Boom!
With a loud explosion, the red gem at the top of the pillar instantly shattered into powder.
Under the tremendous force generated by the Aura Sphere's explosion, the entire pillar bent sharply and was forced downward, letting out creaking, grinding sounds.
"Pheromosa, get out of the way!", Axel predicted it in advance and gave the command.
Almost at the same moment, the pillar rebounded at a speed even faster than its fall!
"Be careful. Use Aura Sphere from a distance and destroy the pillar."
"Yo~", Pheromosa's eyes suddenly lit up, and it let out a soft cry.
Through their mental link, a clear, ringing insect-like sound echoed in Axel's mind.
"What, you're saying that smashing this pillar at close range could bring you some benefits?"
Axel thought for a moment and quickly understood Pheromosa's idea.
Fighting and Water might seem unrelated, but in truth, they shared a deep connection.
Brawly's Makuhita and Kubfu from the Isle of Armor had both trained their moves using ocean waves.
And just now, that pillar had shown remarkable resilience under Pheromosa's attack, just like flowing water, making it hard to break.
If Pheromosa fought against this pillar, then when she finally destroyed it with close-range power, she might truly gain further growth.
"Chi-Yu, hang in there. Don't die just yet!"
Axel cupped his hands around his mouth and shouted loudly toward Chi-Yu.
Then, under the confused gaze from the other side, he beckoned gently to Pheromosa.
"Come on, Bond Evolution. Then rely on your own strength to analyze the power of this pillar!"
Chi-Yu: "???"
Pheromosa: (p≧w≦q)
After giving Chi-Yu an encouraging look, Axel gently closed his eyes, synchronizing his mental energy with Pheromosa's in an instant.
Within a soaring pillar of light, Pheromosa's figure became even more slender and agile, bursting with strength and speed far beyond normal.
Bond Evolution complete.
"Yo!", The evolved Pheromosa let out a sharp, resonant cry, her fighting spirit surging.
She didn't wait any longer. Her figure turned into a streak of purple light, charging straight toward the water-type sealing pillar that had just rebounded and was still trembling violently.
["Using her physical body to clash head-on with a calamity pillar? What kind of monster is this?"], Seeing this, Chi-Yu's remnant shadow was completely stunned while dodging the torrents.
It knew full well the toughness of these pillars. Especially the water pillar, it contained the power of ultimate softness and resilience, excelling at neutralizing brute force attacks.
Pheromosa's fists rained down on the pillar like a storm!
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
A dense barrage of impacts rang out like beating drums.
But just as Chi-Yu expected, the water-blue pillar seemed to truly turn into flowing tides.
Every time a heavy blow landed, ripples spread across its surface, dispersing, absorbing, and neutralizing the powerful impact.
Pheromosa felt like her fists were striking an endless deep sea, her power constantly being redirected, unable to truly shake its core.
Yet her attacks did not stop or grow impatient because of this resistance.
On the contrary, her gaze became more focused and brighter. With every punch and kick, the angle and force were subtly adjusted, as if through this dense barrage she was sensing the flow of power within the pillar, analyzing the essence of that "water-like" resilience.
She was learning. Adapting. Using this indestructible pillar as a tool to temper herself.
Axel stood at a distance, his expression calm, a knowing smile at the corner of his lips.
At the same time, he pushed his psychic power to the limit, allowing Pheromosa to share the extraordinary insight brought by their Bond Evolution.
"Feel it, Pheromosa," Axel's voice traveled clearly through their bond.
"Water isn't just soft. When gathered to the extreme, it can pierce stone and cut through metal."
"Fighting isn't just brute force either. Speed taken to the extreme is itself an unstoppable power!"
Pheromosa's movements suddenly changed.
She no longer pursued maximum destructive force, but instead pushed her speed to the absolute limit.
Her figure seemed to vanish entirely, leaving behind countless black afterimages swarming around the water pillar like a hive, spinning and attacking wildly.
Every strike landed precisely at the center of the ripples or at the key nodes of energy flow.
Her fists, feet, knees, and elbows all became deadly weapons, delivering continuous pinpoint strikes at ultra-high speed.
This wasn't brute strength, this was ultimate precision. The pinnacle of piercing through a surface by focusing on a single point.
The ripples on the surface of the water pillar began to grow chaotic, colliding with each other!
The once smooth circulation of energy was forcibly disrupted and broken by this storm of high-speed, precise attacks.
The pillar began to emit a strained hum, trembling more and more violently.
["How is this possible?",] Chi-Yu was completely dumbfounded.
The divine pillar that had sealed it for so many years was actually showing signs of being destroyed in front of this Pokémon?
It couldn't understand how a Pokémon that wasn't a god could unleash such terrifying power!.
"Yo!"
At that very moment, all of Pheromosa's afterimages suddenly merged into one.
She condensed the accumulated momentum from countless strikes, along with her understanding of water's resilient power, entirely into her right leg.
Her long leg was wrapped in dense Fighting-type energy, even faintly carrying a deep blue glow like flowing water.
That was proof of her perfectly merging the "soft resilience" learned from the water pillar with the "hard force" of her Fighting type.
Bond · Flowing Acceleration · High Jump Kick!
Like a red meteor breaking through the sound barrier, she charged forward with unstoppable momentum, crashing fiercely into the center of the water pillar.
Crack!
This time, instead of a dull impact, a crisp, unmistakable sound of something completely shattering rang out.
From the point where Pheromosa's knee struck, countless cracks spread instantly across the entire water-blue pillar like a spiderweb.
Within those cracks was no longer flowing water-light, but chaotic, rampaging energy.
Boom!
The entire water-type sealing pillar exploded under this strike that fused ultimate speed, power, technique, and newfound understanding.
It shattered into countless blue fragments filled with water energy, scattering in all directions.
At the same time, Axel was surprised to see a change appear on Pheromosa's status panel.
The golden trait "Fighting King" began to glow with multicolored light.
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