Victory

The instant Magmar's foot touched the ground, Sandile burst from the earth not far in front of it, as if it had planned this all along!

As it leaped out, its short claws swept fiercely toward the ground on both sides, forcibly "lifting" several hard rocks of varying sizes into the air!

At the same time, Sandile hurled two clumps of thick, long-prepared mud from its claws—Mud-Slap—straight at Magmar's face!

"Uwah?!"

Facing Sandile's attack, Magmar, having just finished using Stomping Tantrum, instinctively crossed its flame-wreathed arms in front of itself.

"Pfft! Pfft!"

The two mud clumps struck its arms, which were covered in red protrusions, splashing mud everywhere.

The next second, the high-temperature flames on Magmar's arms instantly baked the mud dry. The sticky clumps hardened, cracked, and flaked off its arms in a shower.

While Magmar blocked the mud and its vision was obscured, Sandile suddenly planted its forelegs against one of the rocks it had "lifted" up, which had yet to hit the ground!

The rock crashed down under that force, while Sandile used the recoil to perform a nimble second midair change of direction, barely skimming past the visible ring-shaped yellow-brown shockwave that erupted when Magmar's Stomping Tantrum struck the ground!

"Boom—!"

The main force of Stomping Tantrum's shockwave blasted into empty space, cracking the ground around Magmar inch by inch and filling the area with smoke and dust.

The aftershock from Stomping Tantrum still hit Sandile.

"Heh... oh!" The aftershock from Stomping Tantrum struck Sandile, making its unsteady body stumble before it fell straight to the ground.

"Magmar, use Scary Face!" Mura seized the opportunity and quickly gave the command.

"Uwah—!!"

Magmar lowered its arms, and an utterly vicious, terrifying expression appeared on its face. An invisible mental intimidation swept toward Sandile like a freezing tide!