Chapter 188 College Cup 1st Battle
Starlight City, Bug-type Gym.
Xia Yu and Fatty Wu cursed at each other all the way and finally arrived at the sign-in desk of the Bug-type Gym.
Xia Yu's appearance caused a stir in the crowd. Although his fame was not a household name, he was well-known in Xingguang City.
After passing through the crowded crowd, Xia Yu finally arrived at the sign-in desk. There, he met many acquaintances, including Zhao Ruohan, whom he had not seen for a long time.
Xia Yu was not surprised that Zhao Ruohan was participating in the competition, because when he talked to his father and brother on the phone, he would occasionally hear some information about Zhao Ruohan from them.
They said she was making rapid progress and praised her for her talent. It can be seen that both her father and brother like Zhao Ruohan very much.
Zhao Ruohan stood in front of the sign-in desk, graceful and elegant. Her unique temperament and exquisite facial features made her stand out in the crowd.
"Long time no see." Xia Yu waved to Zhao Ruohan. After not seeing her for a long time, Xia Yu found that Zhao Ruohan was getting more and more beautiful, and greeted her with a smile.
"Long time no see." Zhao Ruohan's voice was very gentle, and her eyes fell on Xia Yu.
The two simply greeted each other and passed each other.
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A random draw will be conducted at the same time as signing in.
Xia Yu drew number 135 in the upper half, while Fatty Wu drew number in the lower half. Seeing the result, Fatty Wu breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, he was not assigned to the same half as Xia Yu.
He just talked big, and although he never said he was afraid of Xia Yu, if a real fight came, he felt that his Pokémon would definitely not be a match for Xia Yu's Lizard King.
"Fatty Wu, are you relieved to see that I'm not in the same zone with you?" Xia Yu teased Fatty Wu with a smile.
With Fatty Wu's personality, it was impossible for him to admit it. Fatty Wu was not afraid at all at this time. He turned to Xia Yu and said, "Would I be afraid of you? You are lucky that you were not drawn in the same half zone as me this time. Otherwise, the semi-finals would be your destination."
"How about we practice now?"
"Forget it. I don't want to fight you. You're too weak."
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The two of them left the Bug-type gym while arguing. Fatty Wu was going home to prepare for tomorrow's game. Although he said he was fearless, he still had a clear understanding of his own strength. He went home to study the next opponent and make adequate preparations.
Xia Yu also returned home.
Walking into the bedroom, Xia Yu gently closed the door and opened the drawer. Inside was an exquisite gift box. Teacher Long's birthday was in a few days. Teacher Long had given so much for him, and this was a birthday gift Xia Yu specially prepared for Teacher Long.
An exquisite hairpin, inlaid with an evolution key stone and a Mega Pidgeot evolution stone.
Xia Yu had two evolution key stones in his hand. He originally wanted to give this evolution key stone and Mega Houndoom evolution stone to his brother, but after careful consideration, he decided to give this evolution key stone to Teacher Long.
On the one hand, he wanted to express his feelings, and on the other hand, he also hoped to take this opportunity to let Long Yanning secretly help him collect these two kinds of stones. Xia Yu found that the progress was too slow if he collected them by himself.
There is not a single evolution stone for Mega Dragon and Mega Charizard. If there is help from the Dragon family, the progress of collecting stones will definitely be greatly accelerated.
And now that he has the Pokémon Iron Warrior, Xia Yu’s confidence is overflowing.
These two stones are both birthday gifts for Long Yanning and also serve as reference objects for Long Yanning.
Xia Yu rewrapped the hairpin and placed it in a gift box, then called the courier to pick it up. He originally wanted to hand it over to Teacher Long in person, but because of the competition, he had to stay in Xingguang City and had to let the courier deliver it.
After the courier left, Xia Yu returned to the bedroom, sat on a chair, and sorted out his gains of the month.
First of all, because he had captured four new Pokémon, the attributes of the Pokémon he collected increased from five attributes, Dragon, Flying, Fire, Grass, and Ghost, to ten attributes, Dragon, Flying, Fire, Grass, Ghost, Fighting, Fairy, Psychic, Normal, and Poison, and he got the Taijingzhu, the first stage reward for the mission "Master of All Attributes".
The second is the recent post about purchasing stones. He obtained three mega evolution stones, the mega Kog'Maw evolution stone, the mega Lucario evolution stone, and the mega Swampert evolution stone. However, he still did not have the mega Charizard evolution stone that Xia Yu had been thinking about, which made Xia Yu feel a little regretful.
Finally, the reward from the last Dream Secret Realm gave Xia Yu three high-quality treasure chests. The guaranteed rewards were all A-level items. Xia Yu opened the first treasure chest with a qualification reward, which improved the qualifications of the Pokémon with the lowest qualifications and raised the qualifications of Fennekin to the quasi-champion level.
The second treasure chest opened an S-level item, the Earth Membrane. When the Pokémon carries it and unfolds the field, its duration will increase. Naturally, Xia Yu gave the Earth Membrane to Ai Guan Shi to carry.
The third treasure chest opened a King-level Charmeleon egg. Seeing that it was another fire-type Pokémon, Xia Yu was quite troubled. He already had two fire-type Pokémon, and if he had more, he would have to become a fire-type trainer.
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The next day, the College Cup officially started.
A nationwide craze swept the country, and major media outlets rushed to report on the event. The front-page headlines were all about strong favorites to win the championship, such as Su Muzhi, Xiang Hanli, Chen Yuze, and so on.
Compared to those big cities, the small city of Xingguang City has not attracted much attention. Even though Xia Yu showed strong strength in the battle with Li Miao, he was only at the lord level.
Starting from a few years ago, the players who won the College Cup had to have Pokémon that were at least gym leader-level. Compared with this, Xia Yu was far behind.
Soon Xia Yu had his first match, against a little girl who seemed to be from another school.
"Contestant No. 135 Xia Yu versus Contestant No. 136 Xue Qin, 2v2 singles, the match begins!"
"Go, Charizard!"
"Go, Longlong Rock!"
Since it was the first game, Xia Yu naturally treated it with full concentration and paid 100% attention.
"Charizard, sunny day!"
The weather today is not good, so Xia Yu first let Charizard create a sunny day and activate the solar power feature.
"Rumble Rock, Rockfall!"
The opposing player named Xue Qin obviously had some combat experience and knew to let Rhydon use rock-type skills to quadruple the power of Charizard.
The idea is beautiful, but the reality is cruel. The elite-level Rhydon faces the top-level lord-level Charizard. It is difficult for the falling rocks skill to hit Charizard. Even if it throws the rocks with all its strength, it can still be easily avoided by Charizard flying in the air.
After dodging the falling rocks, a fire energy ball flew out of Charizard's body and went straight into the air, immediately dispersing the dark clouds in the sky. The sun shone directly on the earth, illuminating the entire venue, and the sky cleared up in the blink of an eye.
"Charizard, Solar Beam!" (aka Solar Blaze)
"Roar!"
On a sunny day, Charizard's Solar Power characteristic is activated, and the charging time of Solar Beam is greatly shortened. Grass-type energy begins to gather on Charizard at a speed visible to the naked eye, and in the blink of an eye, the energy of Solar Beam has been fully gathered.
Then a bright beam of fluorescent green grass-type light suddenly erupted and slammed into Rhydon, instantly knocking it away and out of the venue.
"Rhydon loses his ability to fight, Xia Yu wins the first round."
