Chapter 88: Flames Won’t Work
The wave of attack failed to take effect, and Rapidash quickly turned back to its original position.
While back-jumping into a defensive posture, it waited for its trainer Qu Siyuan to give it follow-up instructions.
“Horn Drill!”
Without giving Glaceon much buffer time, Qu Siyuan continued commanding his Rapidash to launch a second attack.
Now, the things he needed to think about weren’t many; he just needed to prepare to use his Rapidash’s powerful strength to continuously perform fire attribute quick attacks, using absolute strength and attribute difference to burn away this annoying Ice Wall while taking out Glaceon.
This behavior and way of thinking fit perfectly with the setting of a irritable fire mage; even though Rapidash’s strongest aspect was still physical attack, under the circumstance of leading in strength, these details seemed irrelevant.
In an instant, gorgeous flames rose, terrifying inferno flames erupted from the ground, enveloping Glaceon and the Ice Wall she had constructed entirely.
Crimson flames scorched the Ice Wall, and for a moment, water mist filled this area.
But.
Just after finishing constructing the Ice Wall and watching Rapidash turn back to charge for an attack, Glaceon wasn’t idle; she continued perfecting her Ice Wall according to the plan.
The initial Ice Wall was a three-layer structure, but now after her subsequent additions, the foremost Ice Wall had all become a four-layer structure.
Reflect, Ice Wall, Reflect, Ice Wall.
The thickness hadn’t changed particularly noticeably, but the solidity, especially the fire resistance, was several times stronger than before.
Especially after receiving fire attribute attacks, the first-layer Reflect would definitely be destroyed, and the first-layer Ice Wall would correspondingly melt from the high temperature, but the third-layer Reflect and fourth-layer Ice Wall wouldn’t receive any damage.
Although Rapidash and Glaceon had a strength gap, it wasn’t a world of difference; it was merely leading by half a realm in strength.
And with her such concealment, in the eyes of the trainer, audience, and judges, Rapidash’s flame attack would create the illusion of ‘having no effect at all’.
Inferno’s flames enveloped Eevee, the situation looked very tense, even the off-field audience couldn’t help but exclaim in shock and secretly worry that the Glaceon enveloped in flames would be injured.
However, what they didn’t expect was that this situation was also within Li Wei and her calculations.
Of course, the situation they imagined was much better than now.
They had still underestimated this Rapidash’s ability to control flames and the power of the skill.
Although the situation was somewhat bad, since Li Wei hadn’t issued follow-up instructions, it meant everything was still within the plan; cooperating with aura observation, Li Wei could roughly infer the power of this flame skill; based on the density and complexity of the aura, this flame wouldn’t completely destroy Eevee’s Ice Wall, which meant their plan could still be realized.
Under Eevee’s intentional control, the shape of the Reflect changed bit by bit; the exposed Ice Wall melted after being scorched by the flames, and the skill originally prepared to attack Glaceon instead became the supporting role that facilitated her gorgeous performance at this moment.
The audience stand and judges’ seats both emitted surprised exclamations, and as the trainer, Qu Siyuan also noticed the abnormality in the field; looking toward the field from the command stand, he was stunned to discover that the Ice Wall around Glaceon had actually turned into a large flower sculpture.
Rapidash’s gorgeous flames had completely become a foil.
The flames burning around the petal ice sculpture and the flower still blooming while bathed in flames, the movement and stillness of ice sculpture and flames, the conflict of ice and fire.
The brief leading score originally gained from Glaceon deducting points due to the gorgeous attack began to slide due to Glaceon’s this wave of operation.
Now his score was 85 points; because his own attack contributed to the opponent’s performance, he was directly deducted a large amount of points, whereas Glaceon had 90 contest points, pulling a full 5-point gap from him.
These 5 points could be said to be large or small, but if he didn’t chase back the score and gave this Glaceon the chance to drag it out, then he would miss the championship of this Grand Festival due to this 5-point gap.
This situation absolutely could not happen!
Thinking this way, Qu Siyuan began to quickly analyze the current state of the field, his brain operating at high speed; in merely about two seconds, he had already listed out a clear logic.
Flames won’t work!
He made such a judgment.
The initial destruction process was very smooth, but now it was extremely difficult; Inferno’s damage should obviously be higher than this Flame Wheel, so why was there such a gap?
The difference between physical attack and special attack; simply put, perhaps using more direct attacks would breakthrough this Ice Wall easier than flames!
Although unclear what the principle was, adopting a powerful attack similar to the first time would give them a fighting chance!
“Flame Charge!”
Hearing the instruction issued by Qu Siyuan, Li Wei knew that the plan he and Eevee had discussed earlier had succeeded.
Step by step inducement had worked; the prey had smoothly taken the bait.
If this idea had failed, he and Eevee would still have to spend some time to continue the standoff, and massively constructing Ice Wall and Reflect very possibly would have them lose combat ability before the prey took the bait.
Thinking of this, Li Wei hooked up the corner of his mouth, waiting for Qu Siyuan to issue the follow-up attack instruction, and at the same time, Eevee silently removed the Reflect that was continuously charging on the Ice Wall, recovering energy while charging and waiting for Li Wei to issue the attack instruction.
Different from ordinary Pokémon, after long-term training of psychic power ability, Eevee she had already possessed considerable intelligence; while understanding the battle situation, many times she only needed to rely on the content discussed off-field with Li Wei to make her own judgments.
“Horn Drill!”
Qu Siyuan issued the second instruction.
Horn Drill, attacking by stabbing the opponent with a sharp horn.
At this time, white energy gathered on Rapidash’s long horn, and then due to the skill Flame Charge, this horn was coated with a layer of flames.
The hind hooves pawed backward with effort a few times, and then Rapidash charged toward Glaceon at an extremely fast speed.
Even dragging flames in the air, and in a short instant, Rapidash had already full-speed rushed to the front of the Ice Wall where Glaceon stood.
Boom.
Different from the previous immovability, this Ice Wall shattered like it was made of paper.
In merely a few seconds, the frontal Ice Wall completely shattered, and Rapidash rushed to the front of Glaceon.
The audience seats erupted in another wave of exclamations.
Surprised at Rapidash’s sudden strike, surprised at this Glaceon exposed under the Horn Drill attack with no defense at all.
Updates will definitely be made.
Recently very busy, busy with school matters.
Today they even sent an email asking me to confirm the start of school matters.
Go eat a lollipop or something.
If I wasn’t going to write, I would have stopped long ago, directly outline-ditching at the beginning of August.
I’m watching the dates, won’t cut off investment.
At least finish the complete book, write the story to the end.
That’s it.
Thanks to the dears who have been waiting.
