Whoooosh...
The sound of the tides rose and fell, seeming to drift in from far away, yet also whisper right beside their ears.
The pitch-black water veil surrounding the battlefield flickered between illusion and reality, and all manner of strange sights emerged within it.
Towering waves churned furiously; ocean currents swept past with majestic force; abyssal depths stretched out, mysterious and unfathomable!
Yet Swampert stood quietly on the battlefield, still wearing that same simple, good-natured expression. Even the terrifying aura radiating from its body was tightly suppressed, but it still set alarm bells ringing in Lapras's mind. Lapras dared not relax in the slightest, remaining motionless as though facing a formidable enemy!
Water had no fixed form.
But under Swampert's control, its power shifted unpredictably-agile, all-embracing, violent, and vast.
These different qualities brought Swampert's "ocean current aura" to its peak, on the verge of breaking through to a new level...
Ice, snow, and cold currents swept across the sky. Yet when they came within a few meters of Swampert, they seemed to meet an enormous curtain of water vapor. It stood as an indestructible barrier, preventing Lapras's "force domain power" from advancing even another inch!
A distinct black water veil stood visibly between the two, holding all the ice, snow, and cold currents firmly at bay.
Even more astonishingly, although moisture filled the battlefield, the extremely low temperatures Lapras had produced could not freeze it into ice... a far cry from its earlier overwhelming display.
Instead, every echo of the tides brought an intensely oppressive sense of suffocation surging through Lapras.
Lapras felt as though an immense force had wrapped tightly around its body, subjecting it to unprecedented pressure. That pressure kept growing, threatening to crush it. The harder it struggled, the more fiercely the suffocation, claustrophobia, and inexplicable weight