One pink sound wave after another shot out from the cottony mass, as dense as a rain of arrows. Even more terrifying was that these sound waves seemed to grow stronger and stronger as time went on.
"The sound waves are wrapped in the melody of Sing, carrying a Hypnosis effect."
Raoul Contesta fell into thought and looked toward Terrance, wanting to see how he would respond. If he wanted to attack Altaria, the first thing to deal with was these successive sound waves. Yet they carried Hypnosis effects—one misstep could mean falling straight into a trap. That alone was extremely troublesome. Moreover, as the attacks continued to intensify, Altaria was still protected by Cotton Guard, making it exceedingly difficult to break through.
Everyone could sense how tricky the situation was, but Terrance showed no reaction at all. His expression remained calm, as if everything were proceeding exactly as he had anticipated.
On the stage, faced with the dense barrage, Ninetales surged forward amid fierce snowstorm. As it stamped across the stage, an endless curtain of snow swept upward, rolling over the sound waves and turning the stage into a clash between snow and sound.
"It can't block them!"
Someone shouted when they saw sound waves piercing through the snow curtain. These special sound waves contained multiple melodies. The snow curtain could only block those with direct offensive properties. For some reason, the Hypnosis-type sound waves completely ignored it, slipping through the gaps in the ice and snow.
When a Hypnosis carrying sound wave swept down, Ninetales swayed slightly. With Safeguard enveloping it, it chose to ignore the effect and continued to control the ice and snow to content against them. However, the opponent's assault was extremely fierce and relentless. As Hyper Voice was incorporated to further strengthen the sound waves, cracks began to appear in Ninetales's snow curtain, on the verge of collapse.
"So it can even add Hyper Voice? Impressive." Terrance realized he had underestimated Lisia. If this combo move hadn't been personally taught by Wallace, then Lisia's talent was truly terrifying, far superior even to his own when he had first attained the title of Top Coordinator years ago.
In just a short moment, the snow curtain was about to shatter. At the same time, the increasingly intense Hypnosis sound waves pierced straight through Safeguard, their beautiful melody reaching Ninetales's ears and causing its eyes to grow unfocused…
Seeing this, Terrance's supporters were filled with anxiety. If Ninetales were put to sleep, it would be all over. Watching Ninetales slowly close its eyes, many showed expressions of regret. Yet in the very next instant, they were stunned by what happened before them.
Ninetales closed its eyes, but it was impossible to tell whether it was pretending or truly asleep, because it still stood firmly on the stage, continuing to manipulate the ice and snow as it battled the sound waves!
"Impossible," Lisia said in disbelief. She couldn't believe Ninetales could retain its consciousness after being hit by Hypnosis.
"There's nothing impossible about it," Terrance said calmly.
Ninetales was linked to him mind to mind. Even in a sleeping state, it could still act through the move Sleep Talk.
Moreover, Ninetales hadn't been put to sleep by Hypnosis at all. It had voluntarily used Rest to recover its stamina.
In its sleeping state, Ninetales quickly returned to peak condition. Terrance glanced at the timing, snapped his fingers, and the snow curtain exploded apart with a boom. In front of Ninetales, one Ice Mirror after another appeared.
Relying solely on Ice-type moves against Lisia's Mega Altaria clearly wouldn't decide the match, so Terrance intended to make Ninetales's offense even more aggressive.
As the Ice Mirrors formed, countless rainbow-hued screens attached themselves to their fronts, serving as a protective mechanism.
In the next instant, several Ice Mirrors reflected intense light. A Fairy-type Dazzling Gleam blasted forth, directly colliding with the opposing sound waves and forming a standoff.
The collision of sound waves and beams of light was a feast for the audience's eyes. This battle held extraordinarily high spectacle value.
Bombardments from sky and ground raged back and forth, neither side giving way. But when, following the rainbow glow, blue, white, and other colors of light were reflected from the Ice Mirrors, Raoul Contesta and Mr. Sukizo at the judges' table finally broke into smiles.
They had already realized that Terrance had manifested the Ice Moon technique in the form of Ice Mirror.
This combo move, which combined offense, debuffs, and defense into one, instantly weakened the sound waves' speed and destructive power. With Ninetales itself able to ignore the opponent's Hypnosis effect, the momentum swung heavily in Terrance's favor. Then, right before the audience's eyes… the sound waves were slowly crushed and pushed back!
"Not good." Panic rose in Lisia's heart. The core of her opponent's technique lay in Ninetales and Ice Mirror, protected by Aurora Veil. On her side, the core was Altaria itself, protected by Cotton Guard. Now that the sound waves had been broken through, the opponent was already closing in on the heart of her strategy.
"Draco Meteor!"
Seeing the sound waves being overwhelmed, Lisia shouted. Altaria thrust out cottony feathers while simultaneously summoning countless fragments of rock that fell like meteors from the sky.
"Still refusing to give up?" Having shattered the opponent's core combo move, Ninetales opened its eyes, understanding Terrance's intent. In that instant, the Ice Mirrors transformed and overlapped with one another, canceling their debuff and defensive effects and shifting to full offense. The speed was so fast it left the audience dazzled!
Endless beams of light erupted, instantly undergoing multiple rounds of amplification swirling together with Draco Meteor and fiercely devouring the shattered rocks before hurtling toward Altaria with overwhelming force.
"Cotton Guard again!" Lisia hurriedly shouted. As Terrance accelerated his offensive, she felt as if she could barely catch her breath.
"Blizzard." At Terrance's command, the Ice Mirrors shattered back into wind and snow, following right behind Dazzling Gleam like the gaping jaws of a ravenous beast as they charged forward!
It's over…
Seeing Ninetales's staggering coordination speed, Lisia fell into a brief daze.
As Dazzling Gleam intertwined with Cotton Guard, Blizzard followed immediately after, swallowing them all in an instant and triggering a massive explosion.
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom!
Listening to the almost pleasant sound, Terrance looked up toward the sky. After such an intense battle, Altaria should no longer be able to maintain its Mega Evolution, right? Sure enough, in the next moment, a glowing figure came crashing down. As the light dispersed, Altaria reverted to its normal form and fell together with the ice and snow.
Just a few minutes of combat left the audience dazzled. And when Altaria lost its consciousness, the atmosphere inside the venue was completely ignited!
"Although the two Pokémon are evenly matched in raw strength, when it comes to coordination, Ninetales clearly has the upper hand," Raoul Contesta said quietly upon seeing the result. Lisia's Altaria was indeed very strong, but that strength largely came from Mega Evolution. Its own coordination skills had not reached the same level as its power.
What was truly frightening on Terrance's side was that Ninetales's coordination skills far surpassed its own raw strength, seemingly having already stepped one level ahead into the top-tier.
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