The moment Valerie's command was given, energy ripples like water waves suddenly appeared on the entire square battle field.
Ground cracked and seams grew like vines sprouting. Countless light blue and white alternating diamond lattices gushed out from them—these lattices built up four light walls climbing constantly along the edge of the field, and finally topped and formed.
"Here it comes, here it comes, it's Trick Room!"
"Using this move means..."
Exclamations came from the audience seats. Screams crisp like silver bells gathered into an ocean resounding in the battle arena.
And Linnea and Kali acting as judges also clenched their fists subconsciously, equally full of excitement.
Lord Valerie, became serious all of a sudden!!!
"Trick Room..."
Hakuya murmured, looking at the energy shield completely shrouding the entire battle field before him.
In the bizarre space created by [Trick Room], the speed of both sides' Pokémon would be reversed. Slower Pokémon could attack first instead. This was also the core of the so-called Trick Room team tactics in games of his previous life.
It had to be said, Valerie was worthy of being the Laverre Gym Leader.
Facing a high-level Gardevoir whose speed must be faster than her own Pokémon after Mega Evolution, she instantly thought of responding with such tactics, seizing the speed initiative first.
"Gar~"
At this moment, Gardevoir, just liberating full power, frowned lightly, sensing an invisible energy pressure shrouding her whole body.
Whether her move condensation speed or body movement speed, all were greatly reduced.
Under the rules set by the Creator God (Arceus), this move [Trick Room] could be called an almost unsolvable open scheme!
"Battle, start!"
"Aromatisse, use Dazzling Gleam."
Just as the two judges' voices fell, this Fairy mature sister wearing a magnificent dress waved her sleeve, commanding.
"Eee—"
The brightly lit battle field suddenly filled with sweet and sticky fragrance like honey. Aromatisse hovering in mid-air had purple eyes. Countless starlight dots burst out from around its body like fireflies.
Not gentle and soft halos, but carrying sharp blade light. Where they passed, even the air rippled with scorching heat.
"Gardevoir, block it with psychic power."
Accompanied by Hakuya's unhurried command, Gardevoir, tall, cold, and glamorous like a Psychic Empress, just hummed lightly and raised her hand. Overflowing and scattering psychic power gathered into a shield, completely blocking that surging light.
"Aromatisse, use Moonblast continuously."
Seeing this, Valerie chose to attack fiercely continuously without hesitation.
[Trick Room] couldn't exist permanently but could only last for a short five minutes.
For many Trainers, when facing this space tactic, they often chose procrastination method, trying every effort to drag [Trick Room] until the time ended...
Although Valerie didn't know how Hakuya planned to deal with it, as the beneficiary side, she had to take advantage of such a precious opportunity to launch attacks as much as possible.
"Block it."
Continuous [Moonblast] bombarded down. Apart from stirring up a burst of dust mist generated and scattered by explosion on the field, it seemed not to have obtained the effect expected by Valerie at all.
Noble, cold, glamorous Mega Gardevoir stood in place without moving an inch from beginning to end. The pink-purple psychic light shield, like an unbreakable fortress, blocked that terrifying offensive wave lightly.
"Mmm... roughly clear."
Half hidden in the surrounding explosion dust mist, Hakuya nodded secretly.
He didn't want to drag time but planned to take this opportunity to test the actual combat effect of Mega Evolution more.
Compared to the original form, Mega Evolved Gardevoir, whether move power or control over her own psychic power, was much higher than before.
Even passively dealing with attacks at the level of a Gym Leader's main Pokémon, she could still neutralize them easily.
On the other hand, with the battle continuing, Hakuya also found that he could gradually adapt to the rhythm of massive physical consumption in battle state. Now if wanting to make multiple Pokémon Mega Evolve simultaneously in battle, it was no longer a problem!
Getting the test result he wanted, Hakuya gave the attack command.
"Gardevoir, Hyper Voice."
Psychic Empress closed her eyes and concentrated. Pale pink halo condensed by psychic power bloomed layer by layer like gauze curtains, holding her delicate body like moon-white skirt hem floating slowly to mid-air. Wisps of clear singing like spring water gushed out from her throat.
"Not good, Aromatisse, use Dazzling Gleam, interrupt her quickly!"
Valerie, feeling the vibration from her feet, also had her eyelids jumping, completely losing her usual elegant appearance, shouting commands loudly.
Affected by [Trick Room], Gardevoir's move gathering speed must not be as fast as her Aromatisse. But what made Valerie widen her beautiful eyes was... the slender figure like a Psychic Empress before her actually multitasked. While gathering move energy, she actually used majestic psychic power to block the instant [Dazzling Gleam].
"Gar——!!!"
Before this Fairy mature sister could recover from the shock, Gardevoir's [Hyper Voice] move had already condensed into shape.
When singing first started, like clear spring hitting rocks, melodious and clear. The ground trembled rustlingly accordingly. Tiny dust particles jumped suspended in the sound waves.
And in an instant, the scale climbed gradually. The soft and melodious tune rose suddenly. Strong sound waves condensed rapidly in the Fairy-type energy domain, actually turning from invisible to tangible!!!
[Pixilate] ability, power increased by 20%!
"Eee!"
The flat battle field ground cracked with a boom under the impact of the sound wave ring. Strong energy even ground the soaring gravel into powder conveniently. And as the aftermath dissipated, Aromatisse hit head-on let out a wail, losing combat capability directly.
One move, insta-kill!!!
"Ah? Lord Valerie's Aromatisse was taken out by one move..."
"The opponent looks really strong..."
"Oops, Lord Valerie's attack rhythm is completely lost..."
At this moment, whether female Trainers watching in the stands or Linnea and Kali as judges, all couldn't help biting their full, soft, moist lips tightly, leaking exclamations one after another from between lips.
They originally thought after opening [Trick Room], the battle scene, not to say advantageous to Valerie, would at least become fifty-fifty. Result was unable to even put up decent resistance, insta-killed directly by Hakuya's Gardevoir with one move.
"Uuu~"
Valerie raised her butterfly long sleeve to cover half of her charming face, feeling a burst of trance involuntarily.
Clearly [Trick Room] always took all advantages when dealing with high-speed Pokémon before, but Hakuya and his Gardevoir seemed to be exceptions among them. No matter how her Aromatisse attacked, she always felt like fists hitting cotton, making one feel powerless.
But besides the powerlessness of falling into a huge disadvantage, Valerie smiled beautifully at the end.
Losing meant nothing to Pokémon Trainers.
No one could guarantee undefeated record, let alone facing Hakuya, a Trainer mastering legends. Defeat was also a reasonable and normal thing.
She chose to challenge actively just to understand this youth who made her heart beat better.
"Ha~ Like that perfect body making people addicted, Hakuya your strength also makes people sink~"
Blinking her pale purple beautiful eyes like a fairy tenderly and sweetly, Valerie murmured in a low voice.
"Want... to know you a bit more..."
Butterfly sleeves swaying, the second Poké Ball was thrown conveniently from the black silk soft hand in her cuff. The Deceiver Pokémon with a huge steel jaw landed on the battle field full of cracks.
Compared to Aromatisse appearing earlier, Mawile with Steel + Fairy type undoubtedly possessed excellent type advantages.
"Mawile, Iron Head!"
Changing her usual gentle and soft appearance, Valerie, wanting to understand the other party more in battle, waved her sleeve and shouted. Her whole body was surrounded by sharp momentum. Silky ink-black long hair also rose in the suddenly erupting impact wave.
Mawile arched its body to charge. The huge steel jaw flashed with metallic cold light, as if made of tempered steel.
In the next instant, the ground burst out spider-web-like cracks instantly. Mawile kicked the ground with both feet, ejecting like a cannonball out of the chamber wrapped in sharp wind-breaking sound!
[Iron Head: The user slams the target with its steel-hard head. This may also make the target flinch.]
"Not Intimidate but Sheer Force ability."
Facing this terrifying scene, Hakuya raised his eyebrows slightly, seeing through this Mawile's details at first glance.
Under the influence of [Sheer Force] ability, [Iron Head] move would lose the flinch additional effect, turning to increase move power.
"Gardevoir, use Psychic to stop it."
Attack lifting waves-like ripples in the surrounding air fell, yet still blocked by the majestic psychic light shield.
Amidst bang-bang-bang fierce impact sounds, the [Iron Head] move used continuously by Mawile, having super effective effect on Gardevoir, actually failed completely—
Seeing this, Valerie frowned subconsciously.
Although she didn't have enough confidence to defeat the Mega Gardevoir before her, now, if still unable to achieve substantial effective attacks, then...
"Trick Room time limit is almost up, right?"
As if seeing through Valerie's inner thoughts at this time, Hakuya said softly.
Unlike this charming, enchanting mature sister still calculating the remaining time of [Trick Room] at all times, he actually never took the bizarre space on the field like a square glass cover to heart from beginning to end.
Reality wasn't a rigid game after all. Although rules set by the Creator God couldn't be changed, if strength was sufficient, these seemingly rigid rules could also be broken—
"Mmm... actually Trick Room is not impeccable."
Hakuya looked at the Fairy mature sister with a dull face due to her thoughts being pointed out, revealing a smile unconsciously.
"Almost time to end. Gardevoir, maximum power Moonblast!"
As soon as the Trainer's command fell, accompanied by the high chant of that moon-white dress figure, ten plain shining full moons hung on the dome.
This strike, like ice soul condensing frost, and also like amber melting gold. Moon lights appearing in mid-air sequentially wove into a net.
Powerful might generated by move condensation even made Valerie forget to command Mawile to dodge for a moment.
"Gar——"
Mega Gardevoir just pointed down proudly like a Psychic Empress looking down on the world. Bright moonlight poured down like liquid crystal!
Boom——!!!
The seemingly unbreakable energy space shattered instantly in the moment the round moons bombarded down!
The speed of the battle ending was so fast, exceeding everyone's expectations present.
"Y... You're kidding, right!"
In the audience seats, all watching female Trainers let out exclamations of disbelief.
Clearly time hadn't arrived yet, but [Trick Room] was actually broken!!!
Looking at the energy space falling broken like glass before eyes, and Mawile lying in the deep pit blasted by [Moonblast], losing combat capability, Valerie couldn't help being lost in thought for a while.
As for Linnea and Kali, equally shocked, looked at each other, finally recovering from extreme astonishment, announcing the duel result hurriedly.
"Ma... Mawile lost combat capability; Hakuya won this duel!"