Chapter 972: Magearna

Sure enough.

Cheng Hong was stunned after seeing Magearna; he had never seen such a Mythical Pokémon.

Even if it weren't for the relevant intelligence provided by Boss All Baimu before the match, his understanding of Silvally was very lacking!

What ability, move pool, etc., could only look at the basic data provided by the tournament organizers.

And the appearance of Magearna was something All Baimu didn't expect, and Cheng Hong couldn't have predicted it to check the data in advance.

He could only judge its attributes by its appearance.

Steel-type was mostly nailed down, the other one... Psychic? Fairy?

Fight a wave first!

"Earthquake!"

For the sake of safety, he chose a long-range Ground-type move.

If the opponent was Levitate ability or could fly, then he admitted it, but the possibility was not great——

Holy crap! It really jumped up!

Only to see Excadrill's sharp claws hit the ground heavily, setting off a terrifying shockwave, and the huge metal Poké Ball not far away jumped high in the first time.

It changed into a small robot in mid-air and sprayed scorching flames at Excadrill!

It was Flamethrower!

Cheng Hong suddenly felt something was wrong, but it was too late.

Magearna's jump belonged to prediction, in other words, the timing of the move was equal to Earthquake.

Excadrill had no way to dodge.

But it also caused the "Magearna" to reveal its fake outer clothing after landing and Earthquake hadn't ended.

In the exclamation of countless viewers, a cunning red-maned black fox replaced the metal-looking robot.

"It's Zoroark! Tricked!"

Cheng Hong was shocked.

He was immersed in Magearna, and actually ignored that the opponent might be Zoroark in disguise!

Excadrill took a Flamethrower hard, and its state dropped in a straight line.

Even the movement speed increased by Sand Rush became slower.

Cheng Hong hurriedly wanted to recall it, but Gladion and Zoroark were waiting for this, chasing and adding a 【Payback】.

When the opponent chooses to switch Pokémon, the damage of Payback will double.

Excadrill instantly lost its combat capability.

"Mistake."

All Baimu felt quite regretful.

Cheng Hong was not calm enough in the end; facing the unknown Magearna, he couldn't calm down to make a more accurate judgment.

As a result, he fell into Gladion's trap.

Was it that he didn't know about Zoroark?

He definitely knew.

But he still fell for it, just because the urgency brought by the unknown made his vision narrow.

If this was just an ordinary ranked match, Cheng Hong could laugh and say——"Points for you, I surrender," and then come back for another round after surrendering.

Unfortunately, there was no resurrection match in the League tournament.

The third Pokémon——

Crustle.

Just entered the field and was hit by Zoroark's U-turn, and then faced the real Magearna.

Cheng Hong calmed down slowly.

Unfortunately, Magearna was also a numerical monster, hard-resisting Crustle's Rock Wrecker, changing balls 【Shift Gear】 to accelerate close-range, and raised its hand to use 【Fleur Cannon】 without saying a word.

The light shield of Protect was hard-pierced.

Instantly taken away.

There was no talk of seizing opportunities or grabbing rhythm.

This guy Gladion...... actually started to play dirty too; a good middle-school hot-blooded young man, why so many heart eyes?

All Baimu, who was completely unaware of the impact on himself, sighed at the lack of human heart.

"Brother won!"

Lillie clapped excitedly, and Bai Gun Gun made a happy "oink oink" sound at her feet.

Lusamine's performance was more intense, directly standing up and waving her hands fiercely below, as if she were a parent coming to watch a school sports meeting.

It made Gladion, who had a solemn expression, very embarrassed.

Lillie also felt ashamed, covering her face and whispering: "Mother...... don't be like this!"

All Baimu left the seat.

Welcoming the dejected Cheng Hong outside the arena.

"Boss I......"

"Being able to walk to this step is already very amazing; no one dares to say your performance is bad!"

He patted his childhood friend on the shoulder and said: "Go! Watch the big sister's match! Hope it hasn't finished over there!"

"...... Okay!"

Cheng Hong rubbed his face and, surrounded by a group of old friends from Cobalt Street, came to the arena where Lady Ayana was competing.

It indeed hadn't finished, but it was almost over.

Two of Lady Ayana's Pokémon had lost their combat capability, and the only one left was the giant Quagsire.

And the two Pokémon sent by Long Ren were still there.

In the arena.

Exeggutor was whipping the giant Quagsire with thick vines, and the latter had no power to fight back.

"Gone."

All Baimu sighed.

Iron Town Trainers lost two more generals, leaving only him and Shan Ren.

Shan Ren strictly speaking wasn't an Iron Town Trainer, but he had served as mayor.

Otsuka came over, his face full of solemnity: "Boss, Long Ren is as strong as you said, outrageously strong!"

"Hmm."

All Baimu nodded.

As a strong man who fought the second-generation Shadow Team alone, Long Ren's method was to raise war with war. He snatched Dark Pokémon from the Shadow Team while using them to fight the Shadow Team.

In other words.

Long Ren's Pokémon had all undergone dark transformation surgery, and their combat power was guaranteed.

Not to be underestimated!

Welcoming the defeated Lady Ayana.

She didn't seem to care about the match result at all, but All Baimu could feel that her heart wasn't as calm as it appeared on the surface.

"What do you think I'm still missing?"

Lady Ayana suddenly asked.

All Baimu asked back: "What was your original expectation?"

"Top four, or top eight." Lady Ayana's expectation was a bit high.

But if you exclude those evil gods from outside the domain who came because of All Baimu or other reasons, she had the possibility of advancing to the final tournament.

At least All Baimu thought so.

"Accumulation."

He said frankly: "I think you have also discovered that the harvest of traveling abroad for a year is more than staying in Orre for several years."

This is an indisputable fact; everything in the Orre region is in the starting stage, and it is very difficult to compete with those old regions where the wind of competition has blown for a hundred years.

Lady Ayana pondered for a while and nodded in agreement, "Makes sense. It seems there is still a road ahead for me."

Compared to falling in the second round of the preliminaries.

She was more worried that her Trainer career had come to an end and she could no longer continue to improve.

Dinner.

All Baimu met Shan Ren, who hadn't seen anyone all morning.

"Went to preside over the overall situation again?"

"No...... I caught up on some sleep."

Shan Ren shook his head; his eyes were slightly red, and many bloodshot eyes could be seen.

All Baimu wanted to mock him as usual, but seeing the state of his friend, he didn't know what to say.

Catch up on sleep?

Clearly didn't sleep well yesterday.

"Don't you ask me 'what are you nervous about'?"

Shan Ren had the mind to joke.

Otsuka, who was next to him, laughed: "Boss, you don't need to worry about President Shan Ren at all; have you forgotten, you once lost to him?"

A group of people around also laughed.

Who would have thought that the Trainer called the King of Kings at this moment had once encountered Waterloo in a wild chicken small match in the Iron Town Arena?

But the person who defeated him at that time was sitting in front of him!

But before All Baimu could express his stance, the winner Shan Ren frowned first and said solemnly:

"Shut up! There's no need to mention such old things; All Baimu is so concerned now, be careful of walls having ears!"

A large part of Leon's selling point lies in 【Undefeated King】.

Shan Ren wanted to create a second king, so how could he allow anyone to splash "dirty water" on All Baimu.

Even if the dirty water was produced by him.

Otsuka laughed, not expecting his flattery to hit the horse's leg.

All Baimu looked at Shan Ren, feeling that the point of his unhappiness, besides worrying about affecting the reputation of the champion, was something else......

"Are you really ready?"

"Of course."

He nodded without a doubt, "Never felt better than now; my wish is about to be fulfilled."

【Xie Mu】.

This was what Shan Ren said before the match.

Participating in the tournament for the last time, participating in the Orre tournament of his hometown to fulfill his wish, and saying goodbye to the immature self of the past with a vigorous curtain call.

All Baimu at the time thought that as long as Shan Ren waited for him to participate, he would naturally change his mind.

But now?

"I believe in you."

He still didn't persuade him.

Close to the match, there was no need to say many words to increase his burden. Not to mention when a friend is truly determined, what he should do is support.

Shan Ren smiled and held up the promised thumb, meaning:

Everything is OK, he can do it.

The match with Tetsuya might be the most severe challenge he had experienced since the second half of the year; he hadn't even lost sleep over the organizing tournament before.

Hope it goes as wished.

——

The first wave of the afternoon.

The acquaintances competing were Shan Ren, Tetsuya, Leo, Captain Huoyan, and Bartlas.

Except for the former two who belonged to the two sides of the battle, the latter three were all fighting strangers.

Not much value in watching.

What was more unexpected was that Shelly of Team Aqua didn't go to watch Captain Huoyan's match, but rushed to mock her the first time she flipped over.

Instead, she came to Shan Ren's match arena.

Was the aftermath of the qualifier rule kill so big?

It had been four or five days, right!

All Baimu didn't go over to ask Shelly, because Shan Ren's father, Dinis, was sitting next to him.

"Uncle."

"Shan Ren said, he hoped I would definitely be here for this match, so I came."

Dinis said with a smile: "And many others came too."

All Baimu looked around and indeed found some familiar yet unfamiliar faces, basically all members of the rescue organization.

This guy prepared quite grandly.

He looked at Shan Ren, who had a peaceful temperament in the field, looking forward to his friend's performance.

Tetsuya entered the field, his sister sitting with girls like Ji Meiya and Lisia, looking nervous.

Lisia secretly sent a message, saying that Tetsuya's sister seemed to have a high level of favor for Shan Ren.

But between fully supporting Shan Ren or her brother, she still chose the latter.

Good sister!

All Baimu sent a Mr. Mime of praise to Lisia, indicating to help pass it to the little girl.

Lisia sent back a laughing Altaria.

Not long after.

Commentator Shiro was in position, and the computer randomly selected the Grass Field.

The first match of the second round of the preliminaries in the afternoon, kicked off!

Shan Ren and Tetsuya sent out the decided Pokémon.

Bang bang!

To some extent, the starter Pokémon of the six-choose-three greatly affected the entire battle, and could even lead the direction afterward.

Shan Ren sought stability.

The one he sent out was still Bronzong, not seeking merit but seeking no fault.

Tetsuya's choice made people feel quite unexpected.

Torkoal.

And it was Drought ability.

After entering, the sunlight gathered quickly, like a god casting a gaze, instantly lighting up the entire Grass Field.

Pre-selected?

All Baimu was very surprised that Tetsuya was hiding such a Pokémon; looking at Shan Ren's appearance, he estimated that he hadn't checked the intelligence privately.

The start wasn't very smooth.

Shan Ren's Bronzong was Levitate ability, not Heatproof to halve Fire-type power.

It was estimated that it was difficult to take Torkoal's full-state Eruption head-on.

He was forced to switch Pokémon at the beginning.

Replacing it was Duosion, a strange little man wrapped in light green liquid.

Shan Ren's sixth Pokémon, like Bronzong, had a weak sense of existence.

But it was very good at using those proud arms to massage, belonging to the mascot of the Iron Town Government Hall, loved by many office workers.

Facing the magma storm erupted by Torkoal, its action was to open a wall.

Light Screen opened.

The magnificent magma cannonballs suddenly became not so difficult to take.

Then.

It didn't rush to restore its state, while opening Trick Room, it approached Torkoal.

Tetsuya felt that Shan Ren must have some kind of plan, firmly wanting Torkoal to distance itself from Duosion.

Considering Torkoal's relatively dragging movement speed.

He simply used Rapid Spin to dodge.

Due to Duosion belonging to the same slow Pokémon, it couldn't catch up with Torkoal at all.

The positions of the two Pokémon instantly changed from one south and one north to one north and one south.

The sneak attack failed, and Shan Ren began to attack.

"Psychic!"

Duosion, relying on the advantage of Trick Room, stretched out mental tentacles toward Torkoal.

All Baimu had said that Trick Room and Expanding Force were a better match.

It's a pity.

Duosion didn't learn it; the one who knew this move was Alakazam, and at the moment it was in the process of learning.

The special training time was too short.

All Baimu said if it was a month earlier, it would definitely be able to make up for the shortcomings of his Pokémon in status moves.

But Shan Ren was already very satisfied.

Black smoke filled the arena.

This was the smoke sprayed by Torkoal to stop Psychic, even mental power couldn't pass through.

The first tentative attack failed.

Shan Ren was still calm, letting Duosion use Calm Mind to improve its state.

This made Tetsuya unable to sit still.

He ordered Eruption again, and the pillar of fire rushing into the sky brought down magma fire bombs the size of a human head.

Duosion didn't panic, letting itself be hit by the fire bombs, and continued to Calm Mind firmly.

This made the audience a bit unable to understand Shan Ren's plan.

The Pokémon's state dropped again and again, not rushing to switch or take some recovery means, what was the use of simply strengthening?

The answer is——

Duosion wanted to pit Torkoal.

Ordinary means couldn't get close, then it just used some other means!

It took advantage of the smoke of the explosion filling the arena and used a Substitute.

This move certainly lowered its own state to a dangerous level, but it also made it impossible for Tetsuya to confirm which one was the real body and which one was fake.

At the same time.

One of the Duosions approached Torkoal, and the other stayed in place.

Tetsuya found it difficult to make an accurate judgment, simply taking advantage of Torkoal's good state at the moment, and used Eruption for the third time!

Both attacked together!

The pillar of fire rushing into the sky brought down magma fire bombs, and Duosion was in danger!

Just at this time.

One of them successfully approached Torkoal.

Torkoal suddenly felt a crisis in its heart and decided to deal with the Duosion in front of it.

And Tetsuya saw the one far away suddenly raise its hand, its whole body glowing blue, immediately making it attack the one far away.

Torkoal's attention shifted, not expecting this move to be called 【Ally Switch】.

The real body and the substitute swapped positions, causing Duosion's fake body to be gathered by the magma fire bombs, and the real body came to Torkoal's side.

"Pain Split!"

Shan Ren had been waiting for this moment for a long time. ===== CHAPTER 973 =====