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The game begins!
The Charizard in the video showed no hesitation; its trainer wore an air of absolute confidence. With a deafening roar, a devastating pillar of orange-red fire erupted from its mouth!
[Flame Jet]!
That was no ordinary flame; it was a terrifying torrent capable of instantly melting steel, leaving charred, melted marks wherever it passed.
The pupils of all the students contracted violently at that moment.
ended.
That was the only thought in their minds.
However, the challenger did not change his Pokémon.
The scyther did not dodge.
It simply crossed its massive steel pincers in front of its chest, adopting a resolute defensive stance.
The next instant, it was completely engulfed by that devastating flame.
The classroom was deathly silent.
Everyone held their breath, waiting for the referee to announce that the Mega Mantis AR was unable to fight.
However, a miracle occurred.
As the raging flames gradually subsided, a crimson figure, standing firm, reappeared from the charred smoke!
Its body was charred black, its exoskeleton was covered with traces of melting, and its breath was extremely weak, but it still stood there!
Its eyes burned with an indomitable fighting spirit!
"How can this be?!"
A student gasped in surprise, breaking the silence of the classroom.
On the holographic screen, a close-up shot focused on the Scizor. At the point where its charred and mangled body was joined, an inconspicuous white cloth strip, long since reduced to ash, drifted down.
[Awesome sash!]
Professor Zhuge Yun's voice rang out at the opportune moment, carrying a hint of barely perceptible admiration.
"It relies on the item it carries—the Aura Sash! By forcibly preserving a small amount of stamina when it is under full stamina and suffers a fatal attack, the Scizor stands firm in the flames that would surely kill it!"
The audience erupted in chaos!
Holy crap! Is this even possible?
"Aura Sash! I know that, but who would equip a steel-type tank with that?!"
"Insane! This is a gamble with everything at stake!"
The Charizard's trainer was clearly stunned by this extraordinary scene, and the confident smile on his face froze instantly.
It was that moment of stiffness!
The challenger has keenly observed this!
"Roar!"
The scyther, having survived the flames, let out an angry roar. Instead of retaliating, it unleashed another powerful attack!
Sword Dance!
It swung its pincers at high speed, drawing two dazzling silver arcs in front of it, and an incomparably sharp aura soared into the sky!
On the data panel on the screen, the value representing Scizor's "Attack" instantly doubled, soaring to an extremely terrifying level!
"What is he doing? Why isn't he attacking?"
"He's gone mad! He's really gone mad! He's still strengthening himself!"
No one could understand it.
Only Lin Che's heart was pounding, and his eyes were shining brightly.
He understood.
He understood it completely!
The Charizard's trainer finally snapped out of his shock, a look of embarrassment and anger appearing on his face. He issued the attack command again.
But, it's too late.
"It's now!"
In the video, the challenger's voice was frighteningly calm.
Just before Charizard was about to launch its second attack, Scizor moved!
Its two feet slammed into the ground, and its entire body transformed into a crimson afterimage, rushing towards the Charizard, which was several times its size, at a speed almost imperceptible to the naked eye!
It wasn't a collision.
Instead, he threw a punch!
That cold, steel fist drew a blinding silver line in the air!
Priority +1, Steel-type STAB move!
Bullet Punch!
They started later, but arrived first!
"boom--!"
A dull, sickening metallic clang echoed throughout the classroom through the speakers.
There were no explosions, no dazzling light effects.
Only the purest and most extreme power and speed.
The terrifying fire-breathing dragon suddenly stiffened, and the light in its eyes vanished as quickly as the tide receded.
The next second, its massive body fell helplessly from mid-air, crashing heavily to the ground and kicking up a cloud of dust.
One hit kill!
The whole place was dead silent.
The video freezes on the scene where Scizor retracts its fist and stands coldly in front of the fallen Charizard.
Shocked!
Unparalleled shock!
This textbook-perfect comeback sent chills down the spines of every one of the elite students present.
It wasn't until Professor Zhuge Yun's voice rang out again that they were pulled back to reality from that extreme shock.
"That's the beauty of tactics!"
The professor's voice was loud and powerful, echoing in every corner of the classroom.
"What did the challenger exploit? He exploited the 'information gap' that his opponent believed he was doomed to lose! Everyone knew about the four-times counter, and everyone thought Scizor would be one-shotted. So, when it wasn't one-shotted, the opponent experienced that fatal 0.5-second shock and hesitation!"
"It was those 0.5 seconds that decided the outcome!"
"Through ingenious item selection and precise timing, he turned a theoretically near-zero win rate into a 100% win rate!"
Professor Zhuge Yun's gaze became sharper than ever before.
"Always remember, students! Simple attribute advantages are merely the foundation of combat! This is an introductory guide for beginners!"
"Top-level matches are always a battle of knowledge, tactics, and psychology!"
This lesson was like a lightning bolt, cleaving through the fog in Lin Che's mind.
He has always relied too much on the information advantage provided by the Eye of Truth, focusing on the individual values and potential of Pokémon.
But today, he saw another path to the top.
A thorny path paved with wisdom and cunning.
He began to think about it seriously.
He pondered how to design decisive, miraculous, and uniquely his own tactical trump cards for his Arcanine with its extreme speed, his Alolan Ninetales that could control the weather, and even his Dragonite that was destined to soar through the skies in the future.
Chapter 44 Target: Wind-Cutting Canyon, in search of the overlord of the skies!
It's another weekend.
The hustle and bustle and glory of the freshman ranking competition, like clouds scattered by the wind, gradually settled into a line of cold data in the historical archives of Shanghai Elf University.
But for Lin Che, that seemingly overwhelming victory was nothing more than an ordinary self-examination on his long journey.
Victory never made him complacent.
On the contrary, the fatal weakness in the team's configuration exposed by that victory was magnified infinitely in his mind and lingered there.
There are no air units.
They lacked air superiority.
In this world, this means comprehensive limitations in reconnaissance, mobility, and tactics. If they encounter complex terrain or an opponent with a powerful air force, the entire team could find themselves in a desperate situation where they are on the defensive and vulnerable to attack.
Lin Che could not allow his team to have such an obvious weakness.
His gaze pierced through the dormitory window, across the bustling skyline of Shanghai, and finally settled on a B-level secret realm marked in scarlet on the map.
Wind-cut canyon.
A desolate place known for its treacherous terrain, violent air currents, and numerous powerful Flying-type Pokémon.
For trainers without flying mounts, it is a true no-go zone. The only option to venture there is to carry heavy professional climbing gear and engage in an inefficient, weeks-long battle against nature with their bare hands on the near-vertical cliffs.
The vast majority of people are deterred by the prospect.
But Lin Che was never one of the "vast majority".
……
The outer edge of the wind-cutting canyon.
A fierce wind poured out from the bottomless crevice of the canyon, howling like ghosts and wolves, enough to make the legs of anyone with a weak will tremble.