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Chapter 75: Lizard King's Determination, Shooting Himself in the Foot? (8k)

To be honest, the scene in front of her really scared Shirona.

Although it was only for a moment, she couldn't calm down when she saw the red light surging above the bear's body and the message "Physical Attack Increased to 18,000 Points".
The reason is simple. According to her understanding of this skill, this skill, like many previous skills, is actually not used by anyone in the real world.

Although "Belly Drum" can indeed greatly enhance the physical attack ability of Pokémon, the damage it will cause to Pokémon is also quite huge.

Many trainers who have just mastered this skill and tried to let Pokémon use it understood for the first time what a "suicide attack" or pure "suicide" means.

——After using the skill "Belly Drum", those Pokémon immediately lost their combat capabilities...
Some Pokémon that have undergone several training sessions and have become somewhat proficient in "Belly Drum" will not lose their combat capability once they use it, but they will still suffer great damage!

This wasn't the most crucial point. Logically speaking, exchanging a large amount of physical strength for ultimate enhancement was a good deal in itself, allowing for incredible brilliance to emerge in desperate situations.

But the problem is that "Belly Drum" is essentially still an enhancement skill. Like high-level enhancement skills such as "Sword Dance" or "Trickery", it requires a lot of time to prepare and use.

Although the enhancement effect is far superior to the two corresponding skills, its preparation time and pre-swing time have not changed at all and may even be increased, making it easy to be interrupted.

If "Sword Dance" and "Trick" are interrupted by the opponent, the most you will suffer is a loss of time and a certain amount of damage.

But if the use of "Belly Drum" is interrupted, it will be a huge loss - not only will the Pokémon not get the strengthening effect, but it will also automatically lose a large amount of physical strength, which will not be returned!
So after the Pokémon trainer world discovered this move, many people tried it for a while, but soon gave up on it. This is also recognized by all trainers in the world as one of the most useless and trashy skills.

Sirona actually thought so too. In her eyes, this skill was not as good as "Big Bang". After all, although "Big Bang" would directly make the Pokémon lose its combat ability, it could at least pose a fatal threat to the opponent.

So why is Belly Drum so powerful in the game right now? It seems like it can instantly max out a Pokémon's physical attack with just one use, and at the cost of only losing half its stamina!

This situation made Shirona calm down and think for a while.

This is how this skill is presented in the game, which may mean that it really has such potential, but because trainers in the real world have given up on developing this skill, they have not been able to glimpse the true limit behind this skill.

The more she thought about it, the more her heart began to surge. It seemed that she would have to reconsider and even explore this skill in the future.

But then again, although the "Belly Drum" skill of the Straight Bear directly increases its physical attack to an astonishing level, it still has the disadvantage of all enhanced skills, that is, this skill also takes up one of its precious turns, making it unable to launch an attack.

Belly Drum reduced its stamina by half, which meant that Rotom only needed to take away the remaining 1/2 of its stamina this round.

But her intuition told her that things might not be that simple. The NPCs in this game would never make such a meaningless move.
Sure enough, the next moment, as the blood volume of the Straight Bear dropped rapidly, a dazzling green light with the breath of life suddenly lit up on its body and merged into its body!

It turned out to be an orange-yellow fruit shaped like a shower head!
A line of prompts suddenly lit up at this moment:

[The Wuhua Fruit carried by Zhichongxiong has taken effect! ]

【Its physical strength has been restored! 】

Looking at the blood bar of the Straight Bear that was quickly recovering, Shirona frowned.

That's not right. According to my memory, the fruit in this game that can restore physical strength will only take effect when the Pokémon's health drops below 1/3!
But why did the effect of the Wuhua Fruit be triggered and the bear's health be restored when half of its health was lost?
Just when she was puzzled, she suddenly noticed out of the corner of her eye that a line of prompts had popped up in the lower right corner of the screen for quite a while.

[Straight Bear's "Glutton" characteristic has been triggered! ]

“Glutton” characteristics?
Shirona was stunned for a moment, then she placed the mouse on the red feature font, and the detailed information of this feature appeared before her eyes:
[Glutton Ability: When a Pokémon with this Ability carries a berry that is triggered by losing health, the original triggering condition will be relaxed to 1/2!]

At this moment, Sirona couldn't help but blink.

There are... features like this?
So how does this feature manifest itself in reality? Does it speed up the consumption of fruits?

But in the game, it is obvious that the coordination between this feature and "belly drum" is extremely exquisite.

The effect of "Belly Drum" reducing half of the Pokémon's physical strength can just allow the Pokémon to trigger the "Glutton" characteristic, using tree fruits to restore health in advance, thus offsetting the danger of "Belly Drum" lowering the blood line to a certain extent.

Shirona's gaze fell on the bear, who still had 2/3 of his strength left and whose whole body was flashing with a terrifying red light. She sighed slightly.

In terms of the speed of the dragon, the only Pokémon in his entire team that has the possibility of surpassing it is the Lotte Kappa with the "Easy Swimming" characteristic.

But the problem now is that if you want Lotte Kappa to get the bonus of the "leisurely and free" characteristic, you must first send out the Toucan to create rainy days.

Shirona didn't think that the Toucan could withstand any attack from the Straight Bear, whose physical attack level had been enhanced to the maximum level.

From this perspective, you're losing money no matter how you calculate it.

While Shirona was thinking, Rotom on the field felt the powerful aura coming from the bear, turned around tremblingly and looked at Shirona, his eyes narrowed into slits in fear.

"Wuwuwuwu… Boss, I'm going to miss you, Lotor."

"Remember to burn paper for me next time, Loto!"

Sirona: "..."

She put her hand on her forehead and clicked the restart button in the upper right corner of the game, ending the battle.

She didn't even want to try to see if Rotom's next "Thunder" would hit her or if it could take away the remaining energy of the Bearcat.

Because, unlike other gym owners, Qianli has five Pokémon.

Just facing the first two Pokémon, Swallow and Bearcat, they had to pay such a heavy price for the high pressure.

According to Shirona's past experience, there is naturally no need to continue this gym battle.

But she was not in a hurry. According to convention, this was just the first battle to test the gym owner's configuration, and the real battle might not have begun yet.

While Sirona was thinking, the game restarted and she arrived at the gates of the Orange Gym. Rotom floated beside her, opened his eyes, and looked around in disbelief.

"Huh? I don't think Lotor is dead!"

"Boss, I'm back again meow... ah no, Lotor!"

Sirona couldn't help but pause when she heard this.

Why is this Rotom so different from any Pokémon I've gotten in the game?
Why is this character so eccentric?
While she was thinking, Rotom flew around Sirona and spoke again, looking very nervous and anxious: "Boss, what should we do now? Rotom, that Pokémon that Lao Deng just had was so scary!"

Sirona: "..."

Although logically speaking, the Qianli just now was not his real father, but the father of the protagonist of this game.

But for some reason, she still felt a little weird when she heard this Rotom call Qianli "Lao Deng"
However, there is no doubt that half of what Rotom said is correct - that is, Chisato's strength is indeed quite exaggerated.

The first two Pokémon alone are so explosive: the King Swallow with the Perseverance Flame Orb "Brave Bird Attack" and the Glutton Fruit "Belly Drum" rushing straight at the bear...

Just dealing with these two Pokémon is already quite tricky, so how powerful will the next three be?
No matter what, he is definitely not an ordinary person.

Thinking of this, Shirona shook her head slightly and made a decision immediately.

No wonder after defeating the Fire Gym, the level cap of his team was directly raised to level 40.

At the time, she was still wondering why the game was so generous this time, but now it seems that everything was for a reason.
Qianli's Pokémon even far exceeds this level limit, and may reach a maximum of about level 45 or 46.

In this case, the first thing he should do now is definitely not to analyze the opponent's team situation, but to improve the hard power of all Pokémon first, and make them all reach the level limit, so that he will be qualified to challenge Qianli's gym.

Thinking of this, Sirona shook her head slightly and walked into the bushes where Pokémon were refreshed.

An interesting thing about this game is that not only will the strength of the NPCs on the roadside change dynamically based on the average strength of your current Pokémon team, but even the strength of the wild Pokémon in the grass on the roadside will change based on the level of your starting Pokémon.

For example, if Shirona starts with a level 5 or 6 Pokémon now, then the level of the wild Pokémon she encounters in the grass next to the Orange Forest will be similar to that when she first went out.

But if Sirona now uses Rotom as her starting Pokémon, the Pokémon that emerges from the bushes will also be over level 30. This is obviously a deliberate setting to improve the player's leveling efficiency.

It’s a pity that the types of Pokémon that appear in these bushes have not changed. They are the evolved forms of the original Pokémon.

For example, the ultimate evolution form of the Serpentine Bear - the Straight Charge Bear, or the final evolution form of the Frameworm - the Sky Cover Worm.

If it were in the previous game process, Sirona would not pay much attention to these Pokémon that appeared. After all, they were really too common and had no special features.

But now, as she looked at these Pokémon, she couldn't help but start to think.

Do these Pokémon actually have their own unique shining points, waiting for trainers to discover and develop?
After all, this game has proven one thing to her so far: many seemingly "ordinary" Pokémon can actually be very powerful!

Shirona began to enter the grass, repeatedly encountered wild Pokémon, and raised the level of her team through battle.

Five minutes later, as a large-billed gull fell, a line of prompts popped up in front of her:
[Ding, congratulations, your Pokémon, the Forest Lizard's level has been raised to Lv36]

Who knew that the hint would be accompanied by a rainbow-like light of evolution, which suddenly burst out on the body of the forest lizard.

[Huh, what does a forest lizard look like?]

Amidst the exciting and uplifting evolutionary music, the forest lizard's figure began to change rapidly in this colorful light.

Its body grew taller and became more sturdy and powerful at a speed visible to the naked eye, and its outline changed from the original slender and streamlined shape to a more oppressive and powerful one.

When the rainbow light faded, a brand new Pokémon appeared in front of Sirona.

The scales covering its entire body shimmered with a forest-like dark green, looking like solid rock covered with moss, yet gleaming with a cold, hard metallic luster.

In addition to its tall and mighty body, the most amazing changes are in its head and wrists!

Behind its wrists are two emerald blades with perfect arcs, so sharp that they seem to be able to tear through the air!
And on the head, there is a crown made of hardened leaves.

After evolving, the Forest Lizard - or should we call it the Lizard King now, its temperament has undergone a complete change, as if it has become a different Pokémon, like a king looking down on the world, powerful and proud!
[Congratulations, your forest lizard has evolved into a lizard king! ]

Looking at the Lizard King in front of her, Shirona felt emotions surging in her heart.

As his first initial Pokémon and the first partner to accompany him on his journey, the original Bimbo finally completed its final evolution and became Lizardlord!

But she soon realized a problem. At this moment, the forest lizard's reaction and expression were a little strange.

There was no sign of excitement in its eyes for completing the final evolution and gaining new powers. Instead, it seemed to be hiding some complicated emotions as it stood there motionless.

Looking at the familiar scene in front of her, Shirona instantly understood something.

Starting from the Electric Gym, she suddenly realized a problem.

To be honest, before Lizardlord, his initial Pokémon, completed this final evolution, compared to the other Pokémon in the team, he did not have any chance to show his skills or play a key role in battle.

Many times, it comes out to clean up the mess after other Pokémon have opened up the situation.

Shirona really had no way to deal with this. She thought she had reached the limit of a trainer's command ability. After all, in those battles, Lizardking's skill pool and its racial distribution did not seem suitable to be used as a main Pokémon.

To be honest, this is not really a problem with Sirona, but many high-intensity battles in this game are not suitable for pure grass-type Pokémon like Lizardking with a narrow skill attack range.

But at this moment, as a trainer, when Shirona saw the Lizard King like this, the excitement in her heart quickly subsided.

Although everything that just happened sounded fine, she didn't think so.

As a trainer, if you let your Pokémon fall into negative emotions, then you are not a qualified trainer!

She took a deep breath, controlled her character to come to the side of the Lizard King, input interactive commands, and patted the other's shoulder.

"Lizard King, I want to talk to you."

Upon hearing this, the Lizard King raised his head slightly, his gaze falling calmly on Shirona, wondering what he was thinking.

But after hearing Cynthia's words, it nodded slightly, waiting for her to continue. Cynthia then took a deep breath and spoke very seriously.

Do you remember the battle where we first earned our gym badges?

The forest lizard was stunned when it heard this, and some scenes from the past began to appear before its eyes.

That was the most crucial battle between Shirona and Cuckoo. At the last and most dangerous moment, he desperately withstood the final attack of Archaeopteryx, allowing Shirona to turn defeat into victory and win the battle!

As it recalled the scene at that time, a glimmer of light flashed in its eyes, but soon faded away.

I did play a big role in that battle, but since that battle, my role in the entire team seems to have become smaller and smaller.

It had no effect in the subsequent battles at the Fire Gym, the Electric Gym, or the battle between Shirona and those humans.

It's no match for Flying-type Pokémon, nor can it handle Fire-type Pokémon, nor can it handle Ice-type, Bug-type, or Steel-type Pokémon.

On the other hand, Lotte Kappa, who also has the grass attribute, has repeatedly helped Shirona overcome one difficulty after another, and solved one Pokémon after another that she could not face, and directly became the most important main force in Shirona's team.

Even the Pokémon named Rotom that had just joined the team showed its prowess in the recent gym battle, defeating the Great Swallow, which was much higher in level than itself, in one fell swoop.

Although the Forest Lizard didn't want to admit it, the fact was that the Pokémon that joined the team later were indeed better suited to facing those extreme challenges and dangerous opponents than itself.

I... am still too weak.

So even though it has completed its evolution and gained a new body and strength, the Lizard King is still depressed and lost deep in his heart. It has completely lost confidence in its own existence.

At this moment, it lowered its head and deliberately avoided Shirona's sight.

But at this moment, Shirona's voice sounded in its ears again.

"Lizard King, do you know why I chose you between the three Pokémon?"

The Lizard King was stunned for a moment when he heard this, then raised his head again with a bit of confusion in his eyes.

In fact, it couldn't figure out this problem. In its eyes, both the Fire Chicken and the Water Leap Fish were actually better than itself and more worthy of choice, but why did Shirona choose it?

Shirona outside the screen suddenly smiled, but the smile was a little restrained and contained some emotion.

"To be honest, when I chose you as my starting Pokémon, I just thought that a Grass-type Pokémon would be more suitable for getting through the low-level period."

"But later, after going through battle after battle with you and obtaining badge after badge, I realized that the reason I chose you was because it was our destined meeting."

"From the moment I picked up your Poké Ball, we were destined to be the best partners and closest companions in the world."

"Maybe you're thinking that the other Pokémon in the team performed better than you in previous battles, but I want to tell you that I don't care about these things. You are still my first and most important partner."

"Because it was you who accompanied me on the path of becoming a trainer, and it was you who went through everything with me."

"If I could go back once, I would still unwaveringly choose you among the three different Pokémon."

"so now…"

Sirona pressed the interact button and let her character extend a hand towards the Lizard King.

"Will you continue to accompany me?"

When the Lizard King heard these words, he could not help but stand there in a daze, and it did not come back to its senses for a long time.

Images flashed through its mind.

When Shirona was helping Dr. Odamaki, she directly chose it to fight.

My first fight with the kid in shorts on the street...

After the first failure, when I was angry, Shirona comforted me with these words.

The first time I caught a Pokémon, I couldn't bear to watch it and directly helped Sirona throw the ball...

The scene in the first gym battle where he stepped forward and turned the tide!
Everything it had experienced with Shirona now emerged before its eyes.

As all the images gradually faded away, the distraction and confusion in the Lizard King's eyes had disappeared, replaced by a firm determination and a flickering light!
The claws with sharp blades fell into Sirona's hands carefully and firmly.

"just."

It gives its own answer!
Seeing this, Sirona smiled again, but this time her smile seemed genuine and full of joy.

"Well, please give me your guidance in the future, Lizard King."

...

After cheering up the Lizard King, Shirona continued to level up with it.

To be honest, although the experience required for upgrading in the later stages of this game has increased, the leveling speed cannot be described as slow.

In just half an hour, Sirona successfully raised the levels of all the Pokémon in her team to level 40.

After releasing all the Pokémon and mobilizing them for battle, Sirona took them back into the Orange Gym and launched a challenge against Qianli.

Seeing Sirona appear in front of him again, Qianli smiled.

"In the face of difficulties, perseverance is also very important. Let me see what changes you have made in order to achieve victory."

Countless Poké Ball icons flash across the interface, and the battle begins again!

Qianli also sent out his Pokémon first, which was still the Great Swallow with the Fire Orb and the "Perseverance" attribute.

This time, Shirona did not hesitate at all when it came to this King Swallow, and just like last time, she sent out the basic form of Rotom as the starting Pokémon!

The level of the gym leader is different from that of the trainers on the roadside and those powerful enemies. Their level is always fixed and will not change.

Perhaps after winning a gym, the levels of these gym leaders will be improved when players return to challenge them next time. This is what Shirona judged from Dujuan's words.

But as long as they haven't won their first gym challenge, their level will remain fixed at this stage.

In other words, the situation where you narrowly avoided the "Brave Bird Attack" of the King Swallow and were defeated if the damage fluctuation value was a few points higher will no longer happen.

It can definitely take the attack of the king swallow steadily, of course, the premise is that the king swallow does not produce the effect of a "critical hit".

Otherwise, even gods would be unable to stop the damage.
While thinking, as Shirona selected the "Thunder" skill, the first round began again.

The royal swallow moved, still showing the familiar "brave bird attack".

However, this time, due to Rotom's increased level, this move only took away 2/3 of Rotom's physical strength, but it still brought its health to the dangerous red line.

At the same time, a dazzling golden light suddenly lit up above Rotom's head and slashed towards the King Swallow.

Shirona's luck is actually quite good. Although the skill "Thunder" is extremely powerful, the probability of hitting is actually relatively low in this game.

This is also consistent with the fact that using this skill in the real world requires charging and has obvious pre-swing signs.

But in today's two gym battles, Rotom's two "Thunder" hit the target consecutively!

In the dazzling lightning, the blood bar above the King Swallow's head was instantly emptied and disappeared, and the King Swallow also lost its combat ability.

Such a start is naturally quite good for Sirona.

But she did not relax at all. Instead, she continued to stay focused and serious - because the next opponent to appear was also extremely difficult to deal with.

Sure enough, just as she expected, Qianli's behavior did not change when the battle started for the second time, and he still sent out the charging bear!
This time, with the appearance of Kumaboko, Rotom's expression suddenly became tense.

Although its current level has been raised to 40, it still can't forget the feeling of the guy's belly suddenly getting bigger and then the terrifying power bursting out from his body when he was opposite it last time.

"The boss is here again, what should we do? Loto?"

Rotom couldn't help but turn around and ask Sirona.

However, Shirona's eyes shone with confidence, and she quickly gave it the answer:
"Don't be afraid, use 'Bluff'! Rotom!"

"Okay, Loto!"

The next moment, with the input of Shirona's instructions, the second round began smoothly.

The Charger used its "Belly Drum" skill once again, emitting a dazzling red glow, boosting its physical attack to an astonishing degree! Simultaneously, the effect of the berries on its body was reactivated, bringing its half-reduced stamina back to a relatively safe area.

However, this time, facing the strengthened Ursa Major, Rotom did not prepare to use "Thunder" like last time. Instead, he suddenly spit out a cloud of white mist, covering Ursa Major's face, and then made a provocative face.

At this moment, everyone in the live broadcast room was stunned by this scene.

Although everyone had seen Sirona change some of the Pokémon's skills in the team before the battle, they were still a little confused when they saw this move.

What the hell is this?

The next moment, Sirona's explanation sounded in everyone's ears.

"In this game, there's an abnormal state that's perfect for dealing with Pokémon that have increased their attack power to the maximum. That's Chaos!"

"A Pokémon in a confused state has a certain chance of redirecting its attack originally intended for the opponent to hit itself. The damage caused by this attack will also be bound to the enhancement effect it has received. The higher the enhancement level, the greater the damage."

The next moment, just as Shirona finished speaking, the red light that rushed straight towards the bear's body surged up again with astonishing momentum!
A line of prompts popped up:

[I tried to increase the physical attack of the Straight Bear, but it had already reached its maximum limit, so I failed! ]

Immediately afterwards, a vortex-like halo began to flash above the bear's head, accompanied by stars, and its eyes became confused.

【The straight-charging bear fell into a state of confusion! 】

Sirona's voice rang out again—

"'Bluff' increases the opponent's Pokémon's physical attack by two levels and puts it into a state of confusion. Normally, this is a very risky skill, and it can even be said that the benefits are not proportional to the risks."

"After all, a Pokémon in confusion won't necessarily cause damage to you. Even if the confusion effect is triggered, the damage caused by increasing your physical attack twice won't be particularly high. But if the opponent is out of confusion, then using 'Bluff' with a Pokémon is dangerous."

"In general, the risks of using this move on a Pokémon that excels at physical attacks far outweigh the benefits."

"But for a Pokémon that has already boosted its physical attack stat to its maximum, this is a skill that only has positive benefits and no side effects!"

Sirona paused here.

"And once it triggers the chaos effect, due to all its previous enhancements, it will cause massive damage to itself!"

She was standing in front of the screen with a barely perceptible smile on her face.

"How do you say that?"

"That's right - you lift a rock and drop it on your own foot."

(End of this chapter)