Chapter 93: Lightning Dragon

Chapter Ninety-Three: Electric Dragon

Dense currents tinted the air of the battlefield a faint yellow, while wisps of pale smoke curled and dissolved into the void.

A tremendous impact had carved a deep furrow across the ground, and the searing heat had scorched the earth black.

At the end of that trench stood Goodra, motionless, its stout legs sunk deep into the shattered floor.

The bluish-green mucus coating its body had already been baked dry. Its sluglike soft skin had turned into patches of charred black, with brittle fragments flaking away.

Its eyelids were lowered, hiding the emerald depths beneath. Its face was set, making its expression impossible to read.

Behind it, Noren exhaled slowly.

Amoonguss... no, it should be called Eelektross now.

The force of Eelektross’s Charged Beam was indeed monstrous.

If he had not known that Goodra possessed extraordinary resistance to special attacks, for that instant Noren might even have thought Goodra would be unable to withstand Luyun’s move and lose the ability to battle.

Fortunately, it...

As he was thinking, Noren’s gaze froze. Then his face changed with utter disbelief.

It trembled.

The Goodra that had been standing perfectly still suddenly convulsed, and a large amount of blackened, charred fragments fell from its body.

That abrupt and overwhelming attack had already driven it to its limit.

It could not hold on any longer.

Thud.

The massive body tilted backward and fell naturally onto the ground with a heavy sound.

"Goodra is unable to battle. Eelektross wins!"

A pale red glow curved down over Goodra’s body, turning it into a wisp of red light and drawing it back into the Pokeball.

Noren’s long, well-defined fingers slowly rubbed over the Pokeball as he murmured to himself.

"So that’s how it is..."

"You did very well. It’s not your fault."

On the other side of the field, Luyun was also somewhat unable to believe the sheer power of his own move.

After all, in his previous world, among all the pseudo-legendary Pokemon that had appeared, Goodra had the highest special defense.

Its special defense stat of 150 in the games even surpassed the vast majority of legendary Pokemon.

Translated into the real world, it could greatly reduce the damage from most special attacks.

And yet he had actually knocked out his opponent’s carefully raised Goodra in a single blow?

Luyun’s estimate of his own strength after evolution rose another notch in his heart.

Of course, such terrifying power had not come from nowhere.

In truth, even back in his Mareep days, Luyun had already begun laying the foundation for his future evolution.

Whether it was the furious practice of all kinds of moves, or the constant emphasis on improving his electrical energy storage capacity, all of it had laid a solid base for what came later.

Add to that the rich supply of resources and the surging battle experience during his Shadow Star period, and Luyun had built up formidable reserves.

But the most crucial factor was still the strange system residing in Luyun’s mind.

That cheat-like ability to gain experience through battle and level up allowed Luyun to pass quickly through the weak stage of his life as a Pokemon and acquire a certain degree of combat power.

The rigid, fixed gains from leveling up meant that even if Luyun suffered severe injuries, his growth potential would not be affected in the slightest.

One could say that every level of Luyun’s was the most perfect, most peak state his species could reach at that level.

Not a single bit was wasted.

Finally, there were the strange experiences he had accumulated in Electric Canyon before evolution.

By now, after evolving, all of that should have stacked on top of itself, right?

Curious, Luyun took advantage of the lull in battle to quietly open his system attribute panel and study it.

Species: Eelektross

Level: 46 (17/100)

Moves: Tackle, Growl, Thunder Wave, Hidden Power (Dragon), Thundershock, Cotton Spore, Charge, Thunder Punch, Magnet Rise, Take Down, Electro Ball, Dragon Breath, Confuse Ray, Power Gem, Discharge, Cotton Guard, Zap Cannon, Magnetic Control, Discharge, Dragon Pulse, Fire Punch, Charged Beam, Wild Charge

Status: Charge Overload (Electric-type moves increased by 20%)

Duration: 5 days 12 hours

Evaluation: Only one step away from the summit of the Pokemon world. Keep it up!

A gulp sounded abruptly across the battlefield.

Looking at the densely packed data before him, Luyun could not help but stare in a daze.

First, after he crossed the threshold at level 30 and evolved, the rich experience he had accumulated before had all been converted into levels.

The huge leap from level 30 to level 46, a span of a full sixteen levels, made Luyun feel as if he were dreaming.

And one had to remember that these sixteen levels had been gained after he became Eelektross.

After Luyun evolved, his underlying strength had already reached a very high level. At that point, the effect of gaining one level might be three to four times greater than it had been before evolution.

This explosive rise in level brought Luyun’s strength to a nearly insane degree.

Next came the changes in the moves list.

Luyun vaguely remembered that his previous move list should have ended at Confuse Ray.

But now, with the long string of new moves appended after evolution, he could hardly take it all in.

Counting carefully while swallowing his saliva, he found that a full ten new moves, drawn respectively from the Rock, Grass, Electric, and Dragon types, had sharply expanded both the depth and breadth of his move reserve.

Of course, mastering them all would still require a great deal of practice.

Recalling the terrifying power of Charged Beam just now, Luyun faintly sensed in his heart that even if he used elementary moves like Thundershock or Thunder Wave now, the force they produced might already far exceed the power of his combination attacks before evolution.

Naturally, the exact situation would still need to be verified in real battle.

His gaze moved further down, over the status bar.

He saw that the duration of Charge Overload had shortened again, leaving less than six days.

Though somewhat regrettable, he was still relieved that at least it would last through this league tournament.

At last, Luyun’s eyes swept over the evaluation line and he did not pay it much mind.

Even though he had finally evolved into Eelektross, he felt that when it came to his current strength, he ought to remain modest if one looked at the entire Pokemon world.

Having been tempered by anime and games in his previous life, Luyun knew full well the terrifying abilities of the legendary and mythical Pokemon of this world, capable of moving mountains and draining seas.

Compared with them, he was still far from enough.

Just as Luyun was studying his attributes, on the other side of the battlefield—

"Baby, don’t rush."

"It’ll be your turn soon."

Noren said softly to the lone black Pokeball he had taken from his waist.

A breeze passed by, lifting the white long sleeve that had been covering his entire arm.

Around his wrist, a strange bracelet flickered into view.

On a plain, rough black nylon cord hung a bead as clear as the marbles beloved in childhood.

At its center, a faint red-gray light pulsed softly.