Raikou quickly finished absorbing the surrounding energy.
His coloration seemed to brighten slightly.
Blue electrical currents could clearly be seen flowing across the surface of his body.
At this moment...
Raikou had pushed himself to his absolute peak.
The energy within him seemed almost ready to explode.
He was eager to unleash it.
His eyes were filled with ferocity—
A pure desire for battle.
The next second...
The astonishing energy inside Raikou began to move under his control.
After a brief moment of accumulation...
A dark-purple blast of lightning shot toward Angewomon.
Zap Cannon?
He even knew this move?
Zap Cannon was one of the most powerful Electric-type attacks, possessing tremendous destructive force and threat potential.
And this attack was being unleashed by a Legendary Pokémon like Raikou.
More importantly, it had been further strengthened after Raikou used Charge.
Its power was undoubtedly astonishing.
If an ordinary Third-tier Legendary faced an attack like this head-on, unless it possessed a natural resistance to Electric-type attacks, there was a very high chance that it would be taken down in a single blow.
However...
Faced with such an offensive, Shiko remained remarkably calm.
Because he knew very well...
An attack of this level was still far from enough to overwhelm Angewomon.
At most, it could pose a genuine threat to her.
On the other side...
When Belotti saw Raikou unleash his decisive attack, a trace of joy finally appeared on her face.
But it quickly disappeared.
Her expression became solemn again.
Because she had noticed something.
Neither Shiko nor Angewomon showed the slightest emotional reaction toward this attack.
In other words...
The attack that looked overwhelmingly dangerous in Belotti's eyes wasn't even being taken seriously by her opponent.
Sure enough...
The next second, Angewomon moved.
She calmly raised one hand and lightly pinched her thumb and index finger together.
A tiny white bubble floated out.
Then...
The bubble gradually expanded.
Eventually, it stopped directly in front of Angewomon, resembling a perfectly spherical defensive shield.
Then something happened that stunned everyone.
The incoming Zap Cannon wasn't blocked.
Instead...
The moment it entered the bubble, the attack itself began to break apart.
It was completely decomposed.
The devastating electrical attack transformed into countless tiny particles of Electric-type energy, all of them trapped inside the bubble.
The unbelievable technique left Raikou completely stunned.
He had anticipated that his opponent might be capable of blocking his attack.
But he had never imagined she would do it like this.
Such a method completely exceeded everything he understood.
For a moment, his mind practically stopped functioning.
And he wasn't the only one.
The spectators inside the stadium...
Along with more than a million viewers watching the live broadcast through various channels...
Were equally stunned.
As far as they knew, among all Pokémon currently known to exist, practically none possessed a technique like this.
This wasn't merely a matter of releasing an enormous amount of elemental energy.
Nor was it some more elaborate variation of energy manipulation.
This was something on an entirely different level.
She had directly decomposed an entire attack into its most fundamental energy particles.
No one had ever witnessed anything like it before.
It completely surpassed their understanding.
Their entire view of what was possible in battle had been shaken.
Clearly...
This angel-like creature wasn't merely extraordinarily beautiful.
Her combat abilities were also unfathomably deep.
After being stunned for a moment, Raikou quickly recovered.
He didn't allow his opponent's astonishing technique to disrupt him.
Instead, he became even calmer, while his desire to fight grew stronger.
Raikou raised his head.
"ROAR!"
A tremendous roar erupted from his throat.
An unusual invisible fluctuation spread outward.
The next instant...
The sky abruptly darkened.
The surroundings became dim.
Heavy clouds churned overhead.
Thick bolts of lightning flashed repeatedly within the cloud layer, briefly illuminating the entire stadium.
Then—
Splash!
Countless raindrops began falling from the sky.
In the blink of an eye, they turned into a torrential downpour.
Rain Dance had taken effect almost immediately.
Within only a few breaths, the weather had completely changed.
Shiko raised his head.
Raindrops struck his broad chest.
Then he lowered his gaze toward Raikou again.
He immediately understood what Raikou intended to do.
A powerful Electric-type move that benefited enormously from rainy weather...
There was only one obvious choice.
Thunder!
Sure enough!
The next second, a small spark of electricity shot from Raikou's body.
Rumble!
Thunder continued roaring overhead.
The sound was even more intense than before.
Then, without warning...
An astonishing bolt of lightning descended from the clouds.
It fell straight toward Angewomon.
The attack was frighteningly fast.
Even faster than the Zap Cannon from moments earlier.
More importantly, its trajectory was extremely difficult to judge.
There was no time to avoid it by using a defensive move such as Protect either.
The attack simply arrived too quickly.
By the time someone reacted and attempted to defend themselves...
The lightning would already have struck.
And under rainy weather, Thunder was essentially unavoidable.
A relieved expression appeared on Raikou's face.
He still didn't understand exactly what kind of creature this angel-like opponent was.
But there was one thing he believed he could determine.
Those six white wings behind her...
Surely they meant she possessed Flying-type characteristics.
If so...
An Electric-type attack landing directly on her should be super effective.
And if a powerful move unleashed by a Second-tier Legendary like himself struck cleanly...
Instantly defeating his opponent shouldn't be particularly difficult.
Expectations were always beautiful.
Reality, however, had a habit of teaching harsh lessons.
Raikou's pupils suddenly contracted.
The relieved expression on his face froze.
There was only one reason.
Once again...
He was witnessing something he couldn't believe or understand.
Originally, whether it was Raikou, Belotti, or the millions of spectators watching the battle...
Everyone believed Angewomon only had three possible responses to an attack like this.
The first was to move quickly and escape the attack's range.
The second was to create some kind of shield and block the damage.
The third...
If neither of those was possible, she would simply have to endure the attack head-on.
Those were the solutions everyone could imagine.
Surely, when faced with an attack resembling a natural disaster, she couldn't possibly do what she had done moments earlier and directly break it down into energy particles again...
Right?
Well...
They were partly correct.
But not entirely.
The next second...
Under countless watching eyes, Angewomon once again displayed an ability far beyond everyone's understanding.
She didn't dodge.
Nor did she create a shield to defend herself.
Just when everyone thought she intended to endure the attack directly...
Angewomon suddenly moved.
She gently raised one slender white hand.
The massive bolt of lightning began to compress.
It visibly condensed at an astonishing speed.
Within a single breath...
The enormous stream of lightning had been compressed into something resembling a thin cord.
And it still didn't stop.
The compression continued.
After another breath...
It had become no thicker than her little finger.
Only then did the process finally stop.
Angewomon slowly held the condensed stream of lightning in her hand.
Golden light blazed brilliantly from it.
She had actually seized control of the lightning itself!
Countless people stared with their mouths hanging open.
But it still wasn't over.
Angewomon slowly raised her other hand.
A longbow gradually materialized within it.
The bow became increasingly solid until it fully took shape.
Then...
Angewomon drew the bowstring.
She used the condensed bolt of lightning as an arrow.
Drawing the bow and nocking the lightning arrow happened in one smooth motion.
She aimed directly at Raikou below.
Whoosh!
The arrow shot forward.
A piercing sonic boom exploded through the air.
The lightning screamed across the battlefield.
In an instant, it struck Raikou.
Crackle!
The terrifying energy erupted all at once.
BOOM!
A deafening explosion shook the entire battlefield like a mountainside collapsing.
Then...
Raikou's body was launched high into the air.
A moment later, he crashed heavily back onto the ground.
"What the hell?!"
The entire stadium instantly fell silent.
Everyone was left completely dumbfounded by what had happened in that brief instant.
The technique Angewomon had just displayed could only be described as extraordinary.
She had actually taken Raikou's own devastating attack...
Seized control of it...
And used it to launch an even sharper counterattack against him!
It completely exceeded everyone's imagination and understanding.
It was simply absurd.
If they hadn't personally witnessed it today...
Even if someone described the scene to them afterward, they probably wouldn't have been able to properly picture it in their minds.
This angel-like creature was simply beyond reason.
She was practically an existence from another dimension.
Her way of fighting had completely surpassed everything they understood.
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