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

The first punch was blocked, but Charizard's offensive momentum did not diminish at all, and its left fist followed with a whooshing sound!

However, the Flame Centipede's fighting instincts are indeed exceptionally superior!

Its burning tail suddenly retracted, and then its entire long and massive body coiled up like a serpent, and began to spin rapidly!

Fire-type physical move - Flame Wheel!

A move with only 60 points of power, under the Flame Centipede's excellent body control and combat intelligence, was transformed into a clever skill that combined offense and defense!

The rapidly spinning flame wheel not only perfectly blocked Charizard's second Flame Punch, but also continued to strike with undiminished power, carrying cutting and burning force as it slammed into Charizard's open chest!

Charizard threw two punches, its strength waning and new power yet to emerge. Faced with this sudden counterattack, it had no way to avoid it!

"Boom!"

With a muffled thud, the Flame Wheel slammed solidly into the Charizard's chest and abdomen. The powerful impact propelled its massive body backward several meters, leaving a clear mark on the hard black rock.

However, despite taking the full force of the Flame Wheel attack, Charizard showed no sign of pain in its eyes.

Instead, it ignited an even fiercer flame, its eyes seeming to say, "Is that all the strength you have? Not enough!"

"Dragon Tail!"

Before Zhang Heng could give the order, Charizard had already launched a counterattack on its own!

It looked down at the fire wheel that was still spinning in front of it, trying to continue to cause damage. The powerful dragon energy around it surged wildly and gathered on its thick and powerful tail!

In an instant, its tail seemed to be covered with a layer of illusory dragon scales that shimmered with a ghostly green light, transforming into a more powerful and solidified energy dragon tail!

"Roar!"

Charizard used its waist and abdomen to power up, and its body suddenly spun around. Its huge tail, which was filled with the dragon's rage, was like a green steel whip, and with the momentum to tear everything apart, it lashed hard at the high-speed spinning fire wheel!

"boom--!!!"

An even more violent explosion! The flames burning on the flame wheel were instantly shattered and annihilated like fragile glass by the domineering and unparalleled power of the dragon's tail, revealing the true form of the Flame Centipede inside!

"hiss--!!!"

The Flame Centipede let out a sharp, mournful insect cry, clearly indicating that it had suffered considerable damage.

Its massive body was flung away by the immense force contained in the dragon's tail, flying in an arc like a kite with a broken string, before finally crashing heavily onto the exceptionally hard black rock ground in the distance with a loud "boom"!

What's chilling is that the rock, scorched by lava for countless years, is harder than anyone could imagine. When the Flame Centipede's massive body crashed down, it barely kicked up any dust, only producing a dull thud that made your teeth ache.

But the Flame Centipede's tenacity was also unexpected!

It did not surrender after the heavy blow; instead, an ominous purple light (poison energy) shone on its body the moment it landed!

Its wounded body began to spin and twist rapidly on the ground, its hard carapace scales rubbing against each other, making a chilling "crack" sound!

Poison-type status move - Coil!

The user curls up and concentrates their mind, thereby increasing their attack, defense, and hit rate by 1 level!

"Um……"

Zhang Heng's gaze narrowed slightly, and his evaluation of this wild Flame Centipede rose even higher.

"Such keen combat intuition and rich experience! Seizing the brief opening after being injured and after the opponent uses a skill, he does not hesitate to use a transformation skill to strengthen himself and make up for his disadvantage."

Seeing the Blazing Centipede's outstanding performance, Zhang Heng suddenly had a thought: "In that case, I won't give any more command. This battle is a perfect opportunity to test Charizard's own strength!"

Indeed, since catching Charizard in the Max Raid Den, it has been used more as an aerial mount and a guard force.

The series of fierce battles left Zhang Heng with little time to get to know and get to know his new partner.

Just as Zhang Heng was pondering this, the Flame Centipede, having completed its "Coiled" enhancement, launched a counterattack!

"call out--!"

Its figure darted out like a ghost! The fire energy around it suddenly exploded, completely covering its body, transforming it into a giant fire python that crawled rapidly across the ground, rushing towards the fire-breathing dragon at an astonishing speed!

"Roar!"

Charizard was not to be outdone. Facing the oncoming fire python, it flapped its wings again, unleashing countless swift and sharp flying-type wind blades (air blades) like a machine gun, covering the path of the Flame Centisk's charge!

However, after using "Coil" to improve accuracy, the Flame Centipede's body became exceptionally agile when performing moves!

It exhibits amazing flexibility and change of direction while crawling at high speed, as if it is performing a dance of death, narrowly avoiding the cutting of most of the wind blades!

Immediately afterwards, when it was still several meters away from the Charizard, the burning body of the Centipede suddenly sprang up and soared into the air!

It twisted strangely in the air, its slender body seemingly transforming into a fierce, downward-lashing flaming whip!

Fire-type physical move - Flame Whip!

With a power of up to 80 points, it is a powerful move that only a few Fire-type Pokémon with a similar body structure can master!

"Snapped--!!"

The Flame Whip, enhanced with the "Coil" buff to increase its attack power, struck Charizard squarely at the junction of its shoulder and neck!

Although the direct damage caused was not particularly high due to the similarity of attributes, the heavy impact and the clever point of force application were remarkable.

However, this caused the Charizard, which was maintaining its flight posture, to suddenly tilt to the side, its balance instantly broken, and it plummeted to the ground at an angle like a downed fighter jet!

The Flame Centipede was clearly not going to miss this excellent opportunity to get close!

It adjusted its posture in mid-air using the reaction force of the tug, and as it fell, it lunged forward again like a real giant python, its long and powerful body quickly and tightly wrapping around the fire-breathing dragon's body!

The flames burned intensely at the point of contact between the two!

However, the moment it was entangled, Charizard's eyes showed no panic, but instead a fierce look of "I've been waiting for you for a long time" flashed!

A completely different, violent and fierce fighting energy suddenly surged and erupted from its body!

"Roar--!!!"

"Hiss—!!!"

The spiky centipede, which was tightly wrapped around the fire-breathing dragon, felt an overwhelming and violent force erupt from the dragon's body like a volcanic eruption, which slammed into the body it was wrapped around!

It let out a painful howl, unable to maintain the entanglement any longer, and was forced to quickly release the fire-breathing dragon!

Fighting-type physical moves - Double the payback!

This is an extremely special move that returns double the damage from the last physical attack received this turn to the opponent! It ignores type resistances (except against Ghost-types), making it a powerful tool for turning the tide of battle!

"boom!!"

Charizard and Centipede both fell from the sky and crashed heavily onto the hard ground!

In this brief encounter, Charizard still had a slight advantage!

Although it was struck by the Flame Whip and fell, the Flame Centipede actually suffered double the damage from the "Double Return" attack!

"Woo!"

The Charizard, which had fallen to the ground, ignored the pain and reacted extremely quickly by flapping its wings, hovering low in the air once again.

Its eyes burned with even greater rage; it was clearly enraged beyond measure!

This time, the energy surging around it was no longer fire or flying type energy, but heavy and solid rock type energy!

Beneath its flapping wings, four enormous fossils, formed from condensed energy and with sharp edges, instantly materialized and slammed down with an aura of crushing everything onto the Flame Centipede, which had just landed and was not yet fully recovered!

Rock-type physical move - Ancient Power!

Seeing this, Cheng Lan raised an eyebrow and couldn't help but say, "Hey, your Charizard doesn't look like a good dragon. In a Fire-type mirror match, you're using Rock-type moves? That's just too much!"

Zhang Heng: "Uh..."

Although Charizard, with its Fire and Flying typing, is itself four times weak to Rock types, it can be considered a "muscle killer".

But at this moment, facing the Fire/Bug type Centiskine, which is also four times weak to Rock-type, it's a classic case of "misery loves company, yet they kill each other"...

However, just as the four primal power fossils were about to hit, the Flame Centipede once again demonstrated its amazing survival ability and utilization of the terrain!

Its seemingly enormous body, with incredible flexibility, "whoosh" quickly burrowed into a small, inconspicuous cave in the rock wall, no bigger than a basketball!

"Boom boom boom boom——!!"

All four Primal Force fossils slammed into the rock walls surrounding the small hole, creating a deafening explosion and sending debris flying, but clearly they failed to inflict any effective damage on the Flame Centipede that had retreated deep inside.

Just as the fire-breathing dragon was warily watching the small hole, and Zhang Heng and Cheng Lan thought the flame centipede would choose to temporarily retreat—

"Om..."

An unusually violent surge of fire energy, containing strange stellar power, suddenly erupted from inside that narrow opening!

"Bang!" The force pushed aside the several pieces of rubble blocking the cave entrance.

Then, to Zhang Heng and Cheng Lan's astonishment, the Flaming Centipede slowly crawled out of the hole.

In its mouth, it held a strange stone about the size of a fist, with what appeared to be a red nebula flowing inside, radiating a dreamlike light!

Zhang Heng looked closely, and his pupils suddenly contracted!

Those were... wishing star tiles?!

It can also Dynamax...?!