Chapter 338

Incineroar's answer would determine whether he would let Diancie come out to end this battle.

"Ga-roar!"

"Condition is excellent!"

Incineroar had never felt as comfortable as he did today; things he couldn't do before now felt within reach!

He even felt that he was now approaching Diancie!

"That's good, go all out!"

Su Hao took a leap of faith from the platform several meters high, the breeze stirred by his Aura ruffling his clothes.

Aura Resonance—Target: Incineroar!

His Aura Resonance was a technique he had developed based on the experience from the Aura insights gifted to him by the previous Aura user, Qin Gang.

In short, it was a partially degraded yet partially enhanced effect of Bond Phenomenon.

The degradation was that it lacked the evolutionary function of Ash's Greninja, while the optimization was that Su Hao's Aura could provide vision for the Pokémon on the field, and at the same time, their thoughts were synchronized and shared, eliminating the blank period during verbal commands.

It also allowed him to help the Pokémon craft an Aura Sphere to increase their attack coverage.

The boost in strength wasn't huge, but it was versatile.

Moreover, before the Yangcheng tournament, Su Hao had also discovered that the Viridian Force, which usually required close-range contact to use, could achieve remote healing and mana recovery with the help of his Aura.

Su Hao was currently at his limit dealing with Elite-level Pokémon, and as his Pokémon grew stronger, he would increasingly position himself as a support.

"Electivire wants to launch an attack!" Su Hao stood behind Incineroar, his Aura sensitively detecting Electivire's restless mood and small movements.

Sure enough, believing it had found an opening in Incineroar's defense, Electivire launched its attack.

Electivire gathered all its focus, electromagnetic energy permeating beneath its feet. The scattered current granted it even greater explosive power, and with a forceful push from its legs, it leaped high into the air!

Relying on this use of electromagnetic force, which it had comprehended after evolving in the special magnetic field of the Electric Canyon, Electivire erupted with jumping ability no less than that of a Blaziken!

Mid-air, Electivire grinned broadly; the gradually recovering power made its confidence rise again.

That's right, its specialty was still melee combat!

Electivire's palms crackled with electricity, and then it brought its palms together, hammering down toward Incineroar... no, toward Su Hao, with the heroic spirit of one who could pull up mountains.

As the saying goes, bullying the weak and fearing the strong, Electivire's intuition told it that among the four creatures present, Su Hao was the easiest to bully.

Once it took out this frail human, surely that ice-blue bird overhead whose depth it couldn't fathom and this detestable tiger would fall into brief chaos, and then it could escape on its own!

As long as the green hills remain, one need not worry about firewood!

After connecting with Su Hao's Aura, Incineroar felt the familiar full-map perspective return.

Just as Incineroar was preparing for a big fight, Su Hao's prediction based on Electivire's jumping trajectory reached his mind: Electivire's target wasn't him!

Incineroar didn't have time to be angry; Su Hao's countermeasure was quickly transmitted into his mind.

"Master Tiger, cut off his lower path!"

Revealing a knowing smile, Incineroar

and Su Hao's gestures synchronized instantly—

Their hands rotated rapidly back and forth within seconds, and an Aura Sphere, silently maintaining a spinning posture, appeared in the hands of Incineroar, who shouldn't have been able to learn this move!

"Aura Sphere!"

In the posture of a baseball pitcher, Incineroar casually threw the Aura Sphere just before Electivire was about to pass over his head.

It didn't matter if the throw was crooked or inaccurate.

Su Hao's Aura provided navigation for the Aura Sphere at all times, pulling it to adjust its trajectory and launch an attack at Electivire's lower body!

With its entire body bathed in the somewhat noisy wind in the air, Electivire sensitively detected a trace of coldness.

"Abo?"

Quickly looking down, it saw a move that looked like it could only cause a little damage attacking its lower body. To be safe, Electivire chose to use electromagnetic force to slightly adjust its body posture and smashed its fists down.

The power of Su Hao's Aura Sphere was insufficient to pose a threat to a Professional-level Pokémon, but his goal was never to stop Electivire there.

He only needed to delay it for a moment.

The next instant, Incineroar appeared above Electivire's head, his right palm condensing Dark-type energy... and he slashed down with the Throat Chop move!

Incineroar appeared too suddenly; he reached the top of Electivire's head before it could react. Naturally, the caught-off-guard Electivire couldn't make an effective defense and could only be struck on the right shoulder by the downward Throat Chop, causing it to fall.

"Swish—!"

The force of the object falling from the air made the surrounding air emit a swishing sound. Electivire, struck by Incineroar, was smashed into the ground like a kite with a broken string.

The terrifying force caused a small crater to appear in the ground where it was hit.

Electivire lay on its back in the crater, its brain somewhat muddled.

What exactly was the deal with the speed Incineroar just erupted with?

When Electivire tried to use its hands to support itself and stand up, it only then felt the bone-piercing pain coming from its right shoulder; its right arm trembled for a long time before it could support itself to crawl up.

Cold sweat dripped from Electivire's forehead. The speed and power Incineroar displayed were vastly different from the power it had gained when it evolved and promoted to the Professional level!

The strong physique and recovery ability brought by the promotion to the Professional level couldn't fix the damage it had received for a while, and its heart beat faster and faster.

Electivire held its stinging right arm with its left hand, knowing that if it didn't use all its power to give it one last shot, it would be over.

The next strike would decide the winner!

Electivire's eyes became sharp!

Massive electrical power turned into lightning snakes and scattered. Around Electivire's body, and even within its eyes, it seemed filled with violent lightning.

Under Electivire's control, the incredibly violent thunder gradually gathered and clustered around its body.

Wild Charge, activate!

Every time Electivire landed during its full-force charge, the innocent ground would be scorched with marks by the electrical coat wrapping around it.

Seeing that Electivire had chosen to make a last stand, Su Hao and Incineroar's expressions weren't heavy, only reminiscent.

This scene, just like that time.

"Come to think of it, you launched a Flare Blitz just like this Electivire back then..."

In Su Hao's original expectation, it would definitely be Carbink who would rely on the inexplicably massive energy within its body to defeat two opponents at the end.

Torracat's desire to win infected Su Hao, and they chose to give it one last shot.

The result was unexpected.

With the strength of a newly promoted Elite-level, Torracat relied on power from who knows where to defeat that late-Elite-level Samurott head-on.

Even though only a few months had passed since then, and Su Hao and Incineroar were still in a state of Aura Resonance, their state of mind and strength were no longer the same.

Su Hao and Incineroar smiled knowingly.

Deeper red flames surged from the flame belt. Incineroar was swept by layers of explosions around his body, and more obvious electric light flowed within the deep red flames. At this moment, Su Hao and Incineroar's gazes were completely locked onto Electivire!

Incineroar, with his elevated powerful physique, crushed the ground beneath his feet and turned into a burning deep red meteor, crashing toward Electivire!

"Boom—!"

The energy tornado formed by the intertwining of flames and lightning made the Electabuzz outside the field involuntarily retreat a few steps.

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Incineroar ===== CHAPTER 339 =====