Chapter 180: Serperior Roaming the Dragon

As the host's voice fell, Da Wu froze.

Your Highness!?

As Serena in a red dress took the stage, shouts and cries like a mountain's roar and sea's surge instantly filled the air.

Diancie's priceless figure caused countless people to shed tears of envy.

As Diancie rubbed her hands to create a diamond storm,

Pink diamonds the size of pigeon eggs appeared out of nowhere, shooting up into the sky like a storm.

All the spectators present were instantly frozen by this ocean of pink diamonds,

Then came waves of screams and cheers, with many risking being hit by diamonds to rush into the field.

Finally, as the diamonds under Diancie's control turned into colorful specks and vanished,

order was finally restored, immediately followed by regret and praise.

Soon came the judges' scoring segment: Ash gave 10 points, Xiluona gave 10 points, Xiao Juer also 10 points, and Mikori also 10 points.

Finally, everyone's eyes turned to Da Wu, waiting to see what score he'd give, and they saw him raise two cards in his left and right hands: a 10 and a 9.

Da Wu also made a gesture of bringing them together!

Speaking into the mic, he indicated, "910 points!"

Of course, it wasn't really possible to give 910 points,

but even if only 10 points counted, the combined perfect score of 50 still left the other contestants unable to lift their heads.

When the commentary segment arrived, the host directly handed the first mic to the eager Da Wu.

"Yes, exactly right! The gem-like, dazzling beauty on Your Highness Diancie, the beauty symbolizing eternity, is what the previous contestants lacked."

As Da Wu made his enthusiastic evaluation,

the crowd preparing to listen to Da Wu's explanation, intending to improve their own female fans, all turned to stone.

But the other spectators all laughed.

The first day's splendid competition passed in this joyful atmosphere.

At the end, Da Wu personally announced that the opening match of the next day would be Ai Lan versus the head of the Fengyuan Elite Four, the Dragon-type Heavenly King Yuan Zhi.

Of course, it couldn't be that straightforward,

the general meaning being that an evil dragon from Kalos would launch an assault on the ancient dragon king of Fengyuan!

The empire's evil dragon, and so on……

letting many know that tomorrow would be a dragon-type showdown.

It attracted many dragon-type trainers and fans who love dragon-type Pokémon.

……

Because too many people entered the preliminaries, only Serena among the girls performed, and she still earned a perfect score.

On the way back, the girls chattered away, happy about Serena's good results.

After all, Diancie played the bigger role, so Serena was also humble,

while Diancie said Serena's popularity was high,

Overall, the atmosphere was decent, except for Ash not being by her side.

So where is Ash now?

……

The battle arena behind the hotel,

the entrance doors opened automatically as Ash just came in,

a blast of cold air hit him, like snow in June, raising goosebumps all over his body.

"Such harsh air conditioning!"

"Pika pika pika~"

Pikachu shook its body, quickly flinging its fur and standing up.

When Ash saw the front desk girl wrapped in a blanket, still shivering,

he felt admiration,

being frozen like that, wrapped in a blanket, yet insisting on keeping the air conditioning so low—she's practically the first to fleece her boss.

Truly a model for us!

It seemed she heard the commotion,

the huddled front-desk girl opened her eyes, seeing Ash and Pikachu, and instantly looked as if she'd seen a savior, trembling while tears welled up.

"Duke Ash, quickly have your Serperior withdraw its divine power."

All right! It turns out the air conditioning wasn't set too harshly.

but Serperior had finished practicing its Ice Hammer, and he immediately nodded,

"I understand."

Under the astonished gaze of the front-desk girl,

wearing thin clothes, he eagerly hurried toward the battlefield.

Going around the corner,

Ash's eyes fell upon a vast, snowy white ice world; as soon as his steps touched the battlefield arena, his whole body slid forward.

"Pika pika~"

Pikachu was flung off, first landing face-first in the mud,

then followed a clumsy scramble with hands and feet, lurching forward then back, finally using Iron Tail to dig into the ice to barely stabilize its posture,

while Ash was lifted onto his back by Latias using telekinesis, from where he could overlook the entire battlefield from above.

At this moment,

Inside the venue, whether the ground, walls, or ceiling, ice crystals are everywhere.

The ice layer on the ground is extremely flat and smooth, like a skating rink, and Serperior's slender body constantly moves across the ice surface, like a swimming dragon.

Its tail covered in ice-blue energy, wherever it sweeps, ice crystals recondense, and the ice layer on the ground becomes thicker.

No wonder it's so cold and slippery here; it turns out Serperior is making an ice-skating rink.

Squeak~

Seeing Ash and Latias appear, Serperior immediately stopped its swimming dragon motion, and a flash of joy crossed its noble eyes.

She never expected that as a Grass-type elf, she could also master Ice-type skills.

What made Serperior even happier was that, as she mastered Ice Hammer, she found her resistance to ice and snow increased.

More specifically,

It basically changed from originally taking double damage from Ice-type to normal 1× damage, neither resisted nor weak.

That's why, caught up in joy, Serperior couldn't help itself, sweeping everything with its tail's Ice Hammer!

It created an ice arena for its swimming dragon.

Through the resonance of Waveguide Power,

After digesting Serperior's explanation, Ash couldn't help but feel great Surprise.

If this is true, once she learns the Fire-type V Heat Flame, Hot Wind, Armored Cannon, and the Flying-type Drawing the Dragon's Eyes,

It might even make up for the weaknesses of Fire and Flying types.

Grass-type has poor resistance! Narrow coverage?

Does not exist,

By then, Ash's Serperior will be completely a Normal-type elf not weak to Fighting, with an extremely broad skill pool!

However, the difficulty of learning V Heat Flame is too high, so we'll leave it for later to master,

At this stage, the primary goal is to prioritize mastering Overheat or Armored Cannon!

Overheat gathers the body's flames into a large fireball to smash the opponent.

Armored Cannon shoots out a fireball projectile.

Relatively speaking, Armored Cannon's advantage is long range, while Overheat's advantage is great power!

In reality, the unnerfed Overheat remains the original version, with a power of a full 140!

Considering Serperior's Champion-level peak strength,

Using Overheat can almost precisely cover targets within 1000 meters.

Then the extra range of Armored Cannon isn't that meaningful.

On the contrary, Overheat's 140 power is relatively more appealing.

Of course, when there's time later, Armored Cannon should still be learned.

But for now, having decided to learn Overheat, the priority of Armored Cannon relatively decreases.

"Next, the next target is Overheat!"

Ash opened the laptop, found the Overheat video material, and started playing it.

Squeak~

Making a hand gesture for V Heat Flame and comparing it with the video demonstration of Overheat, the difference in intuitive feeling is obviously huge.

Just learned to control her own move Ice Hammer,

Serperior was in high spirits, immediately showing great excitement, opening its mouth wide and starting to try to breathe fire outward.

This enthusiasm made Ash, who had originally planned to learn later but first accompany Serperior for a bit of ice skating, a little embarrassed.

Quickly took out an energy block containing a large amount of fire attribute and fed it.