Pokémon: When the World Changed

Chapter 581 576: Ryū-Odoshi

"The strength of Vibrava is really good. But in the previous attacks, Hydreigon clearly didn't use all his power."

"Look, Hydreigon is starting to get serious."

A dragon messenger shook his head and turned his gaze toward the field. There, Hydreigon's three heads once again unleashed their power and, relying solely on the strength of his own body, he shattered the three sand tornadoes!

After pulverizing them, the three pairs of wings on his back flapped violently, and a fierce gale suddenly rushed toward Vibrava.

At the same time, Hydreigon moved, using that current of air to propel himself directly toward Vibrava.

Kevin's combat style had always been to crush the enemy with absolute force; long-range attacks were merely a supplement for Hydreigon.

"It looks like Kevin is getting serious!"

Seeing this, the dragon messengers tensed up.

If Vibrava couldn't stop Hydreigon's offensive, the battle would be over!

"So he's getting serious?"

"Then... Vibrava, we'll get serious too."

Ethan curved his lips into a smile, and in his eyes appeared a glimmer of anticipation.

"Begin! Raise the sand... Earth Whirlwind!"

Upon hearing the command, Vibrava also became excited.

Immediately, his figure dove straight toward the ground.

With his movement, the yellow sand of the desert field began to churn violently.

Then, as he spun his body, the very surface of the ground began to overturn. Countless amounts of sand were torn up and lifted into the sky, where they rolled like giant waves, crashing toward the charging Hydreigon.

"What the hell...?! The ground... he lifted it!"

Marcus shouted without being able to restrain himself.

Not only him; the other dragon messengers stared at the completely overturned terrain with expressions of utter disbelief.

"Hydreigon, destroy it!"

Kevin's face also changed.

Hydreigon's three heads launched attacks at the same time, shattering the wave of sand rushing toward him.

"Ryū: Odoshi!"

At that moment, Ethan spoke again.

Kevin was slightly startled. Just then, the sand wave was completely dispersed.

When he looked ahead, his pupils suddenly contracted.

On the opposite side, as Vibrava danced in the air, all the sand on the field had been completely overturned, exposing the deepest layer of the ground!

After that, all that lifted sand spun around Vibrava's body and, in midair, took the shape of a gigantic sand dragon that charged directly at Hydreigon!

Boom!

With a deafening roar, Hydreigon had no time to react and was sent flying by the impact of the sand dragon.

"Hey, hey! What is that!?"

"He flipped the entire desert and turned it into that sand dragon surrounding his body!"

"That can't be done with wind control alone!"

"That's all the sand of the desert field! How much weight is that?! Not even Tyranitar, the Tyrant of the Desert, could do that!"

Upon witnessing that scene, all the dragon messengers were left dumbfounded, shouting in disbelief.

Boom!

Meanwhile, the sand dragon in the sky, after sending Hydreigon flying, suddenly twisted in the air and, under Vibrava's control, rammed into him again.

"Destroy it."

Kevin's expression changed once more.

Boom!

With another explosion, Hydreigon's attack pulverized the head of the sand dragon.

But that wasn't a normal living being. Even though his head was destroyed, the sand dragon's body kept moving forward and slammed heavily into Hydreigon, sending him flying again without him being able to resist.

"This is absurd!"

"That's Kevin's Hydreigon, famous for crushing his opponents with his unstoppable body!"

"And now what is this? A sand dragon is dominating him in close combat!"

Clyde stared at the scene with a stunned expression. Seeing Kevin's signature Hydreigon being suppressed in his own specialty—close combat—left him completely bewildered.

Not only were the dragon messengers on the field shocked; even the four Masters of Dragon Valley who were observing from a cliff stared fixedly at the sand dragon flying in the sky, utterly perplexed.

Even with their experience, they couldn't understand how it was possible to manipulate all the sand on the field in such a way.

"He did it... the 'Shishi: Odoshi' of the Golden Lion."

Ethan smiled faintly as he watched the sand dragon soaring through the sky.

In reality, this technique called "Ryū: Odoshi" was originally called "Shishi: Odoshi", the signature technique of the legendary Golden Lion from one of the anime of his past life.

When he first saw Vibrava's Levitate ability, Ethan thought of that Golden Lion who had mastered the power of the Float-Float Fruit.

Since then, he had been continuously developing Vibrava's Levitate ability.

Perhaps because Vibrava possessed extraordinary natural talent for flight, the development of his Levitate ability progressed very smoothly.

From the beginning, he used it to transport people, reduce air resistance, and improve flight comfort. In every flight, Vibrava trained his control over the Levitate ability; after years of constant accumulation, the progress was enormous.

Later, he managed to reduce his own weight through the Levitate ability and, combining it with his mastery of wind, created the previous evasive technique based on air currents.

Now, Vibrava's Levitate ability was fully developed, granting him a power similar to that of the Float-Float Fruit: he could make anything he touched float.

Of course, this ability only worked while Vibrava kept his Levitate ability active; if he deactivated it, the objects would also lose the ability to float.

Among the Golden Lion's techniques, one of them was precisely "Shishi: Odoshi": using the Float-Float Fruit to lift the entire terrain, shape it into gigantic lion heads, and crush the enemy.

And this "Ryū: Odoshi" was Vibrava's version, a combination of the Levitate ability and wind control, recreating a similar effect.

The principle was simple: use the Levitate ability to make the sand that Tyranitar had left behind float, and then, through wind control, shape it into a gigantic sand dragon.