Pokemon Dawn

"Phew, I lost this game." Xia Bo waved his hand helplessly, "Destroy the venue to force me to take back the Pokémon. For the owner who does not have the right to change Pokémon, this means admitting defeat - ten

I haven't seen a challenger as whimsical as you in years."

"I'm very sorry." Across the completely destroyed battlefield, Xiaoye bowed deeply to Xia Bo, "Your Rhinoceros' sharp stone attack is too powerful. It would be difficult for my Gyarados to win in a normal battle, so that's why

This is a bad idea." After thinking about it, Xiaoye said cruelly, "If compensation is needed..."

"No, no, no," Xia Bo interrupted Xiao Ye, "Destroying the venue is also one of the methods of fighting. How can the challenger pay compensation?" Think about the Red Lotus Gym that almost disappeared due to the destruction of Team Rocket not long ago.

, Xia Bo sincerely felt that his gym was really in trouble.

"But with the situation like this, I'm afraid the official venue won't be usable. Come with me to the backup venue."

"Yes, please."

Turning around, Xia Bo suppressed his smile and frowned.

To be fair, Xiaoye fought this battle very well - the use of the unpopular jump move, the use of Gyarados's airborne power as a flying Pokémon, and the timing of the earthquake move were all impeccable. However,

Unlike Gyarados, whose blood boils as soon as the fight begins, Saya's instructions as a trainer are too rational and too cold.

Since the sharp stone attack from the ground is difficult to avoid, then destroy the "ground". This is a very clear instruction line - or the logic is so clear that it will not be shaken by any scene in front of you. Destroy the site.

This method is actually very dangerous for the Rhinoceros. If Xia Bo is not a skilled trainer and fails to recover the Rhinoceros in time, the Rhinoceros that falls into the magma may lose its life.

Of course, Xia Bo didn't mean to accuse Xiaoye of being unkind. Fighting is not an innocent house game, and every trainer should be prepared to face cruelty. If the person who uses such tactics is older

If the trainer is a few years old, Xia Bo will be pleased with his maturity and rationality.

However, Xiaoye is still a young newcomer who has just debuted for a few months. Any elder who has high expectations for young people does not want to see such a scene, just like adults never want children of a few years old to be deep and smooth.

"We're here." Xia Bo led Xiao Ye and Yang Zhen through the dark tunnel and opened the door at the end.

When the clear sky came into view, the two young men squinted their eyes due to the sudden increase in light.

They were already in a crater at the top of the Red Lotus Volcano. The magma lake at their feet was still rolling and boiling, with more than a dozen rock pillars extending straight into the sky from it, forming a platform for Pokémon to settle.

"This place has been used quite frequently recently." Xia Bo smiled and walked around the edge of the crater to the opposite side.

Unlike the gym inside the cave, there is not even a real battle ground here. The intermittent rock platforms above the magma lake seem to be barely enough for Pokémon to stand - of course, as the culprit who destroyed the Red Lotus Gym venue

, Xiaoye has no right to dislike the poor conditions here.

"This guy is my last general. Come out, platypus!"

Following Xia Bo's shout, the creature, covered in scorching air currents, jumped up from the lava and landed lightly on the rock platform closest to Xia Bo.

"Charizard."

Xiao Ye also sent out the finale she expected.

The red fire dragon spread its wings and appeared in the light. Before it could roar with excitement as usual, the fire-breathing dragon lowered its head and familiar colors came into view.

Lava and stone walls are undoubtedly highly suggestive colors for the Pokémon that broke into Team Rocket's underground laboratory with Saya and fought fiercely with Apelokanti.

And—there was a Pokémon standing across from Charizard that he would never forget, the Pokémon that almost killed him.

The clear sky-blue eyes were immediately filled with madness. The fire-breathing dragon looked up to the sky and roared. The rumbling sound penetrated the clouds and reverberated violently between heaven and earth. Even Xia Bo looked a little surprised.

Jumping lightly to the rock platform in front of her - this action unsurprisingly made Yang Zhen take a breath - Xiaoye patted Charizard on the shoulder.

"Calm down, the outcome of this gym battle depends on you."

The calmness in the girl's tone as always made the one-liner Charizard quickly come to his senses. The big guy blinked his eyes and scratched his head in embarrassment, as if he felt that he had roared too loud just now.

"Oh, such a loud voice." Xia Bo put on a frightened expression, "Why are you so excited all of a sudden, Charizard guy?"

"Sorry. We were involved in a battle underground on Red Lotus Island a while ago, which may have made it a little sensitive to magma. Please don't worry about it." Xiaoye explained quickly.

Moreover, the enemy at that time happened to be a platypus, and even Xiaoye couldn't help but think of the life-and-death struggle scene that day.

"Underground on Red Lotus Island...?" Xia Bo held his chin and thought for a moment. When Yang Zhen's expression next to Xiaoye changed, Xia Bo was stunned, "Could it be that the day when the Three God Birds attacked?

?”

"Yes." Xiaoye nodded. Although the information about her participation in the war should be kept confidential to prevent trouble, the other party was a highly respected gym leader, so there was no need to consider this issue. "You were not on Honglian Island at the time, but I

I think you should have heard about the battle afterwards. I was indeed lucky enough to participate in the battle with Team Rocket." - It is not the battle on the ground that is known to the public, but is closely related to the reason why the Three God Birds attacked Red Lotus Island.

, an "underground battlefield" that only those who participated in the operation will know about.

This time, Xia Bo was so surprised that he couldn't even tell a joke. As the gym leader of Honglian City, even though he happened to not be there that day, of course he would learn more about what happened on Honglian Island when he returned to Honglian City.

He knew very well that on that day at Team Rocket's underground research institute, four freelance trainers who temporarily joined the team had a fierce conflict with Team Rocket, and miraculously terminated the last step of the artificial Phoenix King plan.

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Put it this way...

After being surprised, Xia Bo suddenly laughed.

It turns out that's the case. That's why she has such unshakable thinking ability and tactical ability that has lost its emotional color.

If a young man is born with such an ability, then this person is undoubtedly dangerous. However, for a young man who has experienced the battlefield of life and death and successfully emerged from it——

It's a given, isn't it?

The old man showed a heartfelt smile and opened his arms to the hot air in front of him.

"As you said, this is a gym battle, and it's just a gym battle. Come on - let's forget about fighting and have a good time!"

As Xia Bo's tone became higher-pitched, the duck-billed fire beast's body ignited with blazing flames.

"Blow smoke!"

"Hot air."

The signature ability of the guerrillas is to issue orders as quickly as possible, and Xiaoye does this unambiguously. When the duck-billed fire dragon spits out smoke mixed with lava, the fire-breathing dragon spreads its wings and rolls up a hot whirlwind.

Both sides are fire-type Pokémon, and attacks of the same type cannot cause any damage to them. Charizard's hot wind is not an attempt to attack, but to blow away the thick smoke that blocks the line of sight.

With clear vision and the agility of the fire-breathing dragon, the lava would never be able to easily touch it.

"Shadow clone, charged flame attack."

Charizard transformed into countless shadowy versions of itself in the air, and the flames at the tip of its tail spread all over its body, attacking the platypus like fireballs all over the sky.

For a platypus living in lava, a simple fire attack is difficult to achieve. But if it is a physical attack, even if it can resist fire damage, the impact is still inescapable. Charged flame attacks bring

The driving force made the fire-breathing dragon even faster than before, and combined with the shadow clone's feint attack, it was dazzling for a while.

Seeing this scene, the platypus also jumped up.

Unlike its seemingly bulky body, the platypus's movements were unexpectedly light and skillful. It flickered between rock pillars, as if it knew the location of each rock pillar by heart. Its sharp claws were deep

The ground is inserted into the rock, making it like a forest lizard in the jungle, flying in the forest of stone pillars.

Charizard's attack is indeed fast enough, but it is not invulnerable. Seizing an opening, Charizard leaps straight into the lava.

Passive avoidance? Of course not.

The blazing fire storm surged from the lava, bringing with it thick black smoke, and flew away all the fire-breathing dragons hovering over the magma lake. All the shadows were destroyed in the huge smoke-breathing move, and the body also disappeared.

After somersaulting several times, he finally managed to stabilize his position without hitting the rock pillar.

Using the energy of lava to launch an attack may be a unique secret skill that only the platypus family can do.

Seeing that the shadow clone had been cracked, Charizard simply stopped trying any other tricks and relied on the fact that his speed had been increased to the highest level in history by the charged flame attack. He rushed towards the duck-billed fire beast with the momentum of a solo expedition.

The platypus's melee combat ability is not weak, but it cannot fly after all, and it is difficult to exert its full strength standing on the narrow top of the rock pillar. Xia Bo obviously knew this very well, commanding the platypus to jump left and right,

On the contrary, Charizard, who was not yet familiar with his own speed, almost hit the rock pillar with his head several times, repeating the old monk's bell-ringing technique during flight training exercises.

"This is where the platypus played since he was a child. Even with his eyes closed, the platypus knows exactly what the rock pillars under his feet look like." Xia Bo said with a smile.

"Is this the so-called 'home field advantage'? This gym owner is really merciless." Yangzhen glanced at Xiao Ye, "How about it, have you figured out a way? If you keep going like this, your stupid fire dragon will die from exhaustion.

Can't touch the platypus."

"I think I figured it out."

Looking at the fire-breathing dragon that was once again thrown into the air by a smoke bomb, Xiaoye raised her voice and said, "Charged Fire Attack Dive."

Charizard had long been impatient because of his opponent's hiding, and immediately rushed down bathed in flames. In this blow, Charizard used 120% of his strength, and miraculously squeezed out 120% of his body.

Unfortunately, it still couldn't catch up with the duck-billed fire dragon's dexterous movements.

With a slight leap, the platypus climbed onto another stone pillar. However, the Charizard, which had exerted too much force, could no longer restrain its momentum and fell straight down, falling into the hot lava.

Yangzhen was suddenly startled and blurted out the word "not good".

Even fire-type Pokémon will still be injured if they fall directly into high-temperature lava - not all fire-type Pokémon are platypuses that live in lava all year round. Compared with the rock pillar forest, lava

China is the real home ground of the platypus clan.

Yes, ordinary fire-type Pokémon cannot withstand the temperature of magma for a long time. Xiaoye is certainly aware of this fact.

However, she also knew that her fire-breathing dragon had risked its life, placed itself in a dangerous magma lake, and absorbed the hottest energy to evolve successfully. How could such a fire-breathing dragon be afraid of magma?

Where is love?

The moment Charizard was completely submerged in the lava, Xiaoye's instructions came.

"The Pledge of Fire."

Rumble, rumble——

Countless flame pillars rose from the bottom of the magma lake and shot straight into the sky. The slender rock pillars were reflected fiery red, and even the low clouds overhead were dyed the color of the flames. For a while, blazing winds rolled, making the scene look like purgatory.

The platypus changed its position quickly and was not hit head-on by the flame beam.

This...is based on the practice of the platypus, and also uses the energy of lava to carry out large-scale attacks?

The strong wind made Xia Bo look serious.

However, you can't hit the target with such a random attack, Charizard guy.

Of course Xiaoye will not forget that the Fire Oath is just a new move that Charizard has just started to learn. Let alone an enhanced version of the attack like this, even if the platypus stands still on the flat ground and acts as a fixed target, it will still matter whether it can hit it.

The number five to five.

But what does it matter? This is not a move designed to "hit the target" at all.

After the oath of fire enveloped the whole place, what was the next move? If one of Xiaoye's companions were here, they would definitely feel that the development in front of them was very familiar.

Raising a slight smile, Xiaoye gave instructions.

"overheat."

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Small theater:

The platypus's melee combat ability is not weak, but it cannot fly after all, and it is difficult to exert its full strength standing on the narrow top of the rock pillar. Xia Bo obviously knew this very well, commanding the platypus to jump left and right,

On the contrary, Charizard, who was not yet familiar with his own speed, almost hit the rock pillar with his head several times, repeating the old monk's bell-ringing technique during flight training exercises.

Yang Zhen: (sarcastic) Hey, this picture of virtue looks really familiar. Take it easy, this is not a training base. Those broken stone pillars can't stand up to the tossing, so don't smash them into pieces.

Xiaoye: (Suddenly enlightened) So that’s it, and there’s this trick too. Thanks for reminding me!

Yang Zhen:...Ah? (I suddenly had a bad feeling)