Chapter 1431: Arrogant Posture

Two Dragon Darts hit two parts of Cinderace almost simultaneously.

Close distance, fast speed.

It had no space to dodge at all.

*Rumble! *

Huge dust rose with the exploding fire, and the visible shockwave swept the dust toward the audience, instantly triggering the protective device.

The large battle arena was foggy, and nothing could be seen clearly.

Dragapult, relying on its own strength, exerted a huge momentum comparable to a move collision, showing that its attack power was truly not low.

The host shouted: "Dragon Darts hit! Cinderace had no space to dodge the ultra-close-range attack! How terrifying is Dragapult's full speed!"

The audience was noisy, who would have thought that in just an instant, the battle situation would change to a degree they couldn't understand.

Clearly, Shadow Sneak, Phantom Force, and Draco Meteor had all been easily cracked by Cinderace, how could it suddenly...

The answer was obvious.

Leon put down his arm that was blocking the dust rushing toward his face, thinking: "A test, huh."

Shadow Sneak tested the reaction, Phantom Force tested the attack, Draco Meteor tested the response.

All Baimu and Dragapult used three moves to figure out Cinderace's reality, verifying that the previous battles with Diantha, and the even more distant battles with Raihan and others, had all more or less held back, and this part of the strength was perfectly presented just now.

For example, three Pyro Balls in one kick, for example, Pyro Ball shattering Draco Meteor in advance.

Leon had once said that no matter who he faced, he wouldn't show mercy, but clearly, showing mercy and going all out were two different concepts.

"So sneaky."

All Baimu sighed with emotion: "Fortunately, I'm not bad either!"

The dust dispersed.

Dragapult had long since retreated to high altitude, the Dreepy circling around it, like a planet and its two satellites.

Below, in the shallow crater shattered like a spider web, Cinderace curled up, already fallen into a faint.

Without a Fairy-type move, it couldn't instantly change its type to block the ultra-high power of Dragon Darts. Even if it reacted and tried to use Iron Head, there was no time.

All Baimu considered the Libero ability, specifically letting Dragapult fire Dragon Darts at close range to ensure a hit.

Although the high-attack, high-speed Cinderace's defenses wouldn't be too high... but what if?

Pikachu was the previous example!

Fortunately, the judgment was correct!

"Cinderace is unable to battle! Dragapult wins!" Deng Pei announced the result. Under Leon's half-length portrait, Cinderace's head icon dimmed.

The host: "The first Pokémon to be eliminated is confirmed! It's actually Leon's Cinderace! Unbelievable!"

*Cheers! *

The audience erupted in earth-shattering cheers and shouts, and this scene also happened all over the world, people looking at the arena in amazement.

Leon had a Pokémon eliminated first!

Extremely rare!

Actually, it wasn't that such a situation hadn't occurred in the past, but without exception, those were all results where Leon's opponents used the combined strength of two or three Pokémon to barely take him down.

Now, the match had only been going on for five minutes, and Dragapult had taken down Cinderace?

How strong were his Pokémon?

Hop gritted his back teeth, completely unable to believe the result in front of him.

In the preparation room, the Galar Gym Leaders couldn't sit still, rushing to the floor-to-ceiling window one after another, as if they could see All Baimu's reality if they were closer.

Everyone's expression was very serious. Nessa couldn't help but cross her arms and say: "So scary! This guy really wins with an advantage no matter who he meets!"

She had actually battled All Baimu once, but lost too quickly, being easily defeated 2-on-1, leaving very few people with an impression.

Cynthia pondered without a word.

She had always discovered that All Baimu's Pokémon possessed extremely high base qualities, with Speed, Attack, and Defense all being top-tier.

"Sure enough, the energy level is relatively high."

After all, to improve ability values, there was nothing more than training and leveling up. The former required time to slowly hone, while the latter only needed to be increased to produce an increase.

How high exactly?

Cynthia inevitably developed curiosity.

Inside the arena.

Leon took a deep breath, not feeling depressed because of Cinderace's defeat. On the contrary, his eyes contained a light that could be called fanatical.

Finally!

A long-lost formidable foe!

He only felt his arms numb, his whole body inexplicably trembling, and a strange feeling surged in his heart, making him unconsciously smile.

"Great! Very great!"

Leon raised his arms and shouted: "Only encountering a formidable foe is the battle I want! Go! Inteleon!"

*Bang! *

Light shone.

Inteleon, with slender limbs and an upright figure, appearing like a secret agent, appeared in the arena, a transparent nictitating membrane covering its eyes, accurately capturing every subtle movement within its line of sight.

"Inteleon..."

It looked up straight at Dragapult above, but the next moment the latter was sucked back by a red light.

The host shouted: "Here it comes! Contestant All Baimu's old tactic! Swapping for a new Pokémon to battle!"

What an arrogant behavior.

Anyone could see that All Baimu wanted to defeat all of Leon's Pokémon one-on-one and finally achieve an undefeated result.

Just like his behavior of riding Rayquaza to appear, it was arrogant to the point of being messy!

If it were in a previous life, Leon's fans would have started scolding, or even given All Baimu black nicknames. But people in the Pokémon world were generally of high quality, so even if All Baimu did this, they just shouted for Leon to give this brat a little color.

Let him see who the true undefeated world king was!

*Bang! *

The crisp sound of the Poké Ball opening.

A pink figure appeared in the arena. Blissey revealed a warm smile, presented on the big screen.

The gentle charm, distinct from Mawile and the Shiny Milotic, made the Nurse Joys watching this battle around the world feel their blood surge, some full of nervousness and anticipation, and some directly starting to cheer for Blissey through the screen.

The Blissey nurses also stared at the screen without blinking, until other Trainers sent injured Pokémon, and they left reluctantly.

Pokémon Centers all over the world were exceptionally lively.

And as Blissey appeared, Leon quickly issued an order.

"Run! Snipe Shot!"

"Inteleon!"

Inteleon's body rippled with water waves, its feet stepped on the ground and leaped, its wings membrane trembled, and its body suddenly transformed into a translucent blue flash, rushing toward Blissey at extreme speed!

*Bang! *

The air made a dull sound!

Vast amounts of flowing water wrapped around its body, extremely compressed into a surging, violent high-pressure water column. Following its sprinting movements, it sprayed forward like a rushing flood, its speed so fast that it made the spectators' vision blur, seemingly no less swift than the previous Dragapult!

All Baimu: "Protect."

"Blissey!"

Blissey raised its hands, and just before Inteleon touched it, it supported a light-blue light shield made of multiple hexagonal prisms!

*Bang! *

The thick water column savagely tore through the hot air, slamming into Blissey with crushing impact, water splashing everywhere!

The rushing water rolled at high speed, and the huge impact caused the surface of the round shield made of hexagonal crystal walls to ripple with a ring of energy, as if there were high-speed rotating water blades inside, trying to break through this defense without stopping for a moment.

But Protect, which could even block the Snipe Shot storm, was not something that Water Gun could break through. It stubbornly held on until the very last moment.

Unexpectedly, Inteleon didn't spread its wings and retreat like before, only jumping half a step backward.

"Giving an opportunity? Then—Solar Beam!"

"Blissey!"

Blissey opened its mouth slightly, and the fierce sunlight gathered at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The effect of Sunny Day made the entire accumulation process of Solar Beam exceptionally short, forming a crystal-clear emerald-green ball of light in the blink of an eye.

*Buzz buzz! *

The ball of light swirled and released a strange buzzing sound, emitting a heart-palpitating pressure, like a second small sun.

Blissey looked at Inteleon and fired it straight ahead!

"U-turn!"

Leon shouted loudly. Inteleon immediately bent down and slid sideways, brushing past the golden-green beam of light fired by Blissey.

*Rumble! *

The thick and condensed Solar Beam tore through the hot air, instantly crossing the distance of several tens of meters in the arena, and blasted toward the outside of the arena, causing the entire arena to be filled with light, even obscuring the radiance of Sunny Day, making it difficult for people to see.

"Inteleon!"

Inteleon leaned close to the ground full of gravel, flying toward Blissey's side in a crawling posture, and at extreme speed, extended its index finger, shooting a crystal-clear water line from it.

Blissey's reaction was not slow either. It forcibly twisted its body, causing Solar Beam to deflect and fire toward the side.

*Boom—!! *

Dust suddenly exploded!

Emerald radiance and thick dust filled the sky. The protective device shook violently, and the audience outside the arena could clearly see a huge mushroom cloud rising slowly.

"Solar Beam with super power! Did Inteleon dodge it!?" The host shouted.

No doubt, 【Snipe Shot】 pierced the giant light group at the last moment, making it difficult for people to judge whether the explosion was intentional by Blissey, or the result of the move's power being triggered in advance due to the influence of Snipe Shot.

Ash and Pikachu stared at the rolling smoke in the arena. Hop's expression was filled with worry, his hands clasped and rubbing constantly, praying for Inteleon with the Wooloo in his arms.

A moment later, the rising smoke settled.

The scene below gradually became clear. The arena full of gravel was revealed to the audience. They looked at Leon's front first, where Inteleon was located.

Wyndon Stadium became quiet for an instant, and everyone was desperately eager to get a result.

Deng Pei entered the arena. The Rotom Drone in the sky focused from a distance, projecting what it saw onto the big screen.

The result was obvious.

"Inteleon is unable to battle! Blissey wins!" Deng Pei held his own Aegislash, and below him was the fainted Inteleon, raising his right hand to declare the result of this match.

*Cheers! *

"Leon is switching Pokémon! Will his choice be the Fire-type Charizard?" the host shouted.

The third one!

Leon's third Pokémon had been taken down!

"Is it possible, maybe."

"Yeah! That's Leon!"

"He must have a problem with his state today? How could it be like this normally!"

Countless die-hard fans of Leon had endured the first match, the second match, and by the third match, they finally couldn't hold back anymore.

Three Pokémon defeated in a row, and all lost one-on-one...

If Leon had no problem, then the one with the problem must be All Baimu opposite.

—The guy who appeared riding Rayquaza, was he really that powerful!

On the weekly hot list of Pokémon, the short video of All Baimu descending to the arena carrying a Shiny Rayquaza still topped the list.

The reason why Legendary Pokémon are called legendary is precisely because their existence itself is like a legend that cannot be verified or determined, making the world think they are just rumors passed down by word of mouth.

Many Pokémon were only confirmed to exist in recent years as the internet became developed.

But even then, they were generally just low-pixel short videos.

All Baimu was the first Champion Trainer to openly bring a Shiny Rayquaza to a competition arena watched by the whole world, as if to announce it to the whole world.

"Where did this monster come from!"

"Don't tell me we can only count on Charizard..."

"Don't be a crow's mouth!"

The noise continued in the audience seats. Hop covered his eyes, and the Wooloo in his arms also let out a depressed *baa*. This was the first time they had tasted the feeling of "family of the loser," even though Leon was far from defeated, he still had two Pokémon... his trump card hadn't appeared yet!

Ash and Pikachu didn't know how to comfort him, and couldn't care about comforting him.

They were thinking about the tactics for the finals.

With the level of performance of All Baimu's Pokémon so far, if it were him, he might not necessarily be able to perform much better than Leon.

"Amazing! Too amazing, Pikachu!"

"Pika!"

Not far away, the Team Rocket trio was dancing excitedly, ignoring everyone.

"Too strong!"

"Invincible!"

"The world's number one Kin—"

This sentence wasn't finished, because the audience nearby all cast angry gazes at them.

It seemed that the position they chose happened to be relatively close to Leon's supporters, and their overly arrogant behavior happened to provoke public anger.

However, similar scenes had already been staged all over the world, even on a plane flying to Galar.

The preparation room was exceptionally quiet. Cynthia revealed a helpless smile of "as expected."

"Three more."

"..."

The Galar Gym Leaders fell into silence.

They certainly understood what the three Cynthia mentioned were. Before, they didn't think it was a bad thing to be able to use all systems.

They only thought Leon wanted to increase the difficulty of the match so he wouldn't win so easily.

Now?

Whether Leon was desperate or not, they didn't know, but if they were in Leon's position, they would definitely be quite desperate.

How to persist?

No one spoke. They just cast their gazes into the arena, looking at All Baimu not so much like a person, but like some kind of monster beyond ordinary people.

Clearly a Champion who appeared in a strange place, clearly a Trainer who only showed his head the year before last, yet he had beaten Leon, who had been beating them up, to the point of being beaten up.

Although the match wasn't over, although they had more or less contacted All Baimu before, the mental impact at this moment far exceeded the previous defeats.

The match was halfway through.

The atmosphere of the entire Wyndon Stadium became strange.

Leon sensed this change.