Chapter 152: But Only Seek to Survive
Arthur's sword strike looked as if it was about to execute Raichu on the spot.
However, in the end, this sword strike ultimately failed to descend.
Because on the enemy's side of the field, there was still one more Pokémon—
Electivire appeared!
A "Thunder Punch," charged for some time, carrying a piercing sound of electric arcs and thunder, powerfully blasted over, forcing Arthur to turn his sword body to parry.
The blade slashed upwards against the momentum, cutting a wound on the underside of Electivire's arm, simultaneously altering the punch's trajectory, avoiding the direct impact of this fist.
Yet, the scattered electric arcs still licked a large patch of scorched red spots from behind Arthur's ear to his neck position, a fiery hot pain!
His hair also instantly spiked upwards, looking as if he had transformed.
Although Electivire is named a "demonic beast," it is, in fact, a genuine humanoid Pokémon. Its appearance is exactly like that of a burly, bearded, large man, except it has no neck; it looks like a human wearing a yellow and black leather suit.
However, the front section of their arms, from elbow to wrist, is exceptionally thick, proportioned like a large D-cell battery.
Therefore, even though it was slashed once from below by Arthur, Electivire ignored it as if nothing had happened and continued its pursuit!
Its mouth was still emitting hot-blooded, strange cries of "Ah! Ah!", appearing like a mad tiger!
However, it very quickly discovered that this rash action of its seemed to be ridiculously wrong.
Facing Electivire's subsequent pursuit, Arthur wasn't flustered in the slightest.
You're already out of skills (on cooldown); what are you being so arrogant for?
After "Thunder Punch," the opponent had already entered its recovery period. To still continue attacking at this time—did it truly think he was an ordinary human who couldn't withstand a single blow?
Subsequently, Arthur first steadily retreated two steps, turned his wrist, and used the end of his sword hilt to knock away another hook punch from the opponent's left hand.
Then, he suddenly stopped his retreat and, instead of falling back, advanced, quickly cutting into Electivire's close range. With a sideways body check, an "Iron Mountain Lean," he forcefully knocked it away.
Following that, utilizing the brief opening created as the opponent was pushed back and the distance slightly increased, his footsteps retreated, his arm swung back, and the sword blade was once again dragged to his waist.
Swish!
Finally, with a posture similar to an Iaido draw, the blade darted forward rapidly from his waist. After his arm was fully extended, he then smoothly slashed out a stunning circular arc!
"Ah!!"
This time, Electivire's hot-blooded strange cry completely transformed into a miserable scream...
Unfortunately, Honedge was also similarly in its recovery period at this moment; otherwise, this sword strike combined with a skill would have been sufficient to heavily injure Electivire in one blow.
Electivire, a terrifying wound slashed across its waist and abdomen, retreated repeatedly, its heart filled with lingering fear, a series of question marks popping up in its mind.
Is this damn thing human?
This is absolutely a Fighting-type Pokémon wearing human skin, right?!
And a top-tier one at that!
At this moment, Raichu, having already pulled itself out of the pit during the previous battle gap, looked at Electivire, slightly spread its hands, and made an empathetic, wry smile expression.
The meaning was probably: Big bro, you see it now, right? It's not that I'm weak; the enemy is truly just ridiculous.
Electivire nodded in deep agreement, its expression grave, both fists tightly clenched.
This human... is very damn uncanny!
However, at this moment, Arthur, standing before them, also wore a solemn expression, just like theirs.
In the first round of exchange, although he had left an indelible, deep impression on the enemy's two Pokémon right from his appearance, in terms of overall strategy, their plan had still suffered a slight setback.
Specter's strongest first wave of attacks had failed to achieve its objective; in the end, only Frogadier had managed to supplement with a kidney strike.
Although they had obtained a battle result, it was still far from enough.
Adjustments need to be made.
Thus, he immediately opened his mouth and shouted loudly, "Focus Jynx first!"
In a real team battle, prioritizing focus fire to eliminate the weakest link among the enemy is the correct solution.
Acting like in a hot-blooded youth manga, splitting up into several 1v1 solo fights, is extremely stupid; that's only done in anime for the sake of dramatic tension.
On a real battlefield, doing so is purely brain-damaged.
Currently, there were four enemies here; they had to first decide on one priority target for focus fire.
Arthur chose Jynx. Firstly, Specter (Ghost-type) had a type advantage against Psychic-types. Secondly, Slowbro was duller than Jynx, but its defense was much thicker; killing Jynx first would be more efficient.
Moreover, Arthur had a faint judgment that Specter's sneak attack failing to succeed as wished just now was most likely inextricably linked to that Jynx!
Immediately, Little Lapras, from outside the trench, shot several "Ice Shards" towards Raichu, intercepting its actions.
Arthur also quickly stepped forward. After exchanging two moves, he seized an opening from Electivire, kicked it down with one foot, and then turned his head and charged towards the two Psychic-type Pokémon over there!
Raichu also had a hot temper. With one glance, it saw that Little Lapras was still far from their strength level. It immediately let out a strange "Chuu!" cry, executed the priority skill "Quick Attack," and swiftly pounced towards Little Lapras's position!
However, upon rushing to the end, it only saw a flash of red light fly away before its very eyes in an instant.
Arthur, after starting his charge, had immediately taken out a Poké Ball and, smoothly, recalled the distant Little Lapras first.
Raichu's pounce thoroughly hit nothing but air, and it even ended up taking a flat fall on the ground, plowing a furrow several meters long in the earth.
For a moment, its face was buried in the dirt, its tail raised high behind it, its body arched forward into a lump, its eyes melancholic.
Depressed.jpg...
Electivire, watching from behind, couldn't help but want to cover its face.
Clearly, it itself was large and brawny, covered in bulging muscles, but for some unknown reason, whenever it partnered up with Raichu, it inexplicably became the brains of the duo...
Heart tired...
However, on the other side, Jynx's battle intelligence was clearly much stronger than Raichu's.
Even before Arthur had yelled out that new command, she had already sensed that she would become the next target of focus fire.
The ability Forewarn had once again achieved great merit!
Thus, the moment her recovery period ended, before Specter could get close, she took the first step and used her skill: "Sweet Kiss."
The Fairy-type skill "Sweet Kiss": Kissing the opponent like an angel, using contact to create illusions, capable of making the enemy fall into a brief state of confusion.
This move should originally be a rather alluring skill, and the illusions created by the skill are often accompanied by various pink, romantic fantasies.
However, when executed by Jynx's pair of abnormally thick lips, comparable to sausages, matched with her facial features configuration which was rather bizarre by human aesthetic standards, it inexplicably always managed to make people conceive an evil chill...
This angel... is a bit scary...
But the skill's effect was solid and real.
Confusion, this negative status effect, its impact on a real battlefield is far greater than in certain parallel world games.
Specter, helpless, could only retreat first.
Fortunately, as a balancing price, the real-world "Sweet Kiss" must make contact to take effect; dodging it can avoid confusion.
But immediately following, Slowbro took another sideways step, arriving in front of Jynx, opened its mouth, and let out a big, wide yawn towards everyone.
"Don't look at him!"
Arthur immediately shouted loudly.
Unfortunately, he was still a step too slow.
This was the Normal-type skill "Yawn." By yawning, it plants a mental suggestion in the enemy, which then erupts after a delay, instantly bringing an astonishing wave of drowsiness.
After Jynx had foreseen that Arthur would lock onto her as the target, their two subsequent skill uses both appeared particularly targeted.
The core was just one word: Stall!
Not seeking to harm the enemy, but only seeking to survive by any means...
For a short period, it truly disgusted Arthur and Specter to no end.
(End of Chapter)
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