I haven't decided on a name for my Pokémon trainer yet.

"Lost again?"

The referee quickly assessed Charizard's condition and announced loudly, "Charizard is unable to battle!"

"Zhang Qiang, please send out your next Pokémon!"

Zhang Qiang remained motionless, and after a moment of silence, raised his right hand: "I concede."

Ye Feng subconsciously raised his hand to stop him, but then he seemed to remember something, opened his mouth but didn't say anything.

"The outcome between us only needs one match."

This is what Zhang Qiang said before the war started.

As a longtime friend, Ye Feng decided to respect his choice.

The match ended in Chapter 452, and the team headed to Jiangning City.

Zhang Qiang lowered his head and slowly walked back to his team's preparation area.

When Zhang Qiang left the field, the entire stadium erupted in enthusiastic cheers.

The match that just took place was undoubtedly the most exciting battle since the start of the competition.

Zhang Qiang's ability to deliver such a performance has earned him widespread recognition.

As for Zhang Qiang raising his hand to admit defeat, although the audience did not hear what Zhang Qiang said, no one felt anything was wrong.

Even Charizard, their ace, lost. The Nine-Tails, lacking stamina, is clearly no match for Ye Feng.

With one more match between Magic University and Peng University, it's perfectly reasonable for Magic University to conserve its energy rather than waste it trying to stop a chariot.

"I'm sorry, Captain, I..." Zhang Qiang stood in front of Xia Mingjie and said softly.

"It's alright." Xia Mingjie patted Zhang Qiang on the shoulder. "Victory and defeat are common in war. We'll just win next time."

Zhang Qiang nodded and silently sat down in his seat.

As soon as he sat down, his teammates surrounded him. Some comforted him, while others marveled at the power of his Charizard. In short, no one complained about him.

"Next, it's my turn to fight." Xia Mingjie pushed up his non-existent glasses and walked proudly toward the battlefield.

On the other side of the audience, Qi Wenbing smiled and said to Xiao Yichen, "I didn't expect to have such an unexpected gain this time. Zhang Qiang is a promising talent."

Xiao Yichen nodded: "Although his other Pokémon are generally not very strong, this Charizard should be his starter Pokémon, right? He put a lot of effort into it, and you could say it was raised to perfection."

This level of skill would rank among the top even within the national team.

In its normal state, Charizard is only at the Master level, but after Mega Evolution, it reaches the peak of the Master level. With the energy boost from the evolution, it might not be enough to reach the Quasi-Legend level, but it can certainly get close.

In the national team, there is no shortage of Master-level Pokémon, but there are very few Master-level peak or near-legendary Pokémon.

Before others achieved Mega Evolution, at most only Xiao Yichen's Blaziken and Shang Yixue's Mega Charizard X had done so.

Xiao Yichen's eyes flickered; he was already considering when to extend an olive branch to Zhang Qiang.

I don't think anyone would refuse the opportunity to join the national team and win glory for the country.

While Qi Wenbing and Xiao Yichen were discussing, the match on the field also began intensely.

Gardevoir's stamina was almost completely depleted after its battle with Charizard.

Xia Mingjie had obviously figured it out as well, so he didn't send out his ace right away, but instead sent out a high-level peak-strength Pokémon.

In the final match, Ye Feng had no need to hold back, so he let Gardevoir continue fighting for another round, barely defeating one of Xia Mingjie's Pokémon before sending it off the field.

"Sigh!" Xia Mingjie pinched the bridge of his nose and sighed helplessly.

Although I had already witnessed Gardevoir's power, facing it in person was a completely different experience.

"Captain Ye's strength is probably the strongest I've ever seen," Xia Mingjie said with a smile, taking out a second Poké Ball.

"Captain Xia is joking," Ye Feng said with a dry laugh. There were far too many people stronger than him.

Xia Mingjie was just being polite, and Ye Feng genuinely didn't dare to say how strong he was either.

To put it simply, just look at Xiao Yichen on the stage; his Mega Blaziken is much stronger than Mega Gardevoir, not to mention those veteran master-level trainers.

When I was searching for the Arceus Tablet, I encountered five wild Pokémon with near-legendary strength in the primeval forests of the Greater Khingan Mountains.

Even wild Pokémon can be near-legendary, and China has a long history with countless trainers. Who knows what kind of trainer might be hiding their strength?

The more he learned, the more Ye Feng realized his own insignificance.

Isn't that common in novels? Some characters are responsible for showing up and making appearances, while others bury themselves in training to improve their strength.

Although he had never met them, Ye Feng had vaguely heard of some families with long histories, the most famous of which was the Gu family, with deep ties to Dragon Island…

Ye Feng's thoughts briefly wandered, but Xia Mingjie's action of sending out the sprite brought him back to reality.

After a moment's thought, Ye Feng threw out Gyarados's Poké Ball.

In fact, Gyarados, with its overconfidence, is best suited for this kind of arena battle.

Unfortunately, Ye Feng was the one defending the title. By the time he went on stage, his opponents were among the strongest, so he couldn't stack too many buffs on Gyarados. He might even lose before he could stack a few.

However, Gyarados doesn't just rely on overconfidence; it also has two other trump cards—Mega Evolution and Z-Moves.

In this round, Ye Feng plans to use the Z-Move.

Although Z-Moves have been around for a while, not many people have actually seen them in person. After all, the New Alola Islands were only recently rebuilt, and the island tour plan has only just been prepared. I'll take this opportunity to show everyone the results of my thesis.

When Gyarados unleashed its Water-type Z-Move, Mega Whirlpool, all the spectators were stunned by the enormous whirlpool, and even Xia Mingjie was momentarily speechless.

The outcome of the match was decided when the Z-Move was used – after all, not everyone's Pokémon is like Brock's Steelix, capable of withstanding a Z-Move without collapsing.

Next up was the third master-level match.

Although both were at the master level, this match was far less exciting than Zhang Qiang's.

Xia Mingjie's ace Pokémon, Magmortar, is quite strong, but only slightly stronger than Zhang Qiang's Charizard.

Ye Feng's Gengar is not only at the mid-master level, but this breed is also known for its unpredictability, so it has no problem defeating a Magmortar.

It was much easier than the match Zhang Qiang played; he won without putting in much effort.

With Ye Feng's victory, Imperial University, having secured two wins, undoubtedly won the championship of this year's university league.

As for the competition for second and third place, it can be said that there is no suspense whatsoever.

With Zhang Qiang as a backup, Mo Da successfully secured the runner-up title, while Peng Da could only reluctantly take third place—there was nothing they could do, given that this year's trainers included two exceptional trainers, Ye Feng and Zhang Qiang.

Captain Wang Shaoyang of Peng Brigade was even more determined to find a pair of key stones and mega stones.

After the competition, the awards ceremony will take place.

The ceremony was quite simple; it consisted of simply going on stage to receive the trophy and giving an acceptance speech.

The real celebration takes place at the evening banquet.

However, all of this had nothing to do with Ye Feng. After receiving the trophy, he secretly left and boarded a plane to Jiangning City.

Guo Pengfei sent him a message—the Elf communication and switching technology has been successfully developed!

That's why he didn't come to watch the game.

"This kid actually figured it out." Ye Feng rested his chin on his hand, looking out the dark window, his eyes sparkling with anticipation.

Who would have thought that the thing I blurted out back then, something that had no technical basis whatsoever, would actually be researched and developed by Guo Pengfei?

With communication and exchange technology, many Pokémon that Ye Feng remembered relying on this method to evolve now had a safe channel to evolve.

After all, without this technology, trainers would have to go into the wild to find similar magnetic fields to evolve their Pokémon, and no one could say what dangers they might encounter in the process.

Who would have thought that the boy who ran away from home, secretly applied to become a breeder, and aspired to become a breeder would become a great inventor?

At the same time, communication and exchange technology has also provided great convenience for trainers to exchange Pokémon, so that they no longer have to travel from one place to another to exchange them face to face.

You can exchange Pokémon with a guarantee by going to an official organization like a Pokémon Center.

Moreover, unlike his own greatest achievements, Mega Evolution and Z-Moves, which only benefit a small number of people, Guo Pengfei's Pokédex and communication technology are inventions that truly benefit all trainers.

"Luckily, this guy struck first, otherwise I'd probably be the one calling him 'boss' now, right?"

As Ye Feng was lost in thought, the lights on the plane suddenly went out.

After a day of fighting, Ye Feng suddenly felt an overwhelming fatigue wash over him. His head bobbed up and down, and he soon fell asleep by the window.

Just as Ye Feng fell asleep, a dark streak suddenly flashed across the sky, and a small patch of sky in the distance began to tremble.

Yes, the sky trembled.

But no one in the night sky noticed any of this.

Chapter 453 Communication Switches

Ye Feng slept soundly the whole way until the flight attendant gently woke him up, only to find that he had arrived at his destination without realizing it.

He got off the plane in a daze, and it took him a while to come to his senses. He took out his phone, turned off airplane mode, and as soon as he connected to the internet, his phone started vibrating wildly.

Ye Feng was stunned for a moment, then looked closely and saw a bunch of messages and missed calls—mostly from his teammates and Dean Chen, all asking where the other person had gone.

Fortunately, Ye Feng sent a message to Haozi before leaving. Although he didn't say where he was going, he was spared the consequences of being treated as a missing person.

After thinking for a moment, Ye Feng dialed Dean Chen's video call.