Only then did the frost covering the spectators' temples and eyebrows finally disappear.
It melted into droplets of water and trickled down.
After escaping from that brutally cold environment...
everyone in the audience let out a long sigh of relief.
That had been terrifying.
It had felt as though they had been thrown directly into a freezer.
Their bodily functions had almost begun to seize up.
Even their breathing had nearly stopped.
There had been a terrifying sense of weakness...
as though death itself were approaching.
Now that they had recovered...
the spectators were no longer excited or grateful that they had been able to witness such an astonishing battle in person.
Instead...
they felt lingering fear.
If they had known the battle would be this dangerous...
if they had known the two combatants could affect such an enormous area...
they definitely wouldn't have chosen to watch it at the venue.
Watching from home on television might not have had quite the same impact...
but at least it was safe!
They wouldn't have to risk their lives like this!
On the battlefield...
with the Pokémon belonging to the Elite Four-level and Champion-level Trainers continuously releasing their power...
the surrounding environment finally stabilized.
The temperature returned to normal.
Only then could the spectators turn their attention back toward the arena.
On the battlefield...
the clash between the two sides had finally reached its most intense stage.
MetalGarurumon's missiles exploded.
A tremendous amount of white mist spread outward.
An absurdly intense freezing cold swept across the field.
In a single instant...
the entire rocky ground was covered beneath more than ten centimeters of ice.
The perfectly normal rocky battlefield...
had suddenly transformed into a frozen arena.
And the instant those freezing missiles exploded...
Articuno sensed an astonishing threat.
That feeling of danger...
came from MetalGarurumon.
No!
More precisely...
it came from the attack MetalGarurumon had just unleashed.
That sense of danger...
was something Articuno might not even feel when facing a Second-tier Legendary stronger than itself.
Normally...
only when confronting a truly powerful First-tier Legendary...
one that had mastered its own Authority...
would Articuno experience this kind of instinctive terror.
Articuno understood perfectly well...
that the opponent before it had obviously not reached the level of a First-tier Legendary capable of wielding such Authority.
The reason this attack could make it feel this way...
was entirely because the technique itself was simply too terrifying.
Its power was completely comparable...
to an attack from a First-tier Legendary!
There was a very real possibility...
that the attack contained a faint trace of the Power of Authority.
This is bad!
Almost the instant Articuno realized the danger...
it prepared to retreat.
Under normal circumstances...
it was extremely rare for a Pokémon to simply flee in the middle of a Trainer battle.
But this situation was different.
Articuno had been forcibly captured in the first place.
There had never been any genuine bond between Pokémon and Trainer.
Now that the battle was threatening its life...
why wouldn't it run?
Only an idiot would stand there and willingly take an attack like this.
That was certainly not something an intelligent Third-tier Legendary like Articuno would do.
On the other side...
Belotti, standing below, immediately noticed Articuno's intentions.
The instant he realized that Articuno was about to flee...
he exploded with rage.
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