You are not allowed to be a Pokémon Trainer

Chapter 526

Chapter 526

"If all else fails, go back and rest after your Masters 10 tournament, then go help her."

Ye Ci's gaze fell on Xia Chi's face through the dark lenses of his sunglasses.

Although from the perspective of the top champion of Padia, she really wanted to poach Xia Chi.

But as a friend, she hoped Xia Chi would do what she liked.

She has known Xia Chi longer than most people, from the somewhat green rookie trainer at the Padia Academy Exchange Tournament to the White Hero who can now go head-to-head with the legendary trainer.

She saw the effort and sweat he had put in along the way.

Exploring the unknown legendary spirits of his own region is probably something he enjoys.

At least that's what Ci thinks.

This idea is quite normal, after all, before Xia Chi became famous on the path of a trainer, he was known for his research on myths and legends.

However, Ye Ci only guessed half of it correctly.

Xia Chi is not good at studying myths and legends.

His achievements today are all thanks to his past life as a devoted Pokémon fan.

The arguments that researchers in this world consider "stunningly accurate predictions" are essentially just information he has printed in strategy guides and illustrated books from his memory.

He wasn't a scholar, just a player with a good memory.

But he has never told anyone about this, and he never will.

However, he was indeed very interested in exploring the unknown legendary spirits of the Eastern Huang region.

It's not a researcher's sense of mission, but a more personal curiosity.

This is the only original region among all regions that does not exist in the game.

Information was available for Kanto, Hoenn, Sinnoh, Unova, Kalos, Galar, and Padia, but for this land he now called "home," there was no game version he could refer to in his memory.

What Pokémon exist in the Eastern Region that even he, a seasoned Pokémon fan, was unaware of?

How many legendary spirits, who never appeared in the game of the previous life, are hidden here, yet are connected to this ancient land by blood?

Could those unknown traces in Shennong Forest that Yu Muxue has been searching for for months be exactly the ones he, as a Pokémon fan, can "recognize"?

Or will even his memory reserves become completely ineffective in the face of this blank space in Donghuang?

This sense of the unknown is an immense temptation for someone who has memorized the type weaknesses, capture locations, and hidden abilities of all legendary Pokémon from other regions.

Furthermore, the hidden dangers of Eternatus and the Ultimate Cave have now been resolved.

There shouldn't be anything in the Pokémon world that can cause major chaos anymore.

Most of the villainous organizations in the Pokémon world have fallen apart, and the remaining extremist forces have been suppressed by the alliances of various regions, resulting in a relatively peaceful period overall.

Indeed, I can devote more energy to exploring the unknown.

Ye Ci smiled slightly as she watched Xia Chi deep in thought.

"It seems you've already made up your mind?"

Xia Chi snapped out of his thoughts, then nodded, his voice calm and resolute: "Yes, after the Ten Masters Tournament, I'll return to Donghuang."

The strange tree, which was biting its straw, suddenly brightened up.

"Okay, I want to go to the unknown legendary spirit too! Achi, you're going to Shennong Forest, right? I can apply for leave; I haven't used the annual leave of the Four Heavenly Kings of Padia yet..."

Before Xia Chi could speak, Qi Shu was lightly tapped on the forehead by Ye Ci.

"What are you thinking? You're one of the Four Heavenly Kings of Pardiya now."

Ye Ci's tone became slightly more serious, but he still couldn't completely suppress his smile.

She watched as Qi Shu, covering his straw hat, looked up with a wronged expression, her eyes filled with a kind of helplessness that was somewhere between an elder sister and a superior.

"With you being so unreliable, how can I entrust the alliance to you in the future?"

Kiju rubbed the spot on his head where his straw hat had been hit, muttering, "Who wants to take it? Let Uncle Aoki take it..."

She spoke softer and softer as she continued, "Isn't Uncle Aoki also a top contender for the championship? He doesn't need to take a vacation."

Xia Chi couldn't help but chuckle and quickly stepped in to smooth things over.

"Alright, I'll listen to you and Sister Ci this time, and we won't go."

He paused, his joking expression fading. "Even Sister Muxue has been out of contact for several weeks in Shennong Forest. The Alliance's map only shows the outer area; the situation inside is completely unknown. It's very dangerous in a place where everything is unknown."

He thought for a moment, then added, "Come visit again once everything is settled. I'll be your guide then."

Qishu pouted, biting the straw and mumbling something in a low voice.

Finally, she pulled the straw out of her mouth, poked the mango smoothie a few times, and whispered, "Okay..."

After leaving the beverage shop, the three of them went out for a casual meal.

We chose a family-run restaurant in Hau'alo City known for its traditional Alora flavors. It's located in a back alley off the main street, and you can't find it without a local's guidance.

The table was piled high with Alora's signature coconut stew, grilled fish, and tropical fruit salad, while Victini's eyes lit up at her extra-small banana pudding.

Babu Tubo finally got his wish and squatted down directly under the air conditioner vent in the store, squinting his eyes contentedly, like a desert plant that had just been watered.

Lanpong and Yeji's Draco sat side by side on the edge of the table, the two Pokémon of vastly different sizes sharing a plate of neatly cut chilled berries.

Qi Shu refilled her mango smoothie, and Xia Chi stole a sip from her cup, only to be lightly patted on the shoulder with her straw hat.

After the meal, the three said goodbye at the restaurant entrance.

The setting sun had already dyed the street a soft orange-gold color, casting long, thin shadows of the three people on the stone pavement.

Ye Ci put her sunglasses back on, nodded to Xia Chi and Qi Shu, and Dorombarut floated gently behind her, its triangular cone-shaped head glowing with a faint, eerie green light in the twilight.

Time quickly passed and the third day arrived.

July 4, 226 of the League Calendar.

The second round of the Ten Masters Tournament has begun.

To be precise, this should be the official first round.

The two qualifying matches were just too exciting. In the first match, Xia Chi and Gadalia delivered a battle of wits that could be written into a tactical textbook.

In the second match, Kukui and Karune staged a dramatic comeback with the arrival of a legendary Pokémon, pushing global expectations to their peak. As a result, viewers began to jokingly treat those two qualifying matches as the main tournament of the Masters Tournament.

In short, regardless of the circumstances, with those two qualifying matches setting a high bar, all the audience's expectations for today's match are even higher.

The first battle is between Lance, the Kanto Champion, and Leon, the Galar Champion.

Wataru's strength and popularity are not low. As the double champion of the Kanto Alliance and the Johto Alliance, he is the most proud genius of the Dragon Tamer clan. He has stood at the top of the world for longer than most of the contestants present.

As for Emperor Dan, that goes without saying.

Among the current champions, he is a force to be reckoned with in terms of both strength and popularity, and is poised to compete for second place or even first.

Some say he is the strongest champion in the world, while others bring up Cynthia's all-around achievements to try to make a more objective ranking, but no matter how the ranking is arranged, Leon's name always appears in the top three.

This match was full of highlights.

Ticket prices soared to levels comparable to those during the qualifying rounds before the tournament even started.

The same applies to the entire match.

The two engaged in a full-scale, no-holds-barred battle from the very first encounter with their Pokémon. There was no probing, no holding back; they immediately unleashed Mega Evolution and Crystallization in quick succession.

Leon's Raptor, with its crystallized grass-type Crystal Crown, made its debut. Its drum-like battle cry exploded into a green energy field on the rocky ground, and the beam of crystallized energy pushed Lance's Gyarados to its limit.

Watari's counterattack was equally fierce.

After recalling Gyarados to its Poké Ball, his Dragonite crashed into the battlefield like an orange-gold meteorite.

The situation was initially very close and difficult to resolve.

It must be said that Lance's Dragonite is quite powerful.

After Mega Evolution, it directly defeated two Pokémon, Rumble and Cinderace.

The Thunder King Kong was defeated head-on by a dragon claw, and the Flame Ace's fireball was directly blown away by the dragon's breath in front of it.

The score reached 2-0 at one point, giving viewers in Guandu a long-awaited glimmer of hope.

The screen was flooded with comments like "[Cross! Cross! Cross!]", the legendary Dragon Tamer, the man who was just one step away from standing at the top of the world, was he really going to take revenge in front of the Dan Emperor today?

How can we stop the arrogant Dan in the first round of the main tournament?

Unfortunately, the reason why Dan Di is Dan Di is because his lineup is so solid.

Rumble and Cinderace are more like tools used to probe and deplete the stamina of Mega Dragonite.

Leon had already confirmed the attack patterns and stamina limit of Super Dragonite during the first round of intense battles.

For his third Pokémon, Leon surprisingly dispatched his undisputed strongest trump card, Charizard!

The light from the keystone exploded from the badge on his chest, resonating with the Mega Stone beneath the Charizard's neck.

The azure flames, ablaze with evolutionary light, swept across the entire area like an ignited storm. Black and blue scales grew and hardened within the flames, covering every inch of its exposed skin.

Mega Charizard X clashed head-on with Mega Dragonite's claw in mid-air with a blazing dragon claw, the two giant dragons engaging in close combat above the rocky terrain.

The shockwaves from the clash of dragon-type energies made the audience seats vibrate, and the popcorn buckets held by the front-row audience members were shaken and rolled directly under their seats.

Ultimately, the problem of Dragonite being too exhausted in the first two battles became apparent.

Its dragon claws were striking much slower than when the battle began, and the frequency of each wingbeat was decreasing at a visible rate.

Mega Evolution consumes a huge amount of energy, and the price of defeating two Pokémon in a row is that the duration of this form is greatly reduced.

X-Blast precisely seized the fraction of a second of defensive gap exposed by Dragonite during the aftershock of Dragon Pulse, crossed its claws, and slashed down from top to bottom with azure dragon claw blades.

Dragonite fell from mid-air like a golden meteor with its wings clipped, landing on the rocky ground.

The subsequent match became one-sided.

Besides Dragonite, Lance can summon other Pokémon such as Aerodactyl, Gyarados, and Charizard.

Each one is top-tier in the league, capable of sweeping away most opponents in the regular season, but they are indeed a step behind Leon's Charizard, Dragapult, and Aegislash.

It's not that Du is weak, it's that Dan Di is too stable.

It's worth mentioning that Dan even sent out his newly tamed Jawless Needle Dragon at the end.

This was the first time that an Ultra Beast had appeared in an official competition as a trainer's Pokémon, naturally arousing the curiosity of the entire audience and tens of millions of viewers in the live broadcast room.

How will Ultra Beasts perform on the battlefield?

This question lingered in everyone's minds for several seconds.

The answer was soon revealed.

Although they are new partners, the cooperation between the two shows no signs of unfamiliarity.

To get the dog into sync with its own fighting rhythm, Leon spent almost the entire day yesterday in the training ground, and was even photographed with the lights still on at 3 a.m.

The four-jawed needle dragon's long, purplish-black body charged around the arena like a living missile, its huge venomous needle at the tail constantly firing beams of purple venom.

Dragon Pulse and Venom Slam are released alternately. The combined attack of the Dragon and Venom attributes caught the last Gyarados to enter the field off guard, knocking it over to the edge of the field.

When Gyarados's massive body landed on the rocky ground, the entire area trembled.

The scoreboard showed 6:4.

The score wasn't lopsided, but throughout the match, Dani's performance was so consistent it was almost despairing.

From the moment his third Pokémon, Charizard, appeared, he firmly grasped the initiative throughout the entire match.

Every counterattack that Watari attempted was preemptively countered by him, and every tactical change had a corresponding solution in his repertoire.

In reality, Watari had no chance of winning the match at all.

It wasn't that there was no hope; rather, that hope was left on the field by Dan Di as bait from the very beginning.

When Lance retrieved the last fallen Gyarados, he stood silently on the contestant's bench for a long while.

The camera captured him looking down at the Poké Ball in his hand, a faint, bitter smile on his lips.

Then he put the Poké Ball back into his belt, raised his head and slightly tilted his chin in Leon's direction, as a silent tribute to the opponent who had defeated him.

The audience gave a warm round of applause to the two champions who had delivered a thrilling match.

Standing in the center of the field, Dante raised his right arm to salute the four stands in turn. His cape, under the spotlight, resembled a red sail billowing in the sea breeze.

Lance stood on the other side, not offering a ostentatious greeting like Leon, but simply tucked the Poké Ball back into his waistband and raised his right hand to gently clench his fist towards the area in the stands where the Kanto fans were.

That small area instantly erupted in screams that could drown out the applause from the entire audience.

Amidst the roar of machinery, the battleground, already shattered in the fierce fighting, sank into the ground.

The massive gears and hydraulic arms hummed with a deep, powerful sound as they operated at the bottom of the arena. The rock slabs that had been cleaved deep by the claws of the Mega Dragonite were dismantled into dozens of independent modules by the mechanical arms and slowly and orderly lowered into the maintenance layer at the bottom of the arena.

Immediately afterwards, a brand new venue rose up from underground on the other side.

This means that the next match is about to begin.