Manor Lord in the Pokémon World

Chapter 172 The First Successful Challenger

It worked!

Emily excitedly led the applause, and the other audience members, realizing what was happening, quickly followed suit, creating a deafening roar that instantly engulfed the entire venue.

God knows what they went through today.

Since the start of the competition, none of the first five contestants have successfully completed the challenge; all of them have failed, leaving the contestants numb with frustration.

Finally, someone has succeeded!

"No wonder he was the champion of the last Heavenly Sign Selection Festival!"

"Mani's got some skills, impressive!"

"Where's Robin? He used to have an opening betting pool for every match, why doesn't he dare to put it up today?"

"Hahaha, everyone knows how bad Mani is. He probably knew everyone would bet on Mani, so there was no chance of winning and that's why he didn't do it."

"Mani mani mani!"

The atmosphere at Weibai Square reached its peak at this moment.

The layman looks at the excitement and the insider looks at the doorway.

Viewers only see Psyduck using its psychic powers and its ability to move the clouds in front of the sun, so that the power of rain will cancel out the power of a sunny day. But the real situation is far more complicated than that.

The cancellation of weather moves is essentially a collision between two completely different energies. Apart from specific energy combinations, such as water energy and ice energy, other energy combinations are often extremely violent and incompatible, and are very prone to explosion.

This is also why Pokémon anime often uses energy blasts to negate damage, which is jokingly referred to as "smoke without injury."

Sunny Day is fire-type energy, while Rain Prayer is water-type energy. Controlling these two energies to cancel each other out at the same rate reminded Ark of the second challenge of Rayquaza's Ruins that Whimsicott had mentioned before, which was a similar test.

And these are just two types of weather. If other chaotic weather, such as storms and lightning, were added, the difficulty of calming them would increase exponentially.

Unless one possesses overwhelming power in manipulating the weather, they can suppress all chaotic weather conditions at once.

"Congratulations Mani, you've succeeded! Your time is thirteen minutes and twenty-five seconds!" the mayor announced Mani's score loudly.

The audience erupted in another high-pitched cheer, loudly repeating Mani's name.

Mani's departure signifies the imminent end of the competition; she was the third to last, while Ark was the final act.

The second to last is Takaguri.

Fangzhou knew very well that the climax of the competition was only just beginning.

Mani stepped down from the altar, while Gao Shou, who was below, walked towards the altar.

Fangzhou thought the other party would send a subordinate or invite a big shot, but he didn't expect them to come in person.

"Is this the contestant sent by Rocket Entertainment?"

"She doesn't seem to be doing well. Is she using drugs? Why is she so thin?"

"I don't know, but it looks like you're not sleeping well. Look at those dark circles under your eyes, tsk tsk tsk, the KPI pressure at big companies is really high."

Hearing the discussions of the audience on both sides, Gao Shou's forehead veins throbbed violently.

Why can't I sleep well?!

Since you've asked so sincerely, I'll mercifully tell you!

He was having a smooth and successful life!

Since his last defeat, he had spent almost all his savings trying to get around, and only managed to keep his position by connecting with Athena through connections.

The green hills remain unchanged, and the clear waters flow on forever.

Where there is life, there is hope.

Currently, Team Rocket only has this one base in the Hoenn region. As long as I am still the person in charge here, there is still room for me to turn things around!

That's right, he was actually the vanguard of Team Rocket's advance into the Hoenn region, arranged personally by Giovanni!

After achieving success in the Kanto and Johto regions, Boss Itagi ambitiously planned to expand into the Hoenn region.

It's a pity that something happened at the Rockets' headquarters recently, and they haven't been able to contact the team's leader since...

In addition, the work here did not go smoothly, which led to the fact that he, who should have been a rising star and had the potential to become the fifth executive of the Rockets, became a down-on-his-luck division head who needed to pull strings to keep his position.

Gao Shou shook his head, pulling himself out of his thoughts and focusing on the match in front of him.

Winning this championship is an important step for him to fight back against Pokémon Manor.

The Ark's manor is developing too fast, which has made Gao Shou, who originally only wanted to acquire the right to purchase honey, feel a sense of crisis.

Having spent ten years in the business world, Gao Shou's intuition told him that he had to suppress this manor, even though it seemed to be on a different competitive track from him.

Gao Shou has great faith in this intuition honed over a long period of time, which has helped him seize many fleeting opportunities.

Therefore, he launched the battle plan without hesitation.

After analyzing the reasons for Ark Manor's rapid development, Gao Shou concluded that the key reason was that the opponent was able to consistently win championships during festivals, using their fame and championship rewards to snowball their growth.

Regardless of the circumstances, breaking the opponent's winning streak will definitely hinder the development of this manor.

He will end Ark's festival championship here, but this competition is just the beginning.

From now on, he will try his best to expand the scale of every competition in Weibai Town, get more outsiders involved, and make it impossible for Fangzhou to win the championship again!

On one side, the sun was blazing overhead, while on the other, torrential rain was pouring down.

Gao Shou admitted that he was terrible at Pokémon training and that he couldn't quell the chaotic celestial phenomena.

But come on, they have the Rockets behind them, they have all the technology and resources.

He had already made various arrangements. The Staryu from the Electabuzz Guild, who had gained the ability to control celestial phenomena through a fortuitous encounter, was currently waiting in a secluded deep pit on the west side of Weibai Square.

To prevent wild Pokémon from disturbing Staryu, he specifically drove all the nearby wild Pokémon away in advance.

In order to win the competition, he also equipped the starfish with a machine that could greatly enhance its abilities, although it had certain side effects.

On the west side of Weibai Square, a starfish was hiding uneasily in a deep pit, its body covered with various instruments, and wires wrapped around its body like tendrils.

After the human took him away, he said he had a task for him: to help control the celestial phenomena.

If you want to control the celestial phenomena, then just do it. Why put so many strange things on yourself?

It felt like its activities were somewhat restricted.

Never mind, it's only for a little while anyway, just hang in there.

Just then, a Fire Monkey arrived nearby.

The Great Sage looked around and nodded in satisfaction.

As expected, just like the rumors, there weren't many Pokémon in this area; at a glance, there wasn't a single one.

The Great Sage saw a naturally formed deep pit, walked over curiously, and craned his neck to look down.

It was pitch black; you couldn't see anything.

"Awooo!"

It waved to the inside, but there was no response.

Hmm, there shouldn't be any Pokémon. Infernape left satisfied.