Elves: Angler's Rainy Day Team

One week later...

Yu Hai traveled leisurely, giving the Orange Alliance ample time to prepare. They spent a week playing on the road before finally arriving at Orange Island.

Xiao Ying was already waiting for him at the port. Only a few league executives knew about his path to the championship.

The details of his challenges are usually not released directly. Instead, they are first shown to the alliance's top leaders before any decision is made on whether to release them to the public.

If he eventually becomes the champion, the video of his championship challenge will be released without any hindrance, allowing the public to understand how he achieved his goal.

"Brother Hai, the road to the championship requires you to fight five people in a row, and you can't change your Pokémon. Are you ready?" Xiao Ying asked Brother Hai with some concern as he started the car.

"Don't worry, just don't hold back, lest outsiders gossip," Yu Hai gently patted Xiao Ying. The reason he delayed coming for a week was to give Xiao Ying and the others some time to prepare.

After all, there is a significant gap between a king and a champion, and the battle will be overwhelming, with no one able to stop him.

He finally understood why, when he watched the anime in his previous life, the Champion Road in the Kanto region was repeatedly defeated by Blue and Red. It turned out that the difference in strength was too great, and the Elite Four couldn't even slow down the challengers.

"I won't hold back. I've been waiting for this day for a long time," Xiao Ying smiled. The stronger Brother Hai was, the happier he was. Brother Hai was the goal he was constantly striving to reach!

The two remained silent the entire way, everything understood without words. The car soon arrived at Citrus Stadium. Since the Orange Islands had just established the Champion System and were currently engaged in a war to eliminate Team Rocket, the Challenge Arena for the Champion Road had not yet been built, so they had to use Citrus Stadium for the challenge.

The Citrus Sports Field has been sealed off. Apart from Xiaoying who brought Yuhai over, there are only the Four Heavenly Kings and the champion, as well as Champion Kikuko and several photographers inside the venue, who are responsible for filming the entire challenge process of the champion's journey.

"He's here," Xiao Dan said from the stands, seeing Yu Hai walk out of the players' tunnel. She couldn't help but feel a little worried about Yu Hai's boldness.

Since the Orange League's championship system was established, Yu Hai is the first trainer to challenge the Orange League Championship Road. He is eager to know if Yu Hai is exaggerating or if he can really beat the Championship Road.

"What's this kid up to?" Yuji was the most helpless. He didn't take today's challenge seriously. This kid, who couldn't beat him a few years ago, actually wants to challenge the Road to the Champion today. He really doesn't know what this kid is thinking. Even Madman didn't try to persuade him.

"Ah Hai?" Xiao Qian looked at Yu Hai. Her grandmother asked her to return to Kanto to become one of the Four Heavenly Kings, and she had no objections. She could also visit the dojo more often.

At first, she was happy for Yu Hai when she heard that he was going to fill in, but she didn't expect him to refuse. In the end, he even proposed to challenge the championship path. Could it be because of the previous undercover incident that he doesn't trust the league?

"This kid is really interesting." Kikuko received a call from Atsumi's grandfather and heard Yukai refuse to fill the spot among the Four Heavenly Kings again, and even make the outrageous statement that he would challenge the Road to the Championship. She thought he was just young and arrogant, just talking nonsense.

After all, even if the opponent has near-champion level strength, he still had to fight four Elite Four members before finally reaching Yuji. In a disadvantageous situation, few trainers can defeat Yuji, who is of the same level.

This is thanks to the Champion Road challenge system, where each of the Elite Four has their own challenge and can send out three Pokémon to defend it, and this system remains the same until the Champion.

Challengers can only use six Pokémon, and Pokémon that have already appeared cannot be sent out again. Challengers should send out only one Pokémon per round, and leave two Pokémon in the last round to deal with the champion's three Pokémon.

This means that challengers need to use six Pokémon to defeat the Elite Four and the Champion's fifteen Pokémon in order to successfully complete the Path to the Champion.

This was the most difficult challenge set at the very beginning of the League's establishment, and very few trainers have been able to pass it.

Apart from the Orange Islands, where the new championship system was established and Yuji directly succeeded as champion, champions in other regions also need to complete the Championship Road before taking over as champion.

It's just that the difficulty is too high, and very few trainers can pass it. In many places, trainers who are on good terms with you will go easy on you.

This has led to the current league champions being weaker than the champions who fought their way through before. The same applies to her; if the four kings and the champions blocking her way don't hold back, it will be very difficult for her to succeed in the challenge.

She couldn't help but look at her granddaughter Xiaoqian, Xiaoying who came with Yuhai, Yongci who had a good relationship with Yuhai's father-in-law, Xiaodan, and Ayi.

These four Heavenly Kings and champions blocking the way are basically all acquaintances of Yu Hai, and some are even relatives. It's just unknown whether they will go easy on Yu Hai and let him pass the championship path.

“First hurdle, A-Yi,” Yuji withdrew his gaze and turned to look at A-Yi beside him. A-Yi, who joined the Four Heavenly Kings the latest, would guard the first hurdle on the road to the championship.

“Received,” A-Yi said helplessly as he got up. They had already discussed the order of appearance, but since he was the least experienced, he could only test Yu-Hai first.

Seeing the two standing on the battlefield, Yuji also came to the middle of the battlefield and explained the rules of the championship path. He believed that Yuhai had already learned about them before he came.

"The format of the Champion's Road is one against three, with the defending side having three Pokémon and the attacking side having one. Both sides can use one Mega Evolution. The defending side releases their Pokémon first, and the attacking side can use a maximum of six Pokémon. The attacking side can switch Pokémon, and the switched-out Pokémon cannot be used again. The side whose Pokémon is unable to battle loses..."

"Understood," Yu Hai nodded gently. He had already understood the competition rules, which were extremely disadvantageous to the challengers.

Since you can't change your Pokémon, you can only use six Pokémon and you have to defeat fifteen Pokémon. The only advantage for the attacker is that they have the advantage of being able to make a move later, depending on which three Pokémon the defender will send out.

These three Pokémon can't be used randomly. For example, A-Yi is the Water-type Elite Four member, so he can only release Water-type Pokémon, not Pokémon of other types.

"Go, Swampert, Blastoise, Gyarados." Ayi threw out three Water-type Pokémon in succession. The auras emanating from the three Pokémon were extremely strong. Judging from their auras alone, they were all senior Elite Four level Pokémon, which were quite powerful among the Elite Four.

Trainers who occupy the Elite Four positions are not weaklings who are just starting out as Elite Four members; they are all veteran Elite Four trainers.

If it were the previous Kanto Elite Four – Lance, Lorelei, and Kikuko – they would all be considered near-champion level. Faced with such a path to the championship, challengers who lack the strength would know what despair truly means.

Facing these three Water-type Pokémon, Yu Hai had to send out only Electric-type and Grass-type Pokémon. He also had to fight three against one, so not only did his Pokémon need to be strong, but he also needed to have a type advantage.

So he decided to send this guy out, took out a Poké Ball, threw it out, and shouted, "Go, Electivire..."

"Tsk, it really is this Pokémon," A-Yi clicked his tongue helplessly. He knew that Yu Hai had two very powerful Electric-type Pokémon, Zapdos and Electivire.

When facing a Water-type opponent, the opponent would either send out Zapdos or Electivire. The Swampert he sent out was specifically to guard against the opponent's Electric-type Pokémon.

I initially thought it would be Zapdos, since there were rumors that Zapdos was a near-champion-level Pokémon. Now it seems that the opponent has another near-champion-level Electivire.

"Goodness, a near-champion level? When did Electivire break through?" Yuji was somewhat surprised. If Yu Hai was taking out a near-champion level Pokémon now, it meant that the opponent had a lot of near-champion level Pokémon, otherwise he wouldn't have wasted them here.

After all, he was a near-champion level trainer, and the other party couldn't possibly not know that. Since the other party knew this, there was only one possibility left: the other party had six near-champion level Pokémon.

"The challenge begins," Yuji said, suppressing his excitement and acting as referee. Seeing that both sides were ready, he immediately announced the start of the match.

"Electric Beast, Electric Terrain, Thunderbolt," Yu Hai planned to strike first and seize the advantage of terrain, otherwise that Swampert would be difficult to deal with.

"Swampang, go ahead and block the lightning, use Earthquake..." A-Yi waved his hand, sending the lightning-resistant Swampang forward. Then he shouted to the remaining two Pokémon, "Blastoise, use Rock Totem to distract it, Gyarados, attack with Hyper Beam..."

"Three attacks at once, three strikes in a row!" Yu Hai laughed as he looked at the three attacks coming at him simultaneously. He had originally wanted to play around with the opponent, but then thought better of it and shouted to the Electabuzz, "Lightning Summon..."

"Roar!" Electivire roared, and the sky was instantly covered by dark clouds. Then, lightning struck down on the battlefield. Some lightning struck the open ground, some struck the three Pokémon, and most struck Electivire.

As lightning triggered the electric engine's properties, Electivire, its body crackling with violent lightning, charged towards Swampert at a speed enhanced to level six.

Faced with the earthquake waves, Electivire leaped high into the air; faced with rocks blocking its path, Electivire raised its fist and smashed them; faced with Gyarados's Hyper Beam, Electivire also slammed down with a punch.

Facing several attacks, Electivire smashed them all with its fists, then punched Gyarados in the face, knocking it to the ground unconscious.

"How is this possible? It's so fast! Wasn't it supposed to be attacking Swampert?" A-Yi was shocked to see Gyarados unconscious. He had thought Electivire would attack the most threatening Swampert, but it turned out to be attacking Gyarados instead.

Gyarados has a 4x stronger boss. With Electivire's current explosive power, it's not difficult to KO Gyarados with one punch. Once you get rid of the stunned Gyarados, it will be much easier to fight two opponents at once.

"Electivire, continue attacking Blastoise..."

"Oh no, Blastoise, use a Gyro Ball to dodge..."

"Electivire, grab Swampert," Yu Hai smiled, finally revealing his true intentions. The opponent was afraid that Electivire would use the same trick again, grabbing Blastoise for another KO, but Blastoise actually dodged it.

Now it's a perfect one-on-one situation. The opponent has created a one-on-one opportunity for Electrify, so how could he possibly not seize it?

"It's over," A-Yi saw Electivire suddenly change target, the lightning flashing on its fist had long since disappeared, and it collided with Swampert's fist.

boom--

A mushroom cloud rose instantly, the earth crumbled inch by inch, and the shockwave spread rapidly. Unfortunately, it was blocked by an energy barrier at the edge of the battlefield and could not spread any further. Everyone outside the arena was unaffected.

"Roar!" Electivire roared, the roar instantly dispersing the dust and revealing Swampert lying unconscious on the ground, and Blastoise running away.

Seeing this, everyone knew that A-Yi was going to lose. Swampert was already weaker than Electivire, yet it dared to clash with an accelerated Electivire.

It's important to understand that at this point, the Electrified Beast's speed boost wasn't just at level six; it also used lightning to stimulate its body cells to accelerate. The purpose of summoning the lightning earlier was to activate its body cells.

Faced with the double burst of Electivire, it would be strange if Swampert didn't collapse. Now only Blastoise remained. Electivire directly attracted the thunderclouds in the sky, and several bolts of lightning as thick as buckets struck down, leaving Blastoise with nowhere to hide in the rain. It was stuck to the ground by the lightning.

By the time Electivire charged over, Blastoise was already twitching from the shock, and Electivire knocked it out with a single punch.

“The first stage of the road to victory is over. Next is the second stage, with Xiaoying on the defensive.” Yuji looked at Xiaoying and waited for her to prepare. Meanwhile, the battlefield also changed.

The explosion and the damage done to Gyarados have left the battleground cratered and uneven, so the battleground needs to be replaced.

After watching the battle, he no longer underestimated Yu Hai. After all, he had already used a near-champion level Pokémon in the first round, so Yu Hai would likely use near-champion level Pokémon in the future, making it very likely that he would be able to clear the Champion Road.

I hope Yu Hai's younger brother, Xiao Ying, won't hold back. If Yu Hai gets to my side and I lose the championship, the Orange League will become a laughing stock.

“Brother Hai,” Xiao Ying took a deep breath and threw out her three Pokémon, “Lucario, Poliwrath, Infernape…”

Next, he took out the Mega Stone. Now no one could say he was holding back, since he even used the Mega Stone. Moreover, Lucario and the other two were his three main fighters, all of whom were veteran Elite Four level.

"Xiaoying is serious," Xiaoqian said, looking at the three Pokémon, especially Xiaoying's Politoed, which was trained by Yuhai and could go toe-to-toe with Yuci's Dragonite.

As soon as Xiaoqian finished speaking, a rainbow of light lit up the arena, indicating that Xiaoying had used Super Evolution.

A-Yi also has a Mega Evolution, but he felt there was no need to use it, and now it seems he's the one who's holding back.

“Xiao Ying is a Fighting-type,” Yu Hai said without hesitation, tossing out a Poké Ball. He had already done his calculations before coming, devising several strategies to counter each of the Elite Four’s types and weaknesses. “Claydol, I choose you…”

"Claydol?" Yuji stared at the floating Psychic-type Pokémon, thinking to himself that it was indeed a near-champion level Pokémon. They might actually be in for a tough time. He immediately shouted, "Challenge begins..."

"Lucario, use Extreme Speed!" Xiao Ying decided to take the initiative. He was also a trainer who liked to rely on speed and loved using Lucario's Extreme Speed ​​move.

“Claydol, Gravity,” Yu Hai knew what Xiao Ying was going to do. As the trainer he had personally trained, he knew her too well.