Chapter 1434: Gigantamax Corsola

Dazzling light swallowed everything.

But this time, what rushed toward the audience seats was no longer smoke and gravel, but countless colorful flowers emitting fluorescent green light.

They were like a wave that had been lifted, suddenly covering the entire arena full of rugged rocks, and rushed toward the protective devices triggered on all four sides, making people dazzled, yet unable to help but want to reach out and catch one.

What a beautiful move!

The audience couldn't help but be attracted by it, but even those in the front row couldn't reach their hands out of the protective barrier to touch those flowers that looked beautiful but were actually extremely dangerous.

Fortunately, the next second, the flowers "bloomed" from the inside out, and the emerald-green energy flames mixed with shockwaves swept across the arena, making a deafening roar on the protective barrier!

*Rumble rumble! *

Huge columnar smoke rushed straight into the sky.

The fluorescent green light mixed within it, appearing exceptionally bright.

The host shouted: "Bloom Doom with Blissey's full power! But did it hit Inteleon after being pierced by Snipe Shot!?"

There was no doubt that 【Snipe Shot】 pierced the giant light group at the last moment, making it difficult to judge whether the explosion was intentional by Blissey, or the result of the move's power being triggered in advance due to the influence of Snipe Shot.

Ash and Pikachu stared at the rolling smoke in the arena. Hop's expression was filled with worry, his hands clasped and rubbing constantly, praying for Inteleon with the Wooloo in his arms.

A moment later, the rising smoke settled.

The scene below gradually became clear. The arena full of gravel was revealed to the audience. They looked at Leon's front first, where Inteleon was located.

Wyndon Stadium became quiet for an instant, and everyone was desperately eager to get a result.

Deng Pei entered the arena. The Rotom Drone in the sky focused from a distance, projecting what it saw onto the big screen.

The result was obvious.

"Inteleon is unable to battle! Blissey wins!" Deng Pei held his own Aegislash, and below him was the fainted Inteleon, raising his right hand to declare the result of this match.

*Cheers! *

Blissey let out a long breath. "Blissey~"

"Well done, Blissey."

All Baimu smiled and gave praise.

Snipe Shot exploded Bloom Doom, but it couldn't stop its energy from pouring downward.

In terms of power, the Z-Move that could only be used once was much higher than the Gigantamax move.

*Ding! *

Under Leon's half-length portrait, the head icon belonging to Inteleon dimmed.

Third one!

The third one!

Leon's third Pokémon had been taken down!

"Is it possible, maybe."

"Yeah! That's Leon!"

"He must have a problem with his state today? How could it be like this normally!"

Countless die-hard fans of Leon had endured the first match, the second match, and by the third match, they finally couldn't hold back anymore.

Three Pokémon defeated in a row, and all lost one-on-one...

If Leon had no problem, then the one with the problem must be All Baimu opposite.

—The guy who appeared riding Rayquaza, was he really that powerful!

Currently, on the weekly hot list of Pokémon, the short video of All Baimu descending to the arena carrying a Shiny Rayquaza still topped the list.

The reason why Legendary Pokémon are called legendary is precisely because their existence itself is like a legend that cannot be verified or determined, making the world think they are just rumors passed down by word of mouth.

Many Pokémon were only confirmed to exist in recent years as the internet became developed.

But even then, they were generally just low-pixel short videos.

All Baimu was the first Champion Trainer to openly bring a Shiny Rayquaza to a competition arena watched by the whole world, as if to announce it to the whole world.

"Where did this monster come from!"

"Don't tell me we can only count on Charizard..."

"Don't be a crow's mouth!"

The noise continued in the audience seats. Hop covered his eyes, and the Wooloo in his arms also let out a depressed *baa*. This was the first time they had tasted the feeling of "family of the loser," even though Leon was far from defeated, he still had two Pokémon... his trump card hadn't appeared yet!

Ash and Pikachu didn't know how to comfort him, and couldn't care about comforting him.

They were thinking about the tactics for the finals.

With the level of performance of All Baimu's Pokémon so far, if it were him, he might not necessarily be able to perform much better than Leon.

"Amazing! Too amazing, Pikachu!"

"Pika!"

Not far away, the Team Rocket trio was dancing excitedly, ignoring everyone.

"Too strong!"

"Invincible!"

"The world's number one Kin—"

This sentence wasn't finished, because the audience nearby all cast angry gazes at them.

It seemed that the position they chose happened to be relatively close to Leon's supporters, and their overly arrogant behavior happened to provoke public anger.

However, similar scenes had already been staged all over the world, even on a plane flying to Galar.

The preparation room was exceptionally quiet. Cynthia revealed a helpless smile of "as expected."

"Three more."

"..."

The Galar Gym Leaders fell into silence.

They certainly understood what the three Cynthia mentioned were. Before, they didn't think it was a bad thing to be able to use all systems.

They only thought Leon wanted to increase the difficulty of the match so he wouldn't win so easily.

Now?

Whether Leon was desperate or not, they didn't know, but if they were in Leon's position, they would definitely be quite desperate.

How to persist?

No one spoke. They just cast their gazes into the arena, looking at All Baimu not so much like a person, but like some kind of monster beyond ordinary people.

Clearly a Champion who appeared in a strange place, clearly a Trainer who only showed his head the year before last, yet he had beaten Leon, who had been beating them up, to the point of being beaten up.

Although the match wasn't over, although they had more or less contacted All Baimu before, the mental impact at this moment far exceeded the previous defeats.

The match was halfway through.

The atmosphere of the entire Wyndon Stadium became strange.

Leon sensed this change.

After all, since his debut, his ears had always been accompanied by loud cheers and applause. They were like clusters of fresh flowers, often scattered around him.

Until just now.

The "flowers" had become fewer for the first time.

Others might not be able to sense it, but for Leon, discovering it was just a simple matter.

He wasn't depressed, just flames ignited in his heart.

"Wait a bit, wait a bit longer."

Leon pressed the trembling Poké Ball at his waist and said softly: "It's not time for you to go on stage yet!"

Instead, he threw out another one.

*Bang! *

Light shone.

Rillaboom appeared in the arena, holding a wooden stick and a drum, stomping on the gravel-filled ground, looking up and chest out at the opponent who had landed in the arena—

A rather inconspicuous gray-white round stone.

"Gala..."

Galarian Corsola poked out its smoke-like tentacles tremblingly, its candle-like eyes meeting Rillaboom's, feeling the fierce sunshine coming from above, and let out a long sigh.

What a sin!

The resentment on its body turned into white mist.

The host shouted: "All Baimu followed Leon and sent out a new Pokémon! This time his choice is Galarian Corsola!"

The words fell.

Leon quickly issued an order: "Taunt."

"Gala."

Rillaboom hooked its fingers at the distant Galarian Corsola, its eyes full of provocation.

But what responded to it was an incomparably cold gaze.

"Gala."

Galarian Corsola didn't eat Taunt at all!

Especially this kind of "come and get me" style of Taunt, they could only deal with Hydreigon, Steelix, and Shiny Gengar, it was ineffective against it!

The host shouted: "Taunt failed! It didn't have the intended effect!"

"No effect at all?"

Leon was quite surprised. "Is the way of Taunt wrong?"

He quickly figured out the reason.

All Baimu: "Stealth Rock."

It shot out gravel stones toward the surroundings, the gravel condensing dust to form huge sharp stone pillars, which then disappeared into the air.

Leon: "Drum Beating!"

"Gala!"

Rillaboom roared, both hands holding drumsticks and hitting the tree stump giant drum in front of it heavily, the dull and heavy drum sound echoing through the entire gravel arena!

*Thud! *

*Thud thud thud! *

The majestic sound waves accompanied the drum rhythm and spread out layer by layer, extending into the ground and turning into fine roots, then breaking through the soil like long snakes, flying toward the distant Galarian Corsola!

The earth-brown roots were like two ferocious big snakes, further destroying the already loose soil.

All Baimu seemed to have heard nothing. "Will-O-Wisp."

"Gala..."

Galarian Corsola's rugged coral tentacles swayed slightly, and clusters of ghostly purple flames appeared out of thin air, swaying and jumping as they approached Rillaboom along the rushing root snakes, even swirling to form a ghostly purple ring of fire.

Rillaboom saw this and was slightly stunned, but its movements didn't stop, still drumming hard, "Gala!"

【Drum Beating】, this move couldn't be let go.

Once it stopped drumming, the root snakes spreading toward Galarian Corsola would stop, so it had to ensure it hit the opponent before the Will-O-Wisp flew over!

As long as it hit, it could let go immediately!

Both Pokémon stared at their opponents, as if waiting for who would show weakness first.

In an instant.

The Drum Beating that attacked first hit Galarian Corsola, whipping it with winding roots while also sending it into the air to be trapped.

Blue light shone instantly, slowing its speed.

"Gala!"

Rillaboom saw this and leaped to the side without hesitation, brushing past the Will-O-Wisp ring that was close at hand—

*Bang! *

The Will-O-Wisp ring suddenly exploded!

The fixed-point Will-O-Wisp actually turned into a bomb!

In the gasps of countless audience members, the bursting Will-O-Wisp ring burned Rillaboom's back.

The fierce burning caused it to turn into a giant human torch, the violent burning making Rillaboom let out a painful muffled roar.

Leon saw this, but there was no tension on his face. He raised his hand and shouted: "Knock Off!"

"Gala!"

Rillaboom endured the pain of the burn and leaped toward the Galarian Corsola trapped by the Drum Beating roots. Its palms glowed with black-red radiance, and even though it was in a burn state, it was still swift.

Clearly, Leon also knew that Galarian Corsola possessed Eviolite, which could increase its defenses, so he tried to knock it down with Knock Off.

And because Knock Off had an effect of increasing power when the opponent carried an item, even if it was in a burn state at this time, the power wouldn't be weak.

At the very least, it could knock off half the life of Galarian Corsola without Eviolite!

Cynthia saw this scene, but her eyes fluctuated slightly.

"Old method! Strength Sap!"

As Rillaboom leaped in front of Galarian Corsola, All Baimu quickly gave the order.

Everyone suddenly saw that an item flew out of a hole in Galarian Corsola,

Rillaboom lost the high-mobility skill of Acrobatics; facing these icicles, it could only rely on its own dodging, but there were many of them and they covered a wide range, so it had to stop its steps toward the Gigantamax Corsola.

Thud-thud-thud—!!

The icicles that landed shattered, creating a milky white air current like a surging wave, exploding into a biting cold tide that filled the arena.

Rillaboom had to swing its right arm to block, but was forced to stagger backward by the cold current rushing toward it.

After finally surviving the cold tide, white mist gathered high above, and countless fine hailstones fell from the sky; fine ice shards scattered densely, covering the shattered arena with a layer of snow-white traces.

But the point is, every hailstone carried weak attribute energy, continuously wearing down the stamina of Gigantamax Corsola and Rillaboom.

Burn!

Fire burning the body, cold ice attacking the body.

Cold and heat descended at the same time, causing Rillaboom's face to twist; how had it ever tasted such pain?

And unlike Rillaboom, whose stamina condition was not very optimistic, Gigantamax Corsola, whose stamina doubled due to Gigantamax, was very healthy, and didn't feel anything even with the hail falling on it.

Leon: "Drum Beating!"

"Max Guard!"

All Baimu chose Protect again.

Rillaboom roared loudly, turning its remaining stamina into the determination to defeat its opponent, and rushed toward Gigantamax Corsola.

Greeting it was a huge, semi-transparent polygonal light shield.

The dark storm hit it, only causing ripples that were almost invisible, just like modern weapons attacking an Apostle in EVA.

It looked very powerful, but it didn't actually cause much damage.

Once, twice, three times, and then exhausted.

The current Rillaboom was already in a state of exhaustion, and could lose its battle consciousness at any time.

So.

"Max Hailstorm."

All Baimu decisively gave the third Max Move, without any thought of saving Gigantamax for the next match.

Gigantamax Corsola shouted; above the arena covered in white mist, huge icicles fell rapidly, continuously bombarding Rillaboom, who could no longer react in time.

Looking at this scene, what Leon was thinking about was another matter.

"Some kind of lure?"

He looked up at the hail falling above.

Although Ice-type is super-effective against Grass-type, Gigantamax Corsola attacking Rillaboom should have better means.

All Baimu doing this undoubtedly had only one purpose—

Luring him to send out Mr. Rime!