r18novel Chapter 325 The Final Tournament
Chapter 325 The Final Tournament
Chapter 325 The Final Tournament
"Come back, Marill, you've done your best." Junichi solemnly recalled his Pokémon.
Even he could no longer hide his nervousness with laughter, and simply threw out the Poké Ball he had been holding.
"Now it's up to you to turn the tide, Big Chrysanthemum!"
"Junichi actually sent out Meganium, but his Pokémon were still at a disadvantage against Ash's Heracross."
"Does Junichi have any secret weapons?"
Ash couldn't help but smile when he saw the strange green creature on the other side, which looked like its head had passed through the heart of a big flower.
"You're here? We've been waiting for you!"
Ash's strength as a trainer is at least half due to this giant hyacinth, which is why he specifically sent Heracross to deal with it.
"With such a significant attribute advantage, how could we possibly lose? Heracross, use Super Corner Attack!"
Heracross started with a powerful move to greet us, his wings flapping rapidly, and his horns bursting forth with intense light once more.
"Hera~Crow!"
It instantly hurtled towards the giant chrysanthemum, sending rubble flying with each sonic boom.
"This is too much! My chrysanthemum absolutely cannot withstand this!"
Faced with Ash's Heracross's monstrous and powerful attacks, Junichi's usually unreliable brain finally started working at lightning speed.
Just as Heracross's attack was within reach, a glint of light suddenly flashed in Junichi's eyes.
"Now's the time, Big Chrysanthemum, jump up!"
Its seemingly bulky and massive body suddenly unleashed astonishing agility, seizing that extremely brief critical opening before Heracross's attack could arrive.
With a successful leap, the giant chrysanthemum narrowly escaped the attack.
"Like Mount Tai pressing down!"
Due to the momentum from the previous burst, Heracross was unable to adjust his movements and ended up being pinned down by the giant anus.
"A stunning comeback! Chunyi, with his impeccable timing, has successfully turned the tide of the battle!"
"Well done, big chrysanthemum!" Junichi jumped up excitedly.
"Not bad," Ash couldn't help but praise. "This is probably the numerical beauty that comes with levels."
Meganium's strength is clearly more than one level above all of Junichi's other Pokémon.
Junichi always makes Daikiku the first hero in every match during his daily travels.
"But even if the attack missed, it successfully closed the distance—Heracross's Pin Missile!"
Although its limbs were firmly pinned down by the giant feet of the giant chrysanthemum, the part of Heracross that launches missiles is its large horn.
It was launched almost right next to the abdomen of the giant chrysanthemum, and all five missiles hit their targets, achieving outstanding results!
Under the fierce attack, the giant chrysanthemum was forced to quickly loosen its grip on Heracross.
In an instant, the smoke from the exploding missile pins filled the entire battlefield.
"Hang in there, big chrysanthemum!"
Fortunately, after the smoke cleared, the big chrysanthemum, despite having sustained many injuries, still gritted its teeth and stood up.
It landed lightly on the ground, trying to quickly create distance, but Heracross had already adjusted its position.
"Heracross, Aerial Ace!" Ash won't give his opponent any chance to breathe.
Hercules vanished swiftly and gracefully from his original spot, reappearing behind the giant chrysanthemum.
"Let's grit our teeth and hold on, big chrysanthemum! Use a sweet scent!"
Such a swift attack was almost impossible to dodge; Junichi couldn't bear to watch any longer and could only hope that the giant chrysanthemum could hold on.
But unexpectedly, as Heracross approached the giant chrysanthemum, it suddenly smelled a sweet fragrance emanating from the petals.
Suddenly, his eyes filled with hearts, and he even forgot to attack.
"Hera~Crow!"
"What?! This glutton!"
Hercules was completely captivated by the sweet scent and wobbled over to the petals on the neck of the large chrysanthemum to lick them.
"Oh dear, Ash's Heracross was actually charmed by the scent of the giant daisy."
"Well done, big chrysanthemum! Now use the vine whip to tie Heracross up!" Junichi was overjoyed that the sweet scent would be so effective on Heracross.
"Use highly toxic substances!"
Two long green vines quickly extended from beneath the petals of the large chrysanthemum, precisely controlling Heracross's hands and body.
The purple poisonous powder immediately spread from the petals along with the sweet scent.
At this moment, a purple halo appeared on Heracross's face, indicating that it had fallen into a state of poisoning.
Even at this time, it was still engrossed in sucking the nectar from the large chrysanthemum.
"Sigh, is a sweet aroma really that deceptive?"
On the sidelines, Cai Dou looked at Xiao Xia in disbelief.
Xiaoxia could only helplessly twitch the corner of her mouth.
"Normally, that wouldn't happen, but Ash's Heracross is quite a glutton."
After all, he's the kind of being who would dare to challenge the level-one god Xiao Hei and fight him for three hundred rounds just for a can of maple sap.
Ash was exasperated, thinking, "That brat!"
It's all Ash's fault for spoiling his Pokémon too much, so much so that they dared to let him down at this crucial moment in the battle.
"Heracross, wake up right now!"
"Otherwise, I swear, I'll dump all those jars of sap you hid in the tree hollow in Professor Oak's backyard!"
His fists cracked and popped as Ash's killing intent seemed to condense into several sharp knives, stabbing towards Heracross's back.
It instantly felt a chill on its neck, as if it had fallen into an ice cave, and came to its senses.
"Hera~Cro~"
It began to struggle violently, trying to break free from the large chrysanthemum's grasp.
"Hang in there, big chrysanthemum! Use your full power with the Leaf Blade now!"
Hercules was incredibly strong, even with the huge advantage of having his joints pre-tied.
However, the giant chrysanthemum still couldn't control Heracross, and Heracross would soon break free of its restraints.
Fortunately, it finally managed to gather its strength and finish.
A large number of flying blades, like water gushing from a high-pressure water valve, violently erupted from the petals of the large chrysanthemum and poured onto Heracross's body.
This was a strike that had been delivered with all its might.
Even the Razor Leafs that didn't hit Heracross created craters in the ground, making it look like it had been bombarded by artillery shells.
"What a powerful flying leaf blade."
As expected of Junichi's ace, he was able to use the Leaf Blade to achieve the effect of a destructive death ray.
At this moment, under the blows of the swift blades, Heracross let out screams from time to time.
Being poisoned, its strength was rapidly depleted.
"Come back, Heracross." Ash decisively chose to switch it out.
"Well done, Junichi. Professor Elm said you are an excellent trainer, and it seems he was right."
"Hehe, of course!" Junichi waved with a grin when he saw the camera shining on him again.
"Nana, Kenta, are you guys watching?"
"That idiot, he hasn't even defeated his opponent's Pokémon yet, and he's already getting cocky!"
At a Pokémon Center in the Johto region, Junichi's two childhood friends were indeed watching his match.
Seeing the kid's performance, the two of them couldn't help but slap their foreheads.
On the field, Ash sent out his next Pokémon.
"Oh dear, Ash sent out a Noctowl with a unique color, and Junichi's Mega Charizard is at a type disadvantage again."
"Hmph, it's alright. My bond with the big chrysanthemum won't be broken by the slightest difficulty!"
After being heavily suppressed by Ash earlier, Junichi is finally getting into form thanks to Heracross.
"Nighthawk. Use hypnosis!"
"Big Chrysanthemum, use the vine whip!"
Making a long-awaited appearance, even the usually calm Night Hawk couldn't hide his excitement.
I usually hone my hypnosis skills with those two lewd guys, the Dream Eater and the Hypnotist, and now it's finally going to come in handy.
"Coo coo!"
As soon as it landed, it immediately crossed its wings in front of its chest, and a red light slowly flashed in its eyes.
But at that moment, the chrysanthemum's vine whip lashed out from the ground and instantly bound the owl's body.
"Hahaha, how could such a slow skill as hypnosis possibly compare to the vine whip of my big chrysanthemum?"
Chunyi saw that the attack was effective immediately and jumped up excitedly on the spot.
"Big Chrysanthemum, use Mount Tai Press down immediately!"
"With the Night Hawk's weak physical defense, I'm sure I'll win this round."
"Hehe, so be it!" (Ash's Yu-Gi-Oh! face: That's not necessarily true!)
Unexpectedly, just as the giant chrysanthemum's body collided with its opponent, the night owl's body suddenly turned into a stone.
"What?!" Chunyi exclaimed in surprise.
The stone shattered instantly, and the giant chrysanthemum looked up in alarm. The night owl wasn't even on the ground; it was leisurely circling above its head.
It even made a cooing sound to mock it.
"If this is an illusion, when—how could—even the trainer be hypnotized?"
Junichi was utterly shocked.
In his eyes, the Night Hawk's hypnosis hadn't even finished, so how could he and Big Chrysanthemum have already been hypnotized?
"You didn't expect that, did you?"
This is what makes Ash's Noctowl so powerful. As the smartest member of its kind, it has an innate talent for psychic abilities.
And under Ash's training, it can now easily hypnotize dozens of people with just a flap of its wings!
A truly skilled hypnotist will never use ordinary hypnotic techniques.
"Now's the time, Night Hawk, use Air Blade!"
"Big chrysanthemum, get out of the way!"
With a swift flick of its vine whip already outside, the giant chrysanthemum tumbled awkwardly, dodging several falling air blades thanks to the recoil.
"You dodged pretty quickly. Night Hawk, take flight and use Air Blade!"
"Gurgle!"
Ash's shiny Noctowl is smaller and more agile than a regular Noctowl.
It flew and darted through the air quickly, successfully disrupting the chrysanthemum's vision in no time.
During the process, sharp blades formed from condensed air are released naturally from time to time, making them impossible to defend against.
"There's no way to dodge it, Big Chrysanthemum uses Light Wall!" Junichi's Big Chrysanthemum only has two advantages: it's exceptionally tanky and highly agile.
Four semi-transparent barriers made of special energy quickly appeared around it. Even after the air blades were weakened by the light walls, the giant chrysanthemum still did not fall.
But then the Night Hawk's attack came in an instant, and the Big Chrysanthemum could only passively use its Leaf Blade to counterattack.
"Damn it, that was way too fast!"
Junichi's eyes kept following the figure of the night owl, turning back and forth until he was almost dizzy.
"There's no other way, use Falling Petals on the giant chrysanthemum!"
This move will consume a lot of the big chrysanthemum's stamina, but Junichi has already been cornered.
The entire field was immediately engulfed in a fierce flurry of falling petals, and the power of the 90-point physical attack from the flurry of petals was equally formidable.
"With an attack covering such a wide area, even a night owl couldn't dodge it anymore!"
"Nighthawk, use telekinesis."
But Ash still handled it with ease.
The petals, concealing deadly intent, were twisted in direction by powerful psychic force before they could fall onto the night owl, causing the night owl to hover in mid-air, flapping its wings.
Amidst a rain of petals falling like bullet comments, a symmetrical cone-shaped compartment is formed, surrounded by beautiful flowers fluttering in the air.
The giant chrysanthemum's powerful attack failed to harm the night owl in the slightest.
"Such beautiful offense and defense, it's like watching a grand slam."
The audience applauded enthusiastically; this scene is sure to become a memorable moment of the competition.
But Junichi, being one of the parties involved, had no interest in appreciating it.
"Damn it—but now the owl can't move anymore!"
"Large chrysanthemums, blazing sun!"
Chunyi was lucky; the weather was exceptionally sunny today, and the chrysanthemum gathered sunlight and flames much faster than usual.
Soon, a beam of incredibly powerful light was fired at the night owl that was still hovering in mid-air.
"The owl doesn't need to hide, it just charges straight at them!"
"Oh my god, Ash actually ordered Noctowl to stop dodging and instead face Megami Tentacruel's blazing sunlight head-on!"
"Even if this is resistance, it can still cause considerable damage!"
The commentators exclaimed in surprise, and even the opponent, Junichi, was momentarily confused.
"What exactly is Ash trying to do?"
Just as the blazing sunlight was about to strike the night owl, it passed straight through its shadow.
"What's going on? Is it another illusion?" Jun's eyes widened in disbelief as he looked at Ash.
Ash smiled slightly.
"Junichi, when did you get the idea that Night Hawk didn't use hypnosis?"
"What?"
At that moment, the Night Hawk appeared beside the Big Chrysanthemum, its red light shining even brighter.
Under this close-up hypnotic treatment, the large chrysanthemum succumbed to sleep.
"Oh no, wake up, big chrysanthemum!!!"
Chunyi shouted in a panic, but it was too late.
"Nighthawk, dream eater!"
Black bubbles rose from the large chrysanthemum and burst instantly.
The Night Hawk regained some of its strength, while Big Chrysanthemum was completely unconscious.
"Giant Chrysanthemum is incapacitated; Night Hawk wins!"
[Ding! Night Hawk: Affection +2: Intimacy +2]
After the defeat of the Great Chrysanthemum, Junichi completely lost hope of winning.
Despite his refusal to give up, he sent out his last Pokémon, Magneton.
This Magneton is actually a Shiny Pokémon, but unfortunately, being Shiny doesn't give it any special bonuses.
Moreover, his moveset is also hard to describe; his best moves are actually Shadow Clone and Triangle Attack.
Even the electric-type moves that counter Night Hawk are limited to a single control-oriented electromagnetic wave.
Ultimately, Magneton was quickly defeated by Noctowl's hypnosis and dream-eating technique.
"Magnemite is unable to battle. Ash is the winner of this battle!" The referee's flag was waved down, and Junichi's portrait turned completely gray.
"Wow, that was a great match. Thank you, Ash."
After the match, Junichi let out a long sigh and finally came over to shake hands with Ash, feeling relieved.
"Your big chrysanthemum is very strong. I look forward to our next battle."
Amidst thunderous applause from the audience, Ash successfully advanced to the final tournament.
[Ding! Congratulations on completing the new main quest "Silver Tournament Preliminary League": Second Victory!]
【获得奖励：联盟币+4000；攻击+1；速度+1；自由属性点+2；银色王冠+1】
[Ding! Congratulations, host, you have achieved the achievement "Top 16 of the Silver Tournament!": Please successfully advance to the final tournament of the Silver Tournament!]
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[Rewards: Alliance Coins +5000; Free Attribute Points +4; Regional Prestige +10; Regional Favorability +5]
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