Groudon let out a furious roar, and the entire land trembled.
Its dark gold pupils were locked tightly onto Axel. The humiliation of being forcibly controlled, combined with the rage born from the very origin of the earth, nearly burst forth as tangible flames.
Even though its body was bound by invisible threads extending from the Red Orb, restricting its movement, the terrifying power belonging to a first-tier god had not diminished. Instead, driven by extreme fury, it surged even more violently.
"ROAR!"
It gave up struggling physically against the threads and instead collapsed and condensed all its power inward.
The ground beneath its feet shook violently as countless massive rock spikes burst out of the earth like bamboo shoots after rain, carrying a force that could tear everything apart as they stabbed toward Axel and Giratina in the air.
Stone Edge!
At the same time, it opened its huge mouth, and a blazing torrent of molten lava poured out like a breached volcano, sweeping forward with terrifying heat capable of incinerating all things.
["You… bastard!"], Groudon was so enraged by Axel that it roared furiously, feeling like it was about to explode.
"Giratina, use Ominous Wind!", Axel was already used to an opponent's fury and ignored it outright.
His voice remained calm. Facing the overwhelming barrage, his command was clear and swift.
"Roar!", Giratina coiled in front of Axel, its massive ghostly dragon body shuddering violently.
A cold, black wind filled with ominous aura, as if born from a world of destruction, materialized out of thin air.
This wind carried intense mental interference and eerie energy erosion.
When used by Giratina, it also contained power unique to the Distortion World.
Like the wails of countless vengeful spirits, it precisely pierced through the boiling lava armor on Groudon's surface and struck straight into its body.
Groudon's enormous form suddenly froze.
The Ominous Wind was mixed with large amounts of strange light. The raw damage came second, but the chaos, decay, and fear brought by that strange light were like icy venomous snakes, instantly invading its frenzied mind.
Groudon was already fighting in a confused state, relying purely on rage. Now, after being eroded again by massive amounts of strange light, its will collapsed instantly.
The trajectories of the Stone Edge attacks, which had been precisely locked onto their targets, immediately became scattered and crooked, whistling past Axel and Giratina and crashing into distant cliffs with thunderous explosions.
The lava torrent it spat out also stalled for a moment, with energy dispersing, its power clearly reduced.
"Now!", Axel's eyes flashed with sharp light as the Red Orb in his mental world blazed brilliantly.
He stopped trying to fully control Groudon's movements and instead focused his strength, forcibly interfering through the invisible threads with the stable flow of energy inside Groudon. This made its process of gathering big moves incredibly sluggish, every motion like throwing punches in thick glue.
"ROAR!", Groudon let out a roar filled with pain and rage.
It felt the magma and earth power inside its body becoming slow and chaotic.
The lava torrent it forcibly spewed out was much weaker and was easily deflected by Giratina with Shadow Claw.
At the same time, Dragonair in the sky let out a low cry, and a torrential rain immediately began to fall.
"Giratina, Thunder Wave! Let it taste paralysis!"
Axel seized the opportunity, imitating Ash by using water to break the Ground type's immunity to Electric moves.
His commands came like a storm, giving Groudon no chance to catch its breath.
Giratina snapped its wings shut, then spread them wide again.
Countless dense, jumping golden arcs of electricity instantly wove together into a net in front of it, releasing sharp crackling explosions.
This electric net was not meant to deal massive damage, but instead carried powerful paralyzing force.
After countless rounds of practice, Giratina's control over status moves had reached a level that was hard to describe with words.
The electric net moved as if alive, ignoring distance and instantly covering Groudon's thick neck and one front limb that was trying to stomp the ground again to trigger an earthquake.
Szzzt!
Golden arcs surged wildly as Groudon felt an intense wave of paralysis spread instantly from the struck areas.
Its movements became stiff and sluggish. The second eruption move it had gathered halfway was forcibly stuck in its throat, making the lava glow on its body flicker violently, almost triggering a self explosion.
Its massive body staggered, nearly falling over, and it could only let out a frustrated, angry whine.
On one side of the battlefield, Lusamine was completely stunned.
Even after experiencing the cleansing of Gardevoir's psychic power, she still could not understand how Axel could possess such terrifying might.
According to records, Groudon and Kyogre were beings capable of destroying continents.
Yet now, in front of Axel and his three Pokémon, Groudon and Kyogre were being suppressed to this extent.
This completely exceeded her understanding and shattered her worldview.
"ROAAARRR!"
After being repeatedly interrupted, toyed with, and even shocked until its entire body went numb, Groudon's rage finally broke past the critical point.
It let out a sky-shattering roar of fury. Its blood-red eyes locked onto Axel as several threads snapped, as if it wanted to swallow him whole.
It abandoned all technique. Its massive body began crazily absorbing the power of the earth as dark red light gathered, compressed, and compressed again inside its mouth.
Space itself began to twist and collapse under the concentration of this power.
Terrifyingly heavy Ground type energy condensed once more. Even the ice walls Gardevoir had formed shattered with a thunderous crash as vast Ground type power surged upward, wildly washing over Groudon's body.
Groudon's dark gold pupils narrowed into a vertical slit as it stared madly at Axel and Giratina. Even if it meant backlash, it would completely erase this hateful human.
If not for the HP lock trait, Axel felt he would have been driven straight to a near-death state by the Red Orb's backlash and this horrifying surge of power.
"So you finally used this move?", Axel looked at the terrifying sphere of light gathering world-destroying might. Not only was there no fear in his eyes, but blazing battle intent burned instead.
He had joked plenty of times before about Precipice Blades, but he had never seen a full version of it. Now that he had the chance to experience it, it did not seem bad at all.
"Giratina!", Axel shouted loudly, temporarily giving up control over Groudon as he rose into the air and stood atop Giratina's head.
At the same time, he clenched his hands again, controlling the Precipice Blades he had just seized from Groudon, and swung it fiercely toward Groudon like a terrifying dragon rider from a western fantasy world.
Before the two Precipice Blades even collided, the ground let out a terrifying tremor. Surging Ground type energy rose wildly, as if rallying around its king, building a colossal arena between the two like a towering mountain.
Axel's gaze was sharp as he looked at the utterly crazed Groudon and grinned.
"Groudon, let me beat you into submission!"
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