The moment Heiduo made his move, the surrounding Draconids burst into an uproar.
Yet not a single one of them stepped forward to stop him.
They had no intention of helping outsiders, even if Aster had brought these people back.
"What are you doing?! Let them go!"
Seeing her companions subdued while she was arguing with the elder, the hot-tempered Aster immediately snapped. She had probably forgotten who Heiduo was, raising her hand to send out her ace—Salamence.
The savage cyan dragon, resembling a demon with crimson wings on its back, landed and let out a terrifying roar at Heiduo and Garchomp!
Immediately afterward, it raised its powerful foreclaws, gathering a cyan-blue gleam around them. Its hind legs pushed off hard as it lunged at Garchomp with a savage claw strike!
The air let out a piercing shriek, as though it had been torn apart!
Higan and Auster, seated in their wheelchairs, both changed expression.
"Stop!"
"Aster!"
Alakazam's eyes glowed faintly as invisible psychic power rapidly spread forward, attempting to Lock-On to Salamence and restrain it.
But it had acted a step too late. Salamence had already viciously slashed down at Garchomp's head!
In Garchomp's vision, the sharp claw wrapped in cyan-blue energy slowly grew larger, bringing a sense of impending disaster. An ordinary person witnessing this would surely have been terrified.
But for it...
"Tch."
As though air had escaped through its teeth, Garchomp neither dodged nor moved. It stared straight at Salamence's savage face with contempt, its left fin glowing as it casually swung to the left.
Bang!
A muffled boom shook the air!
The cyan-blue flare exploded, then vanished in an instant.
A massive cyan-and-red figure staggered back more than ten steps, letting out an incredulous growl mixed with a cry of pain.
"It blocked it?!"
Aster