A middle-aged man in gray-black camouflage stepped out from behind a tree, riding a Mightyena. His eyes were dark and sinister.
His features were actually quite handsome, with sharp contours and a high nose bridge, but those eyes ruined everything—there was too much white in them, his pupils were narrow and long, and he always looked at people with the cold scrutiny of a hunter assessing prey.
The Mightyena beneath him was even more conspicuously abnormal.
An ordinary Mightyena stood around one and a half meters at the shoulder and measured just over two meters in length, already a rather robust build.
But this one stood a full two meters tall! Its limbs were as thick as tree trunks, its chest muscles bulged, and every breath visibly flexed the powerful muscles beneath its ribs.
Its fur was denser than that of its peers, nearly ink-black in color, gleaming with an oily sheen beneath the moonlight.
Its scarlet eyes were half-lidded, its lips curled slightly to expose its stark white fangs, which still bore dark-red bloodstains.
It stood there like a silent giant beast, radiating suffocating Intimidate.
Several Poké Balls hung from the sinister man's waist, and a few of them had buttons on their surfaces—that meant the Pokémon inside had been forcibly captured.
"This is a Starter Pokémon. It's worth a lot." He curled his lips into a smile, stroked his chin, and said, "Hurry up. We still need to find the other—"
His words came to an abrupt halt.
Two condensed Vacuum Waves shot in from the side, one aimed straight at his face, the other precisely at Weavile's chest!
Bang!
Mightyena's beastly instincts sensed the danger, and it reflexively used Protect.
A translucent pale-green Barrier abruptly spread open before it and the sinister man. The Vacuum Wave crashed