Mightyena panted heavily, its footsteps becoming somewhat unsteady.
Obviously, after Limit Break, seamlessly chaining these skills was a bit strenuous for its Level 36 self, but the effect was explosive!
This burst-style attack was something absolutely no Beast Tamer of the same level could withstand.
“Good work.”
Chi Hong also felt a slight dizziness in his head, as if his physical and mental strength had been significantly drained.
He pulled out a red and white Poké Ball and recalled Mightyena, before looking at Zhang Li with a sharp gaze.
Zhang Li felt a bit creeped out by Chi Hong’s stare, and as if finally reacting, she spoke up loudly, “The match is decided.
The winner is Chi Hong!”
“Heh…
So you still remember my name is Chi Hong?”
Chi Hong gave a mocking smile, then zipped up his jacket, stuffed his hands into his pockets, and walked toward Lin Zhou’s position.
A stiff smile was forced onto Zhang Li’s face, and she said nothing.
Lin Zhou was already scared silly.
He slumped in the corner, his face full of fear, completely lacking even the slightest semblance of a Beast Tamer.
“To be able to crush my little brother like this, you do indeed have a lot of strength at the apprentice level.
How about it?
Do you want to consider accepting the sponsorship of our Lin Group?
Of course, if you accept our sponsorship, you will have to join our Lin Group in the future.”
A man around twenty-five years old walked over.
His facial features were seventy to eighty percent similar to Lin Zhou’s.
It was very obvious that this was Lin Zhou’s older brother, Lin Xia.
“Hilarious, back off!” Chao Xia quickly stepped in front of Chi Hong, speaking with a thoroughly displeased expression, “If anyone is going to sponsor him, it’ll be our Chaoyang Group.
Young Master Lin should care more about his own little brother.”
“…”
Lin Xia glanced at Lin Zhou, who was still in a sluggish state.
A trace of irritation flashed through his eyes as he waved his hand and said, “Send this useless guy home for me.”
Behind him, two men in suits and leather shoes immediately dragged Lin Zhou away.
“He lost.
As agreed before, the loser leaves two thousand bucks.
He’s already scared silly, so you’re his older brother, you pay.”
Chi Hong’s expression was calm as he reached a hand out toward Lin Xia, directly indicating for him to ‘hand over the money’!
“Interesting.
Naturally, I don’t care about this small amount of money.
I’ll have my assistant transfer you two hundred thousand!
As for the extra amount, I wonder if you have any interest in parting with that pet beast from earlier?
If you agree, I’ll have my assistant transfer the money to you right now.
This is two hundred thousand; Young Master Chi probably hasn’t seen that much money before, right?”
Lin Xia’s tone was gentle, but the words he spoke did not leave Chi Hong any dignity at all.
Chi Hong did not really care, but Chao Xia was having none of it.
“Two hundred thousand?
Are you dismissing a beggar?
Even the most ordinary low-tier C-Rank pet beast sells for five hundred thousand.
Spending two hundred thousand to buy Chi Hong’s Mightyena?
Keep dreaming!” Chao Xia looked like she completely despised Lin Xia, and her tone was not the least bit polite either.
“That’s right, Young Master Lin is being way too stingy!”
A voice filled with anxiety rang out.
The group looked in the direction of the voice and saw a chubby middle-aged man, led by Zhang Li, running over while panting heavily.
He looked like someone who didn’t exercise often and was already drenched in sweat.
“Chi Hong, this is the owner of this gym, Zhang Quan.
This gym has multiple branches in Jinling, so he can be considered quite a formidable figure in Jinling City,” Chao Xia leaned in close to Chi Hong and quietly relayed the information to him.
“Young man, I am Zhang Quan.
I know all about your pet beast.
One flat price: two million!
You might as well sell it directly to me.
Young Master Lin offering two hundred thousand is honestly…
heh.”
Zhang Quan wiped his face with a handkerchief, looking a hundred percent certain of securing Mightyena.
As long as a pet beast with this kind of strength was handed over to a high-level Beast Tamer, it might even be able to develop A-Rank strength!
Very clearly, whether it was Lin Xia or Zhang Quan, both believed that this victory was due to Mightyena’s sheer power and had little to do with Chi Hong.
Leaving such a top-tier pet beast in the hands of this Chi Hong was simply too much of a waste.
“Boring.
Remember to have that Lin Zhou kid give me my two thousand bucks later.
Chao Xia, let’s go.”
Chi Hong completely ignored the two men.
They were just rich people, and hadn’t he been one himself in the past?
Zhang Li watched Chi Hong’s retreating back, her expression fluctuating uncertainly…
After the two left, Lin Xia cast a calm glance at Zhang Quan and also turned to leave.
He needed to go to the pet beast hospital; the Rock Ridge Lizard was heavily injured, and it would be a huge waste if it just died like this.
“I’ll deal with you when we get home.
To think you dared to secretly take my pet beast, you useless piece of trash!”
Inside the car, Lin Xia muttered with a gloomy expression.
He then took out a cigar, lit it, took a drag, and instructed the driver in front, “Send someone tonight to take out that Chi Hong, and bring back the storage device holding his Mightyena.
Remember to make it a clean job.”
“Understood, Young Master Lin.
Rest assured, I will handle it personally.” The driver nodded and started the car.
“Mm.” Lin Xia slightly closed his eyes.
In reality, he didn’t think much of that Mightyena.
The key was that skill called ‘Hyper Beam’.
If he used a pet beast skill grafting device to transfer this skill to his own ace pet beast…
“First place in the Jinling Championship at the end of the year will definitely be mine!”
Lin Xia’s expression was dark as he forcefully pinched out the lit cigar with his fingers.
At Chi Hong’s home—though calling it a home was a stretch, as it was actually just the last remaining piece of real estate owned by the Chi family, a small, abandoned warehouse—which was where Chi Hong lived.
“Chi Hong, Chi Hong, where exactly did that powerful Mightyena come from?
It’s so strong, and its synchronization rate with you is terrifyingly high.
With this pet beast, your entry into Jinling Beast Taming University is practically set in stone!
After all, the most important thing for entering the university is looking at the synchronization rate with the pet beast.
Whether you tamed it yourself or whether you’ve opened up your own pet beast space doesn’t matter at all!”
Chao Xia had been chattering non-stop along the way.
It was very obvious that Mightyena had given her quite a shock.
“Then where do you think it came from?” Chi Hong asked with a smile.
A strange smile appeared on Chao Xia’s face as she spoke, “I can guess.
It’s from a storage device, cooperates so well with you, and listens to your words completely.
There’s only one possibility: that Mightyena was left to you by Uncle Chi or Grandpa Chi!
Right?”
If one spent a long time with an elder’s pet beast, then the elder’s pet beast would also treat that person as a junior.
Even if the Beast Tamer’s level wasn’t high, as long as they had the original owner’s instructions, it would cooperate with the Beast Tamer in battle.
Under these circumstances, the pet beast suffering a backlash and attacking the Beast Tamer was almost impossible.
This was the only answer Chao Xia could come up with.
“It’s a pity, but you guessed wrong.
I met Mightyena in the Hoenn region.
When I first met it, it was still a Poochyena,” Chi Hong said with a look of reminiscence on his face.
He didn’t mention that this was just an early-route dog.
To complete the Pokédex, he had evolved it into a Mightyena and then left it to gather dust in the PC Box, giving it absolutely no chance to take the field.
The setting for trainers in the anime was that the Pokémon they personally raised would grow increasingly stronger, completely unrestricted by base stats, able to ruthlessly crush Pokémon with type advantages, and a random Pokémon caught on the roadside could fight a pseudo-legendary to a standstill…
However, if his in-game self were placed in the anime, he absolutely couldn’t be considered a ‘good’ person.
To complete the Pokédex, caught Pokémon were immediately thrown into the PC Box to gather dust.
For good Individual Values, Pokémon were forced to breed with Ditto, followed by maniacal egg hatching!
Game players didn’t just want good Individual Values; they also wanted Shinies!
For a single Shiny Pokémon, they would manually reset the map hundreds or thousands of times.
If this kind of setting were placed in the anime world, he would simply be a major villain!
Fortunately, what Chi Hong possessed right now seemed to be a cheat that combined both the game and the anime!
“The Hoenn region?
I’ve never heard of it…
Are you fooling me?” Chao Xia showed a look of confusion.
She truly had never heard of a place called Hoenn.