WarGreymon moved.
His enormous body took flight.
At that moment, he looked almost like a gigantic aircraft soaring through the sky.
But that was only the beginning.
The sluggish speed everyone had expected never appeared.
The instant WarGreymon began moving, his initial speed was already astonishing.
The spectators' eyes could barely catch traces of his movement.
Then, when he entered his acceleration phase—
The speed he displayed became even more terrifying.
The naked eye could no longer follow him at all.
His speed was completely equal to Mewtwo's as the latter continued showing off his aerial maneuverability.
Even more astonishingly—
Despite possessing such a massive and heavy body, WarGreymon could perform incredibly fast turns and sudden changes of direction in midair.
There was not even the slightest trace of sluggishness.
How was that possible?
Everyone who witnessed the scene was stunned.
This was no longer merely something that contradicted the established laws of the Pokémon World.
It completely contradicted the laws of physics themselves.
What kind of body structure could possibly allow something so enormous to possess such absurd speed and agility at the same time?
What the hell was this?
Just what kind of creature was WarGreymon?
This was ridiculous!
At that moment, everyone finally understood why WarGreymon's evolution had taken this form.
Judging solely from what they had witnessed so far—
His stamina, strength, and speed had all undergone extreme enhancement.
On the other side—
Mewtwo, who had previously been feeling quite pleased with himself, now fell into an equally extreme state of shock.
He had never imagined that this enormous giant would still be capable of matching his speed after evolving.
Was this some kind of joke?
How was this even possible?
How could something with such a massive body possess this kind of speed?
Mewtwo could not understand it.
Everything taking place before him completely contradicted the knowledge stored inside his mind.
But even so—
So what?
I could defeat you before.
There is no reason I cannot defeat you now.
Mewtwo cast aside the chaotic emotions in his mind and focused his attention on the battle again.
Even if his opponent could match his speed, what did it matter?
Victory would still belong to him in the end.
Meanwhile, Shiko stood below with his eyes slightly narrowed.
At some point, a faint smile had appeared at the corner of his mouth.
WarGreymon had, of course, evolved.
And his evolution was certainly not limited to becoming larger.
It was a genuine evolution.
A complete enhancement in every respect.
That was right.
WarGreymon had evolved into the far stronger VictoryGreymon.
Not only had every aspect of his abilities improved—
His battle awareness and combat instincts had been strengthened even further as well.
According to Shiko's own system for evaluating combat power, VictoryGreymon had unquestionably climbed to an entirely new level compared to before.
If his previous combat power had been around the level of the strongest First-tier Legendaries, comparable to Primal Kyogre and Primal Groudon and placing him among the strongest beings on the surface of the planet—
Then his current combat power had already surpassed the surface tier.
He had stepped deep into the cosmic tier.
At this level, his strength was comparable to the powerful special forms of some of the strongest cosmic-tier Legendary Pokémon.
He had entered a completely different class.
It could almost be said that his strength was second only to Shiko's own.
Hm?
No.
That was not quite right.
If they were ranked purely according to combat power—
Shiko himself should occupy first place in this universe by an enormous margin.
He was the absolute ruler standing at the summit.
A being powerful enough to create an entire star system.
Then, in the tier directly beneath him—
There was a certain immensely powerful being Shiko had defeated before.
The strength that being had displayed was clearly somewhat greater than that of the ordinary cosmic-tier gods below.
Half a tier farther down—
There were Origin Forme Giratina, Palkia, and Dialga.
There was also Mewtwo in his current unleashed state.
And—
VictoryGreymon, who was currently fighting Mewtwo.
That was right.
VictoryGreymon's combat power had now reached the same level as Mewtwo's.
Therefore, the battle that followed would undoubtedly be extremely spectacular—
And evenly matched.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Thunderous noises repeatedly erupted across the sky.
Some came from the sonic booms created when the two pushed their speed beyond the sound barrier.
Others came from the continuous collisions of fists and feet.
Still others were shockwaves generated by explosions from the techniques they unleashed.
The airflow throughout the entire sky had descended into chaos.
From time to time, space itself was torn apart.
Huge black gaps appeared in the fabric of space.
However, those spatial ruptures appeared quickly and vanished just as quickly.
Within moments, they would completely close and disappear.
The battle between the two grew more and more intense.
And as they continued fighting, Mewtwo gradually discovered something horrifying.
He could not do anything to the enormous opponent in front of him.
VictoryGreymon's gigantic body granted him even greater stamina and even more astonishing physical strength.
Those qualities gave VictoryGreymon several significant advantages in this battle.
At the same time, his speed was not inferior to Mewtwo's in the slightest.
Meaning that his enormous size had not created the weakness everyone expected.
And as the battle continued—
Mewtwo gradually realized that he might actually be losing.
At the beginning, he had launched a relentless storm of attacks.
Gradually, the battle had turned into an evenly matched struggle.
And now—
His opponent had actually begun taking the offensive.
Mewtwo was the one being forced to defend.
How was this possible?
Mewtwo found it difficult to believe.
After an entire day filled with high-intensity battles, this was the first time he had ever been pushed this deeply into a disadvantage.
Previously, even when fighting several opponents at once, he had handled them with ease.
He had even been able to conceal part of his strength while calmly observing his enemies.
But now—
He had no attention to spare for anything else.
He was using one hundred percent of his combat power.
And even then—
He discovered that he could not defeat his opponent.
For a moment, Mewtwo found it impossible to accept.
He was the strongest Pokémon Team Rocket had created for the purpose of conquering the world.
And yet, on the very first day after emerging into the world—
Was he already going to suffer defeat?
How could he possibly accept that?
He intended to destroy this world.
He intended to destroy all humanity.
If he could not even defeat a single opponent like this—
How was he supposed to accomplish his goal?
Damn it!
Rage suddenly surged through Mewtwo.
His mind became completely consumed by fury.
He lost all rational thought.
Only rage and the instincts of his body remained in control.
And yet—
After losing his reason, the pressure he placed on VictoryGreymon actually became even greater.
After all, Mewtwo was no longer thinking at all.
He relied solely on his instinctive neural reactions—
And the judgments produced by his purest combat instincts.
Such reactions were often the fastest, most precise, and most effective.
And precisely because of that—
VictoryGreymon, who had originally been preparing to steadily turn his advantage into certain victory, suddenly felt the pressure increase dramatically.
Facing Mewtwo's newly unleashed assault—
Even VictoryGreymon began to fall into a momentary state of disorder.
(End of Chapter)
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