Read Novel Full Chapter 922: Chapter 1139: Just Kidding
Chapter 922: Chapter 1139: Just Kidding
Julian's trick of threatening the entire clan of the Bisharp leader was meant to force it to fight with everything it had.
But in a sense, it also caused the Bisharp leader to lose its usual calmness.
After all, when the lives of its entire clan were in someone else's hands, even the calmest being would inevitably feel anxious.
And once anxiety set in, mistakes were bound to appear.
When its Guillotine failed to hit Julian's Bisharp, the leader's best choice would have been to immediately retreat from its current position.
Because most likely, after dodging the attack, Julian's Bisharp would counterattack right away.
And in fact, that was exactly what it did.
After dodging the opponent's Guillotine, it gathered its energy in both hands, forming a white sphere about the size of a rugby ball, wrapped in strands of powerful, swirling air currents.
With a sharp whoosh, it hurled the Aura Sphere forward. But the Bisharp leader didn't immediately choose to dodge.
Given its speed and the distance between them, the chance of successfully evading the attack was almost one hundred percent.
However, because its entire clan was in Julian's hands, its judgment faltered.
Instead of dodging, it met the attack head-on with a Metal Claw.
BOOM!!
The Metal Claw collided violently with the Aura Sphere.
The moment the two attack made contact, the Aura Sphere exploded instantly, and the immense force blasted the Bisharp leader flying backward.
"How did it suddenly get so impatient?"
Julian muttered to himself. He could clearly see that the Bisharp leader had made a mistake because of its inner anxiety.
Metagross: 'If your entire family was in someone else's hands, wouldn't you be anxious too?'
Julian: 'Fair point.'
The explosion sent the Bisharp leader flying through the air. And naturally, Julian's Bisharp wouldn't miss such a rare opportunity.
It knew very well that its current strength came from temporary enhancements. Once the effects wore off, it would be the one who lost.
Fury Cutter!
Quickly catching up to the Bisharp leader in midair, Julian's Bisharp turned its entire body into a deadly weapon, striking repeatedly.
Its body structure resembled Kartana, yet its combat style was closer to Lucario's.
One could say its body combined Kartana's sharpness with Lucario's powerful close-combat strikes.
In fact, Bisharp often sought guidance from Kartana and Lucario, and the two seniors never hesitated to teach it.
So the current Bisharp combined the strengths of both of them—though it was still far from fully mastering them.
But even so, most opponents found it difficult to handle, and the Bisharp leader in front of it fell into that category.
Faced with the heavy strikes and sharp blades of Julian's Bisharp, it was pushed back step by step.
Anyone who had played Pokémon Glory knew that once a fight became a snowballing advantage, even if you went AFK, the chances of winning were still high.
You could casually play and still rack up kills.
Sometimes you even started wondering if the opponent was a bot and the match was a free win.
In Pokémon battles, there was a concept similar to this kind of advantage: battle tempo.
During a one-on-one fight, once a Pokémon fell into the opponent's tempo, it would be extremely difficult to recover.
Unless the opponent made a mistake or you found a way to break the rhythm, the Pokémon stuck in the opponent's tempo would most likely lose.
Right now, Julian's Bisharp had seized one mistake from its opponent and established its own tempo, dragging the enemy completely into it.
Faced with Bisharp's close-range combo, the Bisharp leader couldn't even defend properly, let alone counterattack.
Shielding its face with both arms, it endured the relentless barrage of Bullet Punches. The Bisharp leader felt as though its arms were about to break.
Each Bullet Punch slammed heavily into its arms. The sheer force behind them so immense it was almost unbelievable.
Bullet Punch, as its name implied, was supposed to be a speed-focused move, normally weaker than something like a Mega Punch.
Yet the strength behind this Bisharp's Bullet Punches felt even greater than a Mega Punch to the Bisharp leader.
It was almost like a Mega Punch disguised as Bullet Punch.
All of Julian's Pokémon shared a common trait: their physical strength was overwhelmingly greater than that of the vast majority of other Pokémon.
Because in battle, close combat was something almost every Pokémon—regardless of type—would inevitably face.
So how could one increase the power of their close-range attacks?
It basically came down to focusing on three aspects: strength, speed, and accuracy.
But for Pokémon that weren't Fighting-type or whose body structures weren't suited for close combat, improving all three was quite difficult.
So instead of improving them all, it was better to just focus on one of these aspects.
For Julian, a firm believer in raw power, the aspect he focused on was strength.
So even Pokémon not typically suited for close combat—like Gengar, Arcanine, or Moltres—possessed astonishing physical strength.
Let alone Pokémon that were suited for close combat; for them, Julian didn't only focus on strength—speed and accuracy were also trained together.
With a final Bullet Punch landing, the Bisharp leader's body was sent flying even further. It crashed through countless trees and rocks before finally coming to a stop.
Both of its arms were broken, and its left leg was bent at an unnatural angle—clearly broken too.
Yet even with such injuries, it still tried to crawl up from the ground.
'If you lose, I will kill all your clan members.'
Julian's words kept echoing in its ears. It couldn't afford to lose; it must not lose.
Seeing the Bisharp leader crawling on the ground with a broken leg, blood staining the earth behind it, Julian quickly said:
"Hey, I was joking earlier! I just didn't want you holding back against my Bisharp."
"Don't worry—even if you lose, your clan will be fine. I was only joking!"
As he spoke, Julian immediately had Metagross release its psychic restraint on the Bisharp and Pawniard.
Once they could move again, they all glared angrily at Julian.
But none of them dared to do anything—after all, Metagross was still standing beside him.
Seeing that Julian had truly released his clan, the Bisharp leader felt no gratitude, only a burning desire to slice Julian in half.
'Who jokes like that?'
"Here," Julian tossed a Recovery Potion to the Bisharp leader.
This guy was beaten so badly; even with a Pokémon's robust healing abilities, once these injuries healed, there would likely be lingering effects, internal damage.
The Bisharp leader eyed the Recovery Potion on the ground suspiciously. It wondered if this villain was trying to poison it.
"It's not poison. Take it or leave it."
Sensing the Bisharp's suspicion, Julian couldn't help but roll his eyes.
Meanwhile, his own Bisharp had reached the five-minute limit, and the side effects of the Dark Seed immediately kicked in.
The Bisharp, which had just been standing victorious, suddenly felt its legs give way and collapsed to its knees, unable to get up no matter how hard it tried.
This left the Bisharp leader puzzled.
It hadn't even been able to do anything to it just now, so how did it suddenly collapse?
Had it unknowingly mastered some kind of invisible attack?
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