Elf: My three starters are the three gods of Hoenn

Then, the dragon's breath continued its relentless attack, striking Metagross. Iron Wall only boosted Metagross's physical defense, but it had little effect on special defense!

Thus, Daigo could only watch helplessly as his ace Metagross was completely defeated by the Dragon Breath attack and lost its ability to fight!

Despite Metagross's desperate attempts to resist, it was all in vain!

Even though Rayquaza reduced the power of its move, it still managed to break through the Protect move and completely defeat the Master-level Shiny Metagross!

Clearly, holding onto your skills doesn't make you invincible!

Once a qualitative change occurs, even if you defend your skills, they will still be broken!

"Metrogross!"

After Metagross was defeated, Daigo rushed to Metagross and carefully stroked its body!

Fortunately, Zhang Feng had Rayquaza restrain its power, which prevented Metagross from being seriously injured, leaving it only unable to fight!

As expected, a divine beast is a divine beast, a first-level god, especially a being like Rayquaza, which is among the strongest of the first-level gods. It is not something that ordinary Pokémon can withstand!

Steven, one of the strongest human trainers, even had his ace Pokémon unable to withstand a single attack from Rayquaza!

Such a difference in strength almost drove Daigo to despair!

However, since the opponent is a divine beast, losing doesn't seem like such an unacceptable thing!

Even Senri-sensei was able to come to his senses, so how could a strong person like Daigo continue to be in a slump?

So, after putting Metagross back into its Poké Ball, Steven took out another Poké Ball!

"Zhang Feng, divine beasts are not easy to encounter. Since we are destined to fight you today, let my other spirits also witness the power of divine beasts!"

As soon as Daigo finished speaking, an incredibly robust Aggron appeared!

Pokémon: Aggron

Rating: 82

Features: Hard head

Properties: Steel, Rock

Qualification: Gold

Bond Evolution: Unlockable

Super Evolution: Unlockable

Skills: Rock Blockade, Metallic Sound, Iron Tail, Iron Wall, Heavy Impact, Metal Explosion...

Aggron, as Steven's second ace, is naturally quite powerful, and has even reached the Master level!

Of course, Daigo is not yet at the peak strength of the future Eight Masters, which means that he will also improve his strength in the next few years!

"Aggron, go! Use Metal Blast!"

Without any hesitation, Daigo immediately had Aggron use its strongest move!

The next moment, Aggron roared and charged straight at Rayquaza!

To this, Zhang Feng simply said indifferently!

"Rayquaza, unleash Dragon Tail!"

Immediately, terrifying dragon-type energy condensed at Rayquaza's tail and slammed directly into Aggron!

The metal exploded, even though it was Rayquaza's body that was hit!

The reaction force, along with Rayquaza's tail, sent Aggron flying!

When Bosscodora fell to the ground, it immediately entered a near-death state!

"Come back, Aggron!"

After recalling Aggron, Steven took out another Poké Ball!

"This is my last one. The remaining Pokémon are still at the Champion level, so there's no need to put too much pressure on them. Go, Ancient Armor!"

Elf: Ancient Armor

Rating: 81

Features: Flexible and free

Attributes: Rock, Insect

Qualification: Gold

Bond Evolution: Unlockable

Super Evolution: Unlockable

Skills: Primal Power, Metal Claw, Saltwater, Phillips Shears, Rock Smash, Protect...

As expected of a young master, he has a top-tier red aptitude, and the rest are all gold aptitudes, all at the master level. It's truly enviable!

"Ancient Armor, unleash primal power!"

It's fortunate that they are master-level Pokémon; they all have the courage to challenge legendary Pokémon!

But in the end, the result was the same: the Ancient Armor was instantly killed by Rayquaza's Dragon Pulse before it could even unleash its skills!

It was exactly the same as Zhang Feng's previous experience, except that there was one difference!

Steven is the champion, and his strength improvement has reached a bottleneck, while Zhang Feng's Grovyle, Milotic, and Pidgeotto are in the stage of the fastest improvement in strength!

According to Steven himself, the three Pokémon he sent out this time—Shiny Metagross, Aggron, and Ancient Armor—have all successfully reached the Master level!

The other three Pokémon are only Champion-level!

In other words, there is still a long way to go before Daigo becomes the strongest version of himself!

After retrieving the ancient armor, Daigo slumped to the ground, muttering to himself.

"Seriously, there are always people more skilled than you. I never expected that a novice trainer could beat me so badly that I couldn't fight back at all!"

"You win, Zhang Feng. I'll keep my promise to you. There's a little guy I can entrust to you, my powerful trainer!"

"I hope you can treat him well!"

Zhang Feng was also taken aback when he heard Daigo's words!

This guy, after being beaten by me, is still willing to give me a Pokémon?

However, even so, before giving away his Pokémon, Daigo still angrily said to Zhang Feng!

"You bastard, using Rayquaza to hit me, seriously... mmp, you're inhuman!"

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Chapter 28 Daigo's Gift, the Quasi-God Iron Dumbbell!

Faced with Daigo's accusations, Zhang Feng couldn't help but retort!

"Wasn't it you who used your ace against me first? I'm just a novice trainer, yet you sent out a master-level Pokémon. Wasn't that going too far first?"

Daigo was even more furious that Zhang Feng was still pretending to be a novice trainer!

"You call yourself a novice trainer? Show me a novice trainer who has a legendary Pokémon! You're just pretending to be weak while actually being strong!"

Faced with Daigo's accusations, Daigo fell completely silent when Zhang Feng produced his Pokédex, which recorded Zhang Feng's debut date!

After listening to Professor Birch's words of advice, especially regarding the timing, which he confirmed several times, Daigo was immediately dumbfounded!

Perhaps, at this moment, he has truly broken down!

Because Zhang Feng, that bastard, has actually only been a trainer for a little over a month!

OMG!

Looking back on his early days, what was Daigo doing?

So, the two looked at each other in silence, and after a long while, they suddenly burst out laughing!

Perhaps the friendship between men is just that strange. After the battle, Daigo first used Shiny Metagross to defeat Zhang Feng's three main Pokémon!

Later, Zhang Feng couldn't swallow his anger, so he used his ace Rayquaza to defeat Daigo's three main Pokémon, and the two were even!

"You bastard, I just thought you were a pretty good trainer after accidentally seeing your Forest Lizard, so I wanted to test your skills and gave you an Iron Dumbbell as a gift. But you've made me look like this!"

After saying that, Daigo also took out a Poké Ball!

The next moment, accompanied by a flash of red light, a strong iron dumbbell appeared in front of Zhang Feng!

Looking at the pseudo-legendary Pokémon in front of him, even though Zhang Feng knew that Daigo had a new Pokémon to give him, he was still a little surprised to see that it was a pseudo-legendary like Beldum!

"This...this quasi-god is such a valuable gift to me?"

At this moment, seeing Zhang Feng suddenly become a little hesitant after hearing his words, Daigo felt a sense of satisfaction. It was truly a hard-won victory!

The next moment, Daigo smiled and said!

"Oh, it's just a pseudo-legendary. I have a whole bunch of them in my mine. I just think this little guy has a lot of potential, but I don't want to raise another Metagross. I want to entrust him to a good trainer so that his talent won't be wasted!"

"Ding-dong, the current attribute values ​​of the iron dumbbell are as follows:"

Elf: Iron Dumbbell

Rating: 18

Feature: Immortal body

Attributes: Steel, Psychic

Qualification: Gold

Bond Evolution: Not yet unlocked

Super Evolution: Not yet unlocked

Skill: Ram...

Intimacy: 20

Background: Born into the Metagross race, Iron Dumbbell possesses exceptional talent.

Hobbies: Fighting, eating ore

……

Gold aptitude, yet another gold aptitude!

Sure enough, Daigo was subtly showing off his wealth just now, but since someone was willing to give him such an excellent Pokémon!

So, Zhang Feng didn't intend to refute this point. Anyway, this guy was indeed richer than him, no doubt about it!

So, Zhang Feng couldn't help but look at the iron dumbbell in front of him and said with a smile!

"Iron Dumbbell, would you like to follow me on adventures around the world, become the strongest Metagross, and then defeat Steven's Shiny Metagross?"

Upon hearing Zhang Feng's words, Daigo's face was filled with black lines!

Can't you say something nice? Why do you have to make fun of him?

Iron Dumbbell, on the other hand, looked at Daigo and then at Zhang Feng, and then nodded emphatically!

So, after taking out a Luxury Ball and replacing Beldum's Poké Ball, Zhang Feng once again caught a powerful and highly promising Pokémon!

This is Zhang Feng's first quasi-god!

Unlike other pseudo-legendary Pokémon that evolve at level 30 and finally at level 56, Beldum only has one move, Tackle, in its initial stage!

At level 20, it can basically evolve into MetalGreymon, and at level 45, it can evolve into its final form - Metagross!

In comparison, Metagross's power level can be reached much faster than other pseudo-legendary monsters!

However, there is another theory about the evolution of Iron Dumbbell: Iron Dumbbell evolves into MetalGreymon by fusing two Iron Dumbbells, and MetalGreymon evolves into Metagross by fusing two MetalGreymons!

It takes a total of four Iron Dumbbells to evolve into Metagross!

Of course, Zhang Feng thought that the need for four iron dumbbells was too terrifying, so he decided to upgrade and evolve the iron dumbbells!

"Anyway, thank you so much, Daigo!"

Seeing Zhang Feng thank him, Daigo also generously said!

"Actually, I should be thanking you. It's lucky that Beldum met a trainer like you. Of course, my Metagross and I also learned a lot from our battle with your Rayquaza. We feel that our strength can still improve!"