"Hmph—"
Archie let out a sinister laugh when he heard that. "Scald!"
First, he used Sharpedo's own body structure to create a natural current. Then he polluted the seawater with Poison Fang and used Ice Fang to create a poisonous glacier.
Finally came Scald, melting the poisonous glacier into a highly toxic mist that spread in all directions.
That was his true objective.
Archie knew very well that his goal now wasn't to have a one-on-one battle with a Trainer. He wanted to defeat his opponent and seize the Hoenn Orb.
So this method was the most effective.
Perhaps a Pokémon could withstand the poisonous mist, but humans absolutely could not!
Although it was a dishonorable victory, that was simply how battles worked.
Mega Sharpedo blocked Archie's path and, without hesitation, spewed out boiling-hot water. When the stream collided with the dark-purple glacier, it immediately stirred up a cloud of dark-purple, high-temperature mist...
"Icy Wind!!"
Once Archie had made up his mind, he launched one attack after another without mercy.
Mega Sharpedo swung its sinister, elongated tail, and an invisible cold wind wrapped around the poisonous mist and rolled toward the shrine.
Seeing this, Dian pulled out a black Poké Ball without hesitation and threw it... He had so many enemies now. How could he possibly bring only Misdreavus and Serperior when traveling far from home?
Perhaps others liked showing off and serving themselves up as easy prey, but he was different.
He didn't like showing off. He only liked bullying the weak.
A Pokémon skilled in speed-based attacks?
As it happened, he had one too.
Mega Evolution?
He could do that as well!!
A flash of black light appeared. Accompanied by the sound of something spinning rapidly in a spiral, the poisonous mist that corroded everything and the cold