"Florette, use Grassy Terrain on Skorupi again," Aoki said calmly to Florette resting in his breast pocket.
"Flaa~" Florette nodded obediently.
With a gentle wave of the flower in her hand, a patch of lush green grass spread beneath Skorupi, helping him restore the damaged armor on his body.
The cracks across Skorupi's armor were healing at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Part of it was thanks to Florette's Grassy Terrain, but part of it was Skorupi's own boosted recovery ability.
After absorbing so much toxic energy, Skorupi's natural regeneration had been pushed to its limit.
Not only that, but it seemed that through this harsh "breeding Gu" method, Skorupi's body had grown noticeably larger.
His once blue-purple armor had darkened into a deep, almost blood-red color.
He was practically dripping with poison!
And at this point, there was no turning back.
In his current state, Skorupi could handle opponents below the elite level without needing Slowking or the others' help.
Even if faced with three or five lower-level Scolipede at once, he could easily wipe them out alone!
The Scolipede clan was already riddled with internal conflict, but Aoki's relentless killing of their leaders finally drew serious attention.
This time, standing before Skorupi was a Scolipede with a green-tier potential and a level of 44.
Among their group, this one was considered pretty strong.
When Slowking and the others saw the Scolipede appear, they realized this wouldn't be an easy battle and prepared to move.
"Cha!!" Skorupi growled, stepping forward to block Slowking.
Aoki could feel the intense fighting spirit surging from Skorupi.
Raising his hand, Aoki stopped the others and said, "Let Skorupi handle this one. Watch for other Scolipede joining in."
Honchkrow and the others nodded seriously.
"Skorupi, if you want to take him on yourself, then show me your spirit!" Aoki said calmly.
"Cha!!"
At Aoki's words, Skorupi roared even louder, fixing his gaze firmly on the Scolipede.
"Good! Agility, close the distance, fight up close—show me your strength!" Aoki commanded.
Without hesitation, Skorupi shot forward at an incredible speed.
His excitement was so intense that his body temperature soared, causing thin wisps of white steam to rise from him even while standing still.
As he sprinted, the very air around him seemed to corrode under the heat and toxicity he emitted.
The Scolipede stared at the approaching Skorupi with grim focus.
This was the same Skorupi who had killed so many of his kin, absorbing their poison.
It was unforgivable.
"Hisss!!" the Scolipede roared in rage and charged forward.
BOOM!!
The two Pokémon collided hard in the clearing.
To the Scolipede's shock, Skorupi immediately overpowered him, pushing him back faster and faster.
It was a simple, devastating display of raw strength.
At the point of contact, the Scolipede could feel Skorupi's heat—scorchingly hot—and it only added to his fear.
How could this little Skorupi bear such high temperatures?
Crash!!
Before the Scolipede could even react, he was slammed into a massive tree, snapping the trunk clean in half.
The Scolipede coughed up a mouthful of green blood, eyes wide with disbelief at the brutal force to his abdomen.
He couldn't understand—how could something so small be this powerful?
Pure fear gripped him.
He was an elite-level Pokémon, and yet against Skorupi, he couldn't even resist.
"Skorupi, use Bug Bite, Poison Jab, and Poison Tail! All out!" Aoki commanded after gauging the situation.
Skorupi, now overwhelmingly powerful thanks to absorbing immense toxic energy and training under extreme conditions, followed instantly.
Normally, a Skorupi would stand around 80 centimeters tall. Aoki's Skorupi had been slightly over a meter tall before—but now, thanks to the System's scan, it was clear he'd broken 1.5 meters.
In contrast, the Scolipede was 2.5 meters tall.
Yet the smaller Skorupi was dominating the much bigger Pokémon like it was nothing.
The Scolipedes who had been watching nearby shivered involuntarily at the sight.
They could feel a chill creep down their spines.
Following Aoki's command, Skorupi unleashed a vicious three-pronged assault—biting with his jaws, stabbing with his pincers, and slashing with his tail.
Skorupi had turned into a walking close-combat weapon, seamlessly chaining attacks from every part of his body.
Bam! Bam! Bam!
The Scolipede, already reeling from the earlier blow, barely managed to catch his breath before a flurry of strikes rained down.
Each attack landed cleanly, heavy, relentless—pure satisfaction in every blow.
There was no chance for the Scolipede to recover.
The attack speed of Skorupi become faster and more crazy.
The elite Scolipede couldn't even form a successful resistance in front of Skorupi.
Although he finally endured the pain and launched an attack on Skorupi, Skorupi did not dodge at all.
The armor on its back was cracked due to the attack of the Scolipede, and Skorupi seemed to feel a little pain, but the attack speed and power were stronger again.
Crazy!
Completely crazy!
Skorupi pressed the Scolipede, which was twice his size, firmly against the tree.
Boom! ! !
With the last attack, Skorupi passed the poisonous tail through the soft flesh between the two joints of the Scolipede, nailing it to the tree.
The Scolpiede, who was 2.5 meters tall, was nailed to a tree with a tail hook by Skorupi, which was only more than one meter tall.
The visual impact this brought to the Pokemon watching the battle was indescribable.
A large amount of green liquid was wrapped around the body of Skorupi, which flowed from the Scolipede.
"Cha!!!" Skorupi roared domineeringly towards the group of Scolipede not far away.
The less courageous Scolipede trembled with fright.
This time, in the Grassy Terrain, the cracks on Skorupi's back were healing at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The body temperature increased again.