Chapter 74

Held Item: 【Mystic Water】

Moves: 【Hydro Pump, Whirlpool, Mist, Ice Beam, Blizzard, Flash Cannon, Surf...】

Empoleon is classified as the Emperor Pokémon in the Pokédex, and its appearance is very similar to an Emperor Penguin.

Its fur is black, and its wings, tail, belly, and head have blue metal edges. The metal on the edges of its wings is particularly sharp, capable of easily splitting floating ice.

As the Emperor Pokémon, Empoleon's most striking feature is the three horns extending from its mouth that look like a crown. The crown is golden and very majestic.

As a Professional-tier Pokémon, Empoleon is the most powerful enemy Su Hao has encountered so far.

The Professional tier is a watershed for Pokémon strength. Pokémon that cross the Professional tier can be said to have completed a fundamental improvement in life. Their output, defense, and energy reserves are not comparable to Elite-tier Pokémon.

【Gym Leader Xie Wei sent out the Professional-tier Empoleon! So what did challenger Su Hao send out?】

The camera turned, and a Carbink that was a bit different from ordinary Carbink appeared on the screen.

The silver-gray ore body and white fluff were the same as ordinary Carbink, but the diamonds on her body and her eyes were pink, unlike the usual blue and light blue.

【Huh? This Carbink's color seems a bit different.】

【Could it be a rare shiny Pokémon?!】

The commentator's voice was very surprised. It is well known that shiny Pokémon have different colors from ordinary individuals, and shiny Pokémon often possess some special abilities or talents.

"How can Carbink fight Empoleon? With its head?"

"It's impossible that this shiny Carbink is also a Professional-tier Pokémon. How long has it been since the high school student received his starter Pokémon? My child is still at the Novice tier."

The audience in the stands, because they were isolated by the energy shield, could not feel the aura of the Pokémon on both sides and did not know the strength gap between the two sides.

But anyone with a little common sense knows that Carbink, as a Rock + Fairy type Pokémon, is super effective against Water-type attacks and four times weak to Steel-type attacks. At the same time, Rock-type + Fairy-type moves are both resisted by it, and the compatibility is ridiculously poor.

Xie Wei was also a bit stunned. If she had known, she should have asked about Su Hao's held Pokémon in advance. Who knew how he came to challenge a Water-type Gym first with two Pokémon that were blood-countered by Water-types.

Trainers also need to pay attention to human relationships, not to mention that Su Xu had a relatively good relationship with her.

Now that she had a Professional-tier Empoleon and Su Hao had an Elite-tier Carbink, she didn't even know how to go easy on him.

Xie Wei's mouth, which had been smiling, twitched, but the arrow was on the string and had to be fired.

Since she had already released Empoleon, she could only continue to fight.

Su Hao didn't know that Xie Wei had so many psychological activities. The Aura linked to Carbink conveyed Carbink's determination to win.

She saw all of Incineroar's performance in the Luxury Ball. Since her little brother had worked so hard, she, as the older sister, couldn't lose!

"Both sides are ready, the match continues!"

"Empoleon, Ice Beam." Xie Wei sighed. Although she couldn't bear it, if Su Hao couldn't defeat Empoleon, she couldn't give this badge.

"Carbink, Ancient Power!"

Water and Ice are inseparable. Most Water-type Pokémon have Ice-type moves, and the same is true for Ice-type Pokémon.

The extremely cold beam gushed out from Empoleon's mouth, and the extremely low temperature made the air faintly frozen.

Carbink was not to be outdone, creating a massive amount of rocks to aggregate in front of her, forming a solid rock wall to block the Ice Beam.

The Ice Beam hit the rock wall straight on. Under the ravages of the extremely cold energy, the rock wall was instantly covered by ice and then shattered, and at the same time, the Ice Beam gradually dissipated due to lack of follow-up power.

Actually blocked it?

Xie Wei was a bit surprised, but her mouth didn't stop: "Blizzard!"

The next second, a cold current that seemed to freeze the world appeared in front of Empoleon, rushing forward, freezing everything in front of it.

The cold current was about to strike, and Su Hao again commanded Carbink to create a wall, but this time it was one with superior hardness.

"Stone Edge!"

Transparent stone pillars like icicles scrambled to emerge from the ground, again forming an impenetrable wall.

The stone pillar wall successfully blocked the Blizzard again, but the field changed from a pitted rock field to an ice field covered with cold ice!

At this time, the original

"What's wrong? You can't win by just defending, you know? Hydro Pump!" Xie Wei reminded.

Empoleon's speed on the ice field increased by several orders of magnitude, sliding while spitting out thick, high-pressure water columns, constantly bombarding Carbink.

Carbink autonomously activated Light Screen and created rock walls to block the Hydro Pumps attacking from all directions.

Seeing that Xie Wei intended to defeat Carbink through firepower suppression, Su Hao was not worried.

As a future Mythical Pokémon, the changes in Carbink, whose mutation progress has reached 50%, are not just a change in color. Her total energy, output, physique, and control precision are gradually approaching the noble Mythical Pokémon (except for the commoner Phione of the Sea).

In terms of energy reserves and firepower, Carbink is confident that she is not weaker than Senju Hashirama!

After telling Carbink to prepare for firepower counter-suppression, Su Hao shouted: "Let's do it too, Flash Cannon!"

Five silver light spots appeared around Carbink, expanded, and then... shot out!

The light spots spat out energy cannons with a metallic luster, shooting toward the fast-moving Empoleon!

Facing the volley of energy cannons, Empoleon could only block half of them by spitting two water columns, and had no choice but to jump high to dodge.

Just as Empoleon landed, Carbink's next volley was ready.

Now it became Empoleon sliding on ice to dodge, and Carbink standing and outputting.

Having narrowly dodged the continuous firepower coverage, Empoleon was also complaining bitterly.

"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!"

After Empoleon dodged I don't know how many rounds of volleys, Carbink finally stopped outputting.

Xie Wei breathed a sigh of relief. What kind of monster is this Carbink? No Pokémon can maintain five Flash Cannons in a row for five minutes.

However, the situation in front of her also made her frown.

The field frozen by Empoleon, after being plowed by Carbink's Flash Cannon, the hard ice shattered, and the flat field completely turned into a pile of rubble. Even if Empoleon froze the field again, it couldn't slide on ice.

"Really interesting, I, Xie Wei, would like to call Carbink the strongest among all the Elite-tier Pokémon I have ever seen!"

?

Question marks appeared on Su Hao's head. He didn't know if Auntie Xie

was playing a meme or saying this sincerely.

"But, I think your Carbink's energy has been exhausted! Otherwise, she wouldn't have stopped using moves!"

Not really.

Su Hao really wanted to say that, but Xie Wei didn't give him a chance to speak at all and shouted directly.

"Empoleon, Surf!"

The middle-aged aunt who was just talking elegantly suddenly became inexplicably fired up!

A monstrous giant wave, a full twice as large as the Surf used by Azumarill, struck, rolling Carbink into it!

【Carbink was swallowed by Surf, is this the end for challenger Su Hao!?】

In the stands, the audience who originally thought there was a turning point in the match sighed one after another. Seeing Carbink reverse-suppress Empoleon, they thought Carbink had a chance to counter-kill, which was a pity.

"Dazzling Gleam."

"Nani!?"

Pink radiance shone from the raging giant wave. The next moment, a huge pink sphere directly opened the giant wave and blew away Empoleon, who was controlling the giant wave, along the way.

Calming the monstrous giant wave and blowing away Empoleon, Carbink's figure gradually appeared.

At this time, Carbink was shining with pink radiance, and light spots shining like gems kept flashing and disappearing around her.

So beautiful, just like a noble princess.

For some reason, the audience flashed this thought in unison.

Empoleon shook his dizzy head, and it took a while to stand up again.

After getting up, Empoleon looked at the scene in front of him, and a confused expression appeared on his face.

?

Question marks seemed to materialize on Empoleon's head.

At this time, above Carbink's head, the moon was in the sky!

The overflowing Fairy-type energy turned into ten beautiful pink moons above Carbink's head.

However, the Fairy-type energy that should have been full of dreamy atmosphere was now exuding a terrifying destructive aura.

"Moonblast!"

Ten shining moons fell at the same time following Su Hao's words, and a terrifying pink mushroom cloud instantly erupted in the field!

Under the ravages of the energy wave, the energy shields in front of the audience and contestants lit up again.

After waiting for a long time, the pink smoke dissipated.

Empoleon lay in a huge deep pit and fainted.

Carbink still bowed very elegantly to the audience in the stands, Xie Wei, and the referee.

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