In pet arena matches, the owner can only give commands on the spot and cannot personally join the fight.
Just like in solo arena matches, where players cannot bring their pets into battle.
On the arena stage, the potion healer girl with the ID [Don't Hit Me I'm Afraid of Pain] looked at her pink and tender Piggy Pig, then looked at Lin Mo's Black Gold · Strong Maned Pig standing ahead, clad in armor, imposing, even with a layer of shield hovering over its body.
Her mouth instantly fell open.
"Th… what kind of pet is that?"
"Black Gold · Strong Maned Pig? The first Ancestral-tier pet in the entire server that triggered a global announcement in the Dragon Nation server some time ago?"
"Wait! Its owner is… Rulebound?"
In an instant, the healer girl's heart sank to the bottom.
She had already given up resisting.
But she wasn't willing to surrender either.
So, relying on her decent looks, during the system countdown, she acted coquettishly toward Lin Mo, "Brother Rulebound, can you go easy on me? I'm scared of pain."
Lin Mo said, "Alright, I won't hit you."
The healer girl's eyes lit up, "Really?"
Lin Mo: "Really."
"Thank you, brother! Brother Rulebound, you're such a good person!"
The healer girl was overjoyed, genuinely thinking the other side couldn't bear to bully a cute, soft girl like her and was planning to give her the win.
Of course, Lin Mo wasn't lying to her.
If he said he wouldn't make a move, then he really wouldn't.
He gave Strong Maned Pig the command to stand by in place and not attack.
Very quickly, the countdown ended.
The healer girl ordered her pet Piggy Pig to launch an attack.
And under Lin Mo's command, Black Gold · Strong Maned Pig stood in place holding the nine-toothed rake, unmoving like a mountain.
Only waiting as Piggy Pig, full of excitement, rushed over like a son throwing himself into his father's arms, leaping up in front of Strong Maned Pig.
Roar! Roar!
Piggy Pig repeatedly slammed into Strong Maned Pig's chest armor.
One after another, bright red damage numbers popped up above Strong Maned Pig's head:
-1!
-1!
-1!
At the same time, even though Strong Maned Pig did not counterattack, blood-red damage numbers suddenly popped up above Piggy Pig's head:
-3260!
-3260!
-3260!
Only level 45, with just six to seven thousand HP, Piggy Pig died on the spot.
Even until she received the system notification of her defeat and was teleported back to the Super God Arena, the healer girl was still completely stunned.
"His pet didn't even move!"
"How did my Piggy die?"
"What just happened?"
In normal monster-killing battles, Strong Maned Pig's damage reflection doesn't show much effect, because monsters generally have far higher HP than players of the same level.
A level 50 player, a well-built knight with decent gear, might have twenty to thirty thousand HP.
As for other fragile classes like mages and archers, they don't even reach ten thousand HP.
But a level 50 normal monster can easily have eighty to ninety thousand HP.
Therefore, Strong Maned Pig's reflection damage, based on 1% of its max HP, dealing over 3000 per hit, may not be lethal to monsters with eighty or ninety thousand HP.
But against players or pets of the same level, who only have a few thousand HP, it is extremely deadly!
Strong Maned Pig won its first battle.
Just like solo arena rewards, for every pet arena victory, the owner also receives 2 arena EXP and 1 arena point.
So, after finishing 70 consecutive wins, Lin Mo began letting Strong Maned Pig continue carrying the momentum for him.
As expected, at the current stage, over 99% of players on the server still have their initial pets obtained for free at second job advancement.
Their growth is low, their equipment is poor.
How could they possibly be a match for an Ancestral-tier Black Gold · Strong Maned Pig, equipped with a full level 50 Tier 3 full-gold venom set, plus two SSS-grade passive skills?
In fact, no matter what pet it faced, Strong Maned Pig didn't even need to attack.
It only needed to stand there and wait for the opponent to hit it, trigger reflection damage, and easily kill them in return.
As a result, the battle announcements in the Super God Arena were once again completely flooded:
[Ding~ Player Rulebound's pet Black Gold · Strong Maned Pig has achieved three consecutive victories in pet arena matches, unstoppable!]
[Ding~ Player Rulebound's pet Black Gold · Strong Maned Pig has achieved five consecutive domination streaks in pet arena matches, unstoppable!]
[Ding~ Player Rulebound's pet Black Gold · Strong Maned Pig has achieved ten consecutive god-slaying streaks in pet arena matches, unmatched under heaven!]
At this moment, in the eyes of the hundreds of thousands of players in Inferno City, Lin Mo had practically become a villain boss that everyone wanted to take down together.
While still in shock, everyone gathered together and began discussing strategies to counter Black Gold Strong Maned Pig.
"Listen up, brothers! From what I've observed, Rulebound's pet Black Gold Strong Maned Pig is strong because of its true reflection damage. But at the end of the day, it's still a tank."
"Everyone knows tanks don't deal damage, so if you get matched with him next, don't panic. As long as we don't attack his pet, his pet won't be able to kill ours."
"As long as we stall for 60 seconds and neither side dies, it'll be a draw! Even though a draw only gives half rewards, at least you still get 1 EXP. That's better than losing and losing 1 EXP!"
"Good idea! Let's do it like that!"
So, players from all sides thought they had come up with a perfect strategy to counter Lin Mo's Black Gold Strong Maned Pig.
They immediately started putting it into action.
The next opponent Lin Mo encountered summoned a level 46 pet Great Hornet, didn't attack Strong Maned Pig at all, and just flew around the arena to stall for time.
Lin Mo saw through the opponent's plan at a glance.
"Trying to stall for a draw?"
Lin Mo smiled faintly, "I have to say, that might work on an ordinary Piggy Pig, but mine isn't an ordinary Piggy Pig."
"Go, Strong Maned Pig. Kill it."
With Lin Mo's command, Black Gold Strong Maned Pig gripped the nine-toothed rake and charged toward the Great Hornet.
Closing in.
Swish! Swish!
-6925!
-6837!
With a few swings of the rake, it easily killed the Great Hornet.
The owner of the Great Hornet, the level 50 thief man [Chrysanthemum Tea], was stunned.
"Damn!"
"What kind of damage is that?"
"Wasn't it said tanks don't deal damage? You call this no damage?"
Tanks not dealing damage refers to ordinary tanks.
Lin Mo's, however, is an Ancestral-tier tank.
Its attack growth is even higher than Lin Mo, a Tier 2 Soul Archer.
On top of that, it's equipped with a full level 50 Tier 3 full-gold venom set.
Even as a tank, its attack power has already reached an astonishing 4800+, far surpassing all players at the current stage.
Plus the various high poison damage bonuses from the Tier 3 full-gold venom set, even without offensive skills, Strong Maned Pig's basic attacks are not weak at all.
So, attacking Strong Maned Pig means death.
Not attacking Strong Maned Pig also means death.
The players throughout the arena fell completely into despair.
"Damn it! What kind of monster is Rulebound? It's one thing for him to be broken, but even his pet is this broken! How are normal players like us supposed to survive?"
"Damn! I think I finally understand Wang Junjie's despair back then!"
In the crowd, the thief player Warfire Chaos, who had already encountered Lin Mo twice in a row, shouted, "As long as I don't get matched with Rulebound again, I don't care who I face!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Warfire Chaos crushed a solo arena ticket.
[Ding~ Match found! Your opponent this round is, Lv50 Tier 2 Elemental Mage · Liuli!] [T/N: ☠️]
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