"Altaria!!"
At Clair's shout, Xia You gave Crystal Steelix another command before the Altaria on the ground could get up.
"Use Crunch!"
Crystal Steelix opened its enormous maw and bit down on Altaria. Its mouth was so huge that it caught more than half of Altaria's body between its jaws!
Creak...
Everyone present could even hear its teeth squeezing against skin, and Altaria let out another agonized cry that made Clair's heart clench!
Fortunately, Crystal Steelix's teeth were not sharp, and Altaria had thick, fluffy plumage, so Crystal Steelix did not break its skin or damage its bones and internal organs!
But the soul-piercing pain was still unavoidable!
At that moment, Altaria was like something caught in a giant pair of pincers, being brutally squeezed!
"Altaria! Break free!!!"
Hearing Clair's voice, the struggling Altaria suddenly rallied, as though experiencing a final burst of vitality!
Enduring the tremendous pain, it mustered all its strength and launched an attack inside Crystal Steelix's mouth. Amid a violent explosion, it finally blasted those enormous jaws open and scrambled out!
But now it was covered in injuries and looked ready to collapse. There was no trace of the elegance and beauty it had possessed when they first met!
Crystal Steelix, meanwhile, held its body upright and its head high, with great clouds of black smoke pouring continuously from its mouth!
Altaria's attack inside its mouth had also dealt it considerable damage. Though blood flowed freely, it had only been stunned for a while; its brain had not been injured.
Once it recovered, it turned its enormous head and glared furiously at Altaria!
Seeing it like this, Xia You sighed softly.
Sigh...
Come to think of it, before evolving, Crystal Onix had seemed rather even-tempered, the sort that usually lay quietly in a corner without making