Chapter 281: Contrary

"Milotic, Dragon Pulse!"

Milotic opened her mouth and let out an ethereal chant, and a large amount of Dragon-type energy gathered in front of her mouth to form a somewhat unstable energy sphere.

This was a sign that Milotic was not yet proficient in the Dragon Pulse move.

She was usually accustomed to using moves like Dragon Tail that relied on physical strength for attacks, or moves like Surf that released energy over a large area.

But to deal with the large-scale Leaf Storm released by Jiang Zihan's Serperior, Dragon Pulse was just right.

The storm composed of green leaves destroyed everything in its path like a typhoon passing through, and even the stone fragments left in the craters smashed out by the two Pokémon in the center of the battle field were crazily cut by the sharp leaves sweeping past.

On the right side of the field, the Dragon Pulse in front of Milotic's mouth split into four wantonly dancing energy snakes and collided head-on with the Leaf Storm attacking from the left.

A huge air wave rippled out, then was neutralized by a shield that suddenly appeared like a water membrane.

"Whoa, it's a good thing the school has set up these shields on every field, otherwise even watching the battle would be a dangerous thing."

Lin Yu was startled and almost subconsciously reached for a ball to let his Pokémon help him defend against the aftermath of the two's battle.

Zhao Xing's eyes widened, and he couldn't stop muttering to himself: "Absurd... this shouldn't be... too absurd..."

The Leaf Storm released by Serperior only supported itself for ten or twenty seconds in front of the Dragon Pulse before being instantly suppressed by Milotic, who was continuously injecting energy into the Dragon Pulse in front of her mouth.

Leaf Storm was like water without a source or a tree without roots; without Serperior's continuous energy supply, it would gradually wither in the clash.

However, Jiang Zihan and Serperior's goal from the beginning wasn't to rely on the first Leaf Storm to overwhelm Milotic.

After all, Serperior's ability was 【Contrary】!

As one of the special abilities possessed by Pokémon, its effects were strange and varied.

A powerful Pokémon paired with a suitable ability was like adding wings to a tiger; 1+1 was even greater than 2!

There were powerful abilities, and naturally, there were also mediocre ones.

【Truant】, 【Slow Start】, 【Defeatist】, and other abilities were not even as good as blank abilities and even dragged down the Pokémon possessing them.

The Contrary ability, as the name suggested, was characterized by being contrary.

Moves with stat-increasing effects would only bring stat-decreasing effects to a Pokémon with this ability.

Moves with stat-decreasing effects would bring stat-increasing effects to a Pokémon with this ability.

And the Leaf Storm move had a solid base power and belonged to the top tier among Grass-type moves.

Powerful moves often had some side effects, and the side effect of Leaf Storm was that every time the Pokémon used this move, its own Special Attack would decrease significantly.

Contrary + Leaf Storm added up to————

Jiang Zihan aimed for the moment when Dragon Pulse hadn't completely crushed Leaf Storm and ordered again: "Serperior, one more Leaf Storm!"

After releasing the first Leaf Storm, Serperior actively cut off the energy supply.

At the same time, a thin layer of red light lit up on its body, which was proof that Serperior's Special Attack had increased.

Serperior squeezed out one-third of its energy reserves again, released a Leaf Storm even more powerful than before with a ferocious expression, and swept toward the Dragon Pulse that had already crushed the first Leaf Storm and was sweeping over!

A thicker red light lit up on its body again, and Serperior's scarred body trembled slightly.

"Sure enough, Contrary is being used as a trump card... as expected."

Su Hao had insight into Serperior's ability from the beginning, so he was naturally prepared for the classic Contrary + Leaf Storm combination.

He remained calm and reminded Milotic: "Something bigger is coming, don't slack off."

Hearing this, Milotic stared at the second Leaf Storm, judged its approximate scale, and cautiously increased her output by another 10%, reaching 60% output!

It had to be said, Su Hao felt that the members of the Magic City University school team still had some skills; an Elite-level late-stage Serperior could fight his Milotic to this extent.

Milotic's own energy reserves were much stronger than those of ordinary Elite-level Pokémon, but unfortunately, her own level was still only Elite-level mid-stage.

This meant that no matter how large her own energy reserves were, her output would still be limited by her own strength.

Although the output wasn't high, it was continuous!

Now, Milotic's 60% output Dragon Pulse collided with Serperior's Leaf Storm again!

This time, just like before, the Leaf Storm without energy supply held on for a while longer before being broken by Dragon Pulse, lacking the strength to continue.

Cold sweat broke out on Jiang Zihan's forehead, and he said in disbelief: "Can't even take down that Milotic like this?"

If he were told that Milotic was a Pokémon newly trained by a Professional-level or Gym-level trainer, he would believe it.

The Serperior he had carefully raised for three years in university, even if it wasn't his ace, was very powerful in combat, yet it was suppressed by this junior's Milotic the whole time.

A sophomore student who knew how powerful Jiang Zihan's Serperior was said in shock: "Senior Jiang... seems to have fallen into a disadvantage!?"

"Who on earth is that boy? Even my Crabominable couldn't touch that Serperior, yet his Pokémon can actually beat Serperior in a head-on wrestling match!" said the sophomore student who had just used Crabominable and been toyed with by Serperior.

"Look, Senior Jiang has given another command!"

Outside the field, Jiang Zihan, holding the mentality of "succeed or die," shouted loudly: "Serperior... Leaf Storm!!"

Although unwilling, Jiang Zihan had to admit that it wasn't that he didn't want to use other moves, but that now only Leaf Storm could contend with those four energy snakes that seemed about to turn into dragons.

Usually, after letting Serperior use Leaf Storm twice, he would often choose to use moves like Energy Ball to continue attacking.

The other moves his Serperior was good at would only be more fragile than Leaf Storm in front of that Dragon Pulse...

Moreover, now he and Serperior had been forced into a desperate situation.

With Serperior's physical fitness, enduring the Special Attack increase brought by two Leaf Storms was the limit. Before Jiang Zihan found a way to improve Serperior's physical fitness or autonomously control whether to accept the Contrary increase, two Leaf Storms were the limit.

After using the third Leaf Storm, Serperior simply wouldn't be able to hold on... it would soon be backlashed by the increase and lose its ability to battle.

He thought, as if comforting himself, or as if he really had confidence: "This is the last time... this time, your Milotic should finally be unable to block it!"

After all, even his Professional-level ace would have to spend some effort to resolve this third Leaf Storm from Serperior!

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