Chapter 253: Super Ancient Gengar!
The attack seemed like a pebble thrown into dead water—creating only brief ripples before being completely swallowed.
It had absolutely zero effect on the Ancient Gengar!
"What?!!" Yun Erdun's eyes widened in disbelief.
SWISH!!!! —
A sharp whistling sound tore through the sky. A figure wrapped in rainbow light shot out, charging straight at the Ancient Gengar.
As the figure reached the giant, the rainbow light faded, revealing Mega Beedrill clad in its golden exoskeleton.
Mega Beedrill raised its lance high. Dark energy had been gathering at the tip for a long time, ready to unleash.
"Siii!!! —"
Night Slash!!!!
Normally, Beedrill cannot learn Night Slash.
But Kenji's Beedrill was an exception.
Night Slash—a move that slashes the opponent the instant an opportunity arises. High critical hit ratio.
Mega Beedrill slashed down violently. But strangely, it didn't close in on the Ancient Gengar. It maintained a distance of about ten meters.
At this range, Mega Beedrill shouldn't have been able to hit.
But an anomaly occurred. The Dark-type energy coating the lance detached the moment Mega Beedrill swung, transforming into a flying blade of energy that shot toward the Ancient Gengar.
"GE!!!! —"
This time, no ripples appeared on Gengar's surface. The Night Slash struck solid, eliciting a cry of pain from the ancient ghost.
Gengar's attention shifted from Fearow and Mega Aerodactyl to Mega Beedrill.
Yun Erdun looked at Mega Beedrill in surprise. He hadn't expected Beedrill to be able to "throw" a Night Slash.
Moves like Night Slash worked by coating the user's body part in elemental energy to enhance a physical strike.
To use an analogy, it was like putting on brass knuckles to punch harder.
"Throwing" a Night Slash was like throwing the brass knuckles at the opponent mid-punch.
Leaving aside how much damage thrown brass knuckles could do, getting them off your hand in an instant was already a major problem.
The reason Mega Beedrill could turn a melee move into a ranged attack was thanks to an Artifact:
[Rapid Firecannon]
Basic Stats: Attack +10, Sp. Atk +10
Special Effect: Attack range is increased. Melee moves no longer require physical contact. Ranged moves have increased range. Area of Effect moves have slightly larger coverage.
The description didn't specify exactly how much range was added.
But based on Kenji's experiments, for melee moves like Poison Jab and Night Slash, it added about ten meters of range.
Meaning, it could land melee hits from ten meters away.
Among all Artifacts, Rapid Firecannon was considered mid-tier, maybe slightly above average.
Its biggest use was catching opponents off guard.
Aside from that, it was useful against Abilities like Flame Body or Static that inflicted status conditions on contact.
But right now, facing the Ancient Gengar—whose body absorbed anything it touched—Rapid Firecannon's range extension was a godsend.
With it, Mega Beedrill didn't need to abandon its powerful melee arsenal for weaker ranged attacks.
Fearow and Mega Aerodactyl's attacks had done nothing, but Mega Beedrill's Night Slash had wounded the giant.
Do only super-effective moves work?
"Go!! Mandibuzz!!"
Yun Erdun raised his hand and threw another Poké Ball.
Red light flashed, and a vulture-like Pokémon appeared in the sky.
[Mandibuzz]
Gender: Female
Level: 88
Type: Dark / Flying
Ability: Big Pecks
Potential: A
Level 88 Mandibuzz. Yun Erdun hadn't planned to use her, as fighting the dangerous Ancient Gengar with an Elite-level Pokémon was risky.
But now that Gengar's attention was fully focused on Mega Beedrill, ignoring the others, it was safe for Mandibuzz to enter.
Mega Beedrill cooperated perfectly. Facing Gengar's attacks, it focused on dodging, maintaining a speed that was just fast enough to evade but slow enough to give Gengar hope of hitting it, keeping its aggro locked.
"Mandibuzz!!! Dark Pulse!!"
"Ying-na!!!! —"
Mandibuzz flew behind the Ancient Gengar and opened its beak. Pitch-black Dark energy surged out, blasting toward Gengar's back.
But the Dark Pulse didn't deal damage like Mega Beedrill's Night Slash. Instead, it sank into Gengar's body and was absorbed, just like the previous attacks.
Yun Erdun frowned. So it's not just about type advantage.
As the battle progressed, Kenji's understanding of the Ancient Gengar deepened.
Was the Ancient Gengar strong? Undeniably. Fearow and Mega Aerodactyl were Champion-level, yet their attacks couldn't even scratch it; they were simply absorbed.
Moreover, Gengar's own attacks were terrifying—one hit meant being sealed away in a dimensional void.
But in reality... it wasn't that invincible.
Mega Beedrill was running circles around it. Clearly, Mega Beedrill's attack power had exceeded the threshold of what Gengar could absorb, allowing it to deal direct damage.
Conversely, while Gengar's attacks were instant-kill threats, they were useless if they couldn't hit.
Ancient Gengar was too slow. Hitting Mega Beedrill was a pipe dream.
However, one had to admit, this Ancient Gengar was incredibly tanky. It had taken four or five Night Slashes from Mega Beedrill and was still lively.
A normal Level 95 Gengar would have been sent to meet Darkrai after just one hit.
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