Chapter 387: Battle against Xiaozhi, 1VS7!

"One against seven"

Xiaoxia and Xiaogang opened their eyes wide, with expressions of disbelief on their faces.

Should I say bold or confident?

At least they didn't dare say so.

Xiaozhi didn't feel insulted, instead he felt very excited.

Fighting against Mr. Luo Mu = getting a lot of experience = becoming stronger = being able to easily defeat Xiao Mao in the Silver Conference!

In a battle like this, if you don’t fight, you’re just a puppy!
Thinking of this, Xiaozhi shouted loudly: "I couldn't ask for more!"

In the Kanto region, Xiaozhi was undoubtedly immature as a trainer during his travels to challenge the Quartz Conference.

Even many of the badges obtained during the travels were given to you as a gift from the gym leaders.

Although under the spur of the Messenger Bird, before Charizard and Ash had a complete heart-to-heart talk in the Orange Islands, Pikachu took on the responsibility of the team's ace and prevented Ash from losing to Hiro in the round of 16.

But in the subsequent games, even though Pikachu had made progress, he was unable to continue leading the team.

To put it bluntly, there are simply too many Pokémon in Ash's team.

Satoshi at this stage was far from being as mature as he will be later. It would be better to say that he even has some inferiority complex in his heart. His only goal is to surpass his rival, Shaun, instead of treating Shaun as a goal that he must surpass before becoming a Pokémon Master.

Even if these problems will be improved in future travels, from Luo Mu's perspective, looking at the current Ash, apart from his sincere heart for Pokémon and his love for battles, he does not see much of the future world's strongest trainer.

Let Xiaozhi use seven Pokémon, including Charizard which has not yet returned to Charizard Valley, in order to see Xiaozhi's current strength and to try to see if he can "open up" in advance.

Luo Mu also knew that after becoming a teacher, his thoughts always tended to turn towards "education", but he really didn't hate this feeling.

They found an open space that would not destroy the beautiful green plants on the green grassland. Luo Mu stood on the left and Xiaozhi stood on the right. A temporary 1VS7 battle with Xiaogang as the referee began in this simple way.

"Ohhh, take the victory, Fireball Mouse!"

Xiaozhi threw the Poké Ball, and a red light flashed. A dark blue and cream-yellow Pokémon with a pillar of fire spewing from its back appeared in front of Luo Mu and the Messenger Bird.

The Fire Rat Pokémon, Charmeleon, has a naturally fire attribute, and its characteristic is probably blazing fire. It is one of the three starter Pokémon released in the Johto region.

Xiaoxia and Xiaogang were both stunned.

Is this still the Xiaozhi they know?
He even remembered the attribute restraint clearly and specially sent out the Fireball Rat to restrain the Messenger Bird.

As soon as the Fireball Rat landed on the ground, the pillar of fire on its back, symbolizing its emotions and state, burned fiercely, and its eyes, narrowed like a line, stared at the messenger bird as if facing a great enemy.

It can clearly sense the gap between itself and the messenger bird, so it is more vigilant.

But Xiaozhi, whose fighting style was reckless, had not thought about this and shouted confidently: "Calpita, use Lightning Flash on Messenger!"

Infernape listens to Xiaozhi very well. Even though it knows that approaching the messenger bird rashly may bring unexpected dangers, it is still covered in white light and rushes towards the messenger bird at an extremely fast speed!

Luo Mu only used a brief command to resolve the attack for the messenger bird.

"Fly."

The messenger bird lifted its tail, and as the ground created a layer of air currents, it immediately rose into the air.

Seeing that the Fireball Mouse missed, Xiaozhi said again: "High-speed Star!"

The Fireball Rat twisted its body, and a large number of golden five-pointed stars dragged its gorgeous tail, flying straight towards the messenger bird.

"Use Yanfan."

Facing high-speed stars that have a certain degree of "must hit" characteristics.

The messenger bird rose high into the sky, with sky-blue flocs of air rolling around it. When it was about to make contact with the high-speed star that was chasing it from behind, it suddenly stopped flying and made a difficult rapid descent to avoid the high-speed star. At the same time, the raptor that came down to hunt it knocked it away at a speed that the Fireball Mouse could hardly react to!

Bang-!
"Fireball rat!"

The knocked-away Incharlie rolled on the ground for several times before it barely stopped. Xiaozhi shouted worriedly, but the flame behind Incharlie flickered a few times and then went out because Incharlie lost consciousness.

silence--

Charizard and Pikachu standing on his shoulder suddenly showed solemn expressions.

That flying skill.
"Didn't the Fireball Rat even have a chance to use his signature flamethrower?"

Xiaoxia hugged Togepi tightly in her arms and murmured to herself.

When Xiaozhi quickly stepped forward and picked up the Charmeleon, Xiaogang's slightly heavy voice rang out: "Charmeleon has lost his ability to fight!"

"Yes~"

The messenger bird landed in front of Luo Mu and raised its head to ask for credit.

Luo Mu smiled and touched the messenger bird's head, then turned to look at Victini on his shoulder.

"Timmy~"

Victini shook his head slightly.

How to say it, if the Messenger Bird had not been concentrating on feeling the victory wave brought by its victory over the Fireball Rat, it might not have been noticed at all because it was too weak.

Luo Mu understood what Victini wanted to express, and looked at Xiaozhi, who had become a little quieter after taking back the Inchater, with resentment written all over his face.

He said nothing, but waited for Ash to release the second Pokémon.

"Chrysanthemum leaves!"

Ash's second Pokémon is a cutie with a dark green leaf on its head, a light green body, and red eyes.

The Leaf Pokémon Chikorita has the Grass attribute and its characteristic is probably lushness. It is two of the three starter Pokémon released in the Johto region.

As soon as Chikorita left the Poké Ball, it ran to Ash's feet and rubbed his calves happily.

Its big red eyes were full of affection, which shocked Luo Mu.

She is indeed a tough character who is nicknamed "Moon Concubine" by netizens after her evolution.

This Chimonanthus is quite competitive, and it can be seen that it is fighting entirely for Satoshi.

"So cool!"

Chikorita tried her best to put on a vicious expression, and yelled at the messenger bird in a soft and cute voice. Under Xiaozhi's command, she directly unleashed her best trick.

Flying leaf sharp knife!

A large number of sharp crescent-shaped leaves flew towards the messenger bird at a not-so-slow speed as the chrysanthemum leaf shook its head.

"Air Blade."

Luo Mu let the messenger bird use moves that were essentially not much different.

The messenger bird mobilized its flying energy and flapped its wings.

The number of translucent air blades, half that of Chikorita's Flying Leaf Blades, whizzed out, but the moment the two sides came into contact, the Flying Leaf Blades were torn into pieces by the air blades without any resistance.

After tearing the Flying Leaf Knife into pieces, the Air Blade continued to move forward, flying straight towards the Chrysanthemum Leaf.

Chikorita, who was standing still, didn't even have time to dodge, and was hit by the extremely effective air blade and lost her ability to fight the moment she was hit.

Xiaozhi quickly picked up Chikorita, whose eyes were full of circles. Seeing him take back Chikorita, Xiaogang said again: "Chikorita has lost its ability to fight."

At this time, Brock and Misty, who was holding Togepi tightly, discovered that the levels of Ash's newly captured Incel and Chikorita were too low for the Messenger Bird.

It is so low that if it takes just one attack from the messenger bird, it will lose its combat capability.

After losing two teammates in succession, the hot-tempered Charizard wanted to join the battle directly.

After all, those two little guys were under its Charizard's protection, so how could they be defeated so easily by the Messenger Bird?

If Pikachu hadn't stopped Charizard, it would have gone straight into the game.

After a series of defeats, the unwillingness in Xiaozhi's expression changed a little, and he sent out his third Pokémon.

The Water-attribute Pokémon Crocodile is the third of the three starter Pokémon released in the Johto region.

This little alligator is very lively and active. It loves to scream, jump up and do its unique dance steps.

Xiaozhi originally wanted to use Crocodile's talent to dodge the oppressive attack of the Messenger Bird, but under Luo Mu's command, the Messenger Bird froze Crocodile with an ice beam, and it became obedient in an instant.

At this point, the three starter Pokémon that Ash captured in the Johto region have all lost their combat ability.

Xiaozhi had only experienced a similar defeat at the hands of Kona King.

With the thought of not wanting to lose and not wanting the battle to end without accomplishing anything churning in his mind, he sent out the fourth Pokémon.

"Please, Nightowl!" Following a burst of shining special effects, a nightowl that was much smaller than an ordinary nightowl, but more colorful, with wisdom in its eyes, flew in the sky.

The only two flying units that Xiaozhi currently has are the colorful Nightowl!
This night owl is extremely intelligent and can even command other Pokémon in battle.

Why it is willing to follow Xiaozhi and accept his instructions remains a mystery.

At least it has completed its evolution. Compared to the three Johto Gosanke, it can last longer in the hands of the Messenger Bird.

At first, Xiaozhi still planned to let the Nightowl crash into it without saying anything, and the Nightowl did follow Xiaozhi's order and crash into the messenger bird.

However, it was clever enough to use the speed increased by the collision to quickly approach the messenger bird. Then, a telekinetic light flashed in its eyes that could blur a person's thinking. It was apparently planning to hypnotize the messenger bird while it wasn't paying attention.

But what it doesn't know is that the messenger bird's characteristic is "energy" and it will not fall asleep.

Luo Mu had no intention of letting the messenger bird dodge, and directly gave the order for the freezing beam.

Realizing that the messenger bird was not affected by hypnosis at all, Nightowl moved sideways at the critical moment, trying to avoid the freezing beam.

Although it was not hit head-on in the end, its wings were still covered with a thick layer of frost, which greatly affected its flight.

In response, Nightowl attempted to use telekinesis to restrain the messenger bird.

However, the telekinesis that had just captured the messenger bird was broken free by the messenger bird because the nightowl's mental energy was not strong enough.

After the telekinesis was broken free, Nightowl was hit head-on by a freezing punch from the Messenger Bird and immediately lost his ability to fight.

Four of Xiaozhi's seven generals were gone.

To be honest, Luo Mu actually felt a little disappointed.

Judging from the four Pokémon that appeared earlier, as a trainer, Ash has no special features in terms of strength or other aspects.

Whether it is level, move set or strength, they are too weak. Even the basic strength cannot be guaranteed, and there is no need to talk about tactics. The command is very straightforward. Only the sudden hypnosis of Nightowl is amazing.

Luo Mu was a little confused. They were about to challenge the fourth gym, but the Crocodile, Fireball and Chikorita, which should have been easy to train, showed no signs of evolving.

They shouldn't be like Bulbasaur that rejects evolution.

After traveling to three gyms, Crocodile and the others have not yet reached the requirements for evolution. Although this world does not have any materialized strength or clear levels, we can roughly judge what stage the Pokémon are in based on their strength.

Chikorita, Croc, and Charmeleon are probably only slightly stronger than the starter Pokémon that ordinary trainers just received from the professor.

If you reduce all the reasons to one point, then there is only one truth left.

At least at this stage, Ash's method of training Pokémon is a mess.

Xiaogang is currently just heading towards the path of becoming a cultivator, and the food he cooks is just a little more delicious.

Xiaoxia, as the leftover tea dregs among the four sisters of the Hualan Gym, is also growing up now.

As companions, the help they could provide to Xiaozhi, a complete rookie who knew nothing about theoretical knowledge, was extremely limited.

So, is there any way to improve this ability in one go?
An idea popped up in Luo Mu's mind, but he didn't say it immediately. Instead, he waited for Xiaozhi's fifth Pokémon.

From here on, things start to get a little more interesting.

"Please, Bulbasaur!"

Xiaozhi lowered the brim of his limited edition League baseball cap and threw out the fifth Poké Ball with his fingerless gloved right hand.

next moment.

The red light dissipated, and a Pokémon with green skin, dark green markings, and a magical seed that could grow with it, appeared on the ground. It looked a bit like a toad.

Seed Pokémon, Bulbasaur!

As a veteran in Ash's team, this Bulbasaur who is unwilling to evolve is the most unique one among them.

It is very powerful and can even learn one of the grass-attribute's special moves, Solar Beam (Sun Flame), in the form of Bulbasaur.

As soon as it left the Poké Ball, Bulbasaur cast a steady gaze towards the Messenger Bird, as if sizing it up.

After all, it had fought with messenger birds many times during its travels in the Orange Islands.

Seeing that Xiaozhi had finally sent out an interesting opponent, Messenger Bird flapped its wings and landed in front of Bulbasaur, staring into Bulbasaur's red eyes, with a hint of interest on its expression.

Both sides were curious about the extent to which the other side's strength had improved after the Asia Island incident in the Orange Islands.

As Brock announced that the battle was about to begin again, Ash gave the order without hesitation: "Bulbasaur, use the vine whip to catch the Messenger Bird, don't let it fly!"

Compared to the team captured in the Johto region who were very inexperienced in fighting against Messenger Bird, the experienced Ash obviously knew how to restrict Bulbasaur when commanding it.

"Dana Huh!"

The vines on both sides of Bulbasaur stretched out like lightning, and arrived in front of the Messenger Bird in almost the blink of an eye, like two flexible green snakes, trying to wrap around the Messenger Bird.

During the time it spent with Mewtwo, Mewtwo learned quite a few moves, and its move attributes cover a variety of attributes.

Even steel-attribute moves are no exception.

"Steel Wings!"

The messenger bird's eyes narrowed, and a layer of silver-gray halo appeared on its red wings, and even the sides of its wings became extremely sharp.

The Messenger Bird flapped its wings and chopped alternately. As Bulbasaur cried out in pain, it cut the vine whip that Bulbasaur extended into several neat strips. Without any restraints, it flew high and gained the air advantage in the blink of an eye.

“It’s still so difficult.”

Xiaozhi clenched his fists and threw them towards the sky.

"Bulbasaur, Flying Leaf Knife!"

"Dana!"

Bulbasaur nodded slightly, and began to move randomly and flexibly on the ground, and continuously sent sharp leaf knives towards the messenger bird in the sky.

This is its experience. Even if the Flying Leaf Blade is broken by the Air Blade, as long as it runs instead of standing still, the chance of being taken away directly will be much lower.

"You're quite clever." Luo Mu, who also noticed this, smiled and shouted to the sky, "Snow scene, and then bear it!"

"Yes!"

Ignoring the flying leaves and knives whistling towards it from below, the messenger bird cried toward the sky.

In an instant, the sky was covered by thick gray clouds, and countless snowflakes that looked extremely delicate under the magnifying glass fell. When these snowflakes gathered together, they instantly turned into heavy snow that covered a corner of the warm green grassland.

The messenger bird can clearly sense that in this "snowy weather" which is different from "hail weather", the snowflakes on its side seem to have turned into a thin but reliable shield, which enhances its defense.

The next second after the snow scene was released, the Flying Leaf Knife arrived as promised, and the sharp blades cut into the Messenger Bird, but because of the obstruction of the snowflakes, they lost some of their sharpness, greatly reducing their power.
Seeing that Leaf Blade did not achieve the expected results, Xiaozhi and Bulbasaur were a little confused.

Xiaogang exclaimed, "Weather moves!"

Xiaoxia, who was standing by, had a bad feeling in her heart.

At least in her memory, during the trip to the Orange Islands, the Messenger Bird and Xiaozhi had never used such weather moves in their battle.

Xiaoxia's premonition came true the next second.

Luo Mu suddenly said, "Let me see Bulbasaur's Solar Beam, otherwise, there will be no chance for the next attack."

Xiaozhi was startled and wanted to refute something, but in the end he listened to Luo Mu's reminder and gave the order with a heavy heart: "Bulbasaur, prepare the solar beam!"

"Dana!"

Bulbasaur looked at the Messenger Bird as if it was facing a great enemy and began to charge.

On a sunny day, when there is sufficient light energy, the solar beam only needs to be charged for a few seconds and can be fired directly.

But now the sky was covered with thick snow clouds, and the sunlight was almost invisible, which also caused Bulbasaur to take quite a long time to prepare the Solar Beam.

About 30 seconds passed before Bulbasaur felt the energy to fire the Solar Beam was ready.

Aiming the seed at the messenger bird in the sky, Bulbasaur released his ultimate move without hesitation!

"Dana Huh!"

As Bulbasaur roared with all its strength, an emerald green light shining like the sun turned into a beam of light and shot out!

Luo Mu, who had been waiting for a long time, also gave the order at this time.

"snowstorm!"

As the messenger bird flapped its wings, on this snowy day, ice energy gathered quickly as if with the help of God, and in an instant it turned into a howling snowstorm with a terrifying range, like a collapsing snow mountain, a blanket blizzard fell.

Bulbasaur only felt a cold current brushing across his body, and his consciousness was completely cut off. He and the solar beam were frozen into an ice sculpture.

(End of this chapter)