The defeated contestant replied, "... I'll compete with you once you're done."
...
"Water Bubbles!"
As Teacher Brian declared the start of the battle, Luke's expression turned serious as he quickly issued orders.
The front limbs of Dewt slightly lifted, and immediately, dozens of transparent spherical water bubbles appeared in the air.
They were densely gathered between Dewt and Fire Dog.
The transparent bubbles reflecting blue and red... shadows.
"What's happening with this Fire Dog?!" a shocked cry suddenly came from the stands.
In fact, Fire Dog had initiated the attack; before the water bubbles had even appeared in the air, it had exerted force on its four limbs and charged out at an extremely fast speed.
The water bubbles then surrounded Fire Dog.
Fire fears water; some fire-type spirit beasts haven't bathed all year simply because they detest getting wet.
However, Riley's Fire Dog's stride didn't falter in the slightest; it charged into the midst of the water bubbles.
It continuously moved forward at high speed, its movements exceptionally graceful, as dozens of water bubbles failed to touch even a single hair on its body.
Riley wasn't surprised; during this time, Fire Dog's speed and explosive power had significantly improved.
Under the rapid-fire mode of a baseball pitching machine, it was nearly untouchable, let alone these slowly floating water bubbles in front of it.
What use were their numbers? At most, they were motionless obstacles.
Meanwhile, Dewt continued to control energy output with its front limbs.
The water bubbles not only obscured Fire Dog's figure but also blocked some of Dewt's vision.
"Dewt, quickly get away!" Suddenly, the urgent command of the beast tamer resounded in its ears.
Dewt attempted to obey, but before it can lowering its front limbs, it was violently struck by a powerful force, and sending it flying backward.
"Dewt!!"
As Dewt was flung backward, it felt both pain and confusion.
Why did it fly out?
"Give it final blow," Riley uttered the first sentence of this battle.
The scorching flames was condensed into a fist-sized shape of an adult's hand, and mercilessly hurtling towards the still wailing Dewt.
Dewt was struggled for two seconds before falling silent.
"Dewt!"
Luke dashed toward his own spirit beast.
Seeing Dewt unresponsive, he urgently called, "Teacher! Teacher!"
Teacher Seraphina approached the Dewt calmly and said, ''It's okay, just it a lick, it would be fine.''
After speaking that, she summoned out her Lickytongue...
"Damn, did you guys just see that?"
"We saw it, Luke couldn't hold on for even two minutes."
"That Fire Dog is amazing."
"No, the amazing one is it's the beast tamer! He didn't even give a command, but the Fire Dog still understand him!"
Generally, rookies like them in battles would follow the opponent's commands for the next move.
For instance, if the opponent says "spark," they should understand whether the spirit beast should defend, evade, or counterattack with their move.
However, that boy didn't give any orders, but the Fire Dog still used the Slam move.