"This ti he's bound to lose. He's not even at the Elite level—how could he possibly beat Grandpa?"
Although Ethan didn't have much skill himself, he wasn't entirely blind when it ca to judging battles. While Steelix appeared imposing, he could tell that it wasn't at Elite level.
Elite-level Pokémon were fundantally different from regular ones.
Even if an Elite-level Pokémon suppressed its aura, you could still sense sothing extraordinary about it just by looking at it.
Steelix was at the peak of pseudo-Elite, while Lunatone was at the peak of Elite level. The gap between the two was significant.
So the first priority was to narrow that gap.
"Steelix, ga Evolve!"
As a dazzling rainbow light engulfed Steelix, a few seconds later, ga Steelix erged on the battlefield.
ga Steelix's new form boasted a ring of floating tallic shards around its neck, divided into six groups rotating clockwise.
Its three rod-like protrusions had transford into crystalline structures resembling diamonds, and its tail tip had also adopted a diamond-like appearance.
Additionally, four previously unadorned body segnts now featured hexagonal blue ring patterns on their sides.
Its height had also increased significantly compared to before, and its level temporarily surged from 70 to 73.
Seeing this, Ethan fell silent. He had completely forgotten about ga Evolution.
"ROAR!"
Feeling the dramatic boost in power, ga Steelix's confidence surged. In this mont, it even dared to consider facing tagross head-on.
Its piercing gaze locked onto Lunatone, roughly 400 ters away.
ga Steelix: "I'll take you down first."
Its massive body began moving forward. While not particularly fast, its enormous size made each movent cover significant ground.
As it closed in on Lunatone, a massive spectral jaw filled with sharp teeth ford in midair and lunged toward the opponent.
Lunatone unleashed its Psychic energy, shattering the Crunch attack with a Psyshock.
"Lunatone, Future Sight"
A mysterious orb of light shot from Lunatone into the sky. The next second, the orb vanished from sight.
Future Sight: 'Unleashes an attack after a few turns'
While Lunatone was preparing Future Sight, ga Steelix's Iron Tail was already raised and crashing down. For a Pokémon of its size, the force of the attack was truly terrifying.
As the Iron Tail descended, it caused a sonic boom, its tip streaking through the air with white energy that compressed the atmosphere beneath it.
"Psychic!"
Facing an Iron Tail capable of demolishing a skyscraper, Lunatone remained motionless. Its eyes glowed blue, and ripples of psychic energy surged outward, striking ga Steelix's Iron Tail in successive waves.
Each ti Iron Tail was struck by the psychic waves, its power weakened slightly.
At just ten centiters away from Lunatone, Iron Tail ca to a complete stop.
No matter how much force ga Steelix exerted, the ten centiter gap remained unbridgeable, an invisible wall created by Lunatone's Psychic held the Iron Tail in place.
As the blue glow in Lunatone's eyes intensified, ga Steelix felt its massive body begin to lift off the ground, inch by inch.
"Steelix, Screech!" Julian said.
Hearing this, Fred's expression changed slightly.
Though ga Steelix's body was immobilized, it could still use its mouth. As its jaws opened, an ear-piercing sound, like the sound of a blade scraping against glass, echoed across the battlefield.
Lunatone's face twisted in discomfort, and its focus on Psychic faltered.
Boom!
ga Steelix crashed back to the ground.
"Dig!"
"Moonblast!"
Julian and Fred shouted almost simultaneously.
Lunatone began gathering energy for Moonblast, but ga Steelix's massive form vanished underground before the move could land.
Fred's face darkened slightly. Julian had read his actions and preempted his move.
ga Steelix had dodged the Moonblast with Dig before Lunatone could complete its attack.
Monts later, the ground cracked open. ga Steelix erupted from beneath the surface like a venomous snake striking a sparrow, its massive jaws snapping toward Lunatone.
At the critical mont, a pale green protective barrier enveloped Lunatone.
Crunch!
ga Steelix's jaws slamd into the Protect. Cracks began to spread across the barrier, but it held firm.
Perhaps the shield would shatter in the next instant, or maybe in two or three seconds.
Either way, Lunatone only needed those few seconds.
The ground beneath ga Steelix rapidly turned to sand, swallowing a third of its massive body in re monts.
The powerful suction created by Sand Tomb rendered even ga Steelix's imnse strength useless. The loose sand negated its efforts to move effectively.
And at that very mont, a brilliant white beam of light descended from above, striking ga Steelix squarely on the head.
Future Sight had landed.
The timing couldn't have been better. Trapped by Sand Tomb, ga Steelix had no way to dodge.
Fred allowed himself a slight smile. A bit of luck always felt good.
Julian, however, remained silent.
"Steelix, Drill Run," he said calmly.
Just when ga Steelix was thinking about how to escape the predicant, Julian's voice made its eyes light up with realization.
Yes, it could use that move.
Although Sand Tomb's suction restricted its movent, ga Steelix's massive body could spin with the flow of the shifting sands, turning the trap into an advantage.
Sand Tomb that once restrained ga Steelix, in an instant, beco its ally. Harnessing the shifting sands, it completed Drill Run in the blink of an eye.
Like a high-speed spinning drill, ga Steelix pierced through the Future Sight, dispersing it entirely. Using the montum from its rotation, it propelled itself out of the Sand Tomb.
Watching ga Steelix charge toward Lunatone with Drill Run, Fred glanced at Julian with a hint of admiration.
From the Screech to disrupt Lunatone, to reading his moves, and now Drill Run, Julian consistently found ways to help his Pokémon escape dire situations at critical monts.
Such precise command and adaptability—no wonder he overshadowed his peers, and now even dared to challenge veteran trainers.
But Fred's Lunatone wasn't so easily bested.
Lunatone's eyes flashed blue, and several Light Screens materialized in the Drill Run's path.
Crack! The first Light Screen shattered in an instant.
Crack! The second Light Screen broke within half a second.
Crack!
Crack!
Crack! By the ti the fifth Light Screen shattered, ga Steelix's Drill Run had lost all its montum, and its massive body ca to a halt.
The power of Drill Run was completely neutralized by the five Light Screens, and Lunatone had prepared six.
"Hypnosis"
ga Steelix, still recovering from the halted Drill Run, suddenly felt its eyelids grow heavy. They fluttered open and shut, a deep drowsiness washing over it.
It wanted nothing more than to close its eyes and rest.
Seeing ga Steelix's eyelids slowly close, Fred smiled faintly.
"Wake up, you fool!"
Just as ga Steelix was about to succumb to sleep, Julian's sharp voice bood directly into its mind.
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