Chapter 1076 - The fat cat (1/2)

Erin felt a headache coming up. Not only had that strange girl called Bliss come up to her without being asked, now she was speaking in riddles. It was hard for her to judge whether the girl was just someone crazy, or perhaps someone affiliated with Pure. But if it was the latter, then why would she have willingly appeared in front of her?

”Don't you think it's pretty rude to tell someone you have just met something like that?” Erin questioned her with a nervous smile. ”How about you start explaining yourself, for example who exactly you are, before I really might be causing some chaos here.”

Looking around the room, the dhampir checked if there was anyone else in the room with her. There was no scent of a vampire or such, else her body would have reacted strongly by now, and her own ability couldn't sense any Qi apart from her own… unless someone here had an even greater Qi control than herself, which would mean she was in great danger.

Raising her hand, Bliss pointed towards the screen at the back, it looked like the fight was about to commence.

”I'm not here to hurt you, Erin, so why don't we just enjoy the match and see if my little prediction turns out to be correct.” Bliss suggested. The dhampir was still sceptical, but if the other party had wanted to hurt her, would she have shown herself so willingly and openly?

For now, she decided to remain vigilant, but also check out the spectacle.

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Both Leo and his opponent had stepped into opposite sides of the ring. Leo placed his hand on the hilt of the sword and was ready to draw it.

'I will take out the beast and not harm the man by his side to make quick work of this.' Leo informed his familiar on what to do.

'There is no need.' Ovin replied. 'I didn't choose to follow you so I could just laze around all day. I could have done that in the Familiar World as well. Besides, if you were to act now, won't that reveal who you are to the others?'

Leo trusted Ovin quite a bit, the connection the two of them had formed allowed them to understand each other, yet the blind man couldn't help but think that his partner was contradicting himself. Since he had come here, all it had done was laze around.

”Let the fight begin!” The host announced and rang a bell.

As soon as the match officially began, their opponents, beast tamer Max, as well as the 'Mighty Cruncher' showed off their teamwork. Max jumped onto the crocodile-like beast's back, as the creature charged towards their opponents at a frightening speed. Its jaw was opening and closing just as fast as its legs were moving.

The cat just stood there, and soon its eyes started to glow in a fierce yellow. The next moment yellow mist started to surround it.

'You lowly creature, how dare you b.a.r.e your fangs at me?!' Ovin shouted, yet to the outside world it sounded like Ovin had let out a loud bark. That's right, the fat cat hadn't let out a cute meow but a fierce bark like a dog.

Those watching the transmission found it hilarious, but those inside the colosseum regretted coming here. The bark was deep and menacing, and struck fear into all those present, most of all Max on top of his beast as he was the closest one. The beast tamer felt his whole body shake and his instincts told him that the fat cat was far more dangerous than any other beast he had ever encountered.

He pulled out a beast spear from his back, too afraid to get close to the cat. His plan was to stab it while riding on top of his beast, but the next moments, he leapt through the air as his tamed beast had stopped moving, frozen in fear.

'Did I lose control, because I was too scared?' Max wondered. However, as soon as he tried to reconnect the link he had with the Mighty Cruncher using his ability, nothing seemed to work. He didn't even notice when the cat had lazily hopped on top of the other's beast to whack it with its paw.

'Now sleep!' Ovin shouted into the poor creature's mind. It looked like a cute action, but the force behind the action was enough to slam the reptile head into the area and leave an imprint. Nobody was surprised that all of the Mighty Cruncher's teeth had shattered in the process.

'This is your punishment for not knowing your place!' Ovin harrumphed and looked over to the beast tamer. Fear overcame Max and he quickly knelt down.

”I give up, please let me get out of here!” He begged shamelessly, afraid what might happen to him if the cat could deal such damage to his beast with a simple cat paw.

It was dead silent and everyone just watched the fat black cat leisurely walk back to its owner. As if everything before that had been a mere illusion, and yawned once more and laid down on its stomach.

'This body is tired. Pick me up, please.' Ovin requested as he rolled around on his back. Leo didn't hesitate to comply. The familiar had done a great job, so he put him back on his favourite spot, his own bald head.

”What just happened, did we just see a cat defeat an advanced tier beast in a single hit!”

”Yeah, I thought it might have been a joke candidate or something, but that's not the case at all. Do we know what tier it is? It has to be Emperor tier at the very least, right?”

”We should never judge a beast by its size.”

The spectators in the crowd were the first to recover and they instantly started to talk about what they had just witnessed. The host was the next, who hurriedly declared Leo the winner, as everyone was already cheering for him.

”That little cat was even more impressive than I thought. I knew it would be strong but it surpassed my expectations.” Chris said, as he was watching from a special area with other members of Pure.