With a few leaps, Lucario stepped across several small rocks ahead and jumped onto the tallest one in the middle of the field.
Although this rock was the tallest and largest in the entire Battle Field, it was actually only about two meters high.
It was still a little low, but it was better than nothing.
After all, standing more than two meters above the ground would give Lucario an extra two meters of reaction time when Steelix burst out of the earth.
Most importantly, occupying the highest point made it easier to keep track of the entire Battle Arena.
Still, it was rather lamentable that a perfectly good Steel-type Steelix, which should have been rampaging across the battlefield, had been forced to resort to these underground tactics.
Oh... right, his own Lucario had forced it into this situation. Never mind, then.
Just as Lucario took its place on the rock, the entire Battle Field began to shake.
A behemoth over nine meters long would naturally cause quite a disturbance underground, and the closer it came to the surface, the greater that disturbance became.
However, the shaking manifested differently across the ground.
Xia You swept his gaze over the battlefield.
The earlier fighting had shattered many of the rocks on this Rock Field, and the broken pieces scattered across the ground trembled along with it.
The closer those fragments were to Steelix, the harder they shook. Conversely, the farther they were from Steelix, the less they moved!
Some of the stones smaller than coins even bounced one or two centimeters off the ground!
It still was not particularly obvious, but anyone looking for it could notice.
This was something Xia You had worked out himself, gradually discovering it while using Pokémon that could burrow or battling others that could.
Now,