As countless leaves gathered and swirled around the tails of the two Sceptile, while Jumpluff and Cherrim began charging support moves.
Boom—!!!
An explosion far more terrifying and violent than before erupted from another direction!
The sound was so horrifying that even from dozens of kilometers away, it still made their eardrums ache.
Everyone on the battlefield, whether rangers or poachers, stopped what they were doing at the same instant.
They all turned toward that direction—
A blinding beam of light shot into the sky, illuminating half the night like day!
The color of the light was peculiar. It was neither the crimson of flames nor the gray-black of an explosion, but an energy hue interwoven with deep purple and emerald green!
The two colors writhed and tore at each other within the pillar of light like two giant dragons battling amid the clouds!
Then, a massive mushroom cloud slowly rose into the sky.
The mushroom cloud was so enormous that it nearly occupied half the horizon.
Deep purple energy and emerald-green light continuously exploded, annihilated each other, and regenerated within the cloud. Each collision produced a blinding flash, making the entire night sky flicker between light and dark.
And amid the earth-shaking explosions, faintly—
Roar—!!!
A long, majestic dragon roar pierced through the thunder of the blast and crossed dozens of kilometers, reaching everyone's ears with perfect clarity!
That roar carried rage, crushing pressure, and the terrifying presence of an apex predator, making every Pokémon on the battlefield shudder instinctively.
Kazuhiko Suzuki frowned deeply, staring intently at the slowly rising mushroom cloud in the distance.
"So an Elite-level expert really is involved..." he murmured, his voice grave but not panicked.
Because he knew that Fortree City's chief ranger—the old man who had guarded the Central Area for thirty years—was