When the Seloria Gym began construction three years ago, the higher authorities began paying attention to the environmental care of the Crystal Bay tourist area.
After three years of cleaning and restoration, the scenery of Crystal Bay looked especially pure.
Beautiful like the innocent smile of a young girl.
The Seloria Gym was built beside the beach.
The red-and-white building shone beneath the contrast of the sky and the deep blue sea.
People kept entering outside the Seloria Gym without stopping.
Some wanted to see with their own eyes the true face of Serena, the beautiful NPC; others truly wanted to challenge the gym.
But most simply came to watch the show.
A regional gym was a place where the strong gathered.
Recording a video there could easily achieve more than one hundred thousand views.
Logan recalled the four Pokémon that had run the whole way and almost exhausted their strength, and entered the Seloria Gym.
The style of the Seloria Gym was very classic, but above the main entrance, there was a jumping sculpture: a completely white dolphin.
The white dolphin was the spirit that swam freely in the real sea.
Logan could not help remembering that, in the original work, there was a scene where Serena lost in the preliminaries of the Coumarine City Pokémon Showcase and, to show her determination, stood on a pier facing the sea, cut her beautiful long hair, and changed it into a fresh short cut.
Surely, making Serena become the leader of the Seloria Gym was also based on that scene.
It could be considered one of the great climaxes of the story related to Serena.
A competition could be lost, but not the spirit.
The personality Serena had always shown had been very strong.
Logan walked silently to the stands and observed the battle below.
From this angle, Serena looked full of vitality, beautiful and charming.
She was a beauty not inferior to Rachel.
The challenger in front of Serena was commanding Charmander, facing it against Serena’s Pancham.
“I didn’t expect the challenger to be Nolan,” Logan murmured.
Nolan was that player who had previously surrounded Heracross together with Adrian and three others.
He had a Charmander whose aptitude was, at minimum, high quality.
The four surrounded and attacked Heracross.
At that time, Hawlucha could not keep watching, and Logan could not remain with his arms crossed either.
So defeating them all and threatening them happened in one go.
It could be said that, since then, he had become enemies with Adrian’s group.
At that time, Nolan was the strongest of the group, but his position within the team of four was the lowest.
However, the current Nolan had deeply buried his weakness and darkness, showing a trace of firmness.
His orders were also much calmer.
[Charmander: Level 22] [Pancham: Level 35] Currently, the highest-level Pokémon Logan had was Rotom.
With its Level 26, Logan could see the level of Pokémon up to Level 36.
“Charmander is going to lose,” Logan suddenly thought as he observed the situation.
Level 35 and Level 22 had no comparison at all.
And although Nolan was somewhat calmer when it came to commanding, there was also nothing especially outstanding.
Little by little, Charmander was like a boat in the middle of the sea, swaying without stability under Pancham’s attacks.
“Pancham, give Charmander the final Karate Chop.” “Charmander…” Nolan had not even finished giving his order when Pancham had already struck it with Karate Chop, sending it flying through the air and leaving it unable to fight.
As the level increased, the rhythm of battles became faster and faster.
If players could not even keep up with their Pokémon’s rhythm, then it was better for them not to let their Pokémon level up.
“Come back, Charmander.” Nolan sighed.
“Lastly, it’s your turn, Pinsir.” Pinsir looked a little like Heracross, but its appearance leaned more toward that of a beetle and was somewhat fierce.
In the early stages, it was undoubtedly a powerful Pokémon.
Logan did not expect Nolan to have managed to capture Pinsir.
[Pinsir: Level 19] “Gloom, Charmander, and Pinsir.
Nolan’s lineup is too passive.
He probably can’t even beat Pancham,” Logan shook his head.
Sure enough, although Pinsir was strong, under level suppression, it was extremely passive.
Pancham moved with dance steps, making Pinsir’s moves very difficult to land.
“Pancham, give Pinsir the final Stone Edge.” Suddenly, several sharp blue rocks grew vertically from the ground, lifting Pinsir up.
With that, Nolan’s challenge failed.
“Nolan has failed the challenge.
The winner is Gym Leader Serena!” Nolan sighed and silently withdrew.
A faint smell of Gloom still remained in the air.
Evidently, the first Pokémon Nolan had sent out was Gloom.
Gloom had probably also been defeated by Pancham.
With Nolan’s current strength, it was still not enough to defeat any of Serena’s Pokémon.
After Nolan withdrew, Serena had Pancham recover its strength in the Pokémon healing device at the side.
Every gym had a fixed object like that, allowing the Gym Leader’s Pokémon to recover their strength in time.
For a Gym Leader, turn-based battles of attrition were difficult to apply.
Logan did not move.
If he went up to the field now, even if he won the challenge, he would not be able to obtain enormous popularity.
Only when challenger after challenger fell and Logan finally turned the tide could it show that his strength was unsurpassable.
The next challenger was a beauty with a gentle appearance.
Rachel Blake.
This former beautiful doctor, now beautiful Olympic athlete, looked deeply at Logan in the stands and said to Serena, “I’m next.” “I accept,” Serena said.
Normally, when two beauties of the same level faced each other, a certain hostility could arise.
But between Serena and Rachel, there was none of that.
Both women were open and did not care.
Serena calmly waited for Pancham to finish recovering and put away its Poké Ball.
“Player Rachel Blake challenges Gym Leader Serena.
The battle officially begins.
Only the challenger may freely change Pokémon!” “Come out, Audino.” “It’s your turn, Sylveon.” [Audino: Level 18] [Sylveon: ???] The difference in strength was too great.
Perhaps others could not see the level of Serena’s Pokémon, but this Sylveon was undoubtedly above Level 36.
Not even Logan could see it.
Seeing that level, Logan’s heart also sank.
At Level 37, Sylveon would learn Moonblast, and its strength would increase considerably, becoming even more difficult to handle.
Rachel let out a sigh of relief.
If Serena continued using Pancham, Fighting type countered Normal type, and Audino would most likely be defeated in two moves.
Luckily, it was Sylveon.
“Audino, use Baby-Doll Eyes.” “Sylveon, use Disarming Voice.” Baby-Doll Eyes could always attack first, so even Audino, with lower speed, could use its move beforehand.
Disarming Voice, for its part, always hit.
Both sides began only by testing each other.
“Sylveon, use Swift.” “Audino, use Disarming Voice.” Swift was also a move that always hit.
Its speed was so high that Audino could not react.
But Rachel had always positioned Audino as an attrition Pokémon, trying to consume as much of Sylveon’s HP as possible.
“Sylveon, use Quick Attack.” “Audino, wait for Sylveon to come close and use Double Slap.” The battle was very intense, and the two beauties on the field also drew a lot of attention.
The battle gradually entered a heated point.
Serena seemed to be deliberately cooperating with Rachel’s tactic of exchanging damage.
After all, Serena was now a Gym Leader and bore the responsibility of training trainers.
If she simply abused the challengers, it would go against the very meaning of gyms’ existence.
Sylveon did not use many of the moves it had learned at high levels.
In the end, Audino consumed about one third of Sylveon’s HP before sadly withdrawing.
“Come out, Chansey!” Rachel sent out her second Pokémon.
(End of Chapter) PKGO-En