang was also bewildered.

That shouldn’t be right. Ram at least requires a running start from five meters away. She remembered Fire Fang Dog hitting the tree from within one meter last time.

Fire Fang Dog recalled its first meeting with its Yu Beast Master.

What was it doing at that time?

It was hitting the tree, trying to make the fruit on it fall down.

“Ya ya ya ya ya.”

“Ya ya.”

Fire Fang Dog gestured and explained to Qiao Sang.

Qiao Sang: “…”

After a long silence, Qiao Sang ended the topic: “Let’s start training.”

Fire Fang Dog, thinking about becoming stronger, trained with extra effort.

Ram is a skill formed by accumulating power in all four limbs and unleashing a momentary冲击 force.

But Fire Fang Dog was wearing weighted rings now, and the speed of its impact was noticeably slower, so the resulting attack power was not enough to be called Ram.

After Fire Fang Dog exerted itself and continuously impacted 6 times, it was only on the 7th time that it officially performed its first true Ram of the day.

“Ya!”

It excitedly looked at its Yu Beast Master, only to find her spacing out.

Qiao Sang was actually still immersed in the truth she had just discovered.

She felt that her Fire Fang Dog was a bit silly. It had been hitting the tree for a long time just for the fruit on it.

Could it be that the food at the Pet Base wasn’t filling enough?

With its small body, how could it possibly knock down the fruit by hitting it like that?

It would have been better to use Ram on the tree…

And now, after hitting it for a long time, not only did the fruit not fall, but its head also hurt…

Why couldn’t it climb trees…

“Ya!”

“Ya!”

Fire Fang Dog’s barking brought Qiao Sang back to her senses.

“I’m fine,” Qiao Sang said.

“Ya.”

Fire Fang Dog nodded, having forgotten its original intention for calling its Yu Beast Master, and continued training.

5:53 PM.

Training ended.

Fire Fang Dog lay exhausted on the ground. Qiao Sang stepped forward, gently picked it up, and sighed, “You are the best Fire Fang Dog I’ve ever seen.”

Although she hadn’t seen many Fire Fang Dogs, it didn’t stop her from praising it.

It clearly had no strength left, but to complete the final tenth Ram, it gritted its teeth and persevered with sheer willpower.

After a whole afternoon of hitting, it had achieved a hundred impacts.

“Ya~”

Fire Fang Dog, nestled in Qiao Sang’s arms, was uncharacteristically shy.

“I’ll take you to eat something good,” Qiao Sang said with a smile.

…

Nian Guo Restaurant.

Fire Fang Dog stared at the food on the table, dumbfounded.

Fruit platter, fruit salad, fruit noodles, fruit ice cream, fruit cake, fruit jelly, fruit pie, fruit juice…

Various foods made from fruit filled the entire table.

“Grumble…”

As Fire Fang Dog stared, its stomach rumbled.

“Eat quickly,” Qiao Sang said softly.

Fire Fang Dog no longer hesitated, immediately picked up a piece of fruit cake with its paw, and devoured it.

Qiao Sang felt this scene was exceptionally warm and beautiful.

However, this beautiful scene was not without its cost…

The cost was one-fifth of Qiao Sang’s assets, plus a scolding from her mother…

…

Three days later.

“Bang!”

A flame the size of an adult’s fist, accompanied by scorching heat, caused a distant rock to explode, leaving a sizable crater.

Name: Fire Fang Dog

Attribute: Fire

Level: Beginner (127/1000) +

Skills: Bite (Beginner 74/100) +, Ram (Proficient 168/500) +, Fire Fang (Proficient 116/500) +, Spark (Proficient 135/500) +

Points: 55

In just four days, Fire Fang Dog’s Fire Fang and Spark had reached Proficient level.

If others knew about this, it would definitely cause a huge uproar.

Spark aside, after all, it’s not unheard of for extremely talented Pets to master low-level skills from Beginner in a short time.

But Fire Fang is different; that’s a genuine Mid-Level Skill!

Normally, it takes an average of half a year for a Mid-Level Skill to go from Beginner to Proficient, but Fire Fang Dog only took a mere four days!

At this moment, Fire Fang Dog was wearing the dark green triangular sunglasses that had just arrived the day before, concentrating on its skill release training.

With the red and green color combination, Fire Fang Dog’s head-turning rate soared. Many children playing in the park stopped to watch, but dared not approach due to the flames surrounding Fire Fang Dog.

After these few days of training, Fire Fang Dog already knew what to do without Qiao Sang’s guidance.

Under the梧桐 tree.

Qiao Sang was reading a book.

Ever since Fire Fang Dog’s Spark and Fire Fang reached Proficient level, she was no longer worried about the Pet battle for Saint Water Middle School’s special enrollment exam.

Everyone was a newly contracted Pet Master; it was impossible for anyone’s Pet to have a Mid-Level Skill mastered like Fire Fang Dog.

Fire Fang Dog’s speed had also been steadily improving these past few days. Yesterday, it ran a lap with the weighted rings in only 22 minutes and 07 seconds, nearly 7 minutes faster than the first day.

The Pet battle five days later was no longer a concern, but Qiao Sang still didn’t have absolute confidence in the middle school entrance exam twelve days later.