In the blink of an eye, the five-day preliminary round of the Kanto Quartz Conference has ended. Whether it is the civilian trainers who hold eight badges or the graduated trainer representatives of the academy schools, they have each decided on eight players for the main competition to prepare for the open competition!

After a two-day break on the weekend, the first round of the open competition that the academies care about the most will be held next week...

Eight civilian trainers will fight one-on-one with eight academy trainers, and the winner will advance to the quarterfinals.

How the academy side conducts the preliminary round is decided by the Trainer Academy Alliance itself, and on the civilian trainer side, according to the rules of this year's Quartz Conference, each group has also decided the winner!

The first group to qualify is Guan Liyuan, who is famous throughout Kanto for "Bond Evolution", "Divine Beast Trainer", "Quasi-Divine Beast Trainer", "Sinking Fish and Falling Geese"... and "Having an ambiguous relationship with the owner of Jinhuang City, Nancy", "Suspected of Lolita Control", etc.!

What also surprised Guan Liyuan was that Xiaozhi from the third group, Qingzi from the sixth group, and Xiaomao from the seventh group...

In addition, the other four groups of players who qualified were all ranked high in the three recent competitions, and even two of them were previous champions!

Under normal circumstances, these people would not participate again, but this year is obviously a special case...

You know, even Acorus from Hualan City was eliminated because of a collision with the rookie Xiaomao, which shows how fierce the competition is!

This also made Xiaoxia, who was depressed because of Xiaozhi's qualification, feel a little better.

According to this year's situation, four new players qualified in the preliminaries, which was beyond everyone's expectations.

Especially Xiaozhi and Qingzi... Guan Liyuan is very familiar with them! Guan Liyuan

had seen Qingzi's strength in Hualan City before, but that was half a year ago. Qingzi has been "traveling" as a trainer for less than a year. Now is the time for Qingzi to release her potential. Compared with half a year ago, Qingzi's strength has greatly improved.

Especially for someone like Haruko, who had already obtained eight badges after four months of traveling...

Normally, in the first one or two years of a new trainer's journey, the only thing that limits their strength is "time"!

Truly talented trainers don't have any bottlenecks at the beginning, but gradually, depending on talent, experience, luck... various differences, some trainers need five or six years to obtain eight badges, and then waste another three or four years, and may not have the opportunity to enter the open competition in the youth group of the regional competition.

And this level of performance is almost the bottom line for being a professional trainer...

If you can't get eight badges before the age of 25, it can almost prove that you don't have the talent to be a professional trainer!

As for the adult group competition... almost no one pays attention! After all,

although there is no age limit for the adult group, the gym leaders and kings of various major gyms... trainers with a little status will not participate in the so-called adult group competition, so the gold content is very low.

A trainer with top talent can train a quasi-king or even a king in the first year. A slightly weaker trainer can also train an elite Pokémon. After several years of hard work, they can hopefully train a quasi-king before the age of 25.

In the years that follow, they can continue to improve their limits as professional trainers and continue to accumulate more Pokémon that can cooperate with them!

One day, they will have their own gym, recruit apprentices, and then challenge the official gym... challenge the king level... and even challenge the four kings of the alliance!

The next best thing... they can also go to various gyms and become gym trainers, or teach at the trainer academy.

Among these "ordinary" trainer growth routes, Haruko's performance can be said to be excellent. In just less than half a year, she has collected eight badges!

Half a year ago in Cerulean City, Guan Liyuan determined that Haruko would perform well in the Kanto Quartz Conference...

But that was half a year ago!

At that time, Guan Liyuan imagined the Kanto Quartz Competition based on previous sessions, and had not thought about this year's hellish difficulty.

It was not surprising that Haruko qualified in previous years, but she was able to appear this year... I have to say that luck played a big role!

The two strongest Pokémon barely reached the level of quasi-kings, which was much weaker than the other qualified players...

Of course, Haruko's "good luck" is not impressive now.

When everyone saw the name "Xiaozhi", their eyes turned green...

Especially Xiaoxia, who was eliminated, has lamented "time and luck" many times!

Others who are not familiar with Xiaozhi, after knowing the list of qualified players, have also learned about him, and the result of their understanding is - what the hell is this?

As one of the few new trainers who qualified this year... Well, very good, a rising star!

The Pokémon participating in the preliminaries later - Pikachu, Bulbasaur, Crab, Mud...

Except for a Charizard and a Snorlax that are relatively good, the others... There are actually Pokémon that have not evolved? The tactics were inexplicable...

But Xiaozhi won in some impossible games, and because of his passionate style, he moved two seeded players in the same group!

That is, on the second day, the two who were both injured and Xiaozhi won two games without any reason.

Originally, they signed up for the competition to challenge Guan Liyuan, but they met each other... Although the game was delayed because of the fight with the opponent, they felt sympathy for each other.

The other two played against Xiaozhi in the next three days of the competition. On the third and fourth days, they both "narrowly defeated" the tenacious Xiaozhi, but they were also moved by Xiaozhi and his Pokémon who fought to the last moment.

On the fifth day, both of them announced that they had given up, which made Xiaozhi's points reach the third place in the group... and the two in front of them also announced that they had given up, so Xiaozhi qualified!

The two who gave up are said to have found their "lifelong opponents ♂" and decided to live together... No, they are going to travel the world together.

After Guan Liyuan learned that Xiaozhi had qualified, he was also surprised by Xiaozhi's instability - he could win games that he couldn't win, and he could also lose games that he couldn't lose.

As for the other new trainer who qualified this year, it was the recognized rookie Xiaomao, also known as Oak Shigeru!

In the eyes of some people who think they know the inside story, this person and Guan Liyuan are still uncle and nephew...

Of course, whether Professor Oak will be ridiculed as "old and strong" again because of this has nothing to do with Guan Liyuan.

Similarly, Guan Liyuan would not care that his nominal nephew had not come to visit him...

But as he looked at him proudly like now, Guan Liyuan was still quite concerned!

"Are you Guan Liyuan? The champion of this year's Kanto Competition will only be me, Xiao Mao! Remember, I will defeat you!"

"Huh?"

Xiao Mao, who was full of fighting spirit, and Guan Liyuan, who was confused, seemed to be talking at cross purposes.

Guan Liyuan was also very confused. He just rested enough in the hotel arranged by the alliance for the players and decided to go out for a walk... How could he bump into a fool for no reason?

"Big brother! Is he an enemy? Kill him to gain favorability, right?" Ah Zi looked at Xiao Mao with great interest, as if in her eyes, each of the "enemies" had a sign of "favorability: 10" on their heads.

"No... Do you think you are playing an RPG? Even in an RPG, you only get experience points when you kill monsters, but no favorability! Also... Don't treat others as 'monsters' casually! Even Long Aotian shouldn't be treated like this..." Guan Liyuan stopped helplessly.

Li Jia then pulled A Zi and whispered, "This is Liyuan's family affair, don't get involved..." This

made Guan Liyuan cover his face even more.

Xiao Mao seemed to be here to declare war, and by the way, "urge" Guan Liyuan not to be eliminated before fighting him!

I don't know if he already knows that he is "happy to be a nephew", or if he is simply unconvinced by Guan Liyuan...

At the weekend, the list of the first round of the open competition has been decided, and Guan Liyuan's opponent is the graduate representative of the Red Lotus students of Red Lotus Island.

Moreover, at this time, the poison-type king Kikuko and the ice-type king Kona among the Four Heavenly Kings, as well as some gym leaders including Nancy, have reached the Quartz Plateau.

Before the official competition tomorrow, the champion Sakaki, the other two of the Four Heavenly Kings, and most of the official gym leaders in Kanto will be watching! After

arriving at the Quartz Plateau, the first thing Nancy did was to settle accounts with Guan Liyuan and A Zi, who "colluded" with Guan Liyuan and "ruined" her reputation...

When Guan Liyuan saw Nancy coming to him, although he was surprised, he did not run away or call for help immediately...

Well, he ran away and called for help!

A normal person's first reaction would not be as simple as "sit down and chat" when he found that someone teleported with Alakazam and appeared directly in his room, and immediately set up a sound screen barrier.

"What a coincidence! You are also in the Quartz Plateau?" Guan Liyuan greeted with a guilty conscience.

The one standing in front of Guan Liyuan now is the real Nancy, whom he has only seen for the "second time"...

She is completely different from her appearance as a little brat, and also different from the quick glance when she barely turned back to her original appearance...

The Nancy in front of him has medium-length gray-blue hair, which is slightly curled at the end and slightly below her shoulders. Her scarlet eyes are very conspicuous, and her figure can be said to be well-proportioned... Her cold expression makes Guan Liyuan guess that Ah Zi is usually imitating her!

Nancy is called the "Super Queen" not only because of her superpowers, but also because of her temperament.

In the first generation of games, Nancy even has the image of holding a whip... It gradually became normal after the second generation. In the third and fourth generations, her long black straight hairstyle changed to a hairstyle similar to the current hairstyle in the Pokémon world. In the fifth generation, when Nancy appeared in Pokémon Hollywood, she even wore a series of black dresses and a black female crown!

It is the current Nancy that gives Guan Liyuan the feeling of "Super Queen"!

Before? Just a super-powerful lolita...

Seeing Nazi coming in, she took the initiative to find a seat on the sofa, crossed her legs and looked at herself.

Thinking of some recent rumors, Guan Liyuan coughed twice and said, "Ahem, isn't this Nazi? Come in and take a seat..."