An abstract trainer who taught Charmander the Incinerate move

Chapter 285 Human Trainer Tang Snake, and the Captured Ulquiorra! (Seeking Monthly Tickets)
With trembling hands, Wu Li gripped the mechanical armor around Milton's neck tightly, his pupils, shrunken with fear, darting nervously in the dim cave light.

Milton crouched low, its streamlined, futuristic body occasionally brushing against the eerie blue arcs of electricity reflected from the surrounding tourmalines. The dense electrical energy permeating the air gave it an instinctive sense of comfort.

"Rotom...Rotom, is...is everything really alright here?"

Wu Li's voice was choked with sobs, and he was almost curled up into a ball, wishing he could completely embed himself into Milton's carapace.

He cautiously surveyed his surroundings. The tourmalines embedded in the rock walls, which flickered like giant blue eyes, seemed to him like countless ghostly eyes watching him.

"Hiss—!!!"

A sharp, piercing roar suddenly erupted from the dark depths of the cave's dome!
Wu Li shuddered and nearly slipped off Millerton's back.

He looked up in terror and saw eight compound eyes burning with golden lightning suddenly light up like beacons of hell in the shadows dozens of meters above his head!
Immediately afterwards, a terrifying figure covered in black and yellow carapace—the Overlord Electric Spider—emerged like a ghost from the hanging stalactites!

It did not attack immediately, but instead looked down at the intruders below, especially the purple mechanical creation that exuded the bloodline of an ancient dragon that even it feared.

A terrifying aura, a mixture of warning and intimidation, spread like a tide, so oppressive that the air almost froze.

"Ugh...ugh!! It...it's warning us! It doesn't want us to go past!"

Wu Li's teeth chattered wildly, and an uncontrollable warm, wet sensation suddenly surged through his crotch.

"Let's go! Let's go quickly, Milton! We're no match for it! Let's go back and plan our next move! Yes, plan our next move!"

He cried out incoherently, desperately tugging at the armor around Millerton's neck, trying to turn it around.

Milton let out a confused low growl. It sensed its master's extreme fear, but also instinctively realized that the giant above had not immediately launched a fatal attack. The pride of the dragon race made it hesitate whether to flee without a fight.

"Hiss—! Useless piece of trash!"

Tang Snake, who was lurking in the shadows and had perfectly merged with the shadows using his ghost-type soul power, was so angry when he saw Wu Li's cowardly appearance that he almost spat out a mouthful of blood.

Seeing that this once-in-a-lifetime main fighter was about to be scared away, it made a choice in an instant with its amazing wisdom and ruthless decisiveness!

"Get to work!"

In the blink of an eye, the yellow spirit ring on Tang She's back flashed almost imperceptibly!
Several silver grass vines, entwined with dark blue magical patterns, sprang up silently from the crevices in the cave walls, like venomous snakes that had been lying in wait for a long time!

Two of the slender vines precisely wrapped around a huge stalactite hanging diagonally above the Overlord Electric Spider, as thick as an adult human waist, and suddenly twisted and pulled!
"Crack—boom!!!"

With a sickening cracking sound, the massive stalactite, carrying immense force, crashed down like a falling meteor towards the hideous head of the overlord electric spider below!

This sudden and insidious attack instantly shattered the fragile balance within the cave!

"Hiss! Aaaaaahh ...

The overlord electric spider was completely enraged. It had been wary of the faint, oppressive aura emanating from Millerton and had only issued a warning.

But at this moment, this blatant act of provocation undoubtedly declares the other party's irreconcilable hostility!
Puff puff puff——!!!
Countless golden, viscous spider silks sprayed wildly from its spinnerets on its abdomen, like high-pressure water jets!

These spider silk threads are not ordinary silk threads; each one is wrapped with wildly leaping lightning bolts, emitting a chilling "sizzling" sound!
The spider silk moved faster than anyone could imagine. It didn't attack in a straight line, but rather intertwined and spread wildly in the air as if it had a life of its own. In the blink of an eye, it wove a sky-covering net within the huge cave space!

This giant electric grid shimmered with blinding golden light, and destructive arcs of electricity leaped between the grids, completely enveloping Wu Li, Milton, and the space within tens of meters around them!

"No—no!!!"

Uri let out a desperate scream as he tried in vain to make Milton back off, but it was too late!
Swish!
The golden lightning net, as if it possessed a living being, instantly contracted and coiled around!
Millerton let out a roar of alarm and rage, and his limbs and tail were instantly bound tightly by countless sticky spider silks filled with lightning!
It struggled fiercely, its internal energy erupting, and dark purple arcs of electricity crackling across its body, attempting to break free from these restraints.

However, the silk of this dominant electric spider not only contains powerful electricity, but its stickiness and toughness are also far beyond ordinary!
The more Millerton struggled, the tighter the spider silk became, with more and more silk wrapping around it, gradually binding it into a giant cocoon of lightning that kept flashing with golden light!
Ulrich, who was riding on Milerton's back, fared even worse. He was almost instantly pierced through his body by a powerful electric current the moment the electric grid touched him!

"Ughh ...

He let out a series of incoherent screams, his body trembled violently like a sieve, his eyes rolled uncontrollably upwards, and saliva mixed with the urine he had previously incontinently drooled uncontrollably down his face.

He completely lost control of his body, sliding off Millerton's back like a lump of mud, only to be caught in the tough spider web and suspended in mid-air, like a moth caught in a spider web.

boom! boom! boom!
Having landed a successful blow, the domineering electric spider showed no mercy. Its massive body remained firmly attached to the dome, but one of its metal legs rose up like a baton and tapped repeatedly at Millerton, who was trapped by the electric grid below!
One after another, golden lightning pillars, thicker and more refined than those used to bombard Tang Snake, struck Millerton's body, which was encased in an electric net, like spears of judgment, carrying a violent aura of destruction.

boom! boom! boom!
The deafening explosion echoed continuously within the cave. Milton was blasted so hard that his entire body trembled violently, and the metallic scales on his body sparked with dazzling sparks from the lightning strike, even showing fine char marks.

However, Milton, as a legendary Pokémon with both Electric and Dragon types, has an almost abnormal resistance to pure Electric-type attacks!
This terrifying lightning strike, powerful enough to instantly vaporize an ordinary elf, struck it. Although it still caused it pain, it was far from breaking through its powerful primal defenses.

But its trainer, Uriel, has completely broken down.

Hanging in the spider web, feeling the terrifying lightning strikes exploding around him, Wu Li's will was completely destroyed.

The extreme fear was like ice water poured over his head, plunging him into an unprecedented state of self-doubt and denial.

What...what am I doing?

His eyes were unfocused, and images from the past flashed uncontrollably through his mind.

When he was bullied by the school's thugs, his older sister Danyu appeared like a war goddess, beating them to a pulp; when he encountered danger during a mission, his sister stood in front of him, using her terrifyingly powerful back to shield him from everything; even during the process of subduing Milton, it was his sister who...

What about yourself?
Besides hiding behind her sister, trembling and crying for help like an unweaned child, what else could she do?
I'm a piece of trash... I'm utterly useless! I can't do anything without my sister! I can't even give the most basic commands!
I'm absolutely unworthy to be a Milton Trainer! I'm no good enough! Ughhhhhh—!!!
The desperate cries from within mingled with the roar of thunder in reality, causing Wu Li's pupils to completely lose focus.

He had given up thinking, given up resisting.

Just as Wu Li's pupils were dilating, and he was curled up in the lightning spider web, about to be completely swallowed by despair—

call out! ! !
Without warning, dozens of silver lights flashing with dark blue magic patterns erupted from beneath the cave floor!
That wasn't lightning, but rather thick, silvery-white vines, as thick as giant pythons!
Like ghostly hands reaching out from the deepest abyss, or like venomous snakes that have been lying in wait for a long time finally baring their fangs, they swiftly and precisely wrapped around the eight legs of the dome overlord, the electric spider, which were like metal spears piercing into the rock wall!
"Hiss?!"

The domineering electric spider's eight compound eyes, burning with golden lightning, suddenly contracted, revealing anthropomorphic shock and anger!
It clearly hadn't expected that there would be another lurking entity in this lair shrouded in its thunderous domain!
It subconsciously exerted its strength, attempting to forcefully break the sudden restraint with the terrifying brute force of a ten-thousand-year-old soul beast!
However, to its horror, those silvery-white vines were more resilient than it could have imagined!

The flowing, dark blue magical patterns on the surface shimmered like living things, and a cold, eerie suction force burst forth from the pale blue sucker-like organs on the vines, frantically drawing in the immense lightning energy and life essence within its body!
Even more terrifying is that whenever the violent arcs of electricity leaping across its body scorch and break some of the vines, new vines immediately sprout and repair the broken parts, even becoming thicker and stronger!

Fracture and regeneration are locked in a heart-pounding tug-of-war in this dark cave!

This strange vine, with its almost shameless ability to absorb and regenerate, has firmly imprisoned its massive body on the rock wall, making it difficult to break free for the time being!

"Ugh...ugh?"

Wu Li, who had given up thinking and was hanging in the spider web like a lamb to the slaughter, was stunned by this sudden and earth-shattering reversal.

His unfocused pupils strained to focus as he watched the once-mighty, terrifying beast being entangled by countless silver snake-like vines. A surge of ecstatic joy at being saved from a desperate situation ignited his long-despairing heart like a tiny flame!

He turned his stiff neck with difficulty, his gaze following the source of the mysterious vines.

In the interplay of light and shadow at the cave entrance, a figure was slowly gliding out.

Its entire body is covered with emerald green scales, like the finest jade, and under the reflection of the surrounding tourmaline's deep blue light, it swirls with a mysterious and noble silver-white halo.

It held its head high, its posture calm and composed, like a king surveying his territory.

A pair of golden snake eyes were cold and deep, as if they contained the stars and the sea and ancient wisdom. That indifferent gaze made Wu Li feel a chill as if his soul had been seen through, yet he couldn't help but want to be immersed in it.

Wu Li opened his mouth wide, forgetting to breathe, forgetting the pain in his body, and forgetting the danger around him.

His meager vocabulary offered no words to describe his feelings at that moment. He felt an unprecedented surge of heat rush to his head, his cheeks burning uncontrollably, and his heart, after a moment of pause, began to pound wildly like a drum, pounding against his chest with a deafening "thump! thump! thump!" that nearly shattered his eardrums!

Is this... is this the being that saved me from the abyss of despair?

So...so handsome!
He never imagined that an elf could possess both such awe-inspiring power and such captivating, mysterious beauty!

Compared to his sister's oppressive and suffocating power, the mysterious elf before him exuded an ultimate charm that drew him in like an abyss, making him want to explore and follow it!
Around its verdant body, there is a faint sense of grass-like vitality, water-like moisture, and ghost-like eeriness!
Its true form is a Grass-type Pokémon, but it can also possess the power of multiple other types... That's right, it is Unova Form: Twisted Fist - Tang Snake!
When its gaze fell upon the black calf still hanging on the spider web, its tear stains still wet and its crotch soaked, a surge of boundless rage welled up within it!

This piece of trash! A spineless coward! I went to great lengths to orchestrate such a brilliant plan, only to find you utterly useless, unable even to command your purple motorcycle lizard to struggle?!

"hiss--!!!"

Tang Snake let out a sharp, furious hiss. A silver vine wrapped in dark blue magic patterns tore through the air, creating a piercing sonic boom, and lashed out at Wu Li, who was still hanging on the spider web in a daze, at a tricky and ruthless angle!
Snap!
A crisp and fierce explosion resounded in the cave!

"Ughh ...

Wu Li let out a shrill, distorted scream as the whip lashed him violently out of the golden lightning spider web!
A searing pain overwhelmed his senses like a tidal wave, making his vision go black and almost causing him to faint again.

"Ooh... Ooh ooh..."

Wu Li lay on the ground, writhing in pain. Yet, beneath this extreme physical agony, a strange and distorted sense of enlightenment and happiness became ever clearer!
This excruciating pain that cuts to the bone... this merciless lashing... this overwhelmingly powerful force...

That's it! That's it!
He had been confused, fearful, and searching for this very thing all along!
His sister's protection made him dependent, and the principal's tasks made him feel repressed. Only this mysterious and powerful being in front of him could pull him out of the quagmire of despair in the most direct way!
What he needed was this kind of ruthless control, this kind of fierce spur that cut through all his cowardice and hesitation!
The encouragement from a powerful and handsome master!
He trembled, struggling to lift his face, which was covered in dust and tears, and looked at the emerald green and ghostly figure. His eyes were filled with pain, submission and an almost morbid fanaticism and adoration!
He had finally found a master who could make this lost and pathetic creature willingly grovel on the ground and offer up all his loyalty!

"Master... please whip me hard!!!"

He turned towards Tang She, using his last bit of strength to let out a cry that was a mixture of pain and happiness.

Seeing Wu Li lying prostrate on the ground as if tamed, Tang She sneered inwardly, his extraordinary wisdom instantly activating.

This good-for-nothing is finally somewhat useful, but just taking beatings and acting crazy won't do; we need to get him moving!
With a thought, it lashed out with the whip again!
Snapped!
The soul power within the vine whip, along with the mental fluctuations of battle intent and unquestionable command, was forcibly poured into Wu Li's chaotic mind through the lashes!

Wu Li shuddered violently, and images flashed through his mind: Milton breaking free of his restraints, unleashing all his power, transforming into purple lightning and charging towards the overlord electric spider that was bound by vines...

"Ughhhh!! I understand! Master! I understand!!"

Wu Li clutched his head, which seemed about to split open, and let out a howl that was both painful and exhilarating.

The vine whip conveyed not only commands, but also guidance, a force that forcibly pulled him out of the mire of cowardice!

He suddenly realized what was happening, and his previous fear of battle and confusion about command vanished under this domineering spiritual indoctrination, leaving only the pure thought of carrying out his master's orders!
He suddenly raised his head, his previously unfocused gaze becoming unusually focused, and roared with all his might at Millerton, who was still entangled in the golden electric net and constantly being struck by lightning.

"Millardon! Stop hiding! Answer your master's expectations! Ughhhhh—reveal your complete form!!!"

Sigrún has taught at the Iceland University of the Arts as a part-time lecturer since and was Dean of the Department of Fine Art from -. In – she held a research position at Reykjavík Art Museum focusing on the role of women in Icelandic art. She studied fine art at the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts and at Pratt Institute, New York, and holds BA and MA degrees in art history and philosophy from the University of Iceland. Sigrún lives and works in Iceland.

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