Divine War

After a while.

Among a pile of rubble on a seaside hillside cliff.

Slowking grimaced as it rubbed its eyes.

One of its originally vacant-looking eyes was swollen nearly shut.

Fortunately, aside from that, nothing else seemed to be wrong.

"You really have no sense of fair play."

Slowking's Telepathy echoed in Xia Yan's mind.

"You told me to give it a try."

Xia Yan shrugged, sitting on a smooth rock. He shrugged again, without the slightest trace of guilt.

All of his Pokémon were gathered around him, having witnessed Slowking's miserable state.

Especially Togekiss, Latios, and Sylveon.

They laughed without any restraint.

It was not just them. Even the wild Pokémon following Slowking wore strange expressions.

Their faces were flushed red, as though they wanted to laugh but did not dare to.

"I told you to try it, and you actually—" Slowking glared.

But it stopped halfway through its sentence.

It glanced at Beedrill, which was eagerly sharpening its stingers.

Wisely, it did not continue.

Slowking usually considered itself a sage.

It treated the surrounding wild Pokémon kindly. Whenever those Pokémon encountered something they did not understand or a troublesome problem, they came to it.

The reason it rarely fought was that most situations did not require it to fight, not because it lacked combat ability.

But when it encountered Xia Yan.

Someone who never played by the rules.

Its wisdom became useless.

And its fighting strength could not compare to Alakazam and Beedrill working together.

Although Alakazam's Psychic-type power was inferior to its own, it had no trouble restraining it. Coupled with Beedrill's Bug-type moves...

Reasoning did not work, and it could not win a fight.

It was like a scholar meeting a soldier—there was no reasoning with him.

Facing Xia Yan's smiling expression, Slowking could not even