Elves: Angler's Rainy Day Team

Chapter 533, Opening Ceremony
The fifty-second day of traveling to the Kanto region, sunny.

Bang, bang, bang, bang—

As the salute sounded, Bobo was released and the opening ceremony of the Quartz Conference finally began.

I don’t know how many people couldn’t sleep last night, but the heartless Yu Hai was not among them.

With the host's speech, the atmosphere at the opening ceremony reached a climax...

"Ladies and gentlemen, the opening ceremony of the Quartz Conference has officially begun. Excellent trainers and your Pokémon, please use your special skills and strength together to determine the champion of the Quartz Conference..."

"What you have gained is not only the reputation of a trainer, but also a test that you must pass before becoming a master trainer. Now, please invite the outstanding trainers to enter. Each of them is a master who has obtained more than eight badges..."

"Please look at the torchbearer who is running towards us. He will pass the column of hundreds of contestants and head towards the Olympic flame..."

At this point in the opening ceremony, the Rockets trio inevitably appeared again. I wonder if these guys really don't have to go to jail for such nonsense! Or are they just too itchy because they have too many lice on their bodies?

Anyway, Yu Hai couldn't understand, but was greatly shocked. The Rockets started to fight for the Holy Flame again, but were finally defeated by the Holy Flame. The Holy Flame returned to the Holy Flame Stand, and the opening ceremony continued...

The host introduced President Damarange to everyone. President Damarange, who was sitting in the audience, came to the stage and gave an opening speech.

"The Quartz Conference is a place for trainers who truly love Pokémon to learn from each other and fight..."

"Holy fire, Moltres' flame protects us. Fellow trainers, please fight honestly without any regrets!"

Hua Hua Hua, Hua Hua Hua——

As the venue erupted in deafening cheers and applause, the opening ceremony of the Quartz Conference ended and the competition was about to begin...

The trainers left the venue one after another. Those who had drawn lots would go to the sub-venues to compete, while the trainers who had not drawn lots yet would go to the drawing venue to decide their venue and opponents.

Yu Hai also wanted to go and draw lots, but he walked through the audience seats. He did not enter the venue below, but sat in the audience seats to watch the opening ceremony.

"This opening ceremony is not bad, Ibrahimovic," Ukai patted Ibrahimovic on the shoulder. He and Ibrahimovic watched the opening ceremony and then they would draw lots to decide the venue for the competition.

"Are you Ah Hai?" Xiao Gang suddenly noticed Yu Hai who stood up and sat in the seat below them.

"Hey? It's Xiaogang!" Yu Hai heard someone calling him, turned around and greeted Xiaogang who stood up.

"Huh? Aren't you a contestant? Why didn't you go to the venue downstairs?" Xiaoxia asked in surprise, wondering why Yu Hai, as a contestant, did not enter the venue like Xiaozhi and the others.

"It's just a formality. It doesn't matter whether you go or not. I prefer to watch them enter." Yu Hai didn't want to enter now. Hundreds of people were crowded together in the center of the venue under such a bright sun. It was unnecessary.

The audience seats are much cooler, and you can buy cold drinks to quench your thirst. The Rockets trio will take advantage of the big game to make extra money.

"Thank you for guiding Xiaozhi last night, otherwise I don't know what time Xiaozhi would go to bed," Xiaogang saw that it was really Yu Hai, and hurriedly thanked Yu Hai on behalf of Xiaozhi.

This morning, he asked Xiaozhi who said those words last night, and unexpectedly it was an acquaintance.

I really don’t know why the other person, who is about the same age as me, looks like an adult with such vicissitudes of life. Is it his illusion?

"Haha, it's all small stuff. I'm going to draw lots. Let's get together again when we have time," Yu Hai waved his hand and left the audience. He didn't care about this matter. After all, he had watched Xiaozhi grow up since he was a child, so he just said a few more words.

"Xiaogang, what did he say last night?" Xiaoxia didn't understand what the two men were talking about and was very curious.

"This, is..." Before Xiaogang had time to explain, he saw Xiaozhi coming up from the venue and shouting at the top of his voice in the audience.

"Xiaogang, Xiaoxia, let's go, we have to draw lots..."

"Let's go draw lots first, and talk while we walk," Xiaogang looked at Xiaoxia and smiled helplessly. There was nothing he could say to Xiaozhi, who was so impatient.

In fact, sometimes Yu Hai also wants to complain. Xiao Gang can't walk when he sees a beautiful woman, but he has no reaction when he sees Xiao Xia. Is he immune to her? Xiao Xia, this ordinary girl, can't arouse Xiao Gang's love. Xiao Gang may only like those mature and intellectual older sisters.

……

At the lottery venue, Yu Hai was listening to the female receptionist explaining the lottery rules of the Quartz Conference.

"Trainer, please show us your Pokémon Encyclopedia and eight badges for registration..."

“Here,” Yu Hai took out the badge and illustrated book again, and the female receptionist returned them to him after registering them.

"Trainer Yu Hai from the Orange Islands, your eight badges meet the entry requirements and have been entered into the system. You can press this button to draw your competition venue, match number, and opponent. Two players in the same venue and match number will be opponents..."

"Understood," Yu Hai raised his hand and pressed the red button on the counter, then pressed the red button again. After the cursor on the screen stopped, his first group match, the first battle venue, and the first opponent appeared.

Drop, drop, drop——

As the cursor stopped, Yu Hai also saw the venue for the group match, which was the grass field. The match was the fifth one, and the time was around eleven in the morning.

The match time will be adjusted in real time on site based on the end time of the previous group match. Each venue will only host fifteen group matches a day, and the matches will be adjourned after the matches are completed.

A group match can take as fast as half an hour or as slow as an hour. Trainers who are unlucky and ranked at the back may have to play in the evening session.

After confirming the venue and match, he looked at the headshot on the screen again. It was his opponent...

"Beeeeeeeeee," Ibrahimovic suddenly became excited and angry when he saw his opponent's avatar on the screen, gritting his teeth.

"Ibrahimovic, do you know this person?" Yu Hai gently stroked Ibrahimovic to calm his agitated emotions.

But Ibrahimovic kept calling out to Ukai, shouting excitedly, "Boo-boo-boo, boo-boo-boo..."

"This?" Yu Hai could only understand Bubble, but he didn't understand what Bubble meant. It was a pity that Darkrai was not there, otherwise he could ask Darkrai to translate what Eevee was calling.

Just when Yu Hai was at a loss, Meow Meow, who was walking on two legs, suddenly jumped onto the counter, shook his head and said, "I see, I see..."

"Meow, what is Eevee saying?" Yu Hai saw the Rocket Meowth and felt like he had found a savior. He quickly asked Meowth what Eevee was calling. "Eevee said that this human was the trainer who abandoned it. It wants to play in the game and defeat this hateful human who abandoned it..."

"So it's him," Yu Hai remembered the rainy night in Stone Town, when the other party abandoned Eevee and left with a Vaporeon, but he didn't see his specific appearance clearly. Only now did he see what the other party looked like.

There were no special features on this person's face. He had the same black hair and black eyes as him, and looked ordinary. He had no impression of this stranger. He thought he was probably an unfamiliar trainer, not a character in the animation.

"Boo-boo-boo," Ibrahimovic rubbed Yu Hai. It was determined to go on the court and defeat this unfaithful man to prove that it was the most powerful. It was the opponent who was not good enough, not it.

"Ibrahimovic, I will let you play and we will defeat him together," Yu Hai smiled and rubbed little Ibrahimovic's head. This little guy is very easy to coax!
"Boo-boo-boo," When Ibrahimovic heard that he could play, he excitedly rubbed Yu Hai hard, almost producing static electricity.

Ukai was shocked and quickly pulled the Eevee off his face. He said to Team Rocket's Meowth, "Meowth, why don't you come with me? I'm still short of a Pokémon translator..."

"Damn it! How can someone like you poach people? Don't think that just because of a bowl of instant noodles, Meow Meow will follow you..."

Just when Ukai invited Meow Meow, Musashi came over and took the crying Meow Meow away. Meow Meow seemed to have missed many meals of instant noodles and was crying because she couldn't eat them.

"Sorry, Mr. Ahai, we should go," Kojiro was quite polite, not as rude as Musashi. He came over to apologize, and then quickly slipped away because there was a dog chasing them, it was Junsha's dog.

Watching these three funny guys go away, Yu Hai sighed helplessly and went to the players' lounge to wait for his game to begin.

He just arrived at the players' lounge and met Xiao Ming again. What a coincidence!
"Are you also in the grass field?" Yu Hai sat next to Xiao Ming and asked curiously about the other party's field.

"Yes, I'm in the third game," Xiao Ming looked at the big screen, which showed the matches in several other venues. The match at the Grass Field could be seen directly from the balcony of the lounge.

"I'm in the fifth game," Yu Hai looked at the match schedule on the screen. The names of the two players who were playing the first game were displayed in red, the players in the second game were displayed in yellow, and the players after the third game were all in green.

It was still early for him to play, so he looked at his opponent, the boy who had abandoned Ibrahimovic, and asked Xiao Ming, "Do you have any information about my opponent?"

"Him? I have some information about him. I just collected it at random. He is not a very powerful trainer. Most of his Pokémon are at the elite level, and they are all evolved with Evolution Stones. His most famous Pokémon are three Eevees, namely Vaporeon, Flareon, and Jolteon..."

"Wait, I want to look through the notebook." Xiao Ming took out a small notebook, flipped through the boy's information, and continued: "His family lives in Stone Town. I heard that there are a lot of evolution stones there. No wonder the elves he cultivated were all evolved using evolution stones..."

"Only elite level?" When Yu Hai heard that he was only elite level, he felt that it was a sure thing, but the little Eevee was only in his twenties, and the opponent's main force was at least in his thirties, so the little Eevee could not beat him at all.

If it was just a battle, Ibrahimovic could barely win by trying his best. If he wanted Ibrahimovic to score three goals in a row, he would need to use some dirty tricks to create favorable conditions for Ibrahimovic to score three goals in a row.

After making up his mind, he had a clear idea in his mind. He understood how to let Eevee vent his anger in this group match. This game would help him to resolve Eevee's knot. It would also help him to cultivate intimacy with Eevee and evolve into a Moon Elf as soon as possible.

As the games went on, Yu Hai also came to the balcony to watch Xiao Ming's game. As a veteran trainer, Xiao Ming easily defeated his opponents when he met elite trainers.

In the group stage, if you want to encounter an evenly matched opponent, apart from a fight between noobs, it is basically impossible for senior trainers to encounter one in the group stage.

He believes that the Quartz Conference is fair, but he does not believe that there are no backdoors in the arrangement of the contestants.

Those who understand this kind of thing will understand it, so there is no need for him to say more. In order to make the competition more interesting and exciting, the organizers also have their own little ideas.

If the two senior players are eliminated in the group stage, it will be a huge loss for the organizers and the knockout stage will lose many exciting games.

Therefore, it is in the organizers’ interest to allow elite players to meet each other in the group stage.

As Xiao Ming defeated his opponent easily, after the cheers died down, the fourth group match came next, and then the fifth group match. Ukai was the contestant of the fifth group match of the grass court.

He did not teleport several Butterfrees over. Using Eevee and Kentaro was enough for the first group match. He was confident that he could win this group match.

After saying hello to Xiao Ming, he headed to the competition venue. This was his first time participating in such a large-scale competition. He stood at the entrance of the player channel and took several deep breaths before he led Ibrahimovic out of the channel.

Facing the scorching sun and the cheers from the audience, he went straight to the fighting stage and waited for the referee's arrangements.

Since it is the first time for each trainer to appear on the first day, the audience has no impression of the trainers yet, and their cheers are often just for fun and the noise is quite chaotic.

It’s not until the end of the game that the audience will cheer for their favorite trainers, and the group stage is a warm-up match for the audience to get familiar with the players…

"The fifth group match of the Grass Field has finally begun..."

"The contestant on the green team is Ukai from the Orange Islands, and the contestant on the red team is Kameda from Stone Town..."

"The Pokémon used by Kameda are all Pokémon evolved from Evolution Stones. This is Kameda's specialty..."

"The green team's Ukai is a trainer from the far southern islands. What kind of exciting match will these two contestants from different regions bring us? Please look forward to it..."

With just a few words from the host, the atmosphere was completely heated up. Even Yu Hai felt that this host was a member of the atmosphere group specially arranged by the organizer.

He no longer had the mind to care about these things. As the referee waved the red flag and the green flag, the game was about to begin.

"There are only three Pokémons in use. The fifth match of the Grass Field has officially begun..."

Dangdang——

As two clang sounds rang out, Ukai and Kameda, who heard the clang sounds, had to release their starting elves at the first opportunity and attack at the same time...

"Go, Vaporeon..."

"Go, Foretos..."

"It appeared - both contestants sent out their starting Pokémon, Kameda sent out Vaporeon..."

"Well, maybe Kameda made a mistake because he was too nervous? Ukai is a trainer from the Southern Islands. Even if we want to test Ukai's starting Pokémon, we should send out the Electric Pokémon Jolteon as the starting Pokémon..."

"However, Ukai's starting Pokémon is Foretos, and he did not send out a water Pokémon as Kameda wished..."

“No matter who Kameda sends in the first match, he will make a mistake in prediction. How will Kameda recover from the disadvantageous situation in the first match next…”

(End of this chapter)