: A New Champion is Born

"Then you'll just have to watch!"

Mingyi stood tall and confident. In her opinion, everyone present except for Ashu and Xiaming was a bunch of worthless idiots.

Someone without combat skills can't even get her to cheer up.

Apart from Ash, Xia Ming, and a few others, no one present could ignite her passion for battle.

Xia Ming looked at Mingyi, who resembled Guan Yu, and didn't know what to say.

Is she arrogant? Please, although it's not a game world and Mingyi can't speedrun Unova League in a year, or create Team Plasma and capture the black dragon and white dragon Kyurem like a superhero, the glittering badge box on her waist proves that she is the "protagonist" of the era.

On the transparent badge box hanging from Naruto's waist, the badge symbolizing the Normal-type Gym of Hinoki City was shining brightly.

This is not just any ordinary gym badge from a major city; it's a badge symbolizing one of the eight strongest gyms in the Unova League!

What is the strongest? The strongest is a local force capable of maintaining peace in an entire region when the Heavenly King is not on duty!

Each of the eight gyms houses countless veterans with hundreds or even thousands of years of experience. Each gym leader is a carefully selected genius of their time, possessing the ability to train Elite Four or even Champion Pokémon in their youth, and also having remarkable talent in battle command.

Even so, the gym leader was still quickly defeated by Mingyi at the same level.

Even Xia Ming didn't know that she had earned the gym badge in a month, or that she had defeated Black Lotus in a short time while facing two opponents with only Snivy.

But regardless of which one it is, it proves that Mingyi's growth rate is unimaginable to ordinary people.

The last guy this awesome had already made a name for himself in the "Origin" Hyperdimensional Operation, becoming a "lone wolf" wandering around there.

Xia Ming didn't know what level of being could be called a "battle lone wolf," but he had read related records. Among the widely recognized "battle lone wolves," there was a guy named TMD's "Red"!

So Mingyi really has the ability to send everyone present flying in a one-on-one situation.

but……

Would Xia Ming be afraid of her?

Just like Eurythmus said, he was nothing but a defeated opponent!

………………

The match proceeded quickly.

After completing the registration, Xia Ming sat outside the venue and became a commentator for the battle, while also promoting products to new viewers who entered the live broadcast room from time to time.

Unfortunately, he was too shy to shout "family" like those live-streaming e-commerce hosts from his previous life, and his exaggerated gestures made him not very successful on the first day.

By 6 p.m., only a little over 300 cranberry orders had been sold, with over 100 overlapping with other users and only a little over 200 paying users. Compared to the more than 4,000 viewers in the entire live stream, this was a very small number.

Fortunately, Xia Ming only needs to sell 1,500 portions of cranberries. If he can maintain this enthusiasm for the next few days, it would be a great success.

Thanks to Xia Ming's high level of combat skills, many wealthy fans also sent gifts to his live stream during the commentary, helping to increase its popularity.

The first day's matches weren't very exciting.

Because this is only a slightly more challenging competition than the Baby Cup, the gap between ordinary trainers and professional trainers is so large that the battles are hardly worth watching.

The professional trainers who came to register seemed to have made a tacit agreement, standing one by one on the arena to clear the mobs. Only when they cleared the mobs too much would another professional trainer step up and catch them off guard, ending the champion's winning streak and then continuing to clear the mobs.

Three professional trainers registered for the first day of the competition, one of whom was a Super Ball player from the previous Unova League World Championship.

He had a blast blasting fish with his second team of Pokémon. A level 26 Pokémon could even flip over a level 30 Feraligatr. With Grass Knot and Brick Break, he made Feraligatr question whether it was really a level 3 advanced Pokémon after two evolutions.

Another Pappus monkey even mastered the Grass-type move Grass Slide, which could probably leave Larvitar completely disoriented after one slide.

Many viewers exclaimed that the super ball player was terrifyingly powerful.

Xia Ming guessed that the opponent's main team should all have a training level of around 40 to 50.

This powerful trainer is the champion of the first day of the competition.

But the situation changed on the second day.

Due to the competition format, this day saw the highest number of professional trainers register, with 70% of all professional trainers meeting up during the entire competition.

These trainers engage in fierce battles with Pokémon whose training levels are generally between 24 and 28, using more detailed predictions, deception, and skill usage to bridge the gap in raw strength between them.

Although there weren't any grand scenes, almost every move involved psychological warfare.

There were countless instances of trainers using fire-attribute moves to obscure their vision and using hand gestures and eye contact to conceal their attacks, allowing Xia Ming to see the mindset and battle patterns of trainers in this world.

This is not a turn-based game like the one in my previous life. Although most competitions stipulate that only four skills can be used, the chain reaction produced by the combination of skills is something that could not be shown in the game in my previous life.

For example, using Smoke Screen with Fire-type moves to create a dust explosion that destroys both opponents; using Smoke Screen to hide behind someone and secretly boost their stats; or using Smoke Screen with Grass-type moves to transform into a demon in the smoke.

In order to counter these moves, flying-attribute moves such as Storm and Blow Away come in handy.

Pokémon like Tobi-Owl, which is a Flying/Grass-type, even used an Air Blade combo followed by Seed Machine Gun.

The seed bomb thrown after the Swallow Return is so exaggerated that it's impossible to react, achieving an almost unbelievable effect where the seed bomb will always hit if the Swallow Returns!

The bond between humans and Pokémon is vividly embodied in these combined moves. For Pokémon to achieve this, trust is the most fundamental basis!

High-quality battles bring even greater popularity, and Xia Ming's live stream reached a new high of 7000 viewers today!

Even the location of the event attracted many local residents and trainers from Denki City to join in the fun, so the actual number of people was probably even higher.

Xia Ming's cranberries also saw a surge in sales on this day, with 700 pre-orders sold by the end of the competition!

Many of them placed orders after learning that Xia Ming was selling cranberries he grew himself, watching some of his planting videos, and discovering that he was a farmer from Stardew Valley.

Even after the second day of the competition ended, Xia Ming was still somewhat immersed in the chain reaction caused by the combination of those moves, and even fantasized about what kind of effect the three moves would produce when combined.

And the champion in the second day's battle, which was comparable to a regular competition, was...

"Huh? That's it? In my opinion, it's not as good as Little York, the Black Lotus Pavilion Master."