Chapter 1073

With all this busyness, Su Hao had absolutely no time to pay attention to who his opponents were or what their strength was.

Bai Linglong said, "I think the teams from the South Korean Alliance, the India Alliance, and the Sakura Alliance are all worth being wary of. The captain of the South Korean Alliance team is the nephew of their Ghost-type Four Heavenly Kings; the Ghost-type Pokémon he specializes in are elusive, and they will be quite difficult to deal with."

Bai Linglong had clearly done her analysis and knew the situation of most teams like the back of her hand.

Although they themselves were the cream of the crop among the younger generation of the Shenzhou Alliance—otherwise they wouldn't have been selected—they still treated the competition with the utmost seriousness.

Following the South Korean Alliance, Bai Linglong mentioned general intelligence on several other alliances one after another, such as the Psychic-type teams that the India Alliance produced in abundance, the Goryeo Alliance teams that were quite capable and often unscrupulous for the sake of victory, and the host Sakura Alliance, which must surely be hiding some secret weapon.

Su Hao memorized them one by one, intending to take targeted measures once his Aura detected enemies with corresponding characteristics.

Cheng Liming, who specialized in Ground-type Pokémon and was also skilled at surveying terrain, followed up on Bai Linglong's words: "Our current location should be on the northern edge of the Aokigahara Forest, and that so-called range circle will most likely shrink toward the center."

"In other words, we must rush to the center ahead of time to occupy favorable terrain and the initiative, so as to avoid being ambushed by the enemy, right?" Xiao Zijian, rubbing his hands together, had an expression of anticipation on his face, as if a fight were about to break out.

The four of them were clearly rare talents, each performing their own duties to provide different bonuses to the team. Su Hao felt much more at ease and nodded slightly, saying, "Then let's head directly toward the center of the Aokigahara Forest."

10:00 AM, somewhere in the Aokigahara Forest.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

In the dense forest, a deep blue figure and a green figure were engaged in a fierce, wide-open battle, locked in a struggle.

The surrounding area already showed signs of broken trees, sunken pits, and the like due to the aftermath of their battle.

The exchange of blows, fist to flesh, always left it feeling refreshed. Cyclizar's gaze held a hint of excitement as it lowered its body to dodge a horn strike from Heracross's large horn.

Just as Cyclizar wanted to use its tail to whip Heracross away and follow up with a heavy kick, it suddenly remembered that its tail was broken in half. It could only use a sweep kick with a look of annoyance to keep Heracross temporarily suspended in the air, then gathered its strength and threw a punch.

This punch not only produced a dull collision sound at the point of contact, but the force of the punch swept out, blowing leaves off the surrounding trees. Heracross only felt a sudden great force in its abdomen, and the entire Pokémon was sent flying backward by Cyclizar, crashing through several tree trunks before losing consciousness.

Having easily defeated the Elite-level late-stage Heracross, there was no emotional fluctuation on Cyclizar's face, as if, to it, this

Heracross was not an opponent worth mentioning at all.

Watching from the sidelines, Bai Linglong and the other three had expressions that were a mix of strange and numb, as Cyclizar hadn't even used a single move to solve Heracross so easily. In the hour they had been moving forward, they had also encountered at least a dozen attacks from wild Pokémon.

The number of wild Pokémon in the Aokigahara Forest was no less than in Viridian Forest; it was at the level where you could hit a flock of Spearow just by throwing a random stone.

The strength of the wild Pokémon was quite uniform; perhaps because they were still on the edge, their strength generally hovered at the Elite level. That Heracross just now was considered one of the stronger ones.

It had been agreed beforehand that opponents below the Professional level would be left to Su Hao's Cyclizar to handle. In reality, the four of them were a bit worried: how could a Normal-level late-stage Cyclizar possibly fight those powerful Elite-level wild Pokémon?

Until... this Cyclizar punched out a Shiftry that had jumped out to block the road, and the four of them were stunned.

Whose Normal-level Pokémon could knock over an Elite-level Pokémon with one punch!?

The combat power Cyclizar displayed afterward confirmed all of this; it didn't use any moves at all, defeating over a dozen Elite-level wild Pokémon purely with its fists and feet.

Bai Linglong's expression was particularly spectacular. She remembered that Cyclizar was evaluated within the clan as a disabled dragon capable of polluting the excellent genes of Dragon-type Pokémon, but... why was this Cyclizar, which was timid and starved in the Dragon Den, so fierce in Su Hao's hands!?

Those old guys' appraisals were a bit unreliable!

After finishing off the Heracross, Cyclizar paced back with an expression of being completely unsatisfied. Without its long tail, many of its combat techniques couldn't be used, and every battle always had a sense of awkward incoordination, which made Cyclizar very uncomfortable.

Su Hao handed Cyclizar an Oran Berry and smiled, "Hard work."

Cyclizar nodded, reached out to take the Oran Berry, and ate it to replenish its stamina.

Seeing Cyclizar's performance, Su Hao couldn't help but marvel inwardly.

Even though Cyclizar usually had an attitude of listening to orders but not being proactive, once it involved a battle, it would take the initiative to fight even if Su Hao didn't mention it... These changes only appeared after it ate the Terastal crystal.

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