At the Starfall Colosseum, a famous ancient battleground in France, two world-class Champion trainers stood facing each other, accompanied by their most cherished partners.
Fu Peiyao's voice sounded very excited: "Who do you think will win between them?"
Mu Li frowned and didn't answer. Instead, Song Ling'er, who was beside him, quickly replied, "That's definitely Uncle Long!"
Mu Li asked in confusion, "Are you that sure?"
Song Ling'er showed a smug smile and replied, "Of course! Uncle Long is my idol!"
Alright, so she's just a crazy fan.
Seemingly noticing Mu Li's expression, Song Ling'er retorted, a little unconvinced, "Then who do you say will win?"
Mu Li shrugged and said, "How would I know… It's just an exhibition match, 1-on-1. Whoever gets lucky wins, I guess."
"Tch, that's like saying nothing at all," Song Ling'er said grumpily.
"Based on luck? That's so boring…" Fu Peiyao also said, feeling a bit deflated.
"No choice. Both of their signature Pokémon are pretty much at the same level, Heavenly King Level. It's hard to say who will win or lose," Mu Li shrugged.
"Heavenly King Level? What's that?" Song Ling'er asked, puzzled.
Mu Li pursed his lips and smiled, "Haha, it's nothing, it just means they're very powerful."
"Exactly! Our Uncle Long is the most powerful!" Song Ling'er laughed and shouted towards the front, "Go, Uncle Long!"
Seeing Song Ling'er excitedly cheering, Fu Peiyao suddenly leaned close to Mu Li and whispered, "How about compared to you?"
"Compared to me?" Mu Li said, feigning disdain, "I can let them fight for ten minutes first."
Under normal circumstances, a 1-on-1 battle has a ten-minute time limit. Letting the opponent fight for ten minutes first means that as soon as I make a move, the match will end.
Fu Peiyao wrinkled her nose, made a face, and said, "Braggart."
The combatants had already entered the arena. Mikailuo didn't make everyone wait long and quickly announced: The battle officially begins!
As Mikailuo's voice fell, Charizard and Dragonite almost simultaneously let out a dragon roar. A powerful aura burst forth from both Pokémon, shaking the clouds.
Almost at the instant the dragon roars ended, Charizard unleashed a Flamethrower directly towards Dragonite's location.
Dragonite's figure flickered, transforming into an orange streak of light. It dodged Charizard's Flamethrower with a Z-shaped movement, reaching Charizard's front in the blink of an eye.
It raised its hand and delivered an Ice Punch.
Charizard also raised its hand and met it with an Ice Punch. The two clashed in mid-air, and the violent energy impact caused an explosion, knocking both of them back several steps.
Before they could stabilize, they flapped their wings, steadied themselves in the air, and clashed again.
"So strong!" Fu Peiyao murmured.
"Indeed. Austan's Charizard has undergone special close-combat training," Mu Li explained. "His close-range attack power is no weaker than Dragonite's."
"Huh? Then won't Dragonite be unable to beat him?" Fu Peiyao asked, a little worried.
"These are just probes; neither side has gotten serious yet," Mu Li explained.
The two sides fought as if by agreement, exchanging punches and claws, from the ground to the air, and then from the air back to the ground.
After fighting for quite a while, neither side gained an advantage.
But the audience was extremely excited.
It was like watching two martial arts masters exchanging moves; even the probing techniques were already extremely dangerous to everyone.
However, after this round of probing, both sides stopped almost simultaneously.
Mu Li's mouth curved into a smile: "Watch closely, they're about to get serious!"
As soon as he finished speaking, both sides shouted almost simultaneously.
"Feel the heat of the flames! Charizard, Mega Evolve!"
"Go all out! Dragonite! Dynamax!"
Two dazzling lights simultaneously illuminated the arena. Charizard on the left side of the battleground flashed in a silvery-white evolution light, soaring into the sky, transforming into a flame. Its originally slightly plump body also became more streamlined.
Mega Charizard Y appeared!
And on the right side of the battle stage, a dark red light enveloped Dragonite's entire body. Dragonite's body rapidly expanded in the dazzling red light, instantly transforming into a giant dragon god that reached the sky, and a powerful dragon's might instantly enveloped the entire venue.
Dynamax Dragonite appeared!
The ultimate Fire-type move, Blast Burn, VS Max Wyrmwind!
The clash of Fire and Dragon dual-types triggered a series of violent explosions. The intense wind pressure caused by the explosions made the audience in the entire venue unable to open their eyes.
"So strong!" At this moment, not only the audience but even the competing trainers watching were utterly astonished.
The American trainer: "This has already exceeded the scope of a Champion, hasn't it?"
"Is this even human?" a South Korea trainer wondered.
The Japanese trainer: "Too powerful. Is this the power of the world's number one? It's truly astonishing!"
...
Just as trainers from all countries were in shock, everyone suddenly noticed that the trainers from China appeared unusually calm.
Especially the Champion trainers and top-ranked Elite trainers, while the newcomers who had just entered the Heavenly King Level seemed unusually excited.
Some trainers from Russia who were on good terms with the Chinese trainers asked Yan Jin, somewhat puzzled, "You guys aren't excited? That's power beyond a Champion!"
Yan Jin pursed his lips, looked at the explosion on the battleground, hesitated for a long time, and then replied, "Uh, we're just too shocked, we're stunned."
Zhang Yi almost burst out laughing. He forcefully suppressed the corners of his mouth from curling up and echoed, "That's right, that's right, we're all stunned!"
Guan Tong shook her head speechlessly from the side, looking at the two battling in the arena, and sighed slightly.
It's not that we're not surprised; we've been dealing with this level of battle every day for the past few weeks, so we're quite used to it.
On the battleground, after the clash of power, both sides began to display top-tier combat proficiency.
Dragonite utilized the size advantage brought by Dynamax to approach Mega Charizard Y, attempting to control the battle range to close combat.
Facing the Dynamax Dragonite, Mega Charizard Y clearly wouldn't enter its close-combat range.
Thus, both sides began to contend over attack distance.
One side tried various ways to close the distance, while the other tried every possible way to create distance and bombard it with firepower.
However, the battleground had its limits, which greatly favored the Dynamax Dragonite. In just a few exchanges, Mega Charizard Y had no space left to dodge.
Since there was nowhere to hide, Mega Charizard Y simply stopped dodging.
It directly unleashed a Blast Burn, while attempting to circle around the Dynamax Dragonite, continuously attacking with Flamethrower.
But Charizard was so focused on dodging Dragonite's fists that it forgot about the Dragon Tail.
A Dragon Tail in its Dynamax state directly knocked Mega Charizard Y back to its original form.
Just as Dynamax Dragonite was about to deliver the final blow, Dynamax also reached its time limit, and Dragonite returned to its normal state.
Charizard had taken a heavy hit and its stamina was almost depleted, but Dragonite's condition wasn't much better.
The stamina consumed by Dynamax, plus Charizard's continuous use of flames to harass it earlier, resulted in Dragonite's stamina also being almost at its limit.