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The huge Shadow Ball crashed to the ground, instantly vaporizing half of the battlefield.
Shadow energy overflowed everywhere, like black flames dancing through the air.
"Seriously?" Chris was stunned, unable to figure out why Roy would choose such a reckless style of play.
Just because Spiritomb had an advantage against Ghost-types, did that mean Gengar could be easily replaced?
When the Shadow Ball fell, Spiritomb, as the one who created it, wasn't spared from the blast. After all, this wasn't a video game.
However, Chris's Gengar wasn't so easily defeated.
The shadows slowly cleared, revealing the devastated battlefield.
Spiritomb was showing dizzy swirls in both of its eyes instead of just one.
Without a doubt, it had been defeated by its own Shadow Ball. Normally, if Spiritomb had simply tanked its own Shadow Ball attack, it wouldn't have been instantly defeated since it had no weakness to Ghost-type moves. But Gengar's Shadow Punch from earlier hadn't been for nothing.
As for Chris's Pokémon, the little purple Gengar was grinning, surrounded by mist. The shattered spell markings on Gengar's hands were glowing, and the purple creature had turned purple-gold.
After the shield from the Stealth Barrier had absorbed most of the damage, Gengar had still taken some injury from the Shadow Ball, with its health dropping by about 25%.
This triggered its special ability.
Royal Presence (75%): All stats increase by 10%, and Ghost and Electric-type move power increases by 10%.
"Gengar gengar gengar!" Gengar chuckled and used Teleport to return to Chris's side.
"Is Chris's Gengar a Shiny Pokémon?" Victor frowned, thinking carefully. Just moments ago he had seen that Gengar was an ordinary Pokémon, so why did it now have gold markings on its body, like a Shiny Pokémon?
"Hmm." Tate silently pulled out a pair of binoculars.
As his opponent, Roy frowned. Under such a massive Shadow Ball, Gengar, which should have been at a type disadvantage, had barely been injured, while Spiritomb, which had no weakness to Ghost-type moves, had been instantly defeated by its own attack.
So what exactly had Chris's Gengar done when the Shadow Ball was about to hit?
Moreover, what made him even more concerned was that Chris's Gengar had become stronger.
When attacked, instead of weakening due to injury, it had grown more powerful, and the intimidating aura it projected against Ghost-type Pokémon had also increased.
This was troubling.
Roy focused on the charm that had turned Gengar purple-gold.
It seemed that this spell's function wasn't just to suppress power, but also had special abilities he didn't know about.
Roy's hand moved along his belt. For the first time, he hesitated about which Pokémon to send out next.
Finally, Roy's finger settled on his last Poké Ball.
"Gengar, I'm counting on you." Roy threw out the Poké Ball.
The Pokémon that appeared was his ace—also a Gengar.
There was nothing particularly special about this Gengar at first glance. It looked like a normal Gengar. It wasn't a Totem Pokémon, wasn't Shiny, and didn't seem to have any special breeding, but it was Roy's ace.
"Gengar!" Roy's Gengar grinned and pointed at Chris's purple-gold Gengar in a taunting gesture.
Taunt?
The purple-gold Gengar raised an eyebrow. Was this creature looking for trouble?
Just wait—I'll finish you off right now!
"Finally, the ace," Chris muttered, quietly revealing his Z-Ring.
"Gengar, Mega Evolution!"
A layer of colorful light flashed around the purple-gold Gengar, transforming it into Mega Purple-Gold Gengar.
Facing Roy's ace Gengar, Chris's own Gengar definitely had no advantage in terms of level. Instead of continuing to play the game of defeating stronger opponents with weaker ones, it was better to Mega Evolve directly and improve its combat effectiveness.
But Roy wasn't careless and followed suit.
"Mega Evolution!"
On the battlefield, two Mega Gengars faced each other. This was an extremely rare scene in the Trainer world.
Two identical Pokémon, carrying completely different bonds, fighting in the same form.
Both Chris and Roy tacitly chose not to use Dynamax.
For Pokémon like Gengar, which were known for their speed, sometimes being Dynamaxed could actually be a hindrance.
"Shadow Ball!" Chris and Roy commanded simultaneously.
The two Gengars attacked each other at the same time, but even though both moves were Shadow Ball, their methods of execution were completely different.
When Purple-Gold Gengar raised its hand, more than twenty Shadow Balls appeared behind it, bombarding forward like fiery meteors with brilliant trailing flames.
Roy's Gengar raised both hands upward, then suddenly punched downward at the air. Immediately, countless fist-sized spatial holes appeared in the space behind it. Purple-black energy shot out from these holes like arrows.
The midair filled with streaks of purple-black light.
The power of each streak of light was no weaker than Purple-Gold Gengar's Shadow Balls—in fact, they were slightly stronger.
Wait...
What the heck kind of Shadow Ball was this?
Where was the ball part?
Even if there had been some vague ball shape, Chris would have accepted it. But this... don't call it Shadow Ball—he'd name it Shadow Wave instead.
Purple-Gold Gengar's Shadow Balls were immediately overwhelmed and annihilated by the shadow waves filling the sky!
Seeing this, Chris had to admit that Roy's Gengar was stronger than his Purple-Gold Gengar by more than one level. It wasn't just the Shadow Ball move, but more precisely, the accumulation of experience and power.
His time training Gengar had been too short.
Purple-Gold Gengar's skill proficiency, energy control, and level all fell short of Roy's Gengar.
However, it wasn't time to give up yet.
"Dodge!" Chris commanded.
"Shadow Sneak!" Roy followed up immediately, determined to press his advantage and completely suppress Purple-Gold Gengar.
Two thick shadow arms suddenly emerged from the soil beneath Gengar, reaching up to grab it!
They were as thick as a giant's arms.
Compared to the shadow arms of Dusknoir and Spiritomb, Gengar's shadow arms were several times larger and could easily hold Purple-Gold Gengar in one hand.
"Teleport!" Chris called out softly.
Purple-Gold Gengar immediately flashed behind Roy's Gengar and fired a Shadow Ball directly at its back.
The same move that had defeated Dusknoir and Spiritomb.
But this time wasn't as successful as the previous two.
"Shadow Sneak!" Roy repeated his previous command.
A shocking scene unfolded—from Gengar's back, two shadow arms stretched out like a pair of wings, grabbing the teleporting Purple-Gold Gengar.
"Shadow Force!" Roy's eyes gleamed coldly. This blow would be decisive!
A pitch-black warrior rose from the darkness, wielding a massive blade.
The sword in its hands was gleaming, its eyes like fire, locked onto Purple-Gold Gengar as it leaned forward for a devastating slash!