At this moment, Gyarados's Moxie was already fully stacked. With a roar, its terrifying aura seemed to materialize!
The salty sea breeze was shattered by this roar, and visible ripples spread across the water's surface.
As the light from the Key Stone in Ariel's hand flickered, a blinding white light also burst from Gyarados's body.
The Light of Evolution!
Within the light, Gyarados's originally slender body began to swell, twist, and reshape!
Bones let out tooth-aching cracks, muscle fibers tore and regenerated in a savage manner, and the deep blue scales became even harder.
Its body became stout and thick, like a submerged heavy gunboat. Its dorsal and tail fins expanded into vicious blades, and its entire body was surrounded by churning water vapor and ominous dark energy.
Since Gyarados had already maxed out its stats before Mega Evolution, the power surging within the current Mega Gyarados had reached a horrifying level!
It just hovered there quietly, and the leaked pressure caused the seawater below to sink into a shallow pit.
Looking at the Mega Gyarados, whose appearance had completely changed and whose aura was like a different Pokémon altogether, the emotion called "horror" appeared in the woman Chao's eyes for the first time.
How long has it been since the League announced Mega Evolution?
Wasn't this thing just discovered, a strategic power that only Elite Four Level Trainers and a few top Gym Leaders were qualified to access?
This brat, where did he get this power!
Just how strong is his background?
Chao's heart pounded wildly, and a chill rushed from her tailbone straight to the top of her head.
She thought he was just an exceptionally gifted young genius, perhaps with the shadow of some Gym or family behind him.
But Mega Evolution... this had already exceeded her scope of knowledge!
This was simply not something a single family could produce!
Chao would never have imagined that this power did not come from any background, but was first unearthed by Ariel himself from beneath the veil of this world!
But now was not the time to think about these things.
Chao's reason was overwhelmed by her survival instinct, and her fear quickly transformed into a fierce killing intent.
The top priority was to eliminate this Mega Gyarados!
Otherwise, the one who died would be herself!
"All together! Kill him for me!"
Chao's voice was sharp, carrying a hint of trembling that she herself hadn't noticed.
The moment the order was given, the two Gym Leader Level peak Pokémon moved!
"Cha!"
Sharpedo was like a launched torpedo, its body wrapped in high-pressure water. It broke through the sea surface in the form of an "Aqua Jet," stabbing straight at Mega Gyarados's abdomen!
Its speed was so fast that it pulled a long white spray across the water's surface.
On the other side, Tentacruel's huge umbrella cap suddenly contracted, and several tentacles aimed at the sky. The purple-black Toxic liquid was compressed into viscous shells, and "Sludge Bomb" was fired like a blanket, sealing off all of Mega Gyarados's evasion routes!
This was a joint strangulation from two Gym Leader Level peak Pokémon. Any Pokémon that had just entered the Gym Leader Level would have been torn to pieces in an instant.
However, there wasn't even a ripple on Ariel's face.
He even found it a bit funny.
Two Gym Leader Level peaks?
Is that a lot?
In the face of absolute power, numbers are the most meaningless thing.
"Dodge."
Ariel's voice was very soft, so soft it was almost scattered by the sea breeze.
But Mega Gyarados heard it.
Facing the lethal torpedo and the rain of poison attacking from below, its massive body made a movement that was completely inconsistent with its size.
Its body twisted suddenly!
A nearly ninety-degree vertical side flip!
Boom!
Sharpedo's Aqua Jet almost grazed its belly as it flew past, the resulting wind making its dorsal fin flap loudly.
As for the Sludge Bombs filling the sky, they all landed in empty space, hitting the sea with "thud thud thud" sounds, dyeing a large area of seawater a disgusting purple-black and emitting corrosive bubbles.
With the strike missing, Chao's heart sank.
So fast!
This is simply not the speed a Gyarados should have!
"Roar!!!"
Before she could issue a new command, Mega Gyarados's counterattack arrived!
It didn't even look at the Sharpedo that had missed. Its ferocious dragon head suddenly turned toward the Tentacruel on the other side, its bloody maw opening to reveal forest-white sharp teeth!
A pure, arrogant, and unreasonable burst of dark energy gathered in its mouth.
Dark-type skill, Crunch!
"Not good! Tentacruel, Protect!"
Chao's pupils suddenly contracted, and she screamed sharply.
Too late.
Mega Gyarados's speed was faster than her voice!
A black shadow flashed by!
That massive body drew a crude straight line in the air, ignoring air resistance and spatial distance!
"Crack!!!"
A crisp sound of shattering that made one's scalp tingle rang out.
The pale green energy barrier Tentacruel had hastily condensed was as fragile as a piece of window paper in front of Mega Gyarados's giant mouth, and it was instantly bitten to pieces!
Immediately after, the maw full of fangs slammed shut!
Biting down on Tentacruel's relatively soft umbrella cap!
"Pshhh—"
There was no scream, only the dull sound of leather being torn.
Tentacruel's huge body stiffened suddenly, and the blue gelatinous substance that made up its body was squeezed out from between Mega Gyarados's teeth.
Its dozens of tentacles twitched weakly twice, and then went completely limp, losing all signs of life.
Instant kill!
A Gym Leader Level peak Tentacruel, known for its Special Defense, was directly killed in a single encounter!
Chao stared blankly at this scene, her mind a complete blank.
How... is it possible?
This bite was a real, unmitigated, lethal bite with fully stacked attack stats!
"Cha-sha!!"
At this moment, an angry roar pulled Chao back to reality from her shock.
It was Sharpedo!
Seeing its companion killed, this bully of the sea went completely berserk!
It turned around, opening its giant jaws that were enough to crush steel plates, and charged at Mega Gyarados's back again!
This time, it used its strongest killing move—Crunch!
An eye for an eye!
"Good timing."
Ariel's gaze was cold as he spat out two words.
Mega Gyarados didn't even look back. Its huge tail fin, like a steel whip filled with power, traced a half-moon trajectory in the air and slammed backward!
Dragon Tail!
Bang!!!
A dull sound to the extreme!
Before Sharpedo's "Crunch" could even touch Mega Gyarados's body, it was struck squarely in the face by that powerful Dragon Tail!
"Wuu—!"
Sharpedo let out a painful wail, and its mouth full of sharp teeth instantly shattered mostly. Its entire body was like a baseball hit with full force, tumbling and flying backward, crashing into the sea and kicking up a towering wave!
It struggled to resurface, but its body wouldn't listen. Lines of blood gushed from its mouth and nose, dyeing the surrounding seawater red.
Heavily injured!
With just one strike, it lost its ability to fight!
The entire battlefield fell completely silent within a short ten-odd seconds.
The sea breeze blew, bringing with it a thick smell of blood and the sour stench of poison.
On the water's surface was the broken corpse of Tentacruel and the dying Sharpedo in the bloody water.
In the air, Mega Gyarados slowly turned around. Its crimson eyes, devoid of any emotion, Lock-On to the pale-faced woman in the sea.
The Light of Evolution on its body hadn't completely faded. Its massive body cast a shadow that blotted out the sky under the afterglow of the setting sun, completely enveloping Chao.
Chao's body began to tremble uncontrollably, her teeth chattering.
It was over.
Everything was over.
Her two proud aces hadn't even lasted a single round against this monster.
Suppression!
This was true, absolute, crushing suppression!
She looked at the youth standing not far away. The youth still had that calm appearance, as if he had only done a trivial little thing.
But that calmness, in Chao's eyes, was even more terrifying than Mega Gyarados's ferocious face.
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