Pokémon: Trainers start as bounty hunters

"Okay, your identity registration and elf information entry have been completed. Next, please select a battle venue."

Ms. Joy in the service hall skillfully took out a roulette wheel from under the counter.

It was quite a primitive choice. Zheye subconsciously licked his dry lips.

The roulette wheel is evenly divided into four parts, with water, grass, ice, and rock written on them respectively, corresponding to the four sub-venues.

If you want to enter the main venue, you must win all the battles in the four venues.

As the wheel rotates, the area where the pointer stays changes constantly.

Finally pointed to the ice field.

"Then, your first battle venue will be the ice venue. The game time and opponent information will be sent to your watch at 1 p.m., please be sure to pay attention to receive it and don't miss the game time."

Miss Joy entered the result into the computer and gave instructions to Tetsuya.

The allocation of opponents cannot be carried out until the battle for the main draw spots in the morning is over, so the notification time can only be in the afternoon.

Tetsuya thanked Miss Joy and turned around to leave.

Ye Zang, who was waiting aside and had completed the registration a little earlier, came over and said, "My first venue is a rock venue. It seems that we two will not be able to meet at this stage."

The knockout format at this stage is closer to group elimination.

To put it simply, the 1024 trainers entering the main competition are divided into four groups, each group has 256 people. The first battle venue represents which group you are in.

The subsequent battles were all completed within the group. After the battles and eliminations in four venues, each group finally had only sixteen trainers left. Together, they were the top sixty-four trainers who could enter the main arena.

The advantage of trainers like Tetsuya and Ye Zang who have ten consecutive wins in registering early is that the quota in each category will not be full.

They will not be like those trainers who came to register later and were told by Ms. Joy that the allocated places were full and could only passively enter a certain group.

"I don't know if there will be a 'death group' this year." Ye Zang and Zheya walked to the restaurant together.

The death group mentioned by Ye Zang is easy to understand. This relatively primitive selection method will definitely have a certain chance of putting many powerful trainers in one group.

For example, the situation of twenty or thirty players who are predicted to be in the top fifty ranked in a group is not unheard of in previous conferences.

Although the league will definitely interfere a little in allocating opponents and will not let the championship seeds run into each other at this stage.

But for players whose strength is stuck on the promotion line, it will undoubtedly be more difficult to advance in this group, and they have to pray for better luck.

Often when the group of death appears, the audience goes into carnival.

Because this represents a lot of uncertainties, you don't know if some lucky guy will make it to the top 64.

"It doesn't matter if you have it or not, as long as you keep winning." Zheye replied.

Ye Zang shook his head, "To put it simply, if you meet those guys ranked in the top ten, the probability of winning is too slim."

In this single-round elimination competition system, even those trainers who are at the forefront do not dare to relax at all, otherwise they will not cry if they lose.

The two of them were chatting and eating breakfast.

"Come on, advance."

Before parting, they even cheered each other up.

Back in the room, Zheya sat quietly on the sofa and adjusted his condition.

The room without the lights on seemed a little dark and silent.

After a long time, the watch's message alert sounded.

"Tetsuya Tamaki VS Norika Sugiyama (3v3)

Time, March 12 (today), 3 pm.

Location: Branch Ice Arena No. 3.

rule:.......

(Please be sure to arrive in advance before 2:30 pm and cooperate with the referee and staff to complete the pre-game preparations)”

Looking at the message, Zheye felt a little irritable because he had to wait another hour or two.

He closed his eyes and opened them again. This feeling was quickly suppressed by him.

Sugiyama Norika, ranked 689th in strength prediction, the main elves are Overlord Flower, Nidoqueen, Slug Beast, Aridos, Hunting Papilion Butterfly, Poisonous Pink Moth...

The opponent's information swirled in Tetsuya's mind.

It's still a relatively easy opponent to deal with.

He thought that in the first ice field, the elves who would fight would be those three little guys.

"Then, let's go."

Tetsuya's voice echoed in the empty room.

Inside the Ice Venue of Branch No. 3.

"Okay, now we can see that Ma Dou's Ice Demon Guard and Natsumi's Mahuola are engaged in a dazzling offensive and defensive battle.

...Ah, no, Ice Ghost Guard showed a painful expression. Was it because Ma Xuanla had hit a vital point?

Elves like Mahuola are excellent predators. Attacking the opponent's vital points in battle is their talent as evil elves.

Oh my God, the Ice Ghost Guard counterattacked. Ma Xunla, who was about to pursue the victory, was caught off guard when the Ice Ghost Guard used his ice teeth to bite his leg at close range. The thick ice would undoubtedly hinder Ma Xunla's agility.

Sex..."

Tetsuya stood in the player tunnel, leaning against the wall, and could hear the commentary and cheers from the audience outside.

These commentaries are quite tiring. Fifteen days, sixteen games per venue every day, it’s too much to handle even with rotation.

Somehow, his thoughts suddenly wandered away again.

For competitions like the Quartz Conference, on-site commentary is definitely indispensable, because the feelings of the audience at the scene and in front of the TV must be taken into account. They are not professional trainers, and they only have a partial understanding of elves.

The main function of the explanation is to explain the types, habits and skill effects of elves, etc., and also to mobilize the atmosphere.

Different from sports competitions in previous lives, the players and elves on the field can also hear the voices of the commentators. If your mental quality is not up to par, you will sometimes be distracted by these commentators.

"Hello, you are Tetsuya Tamaki, I am Norika Sugiyama, your competition opponent."

A lively female voice came from beside Tetsuya.

Tetsuya, whose eyes were a little dull, retracted his thoughts, looked at the other party, and nodded.

The atmosphere was a little awkward for a while.

"This guy is quite indifferent." Sugiyama Norika, who was dressed like a royal sister, greeted her with a smile but was met with indifference, and she couldn't help but secretly curse in her heart.

She didn't say hello again.

I originally wanted to chat with this talented young guy, but now it seems that there is no point in it.

There were only various sounds coming from outside in the player tunnel.

"Okay, so the fourth battle on the first day of the ice venue is over. The winner is the player Ma Dou from Daxi City. I also want to thank the player Natsumi for bringing us such a wonderful battle. I hope she will do even better in the future.

Achievements...

Next, please rest for a while, the players for the next game are already in place.

When the venue is restored, we will enjoy exciting battles again."

Along with the conclusion of the explanation, a burst of fierce cheers sounded.

"Come on." Zheye, who had been silent all this time, suddenly said something, and then followed the staff out of the passage.

"Ah, okay."

Sugiyama Norika, who was in a daze, replied subconsciously, and then felt a little unhappy.

What do you mean? Do you think you have a chance to win, so you encourage your opponent?

She clenched her hands, wanting to punch him.

When a little boy sees a charming older sister like her, shouldn't he be friendly? Why is this guy like this?

That face was blinded in vain.

Sugiyama Norika also followed the staff out of the passage with her complaints about Tetsuya.

"Oh! We can now see the two players from the fifth game entering the stadium. Let us give them our warmest cheers!"

The narrator's passionate voice sounded again.

"The male runner on the blue square must be familiar to everyone. This is our flame runner, Tamaki Tetsuya from Joban City.

He achieved ten consecutive victories in the qualifying rounds. Although he is young, his strength cannot be underestimated.

Held at our Kanto official gym..."

"Ah!!!!" screams and cheers echoed through the sky.

Tetsuya even spotted someone holding a banner with his name on it.

"The rules of the competition have been informed to you. If there are no problems, please prepare. The competition will officially start in three minutes."

Taking advantage of the break in the commentary, the referee communicated with the two players again.

After getting an accurate answer, he walked back to his fixed position.

"Now, both players are ready and have appeared on their respective podiums!" The commentator spoke tirelessly, and Tetsuya was really worried that there was something wrong with his mouth.

His eyes moved to the ice field in front of him.

The Alliance's ice field is a huge ice zone, with pieces of cold rocks everywhere on it, and some broken ice floating on the water.

For some elves, walking in this kind of venue will become a big problem, which will greatly affect the performance of their strength.

"The fifth game on the first day of the Ice Field, Tamaki Tetsuya VS Sugiyama Norika, 3v3 battle, both sides can change the elves once at will, and one side cannot lose all the elves in the battle."

The referee raised two red and blue flags, one on the left and one on the right, and gave a brief explanation.

"Both sides release the elves at the same time...the battle begins!"

Arms waved down, the horn of the game sounded.

"Hunting swallowtail butterflies, go up elegantly." "Conquer the sky, compete with eagles."

A red light flashed, and two elves appeared on the field following the trainer's call.

"Okay, the competition has officially begun. The elf sent by Ji Jia's player is the hunting swallowtail butterfly from the Hoenn region. This elf is relatively rare in Kanto. Its initial form, the Spinytail, can compete with the green caterpillar or unicorn in the Kanto region.

insect.

What's special about it is that when the Spinytail evolves for the first time, there is a half chance of evolving into a carapace cocoon or a shield cocoon. The corresponding final forms are insect and flying hunting swallowtails, and insect and poisonous attributes respectively.

The poisonous white butterfly.

And the player Tetsuya sent was the final evolved version of Bobo, known as the gate bird of Kanto. According to data, its maximum flight speed can easily reach Mach 2..."

The commentary is very fast and he completes his tasks conscientiously.

However, it was naturally impossible for the two trainers on the field to be distracted and listen to him talking about such basic knowledge.

"Air Slash." "Air Blade."

The strategies adopted by both sides are surprisingly consistent.

More than a dozen slashes of various shapes touched together in the air, making a metallic crisp sound.

"Ascend." Sugiyama Norika gave the evasion command.

There is no way, the difference in strength is there, the quasi-king-level Bi Diao's air slash is simply not something that the elite-level hunting swallowtail butterfly's air blade can withstand.

After only holding on for a second or two, the air slash attack on Sugiyama Norika's side was defeated.

The flying-type air slash can do double damage to hunting swallowtail butterflies. With its physical strength and defense, it is estimated that it will be unable to fight just to receive this blow.

"The wind rises."

Zhe leisurely directed Bi Diao to carry out long-range attacks.

It is impossible to get close.

Although the hunting swallowtail butterfly looks good-looking, its personality and temperament are completely inconsistent with its appearance. It is irritable, combative, and full of aggression. This is its true face.

It is extremely good at attacking with its round, rolled-up, needle-like slender mouthparts, comparable to the giant needle wasp.

"Beep~" Bi Diao rolled his wings, and the fierce wind swept towards the hunting swallowtail butterfly.

"Dance in the wind." Sugiyama Norika said carelessly.