These Familiars Are Strange

The Astral White Tiger had been busy releasing all of this elemental energy, but its eyes immediately lit up when it saw the red orb that I pulled out. The moment that its eyes fell onto the red orb, it looked like it wanted to eat it already. Seeing the way that the Astral White Tiger looked at the red orb, I couldn't help shaking my head with a bitter smile. Though I did understand why it looked like this. It was all because this red orb was something that was similar to what it had eaten previously. This was the red bead that Leaf had given me earlier, the one that she had gotten from the Kijin. This was the A Rank orb that was filled with fire elemental energy, just like the Thunder Bead that I fed the Astral White Tiger previously. I had been holding this thing because it was a drop from one of the elite monsters. This was something that needed to be turned in to get points for the competition, so I wasn't able to feed it to the Astral White Tiger right away. But now, it seemed that I had to do it. If the Astral White Tiger ate this thing, its flames would become much stronger than they were now and it would be able to cause serious damage to the heart turtle. For the sake of defeating the heart turtle faster, I had to give up this Elite Monster drop. Though I couldn't help thinking that it was worth it. After all, the drops from the Boss Monster would certainly be worth much more than the drops of an Elite Monster. At the same time, I would be able to get the final blow on the Boss Monster and earn the points there. So it was also important that I had the power to instantly finish off the Boss Monster instead of letting anyone seize an opportunity. I could see that though the top contender teams were watching me attack the heart turtle, they were also waiting for their chance to make their move. Especially Huang Tuo who seemed to be glaring as he looked at me. He just wasn't hiding his hostility towards me at all. Once the Astral White Tiger got the go ahead to eat the red bead and it recovered from the happiness that it felt, it went forward to start licking the red bead. Three black lines appeared on my forehead when I saw this. When it ate the elemental orbs before, the Astral White Tiger just stuffed them into its mouth without a single care. But the time that I wanted it to eat the elemental orb quickly, it seemed to be taking its time. It was doing the opposite of what I wanted this time… The Astral White Tiger's face was filled with happiness as it licked the orb. It wasn't hard to tell what the Astral White Tiger was thinking when I saw this look on its face. It wanted to make this last as long as possible, so that was why it was slowly licking the red orb. It seemed that this child had grown and learned to have patience to savour the items that it wanted to eat. But that wasn't what I needed from it now…even if I was happy to see that the Astral White Tiger was growing. So without a second thought, I stuffed the red orb into the Astral White Tiger's mouth. It looked up at me with a surprised and a slightly displeased look, but I just said to it in a serious voice, "Swallow." The Astral White Tiger was completely caught off guard by this and even seemed a bit afraid when it saw me saying this. It unconsciously gave a gulp because of this and then that red orb disappeared down its throat. As soon as the red orb disappeared down its throat, the flames that it released became stronger. The heart turtle wasn't the only one that was shocked by the sudden increase in firepower. Everyone else was shocked by this sudden increase in the intensity of the flame as well. After all, they couldn't understand why this sudden increase had happened. Well, everyone except for Huang Tuo who had been on the receiving end of this. His face actually looked quite ugly since this reminded him of what happened when he fought with Lin Fan. It reminded him of the way that his peacock familiar had been taken advantage of by that person. But it also made him a bit afraid since he had never heard of this kind of ability before. This was a familiar that seemed to keep growing stronger by absorbing different forms of energy and it didn't seem like there was a limit to how strong it could grow. Did that mean that this person's familiar could grow forever? Did that mean that this person had the potential to become a World Summoner? Or even a World Guardian? Huang Tuo couldn't accept this as an ambitious young talent. He naturally had his dreams of becoming a World Summoner as well and he naturally couldn't accept it if he was beneath someone else. On the other side, Leaf's eyes were glowing as she stared at Lin Fan. This was the person that she wanted and the more that she saw him sparkle, the more that she wanted him. The way that she looked at him was even a bit like she wanted to kidnap him and lock him up… It was a good thing that no one saw this… When I felt the flames becoming stronger, I didn't hesitate to create even more powerful blades of flames and at the same time, I even incorporated the lightning energy into them. The heart turtle just wasn't able to do a single thing as it wrapped itself up in its remaining two limbs, but those were quickly cut off and the stem was revealed. With one last large blade of flames, the stem was cut off and the heart turtle fell down onto the ground without moving.