Chapter 79 — Boredom, I Want to See Blood Flow Like a River

"Everyone can relax, Garchomp is fine now."

Cynthia forced a slight smile as she responded.

After thinking for a moment, she still decided not to tell Diantha and the others about Garchomp's apparent psychological issues.

To avoid unnecessary trouble.

"That's good,"

Diantha let out a sigh of relief, her fair and beautiful doll-like face turning somewhat gloomy as she said:

"It's fortunate Garchomp is okay, otherwise I..."

"Otherwise what? Elite Four Diantha."

Before Diantha could finish speaking, from Sun Wuming's side, Beet immediately asked in a hostile tone.

Not to mention that after these six months of training, Beet was completely unafraid of Elite Four level trainers.

Just the fact that someone dared to insult her master was something Beet couldn't tolerate.

So what if you're Cynthia's die-hard fan?

I'm master's die-hard fan!

"Don't do anything rash, Diantha."

Cynthia pulled her little fangirl behind her, took a deep breath, then walked up to Sun Wuming and extended her hand:

"This battle was very enlightening, Mr. Sun."

"Haha! I feel the same way. I didn't expect that even without battling personally, it could be this exciting."

Sun Wuming didn't stand on ceremony, laughing heartily as he shook Cynthia's hand.

"Battle personally?"

Those four words in Sun Wuming's speech left Cynthia somewhat puzzled, but she didn't think much of it.

After letting go, she left together with Diantha and her group.

Originally before coming, Cynthia had planned to watch the Star Tournament after the exhibition match.

But now she really wasn't in the mood, especially with Garchomp's condition.

Seeing their leader leave, Iris and the others naturally wouldn't stay either.

The little girl waved goodbye, then quickly followed behind Cynthia as they left the Pokémon Center.

Thinking they'd just watch the rest of the matches via livestream online.

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At dinner time, Macro Cosmos provided free accommodation for all participating trainers, which naturally included meals.

"Yo~ Everyone's here."

At this moment, Leon walked over with a smile on his face and said to Sun Wuming:

"Today's battle was truly spectacular, though I was terrified when Garchomp went down. Thankfully everything turned out alright in the end."

Marnie pointed her index finger to her snow-white chin, asking curiously:

"What would happen if Garchomp had died?"

Leon was taken aback, then awkwardly scratched his nose.

"Well, we don't really know, since nothing like that has ever happened since the League was established, ahem~"

After clearing his throat twice, Leon changed the subject:

"The preliminary match pairings will be sent to all participants' phones at eight o'clock, don't forget to check then."

After speaking, Leon waved to everyone and turned to leave.

"By the way, Marnie only has three Pokémon right now, right? Will that be okay?"

Sonia suddenly thought of a key point and asked Marnie.

Although the preliminaries are all 3v3 battles, if she advances to the top 16,

Then it becomes 6v6 full battles.

At that point, it would be an overwhelmingly disadvantageous situation for Marnie.

Not to mention her Torracat was only recently caught.

"I'll do my best."

At this point, Marnie could only push forward.

Sun Wuming reached out and patted her head to comfort her.

Nothing could be done about it, who told Marnie to be the last one to meet him, starting training so late?

Unless something unexpected happens, among Beet, Gloria, and Marnie, Marnie would likely be the first to be eliminated...

Ah well, he'd comfort her properly when the time comes.

At eight in the evening.

Just as Leon said, all participating trainers received the first round preliminary match pairings.

Only by reaching the top 32 would they qualify to compete in the true Galar Star Tournament at the Stadium where Sun Wuming and Cynthia had battled today.

Before that, it was just the "audition" phase.

However, among the three Galar beauties, only Marnie as a regular trainer needed to participate in the preliminaries.

As Gym Leaders, Beet and Gloria had direct entry into the top 32 of the Galar Star Tournament.

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Following the conclusion of Sun Wuming and Cynthia's opening exhibition match,

The entire Pokémon continent was buzzing with discussion about this battle online.

And the trainers of the Galar region were especially excited, frantically posting online.

After all, their Galar League had long been mocked as the "weakest league"

Because they still couldn't gather four Elite Four level trainers to form their Elite Four.

Well, poor them, considering Alola is even weaker and hasn't joined the League family yet.

And now, a mysterious trainer from Galar had actually made the Sinnoh Champion's ace cry out in pain.

How could they miss such a perfect opportunity to show off?

[Hahaha! Sinnoh League knows who's boss now? Galar is the strongest!]

[Who else wants some!?]

[Although I'm from Galar, crying Cynthia was so adorable]

[Last night reporters caught Sun Wuming eating with Beet, Gloria, Sonia and some punk girl, damn I'm so jealous]

[Maybe those muscles are too much for just one girl to handle]

[No! Beet, my Beet!]

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Such frantic outpourings were commonplace online.

The trainers from Sinnoh were naturally grinding their teeth in anger.

But they had no way to refute it.

Because reality was right in front of them - a loss was a loss.

If they wanted to talk back, they could only win it back again searching back and forth, Sinnoh's trainers could only desperately attack the sore point that Galar League didn't even have an Elite Four.

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Kanto League Headquarters, Indigo Plateau.

In the Elite Four's room.

After watching Sun Wuming and Cynthia's exhibition match and the online reactions, Lorelei crossed her arms under her chest, accentuating her mature figure even more, as she said with a cold laugh:

"That old fox Oleana has ill intentions."

She had learned from Lance that at the start of this exhibition match, Oleana had wanted to invite Lance to have an exhibition match with this "Sun Wuming" fellow.

Without a doubt, if Lance had agreed, it would be Kanto's trainers being mocked right now.

Clearly, that old fox Oleana wanted to use other regions' League Champions as stepping stones to raise Galar's prestige.

What a calculated move!

"Hmph, if my Dragon Force were to take the field, how could we possibly lose!?"

Lance maintained his arrogant expression as if everyone owed him 8 million.

He had watched the match too, but he didn't believe he would lose.

Though that was assuming he used his ace Dragonite.

But thinking about it more calmly, if he underestimated his opponent and casually sent out his B-team like Dragonair or Flygon,

He might actually get taken down.

Then Lance would be the one getting cursed out.

"Hmph, Oleana is it? I'll remember this."

Lance coldly snorted.

You dare scheme against me, Lance the Dragon Master?

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