I, Xiao Mao, want to become a Pokémon Master!

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【LV48 Pikachu♂/Champion】

The last time I saw Pikachu, it was only level 40. It has leveled up 8 times in two months, which is not a slow rate of improvement. It is clear that Ash has put in a lot of effort to train his Pokémon in the past two months.

"Really? Well then, you'd better do your best. I'm off now." Xiao Mao didn't say much more and turned to leave.

"why did you leave?"

Ash asked with a puzzled look, "That's strange. Gary usually takes the opportunity to mock me. Why has he suddenly changed his ways?"

"Sho, you're so slow! It's been so long, haven't you noticed that Gary has been encouraging you all along?" Misty said.

"Really?" Ash recalled the past and didn't feel that Gary was encouraging him at all. Every time he made a little mistake, Gary would always make sarcastic remarks about him.

“Although Gary does mock you, he mostly tries to encourage you. Whenever you get carried away, Gary will give you a nudge,” Brock interjected.

“Yes, whether in the hot spring town or Crimson Island, Shigeru points out a lot of your problems. Haven’t you noticed?” Xiaoxia said.

Although Ash was slow to react, after going through a journey and encountering many things, and with Brock and Misty reminding him, he thought about it carefully and realized that it really made sense.

"That guy Gary..." Ash didn't know what to say, but he understood Gary's good intentions.

...!

Day two.

PM: 9:00!

The Quartz Conference opening ceremony begins.

A total of 256 contestants participated, and at this moment, all the contestants appeared in the Quartz Conference venue, lined up in an orderly manner.

BOOM!! BOOM!! BOOM!!

Fireworks exploded.

A girl with short red hair ran into the venue, holding a torch in her right hand.

"Look, the torch runners are coming over. The torch, which has been passed by hundreds of people, has finally arrived at the venue and is now heading towards the cauldron inside the hall," the host explained.

The girl jogged through the venue, past each contestant, and climbed onto the cauldron. Just as she was about to throw the torch into the giant cauldron, two people dressed in ancient Greek attire appeared on the cauldron and blocked her way.

"Ok?"

The girl was a little confused. She had been told that she would be the one to light the giant torch in the venue, so why were there suddenly two more people?

Even the host was stunned, but it was the opening ceremony, and they had to continue despite the unexpected situation. He forced an explanation: "It seems that a woman is in charge of lighting the torch. She should be handing the torch to her."

The girl inwardly complained. This was the Quartz Conference, and her family had pulled a lot of strings to give her the opportunity to become the Lighter. Now that someone had snatched it away halfway through, she was naturally furious.

But now the entire event is being broadcast live, and the whole Kanto region will be watching this match. The girl dared not be willful and could only obediently hand over the torch to the person blocking her way.

"Wait, you can't give the sacred flame to her!" Just then, Ash suddenly ran up to the sacred flame platform and shouted loudly.

The girl immediately turned around, thinking that things might take a turn for the better, but the next second, Musashi snatched the sacred flame from the girl's hand.

"Too late!"

Musashi snatched the torch, immediately retreated, and tore open her clothes to reveal Team Rocket uniforms.

"They're really brave." Looking at the suddenly appearing Team Rocket trio, Gary finally understood how Team Rocket in the anime world had gradually declined...

This is the Quartz Conference! The Rockets are blatantly causing trouble here, which is a slap in the face to the league. Do you think the league won't make things difficult for the Rockets?

From this perspective, the reason why the Rockets trio cannot be captured might be because their presence is what led to the gradual decline of the Rockets in this world.

Upon closer examination, it seems that the Rockets' two most profitable projects in the Kanto region were ruined by the Rockets' trio.

Ash was about to have Pikachu stop Team Rocket, but James released Weezing to stop Pikachu with smoke. Jessie took the opportunity to throw her torch into the giant torch, and Moltres's flames instantly ignited the giant torch.

Immediately afterwards, a giant grasshopper-shaped robot appeared, carrying a huge torch on its back.

"Oh no! Something terrible has happened! The entire Olympic flame has been taken away!" the host exclaimed.

The surrounding audience looked bewildered, not knowing what was happening. Some of the more imaginative audience members even thought it was part of the opening ceremony performance.

However, as the Rockets trio piloted the machine into the venue, the audience realized something was wrong and scattered in panic.

"Pikachu, use Thunderbolt!" Ash commanded Pikachu to attack the Garuda robot, but the Garuda robot had an anti-electric coating, so it completely ignored Pikachu's electric shock.

"Bulbasaur, use Razor Leaf 1.6." Ash sent out Bulbasaur again to deal with it, but Bulbasaur's Razor Leaf was directly burned to ashes by the Sacred Flame.

"what!"

Ash was surprised to find that Team Rocket's robot was so sturdy, and that Team Rocket was maneuvering the robot to attack Gary.

"Roar!!"

At that very moment, a massive object charged towards them.

Upon hearing the noise, the Rocket team saw a bipedal behemoth charging toward the grasshopper robot.

"What kind of spirit is that?"

"I do not know."

"I've never seen a cat before!"

Team Rocket couldn't recognize what kind of Pokémon was charging at them, but they were confident that their robot could withstand the impact.

when! !

The giant beast crashed into the grasshopper robot, causing the robot to tilt to one side.

142: Xiao Mao makes his move

"Ah! How is that possible?"

"What kind of power is this?!"

The engineers, Kojiro and Meowth, couldn't believe that the Pokémon possessed such terrifying power, directly knocking their grasshopper robot away.

The grasshopper robot was knocked away, and the torch fell down, but Tyranitar caught it and gently placed it on the ground.

"It's the Rockets again. They're a bunch of incorrigible guys." Gary walked up to Tyranitar.

"Gary!" Ash exclaimed in surprise, glancing at Tyranitar beside Gary and quickly taking out his Pokédex to scan it.

Pokédex entry: "Tyranitar, no detailed information available."

At this point, the robot created by Team Rocket was unable to move easily, and the spot where Tyranitar hit it had been dented and even torn open in many places.

"Tyranitar, use Rock Smash!" Gary commanded.

"Roar!"

Tyranitar roared, and countless stone blades materialized around it. As Tyranitar manipulated them, they flew rapidly toward the Jagras robot. The stone blades were extremely sharp, tearing open a huge wound in the Jagras robot and hitting the engine inside.

Boom! !

The grasshopper robot exploded, sending Team Rocket to the distant horizon where they vanished completely.

After driving Team Rocket away, Gary ordered, "Tyranitar, put the torch on the high platform."

Tyranitar looked at the sacred cauldron beside him, lifted the huge cauldron, climbed the steps one by one, reached the high platform, and threw the cauldron onto the platform.

boom! !

The cauldron sits atop a high platform. Because the platform is broken, the cauldron is tilted, but this doesn't affect the viewing experience; instead, it creates an irregular and beautiful aesthetic.

"Wow, that Tyranitar is amazing."

"Whose spirit is that? It's so powerful."

"Such great strength! It can lift such a large cauldron so easily."

The audience was shocked by Tyranitar's terrifying power.

Gary's Tyranitar is now level 61, and its strength has reached the Elite Four level, which can almost be said to easily overpower the 255 trainers here.

"Tyranitar, come back." After recalling Tyranitar, Gary returned to the trainer team to await the League's decision.

Although the Rockets caused a disturbance, no damage was incurred. The cauldron platform was damaged, but not completely destroyed. The Quartz Conference should not be delayed because of this incident.

The officials discussed the matter for fifteen minutes and decided to let the opening ceremony continue.

"Now...the opening ceremony resumes. First, please welcome Dama Lanqi to give his opening remarks on the badge."

Damaranchi took to the podium to deliver a speech: "The Pokémon League Tournament is a place for Pokémon battle trainers who truly love the sport to hone their skills and fight against each other."

"The sacred flame, the flame of Moltres, will protect us. Trainers, fight with honor and leave no regrets. Hereby... I declare the Indigo League officially open."

After the speech, the audience cheered. This annual grand event is highly anticipated.

...!

After the opening ceremony, the athletes who participated in the opening ceremony returned to the athletes' village to rest. The official competition will begin tomorrow afternoon.

Before the competition begins, the players must go to the center of the main venue to draw lots, first randomly selecting the battlefield, and then randomly selecting their opponents.

The competition will not move to the main venue, which is also the venue for the opening ceremony, until the fifth round. The remaining matches will be held in the surrounding smaller venues.

The next day.

After finishing breakfast, Xiao Mao and Na Zi went to the center of the venue to draw lots.

After handing his Pokédex to the staff member, the staff member took out a button and let Gary choose a venue.

There are four venues in total, and the first four matches will be played on each venue.

Xiao Mao didn't care about the battlefield. He waited for the screen to scroll, pressed the button, and then a red light stayed on the iceberg icon.

"It's an ice arena, and your opponent is Kawase," the staff member said.

Shigeru also saw what Kawase looked like; she was a girl with blue hair who looked like a water-type trainer.

The match will be held at venue B at 1 p.m.

Having determined the venue for the competition, Gary went to the teleporter, dialed Professor Oak's lab, and requested the Pokémon he had prepared.

During the competition, trainers need to select three Pokémon in advance and display their Poké Balls. They can only use the Pokémon in the displayed Poké Balls to battle.

Since it's an ice-themed terrain, Gary chose three Pokémon: Forsaken, Arcanine, and Tyranitar. The reason for choosing Tyranitar was mainly to avoid a failed attempt and to have a backup option.

Even if Xiao Mao is confident of winning three games in a row, he won't do it that way; he'll definitely keep one as a backup.

Many trainers, due to a clash of confidence during the League Tournament, used newly captured Pokémon in the preliminary rounds, only to be defeated by sheer luck.