The continuous, white-hot beams of Dazzling Gleam bounced and fractured across the mirror panels, but instead of fanning harmlessly into the cavern, the light was systematically caught in a closed feedback loop. Leveraging the calculated refraction angles Feng Che had telepathically mapped, the light intensity grew infinitely more blinding and severe with every single ricochet, ultimately manifesting as an absolute, terminal dead loop.
Saturated under the crushing energy overload of the closed feedback loop, Glaceon let out a sharp, pained shriek.
A micro-second later, thousands of Ice Mirrors violently shattered concurrently, exploding into a rain of fine glass dust.
"Superb. The mirror strategy has been clinically dismantled," Feng Che noted internally, snapping his fingers with a cool composure.
"Unbelievable... For Feng Che to possess an analytical processing speed of this caliber, explicitly leveraging the structural refraction vectors of the mirrors to forge a terminal closed loop that would systematically vaporize the entire grid."
"Just what scale of peerless cognitive sight must an individual command to unmask the hidden, structural flaw of the Ice Mirror Realm this effortlessly?" Victor gasped from the galleries, his expression rich with acute marvel.
Further down the console, Ghetsis shot a venomous, white-hot glare toward Victor's position. This specific Ice Mirror configuration had been birthed from his own primary conceptual designs; he had never once calculated that an Elite Four brat would utilize such a取巧, clinically brilliant methodology to break the system.
"Now that the mirror panels have been permanently cleared from the field, Glaceon has been stripped of its primary operational anchor. Alolan Ninetales should comfortably close the distance to finalize the rout," Iris cheered ecstatically, her eyes bright.
"Not necessarily. The match metrics remain far more complex than that, simply because the baseline parameters of Alolan Ninetales and Glaceon are resting in a near-flawless equilibrium," Vio interjected, his voice grave.
"Furthermore, having successfully integrated the sequenced genetics of Suicune, this Glaceon likely carries the Aurora Pokémon's absolute hallmark technique within its core pathways."
"The legendary Crystal Wall—an ultimate defense universally revered as an unbreachable fortress. Standard kinetic payloads yield zero structural returns against that barrier; unless a Trainer leverages the supreme, conceptual authority of a true Legendary deity's rules, breaking a stabilized Crystal Wall is a statistical impossibility." Having anchored his presence deep within Team Plasma's command structure for decades, Vio was fully aware that the modified beast had yet to exhaust its combat options.
The structural collapse of its mirror network had dealt near-zero actual trauma to Glaceon's primary vital indicators.
"Excellent. Now that the mirror domain has dissolved, Alolan Ninetales's probability of securing a clean victory has scaled significantly," Feng Che countered with absolute, unyielding confidence.
My Glaceon commands three primary signature archetypes across its line: Snow Cloak Evasion, the Ice Mirror Realm, and the unyielding Crystal Wall, N calculated silently, a trace of exhaustion coloring his mind.
Now that its active concealment and mirror loops have both been clinically broken, I can only pray the absolute defensive parameters of the Crystal Wall do not fail my hand.
Right at that critical millisecond, Glaceon initiated its counter-press.
The Fresh Chimera snapped its jaw, a hyper-compressed blade of solid permafrost materializing within its teeth, while identical, razor-sharp ice blades violently crystallized across its four hooves. Sweeping its tails to telekinetically marshal the vast oceans of loose snow covering the basin, it wove the fragmented ice into a colossal, howling dragon of pure permafrost.
"Superb work, Glaceon! Clear the lane with Giga Impact!" N roared.
Glaceon spun its modified chassis at a manic velocity, transforming its physical vessel into a towering, cataclysmic tornado of grinding ice blades. Had Alolan Ninetales been caught mid-transit and sucked into the core of that frozen tempest, its physical shell would have been systematically rendered into fine ribbons by a thousand cuts.
The relentless, sub-zero blades tore mercilessly across the field, yet Alolan Ninetales stood its ground, its footing anchored firmly against the bedrock. Having conditioned their vessels across the perennial, absolute-zero peaks of ancestral snow mountains for generations, the Fox Pokémon's bloodline possessed innate biological counter-measures to naturally insulate their cores against extreme blizzards.
Alolan Ninetales casually swept its tails to brush away the loose snow building across its chassis. Raising its head, it concurrently fired up its own parameters to execute a maximum-output Giga Impact.
However, Feng Che's partner infused a brilliant optimization loop into the physical rush: its nine tails shifted concurrently into a sleek, silver-grey composition to seamlessly merge a maximum-tier Iron Tail right into the Giga Impact velocity loop.
A colossal, silver-grey emerald tempest violently collided dead-center with the roaring, blue-white tornado of grinding ice blades.
The two Champion-tier maelstroms locked frames in a brutal, ear-piercing deadlock, neither asset willing to surrender a single micro-millimeter of spatial terrain. Yet, Alolan Ninetales's legacy parameters ultimately manifested a superior muscular coefficient, its silver steel blades forcefully crushing and shattering the kinetic structure of Glaceon's Giga Impact.
The structural matrix of the technique collapsed instantly, and Glaceon was violently ejected from its rotation, its physical vessel crashing hard onto the permafrost floor. Unhinging its jaws, it coughed up a thick pool of deep, ice-blue blood onto the snow.
"Glaceon, lock down your defenses with Crystal Wall!" N commanded, his tone sharpening with acute urgency.
Tracking the remaining shockwave of Alolan Ninetales's Giga Impact roaring across the snowbeds to claim its vessel, Glaceon's pupils contracted in pure, primal terror.
Its entire frame trembled under the intense cellular strain; it was forced to cycle its internal energy pathways through multiple frantic micro-calibrations before it finally succeeded in projecting the sacred Crystal Wall barrier.
Precisely as our models calculated, Feng Che analyzed clinically, his psychic tracking mapping the energy displacement within a fraction of a second. Though this Glaceon has inherited the legendary barrier of Suicune, the density of the siphoned Suicune cell lines nesting within its pathways is far too restricted.
Consequently, its system lacks the structural resources required to manifest a full-spectrum, multi-directional Crystal Wall that can safely encapsulate its entire silhouette.
At present, its Crystal Wall operates merely as an inverted, dome-like bowl propped over its spine, leaving its absolute lower hemisphere entirely bare. Saturated under this fatal mechanical flaw, the legendary barrier is rendered completely useless.
"Alolan Ninetales—redirect the Giga Impact vector and dive straight beneath the snowbed lines!"
Following Feng Che's precise telepathic directive, Alolan Ninetales shifted its trajectory mid-stride, its hyper-compressed kinetic drill burrowing cleanly beneath the frozen powder layer. The unyielding bedrock below violently shattered and split apart under the immense structural strain.
A fraction of a second later, a catastrophic seismic distortion erupted directly beneath Glaceon's coordinates.
A gargantuan, vertical maelstrom of concussive wind and shattered earth exploded upward from its blind spot, wrapping around its silhouette to trap its vessel inside a violent, spinning column of kinetic force. The unyielding vertical pressure instantly bypassed the overhead dome shield, and the Crystal Wall shattered into a thousand glowing shards.
Completely exposed within the core of the tempest, Glaceon's physical shell was battered relentlessly by thousands of high-velocity permafrost fragments, its hide marred by countless deep structural wounds.
By the hour the maelstrom fully dissolved, Alolan Ninetales smoothly exited its Giga Impact state. Its baseline stamina reserves had hit absolute exhaustion, its lungs heaving for air as it collapsed onto the snow, entirely unwilling to drag its aching limbs back to a standing posture.
Glaceon, conversely, plummeted limply from the highest reaches of the vault, crashing heavily onto the cold floor before its cognitive stability fractured entirely, and it plunged into a dead comatose state, completely incapacitated.
"To think you would clinically isolate the structural vulnerability governing my Glaceon's Crystal Wall within a mere few seconds of its manifestation..."
N looked upon Feng Che with a newfound wave of deep, defensive caution coloring his brilliant eyes. This transgenic Glaceon comfortably anchored the upper echelons of his active military line. Had his partner resisted the urge to launch that desperate, high-risk Giga Impact rush earlier and instead prioritized a slow, defensive grid, its parameters would have easily sustained the press for a significant duration.
"Return, Glaceon. Your combat execution was magnificent."
With this development, N had officially witnessed four of his premier vanguard partners systematically neutralized on the battlefield. Following standard operational metrics, having four active lines broken by a single Trainer effectively spelled his absolute, definitive defeat across this campaign.
"Superb performance. I harbor an immense intellectual anticipation to chart the precise caliber of the quinary asset you intend to deploy."
"This upcoming partner was harvested from a highly classified, dark research syndicate during my youth," N shared, reaching for a premium capsule along his belt. "Following my intervention to extract its vessel from their torture vats, its loyalty parameters have remained absolutely unshakable."
"Excluding the Vast White Pokémon, Reshiram, itself... it stands as the absolute undisputed pinnacle of the military assets anchoring my hand."
N smoothly hurled his Poké Ball into the clearing, a command vector Feng Che seamlessly mirrored by deploying a fresh partner from his own line concurrently.
The entity materializing before N's coordinates was the elusive, Mythical Illusion Fox Pokémon—Zoroark.
Zoroark stood as a majestic, bipedal lupine-fox entity whose primary hide was a sleek, polished shade of ash-grey. A voluminous, crimson mane of hyper-dense fur spilled from its crown, completely blanketing its spine and lower back. The dark tresses were accented by sections of deep charcoal fur, bound together near the absolute tip by a specialized, turquoise bead structure closely resembling a traditional hair ornament.
A ruff of pitch-black fur crested Zoroark's upper chest, wrapping elegantly around its shoulders. Its sharp claws and inner ears burned a violent shade of crimson, complemented by identical red markings framing its muzzle and keen eyes. Its forelimbs tapered into three independent, razor-sharp claws, supported by three powerful toes anchoring its lower extremities.
Its master-tier illusionary capabilities completely outstripped its pre-evolved state; it possessed not only the capacity to seamlessly refashion its visual silhouette into any concrete subject at a millisecond's notice, but held the baseline cognitive authority to force hundreds of human minds into experiencing a collective, multi-sensory illusion concurrently. Though its custom illusions were so masterfully detailed they could flawlessly deceive every single biological sensory array of both humans and Pokémon alike, they standardly lacked the physical parameters to deal direct, tangible kinetic trauma to the mortal plane.
However, precisely as Feng Che had calculated, the Mythical beast N had deployed had likewise been subjected to Colress's radical transgenic sequencing. Its physical silhouette bore a near-flawless structural alignment with the anatomical lines of a Lucario.
"This specific specimen was engineered by taking a baseline Zoroark template and carefully splicing selected Lucario gene cell matrices into its primary pathways," Colress crowed from the sidelines, his voice rich with scientific vanity.
"Beyond its natural, high-tier Dark-type affinity, the genetic integration has successfully supplemented its pathways with a secondary Fighting-type core!"
"A synthesis combining the attributes of Zoroark and Lucario... Small wonder its visual silhouette radiates such an absolute, peerless coolness," Feng Che murmured internally, a trace of genuine aesthetic envy crossing his mind as he tracked the hybrid brawler.
Just what caliber of god-tier scientist is this Colress? To have successfully stabilized and stabilized this immense fleet of hyper-optimized transgenic chimeras under his sole intellect...