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The rain began to fall, and the entire battlefield shifted into a rainy environment.
In that instant, Poliwrath's Swift Swim ability was triggered, his speed soaring dramatically. He leapt from the water, and to the amazement of the audience, he was actually running rapidly across the surface of the water.
"Use Air Slash, knock him back into the water."
Seeing that Poliwrath could run swiftly over water, Sato didn't show much surprise. He immediately commanded his Shiny Beautifly to launch an attack.
Though the rain did affect Shiny Beautifly's speed somewhat, the impact was minimal. Her wings were coated in waterproof scales, so rain could not hinder them—at most, it merely soaked her body.
From the moment she had appeared above the battlefield, Shiny Beautifly had naturally begun to Quiver Dance. Just as in her usual training, she danced gracefully in the rain, and by now, she had already completed a full Quiver Dance.
As her power rose and her wings glowed with a dazzling cyan light, she maintained her dance while flapping her wings rapidly. Bright white blades of air, each two meters across, shot toward Poliwrath, who was speeding across the water's surface. Soon after, each blade exploded into countless smaller white blades.
Confronted with this storm of blades falling from the sky like flower petals, Poliwrath did not retreat to the safety of the water. Instead, emboldened by his skill, he displayed incredible agility, dodging with ease across the water's surface.
He seemed like a martial arts master out of a wuxia novel, gliding across the waves as if they were solid ground. Each time his powerful legs pressed the water, waves rippled beneath him and his speed spiked, allowing him to narrowly avoid Shiny Beautifly's attacks.
"Holy crap, that's insane!"
"Poliwrath, let's go! You've got this!"
"So cool—do another dodge!"
The audience erupted into cheers, thrilled by Poliwrath's dazzling footwork. The louder the excitement grew, the better Poliwrath performed.
Hearing their roars, his heart pounded and his blood surged, every vein in his body trembling with exhilaration. With the rush of adrenaline, his movements became swifter, his dodges smoother.
After firing off eighteen massive air blades, Shiny Beautifly was visibly strained. When her last flurry of smaller blades was narrowly dodged, she paused at once, taking a brief moment to catch her breath.
"Poliwrath, run upon the rain—use Ice Beam!"
Brawly, seeing that Shiny Beautifly had halted her assault and that Poliwrath's body had been fully warmed up by his evasive movements, instantly ordered a counterattack.
"Poli!"
At his command, Poliwrath shouted loudly and pressed down hard against the water with his legs, springing high into the air.
To the astonishment of the spectators, he used the falling raindrops as stepping stones, leaping rapidly through the sky to close the distance with Shiny Beautifly, who still danced among the rain.
As he closed in, his left hand formed spiraling spheres of water, while his right hand glowed with chilling frost like an icy gauntlet. He slammed his right hand against the water spheres—
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!"
—turning them into frozen water bombs. Covered in jagged ice spikes but still swirling with internal currents, the icy spheres shot forward like bullets toward Shiny Beautifly.
"Play the Sevenfold Gust!"
Sato's face hardened at the fierce attack. He instantly called out to his partner.
Shiny Beautifly, hardened by her brutal training on the mysterious island, had stamina far beyond the ordinary. Even after unleashing eighteen Air Slashes, she was nowhere near exhaustion.
At his command, her wings once again blazed with cyan light. Seven small whirlwinds spun into being around her, rapidly absorbing flying-type energy from the surrounding battlefield.
In the blink of an eye, they expanded into massive cyan whirlwinds, each three meters wide, forming a heptagram around her. The swirling winds combined into an invisible wall. Poliwrath's frozen water bombs were blasted aside by the gales, and even those few that slipped through were stopped by the barrier.
The winds were so strong they even blew away the falling rain, leaving a ten-meter radius of dry air around Shiny Beautifly.
Deprived of raindrops to step upon, Poliwrath's midair pursuit faltered.
"Now's our chance! Poliwrath, step on those frozen spheres and break through her defense! Use Dynamic Ice Punch to knock her down!"
Brawly's eyes gleamed as he seized the moment.
"Poli!"
Poliwrath roared again, his muscles bulging as veins stood out across his legs. His power surged, and stepping onto one of the frozen bombs spinning in the wind, he launched himself like an arrow straight toward Shiny Beautifly.
The more frozen bombs he used as footholds, the faster he became—until at last, he pierced through the barrier of whirlwinds in a blur of blue and appeared right in front of Shiny Beautifly.
His right arm was grotesquely swollen with power, twice the size of his left, encased in a terrifying ice-blue gauntlet of energy.
"Protect!"
Sato, having watched many of Brawly's battles, had long anticipated a sudden all-in strike. Even before Brawly gave the command, he had already ordered Shiny Beautifly telepathically to defend herself.
But as soon as he did, he realized it was too late.
Instead of striking Shiny Beautifly directly, Poliwrath shot past her and smashed his colossal frozen fist down onto her green energy shield from above.
A sharp cracking noise echoed through the air—her shield cracked, and Shiny Beautifly plummeted helplessly from the sky.
Boom!
She crashed into the water, sending up a huge splash. Poliwrath had successfully driven Shiny Beautifly down into the depths below.