Chapter 17

On dimension 12768, candidates for the title of Battle King from various subordinate universes cautiously lurked or moved along the borders of territories belonging to different advanced beast clans.

These warriors from different dimensions possessed the sharpest senses for danger. They fully understood that this entirely new dimension might hold the resources and challenges they longed for, but simultaneously, it harbored terrifying threats capable of ending their lives.

Among the remaining ninety-eight Battle King candidates, only a handful maintained a calm and composed demeanor in this dimension—they were confident they would be the top-tier warriors in this contest.

This initial elimination round posed little threat to them.

The elite warriors selected by the primal system bore such confidence. Some had even discerned, through conversations with the system, the hidden highest-level mission of this elimination: to tame the native advanced beasts of dimension 12768.

Thus, while other candidates cautiously avoided danger, these top-tier Battle King candidates proactively sought out isolated advanced beasts, attempting to grapple with and tame them.

Within their subspace live streams, a group of combat-focused spectator spirits watched their performances intently.

However, while these candidates were still entangled in battles with the advanced beasts of dimension 12768, a message from the main system reached every Battle King system’s information interface.

As a result, those candidates struggling against giant snakes, brown bears, giant crocodiles, and the like all momentarily paused.

A question simultaneously surfaced in everyone’s minds: who exactly was candidate number 001? How could they have tamed two S-class advanced beasts in such a short time?

Some spectator spirits, curious after receiving this system notification, immediately switched to the number 001’s live stream, hoping to relive the thrilling scene of the candidate taming two S-class advanced beasts through the subspace’s video replay function.

Yet, upon selecting the replay segment, they were met with the same message—

“Apologies, due to fluctuations in the cosmic light network, this segment cannot be replayed. Please try other segments. Thank you for your understanding.”

The excited spectators who rushed over were left speechless.

Enough already; even in the Great Universe Era, signal issues remain the most frustrating problem, bar none!

These hurried spectators first cursed the Black Universe Group’s useless light network but soon refocused on the live broadcast.

Without replay, just watching this powerful number 001 candidate’s performance was still impressive.

“Oh, how surprising! Is candidate 001 a half-orc?”

“Half-orcs do possess decent combat talents, but shouldn’t the Merfolk and Lava Clan, with their special talent synergy, far surpass half-orc levels?”

“It’s truly unexpected that a god-level Battle King system would be bound to a half-orc warrior… maybe he’s a talent variant within the half-orc race?”

These newly arrived spectator spirits had no prior knowledge of who candidate 001 was.

But at this moment, the screen showed only two native beasts from dimension 12768. Moreover, perched on the back of the gray wolf-form beast was a mysterious humanoid cub.

Though the newcomers found it odd that such a humanoid cub appeared in a Battle King combat development show—since normally, such young humanoid offspring only appear in emotional bonding and nurturing reality shows—they accepted it.

Perhaps it was a fresh surprise arranged by the Black Universe Group?

With this mindset, the new spectators began questioning the native audience spirits in this subspace: how did candidate 001 possess the power to so thoroughly tame these two S-class advanced beasts?

How could the gray wolf-form wild beast carry a humanoid cub steadily on its back as its mount?

Upon hearing these questions, the original audience spirits in 001’s subspace, glowing with a cyan radiance and constantly sporting a sprig of cyan flowers above their heads, cast peculiar glances at the newcomers.

“Hey, newcomers! Perhaps you should first fix those utterly flawed brains of yours.”

“...Wake up. Maybe you should check out candidate 098’s subspace to see who number 098 really is?”

“Exactly!”

“This is our precious Yoyo’s space!”

???

The new spectator spirits felt as if they had accidentally wandered into a fanatical fanbase’s stronghold and had angered a group of uniformly colored spirits, who now glared at them collectively.

The newcomers were utterly confused until someone located the main perspective camera in 001’s subspace.

“...”

Almost simultaneously, the new spectators fell into an eerie silence.

What a joke!

The main perspective in candidate 001’s live stream was not the seemingly powerful half-orc, but the humanoid cub riding the gray wolf-form beast—an utterly non-combative figure whose only apparent role was to be cute?!

***

In the main universe’s live broadcast, new viewers pouring into the stream continuously struggled to reconstruct their shattered worldviews.

Meanwhile, in dimension 12768, Battle King system 098 was silently undergoing the same reevaluation.

As one of the Battle King systems, 098 naturally received the hidden mission completion notification from the main system immediately.

Having witnessed the entire taming process firsthand, 098 had no idea how to react to what unfolded before it.

In truth, even now, system 098 did not understand how this cub had successfully “tamed” the two wild beasts—the gray wolf form and the golden lion form.

The only thing 098 sensed was the sudden hunger-driven threat that the cub, Su You, had emitted earlier.

098 dared say that without the assistance of system 001 and its host’s bizarre mindset, it might have already been devoured like a “chocolate ball” by this mysterious cub!

Even now, after escaping danger, system 098 still remembered that dread as if hunted by an indescribable force.

But—

Such raw fear, powerful as it was, would it alone suffice to easily tame two S-class advanced beasts?

Certainly not.

Both Wolberly and Belliman, despite sharing the near-death terror, would perhaps feel fear but could not truly be tamed by fear alone.

What genuinely compelled Wolberly and Belliman to submit was the sacrificial incantation offered by the half-orc Salvador—

“O supreme Beast God, hear my plea. I offer you my most devout faith. I shall become the most faithful disciple and servant to your noble offspring. I pledge my heart and faith to him, following at his side until the end of my days.”

This was an ancient ritual chant, recited in the oldest beast tongue of the half-orc dimension—once connected to the beast dimension in a distant past.

As Salvador sincerely offered this sacrifice in the traditional beast language, the gray wolf Wolberly and Belliman were merely surprised at first.

But when the purest power of faith condensed from Salvador and transferred into Su You’s hands, then swallowed by the cub—

Both the gray wolf Wolberly and the golden lion Belliman subtly sensed a power belonging to the Beast God in that instant.

...So, could this cub truly be the Beast God’s child?

Perhaps.

After all, if he were not the Beast God’s child, how could such a tiny figure effortlessly subdue two S-class advanced beasts?

With the spontaneous theory of the “Beast God’s Child,” these two S-class beasts, sensing the faint aura of the “Beast God” from Su You’s soul, genuinely bowed before him.

At this moment, the small cub looked up at his own “Tong” in puzzlement.

“Tong Tong, what is a hidden mission?”