Chapter 203: Dreaming Back to the Tactical Peak: The Lily of the Valley Conference!

【Xiba: This time Ash has met his match; Xiaomao has pretty much researched Ash's battle habits, guessed that Ash knows Nidoqueen's trait, then lets Flame Monkey come for close combat, using Earth Power to pull distance then use Toxic Spikes, aiming to continue consuming Ash's Poké Ball in the following matches.】

【Xiluona: Black Satoshi's reflexes aren't bad either; missing the kick, that's just right to utilize the effect where missing a stomp doubles power, quickly taking down Nidoqueen; as for Toxic Spikes, Black Satoshi should have a way to deal with it, right!】

【Ash: There are many ways to deal with Toxic Spikes; Black Satoshi should be able to handle it, right?】

【Brock: Flame Monkey probably can't handle it; I guess Black Satoshi used it to defeat Nidoqueen, then withdrew it.】

Withdrawing it is also useless; any Poké Ball sent out later that touches the ground will have to touch Toxic Spikes, thus falling into poisoned state.

Everyone actually wants to see how Black Satoshi will cope!

Black World—

Facing Xiaomao's Nidoqueen, Flame Monkey's successive underground sudden attacks left the opponent unable to retaliate; ultimately Nidoqueen crashed to the ground, losing battle capability.

Xiaomao, seeing that, sent out a Giant Pincer Mantis with both power and speed.

Flame Monkey's attacks appeared insufficient, as the Giant Pincer Mantis, thanks to its astonishing speed, could always skillfully dodge the attacks; Ash, seeing that, decided to again use Flame Monkey's digging ability, letting it go underground to look for an opportunity to launch a surprise attack from the Giant Pincer Mantis's blind spot.

After only three rounds of clash, the Giant Pincer Mantis defeated Flame Monkey with overwhelming superiority.

"Charizard, take flight."

Ash recalled Flame Monkey and sent out Charizard.

Charizard flapped its wings high, avoiding the Toxic Spikes trap covering the ground.

Charizard, then just use it...... Xiaomao playing it safe, directly switched to Duck-billed Flame Beast, both fire-type, and Duck-billed Flame Beast's high special attack might give Charizard quite some trouble.

Xiaomao's intention is obvious; if he can defeat Charizard with this opportunity, that's naturally best; even if not, he still has Water Cannon Turtle as a backup, should be able to take down Charizard, and thus defeat one of Ash's major forces.

"Charizard, burrow into the hole, and from below launch a Flaming Rush upward."

Ash's eyes narrowed; he must first deal with those Toxic Spikes, otherwise Xiaomao will gain the upper hand, and he will keep being worn down, likely thus losing.

Charizard dove into the hole, its scorching breath baking the ground; as Charizard let out a roar, each hole mouth emitted a flame pillar, and as the flames blazed, the surrounding Toxic Spikes were all burned away.

"So that's how it is!"

Jike suddenly realized; no wonder letting Flame Monkey keep digging holes, it turns out it was preparing to eliminate Toxic Spikes.

"When Nidoqueen used Toxic Spikes, Ash must have thought of this method: using Flame Monkey's digging attack on Nidoqueen to disguise his intention, preventing Xiaomao from discovering he was preparing to burn away Toxic Spikes with fire, then sending out Charizard to use its ultra-high temperature flame to burn away the Toxic Spikes."

Xiaochun also belatedly realized, his bright eyes full of shock.

Nazi merely watched Ash silently; although a bit surprised, thinking it was Ash who did it, it seemed quite normal.

Xiaoxia cheered Ash on.

Fulala and Huazi each had a camera, specifically filming Ash, with constant clicks.

"That move?"

Xiluona's eyes lit up; she was amazed at Black Satoshi's method of handling Toxic Spikes; back at the Lily of the Valley Conference, when she watched Ash's match, Ash used Blazing Flame Monkey in the same way to remove Toxic Spikes, which amazed her then, and she didn't expect Ash would handle those Toxic Spikes this way.

That match was wonderful; Ash's Blazing Flame Monkey performed excellently, only later losing when encountering a trainer who possessed Darkrai.

【Xiluona: Hey, this move is very familiar; Ash used it at the Lily of the Valley Conference too, also using fire to eliminate Toxic Spikes!】

【Ash: Yeah, that time was Blazing Flame Monkey; I didn't expect Miss Xiluona to still remember.】

【Xiluona: Remember, that match was wonderful! By rotating Poké Ball, it displayed excellent tactical use and splendid confrontation among Poké Ball; I think few could pull that off.】

【Brock: Oh yeah, that was a battle where Blazing Flame Monkey proved himself to Zhenshi, stamina exhausted, triggered the blaze, and also defeated Electric Shock Magic Beast.】

Blazing Flame Monkey ah, it's really been a long time; I don't know how it's doing in Professor Damu's backyard, probably still training the same way.....

Talking about Blazing Flame Monkey, Ash's face showed a hint of nostalgia; Blazing Flame Monkey was abandoned by Zhenshi as weak during the Charmander phase, later Blazing Flame Monkey, to prove himself to Zhenshi, grew step by step, also controlled the blaze, and successfully defeated Zhenshi's Electric Shock Magic Beast.

Black World—

After clearing the Toxic Spikes, Charizard and Duck-billed Flame Beast started fighting.

The Duck-billed Flame Beast with excellent special attack, fighting the dual-blade Charizard, was at a disadvantage; especially since Charizard kept compressing Duck-billed Flame Beast's space, preventing it from fully utilizing its strengths.

Each time it tried to distance itself from Charizard, the latter swiftly rushed over, giving no chance; Dragon Claw and Tail Slash directly struck at Duck-billed Flame Beast.

Boom!

Charizard's wings burst with white light, it spun once, and the wings slid toward Duck-billed Flame Beast like blades.

Duck-billed Flame Beast blocked with its right arm, but a huge force came, its body uncontrollably recoiling backward.

"Duck-billed Flame Beast, use Big Blast!"

Xiaomao shouted loudly.

"Dragon Claw!"

Duck-billed Flame Beast's dual arm cannons had just gathered scorching fire, when suddenly it saw Charizard already flapped its wings high, like a lightning bolt tearing the sky.

Those sharp Dragon Claws traced tearing sounds in midair, like sharp blades, striking hard at Duck-billed Flame Beast before it could unleash its skill.

Boom!

Duck-billed Flame Beast, under this heavy blow, like being hit by a giant hammer, its whole body flew straight out; it traced a long arc in midair, accompanied by rolling dust, racing all the way, finally slamming hard into two hard stone bases.

Smoke gradually cleared; the stone bases behind Duck-billed Flame Beast were actually shattered from the impact, stone fragments scattering everywhere.

And Duck-billed Flame Beast then heavily pressed upon those stone bases, unable to move, obviously having lost battle capability.