At this moment, Li Guanjun's eyes blazed like torches as he roared, "Charizard! Mega Evolution!"
Immediately after, he unhesitatingly reached for the precious Key Stone hanging around his neck and lifted it high above his head.
In an instant, the Key Stone burst forth with dazzling light, like a brilliant sun suddenly rising. This light seemed to possess life, exceptionally agile, like winding spirit snakes, surging directly towards Charizard at incredible speed.
Looking at Charizard, a mysterious Charizard ite was embedded in the metal ring on its tail.
At this moment, this ite seemed to be summoned, and it too began to emit a dazzling glow. Simultaneously, several tentacle-like beams of light continuously gushed out from within the ite, swiftly moving to meet the light released from the Key Stone in Li Guanjun's hand.
The two instantly converged. The light from the Key Stone and the light emitted from the ite, upon contact, perfectly merged as if milk and water blending.
The two became one, transforming into an eggshell-shaped light screen. This light screen shimmered with strange colors, completely enveloping Charizard's massive body.
Then, a deafening dragon's roar echoed through the clouds—"Roar!"
Accompanying this furious roar, Charizard's body, covered by the light screen, began to change. Its already robust body rapidly expanded and grew within the eggshell light screen, becoming even larger; its tail, moreover, continuously extended and lengthened, becoming more slender and powerful than before.
This was Zhang Heng's first time witnessing Mega Evolution in reality. In this Pokémon world, Mega Evolution had been initially developed, and through research, a few Pokémon capable of Mega Evolution had been discovered. Houndoom and Charizard were among the first Fire-type Pokémon found to be able to undergo Mega Evolution.
Zhang Heng couldn't help but murmur excitedly, "Is it Charizard X or Charizard Y?"
Presumably, no Trainer could refuse a Charizard capable of Mega Evolution.
The light screen shattered, and its skin remained orange. It had thick lower limbs and relatively slender upper limbs, with two scimitar-like secondary wings appearing on its upper limbs. Charizard's wings on its back became even larger. On the back of its head, there were originally only two horn-like protrusions, but now another longer, sharper dragon horn grew from the middle. The tip of its tail had spikes and was burning with flames.
Zhang Heng was somewhat excited, feeling that Charizard was simply too cool, and couldn't help but exclaim, "It's Mega Charizard Y! A Fire-type special attacker with a natural Sunny Day system!"
As Mega Charizard Y appeared, its Sunny Day ability activated. Mega Charizard Y's surface constantly flickered with dazzling firelight, like a dazzling, burning mini-sun. The immense Fire-type energy influenced the surroundings, converting all other types of energy nearby into Fire-type energy.
This made the Fire-type energy in the area more active, and the sky also became brighter. In the thick clouds above this space, the originally snow-white clouds instantly turned fiery red. Looking from afar, the entire sky seemed to be ignited, forming an incredibly hot zone.
The Sunny Day ability can change the current weather to Sunny Day. It needs to be explained here that the Sunny Day system in real life is the most special.
The Sunny Day used during the day and night still has some differences in power. Although it can be used at night, it is certainly impossible to summon the sun; it merely makes the surrounding Fire-type energy denser, making it more suitable for Fire-type Pokémon to deal damage and for other tactical systems to cooperate.
"Mega Charizard Y, Solar Beam."
Just above Mega Charizard Y's head, the originally scattered and soft sunlight seemed to be pulled by a mysterious force, gradually converging to a single point.
The charge was completed in an instant. Solar Beam can be fired instantly under Sunny Day, and Charizard's charging speed after Mega Evolution directly doubles.
A sharp whooshing sound pierced the air!
A green laser beam, as thick as a regular bucket, struck Mega Houndoom with lightning speed.
"Mega Houndoom, Flamethrower."
It opened its wide mouth, continuously gathering the extremely dense Fire-type energy from its surroundings. As the energy accumulated, it finally spewed out an incredibly scorching pillar of flame!
Boom—
A deafening roar erupted. The orange-red pillar of flame, like a roaring fire dragon, directly dispersed the Solar Beam, which was composed of dense Grass-type energy.
In an instant, sparks flew and flames soared. The immense impact force generated by the explosion seemed to ignite the surrounding air. Charizard couldn't dodge in time, and the residual power of the Flamethrower directly struck Mega Charizard Y.
Although Mega Charizard Y did not suffer much damage, as it inherently resisted Fire-type attacks, and the Solar Beam had offset most of the power, coupled with its impressive special defense, this attack could not directly defeat it.
And Chandelure, to protect Zhang Heng from being affected by the power, immediately raised a protective cover to resist the air currents generated by their skill collision.
Although it couldn't directly defeat Charizard, morale was inevitably affected. Li Gusi on the opposite side had already started celebrating prematurely.
A mocking voice rang out: "Hahaha, the Chinese Fire-type Champion can't even directly withstand another Pokémon's Fire-type move? And he even started Sunny Day, increasing Mega Houndoom's power."
Zhang Heng and Li Guanjun were not surprised by this outcome.
Mega Houndoom's ability changed from Flash Fire to Solar Power. The Solar Power ability increases special attack by 1.5 times under Sunny Day, but it loses 1/8 of its HP each turn, meaning if it doesn't quickly defeat the opponent, it will also be defeated by Sunny Day.
Mega Houndoom's Flash Fire ability absorbs Fire-type energy from Heat Wave, increasing its power by 1.5 times. Under Sunny Day, Fire-type moves are boosted by 1.5 times. With Solar Power, it further boosts by 1.5 times, totaling 4.5 times the power for its STAB Flamethrower.
Although Mega Charizard Y has 159 Special Attack, normally, it definitely couldn't withstand this 4.5x boosted Flamethrower in a head-on clash.
Suddenly, Mega Houndoom's face twitched, its facial muscles somewhat contorted. A sudden surge of fierce Fire-type energy burned its body.
This was precisely the side effect of the boost brought by Solar Power; each time it used a move, it would lose 1/8 of its health.
Li Guanjun, however, was not angry and said, "Very good, Mega Houndoom. It's one of my favorite Fire-type Pokémon, but it's truly wasted in your hands."