Beast taming, starting from zero point novel Chapter 73

Chapter 73: Chapter 69: Exhibition Match

The award ceremony was scheduled to take place after Sha Duo and Gao Xulu’s performance match.

Before Qiao Sang left the competition area, a staff member specifically came over to ask for her seat number among the audience, saying they would invite her to the stage to receive her award later.

Unlike the orderly manner of receiving awards in her previous life,

the beastriding society now generally favored flamboyant entrances.

The Beast Taming Competition wasn’t so bad; only the entrance for the award ceremony was a bit flashy.

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But for the Coordination Competitions, even a participant’s initial entrance had to be particularly creative.

The difference was that in the Coordination Competitions, it was up to the participants to wrack their brains for ideas.

Whereas, in the Beast Taming Competitions, the entrance style was managed by the organizers’ planning, and those receiving the awards just needed to quietly wait for arrangements.

When Qiao Sang returned to her seat in the audience, before Bai Yunmiao could even speak up, the uncle sitting on the other side enthusiastically said:

“Child, which school are you from? Your performance was truly amazing, far better than my good-for-nothing son.”

Just as Qiao Sang was about to respond, the aunt sitting in front of her turned around and said, “Child, are you here alone? Didn’t your parents come with you?”

“Qiao Sang, do you have plans for the summer? If not, come to our Luwu Junior Pet Beast Full Custody Institution. Your Fire-Toothed Dog can play to its heart’s content there and release its nature. I’ll give you a discount,” said the young man who was also sitting in front.

For a moment, voices attempting to strike up a conversation surrounded her.

Qiao Sang responded to each one in turn.

She actually wasn’t very accustomed to interacting with so many strangers.

In her previous life, she lived in a fast-paced city where people often kept a strong sense of personal boundaries, and the social atmosphere was cold.

In the same neighborhood, neighbors might pass each other by without even a greeting.

Yet the strangers speaking to her now were genuinely enthusiastic and full of goodwill.

Qiao Sang somewhat understood that this had something to do with her first-place finish, but more importantly, people in her previous life all had their own matters to attend to.

Everyone had their own circle of life.

This circle could be so small that beyond the campus, the workplace, or even the home, there was no one else to talk to.

Because there was no common ground between people, there were no topics to discuss.

But now, the shared interest in pet beasts brought them closely together.

When the background music at the venue began to play and the commentator announced that Sha Duo and Gao Xulu’s performance match had officially started, those sitting around finally quieted down and turned their attention back to the competition arena.

“Qiao Sang, you’re even more talented than the recent graduates from our school; they probably couldn’t have taken first place if they were here,” Bai Yunmiao said with a face full of admiration.

“Don’t just flatter me. Those who are truly powerful at this stage probably didn’t even come to the competition,” Qiao Sang said as she casually took off the sunglasses from the Fire-Toothed Dog’s face.

She had felt for some time that the sunglasses looked awkward on the dog’s face.

“Tooth?”

The Fire-Toothed Dog, sensing the change in gaze, dipped its head and used its paw to take the sunglasses back from its beast tamer’s hand and put them on again.

Qiao Sang: “…”

Who was it that absolutely refused to wear them at the beginning?

“After all, it clashes with the timing of The Interstellar Cup competition, but even so, not to mention those before, just looking at the ones who competed after you, Hou Xiangyu and Wei Wenya, one from Li Tang High School and the other just got accepted into Yongda—compared to them, you’re so young. Normally, who would…”

Bai Yunmiao’s words were interrupted by Qiao Sang.

“Look quick, Sha Duo has sent out the Sichuan Swallow,” Qiao Sang interjected.

Bai Yunmiao immediately muted himself and looked towards the arena.

The red Star Array in front of Sha Duo had just disappeared.

Before a Beast Tamer reveals their rank badge, the color of the Star Array is the common standard by which the public determines a Beast Tamer’s rank.

An F-rank Beast Tamer’s Star Array is white, an E-rank Beast Tamer’s is gray, a D-rank Beast Tamer’s is green, and a C-rank Beast Tamer’s is orange-yellow.

Red is the hallmark of a B-rank Beast Tamer or, in other words, proof that Sha Duo could contract with five pet beasts.

Gao Xulu’s Star Array was also red.