Under Snowy Weather, Ninetales stopped suppressing the ice and snow and went all out on the offensive!
A tide of snow, like ocean waves that had somehow formed without anyone noticing, suddenly slammed forward, making Daisy Oak visibly freeze. Its formation speed was far too fast, leaving her no time to react.
The fire poison fluid did not pierce through the snow tide; instead, it was as if it had been swallowed. At that moment, Ninetales leapt upward, riding along the ice and snow to seize the high ground, its gaze locked tightly onto Blissey.
However, in the next instant, several streams of fire poison fluid, still flowing amidst the snow-covered field, suddenly burst out. Blissey began waving its arms, using psychic power to mobilize the fire poison that had been swallowed.
“When it comes to fire poison, your Blissey’s is the strongest I’ve ever seen.”
Terrance smiled faintly. The fire poison still hadn’t disappeared? But at this moment, two layers of light appeared around Ninetales—one a rainbow-colored, membrane-like light curtain, the other a pale white protective barrier.
The dual protection of Aurora Veil and Safeguard allowed Ninetales to completely ignore the fire poison.
Clearly, Terrance had anticipated this long ago. Through its perception of the ice and snow, Ninetales could clearly sense whether the fire poison had dissipated or not.
“Can’t dissolve it?”
Seeing the fire poison blocked, Daisy Oak frowned and continued issuing orders. “Use Gravity!”
Standing atop the snow tide, Ninetales was positioned higher than Blissey. When the gravity field formed, the snow tide instantly collapsed.
“Jump down with the flow,” Terrance said.
“Don’t give it a chance, use Fire Blast,” Daisy Oak commanded.
As the ice and snow crumbled, Ninetales leapt down, sweeping its tail as it did so. Another wave of snow quickly gathered and slammed into the Fire Blast.
At the same time, Blissey quickly used Calm Mind.
“It’s been dragged out long enough. Let’s end this,” Terrance said, glancing at the appeal points.
Wuu, wuu~
Amid the howling wind and snow, another Blizzard was unleashed. Blissey’s expression, however, remained unusually resolute. Clearly, it intended to complete Calm Mind even if it had to endure the Blizzard.
But Ninetales suddenly changed its control over the ice and snow.
In an instant, it was as if an ice wall had been erected around Blissey, enclosing it on all sides, with an ice mirror covering the top as well. In just a split second, Daisy Oak completely lost sight of Blissey.
“Planning to use Dazzling Gleam? It’s useless…” Daisy Oak’s heart skipped a beat. She had already prepared countermeasures for this technique of Terrance’s. Even when sealed inside the ice prison, Blissey did not panic, forming a shield-like barrier with Light Screen to protect itself.
“Find an opening and destroy it with Focus Blast!” Daisy Oak ordered without hesitation in the next moment.
Seeing this, Terrance’s expression remained unchanged. With a slight movement from Blissey, the ice prison suddenly exploded, like a house packed with explosives detonating in an instant. Sensing the sound of explosion coming from all directions, Blissey’s pupils shrank as it hastily used Light Screen to protect its vital areas.
However, its mastery of Light Screen was ultimately inferior to Carbink’s, and it could not shield its entire body. After the ice prison exploded, it was quickly swept up by a torrent of ice and Fairy energy.
“What, Fairy energy?!” Daisy Oak exclaimed in disbelief.
Looking at Blissey lying in the ice, covered in wounds, Nanami frowned deeply. She hadn’t noticed anything unusual about the ice walls at all. It was as if it was ordinary ice, rather than bombs containing Fairy energy, ready to detonate at any moment.
“It was Confuse Ray,” said Mr. Raoul Contesta with a sigh as Blissey lost its ability to battle. “It was part of the first-round performance. Contestant Terrance applied it perfectly in real combat. Ice Mirror was merged with Dazzling Gleam, and then Confuse Ray was used to interfere with vision, creating mild hallucinations so the abnormalities in the Ice Mirror couldn’t be detected. By the time Blissey was surrounded by the Ice Mirror, it had already been locked by an attack that was extremely difficult to evade.”
“Yes.” Terrance nodded.
This detonation concept had come from the experiment he conducted at Mt. Chimney. Ice Moon could not withstand massive amounts of Fairy energy without showing signs of an impending explosion, and Terrance applied this characteristic in real combat, having Ninetales blend unevenly balanced Ice-type energy and Fairy-type energy to create this highly effective energy detonation.
As his words fell, the audience fell into silence. Although the two had exchanged many rounds with plenty of highlights, when one thought about it carefully, it was still, no matter how you looked at it, a one-sided victory.
“Daisy didn’t lose unfairly. They’re simply not on the same level,” Nurse Joy said with a wry smile, glancing down at Terrance.
When the result was announced, Terrance gave Daisy a slight smile, which only made her all the more irritated.
…
“Looks like my opponent really will be Senior Terrance.”
In the contestant lounge, Lisia stood up from her seat and spoke softly.
“Is that so? If you underestimate me like this, I’ll be quite troubled,” came a laugh as Top Coordinator Yuma walked over to Lisia’s side.
“Senior Yuma…” Lisia turned her head and said helplessly, “Although it’s very rude, I still have to say this, I’m definitely going to win this match. The one who advances to the finals will be me!”
“I see…” Yuma propped her chin with a finger, nodded, and said, “Alright then. Let’s both go all out.”
…
On the stage, Terrance defeated Top Coordinator Daisy Oak without much difficulty, sparking heated discussion among the spectators.
“Looks like the championship will definitely be Terrance’s this time.”
“No, Miss Lisia is very formidable as well. No one knows the true strength of her Mega Altaria yet. If Terrance only sends out Ninetales, the outcome isn’t certain. I remember his Ninetales was still a Vulpix just a few months ago. Its training time hasn’t been long.”
“Hey, aren’t you all overlooking Miss Yuma? She’s a Top Coordinator, after all. The gap between a genius rookie and a Top Coordinator has already been proven in two previous matches.”
When Terrance came down from the stage, Chisana hurriedly asked, “Brother Terrance, how much of your strength did you and Ninetales use?”
“Uh.” Terrance hadn’t expected Chisana to ask that. After a brief moment of thought, he replied, “Half… I guess?”
Even he wasn’t entirely sure. Although Ninetales still couldn’t fully utilize that Sea of Stars finishing move, it could already perfectly handle the Ice Moon technique alone.
Once that trinity combo move was unleashed, it was on a completely different level from this simple ice prison.
After a while, the match between Lisia and Yuma also began. A battle that had been discussed with great enthusiasm beforehand ended with a jaw-dropping result.
Lisia won. Although it was a very hard-fought victory, she still won, and she hadn’t even used her trump card, Mega Evolution.
This outcome left many people utterly stunned. For a rookie to defeat a Top Coordinator at the Grand Festival was extremely rare. The last exception… had been Terrance.
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