On Jake’s side, his ga tagross kept pressing its advantage, driving Serperior back step by step. The latter’s long, slender body was already covered in wounds—most of them deep claw marks left by ga tagross. Blood kept dripping from them, staining its erald-green scales almost entirely red.
Serperior's eyes burned with fury as it glared at its tallic foe.
ga tagross wasn’t completely unscathed either—after all, Serperior was still a genuine Champion-level Pokémon that had held that rank for decades. It was no pushover.
For Pokémon at the Elite-level and above, if their Trainer died, they wouldn’t grow stronger just because their Trainer’s descendants fed them well.
But if they returned to the wild or to a Secret Realm to live on their own, their strength would keep improving over ti.
To this day, Pokémon scholars still hadn’t figured out exactly why.
"tagross—Zen Headbutt!" Jake ordered.
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On the other side, Julian’s ga tagross and Moltres were both injured—though Leafeon wasn't in great shape either.
Leafeon’s eyes glared at the two Pokémon in front of it, its body beginning to emit a soft white glow—the clear sign of drawing in sunlight.
Absorb—then release.
Solar Beam was charged in the blink of an eye—the blinding white beam shot out and instantly punched a hole through one of Moltres’s wing.
"SCREEE—!"
Moltres let out a cry of pain, crimson blood splattering down as its damaged wing made it lose control, sending it plumting toward the ground.
Julian imdiately grabbed its Poké Ball and recalled it.
With an injured wing, it could no longer fly.
And a Moltres that couldn't fly… was just a grounded chicken. With its mobility gone, keeping it on the field would only make it easy prey for Leafeon.
"tagross… it’s all on you now," Julian said in a low voice.
With Moltres withdrawn, none of his other Pokémon had the strength to threaten Leafeon. If he sent anyone else out, it’d only split ga tagross’s focus trying to protect them.
So his only real option now was tagross.
"ta~"
ga tagross rumbled calmly: "I’ll smash that little punk to pieces."
It didn’t bother whispering either, and of course, Leafeon heard it loud and clear.
'A little punk? You think I’m so clueless cub who doesn’t know what you’re saying?'
'Back when I was ruling the wilds, you hadn’t even hatched yet.'
Being so openly insulted and looked down on by ga tagross naturally made Leafeon furious—but its mind stayed clear.
At its level, it was hard to lose control just from rage alone.
'You two couldn’t beat together—now you’re alone. Where the hell is your confidence coming from?'
As these thoughts flashed through Leafeon's mind, it suddenly spat out a torrent of seeds from its mouth—
Bullet Seed!
Each seed was about the size of a fist, all ford from pure Grass-type energy.
Bullet Seed might not pack the raw power of Seed Bomb, but it made up for it with sheer quantity and speed.
In midair, the barrage transford into a green tidal wave, blanketing the battlefield.
ga tagross used Agility to keep dodging, but the Bullet Seed stream clung to it relentlessly, nearly landing hits several tis.
As ga tagross intentionally used its speed to widen the gap between itself and Leafeon, Bullet Seed beca even harder to land.
Leafeon quickly noticed, so it decisively cut off Bullet Seed—and that white light began gathering on its body again.
Solar Beam—fired instantly.
Missed.
It fired again.
Missed again.
The frequency of these Solar Beams was absurdly fast—Leafeon didn’t seem to need to charge in sunlight at all, it was like instant-cast.
And Solar Beam’s speed was far greater than Bullet Seed’s. Even with ga tagross having widened the distance, it didn’t help much.
It already got grazed by one blast, though the damage wasn’t too severe. Because it was rush charged, the power behind the Solar Beam was clearly reduced.
Of course, if it had been any ordinary Pseudo-Champion Pokémon, even a weakened Solar Beam would’ve been enough to put them in serious trouble.
But staying on the defensive wasn’t ga tagross’s style.
It had kept dodging for so long because it was waiting for an opening.
Leafeon had gone from spamming Bullet Seed nonstop to firing off Solar Beams at will—that whole flurry had burned through its stamina in a very short ti.
It was like in humans: walking 200 ters was nothing, but sprint 200 ters flat-out, and you’ll be gasping for air.
Leafeon wasn’t quite that extre, but it did feel the fatigue—it had to stop its Solar Beam barrage and start using Synthesis to absorb sunlight and restore its stamina.
Giga Drain’s accuracy was unreliable—and even though ga tagross was like a giant battery—it probably wasn’t going to let itself get drained again.
'Interrupt it!'
Leafeon was already a nightmare to fight. If it managed to recover even a portion of its stamina, the question wouldn’t be whether they could win—but how long they’d last.
ga tagross vanished, reappearing point-blank in front of Leafeon—
Leafeon’s eyes glead: 'Just what I was waiting for.'
A Champion-level Pokémon’s intelligence was equivalent to a genius among humans—when it started using Synthesis, it already knew ga tagross would try to stop it.
So the Synthesis had been a ruse—the real trap was Leaf Blade, already prid to strike the mont ga tagross closed in.
Its tail, glowing like a green guillotine, slashed upward—
Facing Leafeon's sudden Leaf Blade, ga tagross showed no panic. Its internal supercomputer had already calculated the optimal counterasure in that split second—
Substitute!
The Leaf Blade struck true—cutting right into ga tagross’s body—and for a brief mont, Leafeon's heart surged with triumph.
Leafeon: 'It's finally over.'
It kept slashing with Leaf Blade, and the ga tagross before it was cleanly sliced in two.
But the triumphant look on its face suddenly vanished.
'Sothing’s off.'
The sensation wasn’t right. Cutting through ga tagross felt far too effortless—it didn’t feel like slicing through solid tal at all. It was more like cutting through a piece of wood.
As if confirming its suspicion, the "cleaved" ga tagross flickered like a mirage before dissolving into nothingness.
A blaring alarm went off in Leafeon’s mind. Trusting its battle instincts, it reflexively swung its Leaf Blade backward.
You had to admit, Leafeon’s reaction speed was terrifyingly fast—the mont it felt sothing was wrong when it split ga tagross, it had already braced to counterattack.
But ga tagross was still faster.
A well-prepared plan always beats a reflex.
The chilling aura behind it made Leafeon’s fur stand on end, and its Leaf Blade accelerated desperately—
And ga tagross wasn’t using teor Mash this ti—it was Ice Punch.
While Ice Punch wasn’t quite as powerful as teor Mash, its Ice-type energy was twice as effective against Leafeon’s Grass typing.
So in this mont, Ice Punch was the far better choice.
*****
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