Chapter 605: Placing an Advertisement

Pawmi's combat power exceeded many people's expectations.

It was clearly just an Electric-type mouse not even waist-high to a human.

Yet the momentum it displayed while crushing Staraptor with overwhelming force made people unable to help but associate it with that long-famous female War God, the Sinnoh Champion Cynthia.

Her Garchomp, much like Pawmi, possessed near-absolute dominance over the Elite Four's main forces.

The only difference was that Garchomp gave an impression of strength at first glance, whereas Pawmi leaned more toward a cute style.

Recalling Staraptor, after a few seconds of silence, Brother Brother Qingmu sent out his second Pokémon.

"Tropius."

Accompanied by the flapping of its broad leaf-like wings, a Pokémon very familiar to both Luo Mu and Hearing Hearing Nimo appeared.

The Grass and Flying type combination allowed Tropius to avoid being countered by super-effective Electric-type moves, but it also introduced a rather unpleasant four-fold weakness.

"Really, is it necessary to go to such lengths?"

Seeing Brother Brother Qingmu send out Tropius via the live stream, the corners of Luo Mu's mouth twitched slightly.

A year ago, when he challenged the Champion Test, Brother Brother Qingmu's lineup was much plainer than this, a uniform team of weak Electric types that directly made him and his Luxray feel great.

That was unlike now, where he first brought out Tropius, followed by a crackling-style Oricorio, and likely still had an Altaria waiting.

All of them uniformly eliminated the Flying type's Electric weakness; they must be Pokémon Brother Brother Qingmu had trained over the past year specifically to target Luo Mu's Electric-type weakness against Flying types.

Brother Brother Qingmu, you are truly despicable right now.

The battle unfolded amidst Luo Mu's complaints.

Tropius's agility could not compare to Pawmi's, but Brother Brother Qingmu had long prepared a method to compensate.

"Sunny Day."

Under Tropius's concentration, a golden ball of light erupted from its raised mouth, transforming into an intense light source that rained down.

As the light gathered, Tropius's leaf-shaped wings gradually became dyed with a layer of fluorescent green radiance.

As if its body had instantly become lighter, Tropius flapped its leaf wings to dodge Pawmi's Discharge, then consecutively launched several Energy Balls that burst forth, continuously bombarding Pawmi like bullets fired from a machine gun.

"Smash them, Thunder Punch."

Under Hearing Hearing Nimo's command, Pawmi nimbly dodged several Energy Balls in succession; when encountering situations where dodging was impossible, it punched out with lightning speed, carving a safe path through the dark green explosion smoke.

However, they subconsciously overlooked the light gathering even faster around the hovering Tropius.

After confirming that both Pawmi's and Hearing Hearing Nimo's vision were obstructed by the dark green smoke from the exploding Energy Balls, the cautious Brother Brother Qingmu declared without hesitation: "Now, three o'clock to the front right, Solar Beam!"

".!"

Accompanied by Tropius's silent roar, sunlight pouring down from the Sunny Day above converged like threads before Tropius, forming a tangled yet aesthetically pleasing ball of lines.

As Tropius's Grass-type energy joined in, this golden ball of lines was suddenly dyed with a touch of emerald green; the next instant, it transformed into a verdant energy pillar that violently pierced the air, heading straight for Pawmi!

Boom!

Wherever the light pillar passed, the air along its path trembled without exception.

Under Sunny Day, the Grass-type ultimate move "Solar Beam," which normally requires a long charging time, was fired at nearly instantaneous speed.

Coupled with the visual obstruction, logically, almost no one should have been able to react to the shooting light pillar, and they should have suffered heavy injuries due to Brother Brother Qingmu's setup.

But against all odds—Hearing Hearing Nimo and Pawmi reacted.

"Vital Throw!"

Hearing Hearing Nimo's pupils contracted slightly as she subconsciously shouted the command.

And Pawmi's reaction lived up to its status as an Electric and Fighting-type Pokémon.

Following the method it had learned from Rika, Pawmi planted its stance firmly, stabilizing its lower body; under the effect of its Ability "Iron Fist," its palms, stronger than those of its kind, were enveloped in red light, and power sufficient to split mountains and crack rocks continuously erupted as its palms pushed forward, with visible shockwaves rippling outward.

With extreme speed, Pawmi performed Vital Throw dozens of times in succession against the Solar Beam's energy pillar, successfully dispersing it through its solid strength.

For a moment, even Brother Brother Qingmu fell silent.

There was such a countermeasure?

As if sounding the horn for a counterattack, Hearing Hearing Nimo and Pawmi began aggressively launching fierce assaults on Tropius.

By forcing Tropius closer to the ground with powerful electric currents, and leveraging its large size—which made maneuvering difficult even with increased agility under Sunny Day—Pawmi seized the opportunity to wrap itself in electric light and charge directly into it.

Tropius, with its body vastly larger than Pawmi's, stumbled; its attempt to fly back up failed to stabilize, and Pawmi took the opportunity to leap onto Tropius's back, its Iron Fists igniting with raging flames.

The super-effective "Fire Punch," boosted doubly by "Sunny Day" and "Iron Fist," created a scene so cruel that even the Tropius belonging to Luo Mu's household was scared enough to shrink back beside his Serperior.

Fortunately, its Ability was "Harvest," meaning it didn't need Sunny Day activated, and since battling was merely a hobby for it, it probably wouldn't suffer being burned.

Although Brother Brother Qingmu had made thorough preparations regarding the Electric type, under Hearing Hearing Nimo and Pawmi's chaotic rampage, his main forces were losing their ability to battle at a terrifying speed.

Oricorio, Altaria, and Staravia, amidst the shock of countless spectators, although encountering constant "twists" due to Brother Brother Qingmu's resistance, ultimately consecutively lost their ability to battle under the offensive combination of Hearing Hearing Nimo and Pawmi.

Brother Brother Qingmu's final Pokémon, his ace Bombirdier, stood on one leg in the middle of the battlefield; just like Rika, Brother Brother Qingmu predictably took out a Tera Orb.

". Although this will mess up my hair, I'll go ahead and change the wind direction."

Ignoring his current predicament, Brother Brother Qingmu spoke expressionlessly, as if completing a task, reciting the "lines" prepared for him by his superiors, and tossed the glowing Tera Orb above Bombirdier's head.

To put it plainly, even though he held full trust in his old partner, looking at Pawmi, which was only breathing slightly faster and had gained some external injuries, Brother Brother Qingmu felt that his journey today would likely end here.

—After all, Bombirdier's Tera Type was Flying, not Fighting.

"Oh oh oh, without losing a single soldier, Challenger Hearing Hearing Nimo has defeated the second Elite Four member!"

"Even I, Rotom, cannot suppress my excited feelings at this moment, and can only commentate thus—"

"Could it be that today we will truly witness a young girl ascend to the peak~"

Because Hearing Hearing Nimo had "pointed out the way" for her, Rotom held quite a high favorability toward Hearing Hearing Nimo and was by no means stingy in its praise.

Fortunately, the people on-site could not hear the live broadcast audio; otherwise, Brother Brother Qingmu, who seemed ready to ascend to heaven after this battle, would surely be angered back to life.

This was because Rotom's method of praising one person involved stepping on another; even a numb office worker would have their defenses broken under such a bombardment of internet slang.

"Now we are all in the defeat camp~"

In a place unseen by the camera, Rika hooked her arm over Brother Brother Qingmu's shoulder, making Brother Brother Qingmu look like the weak and powerless woman.

The dark circles under Brother Brother Qingmu's eyes seemed to have worsened; on the verge of burning out, he lacked the strength to push away Xinli, who had her arm draped over his shoulder, and could only say weakly, "Let me go, I have other work to handle."

"Don't be so rigid~ You should at least watch that guy Ba Shuo make a fool of himself before leaving!"

Xinli seemed determined to drag Brother Brother Qingmu along, pulling him directly toward the third Elite Four battle room.

Lagging behind the two, Hearing Hearing Nimo was still treating the minor injuries Pawmi had sustained in the earlier battle; gazing at Brother Brother Qingmu's inexplicably weary back, she murmured softly, "Why does Mr. Brother Qingmu keep working himself to the bone with overtime?"

In the third room, Long Zhi Ba Shuo had already been waiting for some time.

Hearing the faint sounds of battle drifting from the previous room, he initially curled the corner of his mouth, mocking Xinli in his heart for being defeated so quickly.

But as the sounds of battle from the front room gradually faded, Ba Shuo's expression changed.

"Is that guy Brother Qingmu slacking off? It ended way too fast, didn't it?"

Although Ba Shuo believed his strength comprehensively surpassed that of his two colleagues, except for the Great Senior.

Yet Ba Shuo had to admit that Brother Qingmu's strength was very close to his own, at least not a gap that could be settled so quickly.

Ba Shuo vaguely sensed something was amiss.

Especially when he saw the room's large door open and Xinli enter together with Brother Qingmu, Ba Shuo's ominous premonition grew increasingly heavy.

Even when he tried to extract information from Xinli, she simply acted as if she hadn't heard him, turning her head to the side.

Soon, having taken only a brief rest, Hearing Hearing Nimo closely followed in Xinli and Brother Qingmu's footsteps, arriving in this third room.

Although Ba Shuo was somewhat unreliable in character, he could still demonstrate a reliable side when it came to important matters.

The cameras in the third room had already started, and Ba Shuo spread his arms, paying respect to Hearing Nimo.

"I, Long Zhi Ba Shuo, stand here as the strongest obstacle on your climbing path; unleash all your skills and devote your entire heart to defeating me!"

Having been a teacher for less than a year, Ba Shuo could not yet stand on the footing of a fellow Grape Academy teacher to test Hearing Nimo.

But as Long Zhi Ba Shuo, he had no such concerns; he would welcome all challengers who sought to challenge him with the most fierce battling aura.

"I leave the first move to you, Archaludon!"

A flash of red light from the Poké Ball vanished in an instant; accompanied by the dull thud of a heavy object hitting the ground, Archaludon, composed entirely of aluminum metal, made its entrance.

The Steel-type Archaludon and the Poison-type Dragalge were both countermeasures Ba Shuo had specially prepared to deal with Fairy-type Pokémon, which are extremely disadvantageous against Dragon types.

However, one problem was still quite obvious.

That was the fact that Ba Shuo's Archaludon had not yet evolved into Archaludon Bridge; clearly, during the previous battle against Blueberry Academy, Ba Shuo should have seen the Archaludon Bridge used by Du Ruo.

Not to mention that Ba Shuo was also acquainted with Du Ruo's grandfather, Xia Ka.

Hearing Nimo's puzzled expression forced Ba Shuo to spread his hands and explain, "Don't look at me like that; it's just that I haven't obtained the item needed for evolution yet."

"Even without evolving, its strength far exceeds that little brat's, so rest assured."

The evolution item for Archaludon, "Alloyed Metal," is currently only mastered in terms of specific production methods by the Unova region; unless he softened up and went home to inherit his vast family estate, it would be somewhat difficult for Ba Shuo to obtain one so quickly.

But just as Ba Shuo said, compared to Du Ruo's Archaludon Bridge, his Archaludon would only be stronger.

This was his confidence as the Dragon-type Elite Four member.

Understanding Ba Shuo's meaning, Hearing Nimo likewise threw out the Poké Ball she had prepared long ago.

"I'm counting on you, Ursaluna!"

With the appearance of Ursaluna, whose head bore a cloud-shrouded moon, the fierce auras belonging to Archaludon and Ursaluna began to intertwine and clash within the room.

Many spectators swallowed hard, sharpening their focus to watch the images reflected on the screen with increasing care.

Unova Region, Opelucid City, Opelucid Gym.

As apprentices of the Opelucid Gym, Iris and her senior brothers and sisters were called together by Gym Leader Xia Ka to gather and watch the live broadcast of the match from the other end of the planet.

When Ba Shuo sent out Archaludon, a wave of exclamations immediately rose and fell throughout the room.

Trainers who could serve as apprentices at the Opelucid Gym all took specializing in Dragon-type Pokémon as their future goal.

Seeing Ba Shuo, who was clearly a pinnacle among Dragon-type trainers, release a Dragon Pokémon, it would be strange if they weren't excited.

Under Xia Ka's strict requirements, Iris, barely sitting upright, curiously asked him, "Grandpa Xia Ka, who is stronger between you and him?"

Xia Ka, who was acquainted with Ba Shuo and had sparred with him several times, did not answer Iris but instead changed the subject.

"Watch the battle between them carefully; that girl possesses trainer talent equal to yours, or even stronger; this battle will benefit you immensely."

Taking advantage of Xia Ka's inattention, Iris quietly swung her feet a few times, nodded thoughtfully, and fixed her gaze on the television screen.

At this moment, Hearing Nimo had already sent out her Ursaluna, which was now facing off against Ba Shuo's Archaludon in a tense atmosphere.

Iris's mind was also stirred by the great battle that was about to erupt.

But just then, the image on the television suddenly cut out, causing everyone to freeze in stunned silence for a second.

The next moment.

Replacing the main screen, the secondary screen featuring Qixing, who had been shrinking as a commentator in the bottom right corner, was enlarged in the live broadcast room.

Her exquisite profile was very close to the lens, as if she were checking whether the screen switch had been successful.

Because the Unova region had difficulty receiving television channels from the Paldea region, and Xia Ka could not handle matters related to electrical appliances, the television was broadcasting the feed from Qixing's live stream.

This also resulted in the Opelucid Gym apprentices, who had become agitated by the main screen, staring blankly as Qixing cleared her throat, pulled out a fruit basket from beneath her, along with several glass bottles containing Tapu Moumou Fresh Milk, their packaging bearing a logo.

Facing the lens, Qixing raised a smile and, following the way someone had taught her, recited, "Next is a brief commercial break; here, please allow Qixing to grandly introduce our live stream's titled farm to everyone."

(End of Chapter)