"It's fine. You paid for it anyway; I merely provided a channel."
Su Hao smiled, clearly quite pleased with himself for helping Xia Jie close a deal.
Following Su Hao's earlier hint, Xia Jie—Old Su's mentor and the former Fire-type Elite Four of the Divine Land Alliance—had trusted Su Hao and stockpiled a large number of Mega Stones.
Su Hao did not have much use for them himself, but there was no problem with acting as a middleman to help Xia Jie make some money.
Su Hao turned his gaze toward Mega Lucario and Mega Scizor, who had destroyed several more buildings during their conversation, and said:
"Besides, aren't you sparring with me too? We can even speed up the construction of Mingi City's fortress while we're at it. Pretty good."
After the massive Ultra Wormhole, "Eclipse," closed, Su Hao had not left Mingi City immediately.
Aside from worrying that the Ultra Wormhole might reopen, Wang Anquan, the Elite Four temporarily stationed in Mingi City, was also an excellent sparring partner.
Although sparring within his own team was enough, occasionally sparring with other Trainers' Pokémon not only exposed them to many novel Battle Styles and techniques, but also greatly boosted some Pokémon's confidence.
Su Hao felt that rather than simply shutting himself away for internal training, it was better to interact more with the outside world.
A moment later, Mega Scizor was caught by Mega Lucario at an opening, and a Cycloze-taught combo of Close Combat slammed straight into Mega Scizor's face.
Moreover, after fighting for so long, its armor showed signs of overheating and melting from the excessive Mega Evolution energy, greatly weakening its defense.
Mega Scizor ultimately failed to endure that round of beating and was directly knocked Out of Battle.
Crossing the ruins with Wang Anquan, Su