The captain of the First Military Academy, Pierce, had beeed by Julian. Naturally, the remaining three members of Pierce's team stood no ce against him.
Metagross didn't eveo use its Mega Evolution and mao defeat those three oppos in uen minutes.
Thus, Julian's group from Imperial Uy achieved a perfect record, earning four points.
Meanwhile, Max's group faced off against Pearl Uy.
Pearl Uy's captain wasn't in this group, as he was busy battling against the First Military Academy's team. As a result, the match was much easier for Max and his teammates.
Though they lost two matches during the battle, Max turhe tide wheepped in as captain, seg victory.
In the end, Max's group also earned four points, bringing Imperial Uy's total to eight points.
Sih Pearl Uy and the First Military Academy had already lost to Imperial Uy in their respective matches, even if their roups won all remaining battles, they could only earn a maximum of four points each.
Though the matches between Pearl and the First Military Academy were still ongoing, Imperial Uy had already secured first pce. Pearl and the First Military Academy were now left to pete for sed.
This time, Shu Uy didn't even secure sed pce. Onown as the "eternal runner-up," they didn't even mao hold onto that title.
Half an hour ter, the results of the match between Pearl Uy and the First Military Academy were announced.
The First Military Academy earned four points, while Pearl Uy mahree points.
Champion: Imperial Uy
Runner-up: First Military Academy
Third Pce: Pearl Uy
As the champion, Imperial Uy would once again manage Advanced Secret Realm No. 36 for a year and receive additional resource allocations from the Ministry of Education.
Online chat exploded:
"grats to Shu for g fourth pce!"
"Shu: We're no longer runner-up, call us the eternal fourth!"
"You Imperial folks better n. Without Juliaing first pce wouldn't have been so easy!"
"Well, we 'do' have Julian, so just keep being jealous!"
While Shu Uy was left frustrated, another school celebrated with enthusiasm: the Seilitary Academy.
After years of being excluded from the Top Five, they finally made a eback this year.
Though luck pyed a role, as their overall strength wasn't on par with Modu Academy, fate seemed to favor them. Unfortunately for Modu, they had to face Imperial Uy during the group stage.
As a result, the Seilitary Academy secured their spot alongside their "big brother," the First Military Academy, making it into the Top Five together.
The annual Hundred Schools League officially came to a close after the final matches. The awards and closing ceremonies were scheduled for 9 PM.
At the same time, the six Best Individual Pyers of the tour would also be announced.
These Best Individual Pyers represehe stro partits in the petition. However, only the top spot on this list was sidered the 'true' stro.
After di the hotel with the uy team members, Julian found himself being dragged along by Max, Paul, and a few others to share some celebratory drinks.
But it was all beer, after all everyone kheir limits sihey had to attend the closing ba 9 PM. No one wao get drunk at su important time.
The Uies participating in the petition all di the same hotel.
Those with excelles were naturally in high spirits, enjoying a great meal and drinks.
Meanwhile, Uies with poor results—or worse, results below previous year—sat in noticeably gloomy atmospheres.
For reasons unknown, the hotel seemed to have iionally arranged Shu Uy's table right o Imperial Uy's.
Watg Imperial's side celebrate so joyously made the Shu team's faces turn green with frustration. They couldn't shake the feeling that the smiles and ughter from Imperial's table were mog them.
Especially when the Imperial team occasionally gheir way while drinking.
'These Bas*ds are definitely mog us'
"Alright, don't lose heart. There's always year. Just win it back then," said their captain, Carter, trying to sole his team.
The reasoning made sense—losing this time didn't mean they couldn't turables year.
"But Captain, yraduati year. Sure, Imperial's Max will graduate too, but Julian will only be a sophomore year"
Muttered one of the more clueless team members with a dejected expression, clearly g fiden the future.
Carter almost smmed the dish in front of him into the kid's face.
'Was this Bas*d serious? I'm trying to lift everyone's spirits here, and you're dragging us down with cold water like this?'
And it wasn't just any cold water; it was ice-cold, it directly cooled the heart.
The truth of the matter couldn't be denied. Julian was only a freshman this year.
A freshman who had pletely domiheir 4th-year students. What would he be like as a sophomore—or a 3rd-year? At that point, the Hundred Schools League might as well bar Imperial Uy from participating altogether.
Just hand them first pd let the rest of the uies pete for sed and third pce.
Julian's presence felt like a 'BUG' in the system. Unless another 'BUG' appeared to ter him, it was hard to imagine anyoing him during his uy years.
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At 9 PM, the awards ceremony officially began.
Imperial Uy's captain, Max, proudly held up the championship trophy. The trophy was then passed around for each team member to hold before finally stopping in Julian's hands.
With the awards ceremony over, it was time to annouhe six Best Individual Trainers.
The preseurned out to be a highly prestigious figure: her than the current Dragon-Type Elite, Victor Drake. His appearanstantly sent the hall into a frenzy of excitement.
As the crowd buzzed with anticipation, the rge s in the venue began pying clips from this year's tour. The montage featured oandout individual—the same person in every se.
The moed for just a minute.
When it ehe s dispyed the name of the sixth-best Individual Trainer: Dyn, from Modu Academy.
The montage tinued, and the s revealed the fifth-pce Best Individual Trainer: Yuna, from Pearl Uy.
She was a female trainer, and she exuded a valiant and fident aura.
, the fourth-pce Best Individual Trainer was announced: Carter, from Shu Uy.
In third pce was Max, from Imperial Uy.
Sed pce went to Pierce, from First Military Academy.
Despite being ae-level trainer, Dyn only mao get sixth pce this year because Modu Academy didn't even make it into the Top Five.
After the annou of sed pce, it was finally time to reveal the first-pce Best Individual Trainer.
While everyone already knew who it was, anticipation still filled the air.
The rge s began showing highlights again. First, it dispyed Metagross single-handedly defeati trainers from Modu Academy, culminating in a victainst ae-level Samence.
came Melmetal, defeating ae-level Mega Aerodactyl.
Finally, the footage showed Mega Metagross overing the legendary Pokémirock.
In a twist of irony, three of the newly ed Best Individual Trainers—Dyn, Carter and Pierce—found themselves serving as the backdrop to Julian's dazzling achievements. They couldn't help but feel a twinge of frustration.
"gratutions, Julian"
"Thank you"
Julian stepped forward and received the first-pce trophy fron-Type Elite Victor. Turning to face the audience, he raised the trophy high into the air.
In an instant, tless camera fshes lit up the hall. At that moment, Julian was undoubtedly the brightest star in the room.
Standing beside him were Pierce, Max, and the others, lined up acc to their respective rankings.
Meanwhile, the online livestream was flooded with ents. The barrage of messages all seemed to echo the same se:
"Hail King Julian!"
"Metagross is eternal!"
"I wish I could i Julian's genes!"
