Shrriiip!!
A sharp, piercing sound echoed through this space.
Feeling the intense, drilling pain coming from his body, Regidrago lowered his head.
The sight he saw instantly filled him with horror.
Those incomparably sharp Metal Claws had actually split open the body he had forged from Dragon-type energy crystals.
They had left behind a deep, terrifying wound!
How was that possible?
Regidrago was stunned.
His body was even tougher than the alloy bodies of those Steel-type Pokémon.
It was a crystal body formed from energy compressed to its absolute limit.
The thing Regidrago had always been most confident in was the hardness of his own body.
A pure energy crystal like this was definitely one of the toughest existences in this world!
But today, he felt as if his entire worldview had collapsed.
His proud energy body had actually been broken open by Shiko!
It had not merely been scratched. It was not just a mark.
A deep gash had been carved into him!
Seeing that Shiko had no intention of stopping at all, Regidrago broke out in a cold sweat.
He unleashed a Dragon Breath at Shiko.
Scarlet flames entwined with Dragon-type energy surged out.
Although this move could not cause Shiko any real damage, Regidrago still used the recoil force brought by that energy flame to barely open up some distance between himself and Shiko.
He reached a relatively safe position.
An indescribably intense pain surged through him again.
Regidrago lowered his head.
He discovered that a large chunk of his body, forged from energy crystals, had already been cut away by Shiko's sharp, shining Metal Claws.
A sunken crater had appeared in his originally round body.
Along with the appearance of that crater, Regidrago felt that a large amount of the strength and energy inside his body had been stripped away as well.
That sense of weakness came over him again.
He could feel it.
Because of this heavy injury, his strength had fallen to the point where he was only barely at the threshold of a Third-tier Legendary.
After realizing this, Regidrago immediately became furious.
Again!
The last time, he had run into this devil before him!
Taking advantage of his weakened body and heavily diminished strength, Shiko had forcibly devoured and absorbed a massive amount of his energy.
That had caused him to spend so much time recovering, only to return to eighty percent of his peak strength.
He had thought everything had finally settled.
He had thought that as long as he slowly absorbed energy and recovered to his peak, he could once again reign over the world.
But what happened?
This guy had appeared again!
And his increase in strength and combat power was absurdly exaggerated!
He was even stronger than Regidrago at his peak.
When he attacked, he was even more savage than last time.
He had directly cut off a piece of Regidrago's complete body!
And once again, he had caused Regidrago's strength to plummet by a huge margin!
Regidrago was furious to the extreme.
He had serious reason to suspect that Shiko was deliberately targeting him.
He was farming him for resources!
What exactly was this guy trying to do?
Could it be that he had come this time to absorb energy from him again?
Regidrago was utterly furious.
The triangularly arranged hollows on his body flickered violently, growing bright and dim in rapid succession.
They revealed just how turbulent his emotions were at this moment.
He raised his head.
Yet unexpectedly, he discovered that Shiko had not started absorbing the energy inside that entire crystal chunk as he had imagined.
Instead, Shiko held it in his hand and examined it for a while.
Then.
He slowly walked to a certain spot in the cave.
And picked up—
Picked up a huge hammer?
(End of Chapter)
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