Feng Che was fully aware that Suicune excelled in illusionary sub-techniques. More importantly, its absolute hallmark was Crystal Wall, a specialized form of ultimate defense.
In the legendary battle chronicles, Suicune had relied on its peerless Crystal Wall to utterly dismantle and humiliate eight distinct Gym Leaders back-to-back. If this transgenic Glaceon had successfully inherited the structural code of Suicune's Crystal Wall, its operational parameters would comfortably multiply.
At present, merely managing the spatial displacement of Glaceon's Ice Mirror Realm was already threatening to push Alolan Ninetales into a chaotic defensive bottleneck. Had Feng Che deployed a primary Fire-type asset, he could have effortlessly relied on raw thermal output to violently vaporize the mirrors.
But I recall that by their very physics, mirrors are fundamentally designed to reflect and refract external light, Feng Che calculated, a spark of inspiration flickering across his conscious loops.
Before he could fully map out the precise micro-variables of the tactical plan, he resolved to feel out the layout step-by-step.
"Alolan Ninetales, test their structural strength with Ice Shard! Focus your targeting squarely on the core mirrors!"
Feng Che directed his partner to discharge a testing volley, using the baseline response data to chart a path to crack the grid.
Alolan Ninetales exhaled a succession of freezing gusts from its muzzle, the sub-zero vapors instantly condensing in midair into a swarm of heavy, goose-egg-sized ice shards. Yet, the exact millisecond the Ice Shards breached the threshold of the mirrors, the glass faces merely rippled with fluid spatial waves.
The Ice Mirrors seamlessly swallowed the projectile mass; a brief moment later, secondary ripples warped across the reflective structures. Immediately after, an immense barrage of duplicate Ice Shards erupted continuously from the mirror faces like a high-velocity machine-gun sweep.
"Alolan Ninetales, anchor the kinetic trajectory with Iron Tail!" Feng Che bellowed smoothly.
Alolan Ninetales threw its dense, flowing tails perfectly erect, the plumage shifting into an iron-hard composition. Silver-grey metallic arcs sliced across space, cleanly shattering the reflected ice shards into thousands of microscopic, powdery frost fragments that drifted through the air.
The localized fallout manifested as a dense, blinding mist across the basin floor, the white-out conditions completely obscuring the pristine surface of the Ice Mirrors.
"Alolan Ninetales, fire a multi-targeted Ice Beam to chart the refraction indices!"
Nine separate, crystalline lasers violently shot out from Alolan Ninetales's tails to pierce the mist. The moment the energy lines hit the frosted mirror panels, Feng Che's sensory arrays cleanly flagged an anomaly—the kinetic velocity of the reflected counter-beams had suffered a significant decay.
Glaceon:This is problematic... My Ice Mirrors have been heavily blanketed under that thick layer of frost dust. The ambient light refraction coefficient has tanked, forcing the mirror's reflective damage parameters to suffer a statistical drop.
The chimera cursed silently, its composure fracturing as it flagged the systemic weakness.
Siphoning the creature's thoughts through the psychic bridge, Feng Che clinically isolated the structural weak point governing the Ice Mirror Realm.
The mechanic was simple: the higher the intensity of the light refracting off the mirror faces, the greater the offensive damage parameters the mirrors could reflect back at a target. Alolan Ninetales had accidentally stumbled right into the absolute Achilles' heel of N's ultimate strategy.
Glaceon:Excluding high-intensity Fire-type over-saturation, my Ice Mirror grid holds zero alternative vulnerabilities.
Glaceon:I must accelerate our tactical timeline and bring a definitive end to this exchange immediately.
Anxious to secure the kill before the trap dissolved, Glaceon aggressively launched a full-field press from within the glass.
Within a single millisecond, identical silhouettes of Glaceon materialized concurrently across thousands of mirror faces, every single proxy expelling a razor-sharp permafrost stinger. The dense swarm of ice stingers completely blanketed the upper ceiling.
Looking upon the obscured airspace, Feng Che's expression remained entirely flat, showing zero emotional fluctuation.
Glaceon:Sustaining that calculated arrogance, are we? I shall systematically drain your baseline stamina parameters using this endless stinger matrix.
Glaceon:Once your physical shell is thoroughly overextended, I shall step out to break your core through a direct frontal press.
Glaceon calculated maliciously, thoroughly irritated by Alolan Ninetales's calm, unbothered posture.
"Alolan Ninetales, maximize your kinetic coverage with brutal sweeps!" Feng Che directed.
The infinite swarm of stingers forced Alolan Ninetales into a grueling, non-stop loop of physical deflections. By the hour the fox successfully cleared the final line of fire, the sheer kinetic friction of the broken ice had vented another dense cloud of super-cooled mist into the workspace. The thick fog completely locked down the visual profiles of the Ice Mirrors.
"Alolan Ninetales, target the master mirror array with Ice Shard!" Feng Che barked across the field.
The moment Alolan Ninetales's hyper-compressed ice shards slammed dead-center into the frost-blinded mirror structures, the glass faces violently shattered, fracturing into pieces along the floor with a clean, structural crunch.
As calculated—the precise millisecond the Ice Mirrors are isolated under a dense layer of frost mist, they lose the capacity to cleanly process and reflect Alolan Ninetales's offensive parameters, Feng Che finalized his tactical diagnosis.
"Fascinating execution, Feng Che. I must offer my compliments on your capacity to clinically unmask the underlying weak point of my layout," N remarked, his confidence completely unyielding. "However, have your analytical tracking models factored in the reality that my Glaceon can spontaneously print fresh mirror arrays at a whim?"
N snapped his fingers with a sharp crack. Instantly, a colossal matrix of fresh Ice Mirrors violently crystallized across every corner of the arena. Because the ambient airspace was heavily saturated with an endless reservoir of loose ice fragments from the previous exchanges, Glaceon required near-zero resource tax to reconstruct its absolute domain. Within a fraction of a second, the entire battlefield was heavily choked under row after row of reflective glass.
"This presents an exceptionally thorny knot... If Feng Che leverages Ice Shard to generate a protective mist, Glaceon merely siphons the loose mass to print duplicate mirrors. If his line attempts a direct offensive strike, the mirrors will smoothly double the incoming damage variables," Vio remarked from the galleries, his brow furrowed with deep tactical concern. "Furthermore, the mirrors are continuously channeling an endless stream of stingers to wear down the target. Overriding a loop of this caliber is an exceptionally abyssal task."
"Agreed. The match indices look profoundly grim," Drayden added, his face serious. "Even my Haxorus would struggle to cleanly break a Glaceon under this specific system. Team Plasma's technocratic replication is truly staggering; to think their labs could stabilize a specimen capable of executing a domain of this quality."
"Across this specific round, the statistical probability of Feng Che securing a clean win appears exceptionally minuscule." Even the veteran Grand Master failed to back the youth's line.
"Not necessarily. Look closely at Feng Che's facial indicators—his composure remains entirely relaxed, completely devoid of any cognitive panic. He has undeniably mapped out an alternative counter-strategy," Vio noted, pointing toward the youth.
"Alolan Ninetales, use Snarl!"
Feng Che handed down his next directive. He intended to test the absolute maximum resonance threshold of the mirror strategy. Once he systematically broke N's line across this campaign, he fully intended to direct N's Glaceon to tutor his own Alolan Ninetales on how to master and execute the Ice Mirror architecture for his future empire.
Alolan Ninetales unhinged its jaws, expelling a devastating, high-decibel acoustic screech from its throat. The audio payload manifested as a sequence of visible, concussive kinetic ripples that expanded across space.
The exact millisecond the soundwaves collided with the glass panels, massive structural fractures tore across the mirror faces, before the entirety of the Ice Mirrors violently exploded into thousands of harmless, shattered shards.
"Superb! It appears Snarl operates as a definitive, sonic-based hard counter to neutralize the mirrors' structural integrity!" Vio cheered loudly from his seat.
Yet, a mere micro-second later, the old master's expression froze with acute frustration. The exact second the old mirrors shattered, an even denser network of fresh Ice Mirrors spontaneously materialized to reclaim the field.
"Glaceon, show them the absolute peak of your transgenic heritage!" N commanded, his tone soaring with kingly authority. "Use Mirror Image!"
A fraction of a second later, a furry, sleek silhouette violently broke through the surface of the glass faces.
The illusionary reflections of Glaceon nesting inside the mirrors literally stepped out to claim physical vessels. Dozens of duplicate Glaceon clones flooded across the heavy snowbeds, launching a massive, multi-directional physical rush straight toward Alolan Ninetales.
Fascinating... To successfully manifest concrete corporeal reflections out of a mirror network. This mechanic functions as a highly optimized, Ice-type variant of Double Team, Feng Che calculated smoothly, tracking the twenty-plus brawlers closing in on his partner.
"Alolan Ninetales, use Iron Tail!"
Alolan Ninetales's nine flowing tails shifted back into a shimmering, silver-grey metallic sheen. Leveraging the dynamic coverage of its independent tail arrays, it effortlessly swiped through the air, its steel-hard plumage systematically swatting the incoming mirror proxies back into harmless piles of loose snow.
Though the individual parameters of these mirror clones are exceptionally brittle, their primary threat rests entirely within their capacity to be siphoned and printed without limit, Feng Che deduced. The moment a clone was smashed into dust, secondary ripples warped across the mirror panels, and an identical legion of Glaceon stepped out to maintain the press.
Sustained within a bottomless attrition loop like this, Alolan Ninetales's stamina reserves will hit absolute zero within minutes.
To permanently dismantle this entire crystalline system, I must implement a methodology that systematically vaporizes the entirety of the mirror panels concurrently.
Feng Che focused his high-tier psychic authority, his quantum-like processing speed mapping and calculating the precise mathematical coordinates of every single mirror panel inside the cavern.
Snapping his eyes open, his gaze flashed with absolute clarity. He bridged into Alolan Ninetales's pathways, transmitting a highly specific coordinate vector straight into its mind via telepathy.
Alolan Ninetales gave a firm nod, its frame instantly executing a high-speed dash to lock its footing on the exact micro-coordinates Feng Che specified.
Suddenly, an immensely blinding, cataclysmic explosion of pink energy violently erupted from its physical vessel, radiating outward like a miniature sun breaking across the dark.
A colossal star of pure, unadulterated fairy power rose majestically into the high ceiling, traveling along the precise orbital trajectory Alolan Ninetales had meticulously calibrated. Within a fraction of a second, thousands of high-intensity, searing beams of light from Dazzling Gleam began to violently refract and bounce across every single mirror face concurrently.
N immediately attempted to coordinate a defensive shift to stall the Fox Pokémon's play, but as the raw, blinding velocity of the Dazzling Gleam scaled to an absolute apex—
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