You're telling me that a Normal Level Cycloze pushed open a gate that my Elite Four Level Machamp couldn't budge even with all four arms?
Oh, was I dreaming!?
Fortunately, everyone present remained calm, and someone quickly proposed a fairly feasible plan.
"Let's send out our Pokémon and push together. Maybe we can open the gate."
And so, a peculiar scene unfolded.
On one side were Su Hao and Cycloze, leisurely watching the show in front of the already-opened gate passage.
On the other were the Elite Four members and Champion Tori Pendragon, who had practically sent out their entire teams and were using every ounce of strength to push the gate.
A row of text clearly appeared before Su Hao's eyes.
One entry read as follows.
"The trial of the first gate tests whether the challenger possesses the strength to face the true guardian."
That was right—the "true guardian" beyond the gate he had mentioned to Tori Pendragon earlier. If they could not even open the gate, seeking it out would be no different from courting death.
The ancient people who built this dungeon were surprisingly considerate.
Su Hao could roughly guess the guardian's strength from the information available.
After all, Cycloze had said that it had barely used any strength and had even held back.
Only then had the gate—which it could have sent flying with one slap—been safely pushed open.
Master Level was unlikely. The being beyond the gate was, at most, Champion Level.
Even three cobblers could match one Zhuge Liang. With this group of Elite Four members and Champion Tori Pendragon working together, the pale yellow gate opened successfully, just as expected.
Seeing that they seemed to be planning to rest outside before setting off to explore beyond the gate,
Su Hao, who had no