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"I don't know him, but he seems to be a contestant too."

"Hehe, what a coincidence, I think I know who he is." Li Yuan chuckled.

"You know all this?" Lin Xuan rolled her eyes at him. Is he really like the all-knowing scholar in novels, someone who specializes in delivering information to the protagonist?

"That's your problem. This guy is pretty famous, because he's very strong."

Upon hearing this, Lin Xuan had no choice but to say something that might drive the combat department teachers at their school crazy.

"Would the strong students come to our school's combat department?"

Although it's not bad, their school's combat department still lags behind the top-tier schools, such as Shanghai University and Beijing University, where most of the best combat students apply.

"It seems that it's because his practical test scores were very high, but his theoretical test scores were surprisingly poor."

Chapter 36 What is the use of the energy ball?

"That's it~"

Lin Xuan nodded. There are indeed people like this, after all, theory and practice are always different, but most people are better at theory than practice, while this guy is the opposite.

"And seeing him here now, he's probably in a similar situation to you, taking care of his opponent in no time. So, are you confident?"

"No~"

Lin Xuan took a sip of cola and said casually.

Li Yuan: ? ? ?

"You're still too young. Does winning or losing really matter? What we're here to do is enjoy the process of the battle. It seems you still have a lot to learn."

Lin Xuan patted Li Yuan on the shoulder and spoke to him earnestly, leaving Li Yuan stunned. When did this guy's cultivation level become so high?

But knowing Lin Xuan as Li Yuan did, and seeing the disdainful look Xiao Dian gave Lin Xuan, he finally realized what was going on.

This guy is just making excuses to avoid losing the game later, right?

Well, Lin Xuan wasn't really confident that he could win. Battle-type trainers are strong, and that guy was an exception with a very high battle score. He estimated that the smaller one's chances of winning weren't very high.

Of course, his indifference wasn't feigned. After all, for students like Zhong Wenxing who specialize in combat sports, a spot in the provincial competition might be very important, but it wouldn't be of much use to him. Even if he were given one, he probably wouldn't have much time to participate.

Losing is losing, but losing face is not an option. Let's intimidate Li Yuan first, so he won't mock us later.

The halftime break passed quickly, and Lin Xuan returned to the battle stage. He casually glanced at the stands and actually saw a few familiar faces.

For example, there's Zhang Beibei, who was completely fooled by him. However, she's not as angry as she was at the beginning, since she can see that Lin Xuan could probably beat her even without resorting to tricks.

But then I thought about it again and felt something was wrong. If you have the ability, why would you use such a trick? Wouldn't that be even more shameless?

Lin Xuan quickly looked away, knowing she couldn't let external factors influence her.

"Lin Xuan, if I remember correctly, you're not from the combat department, right? It's really not easy to keep winning until here, but unfortunately, your winning streak is going to end here."

Xu Yao, the trainer of the Screwpod, said with great confidence, and his confidence was not without reason. According to his previous observations, Lin Xuan's Electabuzz seemed to only use Electric-type moves.

As for skills like acrobatics, they were never shown from beginning to end. He was more inclined to believe that Xiao Dian simply didn't know these skills, otherwise there would be no reason why they hadn't been shown.

If that's the case, his screw-mouse will have a significant advantage.

"Oh~"

Just when he thought Lin Xuan would say something to refute him, Lin Xuan only replied with a very cold word, forcing him to swallow his next words and leaving him at a loss for words.

Lin Xuan summarized a very useful method for dealing with this kind of pre-battle verbal sparring – completely ignore him.

If he's so capable, he can keep talking there; if Lin Xuan says even one word, he'll lose.

However, the effect was also obvious. After seeing Lin Xuan's cold reaction, it was clear that the other party was not a socialite. Talking to himself would not only lower his standing, but also make things rather awkward.

As soon as the referee gave the order, the little dot and the screw mole on the field started their actions almost simultaneously.

Both being rodent Pokémon, Excadrill is even shorter than Splinter before evolving. But don't underestimate it because of that. Although Excadrill is small, it is surprisingly strong, with a base Attack stat of 85.

However, his disadvantages are also obvious: he is not fast, or rather, he is not fast on the ground.

If it were a different opponent, the Screw Mole could rely on its fast underground movement to frequently emerge from the ground and launch surprise attacks, but this trick wouldn't work against the Small One, since it can fly.

Therefore, Xu Yao had already devised a strategy to deal with the electric flying squirrel.

"Throw mud!"

Although it's a ground-type move, as the name suggests, it attacks by throwing mud at the opponent. Even if the opponent is in the air, as long as they're not flying too high, they can basically be hit.

The screw-like gopher's sharp white claws scooped up a handful of dirt from the ground and hurled it toward the small spot, its claws moving incessantly, clearly determined to hit the spot no matter what.

However, this move might work on other Flying-type Pokémon, but trying to use it against Tiny is just ridiculous.

"Get out of the way!" Lin Xuan shouted to Xiao Dian.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

It was obvious that this screw-shaped gopher was not yet proficient in this tactic. Although it threw the screws quickly, its accuracy was poor. The little gopher simply tilted its body slightly a few times to dodge all the attacks.

Xu Yao frowned when he saw this situation. The electric flying squirrel was more agile than he had imagined. He had originally thought that as long as so many mud throws hit him once, the screw squirrel's attacks would keep coming to him thanks to the slowing effect.

"Back off!"

With Xu Yao's command, the Screw Mole ended its Mud Throwing skill and then leaped backward, landing near the corner of the battle arena.

"Sharpen your claws!" And as soon as the screw-mouse landed, he immediately gave the next command.

Sharpening your claws will not only increase your attack power but also your accuracy, making your mud-throwing aim even better.

While Lin Xuan and Xu Yao were fighting, the spectator stands were also quite lively.

"This Screwpod really made good use of its strengths, using Mud Throw to address the weaknesses of speed and Ground-type moves that couldn't hit Emolga, and the accuracy issue could be made up for by Sharp Claws... The tactics were quite reasonable."

After observing Screw Mole's series of actions, Zhou Xu, the teacher in the combat department, nodded with satisfaction.

After all, Excadrill doesn't have much of an advantage against Electabuzz. Although Ground-type Pokémon are immune to Electric-type moves, their small Flying-type attribute makes it difficult for Excadrill to utilize its strengths.

"If this Emolga only knows Electric-type moves and Quick Attack, this match can probably be declared over early."

"How do you know this Emolga doesn't have any other type moves? I remember Emolga can learn Energy Ball."

Teacher Zhang said somewhat unconvinced, "Although I'm not very good at battles, I'm not inferior when it comes to pure knowledge of Pokémon."

Zhou Xu simply shook his head at this. Compared to a layman like Teacher Zhang, he was the real professional trainer and knew the difficulty for Emolga to learn the Energy Ball move.

It's not something a freshman Emolga could easily master. Even an old friend of his had an Emolga with a strength of three stars or higher, but it was only when his strength reached two stars that it learned the Energy Ball skill.

"So, Mr. Zhang, you're not very good at combat. The Energy Ball skill is extremely difficult to learn. What do you think a freshman like you...?"

"But he used it."

"what?"

Zhou Xu opened his eyes wide and looked down at the battle platform. Sure enough, he saw that the Electric Flying Squirrel was kneading an energy ball in its hand, and then it went directly to the Screw Mole's face and pressed the energy ball down.

Ranged skills? Sorry, I just prefer close-range combat!

When Xu Yao saw Xiao Dian use Quick Attack to fly towards the Screw Mole, he was secretly delighted. After all, once he got close, his Screw Mole was not afraid of losing to an Electric Flying Rat.

Although they are all mice, there are still big differences between them.

And just as he was having this thought and let the Screw Mole use its random clawing attack, he saw the green, round thing that Little Dot was rubbing in his hand.

An energy ball?

Energy Ball!!

Xu Yao was stunned on the spot. After all, he had not expected Xiao Dian to have this skill. In his opinion, Xiao Dian could only pull out a flying skill at most.

"Dig a hole!"

Xu Yao, realizing what was happening, immediately spoke to the Screw Mole again, but it was already too late.

Because they were overconfident about getting closer, the two Pokémon are now quite close.

In reality, Lin Xuan was taking advantage of this very thought: You think I don't have any skills to fight you? Well then I'll just go up and give you an energy ball!

The Screw Mole hurriedly bent down and tried to dig a hole to escape, but just as half of its body was inside, Little Dot appeared in front of it and slammed an energy ball into its face.

Even the overly cautious Lin Xuan, worried that one shot wouldn't be enough, had Xiao Dian finish him off. Finishing off is a good habit; those who don't like it usually don't have a good ending.

The referee approached the "half-buried" Screw Mole, hesitated for a moment, and then gave the result of the battle.

"The Screw Mole is unable to fight, so the Electric Flying Squirrel wins!"

Although he was the referee, he was actually a teacher of the combat-type class, so he had some understanding of the difficulty of Emolga learning the Energy Ball move.

Is this a skill that a freshman can use?

And most importantly, Lin Xuan isn't even from their combat team! Just thinking about it makes me feel terrible if Lin Xuan wins the championship in the end.

"Energy Ball? This electric flying squirrel can actually use Energy Ball?"

Zhou Xu, who was in the spectator stands, looked at Lin Xuan's electric flying mouse as if he had seen a ghost. The other teachers on the side were a little puzzled when they saw his expression. It's just a skill, why are you so scared?

And this is supposed to be a combat-oriented teacher?

"Teacher Zhou, it's just an energy ball, why are you making such a fuss?"

Teacher Zhang said casually, his mood was so good that he never expected that one day it would be a good thing for the Evolutionary Department to come and watch the game.

"You know nothing... about jellyfish!"