I just want to give the elves a home. What's wrong with that?

Li Ran raised his head with difficulty and looked at the data display of the soaring M'K Eagle in the sky.

Elf name: Mook Eagle (male)

Strength level: Intermediate lord level

Attributes: Normal/Flying

Skills: Wing Attack (Advanced), Lightning Flash (Advanced), Shadow Clone (Advanced), High-Speed ​​Movement (Intermediate), Brave Bird Attack (Intermediate), Close Combat (Intermediate), Air Blade (Intermediate), Wings (Elementary), Endurance (Elementary)

Features: Intimidation (When appearing, use your own breath to intimidate the opponent, making them shrink and reducing their aggressiveness.)

Carrying props:

"Lord-level...Muk-Hawk!"

Li Ran murmured. He didn't expect that the intimidation of the M'K Eagle would also work on them humans. This powerful aura was like a mountain pressing down on them.

The man riding on Mk'King's back smiled. This was exactly the effect he wanted. Just the slight pressure released by Mk'King was enough to make some trainers unable to even raise their heads.

"Come out, little fire horse!"

"Come out, duckbill baby!"

"Monkey Monster... Arm Strength... Bulbasaur... Pogamon..."

The man looked down and saw that there were already quite a few trainers who had released their Pokémon one after another. When a Pokémon with great potential was released, his eyes flickered slightly. The Pokémon of these trainers were almost all descendants of those guys. Compared to their generation, these new trainers were living too comfortably and didn't even have any pressure.

"I didn't expect that Wu Gang would be in charge of this preliminary round."

Hong Pang looked up at the sky and recognized the man's identity, marveling at the strength of the lineup in this competition.

"Wu Gang?"

Hong Pang had long been numb to Li Ran's questions. This guy was born in the Pokémon world and knew nothing except elves.

"He is the leader of the Flying-type gym in Lead City."

"Gym leader? The threshold is so high, are you sure you can get the gym badge?"

Li Ran was frightened. This badge actually required him to fight against a lord-level trainer. The new trainer would be beaten head-on.

"You don't know this, but I can't blame you. After all, you haven't challenged a gym before. Trainers of different levels will challenge different gyms. For gym owners like Wu Gang, they are all challenged by lord-level trainers! So the levels of the league competitions they participate in are also different."

Hong Pang's words made Li Ran understand that the entry letter to the league competition requires the collection of 8 gym badges, but as the strength of the trainers varies, the level of the league they participate in will naturally be different.

"Come out! Xiaoshui."

"Come out, Eevee!"

Li Ran and Hong Pang swapped out their own Pokémon at the same time. Wu Gang's preliminary round completely exposed the first Pokémon of all the contestants. More than 2,000 trainers were standing next to their partners.

Those trainers who fainted without even having the chance to summon their Pokémon were carried out on stretchers, which meant they were eliminated.

As soon as Xiaoshui came out of the Poké Ball, he sensed the breath of the lord level. After a slight adjustment, he raised his head and looked at Mook-Hawk.

"Very good, M'K-Eagle uses intimidation!"

Wu Gang's voice resounded throughout the venue like a devil, and the Mke Eagle spread its wings and flew freely over the venue.

"Chirp!"

This time the birdsong was even more shrill, and had already formed substantial sound waves. In the ripples one after another, there was also some lord-level aura, but this time it did not cause any pressure to the trainer.

"Click!"

"Hold on, Xiaoshui!"

Xiaoshui's petite body suddenly sank, and the mud surface where her four little feet were stepping sank several centimeters. Hearing Li Ran's voice, Xiaoshui roared, and water energy emanated from her body, finally forming a circle like a protective shield. Her body stood up again, resisting the threat from the M'K Eagle.

"Come on, Xiao Shisan!"

Hong Pang was also sweating profusely at this moment. Xiao Shisan was frightened by the threat, and all the hair on his body drooped down. His eyes were slightly covered and he opened them with difficulty. When he saw Xiao Shui's way of defense, he learned it instantly.

A layer of grayish-white energy was drawn out by it, and after wrapping the body, the discomfort was obviously alleviated a lot.

"Isn't this too clever?"

Li Ran witnessed the whole process and became more and more impressed by this Eevee's learning talent. He just saw the method used by his own Xiao Shui and quickly put it into practice.

Apart from the two of them, many Pokémon fell to the ground with foam at the mouth because they were too weak to last even for a second the moment the intimidation appeared. Half of the trainers were eliminated in an instant, but Mook-Hawk's intimidation did not stop and continued.

This lasted for a full ten minutes before Mk3X withdrew his intimidation. Wu Gang looked again at the originally over 2,000 trainers, and now there were only 682 left. Two-thirds of the trainers had been eliminated in this preliminaries. Many people in the audience were parents of these trainers. When they saw their children being eliminated in the preliminaries, their faces turned pale and some even started crying.

"The preliminaries are over. You can go back to the lounge. The match schedule will be drawn up in half an hour. Wait for notification."

After Wu Gang finished speaking, he rode his M'K Eagle to the terrace of the Spark Pavilion without looking back. There were five people sitting on the terrace. After Wu Gang returned, they started talking.

Those five were all trainers with a certain degree of fame in Xia Country, and each of them was at the lord level. Among them were giants in various industries, Xiao Mo from the animal husbandry industry, Qiao Yi Keli from the medical industry, Bu Fei from the technology industry, Qian Zilai from the business world, and Qi Shu from the celebrity world.

This shows how much importance is attached to the first Spark Cup.

......

lounge.

“I didn’t expect that this preliminary round would screen out so many contestants.”

Hong Pang was also shocked when he saw the final number of people counted. Each of the remaining contestants looked like they were not easy to deal with. There were originally a few old men, but now none of them were there.

But surprisingly, several children aged 11 or 12 also made it through the preliminary round.

"Don't be careless. There are still more than 600 trainers left. It's a question whether we can make it into the top 100."

In less than half an hour, a huge battle schedule was displayed on the big screen, with the match times and opponents written on it. The picture on the screen kept changing, allowing every player present to know their own arrangements.

After watching, Li Ran knew that he had two matches in the afternoon. If he lost the first match, he would be eliminated and go home directly. Only if he won could he fight against the trainers in the second match.

The morning game had already begun and the broadcast had started on the screen. Li Ran took the opportunity when everyone was out to quickly grab a seat and sit down. Only a fool would stand until the afternoon. As for lunch, Li Ran was not in a hurry at all. After all, it was provided by the venue and it was free to eat in the cafeteria.