Pokémon: Shadow of the Dawn

"There aren't many contestants, and there's only one large-scale battleground. The fifth match is between Poplar and I."

Wang Jin sat in the lounge, watching the TV on the wall that was playing the battle, and took out the burning bug elf egg from his backpack and wiped it slowly.

After dozens of Fire Stones were put in, the Burning Bug Pokémon egg became hotter and hotter, and the red light inside became more frequent and dazzling. However, according to Bolton's Bug Pokémon Breeding Manual and some fire attribute breeding knowledge he found, it would take at least one to two months.

There are not very good hatching conditions. If there is a Pokémon with a flame body, or in a professional hatching house, the hatching time of the Infernape should be shortened by half.

Wang Jin now wipes the elf egg every day, replaces the necessary fire-attribute items such as charcoal and fire stone powder, and then puts them back into his backpack.

"dong dong dong..."

There was a sudden knock on the door from behind.

This is the contestant's personal lounge. Normally, not many people come here when the battle is about to begin.

Wang Jin subconsciously tensed up and asked, "Xiao A, who is outside?"

Symbol A lazily answered:

"It's that orange-haired boy, sneaking around."

Orange hair boy...

Wang Jin quickly identified Maru among the people he knew.

This guy is about to start a fight, why is he running to find him now?

Wang Jin quickly opened the door, and Maru, who was looking at the passages on both sides, quickly leaned in and said anxiously:

"Brother Jin, I got information about Poplar's Pokémon!"

"...How did you find out?"

Wang Jin couldn't help but wonder. Poplar was a veteran trainer who had little communication with them, and she hid her strength very well. There was no information about Poplar in the group's files... or maybe he just couldn't see it.

Malu came over and hugged Wang Jin's shoulders, half covering her mouth and whispered:

"It was Ruby, the old man... I heard him talking to my master about Poplar..."

Wang Jin fell silent for a moment, suspecting that Ruby and Granny Sha did it on purpose.

Ruby's old Deng... Old Deng is a veteran trainer specializing in ghost attributes. Is he such a careless person?

...

Maru quickly and secretly explained Poplar's Pokémon's strength.

Poplar is a veteran gym owner. As she has always been alone and is very old, she has no children, and naturally there is no candidate who can smoothly inherit the position of gym owner.

It is said that she is looking for a young trainer who will please him and train him as the direct disciple to inherit the gym.

Unfortunately, Poplar has not been found yet.

She is a trainer from the same era as Granny Sha and Old Man Ruby. At that time, Poplar was a very famous successor to the Dance Gym Master, and she also performed well in the championship.

It's a pity that Ruby and Granny Sha could only participate in one championship, and they only met Poplar once.

As the gym owner, Poplar can always enter the championship.

"Boom..."

The door was gently closed by Maru, and Wang Jin recalled what he said about Poplar's strength.

Poplar cultivated champion-level Pokémon very early, but she is old, and the first few champion-level Pokémon she has are unlikely to be used in the arena to fight against others.

If this old woman uses all her strength, there should be at least two Champion-level Pokémon and four Elite-level Pokémon.

According to Maru, he learned from old man Ruby that the strength of Dantei and Chibana is similar, with two champion-level Pokémon and four king-level Pokémon.

"Smallmouth, Toxic, and Frosty...are all Pokémon that Poplar likes to use the most."

Wang Jin muttered to himself, feeling somewhat confused.

In the original game, Poplar specializes in fairy attributes, and the Dance Gym is also a fairy gym.

The Pokémon used by Poplar all have fairy attributes, but the fairy attributes have not yet been discovered... It's better to say that they don't exist at all.

The fairy attribute energy in this world is still dormant, and many Pokémon that should have fairy attributes have become ordinary attributes because they cannot sense the energy.

After all, attributes are the easiest Pokémon research results to discover. If the Fairy attribute has simply not been discovered and has always existed... a Dragon attribute Pokémon trainer would quickly realize something is wrong after fighting against humans.

The current Poplar probably just loves this kind of sweet-looking Pokémon and is a multi-attribute trainer.

Multi-attribute trainers need more training knowledge, resources, and energy than single-attribute trainers. Poplar has no more champion-level Pokémon than Ruby and Granny Sha.

"Luckily, I don't have fairy attributes... otherwise I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to defeat him at all."

Wang Jin sighed with a hint of relief, patiently watched the battle between Dan Emperor and others on TV, and waited silently.

......

Dandi is much stronger than the temporary Pokémon Xiaobo. The hard power of Pokémon alone is overwhelming, not to mention his command ability.

In less than half an hour, Dandi's Charizard defeated six opponents and ended the game.

The next match was between Lurina and Puna, and there was no suspense. Facing the unstable Puna, Lurina won by a crushing victory.

Maru vs. Magua, Maru wins.

Onio vs. Baika, Onio won. Baika played very copingly and didn't seem to care that he lost.

By the time all the battles were over, it was already three o'clock in the afternoon.

All contestants in the first group have finished their battle, and the second group is next to compete.

On the battlefield, Ryan, who was already sweating profusely, gripped the microphone tightly and continued to raise his voice and shout:

"Dear audience members! The first group's battle has ended perfectly! The strong contestants will continue to advance until the last moment of the championship game!"

The voice was loud, and some of the audience around stood up excitedly and responded:

“Oh~oh!”

Hearing these cheers, Ryan continued to cheer up and began to explain:

"The next battle... will be between Wang Jin, the genius trainer from Spike Town, and Poplar, the pink-loving veteran trainer from Dancing Town, who is known as the 'Magician'!"

The crowd cheered again:

"Wang Jin! Wang Jin from Spike Town!"

"Hero Trainer!"

"I know Wang Jin, but who is the other one?"

"The Dance Town gym leader, a veteran trainer."

"Lord Poplar, my mother likes you very much. Look at me..."

The discussion mixed with the shouts of the fans made the audience a little noisy. However, these noises did not hinder the Pokémon battles, but instead rekindled the atmosphere of the originally tired venue.