As the smoke and dust slowly cleared, two overlapping craters with radii exceeding five meters had been blasted into the area!
The inside of the craters was scorched black. Dirt and rubble had been flung more than ten meters away, while the crater walls had taken on the uniquely smooth texture of vitrification—the result of extreme heat and energy impact.
The bald man hiding behind the stone pillar heaved violently, his face covered in dust, looking utterly disheveled.
As the stone pillar fell, his eyes happened to reflect that elegant white figure—Gardevoir had already returned to Xinhai's side completely unharmed. Her green hair drifted gently in the wind, and her red eyes were so calm that the terrifying attack just now seemed like a casual gesture.
How is that possible... The bald man swallowed dryly. That Gardevoir was clearly within the interference range of our Dark-type energy. How could she still Teleport back?
He instinctively looked at the Pokémon beside him—Mightyena, Nidoking (Elite level), Primeape, and Pinsir (Advanced level). They were all panting heavily, not just from the expenditure of Protect, but from the lingering terror of narrowly escaping death.
They had blocked that attack, but that was all. If there was another one...
The bald man's gaze swept across the surrounding battlefield—on the clearing to the left, the short-bearded man's four Pokémon had completely lost their ability to fight and lay motionless on the ground.
The short-bearded man himself had been hurled away by the shockwave and slammed viciously into a tree. He now lay beneath it like a broken sack, his fate unknown.
Then, he saw a silver-gray dart embedded deeply in a distant tree.
Combining Mightyena's earlier warning with Gardevoir's incredibly precise Teleport, a bolt of lightning seemed to flash through the bald man's mind, and he