Pokémon: Master System.

I'm messing around with a freshman.

On the contrary, as long as Xia Yu shows his style, he can be considered to have won.

Thinking of this, Wu Chongwen's gaze fell on Xia Yu, and he said coldly, "Xia Yu!"

As soon as Wu Chongwen's voice rang out, the previously restless audience immediately fell silent.

“I won’t let you off easy.” Wu Chongwen seemed to be implying something: “A competition is never child’s play. As a trainer, once you stand on the battlefield, there is no turning back.”

"So I will use all my strength, and you can use Mega Evolution at will. Let me see if your title as the High School Cup champion is just for show."

Hearing Wu Chongwen's words, Xia Yu smiled indifferently, his gaze falling on Wu Chongwen: "Alright. You must show me your full strength and let me see... whether your title as a Champion-level trainer is just an empty name."

Xia Yu's words instantly caused a stir; no one had expected Xia Yu to be so arrogant.

Given Wu Chongwen's status and strength, what kind of strength do you, Xia Yu, possess to say such things?

Faced with Xia Yu's retort, Wu Chongwen's face grew increasingly gloomy and ugly, his eyes lowered: "Fine, these young people these days don't have much strength, but they have quite the temper. Come on, let me see just how much strength you really have."

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"This is a 1v1 no-holds-barred match. You may use any items, but trading Pokémon is prohibited. The match... begins!"

As soon as the word "start" was uttered and the whistle blew, the referee immediately waved his referee flag, announcing the official start of the match.

Xia Yu and Wu Chongwen simultaneously took out their Poké Balls and threw them out.

"Go, Tomb Raider!"

Having decided to defeat Xia Yu with overwhelming strength, Wu Chongwen naturally sent out his most confident ace Pokémon, Graveyardyan.

Graveyard, as a pure Ghost-type Pokémon, has excellent abilities. Although its speed is not high, it has the powerful Sand Rush ability to make up for its speed deficiency.

It also possesses an extremely powerful skill: tomb sweeping.

The Grave Sweeping skill is an extremely powerful skill. Initially, its power is only 50, but in battle, the power of Grave Sweeping will increase by 50 for every teammate who loses their combat ability! For this reason, Grave Sweeping Dog is always used as the final trump card in battles.

However, this skill is actually not very useful in one-on-one combat. Wu Chongwen sending it out is equivalent to giving away a skill for nothing.

Although he knew the skill didn't exist, Wu Chongwen was still willing to believe in the Tomb Raider.

Even if he loses a tomb-sweeping skill, Wu Chongwen is confident that he can easily defeat Xia Yu.

"Go, Dorombalto!"

Xia Yu then released Dorambaruto, whose coiled body floated in the air, its golden head gleaming in the light, its cold gaze fixed on the Tomb Raider.

"Shiny Draco Balto!"

"Xia Yu's Dragapult has evolved into Dragapult."

"It's only been a little over two months, and it's evolved so quickly. Could it be that it overdraws its potential and forces an evolution?"

"You don't know anything. It's possible that Xia Yu's Duolongqi had been accumulating energy for a long time during the College Cup finals, and now it's finally coming to fruition."

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The audience was abuzz with discussion as they watched Dorombalto make his appearance.

Two months ago, during the finals, Dragapult had not yet evolved into Dragapult. Unexpectedly, just two months later, Dragapult has already evolved into Dragapult.

It's important to know that under normal circumstances, Dragapult needs to have near-Elite Four level strength to evolve into Dragapult.

Unless, as the audience just said, Xia Yu overdraws Doraki's potential, causing it to evolve prematurely at the Gym Leader level.

With Xia Yu's strength and financial resources, there is absolutely no reason for him to overdraw on Draco's potential in a one-on-one fight. Therefore, this Draco definitely has the strength of a near-Champion level!

Thinking about it this way, Xia Yu actually has a Pokémon with near-Elite Four level strength, and it's even a pseudo-legendary Pokémon that has evolved to its final form, all while he's only a freshman in college?!

With just this Dragapult, Xia Yu can put on a dominant performance among his peers!

He even had a chance to compete with some Pokémon that had just reached the Champion level, but unfortunately, Xia Yu's opponent in this match was Wu Chongwen, whose Graveyard Dog had the strength of a peak Champion.

If it weren't for the limitations imposed by qualifications, Wu Chongwen's Tomb Raider dog could very well have broken through to the near-champion level.

Even though Xia Yu possessed the near-Elite Four level strength of Dralongaruto, the audience still didn't have high hopes for him against the peak Elite Four level Tomb Raider.

After all, starting from the near-Elite Four level, the difference in strength between each level is enormous, and very few Pokémon can defeat opponents across levels.

Even top players like Duan Hongzhi and Long Fan, who have already grown into Elite Four members or champions, only defeated Pokémon that had just entered the Elite Four level when they were young, using Pokémon with near-Elite Four level peak strength.

As for defeating a Pokémon at the peak of the Elite Four level, such a genius only appears once every few decades.

The last time such a genius appeared was more than 30 years ago, with a trainer who had countless Elite Four members and champions vying to take him on as a disciple.

Unfortunately, that genius died twenty years ago.

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Chapter 466 Advanced Will-o'-the-Wisp

Ghost-type Gym.

Even though it was late at night, the number of people pouring into the battlefield continued to increase.

People always enjoy watching a spectacle and a joke. In many people's eyes, what else could Xia Yu's challenge to Wu Chongwen be but a joke?

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On the battlefield, the Tomb Dog with a tombstone on its head looks terrifying. Its long, gray-white fur covers its eyes, adding to its eeriness.

If you were walking alone at night and encountered a Pokémon like Graveyard, you'd probably be scared half to death.

As a Ghost-type Pokémon, Graveyard Dog exudes an eerie aura, and the Ghost-type energy it emits brings an aura of death.

"Grave Hound, Shadow Sneak Attack!" Wu Chongwen's voice rang out first.

Although he had absolute confidence in the strength of the Tomb Raider, the near-Champion-level Draco still put some pressure on him, and he had to finish the battle quickly!

As Wu Chongwen's voice fell, a dark purple ghost-type energy erupted from the Tomb Raider like a surging ocean, showcasing its peak King-level strength to the fullest.

In just a moment, its dark shadow stretched out like a ghost, carrying a massive amount of ghost-type energy, and traversed the ground, surging towards Dralongaruto.

As a priority move, Shadow Sneak is extremely fast. The shadow, enveloped in dark purple Ghost-type energy, is like a black spear that thrusts straight at Dragapult.

"Fly, Dralongaruto!" Faced with the Graveyard Dog's attack, Xia Yu calmly commanded Dralongaruto.

Upon hearing Xia Yu's command, Dorambaruto floated into the air, using its aerial advantage to dodge the shadow attack from the Graveyard Dog.

While the Shadow Strike skill is extremely fast, it also has a drawback: it can only launch attacks using a shadow.

Shadows can only move close to the ground, making it difficult to hit enemies in the air.

Therefore, once the enemy is in the air, the hit rate of shadow attacks will be greatly reduced.

Dorombalto flew into the air and immediately increased the distance between itself and the Graveyard Dog, its vertical pupils fixed on the Graveyard Dog.

"Dragon Dance, Doronbaluto!"

Facing the Ghost-type Graveyard Hound, Xia Yu didn't rush to attack, but instead had Dragapult use the Dragon Dance move first.

Dragon-type energy enveloped Dragapult's body, amplifying its speed and attack power.

With its near-Elite Four level strength, Draco's ability to defeat the Elite Four level peak Tomb Raider is absolutely insufficient on its own. Only by relying on various transformation skills and constantly strengthening itself to make up for the gap in strength can it have a sliver of a chance.

Wu Chongwen also saw through Xia Yu's plan, and naturally he could not give Dorambaruto the opportunity to strengthen.

"Graveyard Dog, Will-o'-the-Wisp!"

"boom!"

The eerie purple will-o'-the-wisps suddenly burst into bloom in the air, instantly illuminating the entire night sky, like countless blooming flowers, densely covering the sky!

"Roar!"

The Tomb Raider let out a low growl, and the hundreds of will-o'-the-wisps floating in the sky seemed to receive a command, spinning and merging together.

The will-o'-the-wisps gathered and merged, instantly transforming into a giant fireball, which then turned into a burning ghost face with flaming horns, seemingly smiling, and rushed towards Dorambaruto.

"boom!"

Normally, the Will-o'-the-Wisp skill should not cause any damage; it should only burn the enemy, leaving them with a burn status.

However, at this moment, the Will-o'-the-Wisp skill unleashed by Tomb Raider had completely transformed into an offensive skill, and the scene before Xia Yu made him frown.

It's obvious that the Will-O-Wisp skill that Tomb Raider used at this moment was a higher-level, advanced version, just like Beedrill's Spinning Swords Dance to dodge skills and Noivern's Sonic Taunt.

In addition to the original skill effects, it will also have additional effects.

This requires the Pokémon to have a very high level of proficiency and understanding of the moves themselves, as well as a bit of luck and, most importantly, talent.

Trainers who can develop additional effects for their skills are undoubtedly geniuses, but what this world has no shortage of are geniuses.

Which of those trainers who can reach the Elite Four level isn't a genius?

Seeing the "Will-o'-the-Wisp" skill used by the Tomb Raider, Xia Yu naturally dared not let Draco take the hit head-on, nor did he dare let Draco use the Dragon Dance spinning technique to dodge the skill.

If it were a normal Will-o'-the-Wisp skill, Xia Yu would dare to have Draco use Dragon Dance to dodge it, but it was clear that the Will-o'-the-Wisp skill released by Graveyard Dog would likely devour Draco, and Xia Yu dared not gamble.

In this kind of 1v1 match, there is no room for error; he has to be very careful.

"Dragonball, Dragon Pulse!"

In that instant, Xia Yu made a decision, ordering Draco to use Dragon Pulse to try and block Graveyard Dog's Will-o'-the-Wisp attack!

Draco's gaze was cold, but indigo dragon energy began to surge from his body. The pure dragon energy enveloped Draco's body and flew out as a dragon-type shockwave, colliding head-on with the "Will-o'-the-Wisp" move.