"I've finally run into you. I've been waiting for this battle for a very long ti."
Naira Cross looked at Ethan with a hint of excitent. A Poké Ball appeared in her hand, eager to enter battle.
Ethan rubbed his nose sowhat awkwardly. Without a doubt, Naira was the opponent he least wanted to face.
But since they had already t, there was no choice but to fight!
At the sa ti, the attack order of the battle was also decided by a draw on the giant screen, and the first turn went to Ethan.
"I attack first...?"
Ethan pondered for a mont.
For now, the only information he had about Naira seed to be that Ninetales.
Unlike him, who had chosen to send out Charizard during the main stage, Naira, both in the preliminaries and in the main stage, had always sent out only Ninetales.
"A 550-point Fire-type attack..."
Closing his eyes slightly, Ethan made his decision.
The Poké Ball opened, and Litwick's figure appeared on the battlefield.
"It's that Litwick that got 526 points!"
The mont Litwick appeared, exclamations imdiately rang out among the audience.
After its performance in the first round of the preliminaries, no one dared to underestimate that Litwick anymore.
It was hard to imagine that a Litwick could even step onto the stage of the Cross Cup; this was undoubtedly unprecedented!
"Litwick?"
Even the guests in the VIP area, including Champion Leo Cross, showed expressions of surprise.
It was obvious that this was also the first ti they had seen soone send out a Litwick in an official match.
But... how was a Pokémon like Litwick supposed to fight?
"He really sent out Litwick..."
Naira was also sowhat surprised. After thinking for a mont, she opened the Poké Ball in her hand.
Imdiately, a Pokémon appeared on the field with its entire body covered in light beige fur, a pair of deep crimson pupils, and nine tails—a fox-like Pokémon.
Facing the Litwick that had scored 526 points in the preliminaries, she directly sent out her 550-point Ninetales. It was a head-on confrontation, with no concessions!
"Just as I expected, she sent out Ninetales!"
A "just as I thought" expression appeared on Ethan's face.
In fact, he had already partly guessed why Naira was so interested in him. And precisely because he realized that, he decided to send out Litwick first.
"Then, the first attack is mine!"
"Litwick, hide in the air!"
As his voice fell, Litwick's figure suddenly vanished.
"Ninetales, Fire Spin!"
Clearly prepared, Naira imdiately gave the order.
Fuuuum!
In an instant, Ninetales spewed blazing flas from its mouth.
While using the Fire Spin move, it also controlled the flas to spread in all directions.
When the fire had covered more than half of the field, Litwick's figure reappeared. Flas flowed over its body, and thanks to the Flash Fire ability, it began absorbing the surrounding fire.
"Psychic!"
Naira's eyes lit up.
Imdiately, a blue glimr flashed in Ninetales's eyes.
An invisible psychic force was released and, in the blink of an eye, controlled the Litwick suspended in midair.
Bang!
Just as Ninetales thought it had caught it, Litwick's figure suddenly exploded, turning into a ball of fire and disappearing.
"It's a substitute, Ninetales—be careful!"
Seeing this, Naira's expression changed slightly.
Just as she finished speaking, another ball of fire abruptly appeared behind Ninetales.
Ninetales reacted with great sharpness, detecting Litwick the instant it appeared.
Its nine tails were covered in a tallic sheen and lashed fiercely toward Litwick.
Boom!
Amid the explosion, that Litwick's figure was imdiately destroyed.
Without a doubt—another substitute!
"What is this Ethan trying to do?"
"Creating substitutes consus stamina, doesn't it?"
Not only the audience; even the guests didn't understand what Ethan was trying to do.
As a result, the VIP area fell into a rare silence; they didn't even know how to comnt on the situation!
"Littwwiikk!"
At that mont, another Litwick figure appeared behind Ninetales.
Following the montum, Ninetales once again used the Iron Tail move and lashed toward Litwick.
Just as Ninetales was distracted attacking the Litwick behind it, another Litwick figure suddenly appeared in front of it.
Then, before everyone's astonished gaze, that Litwick abruptly transford into a mass of purple flas and charged straight at Ninetales.
Boom!
In an instant, Ninetales's body was engulfed in intense purple flas.
However, Ninetales also possessed the Flash Fire ability. Wrapped in the flas, it seed not to fear them at all and began absorbing Litwick's purple flas.
But after absorbing part of those flas, the purple fire on Ninetales's body began to churn violently. Next, the purple fire could be seen continuously burning from its body, making Ninetales's appearance grow increasingly strange and demonic.
After that, another Litwick appeared. As soon as it erged, its body was also covered in intense flas, and it imdiately rged with the purple flas burning on Ninetales, making them even more ferocious.
Imdiately afterward, a third Litwick appeared, which, after erging, also quickly integrated into the purple flas on Ninetales's body.
Then, Litwick's figure could be seen flying within the purple flas, with fire rippling around it, and it began continuously absorbing the purple flas from Ninetales's body!
Boom!
Seeing this, Ninetales's eyes shone with blue light, and using the Psychic move once again, Litwick's body exploded within the flas, fusing all its energy into the fire and causing the purple flas to burn with even greater intensity.
"What is he doing?"
"Doesn't he know that Ninetales has the Flash Fire ability and doesn't fear fire?"
Seeing this scene, the spectators showed expressions of confusion. Was Ethan simply increasing the power of Ninetales's Fire-type moves?
"It's the Flash Fire ability."
"Litwick is using its own Flash Fire ability to increase the power of the flas!"
President Morgan of the Pokémon Researchers' Guild, upon seeing this scene, narrowed his eyes. He suddenly understood what Ethan was trying to do.
Just as he had surmised, Litwick began appearing one after another on the field, erging from the void and all charging into the flas burning on the stage. This caused the already extrely concentrated Fire-type energy to be compressed even further, making the flas surge toward the sky!
It was clear that Ethan planned to use Litwick's Flash Fire ability to increase the power of the flas around Ninetales's body, thereby forcing the fire energy to condense to an extre limit.
Then the question arises: does the Flash Fire ability really have a limit?
Here, the president of the Pokémon Researchers' Guild of Solaris City could say it with absolute certainty.
Yes, it does!
Although Pokémon with the Flash Fire ability can ignore damage from Fire-type moves and strengthen their own Fire-type moves by absorbing flas, during the process of absorbing and transforming fire through this ability, the Pokémon itself consus an enormous amount of stamina. If the energy expenditure is excessive, the Pokémon will lose the ability to continue absorbing fire.
Moreover, the amount of fire that a Pokémon's body can contain also has a limit. If its body reaches that limit, it will not only be directly attacked by the flas, but may even suffer a backlash from the internal fire, taking severe damage.
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