Aura Sphere was a move that never missed in the games.
But in this Real World, there were simply too many external factors. Although no move was guaranteed to hit one hundred percent of the time, the special energy known as aura gave Aura Sphere a slight homing property.
In other words, after launching an Aura Sphere, the user could control it through aura to track a dodging enemy, achieving as high a hit rate as possible.
This also made it fundamentally different from moves that traveled straight toward their targets.
Under Lucario's control, Aura Sphere did not fly straight toward Bastiodon. Instead, it first rose at a shallow angle. Once it cleared Bastiodon's height, it suddenly dropped, tracing a modest arc as it hurtled toward Bastiodon's back!
No one wanted to attack that stone shield head-on.
Especially not while Bastiodon was using Protect.
On the other side, seeing Aura Sphere follow such a trajectory, Byron remained calm and ordered Bastiodon to adjust his stance.
The distance was simply too great. Even though Aura Sphere was far from slow, it still gave Bastiodon time to adjust.
That was hardly surprising when one thought about it. After all, a battle was not a turn-based game. While you were moving, your opponent naturally moved at the same time.
Boom!!
Aura Sphere successfully hit Bastiodon, but unfortunately, the attack was blocked by the stone shield he had just repositioned.
After the smoke cleared, Bastiodon shook his head. He seemed largely unharmed, with only a few faint scuffs visible on his stone shield.
So tough...
Leaving Protect aside, Xia You wondered whether the shield on Bastiodon's head counted as part of his body. Hitting it actually seemed to do next to nothing.
"Bastiodon, use Ancient Power!"
Just as Xia You was wondering about that,