Pokémon: The Climb

At the entrance of the contestant entrance, Yang Yan and others were slowly entering the battle square.

The excitement in the audience became increasingly clear.

At this time, the loud and contagious voice of a uniformed man who was riding on a strong shield sword monster and flying over the square as if he were commentating was being transmitted to every corner of the field through the microphone.

"Dear viewers, please look, walking towards the center of the square is the trainer from the Pokémon League from across the ocean!"

"Let us welcome them with applause!"

The enthusiastic screams suddenly became louder and louder.

"The people of Galar don't seem to have any hostility towards us, which is quite interesting!"

"Perhaps it's because all they see is their identity as a 'competitor'."

Yang Yan expressed his opinion to Qian Li.

"Does the expectation for the game outweigh the regional differences? It would be great if it were like this. At least we don't have to worry that the audience will support my family one-sidedly!"

Qianli, who had not experienced such a scene for many years, was indeed a little worried about the audience's reaction.

Of course, what he is worried about is not that he will be affected. He thinks that he is not that fragile yet. He is just thinking from the perspective of the overall situation. After all, not everyone can ignore external influences when fighting. However, the bursts of applause relieved a lot of his worries.

After Yang Yan and others arrived, the commentary finally turned to the Galar trainers who stopped at almost the same time.

Perhaps due to greater familiarity, the introduction of these people is obviously more detailed, and the once again high atmosphere reflects this well.

Yang Yan paid attention to the explanation while observing the Galar trainer not far away.

It can be clearly seen without counting that the opponent's number is much higher than our own. A rough estimate is that there will be no less than 40 people.

There are more than 40 king-level trainers... and they have a team of king-level Pokémon. This number is a bit too much, at least in Yang Yan's perception.

After all, there is the King Ranking Battle as a reference.

Excluding a small number of people who do not want to participate or are not qualified to participate, on average there are only thirty or fifty trainers with a team of King-level Pokémon in a region. The Galar region is inviting all those who meet the requirements. Is it a success?

"Have you noticed that the people across from you all seem to be wearing the same style of clothes?"

"Maybe that's the dress of trainers in the Galar region. There's nothing strange about that."

"The strange thing isn't the style, haven't you noticed? Not only do their clothes have a three-digit number on them, but some also have stickers that look like product brands!"

"It's true what you said!"

"Look around the square, there seem to be many sponsors' logos. It looks like a commercial event!"

Through the discussions between you and me, everyone discovered that the "battle" in the Galar region was not just a culture, but also evolved into a complete business model.

This is very novel.

"As we all know, we have many friends from Galar this time. In order to reflect the friendship between our Galar region and the Pokémon League, this competitive elimination round will adopt a new battle mode..."

Just when the explanation began, on the high platform on the top floor of the square, behind a certain glass wall that was separated separately.

A'Du, who was wearing a red cloak, crossed his arms and looked straight down, saying, "Is this really good? The trainers we come over are all carefully selected strong men. If the defeat is too ugly then, , I’m worried that you won’t be able to explain to the people of Galar.”

Next to A'Du, President Roz, who was wearing a gray suit with one hand in his pocket, smiled and said: "Please don't worry, because we still have the strongest trainer in the world. As long as the Dan Emperor is still there, the people of Galar will Then they won’t feel too big a blow. At most, they will just verbally condemn the defeated trainers.”

"The strongest in the world? You are as confident as ever!"

"If Mr. A'Du doesn't believe it, you can participate in the next Champions League final and give it a try yourself."

"There will be a chance……"

……

"The above are all the rules for this competitive knockout competition."

"If you trainers have no doubts, then please look at the big screen..."

Following the direction pointed by the commentary, everyone looked up at the double-sided large screen hanging high in the sky.

There are portraits neatly arranged on the left and right sides of the screen, separated by a huge "VS" in the middle.

The characters "Galar" and "Pokémon League" are also marked above the avatar.

"I think everyone can't wait, so let's start the first battle of the day!"

“The big screen scrolls—!”

All the avatars were closed together, and then the picture was enlarged to nearly half the screen size and scrolled.

"Who do you think will be the first to fight?"

"I hope it's not me. I need time to adjust the team."

"Yes, the Galar people are so bad that they designed such random rules. Isn't this a clear trick to deceive people?"

But it is a pity that everyone standing here is riding a tiger and cannot get off. They can only pray that they are not the ones chosen, so that at least they will not be tricked by the rules.

"Yang Yan, what do you think..."

Qianli was about to ask Yang Yan what he thought, but then he was speechless because the scrolling screen stopped.

And the avatar displayed under the five characters "Pokémon League" is... "Oki Yohiko"!

"It seems that my luck is not very good. There is such a small chance of 'winning'..." Yang Yan didn't know how to express his emotions at the moment.

The corner of Qianli's mouth moved, and finally it turned into a sigh, "Just fight hard and use your full strength. There are so many people on the opposite side, and your opponent may not necessarily be a strong one. After all, looking at the photo, he is very young."

I'm not that old either...

Yang Yan really wanted to say this, but since the referee had already asked others to go back to the player area to wait, he thought about it and let it go.

While the others left the field and Yang Yan and his opponent walked to their respective sides of the battlefield, the commentator began to introduce the two sides to the audience in detail.

"Dear audience friends, in the first match of the King-level competitive knockout tournament, the person representing us in Galar is Trainer Peter from Dance Town and Dance Arena!"

"Trainer Peter is also an old friend of ours. We look forward to him bringing us a wonderful battle!"

As the big screen gave a close-up shot, Peter's arrogant and confident expression was revealed in front of everyone.

"Come on Peter!"

"We must win!"

"Peter, show your style as our Galar trainer!"

Although the cheers are different from sentence to sentence, they express the same meaning.

"This guy named Peter doesn't look simple!" Yang Yan glanced across the audience and finally stopped at his opponent.

At this time, the commentator may have just received the information and began to introduce Qi Yangyan's information to the audience.

"Viewers, what we are seeing now is the trainer who takes the lead on behalf of the Pokémon League—Oki Haruhiko."