A water-type trainer who specializes in dragon-type water.

East China Sea direction...

"Hehe, I wonder if my son will like this earth dragon."

Although Zhang Leiyuan was on a severe battlefield, he was quite relaxed, thinking about how to give the severely wounded but still alive Garchomp to his son.

Park Chang's roar echoed across the sea, a desperate cry tinged with madness.

"Golden Champion! Make your move now!"

Zhang Leiyuan's gaze instantly shifted from the Garchomp lying slumped in the ice palm in front of him, and his sharp, hawk-like gaze locked onto the figure on the back of the Skarmory.

Almost as soon as Park Chang finished speaking, something unexpected happened!

“Crack—boom!”

Beneath Zhang Leiyuan's feet, beneath the solid ice steps formed by frozen Rotom, the frozen ice layer, tens of meters thick, suddenly groaned under the weight!

It didn't shatter, but rather twisted and arched as if kneaded by an invisible force, and the ice surface instantly turned into boiling, churning black asphalt!

A purplish-black torrent of destruction, carrying biting cold and raging dragon might, forcefully broke through the ice!

Instead of going upwards, it charged straight at Zhang Leiyuan with terrifying speed and precision!

The Gold Champion's Mega Salamence!

Its entire body was covered in even more ferocious dark purple armor, and its huge blood-red wings tore through the air under high-speed impact, emitting a ghostly shriek.

Those scarlet dragon eyes held no emotion whatsoever, only a pure will to kill.

Its goal was crystal clear—to behead the Chinese champion! Dark purple dragon energy, powerful enough to tear space apart, condensed on its claws, like two giant scythes of death that could destroy everything. In an instant, it covered a distance of a hundred meters, and the shadow of death completely enveloped Zhang Leiyuan!

"What a clever scheme!" Zhang Leiyuan's pupils constricted, and he roared angrily.

Rotom's reaction was incredibly fast; countless sharp ice shards instantly condensed and spun around Zhang Leiyuan, forming a thick ice crystal shield.

However, while the Korean champion's long-planned fatal blow was aimed at the trainer, the real killing intent shrouded Zhang Leiyuan's strongest asset!

"Roar--!!!"

A soul-shaking, mournful dragon roar exploded forth!

Mega Charizard X, which had just slammed Garchomp onto the ice and whose left shoulder was still bleeding from a bone spike, didn't even have time to fully calm the surging energy and pain within its body.

But in that critical moment, its instinct to protect its trainer beyond life and death was fully unleashed!

Without the slightest hesitation, its massive body unleashed a speed beyond its limits, forcibly changing direction and using its battered body to crash headlong into the purplish-black torrent rushing towards Zhang Leiyuan!

"Pfft——!"

A tooth-grinding tearing sound accompanied the spray of scalding dragon blood!

Mega Salamence's deadly claw, imbued with all its power and speed, pierced deeply into Charizard X's left shoulder, near the wound from its previous battle with Garchomp where it had been pierced by bone spikes!

The sharp claws almost pierced through his body, and dark purple destructive energy poured in wildly, wantonly destroying his muscles and bones!

"Roar—!" Charizard X let out a suppressed roar of pain, its crimson pupils contracting violently from the intense pain, and the blue flames on its neck flickering wildly, as if they might be extinguished at any moment.

But there was no sign of retreat in its eyes, only boundless rage!

Just when Mega Salamence thought it had succeeded and was about to tear its opponent apart, Charizard X did something that shocked everyone!

It suddenly lowered its head, and its massive jaws, filled with sharp teeth, bit down hard on the claw joint of the Mega Salamence that was embedded in its body! A raging flame also erupted from its dragon teeth!

"Roar!!!"

Ignoring the excruciating pain of its claws churning inside its body, Charizard X unleashed all the remaining strength in its body, its neck muscles bulging, using its wound as a fulcrum to frantically shake its head with all its might!

The terrifying power propelled Mega Salamence's massive body, like swinging a giant sandbag!

"Boom!"

Caught off guard, the Mega Salamence was violently swung up by this brute force that seemed to be taking everyone down with it. It deviated from its trajectory of attacking Zhang Leiyuan and crashed heavily onto the sea surface below, which was not yet completely frozen and was still churning with ice shards!

Towering waves of water, mixed with ice shards and scalding dragon blood spilled by Charizard X, shot into the sky!

"Charizard X!" Zhang Leiyuan's heart felt like it had been struck by a heavy hammer. Rotom's Ice Shield instantly dissipated. He stared intently at the horrific wound that pierced his beloved general's shoulder and the spurting blood. His eyes were both icy cold and burning with intense passion.

"Roar—!" Mega Salamence soared into the sky from the sea, its cold dragon eyes locking onto Charizard X, whose movements were visibly slowed by the intense pain and blood loss.

It shook its bitten claw arm and let out a dragon roar full of murderous intent.

The Korean champion's icy voice swept across the battlefield like a cold wind: "Finish it off, destroy the beam!"

Mega Salamence opened its massive jaws, and a ferocious, incomparably powerful silver-gray destructive energy gathered and compressed within, forming a terrifying sphere of light—the Destructive Beam enhanced by the Flying Skin's properties.

The target is Charizard X, which is on the verge of collapse!

Charizard X sensed a deadly threat and, enduring excruciating pain, tried to flap its wings to escape.

However, the severe injury to its left shoulder and massive blood loss significantly hampered its mobility, slowing its movements by half a beat!

"Burn to ashes!!" Zhang Leiyuan's voice carried an undeniable resolve and a barely perceptible tremor.

He couldn't let his beloved general be destroyed while he was hiding, so he had to fight back with an attack and risk everything!

Charizard X's eyes erupted with a final, intense light, like a final burst of life!

It abandoned its attempt to dodge, steadied itself, and the dim blue flames on its neck instantly transformed into raging flames that incinerated everything!

It opened its enormous maw, and a torrent of pure white, ultra-high-temperature flames, far exceeding the diameter of ordinary flames, erupted forth, meeting the destructive beam of light that was capable of destroying the world!

Red and white, and orange-red!

Destruction against destruction!

Two beams of light, representing the strongest power of both sides and containing destructive energy, collided violently in mid-air!

"boom------!!!!!"

At that moment, it was as if the sun had fallen into the East China Sea! An indescribable explosion of light engulfed everything, and a terrifying shockwave swept across in a ring, instantly pressing the churning seawater below into a huge crater, with the edges of which churned up ring-shaped waves tens of meters high!

The light dimmed slightly, and the two energies were still fiercely battling and annihilating each other!

Charizard X's scales were trembling rapidly, and blood was gushing from its wounds, but it held on desperately. The torrent of pure white flames briefly suppressed the advance of the destructive beam!

"A desperate struggle." The South Korean gold champion sneered, "Wyvern, Dragon Dive!"

Mega Salamence's eyes blazed red, and it managed to forcefully interrupt the Hyper Beam despite the terrifyingly high temperature of the burning flames. However, the additional effects of the Hyper Beam followed.

However, Salamence, with its powerful body control, swooped and glided through the air, its massive body instantly enveloped by condensed dark purple dragon energy, transforming into a destructive dragon spear that tore through space.

At the moment when Charizard X had just exhausted its old power and had not yet generated new power, and was stiffened by the huge backlash from the forced interruption of its burning, it crashed into it at a speed beyond the limits of vision!

No sound.

Only a streak of purplish-black light pierced through the embers of the pure white flames and penetrated Charizard X's body!

Time seemed to freeze.

Charizard X's body shuddered violently, and the intense light in its eyes quickly went out like a candle flickering in the wind.

The Mega Evolution light on its body peeled away and dissipated like shattered glass.

On the dragon's body, a terrifying, charred wound that ran through its chest and abdomen appeared, with dark purple destructive energy pulsating around its edges.

It glanced one last time in Zhang Leiyuan's direction. Its massive body, having lost all strength, plummeted helplessly like a kite with a broken string, spraying blood everywhere, towards the cold, churning sea below.

"Pfft..."

The heavy thud of the falling water was like a death knell striking Zhang Leiyuan's heart.

On the ice, Park Chang and Kameda wore expressions of elation at surviving a close call and cruel smiles. Kim Hyun-woo's Mega Salamence hovered in mid-air, its aura somewhat disordered, but its crimson dragon eyes coldly watched Charizard X crash into the sea, proclaiming its brutal victory.

Rotom silently submerged into the sea, and soon, an ice pillar carried Charizard, which had reverted to its Mega Evolution form, was covered in blood, and had its life force extremely weak, as it slowly rose to the surface.

Its wounds were horrifying, especially the charred, penetrating wound between its chest and abdomen, which seemed to threaten to take away its last breath at any moment.

Standing on the ice steps, Zhang Leiyuan's refined calmness vanished completely, replaced by an unfathomable coldness, like the unmelting iron beneath the Arctic glacier.

He slowly raised his head, his gaze passing over the ecstatic Park Chang and Kameda, and fixed on the cloaked figure on the back of the armored bird—Korean champion Kim Hyun-woo.

The sea breeze howled, carrying the heavy stench of blood and gunpowder. In the seas where the North Wind God awoke, the atmosphere plummeted to freezing.

The ace of the Chinese champions has fallen, but the battle is far from over.

The flames in Zhang Leiyuan's eyes were colder and more dangerous than when Charizard X had burned out.