Chapter 77: Darkrai: Now You Know Who’s Been Carrying All Along, Right?
Gardevoir heard this and immediately manipulated Psychic in front of herself, forming a rectangular Light Screen.
“Pa~”
Like the sound of a mirror shattering,
The Light Screen that had condensed into a transparent mirror surface dispersed in front of Gardevoir.
Light Screen failed!
Then the reason the Seal also failed is already obvious.
Exeggutor had already used Seal first before Gardevoir used Seal.
I sealed your Seal!
A normal Exeggutor is Grass Psychic, and although this one is Grass Dragon, it has some talent in learning Psychic Type skills, so knowing one Seal isn’t surprising. It’s just that Zuo Hang and Gardevoir didn’t react at first, which led to the later misunderstanding.
High dual resistances, plus Light Screen.
And both Gardevoir and Pikachu are Special Attack type Pokémon, so they’re somewhat countered.
The solution to the current situation is also very simple—just max out Special Attack!
“Gardevoir, you Meditate first. Pikachu, stop scratching too! Stop and use Nasty Plot! Ninjask, Swords Dance to the max!”
The Psychic gathered in front into a defensive wall, but it wasn’t Light Screen; it was similar to Pikachu’s Electric Energy defense net, a form change of a Psychic Type skill.
Gardevoir closed her eyes to Meditate, Pikachu’s ears twitched, Nasty Plot activated silently, and Ninjask flapped its Wings, shifting position in the Leaf Storm while jumping into a war dance!
Meditation—calm the mind and focus, raising one’s own Special Attack and Special Defense.
Nasty Plot—activates the brain to a certain extent, greatly boosting one’s own Special Attack; Pokémon that frequently use Nasty Plot will have their minds become strange.
Swords Dance—jump into a war dance in different ways, greatly raising one’s own Attack.
Three stages of boosts activated simultaneously.
Ninjask’s forelimbs, boosted by Swords Dance, gave a sharper feeling than before.
Hundreds of afterimages accelerated at the same time, dragging out ring-shaped sonic booms in the Leaf Storm.
—Afterimage X-Scissor!
With Swords Dance maxed, Ninjask no longer needed to dodge unnecessarily; its sharp forelimbs slashed wildly in the storm!
The larger the body size, the larger the area that takes attacks.
More and more cuts appeared on the tree trunk; the Light Screen that halves the power of Special Attack moves was helpless against maxed Physical Attack and X-Scissor with 160 power.
A barrier of a different color suddenly lit up on Exeggutor’s body, and the power of X-Scissor seemed slightly weakened.
This is Reflect, a skill that weakens physical damage received.
But Ninjask’s X-Scissor speed was too fast; a single Reflect couldn’t stop its onslaught at all.
Gardevoir also completed Meditation at this time, and Pikachu’s Special Attack was already maxed!
Two illusions condensed from the black clouds overhead, seemingly two Electric Grimers.
The Electric Mouse’s taste in styling has always been questionable.
Exeggutor’s six heads all looked toward the sky.
With its huge body, being hit by a maxed Special Attack Thunder—even with the prerequisite of quadruple resistance—would cost it at least half its life.
Exeggutor’s six heads showed a lonely expression, and white Flowing Light lit up on its body.
—Skill, Minimize!
Exeggutor’s body rapidly shrank.
The massive body wasn’t its original form.
The White Dragon’s first generation left Exeggutor here to guard the Secret Realm, and the higher it stood, the farther it could observe.
If Zuo Hang zoomed out the map on the terminal, he could discover that the blue area he was in was exactly the center of the entire Secret Realm.
Exeggutor’s six heads surveyed daily from the highest point in the whole Secret Realm, guarding against outsiders who might destroy the Secret Realm.
Exeggutor’s response to the attacks from Zuo Hang’s few Pokémon was just a painless Leaf Storm.
The warning intent far outweighed the offensive.
Because Zuo Hang carried the White Dragon’s School Emblem, Exeggutor didn’t treat him as an enemy, but he kept pressing step by step afterward.
This battle might have started just because of some misunderstanding.
But now that it’s developed to this point, Exeggutor has reached the stage where it must fight back.
Suddenly shrinking made Pikachu’s Thunder lose its target; the two Electric Grimers flew down to the ground, indiscriminately unleashing a storm of thunder on the surface.
The scattered Thunder didn’t have its original power, and Exeggutor successfully avoided a wave of damage.
The Ninjask in the sky rushed back to defend rapidly.
Exeggutor ignored it and scattered a patch of Leech Seed at the feet of the Nightmare God that had been avoiding battle.
The seeds fell on the shadow where Darkrai was lurking, unbelievably taking root and sprouting, quickly invading the Nightmare Space.
Gardevoir held a ball of strong light in her hand and threw Dazzling Gleam at Exeggutor.
Guardian Aura blocked Dazzling Gleam; Exeggutor bounced up from the ground, blue Skill Light lit up on its tail, and an Iron Tail slashed toward Mega Gardevoir.
Pikachu and Ninjask had already returned to defend.
“Iron Tail! Cross Chop!”
Ninjask’s crossed forelimbs coordinated with the Electric Mouse’s Jump Kick Iron Tail.
Gardevoir was heavily struck by Exeggutor’s Iron Tail and retreated a few steps before steadying; Exeggutor leaped backward, a Wood Hammer meeting Pikachu’s Iron Tail, and the Cross Chop originally aimed at the head also missed due to Exeggutor suddenly adjusting its position.
On the other side, Darkrai had promptly split off a space to dodge, but still got accidentally entangled by the rapidly growing Leech Seed, allowing Exeggutor to recover a bit.
The Leaf Storm hadn’t stopped yet at this point; Pikachu and Ninjask gave up their defensive offense and missed, so they had to take the subsequent Leaf damage.
“Hypnosis!”
Gardevoir thought Zuo Hang was telling her, and Exeggutor happened to be right in front of her; without thinking, Gardevoir snapped a hypnotic finger.
“—Pa~”
Hypnosis failed!
Exeggutor also knows Hypnosis; Gardevoir’s Hypnosis had long been sealed off.
In fact, Zuo Hang’s Hypnosis command wasn’t meant for Gardevoir, but for the distant Nightmare God.
“—Pa!”
Basically two finger snaps in a row.
The first failed, but the second worked.
Exeggutor’s body swayed unsteadily.
Darkrai was delighted and hurriedly followed up with a Dark Void at Exeggutor’s feet.
Exeggutor completely fell into deep sleep.
The Leaf Storm slowly stopped.
Darkrai pressed its palms together.
Dream Eater after sleep—a combo that had long formed muscle memory.
The six heads let out low wails simultaneously.
Electric light lit up on Pikachu’s body, and Mega Gardevoir charged up Moonblast, ready to finish it off.
“You all stop first.” Zuo Hang spoke to stop them.
He hadn’t noticed the opponent’s Leaf Storm holding back, but when Exeggutor shrank, he saw some clues.
This small body was clearly more suited for battle than the previous tall one, but Exeggutor hadn’t chosen to shrink at the start.
That means it was probably going easy at the beginning.
“Nah breath~~” Exeggutor said, recovering from Dream Eater, sitting cross-legged.
Begging for a ticket, brothers.
