The battle between Cain and Alder, the Champion of the Unova region, was still continuing. After the fight between Conkeldurr and Mega Blaziken, the battle had reached a point of maximum intensity.
Immediately afterward, both of them, with great tacit understanding, summoned a Ghost-type Pokémon: a Chandelure and a Gengar.
In order to match Chandelure's strength, Cain did not hide his power either and let Gengar directly perform Mega Evolution to face Chandelure.
Both Pokémon were the type that did not excel in frontal confrontations, but were more suited to containment tactics, while at the same time opening up fighting space for other Pokémon.
Because of that, the final result of the match between these two Pokémon was almost the same as that of Blaziken and the others. Both used all kinds of moves such as Curse, Pain Split, and other similar moves, until in the end they once again lost the ability to fight at the same time.
At this point in the battle, even the spectators could see it: the strength of these two regional Champions was extremely close. Otherwise, it would not have happened twice in a row that both Pokémon lost the ability to fight at the same time.
After Chandelure and Mega Gengar lost the ability to fight at the same time, the Pokémon that Alder and Cain summoned again were somewhat different.
Alder summoned a Ground- and Dark-type Krookodile, while Cain summoned another one of his Pokémon: Slowking!
This time, Cain's Pokémon was indeed at a type disadvantage. Although the Water type also countered the Ground type, it was not as serious as the Dark type's advantage over the Psychic type.
However, Cain's Slowking was different from Alder's Reuniclus. At the very least, Slowking possessed the move Miracle Eye, and also had the move Teleport, which allowed him to be flexible enough.
Only, unfortunately, just as Cain understood very well how one should fight using the Trick Room tactic, Alder also understood very well how to deal with the Trick Room used by Cain's Slowking.
The most important thing was still that Krookodile's pure strength was above that of Cain's Slowking.
When both Pokémon had certain type advantages over each other, the difference in pure strength became very obvious.
Therefore, this time it was finally Cain's Pokémon's turn to lose the ability to fight first. Slowking fell under Krookodile's attack.
It was something inevitable. After all, Alder's age was much greater than Cain's, so the overall strength of his Pokémon was still somewhat superior to that of Cain's Pokémon.
Although Cain had several Mega Evolutions, which to a certain extent made up for the difference in strength, Slowking was not a Pokémon capable of Mega Evolving. In addition, during the recent period, there had really not been too many suitable opportunities for Slowking to battle, so his growth speed had not managed to keep up.
In truth, the most important thing was that Slowking's current quality had already become somewhat weak. But it did not matter, because from Cain's point of view, at that moment Slowking's quality had already reached the peak of Light Purple quality, remaining only one step away from Purple quality.
Furthermore, this time, by becoming a true Legendary Pokémon, Magearna had not only greatly increased her strength and obtained complete control over the aerial fortress, but had also fully developed her Soul-Heart.
The Soul-Heart having been developed meant that her influence over the Pokémon around her would also increase even further.
Therefore, Cain had a lot of confidence that Slowking's quality could improve.
After Slowking's defeat, Alder's Krookodile was also already at the limit of its strength.
After thinking it over briefly, Cain summoned Salamence.
Now Salamence's strength was no longer weak. Added to the boost from Mega Evolution, his overall strength was even above that of Slowking. When Alder's Krookodile encountered a Salamence skilled at flying, its Ground-type moves could not take effect.
Moreover, Dark-type moves were not exactly suitable for dealing with a Flying- and Dragon-type Pokémon either, so the result was not too surprising: Mega Salamence obtained victory.
The spectators were quite familiar with Mega Salamence. After all, in theory, Mega Salamence could be considered the first Mega-Evolved Pokémon that the vast majority of people had seen.
In addition, it was the representative pseudo-legendary of the Hoenn region.
When Salamence appeared on the field, the cheers he received were by no means less than those Tyranitar had received.
Cain, as the Champion of the Hoenn region, was summoning a Pokémon registered in the Hoenn region for the first time, and the meaning that represented was also different.
After defeating Krookodile, Mega Salamence, as a Dragon-type Pokémon, caused his domineering aura to sweep across the entire field.
Facing Mega Salamence, who was skilled in flight, the Pokémon Alder summoned again was a Braviary.
An extremely imposing bird Pokémon.
Although perhaps in straight-line speed it was not as fast as Mega Salamence, in short-distance maneuvers and confined spaces, Braviary's speed was not only not inferior to Mega Salamence's, but was even more agile than his.
This time, what was displayed before everyone was a great battle in the sky.
Precisely because this time the battlefield was in the sky, the already destroyed terrain did not become even more ruined.
But the spectators could at all times feel those gale winds that prevented them from opening their eyes, as well as those Dragon-type moves that pressured them until they were almost breathless.
Salamence, as a pseudo-legendary Pokémon, added to his extraordinary talent, did not fall into a disadvantage against Braviary for a short period of time.
But as time passed, Mega Salamence's disadvantage in pure strength finally revealed itself. Even after Mega Evolving, he was still a Pokémon at the first barrier of the Champion level. Being able to endure for so long against a level 90 Braviary was already something surprising.
The key lay in whether or not it had crossed the second barrier of the Champion level.
After all, for Pokémon, this could be considered an enormous gap that was difficult to cross. But once crossed, the increase in strength it brought was inevitably extraordinary.
(End of chapter)