Selling Pokémon from Pirates

Chapter 187 The Preliminary Competition Ends

Chapter 187 The preliminary round ends

"How do you feel, Mr. Ace?"

Looking at the giant fire-breathing dragon (Ace version), Lin Luo asked with a smile.

"Feels...so good!!!"

Bah!!!

Two black smoky flames spurted out from Ace's nasal cavity.

Feeling the mighty and raging flame energy in his body, Ace's eyes seemed to contain a world of flames, blooming with blazing fire, as if he would be burned by the flames if he looked at each other.

"It's so amazing."

Ace clenched his fists and sighed.

He originally thought that Dynamaxing was used on Pokémon alone and would not have any impact on trainers.

But when he bonded with the giant fire-breathing dragon and evolved, he instantly felt a flame power that was several times more powerful than usual!

Affected by Dynamax, this flame is not as changeable as the Pokémon's energy under normal conditions, but its pure destructive power is several times greater than before!

Based on the information in his mind, Ace speculated that Charizard's form was affected after Dynamaxing, causing the focus of Pokémon's energy to shift.

After half a ring.

Ace and Charizard, who were familiar with their new state, slowly returned to their original state, but the expressions on their faces still remained as powerful as before.

At this moment, Ace even had the idea of fighting Garp!

Ace knew that Garp, who did not have a small private treasury, would never be able to afford a communication evolution worth 1,000 points.

In other words, the strength of that powerful force is around level 55 at most!

to be honest……

At this level, coupled with Haoli's excellent physical skills and domineering training, his true strength is already comparable to that of Clark, one of the three generals of the Big Mom Pirates that Ace met not long ago.

It's a pity that this strength is still a bit too weak under Garp's power, and he is not even qualified to intervene in a battle at their level.

At that time, a Gigantamax fire-breathing dragon with strength at the level of an admiral, plus him as a trainer whose strength is second only to the admiral...

He may not necessarily lose to the old man.

With such a mood, Ace's eyes once again showed a touch of excitement.

For Ace and Luffy, Garp's Iron Fist is a naked childhood shadow.

They have been holding back their anger since they were young, that is, they must hurry up and become stronger, and then beat the old man!

As soon as his thoughts flashed, Ace's mind began to show the image of him pressing Garp to the ground and talking about having a brain breakdown.

"hey-hey……"

After letting out a silly laugh, Ace immediately calmed down.

He is not so stupid as to take his wishes seriously.

Ace turned to look at Lin Luo and asked:

"Brother Lin Luo, can you recommend some skills suitable for Charizard that cost around 1,000 points?"

Sharpening one's guns in battle will only lead to disgrace if one is unhappy.

Anyway, there were still 1,000 points left, and Ace didn't plan to keep them for the New Year, so he just crossed them all out at once.

After hearing Ace's inquiry, Lin Luo suddenly started to think.

"Is it a suitable skill for Charizard?"

This question really stumped Lin Luo.

The problem is not because Charizard has no skills to learn anymore, but the skills at the price of 1,000 points are almost common to the public, and it is difficult to help the current strength of Charizard.

After a while, a new information bar appeared on the virtual light screen.

"Mr. Ace, what do you think of this skill?"

After Lin Luo selected for a long time, he finally came up with a skill that is common in the Pokémon world:

[Move: Iron Tail]

[Attribute: Steel]

[Effect: Concentrate energy at the tail, making it as hard as steel, causing a certain degree of force damage to the enemy, and there is a certain probability of penetrating the enemy's defense. 】

[Price: 1000 points]

[Purchase requirements: VIP3 or above]

"Iron Tail?"

Looking at the name of the move on the information bar, Ace was suddenly stunned.

Charizard has been training for more than a year. Ace bought all kinds of fitness equipment suitable for Charizard that was available in the mall.

Now Charizard's body has biceps, triceps, pectoralis major, pectoralis minor, gluteal muscles, abdominal muscles, thigh muscles, calf muscles, etc.

But only his flaming tail, Ace had never seen it exercised.

Neither he nor Charizard paid attention to it before, but now that he saw the name of this move, Ace's heart suddenly lit up!

After learning Iron Tail, doesn't it mean that the last weak point in Charizard's body is gone?

This is a magical skill for a fire-breathing dragon!

With a flash of his eyes, Ace nodded instantly and said:

"Brother Lin Luo, this is the skill! Please help me redeem it!"

"oh?"

Seeing Ace so satisfied, Lin Luo couldn't help but pour a cup of cappuccino for his newly dead brain cells, and then smiled:

"no problem."

Snapped!

With a crisp finger snap, a ray of light suddenly flew out of Lin Luo's hand and shot into the center of the fire-breathing dragon's eyebrows.

At the same time, the points that had just increased in Ace's balance suddenly returned again and turned into zero eggs.

"So, Mr. Ace, do you have any questions?"

Lin Luo asked with a polite smile, but actually he was thinking about the half-eaten steak.

"No more!" Ace replied immediately with a smile.

After obtaining the Dynamax, he just wants to make time pass faster and meet a powerful opponent quickly!

"Wish you good results in the competition!"

Lin Luo smiled softly.

With a snap of his fingers, he instantly disappeared in front of Ace.

…

After a delicious meal, the time came to half past seven in the evening.

It seems that in social situations, this is a very suitable time to visit.

Robin and Cobra came to Lin Luo's office one after another.

It's just that Robin needed to accumulate points in order to resurrect the scholars on O'Hara. After purchasing a bond power of 500 points, he left in a hurry.

Afraid of staying any longer, she couldn't help but buy some other things.

For Robin, the current Pokémon League Tournament is not her main battlefield.

She doesn't need to pay too much for this game.

Her battlefield is the Pokémon Contest half a year from now!

Now there is no need to spend too many points to improve your strength.

A few minutes after Robin left, Kobra walked in right behind him.

Same as Robin.

His performance in the Pokémon League Tournament is also not what he values.

He doesn't have much strength himself, he just comes to join in the fun.

For Cobra, making the people of the Kingdom of Alabasta prosperous is the most important thing.

His purpose for participating in this conference was even similar to Lauren's. He simply hoped that his citizens could see the power of their king and become confident from the bottom of their hearts.

However, everything went unsatisfactory.

He actually lost the first game of the entire event in embarrassment.

Although winning or losing in the preliminary round is not important, he still feels that he has been humiliated!

So out of anger, not only did he purchase Bond Evolution, but he also added three new moves to Suicune to use in subsequent battles, consuming a total of 5,000 points, a full 2.5 billion beli!

After Robin and Cobra left, no one came to Lin Luo to trade.

After all, among the current contestants, those who should have been traded had already been traded during the special training.

…

A night of silence.

In a blink of an eye, the faint moonlight was replaced by bright sunshine.

The air above the clouds is exceptionally dry and refreshing.

certainly.

They are not only happy about today's weather, but also about the second round of the preliminary competition!

After a night of fermentation, the term "bond evolution" has completely become a top priority for people in the pirate world.

If Lin Luo creates a Weibo-like communication platform in the pirate world at this time, then the word "bond evolution" will definitely be at the top of the hot search list and will not be dropped for several days!

Especially among some of the physical masters in the pirate world, they are full of expectations and imaginations about the evolution of bonds.

Most of these physical experts do not look down upon the ability of Devil Fruits, but they cannot accept the negative effects of being cursed by the sea.

Compared to having a Devil Fruit ability that is negatively affected by the curse of the sea, buying a Pokémon and then bonding it to evolve to gain special abilities...

This path is not only safe and reliable, with no side effects, but also allows people to have a completely trustworthy fighting partner!

In the eyes of these strong men, it is simply not a good deal!

There are rumors all over the sea that Devil Fruits are worth 100 million beli, but they are spread by people who have never seen Devil Fruits.

The real situation is...

In the auction house, even the weakest animal-type fruit-vegetable-chicken form has a starting price of 100 million beli.

The superhuman system will fluctuate greatly based on different abilities.

And no matter what kind of ability the natural system has, as long as it appears on the market, it will not be less than 1 billion beli!

It is common for a powerful Devil Fruit to be sold for more than one billion beli.

For the same price, you get an ability and a negative effect, and you get an ability and a powerful combat partner...

Between an increase and a decrease, people who buy Pokémon are really winning, okay?

In just one night, all kinds of analysis and information on the evolution of bonds became everywhere, and people's attention to the Pokémon League Tournament increased even more.

…

Holy Land Marie Gioia.

The five old stars sit upright in the conference room.

In the center of them, a huge light screen was playing today's preliminary match.

In the picture, it happens to be Robin from Group B, fighting against Navy Captain Smoker from the same group.

Wu Laoxing's brows furrowed.

Logically speaking, the Ghost-type Ghost Stone should be able to restrain the Super-type Sun Elf.

However, with a large supply of resources, Robin's Sun Elf level has reached level 58, which is nearly 20 levels higher than Smoker's Ghost Stone!

What's more, the sun elf also mastered the armed color, the domineering color of the knowledge, and the control of the six naval styles is even more powerful than the navy captain Smoker!

After the entire battle, Robin easily won the game without even using Bond Evolution.

Seeing the embarrassment of Smoker, who could not accept the defeat, being carried away on a stretcher by two auspicious eggs, Wu Laoxing's brows suddenly frowned even more tightly.

"What's going on? Didn't it say that Smoker was the first in the navy boot camp? Why, he couldn't even touch the side of the devil's son?"

Wu Laoxing, who had his arms around the first generation Kitetsu, immediately started questioning angrily.

Although Smoker is a marine who is not liked by the World Government, at this time at the Pokémon League Conference, he represents the Navy and is the face of the World Government!

However……

But no one present could answer his question, and there was no need to answer him.

Because at this time, the other four Five Old Stars were showing the same expression!

The blond five-old star suddenly sighed: "With so many intelligence agents sent out, is it possible that there is still no movement at all?"

"Even the agents at the Pokémon League Convention said there was no chance of contacting the dimensional merchants."

"If this continues, the world will be out of our control!"

"this……"

Another Wulaoxing, who was in charge of the intelligence department, paused slightly and then said:

"It can't be said that there is no movement at all!"

"CP9's Spandam sent a report some time ago, saying that one of his agents almost made a deal with a dimensional merchant at Baihua Island in the Grand Route..."

"It's just that because she carries too few resources and is not qualified to communicate with dimensional merchants for a long time, she specially applies for a fund to trade with dimensional merchants."

"CP9?"

The fat five-star star with a mustache who was in charge of finance nodded.

"Although Spandam is a loser who relies on flattery and connections, the abilities of the CP9 group are worth looking forward to, and there is no problem with their loyalty to the World Government."

"What Spandam is talking about should be 10 Baileys at VIP level 2, right? As long as we can get in touch with the dimensional merchants, not to mention 1 billion Baileys, even 10 billion Baileys will be worth it!"

"Just ask him to contact me directly later!"

Wulaoxing is not completely ignorant about dimensional transactions.

In fact, the intelligence they possess can be said to be the most comprehensive among non-trader organizations.

But fate seemed to be playing a joke on them. Their people could not meet the dimensional merchants no matter what.

Now that we finally have hope, we must hold on to it at all costs.

But after hearing the good news, everyone immediately breathed a sigh of relief and silently thought in their hearts...

There is a reliable person in this group of agents. I will go back and tell the departments a few words. Those who can support must give their full support!

In this way, Kalifa, who was watching the game obediently in the Baihua Island Villa, inexplicably came into the sight of the Five Old Stars, and in the next period of time, she obtained an unprecedented huge sum of money!

…

Time flies by like a flash, day by day.

In the blink of an eye, the six-day preliminary competition has ended.

The top 16 of this Pokémon League Tournament have been announced.

They are:

Kobra and Lauren from Group A;

Among them, Lauren won the first place in the group stage with a complete victory record!

Robin and Smoker from Group B;

Although Smoker was beaten badly by Robin, he still easily won the game with his fruit ability when facing the other two trainers.

Garp and Crowe in Group C.

There's not much to say about this group.

The battle involving Garp can be said to be the shortest battle in the entire preliminary stage.

Every opponent was punched by him.

So much so that when he appeared, there were even shouts of "One Punch Man" in the audience.

In addition to being beaten up by Garp with one punch, Crowe won easily against the other two trainers, but it was almost a battle without any suspense.

The winners of Group D are Usopp and Lujenga.

Sanji and Pao Huiyi from Group E.

Nami and Liu Mangbing from Group F.

Sauron and Tu Feidian from Group G.

Ace and Bian Bu Xia Qu from Group H.

Amid the cheers of thousands of spectators, the preliminary round of the Pokémon League Tournament came to an end.

And next, is the exciting knockout round of the top 8!

The 16 players will be dispersed one by one, and the organizer, Lin Luo, will personally arrange the order of their battles.

Yes.

This time, Lin Luo stopped acting directly.

He is just blatantly engaging in shady activities.

The purpose is to let the world quickly see...