Pokémon: Hard work pays off, moves can be upgraded infinitely.

The following matches were equally predictable; the students ranked higher on the red team easily secured victories.

Although it wasn't as overwhelming as Mu Yun's victory, it was still relatively easy.

But as time went on, each match became longer and longer.

The last five matches, in particular, were quite intense because the teams were evenly matched.

Aside from a few unlucky ones who encountered incompatible attributes or made mistakes, the students from the smaller class won the other matches.

The first round of elimination matches has now officially ended.

After a short ten-minute break, the second round of the elimination tournament, narrowing down the field from twenty to ten, began.

It's still the same simple and brutal approach: the first-place team beats the last-place team, and the second-place team beats the second-to-last team.

As the number one player, Mu Yun unsurprisingly continued to be the first to compete.

This time, Mu Yun's opponent was a round-faced girl with a single ponytail, one of the few ordinary elf students who survived the first round.

Her fairy is a pink and tender fairy with a round and chubby body, who looks ugly-cute—Big Tongue!

As its name suggests, Big Tongue has a thick, long pink tongue that is about the same length as its height when it is normal. When it exerts force, it can extend to more than twice that length, making its flexibility quite exaggerated.

Furthermore, because the nerves in its tongue are highly developed, a person with a large tongue can make its tongue as flexible as its arm and perform very delicate operations.

For example, it can thicken or thin to a certain extent, even bend or deform, and even perform more delicate and complex movements.

As far as Mu Yun knows, after the passage of the human-elf intermarriage law in California, a free-for-all state, the price of Lickitung elf eggs has remained high.

Many single female trainers with sufficient financial resources will raise one, and there are even cases where they register their marriage.

All I can say is that the flexibility of the human body is just too great.

Putting aside personal preferences, Mu Yun also thinks that the Lickitung is a very good elf.

His high defense and HP, combined with his ability to resist confusion (Uniform) or his ability to resist infatuation and provocation (Slowness), make him an excellent bodyguard-type tank Pokémon.

If you're lucky enough to have a Lickitung with the hidden ability—that it's unaffected by weather—you'll no longer have to worry about extreme weather when exploring the wild.

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[Unrelated to weather: Focusing on itself, prevent weather changes within a certain range, stabilizing it at a slightly cloudy, clear sky.]

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Pulling himself back to reality, Mu Yun looked towards the battlefield.

After the referee announced the start of the match, Mu Yun simply uttered three words: "Cross-cut."

Then, Xiao Du, having gathered his energy, transformed into a shooting star once more and easily defeated the level 20 tongue-twisting monster.

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[Ding! Beedrill (26) defeated Lickitung (20). Permanent Quest 1: Battle Completed. The opponent's level was detected to be lower than yours. Congratulations, host! Reward halved, you have gained 5 points!]

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[Ding! Target detected as Short-Term Task 6: Provincial Joint Examination I. Bonus points awarded: 40!]

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With Big Tongue's defeat, Mu Yun became the first person to secure a spot in the top ten.

After that, the matches proceeded in an orderly manner.

Around 5 p.m., the last match featuring Wu Tu came to an end.

The roster for the match was thus finalized.

There are ten students in total, all from the small class.

The six members of Muyun, plus Li Mingwei (Fire Rock Rat), Huang Can (Proud Swallow), Zheng Rong (Fluffy Sheep), and Xia Dongyu (Mook Bird).

Some are ranked in the top ten of their class based on their hard skills, while others are lucky enough to encounter an elemental advantage.

But no matter what, victory is victory, and sometimes you have to admit that luck is also a part of skill.

After all, critical strikes are all about luck. When the strengths are roughly equal, whichever side triggers a critical strike will immediately tip the scales of victory.

After the selection was finalized, Wang He briefly explained the results and then announced that they would have two days off to adjust their condition. They were to meet at the school gymnasium at 8:00 a.m. on Saturday to go to the city's competition venue together.

After school, most people went home, but a few, like Mu Yun, habitually went to the gravity chamber to train.

For the next two days of the holiday, Mu Yun went to school to train, just like any other weekend.

Before we knew it, it was Saturday.

After the ten members of Muyun gathered at the school gymnasium, they followed Wang He onto a small elephant-brand bus and headed to the city's competition arena.

Pokémon battles are the most popular competitive event among the general public, and therefore every city naturally has a battle arena of a corresponding size.

Although they are both battle arenas, the Songjiang City Battle Arena is much larger than the Beginner Battle Arena and Qingyun Battle Arena that Muyun visited before.

Both the overall scale of the building and the size of the central site are like a fledgling bird compared to an eagle, vastly different.

According to Zhao Hailong, the largest main arena in the city's arena can accommodate a full 7,000 spectators.

The safety level of this battle arena is very high; even gym-level Pokémon can fight to their hearts' content.

It is the place with the highest safety level and the largest battlefield in the city.

Even the arena at the Matsue Dojo isn't this big.

After all, the two have different functions: one is to assess individual trainers and also to address the issue of protection within the city, while the other is to provide a viewing venue for the audience.

As soon as Mu Yun and his group entered the city's battle arena, they saw a group of people wearing school uniforms of the same color who had already entered the hall.

Mu Yun immediately recognized the high school to which the uniform belonged; it was Songjiang No. 2 High School, the school Chi Duoduo had applied to.

However, she was not in the No. 2 High School group at the moment.

According to Duoduo, her master seems to have other plans for her and did not allow her to take up a spot in the Songjiang City competition.

As Mu Yun was thinking, several more buses pulled up in front of the city stadium.

Although Songjiang City is just a small city, it has a considerable number of high schools, with a total of 22 high schools of all sizes, both public and private.

Among them, Songjiang No.1 High School, where Muyun studies, is widely recognized as having the highest teaching quality and the best student body every year.

Next up is Songjiang No. 2 High School, which has always wanted to catch up with No. 1 High School, and Huaxing High School, a private high school that doesn't have high academic requirements but has many wealthy students.

The high schools below that level aren't exactly mediocre, but they certainly aren't the kind of high schools where students focus all their energy on studying.

Especially the lowest-ranked high schools, a large number of rune warriors come from there.

Regardless of the quality, all high schools are eligible to participate.

Sure enough, another bus arrived, and a dozen or so teenagers dressed in punk attire, with brightly colored hair and silver earrings and lip piercings, stepped out.

To be honest, if it weren't for the fact that all the participants were high school students, Mu Yun would have thought he had wandered into some underground dance hall.

Is this really a proper high school?

Mu Yun didn't understand and looked curiously at one of the punk girls.

It wasn't that she was particularly beautiful; it was simply because she had several sharp, spike-like lip piercings on her lower lip.

Mu Yun was very curious: Wouldn't this thing leak when drinking water?