"Roar!"
Mega Lucario suddenly opened his eyes. Amid the astonished cries of countless spectators, his body rose into the air.
A pale blue glow enveloped his entire body, and the surging radiance of Aura swept away all the Dream Eater mist, revealing an awe-inspiring, terrifying presence.
The commentator shouted, "Lucario has awakened! Dream Eater was interrupted! Ash's voice woke his partner!"
Fell asleep in seconds, woke up in seconds!
Such a situation was extremely rare, but it had happened once with Ash—
During the Lily of the Valley Conference semifinals, Sceptile faced Darkrai, the Legendary Pokémon Trainer's Darkrai. At the final moment, he woke up and used Leaf Blade to "behead" it.
The scene was almost identical to the current one, a perfect recreation of that moment.
There was no doubt about it.
The instant Mega Lucario awakened and opened his furious eyes wide, the hunt began!
He fixed his gaze on the spinning evil spirit in the distance. His expression gradually turned ferocious, his sharp fangs fully exposed. Like Anubis from ancient myth, he seemed determined to cast the soul of the wicked into the underworld.
"Wooo—"
"Gah!"
Spiritomb was so frightened that it no longer dared laugh. Its evil spirit rapidly withdrew, trying to return to the Sealing Stone.
But Ash and Mega Lucario had no intention of letting it escape. They shouted, "Aura Sphere!"
"Roar!"
Mega Lucario roared and drew upon every trace of Aura he could sense within himself, gathering it in his palms. In the blink of an eye, waves of light swirled together as an enormous, dazzling Aura Sphere rapidly took shape!
His motion shifted from holding both arms out flat to raising them overhead, making the Aura Sphere grow even larger. It occupied nearly a quarter of the battlefield—more than enough even to