Although Roy still had a lot of remaining popularity points, if one hundred thousand were deducted at one time, then the remaining points wouldn't be much. The Energy Cubes that these Pokémon could consume every day were exchanged at a rate of one thousand to one.
If the value of 100,000 popularity points disappeared directly, it was equivalent to losing a hundred Energy Cubes. And one Energy Cube was enough to support all of Lucario's energy consumption in a day.
It would really be a huge loss to forfeit so many Energy Cubes.
Perhaps because Lucario and Guzzlord were already preparing for battle, Roy could see that if he won this time, he would get a lottery chance. And this lottery chance had visible rewards.
It was directly a very gorgeous spinning wheel, but the pointer on it wasn't fixed. Wherever it stopped when it rotated would determine what kind of reward he would receive from such a lottery draw.
He had to admit that the items displayed were truly attractive.
In this world, Pokémon wanting to learn certain skills required them to grow up and comprehend those techniques. However, this time on the huge wheel, in the small squares that appeared, there were actually legendary skills. Although a few were skills that existed in this world, most of them were skills and moves that didn't exist in this world—only those more powerful heroes or humans could display them. Of course, for Fighting-type Pokémon or Pokémon that looked humanoid, there was also the possibility of displaying such skills. The power that could be unleashed would be even stronger.
There were many skills on the wheel that were very familiar techniques.
If Lucario could learn the skills displayed, it would greatly improve his future combat ability. Right now, if he just maintained the skills he currently had to fight, the combat strength he could display wasn't optimal.
If he could learn the power that heroes from other worlds or legends could display, then his combat ability would be greatly improved.
Martial Arts: Instant Chain Kick
Martial Arts: One-Inch Punch
Great Martial Arts: Valkyrie Strong Kick
They were all powerful moves that could be executed by using one's own strength.
Of course, this kind of lottery drawing method and opportunity could only be obtained after final victory. If they failed, the skills on the wheel couldn't be obtained, and those Pokémon would lose several days' worth of rations.
Although Roy was confident they would win and wouldn't let other Pokémon intervene in this battle, he still felt it was necessary to verbally support Lucario, cheer him on, and let him understand that although this battle didn't need to be so tense, it was very important.
The power of blue Aura could spread faster than Roy's own voice, and it could also make the emotions contained within more clearly expressed in Lucario's mind.
"Come on! I'm very optimistic about you in this battle. There's almost no problem if you want to win. Of course, if you can defeat Guzzlord, I'll give you a chance to become even stronger."
Especially the last part of his words carried even more weight. This kind of strength didn't just come from the most basic physical training obtained from pressure conditioning, but also from other kinds of strength that relied on martial arts—or in other words, more effective power brought by additional techniques.
"Master, don't worry. I will never fail, and I will definitely bring back the fruits of victory!"
Time waited for no one. Guzzlord had already lifted its countless legs and rushed toward the Pokémon in front of him that had caused his rage. It wanted to use its huge body to crush this Pokémon completely.
Of course, this was possible given its size and weight, but before crushing, it must capture this Pokémon or even make him unable to move. Otherwise, wanting to capture Lucario with such agility using its somewhat sluggish body and movements was simply wishful thinking.
Obviously, it would only take two or three seconds to rush in front of Lucario during this charging period. If Lucario didn't run away in these two or three seconds, he could use his skills or, in other words, use his agile form to avoid the onslaught.
However, in just this short period of time, the actions that Lucario performed were a little unexpected to Roy and even left Zeraora dumbfounded.
Two or three seconds might allow a Pokémon to cast one skill move, but in this time, Lucario not only cast a skill but even used this method to quickly cast two skills.
Between Lucario's paws, there were two white blades of power brought together by special energy.
At the same time, he made a movement similar to Bulk Up, and simultaneously danced a sword flourish with the two white power blades in his paws.
Lucario had learned many skills, but when he used his own fighting techniques to display these skills, it depended on what experience he could harvest and express.
In just three seconds, before the white blades of power had fully gathered, the Bulk Up movement was used to greatly improve his body's defensive ability as well as his physical attack capability.
The white blades on both paws were also formed due to special power, creating two beautiful sword flourishes.
The skill that could be used this time was Sword Dance, used after Bulk Up.
Perhaps during other humans' commanding of Pokémon in battle, Zeraora could indeed see that a Pokémon could use these two different types of skills, which did have an obvious improvement on their strength.
But now, when the two skills were actually released at the same time while one skill was being used, the effect of "amplification" on the body during short-term battle was very obvious.