Chapter 853 847: Regional Gym Leader Exchange Tournament

"Does it seem like you came to challenge the Gym in a provocative way?"

"In that case, Litwick, use your full strength."

Hearing Ethan's words, Litwick stopped holding back.

The Ghost-type energy and Fire-type energy in Litwick's body could be seen beginning to entangle and intertwine without end.

Immediately afterward, the flames that enveloped Litwick and rose toward the sky began to sway continuously. After using the move Night Shade, those flames quickly transformed into the Demonic Fire Shadow, giving off terrifying Fire and Ghost-type energy.

After displaying the Demonic Fire Shadow, Litwick attacked with all its power and, relying on the sunny weather, finally managed to suppress the opposing Corsola.

"Leader Ethan, shouldn't a Gym challenge have the purpose of evaluating and selecting excellent Trainers?"

"Making Litwick use its full strength directly, isn't that a little excessive?"

Seeing this, the challenger on the other side shook her head.

Although her Corsola was also very strong, compared with Litwick in that form, it was still quite far below.

"Eh, that's true."

Ethan scratched his head in embarrassment.

Originally, he had thought the other party came to challenge the Gym in a provocative way, but it seemed that was not the case.

Moreover, the other party was very familiar with the rules of Gym challenges.

And also... that familiar voice.

"Are you Rachel?"

Suddenly, Ethan noticed something and observed the person in front of him from top to bottom.

"You finally recognized me, Ethan."

Rachel naturally took off her cap and sunglasses, greeting Ethan.

"It really is you. How is it that you have time to come to my Gym today?"

Ethan also greeted her with a smile, surprised by Rachel's visit.

Especially because this time Rachel had come to have a Gym battle against him.

"I came only because I wanted to see your strength."

"As expected of a Pokémon Professor. Even a Litwick can be trained so outstandingly."

Rachel looked at Litwick, which had already dissipated its Demonic Fire Shadow form, and spoke sincerely.

"In addition, there is actually something I came to find you for."

After exchanging a few words, Rachel changed the topic.

"Are you referring to the Regional Gym Leader Exchange Tournament?"

Very soon, Ethan understood the purpose of Rachel's visit.

It turned out that she had come to invite him to participate in a regional Gym Leader exchange tournament.

And this Regional Gym Leader Exchange Tournament was held in a team battle format.

After learning more about the regional Gym exchange tournament, Ethan felt that it was a little like a regional dominance competition of the Pokémon world.

"In this Regional Gym Leader Exchange Tournament, the Pokémon Trainers Guild of the Ironvale region has already entrusted me to be the captain. And when choosing teammates, the first person I thought of was you."

Rachel spoke. Seeing her rub her brow with worry, it seemed she was quite concerned about the other candidates.

"I see. As long as we obtain a good placing, we can directly avoid the annual Gym evaluation?"

"That really is very attractive to me. Then, count me in for this Regional Gym Leader Exchange Tournament."

Ethan nodded. Since Rachel had asked him for help, it was also not good to refuse her.

Moreover, since this Regional Gym Leader Exchange Tournament was an official League competition, good opponents would surely appear.

Lastly, there was also the reward of being exempt from the annual Gym evaluation. That could save him a lot of trouble, so it was also a good reward.

"That's excellent. With you joining the team, in this first edition of the Gym Leader Exchange Tournament, we'll definitely be able to get a good position."

Rachel, as the team captain, immediately spoke with joy.

Afterward, the two chatted for a while longer, and Rachel hurriedly left.

Now there was not much time left before the Regional Gym Leader Exchange Tournament, so she had to continue searching for the remaining teammates during this period.

Five official members plus two substitutes. She had to gather seven people during this time.

After Rachel left, the Gym battles of that morning also ended.

When afternoon arrived, Ethan once again skipped work without hesitation, leaving Naira somewhat helpless.

Before, Ethan participated in the Gym battles because of the matter of the annual Gym evaluation.

Now, as long as he obtained a good position, he could avoid the annual Gym evaluation. Then, why work so hard?

The opponents in Gym battles were really too weak. In addition, he had to spend a lot of energy evaluating and guiding those rookies. It was a complete waste of time.

...

After finishing the Gym battles, Ethan returned to the Solar Farm.

During this time, all his Pokémon had also completed the tasks he had assigned them.

Next, under Ethan's orders, all the Pokémon began the battle phase.

Aside from Shuckle, Litwick, and Magmortar, the other ten Pokémon were randomly divided into five groups and began facing each other.

Beside the field, Ethan held Shuckle in his arms while watching the battles together with Litwick and Magmortar, who had already participated in several rounds of Gym battles.

"Littwwiikk!"

Looking at the battles in the field.

Especially at Melmetal, Lucario, and Charizard, those three Elite-level Pokémon, envy appeared in Litwick's eyes.

It was evident that it also wanted to break through to the Elite level and follow in the footsteps of its companions.

"It seems I should also start solving Litwick's evolution problem."

Seeing this, Ethan thought to himself.

The reason Litwick could not evolve was mainly because, during its stage as Litwick, it had overdeveloped the move Substitute, consuming too much origin life energy.

During this time, Ethan had also been helping Litwick solve the problem of its origin life energy, and had tried to help it evolve, but the result had always been less than ideal.

Now, with the continuous advances in the research of life energy, especially after seeing how Lucario recovered from its innate physical defect, he once again saw hope.

Since leaving the Diamond Kingdom, Ethan had Lucario continue comprehending life energy to try to reproduce the power of the Heart Diamond.

As long as Lucario achieved some progress in the healing application of life energy, they could try again to repair Litwick's origin life energy.

If it truly did not work, Ethan planned to take Litwick to the Diamond Kingdom and ask Princess Diancie to use the Heart Diamond to help Litwick recover its origin life energy.

"Littwwiikk!"

Hearing Ethan's words, Litwick nodded and began to feel anticipation.

Now, as only a Litwick, it was already this strong. If it could evolve into Lampent and then Chandelure, and also display the form of infinite clones and Demonic Fire Shadow, its strength could definitely increase explosively. Perhaps it could even rely on that to break through to the Elite level in one go!