Pokémon: Hoenen Rage

Chapter 445: The last to come, the armored bird’s road to heaven (35)

"Then I won't stare here anymore. The big-billed gulls have absorbed it. I'll take them out for training."

Not wanting to worry about looking at the armored bird here, Naqi stood up, called a group of Pokémon who had almost absorbed the limit, walked out of the deep cave, and went to the virgin forest outside to practice.

After being together for a long time, the two of them were able to command each other's Pokémon. Although they weren't like arm-in-arms, they were still able to command each other's Pokémon with ease.

Pokémon also give full trust to their trainer's close partners.

"Eya!"

The armored bird chirped, signaling Leni not to pay too much attention to it.

"Naqi is gone, so stop showing off. Do you really want to put yourself through such trouble?"

Lai stepped forward, regardless of the high temperature, and patted the armored bird's hot head, his tone a bit distressed.

"Eya!"

The armored bird remained motionless, its voice determined.

As a Pokémon that has no evolved form, Armored Bird lacks the opportunity for life transformation than most other Pokémon. All thresholds must be crossed step by step.

As the Pokémon with the weakest long-term strength in the team, its pressure is three points higher than that of Naqi, who is full of urgency during this period, and it is also the most persistent in its pursuit of strength.

From the time he absorbed the fire steel in the mountains, Lai noticed this resolute little guy, and gave him some extra massage and warming almost every day, so that he didn't cause any dark wounds.

"Hey, you little guy."

Lai sighed and stopped persuading, just squatting on the side, watching the armored bird trying to absorb two kinds of energies that made it both extremely rewarding and painful.

"Natural bird, Sticky Beauty Dragon, come here."

He waved his hand, signaling the two Pokémon who were doing well in the distance to come to him.

【Um? 】

"Mino?"

Although a little puzzled, Natural Bird and Nian Meilong stopped absorbing energy and walked over quickly.

"Help the armored bird, natural bird, purify the energy of the magnetic field. Nianmeilong, take out your fire steel as well. You should have absorbed it almost. The more is of little use. I just happened to use it today. Part of it You absorb it yourself, and some of it is transmitted to the armored bird."

Pointing at the suffering armored bird, Rai gave instructions.

This is similar to the situation when he helped the natural bird evolve before, but this time, Rai did not have the ability to act as a relay and needed to test the tacit understanding of the two Pokémon.

This was also intentional.

"Mino!"

【Humph! 】

The two Pokémon looked at each other and turned their heads at the same time.

Although very reluctant, Lai still had to do the job arranged by Lai. Standing on one side, the two Pokémon began to absorb and transform energy.

After hearing Lai's instructions, the armored bird also consciously stopped its absorption and silently adjusted its body condition.

"Eya!"

"Okay, it's almost ready. Let's get started. I'll leave it to you."

When doing business, two little guys who usually like to quarrel can still be serious.

Working in tacit understanding, they continuously inject energy from the outside into the body of the armored bird.

The sudden increase in energy intensity caused the armored bird's body, which had just regained its composure, to tremble slightly again.

In the forest outside the cave, Naqi, who was directing the fierce battle between Ibrahimovic and Doronmecia, also felt something and was slightly excited.

"Lizard King, Big-billed Gull, please take care of everyone! Qixi Blue Bird, let's go back!"

After entrusting the Pokémon to the steady Lizard King and Gnome, she jumped onto the back of the Tanabata Blue Bird and flew towards the cave.

In just a few moments, she appeared at the entrance and ran all the way to the depths.

Lai, who had already heard the noise, was waiting at the door and stretched out his hand to stop Naqi.

"What's going on with the armored bird? I don't feel right outside. Come here quickly."

Naqi panted and held her knees, raised her head and looked at the armored bird, very anxiously.

"This is the last step. Whether we can succeed in one fell swoop depends on the next few minutes."

Rai pointed to the area where the three Pokémon were.

The piece of fire steel from Nianmeilong, which had been absorbed in all directions, has been completely scrapped, turning into a piece of ordinary, but extraordinarily strong steel, and the piece of Armor Bird's own is still a little bit left.

On the other side, with such high-intensity energy absorption and transmission, even a bird with superpowers as powerful as a natural bird is already a little tired, but seeing that the armored bird is only one step away, it still grits its teeth and perseveres.

"Eya!——"

Intense pain, two kinds of restrained energy were rushing around the body, destroying and rebuilding its body. Even the armored bird could no longer bear it, and its chirping was full of pain.

"Go give the armored bird a little help, or in other words, a little support."

Lai put down his hand and walked forward with Naqi.

"Armor Bird" Naqi choked up.

"Eya!"

In pain, the armored bird heard Naqi's voice and reluctantly comforted her.

"Slimy Dragon, a natural bird, increase the intensity and hit it for the last time, just the last bit is missing."

Lai calmly ordered that regardless of success or failure, only the last thread was left.

"Armor Bird, we will become stronger together, I promise."

In a daze, the armored bird remembered Naqi's words when they just met.

The figure of the past overlaps with the figure of the present moment.

"Armor Bird, we have to go a long way together, so I believe you can do it."

Naqi stepped forward and placed her white and tender hands on the hot steel feather.

"Although I know it won't do anything, I still want to do something for you."

A hot burning sensation swept over her, and Naqi's palms instantly turned red and hot.

The natural bird and the slimy dragon began to go all out, and the last piece of fire steel turned into an iron block and fell to the ground with a crisp sound.

"You have worked hard, harder than me, so you deserve to make greater progress. I always believe this."

Turning a blind eye to the pain in her palms, Naqi encouraged the armored bird with a warm voice.

"Eya!"

The steel feathers of the armored bird were faintly red, and the powerful force forced Naqi and Lai, as well as the natural bird and the sticky dragon back a few steps.

Immediately afterwards, electric current appeared faintly, wrapping around every hard steel feather.

"Eya!——"

In the long blast, the two energies are completely released.

A ball that is half red and half golden wraps the armored bird.

Silver-gray energy slowly rises, squeezing out the two colors bit by bit.

Naqi had silently clenched her fists, waiting for the armored bird to break through.

Finally, the last trace of red fire energy and golden electric energy were completely driven out, and the silver-gray steel energy completely enveloped the armored bird's body.

"It's done!"

Naqi's voice was full of excitement.

"No, not so much."

Rai calmly observed that the armored bird's momentum was still lacking.

"Slimy Dragon!"

"Mino!"

The surging steel energy was released from its body, giving the armored bird the last bit of stimulation.

The steel feathers fell to the ground one by one, and there was an endless clanging sound.

At the same time, more straight and bright steel feathers grew out.

The silver-gray energy ball was slowly recovered, together with the power of the sticky beauty dragon.

"Eya!"

The recovery suddenly accelerated and disappeared in an instant, all integrated into the body of the armored bird.

"boom"

Amidst the weak explosion of energy, the King's aura completely exploded.

What followed was an aura that was as stable as Mount Tai.

"Armored bird!"

Naqi flew up to the armored bird, hugged its head and kissed it again and again.

"Eya!"

The exhausted armored bird was a little unsteady and staggered before catching Naqi and nuzzling her affectionately in her arms.

It's not the King Swallow, it's not the rapid advancement of Tropical Dragon, it's not the Big-billed Gull, Velociraptor and Sonic Dragon. The second one to break through to the King of Heaven is it, the least favored armored bird.

Thinking of this, the armored bird was extremely proud and raised its head high.

"Thank you, armor bird, you really worked hard."

Gently holding the armored bird's head, Naqi pushed her forehead up.

At the moment of contact, both parties already understood what they were thinking.

(End of this chapter)