Pokémon: Starting with a Pokémon Ranch.

Chapter 50 One move... and he's made it to the finals? (Please continue reading)

This competition appears to be taking place on a grassy area outside the town.

Around the grass, Rock-type Pokémon were using the move "Wide Guard" to reinforce the surrounding terrain.

This time, there were about four hundred ranchers participating in the competition.

Just as Uncle Yang said, there were quite a few new ranchers among these ranchers, probably all newcomers this year. Su Yu even spotted a rancher in the crowd who had brought his sheep, Mare, to the competition.

"Is Mareep a solo player, or is it because there are no other Pokémon on the farm, so they had to bring Mareep to the competition?" Su Yu wondered.

That's... on par with Hop.

Unsurprisingly, the rancher with the Mareep was eliminated in the first round of the preliminary competition. His Mareep couldn't even withstand a single attack from the Onix.

"As expected, there are still many ranchers who aren't very capable; not every rancher is as skilled as Uncle Yang..."

Su Yu thought to himself.

That's true. Given the size of Uncle Yang's ranch, it's one of the top ranches in the pastoral area.

There are also many ranchers who run small ranches.

"It seems that the tropical dragon doesn't even need four-bladed blades anymore; perhaps two-bladed blades will suffice. This group isn't even as strong as that man in sunglasses."

Watching the game on the field, Su Yu thought to himself.

Among these ranchers, only a few are strong; the rest probably treat ranching as their main job and don't train their Pokémon much on a regular basis.

At this moment, it was Su Yu's turn to play. This was Su Yu's first formal match since arriving in this world.

"Su Yu, keep it up! You have to beat them!" Yang Hao cheered as Su Yu stood up.

At this moment, the commentator, holding the microphone, began to introduce the two teams entering the game.

"The one coming on the left is Su Yu from Su Yu Ranch. He is a rancher who just returned to the ranch area this year to resume his ranch business. He is also a very young player."

"And coming up on the right is Ah Xian from Super Strength Ranch! This contestant achieved a top 16 finish last year and is a highly anticipated player."

When Su Yu and Ah Xian took to the stage, the audience started discussing among themselves. However, it seemed that more people favored Ah Xian.

They pointed at Su Yu and said:

"Who is this? I don't recognize him."

"Indeed, he's a new face; I've never seen him before."

"I have met him before. He seems to be the grandson of Grandpa Su Qingshan. He's also a Pokémon doctor. When my Pokémon were sick, I had him treat them."

"Huh? The doctor's participating too? Does that mean he's doomed to lose? He's facing last year's top 16!"

Hearing the comments from the audience, Ah Xian on the other side also smiled and said:

"It seems the audience isn't very optimistic about you, so what are you going to do?"

Upon hearing this, Su Yu pursed his lips. "What can I do? I'll just have Tropical Dragon take out your Strength in a second."

With my tropical dragon's strength, defeating one of your top 16 opponents would be a piece of cake.

Seeing that the opponent had released a monster with super strength, Su Yu also released a tropical dragon.

When the referee said "start," both sides simultaneously gave the following instructions:

"Mega Strength, Thunder Fist!"

"Tropical Dragon, Leaf Blade, just use all your strength to take down the opponent instantly."

Upon hearing this, both sides attacked simultaneously. However, Tropius was clearly faster, and in a flash, it appeared in front of Machamp, slashing its Leaf Blade directly into Machamp's abdomen.

Following Su Yu's command, the Leaf Blade attack was extremely powerful. However, to avoid injuring the opponent too severely, Tropius reduced the sharpness of the Leaf Blade, but even so, it almost knocked out the entire breakfast of the Mighty Giant.

Immediately, the monster lost its ability to fight and collapsed to the ground.

Tropical Dragon, however, confidently turned around and returned to Su Yu's side.

—How do you explain it, killing him in one move?

Seeing this, the audience fell silent for a moment.

After a while, the audience below the stage finally realized what was going on and how the person had been defeated so quickly.

"Isn't this one of last year's top 16 players? How come he's so weak? Are you guys throwing the match?" someone questioned.

"No, it wasn't a fixed match. Ah Xian's superhuman strength rendered him incapable of fighting. The winner is... Su Yu!"

It was only then that the referee realized what was happening and quickly counted down the score to confirm the result of the match.

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In the following matches, Su Yu advanced to the next round with ease.

Tropical dragons are still too powerful for these ranchers.

Every time, the tropical dragon would use its leaf blades to instantly kill its opponent, without any suspense.

This left the audience watching the whole thing stunned. In other venues, matches would take half a day to decide a winner, but here, you wiped out the opponent in an instant.

Are you in a hurry to finish the game and go home?

And by defeating his opponents one after another, Su Yu entered the semifinals of the competition.

It's worth mentioning that, just like last year, Uncle Yang was eliminated in the quarterfinals. He was quite shocked when he learned that Su Yu had made it to the semifinals.

"What he said before was actually true, and he really made it to the semifinals?"

"What the hell? When did this kid become so strong?"

You kid, before you went back to the ranch, weren't you a high school senior studying medicine? How come you've become even more capable than me in the blink of an eye?

Are all medical students this strong?

Yang Hao was also surprised that in just a few months, his childhood friend had become even more formidable than his own father.

He glanced at the upcoming schedule and said to Su Yu:

"Su Yu, your next opponent is an uncle who uses Iron Palm Warrior. The other group in your semi-finals has already finished, and the winner is the rancher who uses Onix."

"If you can win this match, then when you face a Rancher using Onix, the type advantage will give you a huge edge. So, just play it safe in the next match."

Upon hearing this, Su Yu nodded, but at that moment, his cell phone rang in his pocket.

He took out his phone and glanced at it; it seemed to be a message from a rancher he had previously treated.

Makushita Ranch: "Dr. Su, I'm your opponent in the next match. Please don't make me lose too badly... At least save some face for me in the rancher group."

"I'll come over and bring you some local specialties later."

Upon seeing this message, Su Yu raised an eyebrow in surprise. Okay... social niceties, huh?

It's not that it's impossible. We can make the tropical dragon's acting more realistic in the next match. After all, he's a rancher who's been treated for his illness, so we shouldn't let him lose so badly.

"Okay, then I want that strange meteorite I saw at your house last time," Su Yu replied immediately.

Upon seeing this message, Makushita Rikishi's trainer paused for a moment. "Do you want that meteorite?"

Why does Dr. Su collect these strange stones? Does she have some peculiar hobby?

However, the meteorite wasn't particularly valuable; it just happened to land on his ranch. Therefore, the rancher readily agreed, since it wasn't meant to be used to assassinate some old space astronaut.

And that's how Su Yu and the rancher reached an agreement.

When the next match began, the audience was expecting to see the same kind of swift and decisive victory as before.

Although many viewers initially didn't want to watch these kinds of matches that ended in quick succession, since they weren't very entertaining, like some things, what you initially disliked, you gradually came to like as you watched.

However, when Su Yu sent out the Tropical Dragon and the opponent sent out the Iron Fist Warrior, the instant kill they had expected did not occur. Because… the Tropical Dragon and the Iron Fist Warrior were putting on an act!

This caused many viewers to immediately start cursing, and some of them even made bets with their friends on whether Su Yu could kill the opponent instantly this time.

Upon seeing this, they immediately shouted "Refund!"

After some social maneuvering, Iron Fist Warrior finally conceded defeat. Then, upon confirming that his opponent was a Grass-type Tropius, Onix's trainer immediately withdrew from the fight.

—What the hell? His Onix is ​​four times weak to Grass, and this Tropius's Leaf Blade move is so powerful, how can he possibly fight it head-on?

"You two are teaming up to slap me, aren't you!" the Onix trainer yelled. But judging by his calculations, Ironhide was probably no match for that Tropius. Who knew what other tricks those powerful Tropius might be up their sleeves?

Throughout the entire rancher competition, this tropical dragon only displayed one move: Leaf Blade. It didn't use any other moves.

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The rancher competition isn't very important, since these ranchers are unlikely to be too strong, so it ends with just one chapter.

I'm wondering what everyone thinks of this kind of competitive pace. As a new author, I really need everyone's suggestions to help me improve.

(End of this chapter)