The news that Rope and Gold are going to have a wild battle has kind of spread around to a certain extent, and it's generated a lot of interest.
After all, these two are no small names who are going to be fighting each other
Gold wasn't some unknown person. As the Pokédex holder of the Johto region, Gold was a well-known trainer in his own right, and was also the rising star of the Johto region. Although there are still a lot of shortcomings, Gold's talent and strength are proven by the public.
Rope himself is a rookie trainer who shines in big events, but his reputation is very widespread and mysterious. He is a melee Legendary Pokémon, not like a human, can perform Fire Punch and Flamethrower, and can use his hands to perform Fire Blast...
All of the above... are true.
Of course, people generally listen to them as rumors. After all, hand made aura bombs are already enough to shake up perceptions, and there hasn't been an aura messenger like this in years.
But this hand perform Fire Blast is really over the top! Do you really think you're Pokémon?
We need to understand normal people's thinking. After all, the majority of people in this world are just normal people. There's no psychic power, power of aura can't be used, power of Viridian is unheard of...
After all, it's the first time this kind of power has ever appeared. Anything discovered for the first time has research value, and when Professor Oak first met Rope, he drew blood for a test.
And it was only after the blood test that Professor Oak was convinced that Rope was a human being and not a Pokémon.
Though in a sense, it would have been more valuable to study at the time to find out that Rope wasn't human.
After all, a human with a new special ability still doesn't have the same research value as a Pokémon who can take human form. At least for Professor Oak, who was studying the relationship between Pokémon and humans, the importance of these two research subjects were not the same at all.
However, nowadays, if Professor Oak draws Rope's blood for laboratory tests again, he will find that the nature of Rope's blood is already different from that of humans. Of course, the same goes for Cynthia. Both of them had made the leap to the next level of life.
Of course it is well known that immortality is not always a good thing...
At the same time, the more powerful and the greater the immortal is, the less good it is...
So Rope himself has concerns...
Let's put those aside for now.
Let's turn our attention back to this matchup.
Celadon University Battlefield
It's a dome-shaped building that houses a replica of a city area, and it's not small, probably about a third the size of Pallet Town. It's not small, it's about a third the size of Pallet Town. And there's more than one such battlefield. There's also a woodland type and a desert type.
Unfortunately, they were all basically unused.
There were already a bunch of people sitting in the audience of the sparring ground.
In addition to the Doctors who came here yesterday and didn't leave, there were also some people who were closer or in a faster hurry who had also arrived.
Like Lance, who was busy, Lorelei, who was being lazy, and Bruno, who was avoiding work...
Sabrina also arrived, the distance was just a matter of an instantaneous movement for herself, Sabrina looked around the first time she instantly arrived, and sure enough, she saw Cynthia and Daisy sitting side by side, laughing and chatting in the seats at the side of the field.
These two were also momentarily uncertain when they saw Sabrina looking over. Politely greeting Sabrina, who did respond coldly, Sabrina then sat down next to Cynthia looking close.
Cynthia and Daisy first looked at the cold-faced Sabrina and then at each other, momentarily puzzled.
On a rare occasion... Red came too.
"What gave you the time to come over." Blue leaned on the railing.
"There's something going on over at Celadon Gym, Misty went back first... Yellow went with her to take care of it with Misty..."
Red had a rather relieved look on his face...
Blue rolled his eyes then shook his head. Can't figure out what's so great about women. Look at this, Red is now spinning between women not knowing which one to choose... Rope is the one who still has a bunch of women circling him after he chooses... it's outrageous...
"Watch the game. In a minute Gold loses and I'm off the field."
Red's words were light, but Blue could hear the solemn meaning. Obviously, Red did want to beat up Rope for being such a detrimental friend.
"I really don't recommend you play wild fight with Rope..."
Blue said faintly.
Red didn't say anything, but just looked at the field below, looking like he couldn't die without seeing the yellow river.
Blue shrugged and didn't make a sound either.
On the other side Lance and Bruno Lorelei stood together, looking at the two people entering the ring below.
Bruno smiled, "I didn't get to see Rope in action at the last big event, so I'll get my wish this time."
Lorelei didn't care about that, instead she looked at Rope and said rather regretfully, "Another one of the beautiful men of the Kanto region has been abducted by someone from another region."
Lance rolled his eyes at Lorelei, "Then why don't you go find Rope back then."
Lorelei rolled her eyes back at him... really, like she hadn't done that? But that was a soft, dead wood back then!
How the hell did Cynthia do that????
Lorelei crouched over the railing and cocked her head at Cynthia in her seat, her eyes taking on an inquisitive look.
"Game on."
Bruno had absolutely no intention of picking up the conversation between the two.
The crowd high above saw the opening of the two below with the help of the large screen above.
After the two released their Pokémon, Bruno frowned and asked, "Gold's Typhlosion is his trump card, but Rope is a little too confident. That Chimchar... was born not long ago..."
Lorelei also looked puzzled, wondering what the hell Rope meant.
Lance, on the other hand, had a look of emotionlessness on his face... just kidding... a wild fight... Rope would have no problem not sending out a Pokémon...
"We'll see..." said Lance with a yawn.
"Say Lance why did you show up out of nowhere? Don't you have work to do?"
Lorelei asked coldly.
"The students all still have ten minutes between classes... it'll be over soon anyway..." said Lance with a big feeling of breathlessness. He couldn't wait for Rope to drag it out with Gold a little longer.
But... it looked like Rope was trying to make a statement this time? To whom?
Lance scans the week, taking in the crowd, then closes his eyes, wondering what he's contemplating.
Suddenly the entire big screen was filled with crimson flames...
"What the hell, why is Rope covering up the camera?"
Lorelei, who was looking up at the screen, said impatiently.
But her question was not answered...
She saw Bruno's shocked look. While muttering 'What the hell?' While following his eyes.
And froze...
In the battlefield at this moment...
Where were there any city buildings... just a sea of fire...