Elf: Start with small diamonds, then mutate into Diancie!

A large sun appears above the little diamond, its warm rays shining down on the pink diamond-adorned body of the little diamond, making it sparkle brilliantly.

As the sun rose, the warm sunlight and the snow clouds balanced each other, creating the spectacular sight of snow falling on one side of the field while the sky remained clear on the other.

"Does this sparkly little diamond know weather moves?!"

Mu Xia exclaimed in surprise. Apart from a very few types of Pokémon that are particularly gifted with weather, weather moves have always been notoriously difficult to learn.

In this world, Pokémon cannot be generalized. Although everyone's Pokémon may have a certain move in their move pool, your Pokémon may be able to learn it, but my Pokémon may never be able to learn it.

Weather-based moves are notoriously difficult to master.

Mu Xia remembered that Scramble was a Pokémon specializing in both defenses, but Su Hao took a different approach and did not use Scramble as a tank. Instead, he made Scramble a support and disruptor.

It must be said that a team of Drill Smash and Incineroar, who have mastered the Sunny Day move, can still compete with the Weather and Trick Room teams that dominate doubles battles.

"An elite-level ace, Blazing Roaring Tiger, and an elite-level support-specialized Little Diamond. Perhaps, he can participate in the school team selection as a substitute player in his first year of university."

"It is very necessary to contact the school and get in touch with Su Hao first."

Dai Wu and Mu Xia were clearly thinking in the same direction: as long as they could recruit Su Hao into the university and let him grow for a while, Shanghai University could dominate the national college league for the next few years with Su Hao's help.

"It's quite impressive that it was able to suppress the Nine-Tails."

Zhao Xuecheng was pleasantly surprised, never expecting that Little Diamond could compete with his Nine-Tailed Fox, which had an exceptional talent for weather.

"Thank you for the compliment, Blazing Roaring Tiger, Great Flame Burst!"

"Crack!"

The Blazing Roaring Tiger roared at an extremely high decibel level, and the flame belt around its waist once again spewed out even more flames than before, forming a large, fiery explosion.

"The water flow bursts open!"

The crimson flames surged along the icy field towards the Great Whale. Zhao Xuecheng understood that with a similar strength, the Great Whale's ice-type moves wouldn't be able to stop the flames, so he would have to use water-type moves instead.

Water and ice have always been inseparable. Water-type Pokémon can learn ice-type moves, so my ice-type Pokémon can learn water-type moves too!

The massive whale's fins on both sides of its enormous body swirled around the water, and the entire Pokémon spun around, continuously slicing through the air with explosive flames.

But ultimately, the explosive flames under the auspicious sunshine were even stronger. The water flow disappeared, and the massive whale, powerless to continue its rotation, was swallowed up by the explosive flames.

"boom!"

The explosive effect and strong wind from the large fireball hit the target and swept across the field. A few seconds later, the massive whale, with burn marks on its body and a white body that had turned black, was revealed.

"It actually withstood that Flame Burst attack... No wonder it's a Pokémon from a former Elite Four trainer."

Mu Xia thought that the outcome of the battle was already decided after the Great Whale was swallowed by the Great Character Explosion Flame, but the Great Whale stubbornly withstood it.

"A fantastic burst of flame! Even the mighty whale can't hold on any longer. How about we settle this with the next attack?"

Zhao Xuecheng feels that at his age, he is already very satisfied to see outstanding younger generations rise up.

“Okay,” Su Hao replied.

"Nine-Tailed Fox, magic flashes! Mighty Whale, charge forward with all your might!"

As a meritorious member of the Shenzhou Alliance, Zhao Xuecheng has the right to decide whether to issue badges, and the Shenzhou Alliance also believes that Zhao Xuecheng will not give out badges casually.

Zhao Xuecheng felt that Su Hao's performance was enough to qualify him for the Extreme Ice Badge, and regardless of the outcome of the final blow, he would give the badge to Su Hao.

"Small Diamond, Magic Flash to block Nine-Tailed Fox! Blazing Roaring Tiger, Flash Charge, target: Vast Whale!"

Su Hao gave the order. He roughly understood what Zhao Xuecheng, the gym leader, meant. Now, all he needed to do was show the best side of the Blazing Roaring Tiger and the Little Diamond.

The magical sparks collided and canceled each other out. Little Diamond understood that she only needed to play a support role in this battle, and that she just needed to trust the kitten.

The Blazing Roaring Tiger, its body wreathed in crimson flames crackling with electricity, charged toward the massive whale enveloped in a white light membrane with unstoppable momentum.

When the two collided, they were initially locked in a stalemate.

However, the Great Whale's strength was constantly weakened due to its own injuries, and once it showed signs of weakness, it would be difficult to turn the tide.

The Blazing Roaring Tiger's crimson flashing charge continuously broke through the white light membrane formed by the Great Whale's moves, inflicting damage upon it.

"Oh!"

Finally, with the massive whale flying backwards and crashing into the unscathed arena, the outcome of the match was decided.

"The Great Whale is incapacitated; the match continues!" Roger announced the Great Whale's defeat.

"There's no need to continue. It's a victory for Xiao Su. Continuing to fight will only increase the Pokémon's injuries and will be meaningless."

Zhao Xuecheng waved his hand to indicate that he had lost. At his age, his desire to win had long faded, and there was no need to let the Nine-Tailed Fox suffer any more damage that would render it unable to fight and cause it to faint.

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Palkia

Chapter 69 The Blizzard Strikes

"Here you go, Xiao Su, this is a beginner-level Extreme Ice Badge."

Zhao Xuecheng took out an exquisite snowflake-shaped badge from his pocket and handed it to Su Hao.

"Thank you, Master Zhao." Su Hao accepted the badge with both hands.

"Xiao Su, may I ask if this is your first badge?"

Zhao Xuecheng looked curious. His alliance backend could only show that Su Hao was qualified to challenge the beginner dojo, but it could not show the number of badges he held.

Because he usually lived on Ice Feather Mountain, he didn't have much interaction with the other seventeen masters, so he naturally didn't receive any news about Su Hao.

Mu Xia and Dai Wu, who were standing nearby, also turned their curious gazes over, as they too wanted to know the answer.

"No, this is my second badge. I got the first one from Gym Leader Jiewei at the Water Boat Gym."

Su Hao responded calmly.

"Wow, that's the second one already! Then I can look forward to the day you complete all four badges." Zhao Xuecheng exclaimed with admiration.

"I will try my best not to disappoint Master Zhao's expectations," Su Hao replied with a calm and composed expression.

"Su Hao, you've already gotten your second badge in such a short time. It seems you might be able to enter university before next year!" Mu Xia said with admiration as she leaned over, and Dai Wu nodded in agreement.

"I will do my best to achieve it."

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"Well then, it's my turn to fight Daigo. I hope you'll give me your guidance, Master Zhao!"

Mu Xia stretched her body and looked at Zhao Xuecheng with a fighting spirit.

"I remember, those two young guys from Shanghai University were going to take on the intermediate dojo challenge, right?"

“Yes, Master Zhao,” the two replied.

"Then let's register first."

Zhao Xuecheng led the two to a Shenzhou Union computer installed nearby and conducted a series of identity verifications.

"Registration successful. Who wants to go first?"

Contrary to his appearance, Zhao Xuecheng was highly skilled in computer operation and completed the registration in no time.

"I'll go first."

"She goes first."

The two spoke in unison, clearly having the same idea.

"Okay, let's begin then." Zhao Xuecheng didn't care who went first.

After Roger returned to the arena to read out the rules of the match, both players simultaneously released their Pokémon.

Zhao Xuecheng used two elite-level late-game Pokémon this time: a Water/Ice type Cloyster and a Fighting/Ice type Crab.

Muxia also sent out two elite-level late-stage Pokémon: a Fire/Ghost type Blaziken and a Fire/Fighting type Blaziken with the Speed-Up ability.

Her Blaziken exuded power, giving the impression that she was about to break through to the professional level.

At the start of the battle, Blaziken leaped high into the air and attacked Cloyster, while Blaziken followed the competitive Crab in close combat.

In the back-and-forth exchange, the battered Azure Blade Demon successfully defeated the Competitive Hairy Crab with its signature move, "Regret Sword," but was then struck down by the overwhelming rock blasts from Shell-Breaking Shell-Beater, which Blaziken was struggling to defend against.

Finally, Blaziken, covered in wounds, barely managed to dodge Cloyster's overwhelming attacks thanks to its Speed ​​Boost ability, and found an opening to narrowly defeat Cloyster.

After Muxia's battle, it was Daigo's turn.

Zhao Xuecheng also sent out two elite-level late-game Pokémon: Abomasnow with the Grass/Ice type and Snowfall ability, and a pseudo-legendary Pokémon with the Dragon/Ice type, Spinecrophos.

Daigo also sent out a pseudo-legendary second-stage—elite-level MetalGreymon. What was amazing was that this MetalGreymon was shiny. Su Hao had a strange feeling that if Daigo was still the heir to a certain company, he could directly hallucinate Daigo as the third-generation Steel-type champion, Steven!

Daigo's second Pokémon was a Steel/Ghost-type Aegislash, which was different from Daigo's team.

At the start of the battle, the Snow King, who was showering snowflakes, swung his wooden mallet and kept hitting the shield of the Shield Sword Monster defending in front of the Metal Monster.

The metal monster continuously bombarded the Frozen Spine Dragon with its cannon beams.

The Frozen Spine Dragon quickly approached the Metal Monster with its agile movements, then gathered ice energy on its dorsal fin to form an ice sword, and with a backflip, stabbed straight at the Metal Monster.

As a sturdy shield for the Metal Monster, the Aegislash switched to its sword form and used a holy sword attack to block the ice sword that formed on the dorsal fin of the Frozen Spine Dragon.

When transformed into sword form, Aegislash's defenses naturally became vulnerable. Absolute Zero directly struck Aegislash, which was locked in a stalemate with Frostleaf, rendering it unable to fight.

At the same time, the Metal Monster's Iron Head, which had been charging up for a long time, also took away the Frozen Spine Dragon.

After the battle turned into a one-on-one duel, MetalGreymon, with its superior physical abilities as a pseudo-god, finally outlasted Abomasnow and secured the victory for Daigo.

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All three obtained their badges and, taking advantage of the early hour, bid farewell to Master Zhao Xuecheng and followed Roger down the mountain.

The descent was much faster than the ascent, and the four of them completed a quarter of the journey in no time.

The four of them were laughing and discussing how they thought they could reach Ice Peak City before dark when the sky suddenly darkened without warning.

In just a few breaths, snowflakes danced in the air, and a biting wind howled in, the wind like a sharp sword flying through the night sky, emitting sharp whistling sounds.

"How did a blizzard suddenly appear?! I checked the weather forecast before I left, and there was no blizzard today!"

Roger's incredulous voice came through the sharp whistling sound, slightly distorted.

"Everyone, keep yourselves secure and prepare for the cold! Do not wander off!"

Roger roared, but the blizzard was too strong, and the four of them unknowingly separated.