Chapter 245: Heat - The Black-clad Detective's Retreat

In an instant, everything was silent.

The rainstorm is gone, leaving only the bone-chilling chill of the sky, interpreting the ferocity of "absolute zero".

The ceiling of the fourth floor of the Tower of Heaven was now covered with dense inverted ice thorns. Under the fingers of thousands of ice needles, there is no life that can move freely.

The illusion that the detectives painstakingly built came to an end, and the group battle caused by the smoke of dreams finally ended in an extremely tragic way.

Rainwater became an excellent conductor for spreading low temperatures, centering on where Adik and Doudou Duoduo Ice stood, freezing everything outside of range.

Moves are interrupted, flames are extinguished, limbs are frozen, teleportation is limited, and spirits are frozen...... Countless lifelike "Pokémon Ice Sculptures" are crammed into a jungle of ice and snow, maintaining their last state still.

Naturally, this also includes the red-faced dragon who uses the "Asking for Rain" move to assist his companions.

Although Adik also wanted to take the red-faced dragon back into the Poké Ball, Miss Goethe, who was mixed with the wild elves, nailed the shadow of the red-faced dragon to the field first; Later, there were several ghostly "black eyes" that locked the red-faced dragon's retreat, which further blocked the idea of the champion rotation elves avoiding damage.

In addition, "Absolute Zero" is originally a single move with a very low hit rate, and if you want to spread this extremely cold and frozen effect to the entire space covering the field, you must rely on the rain curtain of "Asking for Rain" to "connect" the four layers of the Tower of Heaven into a whole.

And this indoor rainstorm is all maintained by the power of the red-faced dragon, and if it is evacuated from the battlefield in advance, the rain will inevitably weaken immediately, and the "absolute zero" of double ice will definitely not be able to achieve such a perfect effect.

"Ahem, Champion Adek, you still like to talk nonsense in battles......"

The Wanlong Heavenly King released the girl who was blocked behind him, and wiped the cold beads of sweat from his cheeks with his free hands. A not-so-wild Crystal Lantern Spirit loomed in front of the two of them - it was it that appeared in time to block the aftermath of Absolute Zero for the two ladies on the edge of the field.

Biktini, who couldn't react, flapped his little wings in embarrassment, as if he was ashamed of himself for not being able to come in handy when his skills were raging.

"Miss Wanlong, did you already guess that Mr. Adek would use this tactic?" Alice asked.

"Well, I guessed a little bit when I saw the wild elves."

While retracting the crystal lamp fire spirit, Jia showed a shy wry smile.

"This is the most subtle of the countless endings, and with the gentleness of our United Champion, I think he will most likely adopt such a tactic - but I didn't expect the ending to be so tragic that even the tenacious red-faced dragon fell in the middle of the tactics, and Miss Zhulan's younger brother is really not to be underestimated."

"Hmm...... Is it gentle to hold an ice sculpture exhibition in a cemetery? The girl was a little puzzled by the first half of the family's sentence.

Wan Long shook his head: "Although 'Absolute Zero' looks scary, in fact, the damage taken by Pokémon in the ice is much smaller than the damage caused by other attacks, and these wild ghost elves will naturally turn into a spirit state to sleep after experiencing the ice, which is quite a benevolent countermeasure." And more importantly—"

Wanlong set her eyes into the depths of the cemetery.

"In this way, the tombstones and mausoleums within the four floors can be best kept in their original state."

Knowing that mistakes can be corrected, and good is great. Knowing his mistake, Adek chose the tactic that was the gentlest for the dead.

On the other side, the champion at the center of the conversation ignored the whispers of the audience and went straight to the "ice sculpture" of the red-faced dragon, smashing the ice covering its forehead and pressing the vicissitudes of life against the rough scales of the red-faced dragon.

The red light symbolizing recovery flashed, and the "ice sculpture" of the red-faced dragon turned into an empty shell, and the cave Pokémon that had lost its ability to fight officially came to an end.

This was already the second battle power that Adik had lost in this battle, and the result they obtained was only to defeat a beginner elf who was too weak to be mentioned......

Is it really beaten?

After fighting with the black-clothed detective until now, Adik has long since lost the slightest idea of underestimating the enemy, and must anticipate the enemy's lenienness-

The little Flame Monkey who used "Hold On" only had the last trace of physical strength left, and then he forced his body to use the "One More Time" move on the old builder, and then disappeared into the vast army of wild Pokémon.

Theoretically, if this little flame monkey attracts the attention of any wild elf, no matter how slight a move from whom, it can completely incapacitate this Pokémon from fighting...... But things, just in case.

Thinking of this, Adek suddenly looked at the spiral staircase passage at the other end of the cemetery.

Along the winding trail between the snowy jungles, the champion saw the worst.

It stands to reason that the wild elves who swarmed towards the center of the battlefield would not have deserted, and if they were afraid of battle, they would not have been here at all.

However, at the tail of the Wild Elf Legion frozen into "Ice Sculptures", near the entrance of the stairs, several "Pokémon Ice Sculptures" appeared in the opposite direction, and instead of looking at Adek, who was offending the necromancer, they looked directly at the bottom of the stairs, as if they were attracted by something there.

Could it be that the little flame monkey escaped from this passage?

The spiral staircase continues down to the third floor of the Tower of Heaven, which is unlit, and is also filled with Pokémon graveyards.

Now, it's really getting more and more like a board game for exploring underground castles.

Regardless of whether or not the little flame monkey escaped death from the fourth floor of the Tower of Heaven, the whereabouts of its trainer Hugo were undoubted, and everyone watched him run down the spiral staircase of the fifth floor. And now, since the entire fourth floor has been frozen without Hugo's figure, then he must be in the lower floor.

There is only one way to go...... It's as if someone had planned it a long time ago.

Dispelling the hesitation in his mind, Adik walked down the staircase. The two-faced Duoduo Ice fluttered behind the trainer.

But at this moment, the United Champion, who was going downstairs, suddenly stumbled, and if it weren't for the proper exercise of his sense of balance, he almost fell down the spiral staircase.

"Mr. Adek, what's wrong with you?" Alice's concerned voice came from behind her, and she and Wanlong and Bicchitini caught up again.

Adek stood firm, beckoned to the girl, and signaled that he was okay: "I'm fine here, but if you also want to go down to the third floor, you must pay attention to your steps now." ”

"Did Hugo set the trap between the stairs?" Wanlong asked.

"It's not a trap." Adek lifted his left and right feet alternately, as if testing the texture of the staircase steps with his feet, "but the stairs were covered with a layer of wet and slippery ...... It's just silt. ”

Adek paused, as if recalling a term in his memory—

"Yes, yes, that's right. It's like a wetland covered in black silt. ”

Downstairs, at the end of the dark spiral staircase, stood two beginner elves from Sinnoh.

Grass seedling turtle, and Bogaman.

They just used different moves at the same time-

"The Oath of Grass", and "The Oath of Water".

The intertwined moves create an interesting compound reaction. Grass ropes paved the way, followed by a column of pleasantly flowing water, creating a large "wetland field" between the staircase passages that slowed down the Pokémon.

Only then did he get out of the ice cave and fall into the mire.

The wet mud flowed down, paving a viscous and twisted path to the championship.

And the black-clad detective is still nowhere to be seen.