Chapter 514: Who Says Humans Can't Stop a Legendary?
The moment Arthur landed his blow, cheers erupted from the surroundings.
"Yeah!"
"That was awesome!"
"You can do it, kid!"
In that moment, many of the Silph Co. employees who had already fled a good distance away were willing to risk their lives to stop and applaud this stranger, cheering him on.
While it was true that after years of peace, humans generally held a sense of awe and reverence for Legendaries, the situation was different now. Groudon had appeared and wiped out half their camp with a single Eruption. These survivors had just escaped with their lives, many of them injured. It would be a miracle if they still felt any reverence for it.
But while their sentiment was nice, it was of no help in the battle. Skarner had to run around, urging them to keep moving. "Go! Keep moving! Get further away!"
He at least had some military training. He knew that in a battle of this magnitude, civilians were a hindrance, not a help. And the real danger was yet to come. He himself started running.
Because—"ROAR!!"
Groudon threw its head back and roared, and the entire earth seemed to tremble in response. A tidal wave of yellow sand billowed up, and from the ground beneath, a conical stone pillar with a base dozens of meters wide burst forth, like a colossal sword piercing the sky.
BOOM!
The stone spire shot up over a hundred feet, taller than Groudon itself. The wave of sand it kicked up was like a tsunami, crashing down with overwhelming force, sending the watching Silph Co. employees scrambling for their lives once again.
The ultimate Ground-type move, Groudon's signature attack: Precipice Blades. It condensed the power of the earth into a blade that erupted from below to impale the enemy. In Groudon's memory, there was no enemy that couldn't be solved with one Precipice Blades. If there was, it would just use more.
When unleashed in its battle form, the move was incredibly powerful and had a massive range. And the speed of the stone spire was astonishing. The sight of it left Skarner, who had already run a good distance away, horrified. "Arthur, will he be okay?"
After the sand wave subsided, a full five seconds passed before Arthur, battered and bruised, managed to struggle out from under the sand, his upper body emerging from behind Groudon. Coincidentally, he had emerged quite close to Skarner. Skarner immediately ran over to help pull him out.
Seeing Arthur in such a state, his shirt torn to shreds, his upper body covered in scrapes, Skarner asked dryly, "Are you still going to fight?"
In his eyes, forcing Groudon to one knee was already an incredible achievement, a mortal who had humbled a god. Wasn't that enough? Shouldn't he be proud of what he had accomplished? If it were him, he would be bragging about it for the rest of his life.
But Arthur didn't answer him. The first thing he did after climbing out of the sand was to calmly give orders. "Mismagius, use Pain Split on Lina, then use a Potion on yourself. Old Flame, use a Potion. Specter, get to the front. If Groudon turns, you hold it off. Doublade, another Swords Dance!"
His voice was hoarse. Although he hadn't been directly hit by the Precipice Blades, the impact of the fifty-foot-tall wave of sand had left his head ringing. He was running on pure willpower.
Specter warily floated to the front, keeping an eye on Groudon. Fortunately, in its enraged state, Groudon seemed to have become a bit slow. It didn't immediately turn to pursue them but instead continued to crush the human camp in the ruins of the nest, even though there was no one left alive there.
Arthur took the opportunity to get up. He called Skarner over, and with Greninja's help, they dug out Lina, who was also half-buried in the sand. Mismagius's Pain Split had saved her; otherwise, the little dragoness would have fainted. And this was from an attack that hadn't even hit its target.
The power of a Legendary was truly terrifying.
Skarner couldn't help but ask again, "That's enough, right? What you've done is already... already..." He couldn't even find the right word.
But Arthur just brushed the bloody sand off his body and smiled faintly. "This is just the beginning. We've only managed to hold it off for a minute."
Skarner was frantic. "You're not really planning to hold it off by yourself for an hour or two, are you? Are you crazy? How can a single person hold off a Legendary without an army?"
Skarner's words reflected the common understanding of modern soldiers and trainers. With the advancement of technology and the continuous development of weaponry, the philosophy of war had changed drastically over the past two hundred years. Humanity had shifted from relying on powerful individuals to relying on firepower. A modern army was the most reliable military force in this day and age.
But how many modern people remembered that there was once a golden age, a time when humans, armed with nothing but muskets and cannons, had forced the Legendaries to cede over seventy percent of the planet's landmass? At that time, it wasn't just the armies that held up the human race.
Arthur just calmly looked back at Skarner and asked with a smile, "Why is it impossible? How do you think humans drove back the Legendaries two hundred years ago?"
With the arrival of peace and the advancement of technology, the top-tier human experts and Champions had grown weaker with each generation. The Sinnoh Champion who was secretly using a Psychic-type Pokémon to influence Groudon didn't even dare to show his face. The other two Champions involved in the plan were also hiding far away, waiting for the army to arrive to surround Groudon.
Many modern people had forgotten that there was once a time when the top human trainers did not lack the courage or the spirit to face a Legendary head-on. Some modern internet "experts" even believed that the historical records of Champions who had fought multiple Legendaries at once were exaggerated and embellished.
Only Arthur, who had lived through that era, knew the truth. There was no embellishment. There was only the generation of his peers, who had risked their lives time and time again. Every short line in a history textbook was a record of the achievements of the powerhouses of his generation, who had repeatedly stared death in the face.
"Who says humans can't stop a Legendary?"
After asking Skarner this question, Arthur didn't wait for an answer. He immediately mounted Lina again, ending the debate with his actions.
Because from that moment on, he truly did, by himself, fight a running battle for over sixty miles, holding off the enraged Groudon for over an hour.
♧♧♧
-> SUPPORT ME WITH POWER STONE
-> FOR EVERY 200 PS = BOUNS CHAPTER
♧♧♧
-> 35 Advanced chapters Now Available on Patreon!!
-> https://www.patreon.com/c/Segais
(Just remove the hyphen to access patreon normally)
If you like this novel please consider leaving a review that's help the story a lot Thank you