Elf: Start with small diamonds, then mutate into Diancie!

"The higher-ups issued an order to give everyone the afternoon off, and the rest of the work can be done as soon as possible tomorrow morning."

Two hours later, when he finally returned home happily and was about to sit down for a sip of hot tea, he received a call from his superiors—

"Holiday canceled. We will work through the night to repair the Taigu Arena battlefield."

Thus, Zhang Tiedan, who hadn't even had a sip of hot tea, had to rush to the Taigu Arena again.

However, the scene that unfolded before his eyes made him suddenly feel dizzy...

The entire battle arena was either ravaged by a giant beast or struck by a meteorite. Even the base, made of special materials and supposedly able to withstand the aftershocks of attacks from Gym-level Pokémon, lay pitifully to the side.

A strong wind blew by, leaving Zhang Tiedan and his group of workers bewildered in the wind.

However, we still have to get things done.

Five times the salary is just too tempting...

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A hybrid of Gardevoir and Gallade, a Paradoxical type Iron Warrior with Fairy/Fighting attributes.

Chapter 222 Undercurrents

"Hello, is this Lao Liao?"

High in the sky, Baidu, riding a majestic and imposing Dragonite, leisurely made a phone call.

On the other end of the phone was Liao Xingchen, Bai Du's peer and the current champion of the Shenzhou League.

"Well, aren't you in Chengdu? What do you need me for?"

A deep, magnetic, pleasant male voice came through the microphone, and Bai Du's features scrunched up. He looked so uncomfortable that he held the phone a little further away.

A moment later, Bai Du brought the phone closer again and complained, "What I can't stand the most is your voice. I don't know how many girls and boys you've fooled."

Hearing Bai Du's complaint, Liao Xingchen seemed to have unloaded some burden, and her tone suddenly became casual: "After all, I was just working, and my voice isn't ready for business right away. What's up? If not, I'm hanging up."

Bai Du looked at him with a pained expression and said, "Ugh, so I really don't understand why you would accept the perfect champion persona. I definitely couldn't do it. It's much easier to pretend with a cold face."

Liao Xingchen hit Bai Du's sore spot and said, "Your turn? Let's talk about it when you beat me once."

At this point, Bai Du immediately woke up, looking at him with a "you just wait and see" expression, and snorted, "Hmph, that's not necessarily true. Once I come out of seclusion, your advantage will be completely gone~"

Liao Xingchen perked up and asked curiously, "Oh? Did you finally find them all?"

"I guess so. I've gathered almost everything, and I even found a promising talent. Even I accidentally messed things up." Bai Du's tone unconsciously carried a hint of self-deprecation.

Liao Xingchen's eyes lit up, and she instantly sprang up from the beanbag chair, her tone becoming joyful: "Who is the other party? Since you've already failed, you must already have the strength to challenge for the championship path and become our candidate successor, right?"

Bai Du's old rival knew his strength very well. It was unlikely that sending out an ace would result in such a silent defeat. That meant that the other person's strength had not yet fully challenged him, which was why Bai Du said he had found a promising talent.

"The road to the championship? It's probably still a long way off, maybe six, seven, or eight years from now."

Bai Du waved his hand and continued, "But it seems the Great Britain Alliance has made a breakthrough?"

Bai Du deliberately changed the subject; he didn't want his old rival, Liao Xingchen, to know that he had lost to a high school student.

Upon hearing Bai Du's question, Liao Xingchen's expression and tone became serious: "Yes, we have made a breakthrough. It is said that the thing can also affect the strength of Pokémon, but because their secrecy measures are very good, there is no way to know the specific details."

"However, it should be related to those Pokémon that mysteriously grow to gigantic size, because they have recently been trying to add related rules to the World Championship."

Du joked, "Maybe we'll see their Elite Four and Champion Pokémon grow several times bigger on the field?"

"It's hard to say, but since you have the opportunity to further improve your strength, that's a great thing. The tasks you haven't finished can be shared by the rest of us. Go and break through quickly."

"Okay, that's it then, I'm hanging up~"

After chatting for so long, Liao Xingchen roughly understood why Bai Du had called him.

I just want to take a vacation, it's no big deal.

It's just changing his 24-hour workday to 25 hours; it's not a big problem.

He was still somewhat worried; his intuition told him that the Great Britain Union was hiding something extraordinary.

Now all we can do is try our best to improve the team's strength. The World Championship, with its two formats, is not a place for individual heroes; teamwork is indispensable.

Many leagues have also seen the emergence of many new talents in recent years. Although they are not yet able to surpass these five in terms of strength, they will be unable to participate after this year due to age restrictions. At that time, new players will be needed, and this rule cannot be changed.

After all, this rule brought them many conveniences when the Shenzhou Alliance was not yet powerful.

There is no age limit for the Four Heavenly Kings' championship title, and they will not choose to relinquish their positions until someone defeats them with sheer strength.

The reason why there are so many "Four Heavenly Kings" and champions in the World Championships is simply because they all have the strength to reach the World Championship stage, so naturally the "Four Heavenly Kings" and champion titles are within their grasp.

......

At 6 p.m. on June 3, a hotel room in Chengdu was transformed into a temporary meeting room.

The four finalists from different groups in Yangcheng were sitting together, listening to their team leader Zhong Li's request for a pre-match meeting.

"I won't go into too much detail, but I'll briefly talk about your next opponent."

"First of all, Li Hua, you seem to be having a lot of luck lately. Among the entire group, your group's opponents aren't too strong. They're three elite-level early-stage Ground-type specializers. If you can't take them down, you'll be in big trouble!"

"Jiang Chengcheng, your opponent is a Fighting-type trainer just like you, only slightly weaker than you. We'll talk about it in more detail later."

"Kong Lingwei, the opponent is a Ghost-type trainer. You must be extremely careful."

"And then there's Su Hao..."

At this point, Zhong Li took off her reading glasses and rubbed her temples with a terrible headache.

The daytime was so exciting, it almost scared her to death.

After rubbing her temples, Zhong Li moved on to her brows. Rubbing her brows, she continued, "Since you say your Blazing Roaring Tiger is at the professional level, then I can understand your purpose a little."

"You want to send out the Blazing Roaring Tiger to show its power and strike the opponent from both physical and mental levels. The difference in strength and the instant kill can directly convey the idea that you have been holding back all along. Otherwise, sending out the Blazing Roaring Tiger directly would be a sweeping victory."

Zhong Li sighed helplessly as she finished speaking, "Since you're so confident, I won't stop you too much. But when you and your ace go out to fight, remember not to reveal too much beforehand. Try to fight without showing your trump cards."

Li Hua and Jiang Chengcheng: "Pfft..."

Forgive them; after watching the game earlier today, they simply couldn't hold back anymore.

Zhong Li glared at them both and continued worriedly, "Because... I heard that another region also has professional-level Pokémon participating this year."

Su Hao became interested and tilted his head curiously, asking, "Which region has produced a professional-level Pokémon?"

Zhong Li closed her eyes and recalled, "The capital city..."

Su Hao rested his chin on his hands and said meaningfully, "Wow~"

"In short, the post you sent last night has generated a lot of buzz. It's gotten to the point where most of the attention in the Sichuan region is focused on your battle tomorrow, and even other regions are watching."

"Your real stage should be the finals, not the regional qualifiers here. Try to fight without revealing your trump cards in advance... even if you can't kill in three moves."

"In the end, the winner takes all, and the opponent's temporary triumph means nothing."

Zhong Li's biggest worry was that in order to withstand Su Hao's offensive, Cang Yun would choose to go into complete defense.

His nut dumbbell is excellent in terms of durability, and with the rain nerf, Incineroar might not be able to one-shot him.

"Don't worry, Teacher Zhong, I have absolute confidence," Su Hao reassured Zhong Li.

A clown is just a clown after all; there's no need to worry about it.

He hasn't paid any attention to this matter since posting that message.

If the other party is not convinced, then let's see if he dares to take the wave missile in Su Hao's hand.

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Ash & Greninja, bond transformation.

Chapter 223 Pre-match Trash Talk

The Sichuan region live stream of the Pixiv High School Cup saw its popularity skyrocket due to the controversy surrounding a single match, even surpassing the Shanghai region to become the second-ranked section.

Countless people came from far and wide, eager to see who this amazing person was who could defeat three Pokémon in three moves.

The comments section was flooded with messages, and the discussion was extremely heated.

"The battle is finally about to begin, wow, wow!"

"Look, Su has messed up. His ace is the fire-type Incineroar, which is already difficult to beat against rain teams. He still boasted that he could kill it in three moves? How laughable!"

"Don't be so harsh. If Su could pull out a professional-level Pokémon like that player from the capital, it's not impossible."

"You're dreaming upstairs. According to rumors, that player had a great stroke of luck to raise his starter Pokémon to professional level. Even though most of the young geniuses in the National High School Cup are elite, that player is an exception. Now everyone thinks he is undoubtedly the champion of this year."

"A sightseeing group from Mizuyu City glides by, eating sunflower seeds and watching a show.JPG."

Today, Cangyun's agent specially changed into his most prized suit, worth 100,000 Shenzhou coins.

Wearing his battle robes and sporting a protruding belly, he walked down the street as if he were on top of the world, clearly riding high on his success.

"Your popularity is growing, and your fan base is growing rapidly!"

"Including the 900,000 fake followers we bought at great expense, we've already surpassed one million followers in just one day!"

The agent's eyes lit up, he kept swallowing the saliva in his mouth, and his short, chubby fingers kept swiping the screen to refresh the fan page of Cangyun's account.

Money, money, money!

This is all money!

The company had already planned the next marketing step. First, they would announce that Su Hao's statement had caused psychological trauma to Cang Yun and subjected him to unprecedented cyberbullying, resulting in Cang Yun unfortunately developing Yu Yu Syndrome.

After using the announcement of his withdrawal from the internet to completely steer public opinion in their direction, Cangyun chose to stay for the sake of his fans due to their pleas for him to stay.

Next came the "Don't Laugh Challenge," "Free Meal Challenge," "Don't Get Fluttering Heart Challenge," and "Free Sleep Challenge." Then, it was announced that Cangyun had spent a lot of time healing her psychological trauma and would then take the fans she had accumulated during this period to challenge the upper echelons of the entertainment industry!

As for the innocent Su Hao?

What does it have to do with them?

For a moment, both the agent and Cangyun could see a bright future ahead, with wealth and beautiful women in their arms!

Cang Yun clenched his fists to encourage himself, his eyes filled with anticipation for a bright future: "I will defend with all my might in today's battle. No matter what tricks Su Hao pulls, I will definitely withstand three of his moves!"

The agent patted his round belly, his smile squeezing his features together: "It's so great that you have this awareness. Our future depends on today!"

The two raised their glasses and toasted, saying in unison, "To the stepping stones on our future glorious path!"