For an amphibious Pokémon, making it this far was truly surprising. But now, just like Primarina, it was stuck at the final step.
That step was like ascending to heaven: succeed, and it would leap through the Dragon Gate; fail, and it would fall back into the mortal world.
"Don't tell me even Frogadier is going to make it through the Dragon Gate?" Zuo Chi looked at his Vaporeon, which could no longer even reach the halfway point, and his heart shattered.
"It looks like it has a good chance!" Xiao Ran said.
Frogadier was Ye Ling's starter Pokémon, after all. A Pokémon naturally took after its Trainer, and Frogadier had inherited Ye Ling's determination to grow stronger. In that respect, she was even stronger than Xiao Ran.
Time ticked by. A few of the Pokémon that came up afterward also made it through the Dragon Gate, but unlike the initial burst, there were only a handful here and there.
People did a rough count. Nearly forty minutes had passed, and fewer than twenty Pokémon had made it through the Dragon Gate. Compared to the dense mass of Pokémon below, that success rate was frighteningly low.
Zuo Chi's Vaporeon had already given up and dropped into the Yellow River to rest. It planned to try again at the last moment and see whether it could reach a little higher.
Primarina and Frogadier were still holding on, lingering along the final stretch, yet unable to leap up.
At one point, Primarina had even tried to charge up with Aqua Jet, but the attempt nearly sent it tumbling straight down. In the end, it could only stop there again and wait for its strength to recover.
"That Frogadier moved!" someone cried.
Everyone looked up. Frogadier, which had been beside Primarina, was slowly