Chapter 785 779: Gym Opening Ceremony

The day after the competition ended, the Solaria Town Gym also officially welcomed the moment of its opening.

Bang, bang, bang!

Accompanied by the burst of fireworks in the sky, the opening ceremony officially began.

"It has already started."

At that moment, both the villagers of Solaria Town and the tourists and challengers headed almost instinctively toward the Pokémon Gym.

In front of the Gym entrance, Magmortar could be seen, at that moment aiming at the sky with the fire cannons on both arms.

Accompanied by a series of rumblings, one fireball after another rose into the sky and exploded nonstop in the air.

Tiny sparks decorated the firmament and transformed into dazzling fireworks.

And that explosion of fireworks was nothing more than the beginning of a grand celebration.

From inside the Gym came ten Fire-type Pokémon.

All of them condensed spheres of fire in their mouths at the same time and fired them toward the sky.

Then, all those fireballs transformed into small suns, as if ten suns had risen into the firmament!

In the blink of an eye, rays of sunlight descended from the sky, completely dispersing the desolate feeling proper to autumn.

Under that warm light, a new wave of Grass-type Pokémon appeared from inside the Gym.

Once on the scene, all of them began to shine with green light and used the move Grassy Terrain.

Immediately, waves of light full of life energy spread toward the surroundings, making everyone who was bathed by it show expressions of pure well-being.

"Solaria Town Gym... It really is a very special Gym."

Seeing the performance of the Pokémon on the field, the spectators could not help commenting with sincere admiration.

Fire-type Pokémon and Grass-type Pokémon constituted the main foundation of the Solaria Town Gym.

And the core of the Gym was the move Sunny Day, which also gave the spectators a bit more experience when it came to facing weather moves.

At the same time, Solaria Town and the Solar Farm, developed around the Pokémon Gym, transmitted a feeling of vitality and prosperity.

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"The change in Stonefield Town has truly been enormous."

At the same time, examiner Damian Carter, from the Ironvale City Pokémon Trainers Guild, arrived once again at Solaria Town.

Seeing how much the town had changed during this time, he also could not help feeling moved.

In addition, the last time he had come to the town was to evaluate Ethan's qualification as Gym Leader.

And this time, his visit was to officially grant the authorization of the Solaria Town Gym.

"Leader Ethan, congratulations, congratulations."

As soon as he saw Ethan, examiner Damian hurried to congratulate him.

Ethan immediately returned the greeting and invited him up onto the main stage.

After a brief conversation, the authorization ceremony of the Solaria Town Gym officially began.

In the venue, Ethan publicly read the responsibilities he had to fulfill as Leader of the Solaria Town Gym.

Just as if it were an oath of investiture, everything developed step by step, in complete order.

When Ethan finally received the Badge that officially represented the Solaria Town Gym, the authorization ceremony concluded successfully.

Of course, that was nothing more than the beginning of the entire inauguration; the true opening ceremony began right then.

After the authorization ceremony, the old chief of Stonefield Town also went up onto the stage, representing all the villagers to express his gratitude to Ethan.

The current development of Stonefield Town was completely due to Ethan, and his gratitude was born entirely from the heart.

After a few words of gratitude, the old chief and the others were accompanied down from the stage.

"Those are... professors and students from Ironvale City Pokémon University."

At that moment, a group of professors and students wearing the uniform of Ironvale City Pokémon University could be seen walking up front.

"Congratulations, Ethan."

The one leading the group was precisely the university director, and beside him was Professor Leonard Langford, the guiding Trainer of the reserve university team.

And behind them followed a group of young people Ethan had not seen before.

From the looks of it, they should be the members of the current generation of the reserve university team.

"Hello, senior Ethan."

Seeing Ethan, those younger brothers and sisters from the university hurried to greet him.

The admiration they felt for him was born sincerely from the bottom of their hearts.

After all, the university team had conquered the championship precisely under Ethan's leadership!

And, besides that university championship, Ethan had accumulated many other achievements, bringing enormous prestige to the university.

In the current Ironvale City Pokémon University, Ethan had practically already become everyone's idol.

"Hello, director. Hello, Professor Langford. And hello to all of you as well, younger brothers and sisters."

A smile appeared on Ethan's face.

For this Gym inauguration, he had not sent any formal invitations.

The fact that the director of Ironvale City Pokémon University had personally attended the ceremony was enough to demonstrate how much the university valued Ethan.

And that was also one of the reasons why the spectators were so surprised: no one had imagined that Ethan had such great influence as to make the director of a university come in person.

"By the way, this is the congratulatory gift that the university sends you."

"Congratulations on becoming a Gym Leader and, at the same time, thank you for the honor you have brought to the university."

After exchanging a few words with Ethan, the director took out a gift box and handed it to him.

Afterward, he no longer wanted to keep disturbing Ethan, and Alex had the staff accompany him inside the Gym.

"The director of Ironvale City Pokémon University came in person to bring a congratulatory gift?"

"That can also be considered a form of taking a stance. If Ethan wants to compete for a World Championship spot, the vote of Ironvale City Pokémon University will probably be his."

Examiner Damian observed the director's back as he walked away, and then looked back at Ethan.

When Ethan obtained Gym Leader qualification, they had already investigated him thoroughly, so naturally they knew very well how much he had contributed to Ironvale City Pokémon University.

"And, aside from Ironvale City Pokémon University, this Leader Ethan's network of relationships is not simple at all either."

While examiner Damian was still immersed in his thoughts, a commotion suddenly rose among the crowd.

Then Lucas Silver, representative of the Silver family, appeared on the stage, together with Lucien Foster and Marcus Foster from the Foster family, Kyle Miller from the Miller family, Laura Thorne from the Thorne family, among others.

At that moment, all those great families that had had some sort of relationship with Ethan had sent representatives especially to congratulate him that day.

"There are a huge number of representatives from great families... and all of them are heirs of the young generation."

After recognizing one by one the young people who were on the stage, the spectators showed increasingly solemn expressions.

Each one of those young people was the heir of their own family. For so many heirs of important families to gather there to celebrate Ethan's inauguration was a sign of how much those families valued him.

It had to be known that, outside, an heir could completely represent their family.

If those families had only sent some ordinary representative to congratulate him, that could be interpreted as simple courtesy.

But for them to directly send their heirs had a completely different meaning.

"Do even those great families want to curry favor with Ethan?"

When many people realized that, they all inhaled at the same time, discovering that they had still greatly underestimated Ethan Black's influence.

At that moment, even the expression with which examiner Damian, from the Pokémon Trainers Guild, looked at Ethan became somewhat different, while inwardly he began weighing all the implications of that.