Chapter 89: One Or Two Points, He Can Afford To Lose!
“Dodge!”
Li Wei issued one of the three ultimate techniques of the Pallet Town Master to Glaceon.
Glaceon, who was already prepared, swiftly leaped high into the air just before Rapidash’s Horn Drill hit her, unleashing a speed ability that had never been revealed in this Grand Festival.
At first glance, Glaceon’s rapid jump seemed like a panicked dodge, but in reality, she was still digging a pit for Rapidash.
If this Rapidash didn’t control the momentum of its charge, at its current speed, it would absolutely crash straight into the wall at the edge of the arena.
Although Grand Festival matches didn’t have a rule about going out of bounds, such an unsightly performance would inevitably affect Rapidash’s Contest Points.
It was a bit regrettable that, although Rapidash staggered a few steps, it still stopped its charge.
“Glaceon, Ice Shard!”
Sharp ice pillars continuously and rapidly condensed and fell around Glaceon.
Facing Glaceon’s sudden attack, Qu Siyuan had no choice but to shout, “Agility!” to make Rapidash dodge this long-prepared attack.
Rapidash’s speed was very fast, and with Agility’s boost, it was comparable to the dodgeballs thrown by Mime Jr. back then—the kind that required full effort just to lock onto its position.
But the purpose of Glaceon’s attack this time wasn’t to hit Rapidash. In the Grand Festival, everything was based on ‘performance,’ carrying through elegance in battle—this was her ‘path’ to winning the match!
Ice pillars containing a large amount of Ice Attribute Energy smashed fiercely toward the lower field. The Ice Wall, with Reflect removed, was instantly shattered into pieces, and ice shards scattered chaotically everywhere.
No matter how fast it moved, this Rapidash couldn’t avoid being scratched by the ice shards.
Once again, Glaceon traded 1 of her points for 3 of Rapidash’s.
At this point, the score gap between them had widened to 7 points.
The field was filled with ice pillars and scattered Ice Crystals. Under Glaceon’s intentional control of her Ice Attribute ability, the originally ordinary field had been replaced by a layer of thin ice. Even if Rapidash burned it with flames, the melted parts would soon be affected by the surrounding ice pillars emitting cold air and freeze again.
Ice Attribute field get.
“Rapidash! Flame Wheel!”
But this time, Rapidash, just as it prepared to run and launch its attack, suddenly staggered when it lifted its hoof.
The ice layer that hadn’t melted yet became the biggest obstacle to its charge. The excessive slipperiness would cause various uncontrollable factors, leading to many unpredictable situations during its attack, and these sudden issues were very likely to cause it to lose Contest Points again.
“Icy Wind!”
Li Wei’s command and Glaceon’s attack containing strong Ice Attribute Energy came sweeping over.
“Flamethrower!”
A skill that could originally be dodged by simply running away now had to be taken head-on due to the change in the field.
Although Rapidash’s Fire Attribute control was very strong, this kind of special attack wasn’t its specialty after all.
Its proud speed and sharp horn couldn’t be utilized due to Glaceon’s series of operations. This feeling of having power but nowhere to use it made Rapidash and its trainer Qu Siyuan feel very uncomfortable and frustrated.
The flames and frost collided once again, resulting in a deadlock.
This time, the audience boiled over, the referee was stunned, and even the host couldn’t help but start exclaiming.
“Oh my god! Is this really a Glaceon nurtured by a rookie? Competitor Li Wei has once again shown everyone in the audience what a miracle is! What it means to be breathtaking!!”
With the host’s shout, the field erupted in exclamations again, and Rapidash, suppressed everywhere, saw its Contest Points drop once more.
At this moment, Qu Siyuan glanced at the remaining one and a half minutes of match time and realized that if this continued, he would lose this Grand Festival.
“Rapidash! Burn the entire field! Flare Blitz!”
In this situation, Qu Siyuan no longer cared about what came after. The urgent priority was to turn the score around or directly eliminate this Glaceon and knock her out of the battle!
Rapidash hadn’t learned Flare Blitz for long and wasn’t very proficient with it, and using it would have significant side effects.
If it wasn’t absolutely necessary, he didn’t want his Rapidash to use this skill that hurt the enemy by a thousand and itself by eight hundred.
“Eevee! Ice Dragon!”
When pushed to desperation, even a rabbit will bite.
This powerful Rapidash and the ‘child of heaven’ that had dominated the Grand Festival for a long time were obviously no exception.
The opponent’s desperate resistance was completely within Li Wei’s expectations, but this skill truly surprised him a bit.
He thought it would be something like ‘Blast Burn,’ but unexpectedly it was Flare Blitz.
This······ beautiful!!
As flames erupted all over Rapidash and it lifted its legs to charge toward Glaceon, Eevee also completed its Charge. An ice sculpture in the form of a dragon, covered in spikes, howled toward the Rapidash charging at her.
The idea for the Ice-type creation mainly came from two inspirations: the first was from the manga where Liu Bo used an ice sculpture to imitate a Suicune; the second was the Ice Make magic from Fairy Tail.
Although with Eevee’s current Ice Attribute mastery, reaching that level of ability would be extremely difficult, in terms of object control, no gap couldn’t be bridged by Psychic Power.
This powerful skill also consumed nearly all of Glaceon’s strength. With the Reflect blocking the flames, Glaceon used all her power at this moment to engage in a head-on clash with Rapidash!
In terms of energy, Rapidash completely overwhelmed, but its attack method was the physical Flare Blitz. Even though its body was wrapped in flames, under Eevee’s continuous release of Reflect, the flames on its body couldn’t withstand the impact of the Ice Dragon controlled by Eevee.
From a normal collision to subsequently wrapping around Rapidash like a swimming true dragon, then controlling the Ice Dragon to spiral into the air and slam Rapidash hard onto the ground.
At this point, the final trump card that Glaceon and Li Wei had prepared for the Grand Festival had been played.
Glaceon didn’t have much stamina left either. Looking at the Ice Dragon that had ultimately been melted by the burns and the staggering Rapidash climbing up from the ground, Li Wei inwardly said ‘as expected.’
The gap in strength and foundation between this Rapidash and his Eevee wasn’t just a little, but he still won the championship of this match!
“Rapidash! Agility followed by Horn Drill!!”
“Eevee! Dodge!”
“Turn direction and chase it!!”
“Dodge! Eevee!”
At this point, Li Wei no longer needed to consider elegant defensive counterattacks. As long as it didn’t get hit, even a wretched dodge was enough for him!!
Frantically directing Eevee to use the remaining puddles and ice pillars on the field for hide-and-seek style evasion, scrambling all over the field was a bit wretched, but he was leading the opponent by 15 points! Losing one or two points from looking bad while escaping—he could afford it!!!
Time ticked by second by second. When the countdown on the arena screen reached zero, Li Wei clenched his fist with one hand and excitedly thrust it forward!
“Time’s up!!! Match over!! The winner of the decisive battle is—Li Wei and his partner Glaceon!!!!!”
