Pokémon Dimensional Hunter - A Visual Mishaps

The crystal on Xu Hongdou's bracelet vibrated in response, and dark purple energy surged into the Ironclad Tyrannosaurus's wound like liquid.

"Roar!!" The colossal beast, which had been kneeling on the ground, suddenly let out a deafening roar, its scales shimmering with eerie dark red ripples in the lava...

"boom!"

The first booming sound came from the armored tyrannosaurus's expanding chest cavity, its already two-meter-tall body swelling as if inflated. The lava pool suddenly boiled, the crimson liquid being drawn by an invisible force field into a spiral, wrapping around its wildly growing skeleton.

The judges in the front row of the audience gripped their seats in terror—the foundation of the entire venue was vibrating rapidly.

"Five meters...seven meters...nine meters!" One of them shouted hoarsely, but his voice was drowned out by the roar of energy.

Magma flowed through the gaps in the newly formed dark golden scales of the Ironclad Tyrannosaurus Rex, and the broken drill on its forehead had now regenerated into a ten-meter-long spiral horn, its surface covered with crimson patterns resembling volcanic lava.

"Energy level has broken through the threshold of Quasi-King level! Quickly activate level two protection..." Before the words were finished, the Ironclad Tyrannosaurus's casually swinging steel tail swept across the dome of the audience seats, and the five layers of composite armor crumbled like biscuits, with the rain of alloy fragments instantly vaporizing in the massive energy field.

"Gigantic Rock!"

Xu Hongdou's command triggered a cataclysmic change in the world.

"Roar!!" As the armored tyrannosaurus roared to the sky, the clouds above the stadium were torn open into a vortex with a diameter of 100 meters, and a meteorite group burning with dark red energy crashed down through the ionosphere.

Ancient totems float on the surface of each boulder, proof that the laws of the earth have been materialized by immense energy.

"Crackling——"

The protective barrier erected by Aggron shattered the moment it touched the meteorite. Zhao Xuan watched helplessly as his trump card was smashed into the earth's crust by five colossal rocks, each the size of a 4.2-meter-high mountain. The dark silver armor grotesquely twisted under the crushing force of the laws of nature.

The lava pool went completely berserk, and the crimson lava columns soared into the sky like a giant dragon, but when they approached within a hundred meters of the armored tyrannosaurus, they obediently turned into energy siphon nutrients.

"It's not over yet!" Xu Hongdou's long hair danced wildly in the energy storm. "Ultra-massive Earth!"

The Ironhide Tyrannosaurus raised its right foot, powerful enough to shatter mountains, and dark brown light patterns spread wildly along the lines of its scales. The moment the giant foot landed, the entire battlefield arched up as if kneaded dough by an invisible giant hand, and six leyline ridges burst forth from the earth, each rift spewing forth torrents of Dynamaxed lava.

Boscotor attempted to cut through the dragon's spine with its claws, only to find that its alloy claws began to rust and disintegrate the moment they came into contact with the earth's energy.

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Chapter 227 Aggron in Earth Form!!

Seeing this, Zhao Xuan stopped hiding. Anyway, he had many trump cards, so revealing one or two wouldn't matter.

This battle is also making his blood boil.

Zhao Xuan's fingertips brushed across the hidden compartment at his waist, where the keystone, inlaid with the core of the earth, rippled with an earthy yellow hue in the steam.

Aggron sensed its trainer's will, and its body, which had been suppressed by the Dynamax Rock, suddenly emitted a deep rumble.

"Boggart?" Zhao Xuan touched his headband and said calmly, "Let her experience the primal pulse of Earth!"

"Let me show you... the true power of mountains!"

Within the cracks of Aggron's shattered armor, the dark brown Mega Stone resonated simultaneously.

"Super Evolution—"

The entire lava pool suddenly fell into an eerie calm, and obsidian-like crystals solidified on the surface of the boiling magma.

The metal seats in the audience area twisted and deformed in some kind of gravitational field, and the judges were horrified to find their shadows stretching into spikes on the ground.

“Crack! Crack!”

Boscodor's dark silver armor peeled away inch by inch, revealing the dark brown primary rock layer beneath, with veins of lava flowing through it.

When it stood up again, six spiraling ley lines of earth vein crystals grew from its back, each wrapped with dark red energy arcs. The previously broken tail spines regenerated into a giant lava whip covered with barbs, and the debris it kicked up when it struck the ground vaporized in mid-air.

Its body, which was only four meters tall at the time, transformed into a giant beast that was over seven meters tall.

"Roar!!" I roared as Aggron in its Earth King form, and the terrifying sound echoed, stirring up a cloud of dust!

"What form is this..." Xu Hongdou's pupils contracted.

She had seen the Mega Evolution Aggron before, and it was nothing like this.

Moreover, their bodies aren't that big; they're at most three meters tall. This is already almost half the height of a Dynamax!

"Earth's vein resonance!"

But Zhao Xuan didn't care about Xu Hongdou's thoughts; his voice caused the heavens and earth to tremble.

"Roar!!" The moment the Mega Evolution Aggron roared, eighteen ring-shaped ridges suddenly rose up from the ground within a radius of one kilometer.

The rock beneath the Ironclad Tyrannosaurus Rex's feet suddenly cracked open, and dozens of giant lava pythons burst forth from the earth's core, firmly locking the gigantic body in mid-air.

"Max Flame!" Xu Hongdou's command cracked.

The armored Tyrannosaurus Rex spewed a crimson pillar of fire twenty meters in diameter from its mouth, ionizing the air in its path into plasma. But Aggron simply raised its reconstituted rock crystal right arm, and a miniature black hole-like energy vortex appeared in its palm.

"swallow!!"

The crimson pillar of fire was as if it had crashed into a bottomless abyss, and was completely absorbed into the center of the vortex.

The six ley lines on the back of the super-evolved behemoth shone like the rising sun, and lava veins spread along its spine and throughout its body, condensing into a dark red Law Eye on its forehead.

"Back to you."

Before Zhao Xuan could finish speaking, the crystal array behind Aggron simultaneously turned. The compressed flame energy, mixed with the power of the earth's veins, transformed into six beams of destruction wrapped around obsidian fragments.

The shield formed by the Mega Evolution of the Ironhide Raptor was pierced as thin as paper, and the lava scales vaporized and sublimated in the Annihilation Beam.

"boom--!!!"

The mushroom cloud from the explosion dispersed the massive dark cloud, and the roof of the stands completely vaporized. The Gigantamaxed Tyrannosaurus Rex slammed heavily into the lava pool, creating a hundred-meter-high wall of waves that solidified in mid-air into a rain of obsidian spikes.

"Big earthquake."

Zhao Xuan's command was as light as a sigh.

The super-evolved Bosscodora pressed its palms to the ground, causing the earth's crust to pulsate at a frequency of three hundred times per second.

The surface of the magma pool instantly solidified into black basalt, only to shatter into quantum dust in the next shockwave. The armored tyrannosaurus struggled to its feet, only to find that every muscle was being torn apart by gravitational fields from different directions.

"Click!"

Spiderweb-like cracks appeared on the Dynamax energy shell, and Xu Hongdou's wristband crystal shattered with a bang. As the purple energy dissipated, the Ironhide Tyrannosaurus began to shrink rapidly, eventually reverting to its original, battered form.

But Boscodor's killer move continued—the entire stadium's foundation suddenly rose vertically, transforming into a floating rock disk with a diameter of one kilometer. Countless ley line energies were extracted from the planet's depths, condensing at the bottom of the rock disk into a rotating dark star core.

"Earth-shattering Star."

As Zhao Xuan uttered the forbidden technique, the floating rock mass began to collapse inward. The Ironclad Tyrannosaurus Rex was captured by the gravitational field and plummeted rapidly towards the collapsing core.

Just as it was about to be crushed into quantum dust, a Heavenly King-level protective shield simultaneously enveloped the battlefield.

"The assessment is terminated!" the seven examiners roared as they activated the emergency braking device.

Aggron's pupils suddenly cleared, and the leyline crystals automatically detached. The collapsed rock mass, having lost its energy source, dissipated into a shower of light.

The charred Ironclad Tyrannosaurus Rex fell to the ground, its claws still tightly gripping half a dark red crystal fragment.

As the lava pool began to flow again, Xu Hongdou trembled as she held up the Poké Ball: "I admit it..."

"A tie." Zhao Xuan suddenly interrupted her. The Aggron, whose Mega Evolution light had dissipated, collapsed to the ground with a thud, its Keystone in its chest riddled with cracks. "The Leyline Resonance has exceeded its limit."

The ruins of the arena fell into a deathly silence, broken only by the gurgling sound of flowing lava. The two trainers looked at each other across the distance, both revealing smiles of knowing they had met their match.

The examiners stared blankly at the data screen—the energy peak at the end of the battle had reached the lethal dose threshold for a near-Elite Four level Pokémon.

"Is this still at the dojo level?" one of the examiners murmured.

　510 "Data team report!" The gray-haired chief examiner ripped off his tie, letting out a hissing roar like sandpaper scraping, "His energy has reached the peak of Quasi-Heavenly King!"

The female examiner, wearing tactical goggles, suddenly coughed violently, and the holographic projection screen cracked into spots of light at her trembling fingertips: "The energy entropy curve completely violates the law of conservation... That Bossdora was just extracting heat energy from the mantle!"

"Look at the spectral analysis of the armor fragments!" The young researcher slammed the molecular diagrams onto the charred metal table. "Dark matter crystals are embedded in the original rock strata—this is not super-evolution at all!"

"Wait!" The bioengineer suddenly rushed to the observation window, the cold sweat on his forehead instantly vaporizing in the high temperature. "Those detached leyline crystals... are absorbing iron sulfide from the magma and replicating themselves!"

Blood-red moonlight shone through the cracks in the stadium's dome, illuminating the distorted metal nameplate of the chief examiner.

He slowly removed the shattered lens, his pupils reflecting the slowly rotating remnant of a dark star in the lava pool: "This form isn't mentioned in the Yan Hua archives... unless..."

But before he could finish speaking, the old man interrupted him.

"This matter is classified as top secret; nothing that happened today can be leaked."

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Chapter 228 Ambiguity

In a private room at a restaurant, Xu Hongdou handed a certificate to Zhao Xuan: "Little brother, this is your new certificate. From now on, you are a gym leader."

Zhao Xuan took the documents, opened them, looked at them, and then put them away. At the same time, he said, "Sister Hongdou, could you please stop calling me little brother?"

"Besides, I'm not young anymore. In a few months, I'll be an adult."

"Hehehe." Xu Hongdou giggled as she looked at Zhao Xuan, then blinked and said mischievously, "Isn't he still an adult? If he's not a little brother, what is he?"

Upon hearing this, Zhao Xuan rolled his eyes, said nothing more, and started eating.

Xu Hongdou watched Zhao Xuan eat, recalling what the examiner had just said, and secretly thought to herself, "It seems this little brother has quite a few secrets."

However, Xu Hongdou didn't ask any further questions.

After all, everyone has their own secrets, and she has hers too. There's no need to find out everything about her.

At the same time, she made sure to keep the news under wraps, since some things are better kept hidden, as they could save lives later.

Over the years, Xu Hongdou has witnessed much of the darkness in society.

In addition, Xu Hongdou knew that some families in Shanghai had been making a lot of fuss ever since they learned that Lu Guanjun had taken Zhao Xuan as his apprentice.

Although those people weren't very strong, some of them couldn't recognize such a thing and thought that ants could fight against dragons.

However, this world is never short of fools.

They can't see their own identity and strength.

Therefore, for Zhao Xuan's protection, Xu Hongdou kept the whole affair a secret, preventing others from knowing Zhao Xuan's true strength.

Half an hour later, the two finished their meal and left together.

As dusk turned the eaves of Yunjian Pavilion amber, Xu Hongdou's high heels got stuck in the cracks of the bluestone steps in the backyard.

She instinctively reached for the pillar to hold onto, but touched the slippery moss and fell backward.

"Watch out!"

Zhao Xuan's arm moved faster than the wind that made her gasp. The agility unique to a young trainer was on full display at this moment; the instant his left hand wrapped around her lower back, his right hand had already braced against the rickety plant stand.

Xu Hongdou's pearl earring brushed against his Adam's apple, and strands of hair carrying the scent of tuberose wrapped around his arm.

The teasing, "Sister Red Bean doesn't even look where she's going..." came to an abrupt end.

Zhao Xuan suddenly noticed that the fabric of the cheongsam where his palms were touching was as thin as a cicada's wing, and his body heat was spreading through the Suzhou embroidery pattern.

As Xu Hongdou fell backward, her hand still gripping his collar was not yet released. Sunlight streamed in through the lattice window, illuminating the slight trembling of her eyelashes.

The sudden splashing sound of the koi pond startled the frozen moment. As Xu Hongdou used the ripples to get up, her fingertips inadvertently brushed against the boy's protruding wrist bone: "Little brother, you're quite strong." But her voice trailed off, as if the ripples on the pond had taken away her strength.

Zhao Xuan bent down to pick up her dropped handbag, and the spinous process at the back of her neck was clearly visible in the twilight.

"I told you not to call me that." His voice was muffled, and his fingertips brushed against her cold fingertips as he ran his fingers along the clasp of her bag.

The sunlight flowed like honey on the bluestone slabs. Xu Hongdou held onto the boy's strong forearm, the lingering tingling sensation in her ankles indistinguishable between the aftereffects of the shock and something else. She subtly took a half step back, forgetting that her hair was still tangled in Zhao Xuan's cufflinks.

"Hiss—" A slight gasp made Zhao Xuan look down. A strand of black hair was hooked with a gilded button, which shimmered like satin in the sunlight.

He reached out to untie her ear, his knuckles brushing against the snowy skin behind her ear, and the fragrance of tuberose suddenly became intense.

As Xu Hongdou tilted her head, her pearl earring brushed against the back of his hand: "I can do it myself." But the last word lingered in her throat—the boy's slender fingers had already lifted that strand of hair, and sunlight suddenly pierced through the clouds, casting a butterfly-wing-like shadow on his eyelashes under his eyes.

The skin beneath the cheongsam with its intertwined floral pattern suddenly felt hot. Xu Hongdou stared at his bobbing Adam's apple, and her pretty face flushed slightly as she thought of something.

"Alright." Zhao Xuan released his hand, the warmth of his hair still lingering on his fingertips. Suddenly, a red and white fish leaped out of the koi pond, splashing water onto Xu Hongdou's embroidered hair.

He almost instinctively reached out to wipe her down, but froze when he touched the hem of her cheongsam.

Xu Hongdou laughed out loud, her beauty mark at the corner of her eye trembling: "Little brother, you're quite particular."

She reached out to take the tissue, but her fingertips touched the calluses on his palm.

Zhao Xuan suddenly tightened his grip, the snow-white tissue twisting around their intertwined fingertips: "I told you not to call me that." His voice was deeper than the water.

He took half a step forward, his uniquely youthful, crisp aura mixed with the scent of cedar he often used, trapping Xu Hongdou between the pillar and his chest.