Trainer on Dragon's Back

Chapter 480: Reaching the Quarterfinals

The moment the battle was lost.

Emma was relieved.

After leaving the field.

She was just about to congratulate Bai Ze.

Unexpectedly, Bai Ze took the initiative to come over and said: "As an opponent, I must go all out, and as a friend, I hope you can cheer up."

Hearing this, Emma was deeply surprised but also very happy. She thought Bai Ze was the kind of cold and arrogant straight man who couldn't comfort others, or he never regarded her as a friend, but that was not the case.

"It's okay, it's okay, I'm fine!" Emma waved her hands.

"I'm glad you're okay." Bai Ze breathed a sigh of relief.

"Next is the round of 6. If we make it to the quarterfinals, it will be a 6vs match. That's the real competition." Emma and Bai Ze walked backstage together.

"Well, I just don't know if I'll be matched with Charles or Gu Nan. The South China Alliance Conference has adopted a random matching mechanism in the past two years. It's not as clear as before. Basically, everyone can advance to the finals along a straight line." Bai Ze pointed out the key.

"If you hadn't mentioned it, I would have forgotten that the battle rules have changed a lot in the past two years. There will be a random shuffle after each round." Emma seemed to be thinking about this.

The random shuffling mechanism in each round adds a lot of instability, and no contestant can predict who his or her next opponent will be.

Everyone stared at the live screen nervously.

A new battle list is out.

Bai Ze and Jiang Bei didn't meet.

Charles and Gu Nan didn't meet either.

All in all, they didn't meet any of their own people.

However, Jiang Bei and Gu Nan were too happy too early. They didn't seem to notice that someone was hiding his strength here, and there was more than one person.

"Aze, my intuition tells me that it will become more difficult to fight next." Charles couldn't help but frown and looked at Jiang Bei and Gu Nan worriedly.

"It's a pity that these two haven't noticed it yet." Bai Ze said helplessly.

"Should we remind them?" Charles asked.

"You tell them." Bai Ze responded.

When Jiang Bei and Gu Nan learned from Charles that someone among the top 16 had hidden his strength and fought his way here, the smiles on their faces suddenly froze.

It was too late to explain now. Gu Nan, as the first contestant to appear in this round, faced Zhao Haifeng, a trainer from Pengcheng Pokémon University, who was currently a junior. He performed very well last year, but unfortunately only finished second.

It's making a comeback again this year.

Don't show off your abilities.

All the way to the round of 16.

"This guy..." Charles took a breath.

"Very strong!" Bai Ze replied.

"Could you have made a mistake?" Jiang Bei had investigated Zhao Haifeng privately and had also watched Zhao Haifeng's battles over the past two days, but he didn't find anything wrong.

"I wonder if you have heard a saying that a true hunter often appears as a prey. I hope we are wrong." Bai Ze always felt that there was an indescribable ominous aura emanating from this person.

"He's going to get serious."

Charles saw through the broadcast screen that Zhao Haifeng took out an elf that had not been sent out in the previous battle, a huge and terrifying flower rock monster.

Ordinary Rockflowers don't have the same strong sense of oppression as Darkrai. As soon as the Rockflower in Zhao Haifeng's hand appeared, the temperature in the field dropped several degrees. It was sunny just now, but in the blink of an eye, it was covered with dark clouds.

Gu Nan then realized that what Charles and Bai Ze said was most likely true. The intuition of the strong is very sharp, and there is indeed someone hiding his strength here.

As soon as he sent out the Dream Monster, the Flower Rock Monster killed it instantly with a wave of evil, so that the Dream Monster didn't even have the chance to activate the same life. This was simply an overwhelming kill, so exaggerated that it was completely unreasonable.

"You?" Gu Nan was extremely surprised.

"What's wrong with me?" Zhao Haifeng grinned.

"You actually hid your strength." Gu Nan was sweating profusely.

"How can I not hide my strength? Your Yangcheng Pokémon University has a super rookie trainer named Bai Ze, and I don't want to meet him so soon." Zhao Haifeng changed the subject, "You are the main player of the Ghost Team, so you should be on guard."

Then Gu Nan sent out the Demon Coral, but before it could even finish two moves, it was killed instantly by the extremely strange Flower Rock Monster's instant evil wave.

The entire audience saw this scene.

Everyone was stunned.

It stands to reason that we should reach the round of 16.

The gap in strength between the two sides will not be too big.

However, Zhao Haifeng crushed Gu Nan with an overwhelming one-shot kill, as if all the previous matches were fake, giving the audience an initial impression that he was very weak.

This is different from the Darko in the animation. Darko used only Darkrai to bully the weak ones throughout the whole process, while Zhao Haifeng deliberately hid his strength and made it into the top 16. He waited until the time was right to show his true strength and put pressure on other contestants.

Gu Nan at this time.

I was so panicked that I was at a loss.

Two elves in hand.

He was killed instantly by the flower rock monster one after another.

I'm almost unable to hold my nerve.

There was only one elf left at this time, and Gu Nan had no choice but to send out the Wind Ball, but it was still no match for the ridiculously powerful Flower Rock Monster in Zhao Haifeng's hand.

The ominous aura that Bai Ze felt from Zhang Haifeng came from the Flower Rock Monster, while Charles relied on his intuition to discern something unusual.

"Damn, this is so scary!" Jiang Bei suddenly took a deep breath.

"What do you think?" Charles looked at Bai Ze.

"That flower rock monster is very strange." Bai Ze hesitated to speak.

"I also think that flower rock monster is very strange. The keystone on the body of an ordinary flower rock monster is not so big. It feels like an old monster that has been sealed for thousands of years." Charles analyzed.

"The fact that it can kill Gu Nan's elf in seconds speaks volumes. If the elf itself is simply too strong, then we can still deal with it." Bai Ze was thinking about a countermeasure.

The first match of this round.

Zhao Haifeng was the first to advance into the quarterfinals.

Gu Nan started off badly and unfortunately suffered defeat.

The second match of this round was relatively normal. The two sides fought back and forth, and in the end a new trainer named Ranger won.

In the third match of this round, a tough guy with hidden strength appeared again. Like Zhao Haifeng, he is also from Pengcheng Elf University. The two have a very good relationship. They probably planned to show their skills in this stage, and they actually passed the level with only a Porygon Z.

Oh yes, his name is Zhao Libu.

Charles remembered his name.

Two unexpected strong enemies suddenly appeared in the top 16, which inevitably aroused the fear of Bai Ze and Jiang Bei. If they wanted to win the championship, they had to defeat them.

In the fourth match of this round, fortunately, Jiangbei's opponent was not as perverted as Zhao Haifeng and Zhao Libu, who suddenly took out a very powerful elf to directly push the team.

However, he learned from Gu Nan's failure and did not underestimate the enemy throughout the whole process. In the end, he successfully defeated his opponent with a high-intensity confrontation lineup of Boskodora, Steelix and Sildenafil and successfully advanced to the quarterfinals.

In the fifth match of this round, the winner was Makino, represented by the elf Bankilas, who had previously fought against Bai Ze Jiangbei in the process of competing for a place in further studies.

In the sixth match of this round, the winner was Shi Lei, who was in the same two-person team as Makino. His representative elf was Pang Yanguai, and he made it to the quarterfinals.

Makino and Shi Lei followed Associate Professor Jin Shengxun.

He Jie and Emma also belong there.

It’s a pity that we didn’t make it to the round of 16.

In the seventh match of this round, it was finally Bai Ze's turn to take the stage. His opponent was He Jun, an old acquaintance he had fought against before and who had also competed for a place in further studies.

He Jun, the big army in the big and small army combination, it was not easy for him to reach the top 16, because the small army Ge Jun had lost long ago.

"Why do I meet you again?" He Jun was desperate.

"It means your luck has run out." Bai Ze said bluntly.

Looking at the entire top 16, the weakest is either He Jun or the rookie trainer from another Pokémon University who was defeated by Jiang Bei.

Sometimes it is difficult to get to the end relying on luck alone. You must have the strength to match it in order to make rapid progress.

In fact, before Bai Ze went on stage, Jiang Bei specifically pulled him aside and told him: "Do you still want to continue paddling with Team 3? Just row until the top 16, then don't row anymore, it's time for Team 1 and Team 2 to go on stage."

"I didn't paddle!" he retorted.

"You're obviously just slacking off." Jiang Bei said speechlessly.

This was a small episode before going on the court. Facing He Jun, Bai Ze sent out the three teams' ancestral birds without hesitation and did not follow Jiang Bei's advice.

Jiang Bei knew that Bai Ze was going to continue slacking off. He had already made it to the top 16, but he was still using the elves from team three. He had never seen him send out the elves from team one or team two. When would the Silver Winged Dragon, which fans had been missing so much, finally make its debut?

Archaeopteryx was very excited when it came out.

It thought it had no chance to play.

I was just planning to eat some fruit to satisfy my craving.

Unexpectedly, Bai Ze suddenly called it out to fight.

"Don't think about being lazy, you also need to accumulate practical experience in large-scale competitions. Although I will inevitably ignore you at ordinary times, I will not reduce my attention and cultivation of you."

Hearing Bai Ze's voice, the Proto-Bird was deeply moved. Its journey has been quite bumpy. At first, it was released into the ecological park by Jiang Bei, and then Jiang Bei brought it back to his side. During its evolution, it was helped by Bai Ze and used the trouble seeds provided by the Wood Gecko to erase its own weak characteristics.

From then on, its dragon life has undergone earth-shaking changes, but unexpectedly, with the help of Bai Ze, it can be transformed into an ancient species of ancestral bird.

Later on, I developed a sleepless heart.

It is precisely because of this sleepless heart.

It can become more powerful.

"Aze, watch me!"

The ancestral bird ignited a fierce fighting spirit.

It flapped its wings suddenly and flew into the air.

After a period of recuperation, its feathers have grown very bright, and the originally bare parts of its body are now covered with a layer of inconspicuous fluff. It looks less like a shed lizard, and its overall image is much better.

If it were the Archaeopteryx that was resurrected from fossils, it might not be able to fly too high and could only glide with its wings spread. However, since it transformed into an ancient species and restored the dragon genes in its body, its flying ability has become stronger than before and it can fly without a running start.

roar~

The ancestral bird roared.

This is the dragon's deterrence from ancient times.

The seeds hidden in the soil of an ordinary flat ground, stimulated by the call of the Archaic Bird, instantly broke out of their shells and sprouted. This miraculous phenomenon attracted the attention of everyone present, and they talked about it with great relish.

Although He Jun was surprised, he still had to consider what kind of elf to use to deal with the ancient ancestor bird. At present, he had very little information in his hands.

"Go Onyx!"

This is an ordinary Onion Duck.

It's not the Farfetch'd from the Galar region.

The ordinary Onion Duck is a general attribute Pokémon and cannot evolve into an Onion Ranger. As soon as He Jun came up, he let the Onion Duck swing the onion in its hand to perform a series of slashes to take the initiative.

Archaosthi didn't seem to panic at all. It retreated while dodging the onion in Farfetch'd's hand, as if it had seen through its attack method.

"Wing attack!"

The ancestral bird turned from defense to offense.

Suddenly, he spread his wings and flew away.

The movement is so fast that it is impossible to catch it.

"Now, Dragon Claw!"

The Archaic Bird took advantage of the opportunity when the Farfetch'd was slapped away and rushed forward, suddenly raised its eagle-like sharp and strong claws, clamped its neck and pressed it to the ground.

With a loud bang, the dragon claw shining with blue energy crystal light instantly pressed the Onion Duck into the pit, causing an explosion.

"Fat Onion Ducky has lost his ability to fight!"