Di Tian talked a big game, but his face was nearly twisted into a knot with worry.
Watching the Charmeleon on the Screen, its tail flame burning brightly, he felt deep doubt about the combat prowess of a "pure-blooded dragon" for the first time.
Just as Di Tian was scratching his ears and cheeks in desperation, even considering whether he should swallow his pride and catch a Grass-type Pokémon to fill out the team—
Gu Yuena, seated beside him, showed no sign of impatience. She was perfectly calm.
"Di Tian, you place too much importance on superficial brute strength." Gu Yuena's cool voice sounded beside him.
"This world may not have Soul Power, but its underlying logic is an exceptionally perfect and rigorous set of elemental laws. Water counters fire, fire counters grass, electricity counters water... The mutual generation and restraint between these seventeen types is far more rigorous than the martial soul counters of the Douluo Continent."
Gu Yuena lifted the clear tea at her side and took a small sip, never taking her eyes off the Screen. "As long as you thoroughly understand these laws, even the weakest creature in your hands can unleash power capable of slaying gods. On the other hand, if you only know how to charge forward with brute force..."
She did not finish her sentence. She merely gave Di Tian a faint glance, and the meaning in her eyes was already obvious.
Di Tian's old face reddened. He hurriedly leaned closer to look at Gu Yuena's Screen. "My Lord, have you already reached Cerulean City?"
On Gu Yuena's Screen was an enormous building resembling an indoor swimming pool.
Blue tiles covered the area around the building, water rippled within, and atop a tall diving platform stood a young NPC girl with an orange