But facing Diao Chan's questioning, Axel had no way to explain.
So he simply nodded, "You guessed right. I really am Qin Shi Huang."
"After the battle, I need you to spar with me day and night without resting even once. If you do that, I'll have a chance to take the throne."
"Understood?", Diao Chan's eyes were full of confusion. She did not know why Axel wanted to spar with her so badly.
But facing the legendary figure known as the First Emperor, she still nodded heavily.
"This humble woman understands!"
White Gardevoir: "...."
'He is fooling you, my lady!'
"Alright, from now on I appoint you the Grand General of Beating Cao. Go defeat Cao Cao."
After saying that, Axel shot a sideways glance at Cao Cao, then stopped paying attention to the battle between Diao Chan and Cao Cao.
With Ho-Oh and Pheromosa helping, as long as Diao Chan followed the scenes recorded in the historical texts and successfully unleashed her full potential, she should be able to defeat Cao's army with ease.
What mattered now was commanding Rayquaza in battle.
During their moment of conversation, Rayquaza and Giratina had already clashed once.
Rayquaza had stacked Dragon Dance three times, and had also been hit once by Giratina's Shadow Sneak.
"That's enough, Rayquaza. Whip up a Hurricane in the sky!"
Axel could see that this Giratina's battle habits were almost identical to the Giratina of the later era.
He spent most of his time in Shadow Sneak to evade damage and store energy.
Direct attacks would often hit nothing but air.
The best method was still to lay down overwhelming area-control moves.
Hurricane was perfect for this, covering a huge radius and having a chance to confuse the opponent.
More importantly, Hurricane would shred Cao's aerial units and reduce the pressure on Diao Chan.
"ROAR~"
Rayquaza nodded slightly. His body seemed to open a hidden valve, and the violently swirling winds burst forth from him as the center.
Where the Hurricane swept past, the sky split into pitch-black cracks, revealing twisted lights and shadows inside, with fragments of spatial turbulence spilling out and shredding everything indiscriminately.
Cao's airborne Pokémon fell like dumplings, and Giratina let out a furious, shocked roar.
He did not understand why this guy, while clearly clashing with him, still had time to meddle in other people's fighting.
'Can he show a little respect?'
Giratina felt he needed to show a display of overwhelming force.
Otherwise, how could he ever drive off this black dragon or destroy this continent?
"ROAR!"
Without hesitation, Giratina emerged from the space layer, dodged Rayquaza's Hurricane zone, and rammed straight at Rayquaza.
"Substitute!"
For the first time in his life, Axel did not pair Substitute with dirty tricks but used it as part of a proper tactic.
Freshly born and lacking battle experience, Giratina was instantly fooled and smashed headfirst into Rayquaza's Substitute.
The next moment, "Rayquaza" turned into a Substitute doll and vanished into the air.
In the instant Giratina froze, before his energy had gathered enough to use another move, Axel gave the next command.
"Dragon Tail. Knock him into the Hurricane."
"ROAR!", Rayquaza nodded, his figure blurring in midair. His tail, wrapped in dense draconic energy, lashed out fiercely and struck Giratina.
That tail almost tore open space. Giratina's body lost control and fell straight into the area covered by Hurricane.
"ROAR!"
But just as the Hurricane surged and was about to throw Giratina into confusion, a dark gleam flashed on his body and he slipped back into the Reverse World once more.
Axel frowned, 'This guy's resistance to control moves is still too high.'
Back in Sinnoh, he had tried to use Mewtwo to control Giratina, and even then Giratina was only controlled for a moment.
This time, facing Rayquaza's Hurricane, the result was still the same.
"Looks like we can only go all-out " Axel muttered.
"Eternatus!"
"roar!", The little dragon let out a soft, childish roar.
"Give Rayquaza Max Power. Can he withstand it?"
"roar!", Little Eternatus nodded firmly.
"In that case, use it!"
Eternatus nodded. His body returned to its true form, the terrifying twenty-meter-long red dragon, making the soldiers below freeze again.
But before they could kneel, they realized the spotlight was elsewhere.
Eternatus flew across the sky and stopped above Rayquaza, releasing red light.
The lights drifted down like tiny flakes of snow, covering Rayquaza's body.
"ROAR!", Rayquaza let out a mighty bellow, feeling as if his body would explode, energy rampaging inside him.
It felt like only by growing larger could he relieve the pain.
Axel cooperated by recalling him into the Poké Ball.
In the next instant, dazzling crystalline energy covered the Poké Ball, changing it into a basketball-sized crystal sphere.
"Go!", Axel hurled the Poké Ball. Blinding white light exploded in the sky.
A huge phantom spread across the heavens, soon taking the form of a giant dragon over two hundred meters long.
After finishing this, Eternatus seemed to have used up all his strength. He became a little dragon again and fell from the sky.
Axel took two steps forward to catch him securely, then looked back into the sky.
Perhaps it was because Rayquaza had never trained in Max Power, or perhaps because Rayquaza was too strong and Eternatus couldn't fully activate him.
Rayquaza's Max form was smaller than Raihan's Gigantamax Duraludon.
But the aura he emitted surpassed it by hundreds or thousands of times.
Just floating there, he felt like an immovable divine being.
Cao's army completely snapped. Soldiers cried and begged for mercy.
Diao Chan's Gardevoir quickly seized the opening. Synchro-enhanced psychic pressure fell upon them like a crushing wave, invading their minds.
Everyone's eyes turned red. A single thought appeared:
They had angered the gods. Perhaps only by killing Cao Cao could they earn divine forgiveness.
Under that influence, all troops and Pokémon turned around.
[Target: Cao Cao]
At that moment, a dazzling white light burst from Diao Chan's Gardevoir. Her psychic power surged upward.
Just when Axel thought Gardevoir was about to evolve into her supreme entry, the white Gardevoir did something he could never have imagined.
She abandoned her rising power and instead grabbed the pink Gardevoir's hands.
The next moment, the two hugged tightly.
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