Chapter 1168

And the Pokémon circling Diancie like two loyal guards are—

On the left, compared to an ordinary Tauros, the fur has turned gray-black, especially the black fur around the neck, which looks like a lion's mane. Its horns are extremely thick and long, covered with scars and traces, looking like a pair of long horns that have been through many battles.

It has evenly distributed red lines on its fur, hinting at the attribute and species of this Tauros. The three tails behind it are twisted together, and one can see its strength from the amplitude of its swinging.

Fire-type Tauros, a Fire and Fighting-type Pokémon!

On the right, a behemoth with a body length of a full ten meters. Its gray body seems to be as solid and tough as if it had been tempered a thousand times. That steel-toothed mouth could probably easily bite through rocks and steel, and even special alloys were no match for it, all becoming its food.

A giant beast on the ground that fits perfectly with this Behemoth Arena, the Steel and Ground-type Steelix!

On the France Alliance side, Aegislash's sharp sword body had already been unsheathed, Chesnaught stabilized its lower plate, and looked over with burning eyes.

And that Carbink felt its heart throbbing when it saw Diancie.

Although Carbink had grown up by Charlotte's side since it was young and had never seen Diancie.

But it felt a faint pressure from Diancie, and strange emotions welled up in its heart.

It was as if it should swear allegiance to that Diancie. Carbink didn't understand why it had this emotion, even though the other party was just its evolved form.

In the end, Carbink could only force it down. The current match was very important to Charlotte, and there could be no mistakes here!

When Carbink looked at the Shenzhou Alliance with eyes full of fighting spirit, it meant that at this very moment—

A strong vs. strong duel, ready to go!

Outside the field, the host smiled and made an introduction to the camera. His voice now resounded through the streets and alleys of the whole world.

"The first match of the quarter-finals of the International Youth Exchange Tournament will be a duel between the Shenzhou Alliance team and the France Alliance team. Surprisingly, the captains of both sides are Carbink Trainers, especially Su Hao, who holds the world's only Diancie."

"Facing the evolved form of his own Pokémon, I don't know what kind of wonderful command Charlotte will have, and what kind of team cooperation she will show with Anthony's Aegislash and James's Chesnaught. Please look forward to it!"

Shenzhou Alliance, Jiangcheng University.

Now that several seniors had graduated and left, Li Xiao and the others had become the true seniors.

Bringing the newly excavated team members, everyone gathered in the training hall newly built by the school team after receiving a large amount of funding to watch the match on the big screen.

Zhao Yunlan touched his chin, his expression very puzzled. Su Hao, this "old six" (sly fox), actually sent out Diancie, his ace, in the first round?

This doesn't look like his style. Could it be that the pressure given by the geniuses of other alliances has left him with no room to show off?

A junior asked curiously: "Captain Li Xiao, how strong is Su Hao's Diancie? How does it compare to your Volcarona?"

Li Xiao, who had become the new captain and was staring fixedly at the big screen, was stunned, his face showing embarrassment. Why does this junior ask such tricky questions?

"Oh, it's hard to say. But thinking of the scenes where we fought fiercely for a long time before, I didn't expect Su Hao to have stepped onto the world stage representing the Shenzhou Alliance."

"Wow, worthy of being the captain!"

Li Xiao calmly accepted the admiring gaze from the junior. Anyway, he didn't say whether he fought fiercely with Diancie for a long time, or whether he fought fiercely with that Incineroar for a long time when Su Hao first enrolled. This is the art of language!

Long Ningyan, who became the vice-captain, looked at him with contempt and didn't say anything.

These boys are really concerned about face.

A three-on-three battle, a cruel elimination match where one game decides the winner. At this moment, everyone tightened their spirits, not daring to have a trace of slack.

Almost at the same time, the few of them started their actions with clear division of labor.

Charlotte didn't realize that her Carbink's emotions had become

a bit strange after seeing Diancie, and immediately commanded Carbink to skillfully start setting up shields for its teammates.

As a support, Carbink was trained by her to be proficient in most status-changing moves, and Reflect and Light Screen against the opponent's attacks were no exception.

Although Steelix and the Fire-type Tauros looked like melee players, in order to guard against that Diancie, Charlotte would rather let Carbink spend some energy to hang Light Screen on her teammates.

Seeing that the Carbink over there started to act, Su Hao raised his eyebrows. Unexpectedly, the Carbink of the France Alliance had little reaction to Diancie's appearance. It seems that because they have lived with humans for who knows how many generations, they have long since stopped recognizing Diancie, or rather, they didn't recognize Diancie from the beginning.

At most, it was just a sense of worship and submission to Diancie's existence, but this feeling would be countered by the bond between Carbink and the Trainer. It seems the plan of "subduing the enemy without fighting" is useless.

Su Hao immediately let Diancie hang dual screens on Steelix and the Fire-type Tauros, who were already rushing out, at a faster speed than Carbink.

Let's verify it.

Even if it is the duty of support, Diancie will do it hundreds of times better than the other party.

After the reassuring dual screens were hung on their bodies, both Anthony and James on the France Alliance side, and Xiao Zijian and Cheng Liming on this side, thanked Charlotte and Su Hao beside them.

Steelix's movement alone made the ground emit an unbearable buzzing sound. Under Cheng Liming's command, Steelix took the lead and found Aegislash.

Many moves of the Fire-type Tauros could not be used against Aegislash's Ghost-type attribute. The only one that could deal with Aegislash was Steelix.

For some reason, Aegislash's movements were a bit slow from the beginning. It held its shield and slashed at Steelix with a Sacred Sword.

Cheng Liming wanted to let Steelix resist Aegislash's attack, but Su Hao beside him suddenly said: "Ignore its attack, while it switched to Blade Form, attack its lower path directly!"

Cheng Liming didn't understand, but still chose to trust Su Hao's judgment.

Under the surprised gaze of many audience members, Cheng Liming directly let Steelix ignore the attack falling from Aegislash. Steelix's whole body glowed with dazzling red light, and its huge tail swung directly at Aegislash regardless of anything else—the move, High Horsepower!

Anthony said in a deep voice: "Tch, are they planning to trade injury for injury?"

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