The view before his eyes rapidly blurred, with all colors intensifying; black like ink, white like light, multicolored patches interwoven, finally congealing into a solid mass of chaos.
Crack!
The crisp sound exploded in his ears like a twilight bell, and the pitch-black before his eyes shattered like a broken sunglass, with beams of light shooting through the fine cracks, black fragments separating and slowly melting away like snow.
Gradually, a sudden sense of falling surged up fiercely, blowing his hair into disarray while finally allowing him to grasp the present situation.
High altitude!
Below lay an endless expanse of vast continent; yellow, green, red... patches of vivid colors segmented, the howling wind a product of his plummeting descent through the air.
A suddenly alert Natsuhiko, filled with shock, involuntarily deployed his superpower.
At his current descent speed, hitting the ground would guarantee not even a piece of debris could be found.
Is this how the Divine Hall of Snow Peak trains superpowers?
By throwing people into the sky?
Using extreme danger to stimulate the eruption of superpowers?
One must admit, they succeeded.
To slow his descent, Natsuhiko unleashed all his superpower, yet the effect on his fall remained minimal.
Left with no choice, he altered his strategy, channeling his superpower to burst the thrust, gradually decelerating his fall step by step.
This finally yielded results.
However, it was still fast, and the green block in his vision approached swiftly, revealing at last what the green signified.
Forest!
The fall continued, though now significantly slower, yet descending at this rate would still inflict tremendous harm on his body.
Natsuhiko gritted his teeth, taxing the remnants of his superpower to enclose himself completely.
The next second.
Crash, crash—
His body plunged amid the dense forest, stirring waves of leaves and snapping countless branches.
Thud!
Natsuhiko sat heavily onto the ground, his face pale, cold sweat pouring from his brow.
One reason was the excessive consumption of his superpower, another sheer fright.
"Is this really happening?" Natsuhiko murmured, eyes filled with disbelief.
He thought it might be some sort of illusion or dream realm, yet the sharp pain from his rear told him, this was reality?
If he'd held onto the notion of "this is an illusion, this is a dream," he might now be debating the depth, length, softness, and hardness with the ground dirt.
"What on earth? Have I been transported somewhere?"
Natsuhiko reached toward his waist.
Feeling the cold firm touch at his waist, he let out a slight sigh of relief.
Thankfully, the Pokémon were all here.
Had he realized earlier, he should have summoned Yujira and the others right away.
Nearly got himself killed, and that's not even exaggerating.
Patting the dirt off his backside, he stumbled to his feet.
But one might say, that feeling teetering between life and death, especially at the moment of plunging into the forest, truly triggered some latent superpower within him.
"Falling like this every day, I'd be invincible in no time," Natsuhiko remarked with sarcasm.
Using this method to enhance superpowers?
Perhaps before his powers bolstered, the repetitive mental strain might turn him into an idiot first.
"Where is this place?"
Taking out Yujira and Beedrill's Pokeballs, he opened them while looking around.
Judging from the temperature and the angle of light...
"This isn't Sinnoh?"
The conclusion seemed a bit absurd to him.
A single teleportation sent him to another region?
Looking at the dense surrounding forest, the robust tree trunks, and towering treetops, it didn't match the vegetation of his memories of the Sinnoh Region.
"Tsk tsk(twingling)?"
"Yongji?"
After Beedrill and Yujira came out, they were also puzzled by the environment.
What's going on?
Flapping, flapping—
Before Natsuhiko could process thoroughly, an abrupt flapping of wings resonated from the dense forest.
Soon, a colossal dragonfly, over two meters in length, stirred its wings, driving the surrounding leaves in turmoil as it rapidly approached their location.
Scarlet compound eyes covered like grates of sunglasses; a forest-green body melding with the surrounding forest, dual pairs of wings thin as cicada's lined in red at the tips, its back adorned with sharp spikes, red dots shimmered on its body and tail with small wings resembling aircraft tailwings at the end.
Yanmega!
A fierce predatory dragonfly, extremely aggressive, adept at high-speed flight, with legs strong enough to lift an adult, lethal wings, and mandibles, enthusiastic about combat, with a violent demeanor.
Seeing the incoming Yanmega, Natsuhiko had to gather his scattered thoughts.
"Yujira, Psychic Arena!"
"Beedrill, High-speed Movement!"
Commanding the two Pokémon to engage.
Bzzt—
Beedrill's wings vibrated, golden patterns flickering, enhancing speed as it charged towards Yanmega.
Meanwhile, Yujira's Psychic Arena swiftly expanded, enveloping Beedrill and the oncoming Yanmega, eyes flaring blue, spoon bending as the psychic power shot like an electric beam, achieving an early start.
Bang!
Yujira's attack had a noticeable impact on Yanmega, slowing its speed somewhat.
Seizing the opportunity, Beedrill swiftly closed in, its gleaming Double Needle shimmering with light-green luminescence, slashing out the Cross Cut.
Yanmega showed no intention of dodging, its wings rolling and unfurling as a bright white Air Slash met Beedrill's Cross Cut.
Bang!
The power of the Air Slash from Yanmega was palpable, although it didn't cause Beedrill to wither, its strength was indisputable.
Elite Level!
After negating Beedrill's assault with the Air Slash, Yanmega chose not to tangle with Beedrill, instead transforming into a white beam, advancing, targeting the vulnerable Natsuhiko.
Electric Flash!
Feeling the fierce gale, strong air currents driven by Yanmega's powerful wings, even capable of blowing away a grown man.
Natsuhiko's expression remained unchanged, facing the rapidly advancing Yanmega unfazed.
The next moment.
Enclosed by the rapidly expanding superpower of Yujira, with Instant Movement enacted, he dodged Yanmega's attack.
Meanwhile, the pursuing Beedrill also stirred the air currents, its whole body transforming into a shadow, benefiting from the speed boost of Dark Assault on the Vital Point, appearing beneath Yanmega in the blink of an eye.
From below, up came another Cross Cut.
This time, the Yanmega's weakened exposed in the attack was hit by Beedrill, successfully triggering the Sniper's trait.
Forcibly halting Yanmega's movement, knocking it upwards.
And awaiting it, were several Spirit Blades long prepared by Yujira.
Bang, bang, bang—
Yet to ascend to the highest altitude, it was struck down again by Yujira's Spirit Blade.
However, the spiraling Beedrill's Deadly Needle Stab was narrowly dodged by the now accelerated Yanmega.
Acceleration Trait!
Acceleration: Speed increasing with each action.
But Beedrill persisted with the Deadly Needle Stab, even seeming to make its attacks more vehement.
Elsewhere, Yujira's blue light flared, appearing beneath Yanmega.
Followed by.
Exchange Arena!
Completing the switch between himself and Beedrill's positions.
This time, the charging Deadly Needle Stab successfully struck Yanmega again, triggering the Sniper's trait once more.
Bang!!
A cyan distinctness arose from Beedrill upon the success of the Deadly Needle Stab's harvest, Yanmega slowly fell from the sky.
It lost its combat ability!
Crashing heavily to the ground, sending up a massive cloud of dust.
Yet, Yanmega's defeat wasn't the end.
Flapping, flapping—
From the dense forest, similar sounds to Yanmega's prior appearance, even more overwhelming, echoed.
A swarm of Yanmega was approaching.
Natsuhiko's expression altered, tossing a Pokeball at Yanmega, then swiftly fleeing with Beedrill and Yujira without looking back.