Pokémon: Forced to Become a Dragon Master at the Beginning

Under the night.

Zhao Ruohan leaned on Xia Yu, with her hands wrapped around Xia Yu's arms, and the two of them strolled on the street together, on their way home.

"Xia Yu...I don't want to go back tonight." Zhao Ruohan leaned her head against Xia Yu's shoulder and whispered with a rosy face.

"Then don't go back." Xia Yu's heart was beating wildly when he heard Zhao Ruohan's hint, and he said softly.

"where are we going?"

"Why are you still worried about having no place to live?" Xia Yu replied.

"I miss you." Zhao Ruohan said softly.

"Ah."

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weekend.

The popularity of the online giant laboratory has begun to decline.

Although there are still rumors and various speculations on the Internet, saying that the giant laboratory must have achieved certain experimental results, but until now, the giant laboratory where Xia Yu is located has not made any response.

This also made everyone begin to doubt whether the giant laboratory had mastered the experimental results of giant Pokémon.

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At the same time, the much anticipated gym owner ranking competition officially kicked off.

Different from the previous Gym Master Rank Competitions, this year's Gym Master Rank Competition has made certain adjustments, or innovations, to the competition system.

The gym owner ranking competition is divided into three stages: qualifying round, breakout round and final.

The first round is the qualifying round, and the Pokémon Association will re-rank the participants based on their strength.

Then all participating trainers will take part in a one-month ranking competition and try their best to reach the top.

As of the last day, the top ten contestants will enter the second stage of the breakout round.

The top two players will skip the breakout round and advance directly to the final.

The other eight contestants ranked 3-10 will participate in the breakout round. After two rounds of competition, only two contestants will enter the final.

The finals are divided into two games, the semi-finals where the top 4 teams compete to the top 2 and the final.

During the qualifying stage, the rules adopted are six-choice singles matches, and any props can be brought.

During the breakout stage, the rules adopted are six-choice-three singles matches, and any props can be brought.

In the final stage, the rules adopted are 66-man singles, and all players can bring any props.

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Arceus Center.

The crowd was huge and the seats were all occupied.

Xia Yu sat in the backstage, his eyes fixed on the live broadcast on TV. Eve and Karl sat on the side, their eyes also fixed on the TV.

On TV, countless viewers wore the uniforms of their favorite players, held up cheering signs, and cheered for their favorite players.

Among them, the audience supporting Xia Yu accounted for more than one-third, and most of them were young audiences in their teens and twenties.

"Dear trainers, dear audience friends, welcome to watch this gym leader ranking competition..." The Pokémon Association President Qu Jing personally hosted this gym leader ranking competition.

This was also the last major event hosted by Qu Jing.

After this gym leader ranking competition, Qu Jing will retire and step down from the position of president of the Pokémon Association.

"Xia Yu...will your initial ranking be first?" Eve was watching TV, turned her head and looked at Xia Yu curiously and asked.

"How should I know?" Xia Yu replied, "It will be announced soon, you will know after you take a look. And it doesn't matter whether you are first or not, this is just the initial ranking, and there will be another month of qualifying to determine the final ranking."

"Okay." Eve responded in a low voice: "Although the initial ranking is useless, it at least represents the Pokémon Association's recognition of you."

"You just care too much about what others think. As long as I have the ability to be the best, it doesn't matter where I rank." Xia Yu looked at Eve and said.

"Got it." Eve responded: "Xia Yu, come here, let me take a picture of you."

“What are you taking pictures for?”

"I am now managing your social media accounts and fan base, so take more photos and post updates."

"alright."

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While Eve was taking photos of Xia Yu, Qu Jing on TV continued to speak: "Now let's announce the initial rankings of all contestants!"

As Qu Jing's voice sounded, a ranking list appeared on the huge screen.

"No. 1, Xia Yu."

"No. 2, Qin Yuncong."

"No. 3, Zhao Zhigang."

"..."

The initial ranking did not surprise everyone, with Xia Yu ranking first with absolute popularity and strength.

Qin Yuncong and Zhao Zhigang followed closely behind, ranking second and third respectively.

"Wow, Xia Yu, you are really number one." Eve smiled happily, as if she was ranked first.

While Eve was talking, she posted a photo of Xia Yu that she had just taken online, along with a caption.

"Prepare for the Gym Leader Qualifying Tournament. Come on!"

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"I declare that the Gym Master Qualifying Tournament has officially begun!"

As the host's voice sounded, the museum owner ranking competition officially began.

During this month, each contestant must stay at several competition venues officially announced by the Pokémon Association from 9 am to 5 pm to accept challenges from other contestants.

The challenge rules for the qualifying round are very complicated, and Xia Yu did not look at them in detail. Simply put, only the lower-ranked player can challenge the higher-ranked player, and the ranking difference between the two cannot be too big.

For example, players ranked 11-20 can challenge players ranked 1-10.

At the same time, you cannot challenge the same person continuously, and each person must accept at least one challenge every half day, etc.

The detailed rules were too complicated for Xia Yu to remember. He only knew that the only thing he needed to do was to wait quietly for other people's challenges and defeat every opponent.

To put it simply, just keep winning.

When the game started, Xia Yu was a little nervous and waited quietly for the challenge to come.

But unfortunately, when the scrolling news on the electronic screen kept announcing that player XXX had defeated player XXX, there was no player challenging Xia Yu for the time being.

Everyone knows that Xia Yu is a real tough nut to crack. Xia Yu’s strength is extremely strong, and the existence of mega evolution and Z moves has discouraged others from challenging Xia Yu.

After all, in a 2V2 singles match, Xia Yu can use mega evolution twice, which is simply cheating, and the hope of winning can be said to be very slim.

In contrast to Xia Yu, Qin Yuncong encountered challenges from other players almost as soon as the competition began.

After all, compared with the famous Xia Yu, the second-place Qin Yuncong undoubtedly looks more like a soft persimmon, but unfortunately, these players obviously underestimated Qin Yuncong's strength.

"The fifth contestant Qian Duoduo challenges the second place Qin Yuncong!"

When Xia Yu heard about Qin Yuncong's match, he also turned the TV screen to this match.

"Go ahead, Algae Dragon."

"Go ahead, Madam Huajie!"

The Pokémon released by Qin Yuncong were relatively normal, at least they were dragon-type Pokémon with both poison and dragon attributes.

On the other side, the Pokémon sent out by Qian Duoduo, who was ranked fifth, was a bit unsportsmanlike. He directly sent out the fairy-type Madam Hua Jie.

Of course, Qian Duoduo’s tactics are also normal.

After all, this is a competition for Dragon-type trainers, and every contestant has at least three Dragon-type Pokémon.

In order to target their peers, almost all players carry Ice or Fairy-type Pokémon.

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