‘Danger!’ Feeling the deadly crisis coming from above, Bloodmoon Ursaluna’s single eye erupted with a touch of determination.
At the critical moment, it saw it raise its left arm, blocking it horizontally above its head.
“Thud!” The next moment, the terrifying power fell hard along with the Ivy Cudgel, a sound of bones breaking echoed in the night, and one of Bloodmoon Ursaluna’s arms hung limply thereafter.
“Ugh…” With intense pain that would drive ordinary Pokémon mad, Bloodmoon Ursaluna gritted its sharp teeth, its amazing willpower forcibly suppressing the urge to howl in anger.
Before Ogerpon could land, Bloodmoon Ursaluna’s counterattack struck head-on.
“Boom!” It swung its remaining right arm, delivering a fierce Focus Punch directly at Ogerpon while she was still in mid-air.
Suspended in mid-air, Ogerpon had no way to dodge and could only hold her Ivy Cudgel horizontally before her.
The overwhelming, mountain-crushing strength of a Machamp made even Ogerpon feel a numbing sensation in her hands.
“Bang!” Her petite body was sent flying by the blow, but Ogerpon did not panic.
She nimbly performed a somersault in mid-air and landed steadily in front of Eric.
“Pon-ny?” Ogerpon had not expected Bloodmoon Ursaluna to be so decisive, willing to sacrifice an arm just to block her lethal attack.
“Roar!” However, Bloodmoon Ursaluna’s attack did not stop there.
Golden light gathered in its mouth, and almost as soon as Ogerpon regained her footing, a Hyper Beam that seemed intent on devouring everything engulfed her.
“Pon-Pon, dodge it!” The Hyper Beam was too fast.
Eric could only hastily issue a command to dodge while scrambling to the side himself.
“Pon-ny.” Ogerpon reacted quickly, dodging Bloodmoon Ursaluna’s Hyper Beam in an instant.
While moves like Hyper Beam are incredibly powerful, they come with significant drawbacks.
First, after using this move, unless the Pokémon has an ability like Rock Head, it enters a negative state of being unable to move.
The principle is simple.
Normal-type moves place a certain burden on the body.
Hyper Beam is so powerful that after being fired at full capacity, the energy within the body briefly falls into chaos.
‘Taking advantage of this gap…’ Recalling information about Hyper Beam, Eric prepared to let Ogerpon seize the opportunity to launch a storm of attacks against Bloodmoon Ursaluna.
“Hum, hum, hum~~” “Wait, no.” Out of the corner of his eye, Eric caught sight of that golden light drawing closer and closer.
A tremendous chill enveloped him, as if he had fallen into an ice cave.
“What the…” Watching the Hyper Beam sweep toward him, flattening everything in its path, Eric was stunned: “Attacking the Trainer directly?” Without any hesitation, Eric turned and ran.
Are you kidding me!
His physical fitness was indeed good.
But aside from a Super Pallet Town Trainer, who would dare to withstand a Hyper Beam with their bare body?
However, Bloodmoon Ursaluna seemed locked onto him, the culprit.
It turned its head, and the golden beam of light spewing from its mouth caught up to the fleeing Eric in the blink of an eye.
‘Bloodmoon Ursaluna, you have no honor!’ Attacking the Trainer, are you seriously doing this?
But would Bloodmoon Ursaluna care about such things?
No, it would not!
As a Pokémon that survived from the hisui era.
In the era Bloodmoon Ursaluna came from, Pokémon attacking Trainers was an extremely normal occurrence.
In fact, rather than dealing with a troublesome Trainer’s Pokémon, blasting the Trainer to death in one shot was much easier than fighting to the death against their minions.
“Pon-ny?” She was no younger than Bloodmoon Ursaluna, but in the Pokémon battles Ogerpon knew, there was no such thing as attacking the Trainer.
For a moment, Ogerpon, who was some distance away from Eric, wanted to rescue her Trainer, but she clearly could not match the speed of the Hyper Beam.
At this moment, Ogerpon was even more terrified than Eric.
The little one couldn’t imagine what a horrifying sight it would be if Eric were to die in front of her.
If that were to actually happen, Ogerpon would likely go insane.
“Victini!” “Lilligant~~” Fortunately, Eric was not fighting alone.
Victini and Lilligant were not far from Eric to begin with.
The two little ones had also been caught off guard by Bloodmoon Ursaluna’s attack.
Now that they had reacted, seeing Bloodmoon Ursaluna still hunting down Eric, their strings of reason snapped instantly.
“Lilligant.” A barrage of Energy Balls collided with the Hyper Beam, detonating it prematurely, which prevented Eric from being blasted to death by Bloodmoon Ursaluna.
Seeing that Eric was saved, Victini’s rage was thoroughly ignited.
Its entire body, like a crimson cannonball, slammed fiercely into Bloodmoon Ursaluna’s face, blasting it onto the ground.
“Hoo~ hoo~~” Thrown a good distance away by the explosive storm, Eric endured the pain in his body and quickly scrambled up from the ground: “Is this what Pokémon battles in the hisui era are like?
I almost died just now.” Eric was not angry that Bloodmoon Ursaluna had attacked him.
Before coming here, he had already prepared himself mentally.
It was just that Eric really hadn’t expected Bloodmoon Ursaluna to be so decisive.
The Hyper Beam had covered both Eric and Ogerpon; seeing both of them dodge, it didn’t pursue Ogerpon but instead attacked Eric first, intending to take him out.
And what surprised Eric even more was Bloodmoon Ursaluna’s Hyper Beam.
“The release speed is too fast.” “And the duration…” Eric recalled the Focus Punch Bloodmoon Ursaluna used to send Ogerpon flying, as well as the continuous Hyper Beam: “This guy, its proficiency with its move pool is unusually high.” Regrouping, this time, Victini and Lilligant did not dare to lower their guard, guarding Eric closely, fearing that the terrifying beast would do something inconceivable again.
Looking at Ogerpon.
Seeing Eric under attack, memories of the past flashed through the little one’s mind like a revolving lantern.
The missing man, the blood left in the cave, and the ugly faces of those evil Pokémon.
“Pon-ny-ow!” How dare you hurt Eric.
Big bear, you have chosen your own path to death!
‘I’m going to slaughter you!’ Ogerpon unleashed the ferocity within her.
Emerald green luminescence bloomed from her mask, transforming into a magnificent, shield-like ghost mask made of green crystals—this was unmistakably her unique Terastallization.