kingnovel Chapter 463 The Value of the Bug-Type Champion
Chapter 463 The Value of the Bug-Type Champion
Smoke and ice crystals churned on the mudflats, turning the first line of defense into a living hell.
Waves of Ice-type Pokémon crashed against the human camp, each charge accompanied by biting cold and the screams of death.
On the mudflats, the wounded lay sprawled about, their Pokémon—Arcanine, Nidoking, and Gyarados—pierced by ice spikes and frozen into desolate ice sculptures.
The severely wounded trainer huddled behind the shattered rock fortress, the frozen blood from his severed limbs falling in the cold wind, and the blood seeping from his frozen wounds spreading an eerie purple on the snow.
Ou Yuhua wiped the ice shards from the corner of Swamp King's mouth, looked up at the approaching second wave of ice-type waves on the horizon, and clenched his fists until they turned white from excessive force.
“It’s tough… I don’t know if there will be any new support…” Zhai Li’s hoarse voice was torn apart by the storm. He looked at the moving ice peak in the distance, which resembled a giant ice and snow city—the Ice-type Pokémon army standing on the peak was just like the Grim Reaper waiting to reap lives.
"Hold on! Hold on a little longer!"
Lin Tao's powerful crocodiles roared and caused a rockfall, but the next second, three Duoduo ice crocodiles slid along the ground, their bodies suddenly glowing with white light—
"boom!!"
The shockwave from the explosion completely shattered the last defensive fortifications, leaving a mixture of rubble and ice shards.
Despair spread like a plague.
Just as everyone ahead was preparing for a final, desperate battle, and the ice wave was about to engulf the last line of defense—
A metallic hum suddenly came from the sky, tearing through the air, like the low growl of some ancient behemoth.
"Om-!!"
A piercing mechanical buzz tore through the wind and snow, followed by an overwhelming "fluttering of insect wings!"
Everyone looked up abruptly!
Deep within the clouds, a streak of purple light pierced through the frigid storm! Tang Guanjun knelt on a rapidly spinning purple disc, the rhomboid exoskeleton of Genesect gleaming with a cold metallic luster.
The moment that figure broke through the clouds, the temperature of the entire battlefield seemed to freeze—thousands of Dodo Ice and Geometric Snowflakes in the enemy ranks suddenly stopped their agitation, trembling and curling up like ants intimidated by an invisible pressure.
"Huahai Champions, join the battle! You worthless scoundrels! Bow down before me!"
His voice wasn't loud, but it made every desperate trainer's pupils shrink—
"They're the champions! They're the Huahai champions!" Someone shouted, and the previously silent defense line erupted into a faint cheer.
"Champion Tang! He's here to help us!"
"That's the Chinese champion who won with a Bug-type Pokémon!"
The league players on the first line of defense were all deeply moved by this shocking scene. After all, they had a champion by their side, facing a formidable enemy together. Instantly, they found their backbone again and were no longer afraid of the difficulties ahead.
In the Pokémon world, Tang Champion is one of the very few top figures who have reached the top of the championship through programming.
Because Bug-type is "the most underestimated type".
Caterpie, Wurmple, Squeakyr... these fragile creatures often become mere stepping stones for novice trainers.
Even a powerful creature like Heracross is abandoned by most people due to its fatal flaw of being "four times weak to flying"; while Genesect, although an artificial divine beast, is also burdened with the shackle of being "four times weak to fire".
But this man managed to reach the top of the Chinese championship using Bug-type Pokémon!
"Genesect, lock onto the Ice Peak Core!" Tang Guanjun's voice carried an undeniable aura, "Use [High-Tech Beam Cannon - Steel]!"
Before the battle, Champion Tang had already converted Genesect's Gadgets to Steel type, making thorough preparations in advance.
Genesect is known as the World Destroyer. Although it is man-made and cannot form a divine beast domain, its divine beast power is by no means weak.
Genesect quickly changed form, transforming from a disc into a human shape, and the champion jumped off it just as quickly.
With a "thud," as the white light slid past, Tang Champion's other signature Pokémon, the Totem Butterfree, appeared in the air, flapping its huge butterfly wings and steadily catching Tang Champion's body.
Genesect's transformation was complete, and its legendary aura swept across the entire arena, causing many Ice-type Pokémon in front to show fear, hesitation, and reluctance to move forward.
The back armor suddenly rose, revealing its iconic massive steel cannon. Three silver energy cores began to spin at high speed, and the steel beams that converged pierced the sky like an ancient divine sword.
"Woo~" the nymph-lipped woman let out a woof.
At the summit of the ice peak, the Lady with the Mist-Lip, who commanded the ice-type legion, suddenly contracted her pupils. She frantically waved her arms, and a vast ice-type power erupted from the glacier.
Command geometric snowflakes to form an ice crystal shield, and unleash double the amount of ice to spray out extremely cold rays.
Countless ice-based skills intertwined to form a magnificent ice curtain, but it shattered inch by inch the moment it came into contact with the beam of light.
"boom--!!"
The steel-like light, like a giant hammer, pierced directly through the main peak of the ice mountain.
A 100-meter-diameter ice cave exploded in the mountain, and cracks spread like a spider web across the entire ice peak.
When the first giant ice rock fell, the entire world trembled.
The roar of collapsing ice peaks mingled with the screams of Dodo Ice, burying countless Ice-type Pokémon beneath the avalanche.
Both sides' defensive lines have been completely destroyed, with over 80% of the mudflats on the human side being damaged.
Meanwhile, the opponent's massive ice field, formed by several icebergs, had its most majestic main peak destroyed by Genesect's unique skill.
However, Tang Guanjun changed his usual smooth and diplomatic demeanor when dealing with international situations. This time, he became particularly irritable and exuded an unquestionable aura of authority.
Champion Tang Jingchuan threw out a Poké Ball.
"Bang!" A flash of white light streaked across the sky.
Before everyone could even get a clear look at the Pokémon, Tang Guanjun shouted loudly.
"Come on! Show them what close-quarters combat is all about! Mega Evolution!"
Within the light was a creature resembling a giant rhinoceros beetle, its entire body covered in skin as hard as iron.
It has a thick horn on its forehead, with an antenna on each side. Its entire body is covered in a dark blue carapace, and a pair of wings cover its back.
It was Heracross, the absolute core that Tang Guanjun had nurtured since childhood, who was known as the "Insect God".
He then raised his hand and revealed the keystone. The brown-armored giant insect roared to the sky, its carapace gleaming with dark gold patterns in the rainbow light, and its giant horns grew three times larger!
The light from the Evolution Keystone and Heracross's Mega Evolution Stone complemented each other, their lights intertwining to form a giant white eggshell suspended in the center of the battlefield.
"Crack!" The huge eggshell, radiating milky white light, shattered, revealing Mega Heracross, a top-tier Bug-type physical attacker with base stats on par with legendary Pokémon and an Attack stat of 185.
"Explosive Horn Strike!!"
Mega Heracross transformed into a golden meteorite and crashed into the enemy ranks. Wherever his giant horn swept, the ice walls of the Dianthus shattered like paper!
A snow fairy tried to stop it with freezing winds, but was directly crushed by the insect energy stirred up by the insect god's flapping wings!
Mega Heracross is suited for close-quarters combat, while Genesect is a top-tier Bug-type special attacker.
One close, one far – a perfect match!
Genesect hovers high in the air, its artillery fire precisely targeting and eliminating self-destructing units; Mega Heracross charges forward on the ground, tearing open a breach with sheer brute force.
Bug-type is weak? Type disadvantage?
In the face of absolute power, everything is illusory!
"Boom~"
The sky suddenly darkened like night, and amidst the rolling dark clouds, a pair of icy blue vertical pupils slowly opened.
Kyurem's roar made everyone's eardrums ache, the entire sea surface began to freeze rapidly, and even the air shimmered with the blue light of ice crystals.
However, Tang Guanjun seemed oblivious to the enraged Level 1 God, continuing to boost the morale of the combatants on the scene.
"See that?" Tang Guanjun leaped onto the collapsed ice peak debris, the cold wind making his winter coat flutter loudly.
"So-called desperate situations are nothing more than stepping stones for the strong!" He stood side by side with Genesect.
Pointing to the terrifying figure deep within the dark clouds, he declared, "When have Chinese Pokémon trainers ever bowed to natural disasters?! Today, we will tell these invaders—if they dare to cross our territory, even if they are gods, we will never back down!"
"Never back down!!"
A deafening roar echoed through the sky, and the Pokémon that were on the verge of death rose again, while the injured trainers helped each other lift up their Poké Balls.
The Genesect floated beside the champion, its metallic shell reflecting light like a battle flag illuminating a desperate situation.
The clarion call for a new round of battle resounded amidst the roar of Kyurem and the furious cries of the Chinese legion.