Pokémon: Master System.

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The battle between Gigantamax Centiskorps and Gigantamax Charizard has reached a fever pitch.

Gigantamax Charizard flapped its wings, hovered in the air, and once again unleashed its primal power to attack Gigantamax Centiskorps.

A surge of rock-type energy descended from the sky, emitting a dazzling light as it blasted towards the giant Flame Centipede.

"boom!"

The Gigantamax Flame Centipede, covered in wounds, let out a roar, and its entire body erupted with astonishing Dark-type energy.

Giant Bully!

When the two moves collided, the power of Dynamax Dark Tyrant was clearly superior to that of Ancient Power. The Dark-type energy shattered the Rock-type energy, soaring into the sky and striking Gigantamax Charizard, causing some damage.

Although the giant flame centipede had a slight advantage in this move, it now looks to be in very poor condition.

Its body was covered in wounds, and it was already seriously injured. At the same time, its physical strength was also greatly depleted, and it was clearly at its limit.

It is now impossible for it to defeat a Gigantamax Charizard that has only suffered minor injuries!

Gigantamax Centiskorps was panting heavily, its long body heaving violently, its fierce eyes fixed on Gigantamax Charizard, and it let out an angry roar.

Even when it had reached its limit, it showed no sign of weakness!

It is the king of lava, and even if Gigantamax Charizard and Gigantamax Cinderace attack it together, it will never admit defeat!

At the same time, a blue light flashed across the sky, and a strong wind swept by. Xia Yu had already captured the Gigantamax Cinderace and was riding Metagross back quickly, landing beside Jiang Yu.

"So fast?" Jiang Yu glanced at Xia Yu. Even though Gigantamax Cinderace was seriously injured, it couldn't have been this fast.

"Hmm." Xia Yu nodded. He glanced at the situation and realized that the Gigantamax Flame Centipede was almost at its limit. "It's time to make a move."

"Have you decided which Pokémon you want?" Xia Yu asked Jiang Yu.

After thinking for a moment, Jiang Yu made a difficult choice: "Charizard".

Undoubtedly, he greatly admires Gigantamax Centisk's terrifying strength and tenacious character, but what he needs most right now is Gigantamax Charizard's unique ability to fly.

“Alright.” Xia Yu nodded. “In that case, you go deal with Charizard. After all, if you want it to obey your commands quickly, you need to show some strength and gain its respect. I’ll go and subdue Centipede first.”

"Hmm." Jiang Yu nodded, then turned to look at the Gigantamax Charizard, his eyes flashing!

Is this my own Gigantamax Pokémon?

Looking at the Charizard that resembled a world-destroying fire dragon, Jiang Yu felt a surge of anticipation and commanded his two Pokémon, "Ursa! Rock Slide!"

"Thornet, Ice Pillar Slam!"

Jiang Yu's two Pokémon launched an attack simultaneously, with Ursaring naturally using a Rock-type move that was four times stronger than Charizard.

Rock energy surged forth, forming countless fragments of rock that hurtled towards the Gigantamax Charizard!

At the same time, the Styracosaurus unleashed ice-type energy, forming a huge ice pillar in front of it, which blasted towards the Gigantamax Charizard.

Faced with the sudden attack of the two Pokémon, Gigantamax Charizard turned its head, flames gathering in its mouth, and then unleashed its fire.

"Spray flames!"

At the same time, Xia Yu also made his move, releasing Gigantamax Lapras.

A chilling aura swept in, creating a stark contrast with the scorching heat of the volcanic landscape.

The Super Giant Laplace appears, and the scorching, dry environment makes it somewhat uncomfortable.

Meanwhile, Gigantamax Charizard and Gigantamax Centiskorps also looked on in surprise at the sudden appearance of Gigantamax Lapras. They clearly hadn't expected a Gigantamax Pokémon to appear here.

"Laplace! Absolute Zero!"

Xia Yu's voice rang out, and a chilling aura erupted, white mist filled the air, and ice and fire intertwined.

Even without any advantage in terms of terrain, Gigantamax Laplace still demonstrated his immense power, with chilling energy spreading outwards like locusts in a swarm!

Everything along its path was frozen solid, and the surging cold air rushed toward the gigantic Flame Centipede, as if an invisible hand was swallowing it up, extinguishing the scorching flames.

The Gigantamax Centisk, whose stamina was already at its limit, was powerless to resist the corrosive cold from Gigantamax Lapras. It was slowly devoured and frozen from its tail into a sculpture.

The cold air continued to rage, freezing the entire crater.

The snow was falling heavily, just like the dead of winter.

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Seeing the Gigantamax Centiskorps frozen into an ice sculpture, Xia Yu immediately threw out a Gigantamax Poké Ball and captured it.

With this, only Gigantamax Charizard remains of the three Fire-type Gigantamax Pokémon.

Xia Yu stood at a distance, his gaze fixed on the Gigantamax Charizard in the distance.

"No need to help me!" Jiang Yu noticed that Xia Yu had already dealt with the Gigantamax Centipede, so he quickly turned to Xia Yu and shouted, "Boss, I can handle this myself. If there's any real danger, then you can help."

“Hmm.” Xia Yu nodded. He knew what Jiang Yu meant, of course: “Laplace, no rush.”

“Hoo.” Super Giant Laplace responded softly.

"Circle Bear, continuous rockfalls!"

"Thornet, Greatsword Assault!"

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Chapter 561 Returning to the Gold Market

Siam, Gold City.

Jiang Chengen's face was gloomy, and as he listened to his subordinates' report, his expression grew even more unpleasant.

"Mr. Jiang, we don't know where they got their information from. Since yesterday, all our stores in the city have been attacked, and our people are attacked whenever they leave the city. Their whereabouts are unknown."

Jiang Chengen's eyebrows furrowed into a deep frown as he looked out the window, remaining silent.

Starting the day before yesterday, the owners of several other gray-market businesses in Gold City, besides Paradise Group, heard from somewhere that the Jiang family's Paradise Group was preparing to swallow up all the gray-market businesses in Gold City.

Regardless of the veracity of the news, several other factions have engaged in fierce conflicts with the Paradise Group.

After all, as the saying goes, cutting off someone's money is like killing their parents, especially when it's such a big business. This led to attacks on all of Paradise Group's shops and properties starting yesterday, including Tianyu Hospital, whose doors and windows were all smashed.

Jiang Chengen stood up, took a deep breath, and said coldly, "Who else could it be? Only three parties know this news: us, the Xie family, and Som. We naturally wouldn't want to cause trouble for ourselves, so the mastermind behind this is either the Xie family or Som."

"They're trying to intimidate us. They've sent some low-level scouts to test the waters and see what our limits are."

Jiang Chengen saw through the mastermind at a glance.

It was obvious that Xie Shuen or Som were dissatisfied with Sakaki's tough stance, but at the time, they were intimidated by Sakaki's powerful influence and dared not openly oppose him. They could only resort to such underhanded means to leak the information and have their subordinates cause trouble for the Paradise Group.

"When will A-Yu be back?" Jiang Chengen asked.

The most urgent task right now is to have a powerful person in charge to keep things in order so that a counterattack can be launched.

"tomorrow."

“Okay. I understand…” Jiang Chengen nodded.

"boom!"

Just then, with a crisp sound, the window in front of Jiang Chengen was smashed by the fireball. Flying glass shards flew everywhere, and some of them even pierced Jiang Chengen's face, cutting a gash and causing blood to flow freely.

"Boss Jiang!"

"It's nothing." The wound on his face stung painfully, but Jiang Chengen endured the pain without showing any expression.

He silently walked to the window and looked into the distance.

In the darkness, a figure and a fiery red silhouette stood out. The person looked at Jiang Chengen who appeared by the window, made a throat-slitting gesture, and then turned to leave. Before leaving, the person also had the fire-type Pokémon next to him throw another fireball at Jiang Chengen!

"Watch out!" The middle-aged man next to Jiang Chengen released a Blastoise to block the attack for Jiang Chengen.

"They've gone too far," the middle-aged man said in a deep voice, looking at the figures outside the window.

"Money can be a powerful motivator. If you threaten someone's livelihood, you should be prepared for a fight to the death." Jiang Chengen squatted down, picked through the glass on the ground, and selected a satisfactory shard: "Please keep this piece of glass safe for me and carry it with me."

"Mr. Jiang..."

"Also, inform everyone not to go out unless absolutely necessary," Jiang Chengen said coldly. "And call the police while you're at it."

After Jiang Chengen finished speaking, he picked up the phone and called Xie Shuen and Suo Mu respectively. He wanted to see their reactions so as to determine who the real mastermind was.

Xie Shuen? Som? Or both of them?

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Gold market.

Xie Shuen sat in his study, staring blankly at the bright red wine on the table.

The entire Gold City is home to five major gray industries: gambling fraud, money laundering, organ trafficking, human trafficking, and Pokémon smuggling. In addition, there are database resale, hacking, doxing, professional killers, and so on.

Som controls the two gray industries of gambling and fraud, the Xie family controls human trafficking and Pokémon smuggling, and the Jiang family's Paradise Group only controls the gray industry of organ trafficking.

When Giovanni proposed to take over all the gray industries, Som and Xie Shuen were naturally unwilling, but intimidated by Giovanni's terrifying strength, they had no choice but to agree!

Now that Sakaki has left, they naturally have other ideas in mind.

Although they couldn't openly oppose Sakaki, they could incite their subordinates to take action. They only needed to leak a little information, and their underlings who made a living through shady dealings would naturally fight Paradise Group to the death, without them having to show their faces.

Whether Paradise Group has the capability to take over all the gray industries remains to be seen.