My starting summon is a small skeleton-Chapter 144 - 143 Stew Little Skeleton Again
From May 7th, Lu Wu’s team’s high school competition gradually became less intense.
After all, there were only 14 seed teams among the 84 groups, averaging about seven teams per group.
In the previous two days, Lu Wu had already faced four teams, plus one dark horse team, so there were only two seed teams left that he hadn’t encountered.
Even if he consecutively faced them, Lu Wu’s squad could still hold their ground.
Therefore, the subsequent matches weren’t as intense as the first two days, but the number of battles in the coming days was indeed much greater.
Basically, every day’s three matches, nine rounds had to be played in full.
Under such intense combat conditions, the goblin, who hadn’t made a move in the first two days, finally took action.
With the goblin making its move, many who were secretly watching Lu Wu felt completely relieved.
The level of Squad 042 was fully exposed—it was top-notch among the seed teams but still a bit away from being ace teams.
With good luck, they had a chance to make it to the top eight, but advancing further would be very difficult.
However, in the following days, the dark horse team Lu Wu had previously conceded to without fighting began to shine.
On May 8th, they clashed with Squad 007 and easily defeated them.
On the 9th, they defeated Squad 004, and on the 10th, they encountered and defeated another seed team.
Over three consecutive days, they defeated three seed teams, gradually revealing their sharpness.
The audience and the competitors only realized why Lu Wu had chosen to concede when he first encountered them, gaining a deeper respect and apprehension towards Lu Wu’s insight and training of Summoned Beasts.
This apprehension soon turned into admiration.
The reason was that after every battle, Lu Wu would find the opponents.
Freely and honestly, he pointed out the issues in their training and cultivation of Summoned Beasts.
Those who received Lu Wu’s guidance had significant gains after digesting his advice.
Among them, Squad 038, which battled Lu Wu in the third match on the 6th, gained the most.
Originally, only the captain’s Summoned Beast was at the Elite Level, but after Lu Wu’s guidance, the remaining two members were promoted to the Elite Level within two days.
This abruptly propelled what was originally a chaff team, Squad 038, sharply upwards, faintly becoming the sixteenth seed team after the dark horse team.
This also caused Lu Wu’s popularity among the competitors to skyrocket.
Not only did his opponents actively seek his advice after battles, but even squads from Group B came to him during breaks, drawn by his reputation.
Lu Wu, naturally, did not turn away anyone who came seeking guidance.
In his eyes, they were sheep who came to his door offering themselves for shearing, so why would he possibly refuse?
He seriously advised every visiting team and efficiently sheared them of their wool; meanwhile, Lu Wu did not forget to heavily promote Jiangnan University, pulling in talent!
Originally, this was just a gesture of reciprocity by Lu Wu, but unexpectedly, it indeed drew quite a few people to Jiangnan University.
Including Squad 038, five teams had already signed assured admission contracts, and several other teams were also considering it.
This delighted Zhang Wentao!
Though the provincial competition had 84 teams with over two hundred competitors, in previous years, only a few teams stayed at Jiangnan University; most were poached by teams from other provinces, and those who stayed ranked lower, leading to a sorry state.
Now, with the competition not yet over, Lu Wu had already brought in five teams, including Squad 038, which was potentially the sixteenth seed team. Even Squads 004 and 007 were considering joining, along with Lu Wu’s own team, which was bound to reach the top eight.
Even if no other teams joined, this year would be a bumper year for Jiangnan University.
Jiangnan University harvested abundantly, and so did Lu Wu!
Firstly, in terms of points, Lu Wu’s personal advertising over the week, although steadily declining, still brought nearly three thousand in revenue, plus almost another three thousand from Jiangnan University’s channels, and a reward of 1000 points.
In just around ten days of competition, Lu Wu had earned about 7000 points.
But these points were as easy to spend as they were to earn.
In just under ten days, Lu Wu had already spent 5000 of those points.
A thousand was spent on the goblin.
Fifteen hundred points were spent on Dudu.
Yes, it was finally time for Lu Wu to spend money on Dudu.
Primarily because Zhao Kai Ming was highly efficient on his side; the stuff Lu Wu asked him for was delivered by Zhao the very next day.
What he brought early was something called Little Red Fruit; Zhao Kai Ming had briefly explained that it was a fruit that could nourish people but couldn’t be consumed in excess—one per month was the limit for most people.
And one of these fruits cost 50 points; so buying thirty for Dudu for a trial cost 1500 points.
Of course, it wasn’t a random trial; Lu Wu took her to the Fucheng Cultivation Center where the experiment was conducted under strict instrument monitoring.
Through analysis, it was fine for Dudu to consume four to five fruits per day; exceeding this number would surpass the energy storage limit of the Bonds Skill.
Clearly, these Little Red Fruits weren’t as good as the apples Dudu had eaten before, but it was hard to say for certain, maybe the energy required for Tuantuan to level up back then was less.
Anyway, Lu Wu had Dudu eat 1500 points to see if he could activate the Bonds Skill again.
Now, Dudu had almost finished those 30 points and the Bonds Skill still hadn’t activated, so it might take another 1500.
However, spending money on Dudu didn’t bother Lu Wu much; what really pained him was spending money on Little Skeleton.
Initially, Lu Wu thought that 500 points would be enough for Little Skeleton’s Companion Equipment.
But to his surprise, it turned out to be a bottomless pit. After dumping 500 points and barely seeing a hint of progress, Lu Wu had no choice but to dump another 500, still with no results.
Now, having sunk a total of 1000 points, Lu Wu couldn’t just stop, so he had to work on upgrading both the Companion Equipment and the Quality of Little Skeleton.
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Then he dumped another 500 points in!
This time, he saw some results, but there was still some distance to a complete success.
In the end, Lu Wu clenched his teeth and splurged 2000 points in one go, creating a mess again on the evening of May 15.
After concocting this mess, he called Little Skeleton over and said earnestly, "This mess cost me 2000 points, plus the previous 1500, I’ve spent a total of 3500 points.
It’s the culmination of all my knowledge to date."
Little Skeleton was a bit dumbfounded.
It had no idea why Lu Wu was telling it this.
It even got a bit bored and wanted to go see the pigs.
"Stop thinking about visiting those pigs. I’m telling you, if you achieve satisfying results today, improving your quality and producing the Companion Equipment, everything will be good."
"Not only will you get to see the pigs, but I’ll even give you three pigs to ride and play with each day.
But if you don’t deliver good results when you come out, I will cook you today and let Tuantuan eat you!"
At this, Little Skeleton’s eyes, ablaze with Pupil Fire, brightened.
It took out its beloved smartphone, then ’plop’—it jumped right into the soup.
Watching the little guy’s actions, it was clear that he only heard about getting pigs from Lu Wu, not the part about being fed to the pigs.
There was no helping it; Little Skeleton had grown up and become too smart to fool.
It knew it was Lu Wu’s favorite little darling, and Lu Wu wouldn’t actually cook it to feed Tuantuan.
Seeing the little fellow acting so smug and fearless, Lu Wu got irritated.
But Lu Wu said nothing, silently adding ingredients after Little Skeleton had jumped in.
He added a junky cross to eliminate Little Skeleton’s Light Weakness, a damaged Fire Energy Stone to address the falling Fire attribute, a robotic Summoned Beast battery to enhance the Thunder attribute strength, and a Basic Water Heart to blend and soften the energy.
One by one, he threw the materials, each worth hundreds of points, into the base soup.
Finally, he quietly took Little Skeleton’s smartphone and some smartphone-strengthening materials and sneaked them into the pot without Little Skeleton noticing.
After putting them in, Lu Wu quickly put the lid on with a ’clack’, then told Little Skeleton that its beloved smartphone had been thrown into the soup.
Little Skeleton, comfortably soaking in the soup, jumped when it heard this and hurriedly felt around for its smartphone.
Soon, Little Skeleton felt the smartphone, but by then, the device had already started heating up. As the smartphone was about to explode, Little Skeleton’s Pupil Fire lit up even more brightly.
It struggled hard to push the lid open, but Lu Wu outside pressed down tightly on the lid.
"You’re not allowed out. If you come out, this whole soup will be ruined. Thousands of points wasted, and you can forget about playing with smartphones for the rest of your life!"
Little Skeleton’s State: Anxious (because Little Skeleton’s smartphone is about to break!)
"It won’t break. Don’t you want a smartphone that won’t break? Pour your energy into your phone, honestly soak in the soup, and when you come out, you will have a smartphone that will never break."
After the threat, Lu Wu switched to coaxing.
"Think about it, if your phone never breaks, you won’t lose the things you downloaded, your game progress won’t disappear, and the things you capture will always be there. How great is that!
Doesn’t Little Skeleton want such a phone?"
Little Skeleton paused, then frantically nodded its little skull.
Little Skeleton wanted that indestructible smartphone!
Little Skeleton wanted to ride pigs!
Little Skeleton wanted to store pigs in the smartphone!
With a strong fixation, Little Skeleton began channeling its energy into the smartphone…
