Under Leafeon’s despairing and disbelieving gaze, its Solar Beam was shattered by ga tagross’s Giga Impact—and it was inevitably struck head-on by the devastating charge.
BOOM!!
Leafeon’s slender body was slamd into the ground with terrifying force, the impact driving it deeper and deeper into the earth.
ga tagross’s claws had already pierced its abdon, and with each successive collision against the unyielding ground, the pain grew so unbearable that Leafeon nearly blacked out.
A hundred ters deep… two hundred… four hundred…
The depth kept increasing.
The flesh on Leafeon’s back had been completely scraped away, revealing ghastly white bone. Under such agony, its pain receptors finally short-circuited.
For Leafreon, that was almost a blessing.
Freed from the tornt of pain, Leafeon mustered the last traces of Grass-type energy within it, forming a flickering Energy Ball.
The Energy ball struck ga tagross—its power wasn’t much, but at this point ga tagross was also at its limit, clinging to consciousness by sheer willpower.
Hit by the attack, ga tagross could no longer sustain its Giga Impact. At the sa ti, its body reverted from its ga Evolution form.
"ta…!"
The steel giant panted heavily. It looked utterly battered—its once-gleaming silver body now crisscrossed with spiderweb-like cracks—the aftermath of clashing with Solar Beam and driving Leafreon hundreds of ters into the ground.
Fighting an early-stage Champion-level opponent had pushed even its legendary defenses to the breaking point.
As for Leafreon—it wasn’t faring any better. By now, its breathing was shallow and ragged, but it hadn’t yet lost consciousness.
Its eyes burned with hatred and fury, locked onto tagross.
tagross: 'I won.'
It slowly raised an arm—the movent made its joints creak and groan, like an ancient machine forced to run far past its breaking point. Tiny shards of tal fell from its arm as it moved.
Leafreon stared back, unwilling to accept this outco.
It wanted to move, to fight back—but its body simply wouldn’t respond.
It had already pushed beyond its limits. The fact that it hadn’t blacked out yet was proof of Leafreon’s incredible willpower.
As tagross’s tal Claw descended, darkness swallowed Leafeon’s vision.
---
High above, Julian stood on Dragonite’s back, his gaze fixed anxiously on the massive, dozens-ter-wide crater below where tagross and Leafeon had vanished.
The residual energy from their clash still lingered at the crater’s entrance, disrupting both his Psychic senses and Aura detection, leaving him blind to tagross’s condition.
Just as he was about to have Dragonite descend to check, Gengar suddenly popped out from his shadow—hurling a Shadow Ball toward an empty spot ten ters to his left.
Boom!
"Gehehe~"
A Gengar suddenly materialized out of thin air a dozen ters away. Seeing its ambush fail, it imdiately vanished again with a grin.
"Don’t bother chasing it."
Julian’s expression darkened—he knew exactly what that Gengar had just tried to do. But instead of pursuing, he called his own Gengar back.
"Go capture William," Julian said coldly.
Since the enemy sent a Gengar to assassinate him… then he would return the favor.
In fact, Julian could have had his Gengar kill William from the start. With its Absolute Invisibility, William would never have detected it.
But if he’d killed William outright, it would have completely enraged the two Champion-level Pokémon—and the battle would’ve escalated rather than ending.
So Julian hadn’t bothered… until now.
"Gehehe~"
Gengar grinned sinisterly before fading into the shadows, disappearing without a trace.
On the other side, William watched as his own Gengar returned in vain, a flicker of disappointnt crossing his face.
He then ordered it back into his shadow.
His Gengar had long since learned how to stop itself from absorbing the surrounding heat—so unless soone used special detectors or sensory moves, it was impossible to find.
Monts after it slipped into his shadow, though, William suddenly heard a familiar "Gehehe~" echoing in his ear.
At first, William thought his own Gengar was being playful. "Stop ssing around and get back in," he chided.
But the next second, his entire body froze. A pale white claw had materialized around his neck.
'White?'
His Gengar was the usual shade of deep purple.
"Gehehe~"
Then the owner of the white claw slowly leaned into view—revealing a shiny, white Gengar.
Julian had obviously turned his own tactic against him—but while William had failed, Julian had succeeded.
"D-Don’t act rashly…"
The icy touch of the claw against his throat made William—who’d seen plenty of storms in his life—feel genuine fear.
The Gengar hiding in his shadow didn’t dare move either, terrified that any sudden action might get its trainer killed.
It just couldn’t figure it out: how had this other Gengar managed to get so close to its Trainer without it sensing a thing?
Julian hadn’t ordered his Gengar to kill William outright—only to restrain him—turning the tables completely.
Realizing he was now completely under Julian’s control, William felt a wave of despair. His gaze darted toward the distance—just in ti to see Jake’s ga tagross slam a teor Mash right through Serperior’s skull.
Serperior was dead.
William’s heart sank to rock bottom.
Frantic, he looked toward the other battlefield—but only saw Julian standing alone—no sign of Leafreon or tagross.
A sliver of hope flickered in his chest.
---
Back at the crater’s edge, Julian kept his eyes locked on the abyss.
Finally, after what felt like an eternity—he felt tagross’s familiar presence stir below.
After about ten seconds, tagross slowly erged from the pit, clutching the unconscious Leafeon in its claws.
"tagross!"
Julian's heart ached at the sight of his partner's condition.
The steel behemoth's body was now riddled with deep cracks, fine tallic particles kept falling from the fractures like dust. It looked like a shattered ceramic statue—barely holding itself together.
This was the most severe damage tagross had ever sustained since its debut.
Julian rushed forward, imdiately applying every internal and external treatnt he had on hand. His fingers trembled slightly as he gently traced the wounds.
"ta~"
tagross: "I won."
Despite its injuries, tagross had never felt more alive.
Its foundation had always been too solid—so much so that no opponent at its own level could challenge it. Even Pseudo-Champions fell before it, albeit with so difficulty.
But this battle against Leafeon, a genuine Champion-level Pokémon, had pushed it to the absolute limit. Though it was a pyrrhic victory, both its body and spirit had undergone an unprecedented refinent.
This was a feeling it had never experienced before.
Not even when it fought Tapu Bulu last ti—perhaps because that had been a group battle.
This ti, despite starting as a two-on-one, the mont Moltres' wing was injured, it beca a pure one-on-one fight between tagross and Leafeon.
No allies. No distractions. Just total, unrestrained combat—and for the first ti ever, it felt the true joy of victory.
Its previous opponents had always been too weak—crushing them brought no satisfaction.
And now, once these wounds healed… it would finally be able to break through the bottleneck from peak Elite to Pseudo-Champion.
After all, its deep foundation made leveling up far harder than it was for most Pokémon.
*****
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