Mightyena was a single-type, Dark-type Pokémon.
Among all the Dark-type Pokémon, Mightyena was considered to be at the very bottom of the barrel.
It couldn’t be helped; its base stats were simply too low!
It was only slightly higher than that big rat, Raticate.
“Chi Hong, I saw you release that pet beast from a storage device.
This pet beast didn’t even come out of your pet beast space, so where did you get it?
You didn’t steal it, did you?”
“You’d better hurry up and turn yourself in.
Otherwise, if your Beast Tamer level isn’t high enough, a stolen pet beast might just attack its own Beast Tamer.”
Lin Zhou continued to look down on Chi Hong, his words full of insults and belittlement.
Chi Hong did not care.
He just needed to play the role of the strongest trainer of few words, whose dialogue box would only display “….”.
“It’s student Lin Zhou and…
never mind, I don’t know him.”
At this moment, a long-haired woman wearing a gym uniform walked over gracefully.
She claimed not to know Chi Hong, but Chi Hong knew her.
This woman was named Zhang Li.
She used to work here too; to be exact, she had been here since before the Chi family’s downfall.
Saying she didn’t know Chi Hong was something not even a dog would believe.
When Chi Hong was a child, she practically revolved around him all day long.
“Miss Zhang, I’ll have to trouble you to act as the referee.
That way, when someone tries to renege on their debt, you can make the ruling.” Lin Zhou said, his gaze sweeping over the legs exposed beneath Zhang Li’s cheongsam.
“Of course, no problem.
Then…”
“The match between both parties begins!
The victory condition is when one side’s pet beast falls and loses its combat ability, or when one side voluntarily surrenders!”
“Pet beast battle!
Begin!”
Zhang Li waved her hand and announced the start of the match.
She didn’t even turn on the scoreboard, nor did she activate the recording equipment.
To her, a piece of trash like Chi Hong, whose family had fallen on hard times and who had no ambition, was lucky enough just to have his own pet beast.
What right did he have to duel a rich kid like Lin Zhou?
“Shadow Panther!
Tear it to shreds!!”
Lin Zhou forcefully swung his hand, an enigmatic smile appearing on his face as if victory was already in his grasp.
The Shadow Panther let out a roar and lunged straight at Mightyena.
Mightyena stood unmoving in place, waiting for its trainer, Chi Hong’s, command.
Chi Hong was extremely excited at this moment.
He had always played the games and watched the anime, but an actual, physical battle like this was something that only ever appeared in dreams.
The moment the Shadow Panther’s sharp claws were incredibly close to Mightyena, Chi Hong opened with a legendary-tier Pokémon battling move!
He opened his mouth and said, “Dodge it!”
The instant the command was issued, Mightyena’s body executed a beautiful shift, instantly moving to the Shadow Panther’s flank.
“Fire Fang!”
Chi Hong pointed his hand, his second command connecting seamlessly.
Mightyena opened its large mouth, and right in front of it, a set of fangs formed entirely of flames viciously bit down onto the Shadow Panther’s flank!
Boom!!!
Flames erupted, and the Shadow Panther tumbled away, crashing into the distance.
On its body, several charred bite marks were still emitting black smoke.
Silence…
The onlookers were all stunned.
From the start of the battle to the Shadow Panther being struck down, barely ten seconds had passed!
“A…
a Fire-type skill?”
“When Chi Hong arrived, he told me this pet beast was a Mightyena.
Mightyena…
is actually a Fire-type pet beast?”
It had to be said, Chao Xia was incredibly shocked!
The majority of apprentice-level Beast Tamers started training with C-Rank pet beasts.
For these relatively basic pet beasts, apart from a few extremely special ones that inherently possessed a certain attribute and could learn attribute skills, the rest of the C-Rank pet beasts could only rely on their claws and teeth—their bodily weapons—to fight.
After all, even if an average person luckily tamed a C-Rank pet beast with an attribute, they would choose to sell it to someone else for a high price.
Ultimately, the nurturing and treatment of such a pet beast required a massive expense.
Meanwhile, Zhang Li was also dumbfounded.
As a veteran gym referee, she could be said to understand pet beast battles very well.
Just now, that pet beast had made absolutely no movement when it was about to be attacked at the start, yet the moment Chi Hong spoke, this pet beast named Mightyena reacted almost instantaneously!
“It’s practically muscle memory…”
“No!
It’s even faster than muscle memory.
This level of synchronization is practically telepathic.
At the very least, only a B-Rank Beast Tamer should be able to achieve this.”
“That’s not right either.
This Mightyena was carried in a storage device.
For it to be this obedient, there’s only one possibility: this Mightyena was passed down through his family…”
Thinking up to this point, Zhang Li’s gaze gradually turned peculiar as she arrived at a very plausible deduction.
“How could this happen?!!”
On the other side, the Shadow Panther’s owner, Lin Zhou, was dumbstruck.
Let alone being instantly defeated, he hadn’t even considered the possibility that he would lose.
“Two thousand bucks.
Transfer or cash?” Chi Hong calmly patted Mightyena’s head.
He was just fighting a ‘Bug Catcher’; it was perfectly normal to finish it off with a single move.
“Don’t get cocky!”
“I haven’t lost yet!
You just got lucky with some dumb luck and won against me once.
I still have another pet beast.
Let’s see how you beat me now!”
Lin Zhou was visibly turning somewhat hysterical.
His expression contorted, completely unable to accept losing to a down-and-out loser like Chi Hong.
Gritting his teeth, he pulled a prism-shaped device from his pocket.
Chi Hong took one look and immediately understood that this was the ‘pet beast storage device’ Lin Zhou had mentioned earlier.
This kind of item was used to store pet beasts that one hadn’t tamed themselves and therefore couldn’t be stored in one’s own pet beast space.
Speaking of a pet beast space, Chi Hong suddenly remembered that he didn’t have one either.
However, he had over a thousand Pokémon in his PC Box anyway.
As for these so-called pet beasts, he would need to cultivate their intimacy and strength from scratch, and he couldn’t be bothered to put in the effort.
“Chi Hong!
You’re dead meat!” Gritting his teeth, Lin Zhou threw the storage device.
The storage device popped open after landing on the ground.
Accompanied by a burst of light, a massive, entirely brown lizard with a protruding ridge on its back appeared in everyone’s line of sight.
[Rock Ridge Lizard: Level 38]
[Type: Rock, Ground]
“Oh…”
“It’s actually Level 38.
Impressive.”
Chi Hong’s eyes lit up.
If it was another instant kill, it would be quite boring.
A Level 38 pet beast was even two levels higher than his Mightyena.
Only this could ignite a bit of motivation in Chi Hong.
“Lin Zhou!
You don’t have the ability to command this Rock Ridge Lizard yet!”
“Isn’t this your brother’s pet beast?”
Chao Xia immediately noticed something was wrong; this was the pet beast of Lin Zhou’s older brother, Lin Man.
“Shut up!
How could I not have the ability to command it?
Who are you looking down on?” Lin Zhou pointed at Chao Xia, his face full of anger.
“Chi Hong, surrender!
This is a foul on his part.
That’s not his pet beast; it’s a pet beast that has stepped into the B-Rank.
Your Mightyena can’t possibly be its match!”
“Be careful not to get hurt!
Pet beasts that exceed a Beast Tamer’s level have been known to attack their tamers!”
Chao Xia immediately warned him.
It was just a simple battle, and she didn’t want anything to happen to Chi Hong.
“This can’t be considered a foul.
After all, this contestant’s Mightyena was also released from a pet beast storage device, wasn’t it?” Zhang Li said with a smile.
She didn’t care if anyone would be hurt by the Rock Ridge Lizard right now; she only stated that Lin Zhou had not committed a foul.
“Roaaar!!”
The Rock Ridge Lizard shook its body and let out a roar.
Upon closer inspection, the protruding ridge on its back actually looked like rock, which was also the origin of its name, Rock Ridge Lizard.
Chi Hong gave Chao Xia a thumbs-up, then tightened his jacket.
Raising his hand to point at the Rock Ridge Lizard, he shouted loudly, “Mightyena!
It’s provoking us!
Use Ice Fang!”
The Ground typing was double weak to Ice-type moves.
A mere two-level difference was nothing; if this hit, it would definitely give this big lizard a hard time!