Golett was drowning. After falling into the water, it was flailing against the surface of the lake.
Tetsuya immediately had Ditto carry him toward the surface of the lake. At this time, Piloswine had already dealt with all the Pokémon by the lakeside.
"Golett! use all your might to slap the surface of the water and move toward the shore!"
Tetsuya shouted from the back of RaDittash. Although Golett feared water, it still possessed the Ghost type. The energy within its body would help it resist the invasion of the water.
At such a "critical moment", Golett would naturally struggle with all its might to swim toward the shore. Such movement was more beneficial to balancing its body coordination, and this "dangerous" atmosphere was also more conducive to stimulating the energy within Golett's body.
Tetsuya deliberately had Ditto slow down. Golett struggled to slap at the water's surface, only managing to move slightly closer to the shore.
Just as he was anticipating Golett's performance, the next scene forced Tetsuya to accelerate, because Golett had already been surrounded by a group of Qwilfish.
Qwilfish were poisonous, and the water was their territory. Their territorial awareness was extremely strong. After Poliwhirl had been defeated, they immediately invaded, and now they all regarded Golett as an enemy.
The Qwilfish uniformly used Tackle on Golett, eager to eliminate this enemy immediately and turn this place into their own territory.
Golett paid no attention to the encirclement by the Qwilfish and desperately swam toward the shore. Fortunately, Golett's body was sturdy enough that the Qwilfish's Tackle could not do anything to it. After knocking away a few Qwilfish, several more surrounded it, showing a completely relentless spirit.
Such wilderness groups were the most terrifying!
At this moment, Tetsuya had already arrived. He took out a Poké Ball and was just about to recall Golett when suddenly the entire Qwilfish group scattered in all directions, as if they had seen something terrifying. In panic, they all swam downstream.
After recalling Golett, Tetsuya did not waste a single moment. The "prey" on the ground was waiting for him to catch. Antel's backpack happened to contain thirty Poké Balls.
Tetsuya caught eight Gloom, eight Weepinbell, and eight Poliwhirl at once, using up twenty-four Poké Balls. This was another good profit.
After organizing his spoils, Tetsuya was still puzzled about why the Qwilfish had retreated collectively. He saw a patch of blue creatures in the distance approaching this way.
As they drew slightly closer, Tetsuya discovered that it was two Tentacruel leading a group of Tentacool. It seemed that this Tentacruel group was the ruler of this body of water. Otherwise, the Qwilfish would not have been so frightened.
Tetsuya was preparing to leave. He did not want to provoke a group of creatures that could poison him at any moment.
However, the surprise he saw next forced Tetsuya to stay and orchestrate the next plan…
A Drapion stood on top of a Tentacruel, and beside the Tentacruel were two Skorupi swimming in front of the Tentacool!
'Arceus… is that you?'
What he could be certain of was that those two Skorupi were the offspring of Drapion and Tentacruel. It was rare for Skorupi to possess such swimming ability, unless they were the offspring of a Water-type Pokémon. And that Drapion standing on the Tentacruel clearly could not swim or was not good at swimming.
Within the Tentacruel group, it was undoubtedly the offspring of Drapion and Tentacruel.
Although he did not know why this Drapion had appeared here, those two Skorupi were something he absolutely needed!
Skorupi that had inherited from Tentacruel were precisely the key step in breeding a [Badly Poison Drapion], and it was also a key step he had not told Mr. Shellby about.
As long as these two Skorupi were handed over to Mr. Shellby to raise, and then bred with the third-gen inherited Ariados, the Skorupi eggs produced, as long as they could hatch in a toxic environment, would become fully formed [Badly Poison Skorupi].
In such a place, to have accidentally encountered Skorupi like this, as long as he caught them and handed them to Mr. Shellby, it would save him a great deal of raising time.
How could he possibly let such an opportunity slip away!
At this time, Tetsuya had already recalled Golett and released Swinub as well. With the combined effort of Swinub and Piloswine, the entire riverbank on both sides was frozen over. As long as the Tentacruel approached, they would be completely unable to pass.
Moreover, he had already thought of a method to deal with this Tentacruel group. The key lay in handling Drapion and catching the Skorupi.
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Piloswine and Swinub stood on the ice, waiting for the Tentacruel and Drapion to approach. Ditto had also transformed into Lapras and stayed behind Piloswine and Swinub.
Tetsuya stood at the very back, preparing for this battle. After all, with Swinub's combat power present, he felt confident.
After Tentacruel and Drapion drew closer, they discovered that the path ahead was blocked by a layer of ice, and on the ice stood three Pokémon and one human.
The lack of water had no effect on Drapion. Naturally, it charged onto the ice first. The two Skorupi also followed Drapion onto the ice.
It was Piloswine who faced Drapion and the two Skorupi.
As for Tentacruel, once it left the water it could not move normally and could only launch attacks from within the water. The one dealing with the entire Tentacruel group was Pryce's formidable Swinub.
Two Tentacruel and more than ten Tentacool simultaneously fired Water Gun in Tetsuya's direction. The small streams gathered together into a thick column of water as wide as a basin, rushing straight toward Swinub.
Swinub did not need Tetsuya's command. Blizzard howled out, and instantly the entire column of water was blown apart, turning into countless ice beads. However, Swinub could not move in the water and could not cause any substantial damage to Tentacruel.
One Swinub against the entire Tentacruel group, only various moves could be seen bombarding wildly across the ice. Swinub looked completely relaxed, while the Tentacruel group was already resisting with all their might.
LaDipras -Lapras/Ditto- slid across the ice, assisting Piloswine's attack.
Drapion leaped onto the ice, and Pin Missile shot out like a torrential rain toward Piloswine. Piloswine shook its body and Icy Wind blew out.
Under the assault of Icy Wind, the Pin Missile turned into streaks of ice needles and shot back toward Drapion once again.
Drapion swung its pincers and used Knock Off. The ice needles were struck down one by one.
The two Skorupi rushed forward, opened their mouths to reveal their poison fangs, and bit toward Piloswine.
"Piloswine, Ancient Power. Ditto, Ice Beam."
Facing Skorupi that dared to approach in close combat was exactly what Tetsuya wanted. Ditto fired an Ice Beam, successfully forcing one Skorupi back. After all, LaDipras was fake and did not possess such powerful Ice-type energy, and did not even have the ability to freeze a single Skorupi.
Piloswine did not have many opportunities to use Ancient Power, and its power was not particularly great, but his objective was to catch them.
Piloswine circulated the prehistoric power -or primeval power- throughout its body and launched five stones containing prehistoric energy toward the other Skorupi. Both Skorupi were successfully forced back!