manynovel Chapter 521
Chapter 521
Chapter 521
Visibility was extremely low inside the Royal Dome Arena at this time.
The entire venue at this moment does not look like a standard arena, but rather like the ruins of a battlefield that has just been ravaged by gunfire.
The shallow crater in the center, blasted out by the Taijing explosion, was still emitting wisps of smoke.
On this rocky arena, which looked as if it had survived two catastrophes, two beams of white light suddenly appeared.
Both sides simultaneously dispatched their third Pokémon!
The light emanating from the Poké Ball in Xia Chi's hand was the first to dissipate.
A figure in shimmering purple lightly floated out and twirled gracefully in mid-air.
It was none other than the Fluttering Wings.
Crimson eyes emerged from the white light. Sister Fa quickly glanced at the situation opposite her, then narrowed her eyes slightly, a knowing look of unsurprise flashing deep within her pupils.
When Xia Chi recalled it from the magic space, it knew it would have to take the stage again.
I just never expected it to be in such a near-ruin site.
The wings, as smooth as ribbons, swayed gently in the sandstorm. The grains of sand floating in the air were silently bounced away when they came into contact with the shadow energy flowing around the edges of the wings, forming a clean spherical area around it.
Before the white light in front of Gadria had completely subsided, the outline of the Pokémon was already clearly discernible.
It floats in mid-air, legs crossed, suspended in a posture similar to yoga meditation.
The body has a unique hue between golden yellow and dark brown, and the armor on the shoulders and chest is like the armor of an ancient sage, with several fine brown lines extending from the edges of the armor.
Alakazam!
This is one of Cattleya's most renowned main spirits.
In some ways, it is even more famous than Lady Gothic and Metagross.
Gothia was trained during her time with the Unova Elite Four, Metagross a little earlier, but Alakazam was different; it spent more time with Gadgetzan than with any other Pokémon.
Long before Cattleya was just a little girl who couldn't control her superpowers, the little guy who was still Cassie was already by her side.
Unlike other trainers' Abra, it doesn't need to spend a lot of time training and evolving, because being by Gadalia's side is itself a daily psychic training exercise.
It doesn't need to be taught when to use mental power or how to precisely calibrate the landing point coordinates during teleportation.
These things, etched into the instincts of Psychic-type Pokémon, are gradually awakened and purified through their spiritual connection with Cattleya.
Even without any formal training, spending so many years by the side of this superpowered queen, he must have inevitably developed unfathomable superpowers through constant exposure.
It's not hard to guess why Gadriya used this trump card spirit so early.
Since the start of the game, she has already played her two key cards one after another.
The crystallization was given to Gothic, and although the Z-Moves were not used, the equally valuable Mega Evolution battle system slot was used up.
After two rounds of combat, Mega Metagross defeated Tyranitar, but it couldn't survive to the end.
The score on the field was 2 to 1. On the surface, the gap between the two sides was not too big, but in terms of the consumption of tactical resources, Cattleya was clearly at a greater disadvantage.
If we don't let Hu Di, our trump card, play, do we expect it to be the last one to play when the score has already fallen too far behind, and then pull off a miracle of winning six games in a row?
Against an opponent like Karuni who makes fatal mistakes in crucial rounds, a 1v6 victory might still have a theoretical chance.
But the opponent is Xia Chi.
Behind him sat Rahiram, Lan, and Milnerton.
Even if Xia Chi wouldn't be so unethical as to send out a legendary spirit, neither Master Xiong nor Miaoha are easy to deal with.
Hoping that Alakazam could defeat several legendary Pokémon in a row at the last moment to achieve a six-in-a-row victory is something even Gadlia herself knows only exists in fairy tales.
In short, while Gadalia's desire to win wasn't as strong as that of a trainer like Leon, she certainly didn't want to lose this match so easily.
As the new champion of the Unova League and one of the world's top Psychic-type trainers, she has her own pride.
Before the white light representing the Pokémon's appearance had completely faded, and before the blue-white light particles still floating in the air had even had a chance to fall to the ground, Alakazam, which was suspended in mid-air, suddenly opened its eyes.
Those pale purple eyes, identical to Cattleya's, suddenly focused, and a barely perceptible ripple of energy swept through the depths of their pupils.
Then, a nearly transparent beam of energy suddenly shot out.
Its attack speed is too fast.
Without any charging, without any warning, and without even moving a finger, the illusory ray of light shot directly from between its eyebrows.
Illusionary Rays!
This super-powered move is not considered very powerful by most people.
It wasn't Cattleya's trump card, nor was it a means she intended to use to win in one strike.
The pale purple beam traced a straight, silent path through the air, its target aimed directly at the center of Zhenyi's chest.
Cattleya's goal was never to deal damage.
She knew a lot about Xia Chi's Pokémon; the one with the flapping wings possessed a strange defensive mechanism, similar to Mimikyu's ability to disguise itself.
Caldelia knew very well that to defeat this Winged Hair, she had to first peel off its "mask".
Otherwise, any counterattack would be easily thwarted by its high mobility and that strange shield.
She chose the Illusion Beam because its advantage lies not in its power, but in its speed and accuracy.
The beam is small in size, travels at extremely high speed, and has a weak energy signature that makes it difficult to detect in advance. Even if it is blocked, it will not consume too much of Alakazam's psychic reserves.
This was both a test and a breakthrough.
Replacing the most troublesome defense mechanism of the Zhenyi engine with minimal cost is a deal that seems like a win-win situation.
Xia Chi shouted decisively, "Shadow Ball!"
Zhenyi responded the moment Xia Chi's voice rang out.
Its translucent ribbon wings suddenly overlapped in front of it, and countless fine threads of shadow energy surged from the edges of the two wings.
In the blink of an eye, it condensed into a fist-sized, purplish-black sphere.
Tiny, dark arcs of electricity constantly pulsed across the surface of the sphere, leaving fleeting streaks of purplish light as they passed over it.
With a sudden flap of its wings, the Shadow Ball flew from its hand, tracing a silent parabola in the air as it precisely met the oncoming illusory ray of light.
The two beams of light collided in mid-air.
The Shadow Sphere, already possessing even greater power, was almost completely unaffected. The purplish-black sphere, like a miniature black hole, directly crushed and devoured the pale purple illusionary ray of light.
The beam of light was torn into countless fine filaments by the energy collision at the contact surface, and those filaments were swallowed up again when they came into contact with the edge of the shadow sphere, without a single ray of light leaking through.
Clearly, Xia Chi did not allow Cattleya's plan to succeed.
Caldelia showed no sign of frustration; her purple eyes remained as calm as ever.
Because this illusory ray of light is just a decoy.
From the very beginning, it was just an appetizer to attract Zhenyi and Xiachi's attention.
The Shadow Orb's ability to block the illusionary beams was already part of her calculations.
Alakazam's true killing move is hidden in the back.
Just as the Shadow Ball and the Psychic Beam collided in mid-air, Alakazam's psychic field quietly unfolded.
It was a layer of almost completely transparent mental fluctuation that silently spread out from the space around Hudi.
Even the most sensitive energy detection devices would find it difficult to distinguish its presence from the flying fragments of shadow energy at this moment.
Features interchangeable!
Gadria attempted to swap the "Painted Skin" attribute of Vibrating Wing with Vibrating Wing by swapping attributes.
This is an extremely obscure tactical game.
Before the match, when studying the Zhenyi machine, Gadriya had calculated several ways to break the mask.
Using high-damage moves to break through directly is too costly, and it's very likely that the moment the disguise is broken, Zhenyifa will seize the opportunity to counterattack, which would be a losing proposition.
Using multiple low-damage moves to gradually wear it down is even less feasible; the Winged Hair technique simply won't give you that chance.
But what if we could switch the painted skin off?
Let Hudi possess the painted skin, and let Zhenyi lose it.
This is equivalent to simultaneously achieving two tactical goals: "weakening the opponent" and "strengthening oneself"—one transaction, two benefits.
Because this move was hidden behind the massive super-energy fluctuations of the preceding illusionary beam, its energy traces were completely covered, making it extremely well concealed.
Xia Chi's waveguide power did indeed detect the anomaly that appeared in the air for that instant.
But the fluctuation was so weak that he did not identify it as an independent source of threat.
Even if he noticed, he wouldn't care.
because--
Who said that the characteristics of the winged engine are "a mask"?
The winged creature hovered in mid-air, and it certainly sensed the invisible wave trying to penetrate its body and take something away from it.
But its eyes were as calm as still water. The existence of the so-called "painted skin" was not a characteristic of its at all.
That's a special buff granted to Vibrating Wings by the system's "Fairy Attribute" bond.
It forms an extremely thin but highly resilient energy film on its body surface, which can automatically offset an impending hit.
The form and function of this thin film are indeed very similar to the painted skin of Mimikyu.
To researchers in this world, equating the two is a perfectly natural assumption.
However, the formation mechanism of this thin film is actually a completely different system from the "Abilities" of Pokémon.
It's like two objects that both emit light, one by burning and the other by an electric field.
The move Swap can only swap abilities, but it cannot affect the existence of the energy membrane.
The feature interchange was successfully implemented!
At an energy level invisible to the naked eye, Alakazam's properties were exchanged with those of Vibrating Wing.
Two distinct energy imprints silently swapped positions between the two elves.
A fleeting look of surprise crossed Cattleya's eyes.
The feedback signal of a successful exchange was transmitted to her consciousness through the mental link.
The superpower clearly told her that the attribute swap was complete.
Alakazam should now possess the Disguise ability that she so desperately wanted to take back, while Winged Hair should have lost it.
The corners of her mouth almost turned up slightly in a smile.
But soon, the surprise turned into astonishment.
Because the pinkish-purple energy film she expected did not appear on Alakazam's body.
According to her deduction, after the successful exchange of traits, the Disguise should appear on Alakazam's body in a visible form.
A thin shell formed from special energy isolates all impending harm.
But there was nothing there.
Alakazam remained suspended in mid-air, still surrounded by that faint aura of superpowers, with no changes to its body surface.
The two translucent sensory organs were still slowly circulating purple energy, with no new defensive structures attached to them.
On the contrary, the pinkish-purple transparent film she was trying to peel off remained intact, covering Zhenyifa's body.
It gleamed with an extremely fine, pearly luster in the sand and dust, as if the exchange of properties hadn't even touched it.
Cattleya was slightly taken aback.
A moment of confusion flashed in those misty purple eyes.
Did the move fail?
She quickly dismissed the hypothesis; the feedback from superpowers didn't lie, and the ability swap had indeed performed the swap. Alakazam now possessed a new ability that was different from its original synchronized ability.
She closed her eyes and used her superpowers to examine Alakazam.
There was no energy membrane that she expected would automatically neutralize the damage.
Instead, it acquired another characteristic, a strange characteristic it had never experienced before.
This is... ancient activity?
Cattleya remained silent for a moment.
She knew that Ancient Activity was the true characteristic of Winged Wing, as clearly stated in the Paradoxical Pokémon Identification Report issued by the Padia region.
But she originally thought that the painted skin would be something like Xia Chi's "secondary characteristic" of the winged hair.
Just like some trainers' Pokémon can acquire hidden abilities through special items or special training methods.
Xia Chi, a man at the forefront of battle systems, is the pioneer of Tai Crystallization and Super Evolution. The probability of him being able to train a Pokémon with dual characteristics is not zero.
Before this, there had never been a spirit in this world with two characteristics.
But so what?
This is Xia Chi.
The father of Mega Evolution, the pioneer of Crystallization, the hero of White, the trainer of Milton—everything that seemed impossible about him now seemed less surprising.
That's the idea behind her decision to gamble on the attribute swap.
However, now is not the time to reflect on these things.
Putting everything else aside, there's one thing she's now 100% certain of.
The characteristics of this flapping wing in front of us are definitely not what is called "painted skin".
His cleverness backfired.