CHAPTER 1504: THE BIRTH OF A CALAMITY

Yuga quickly released Florges, Ninetales, Latias, and Latios, and had Florges stand on Latias’s back and Ninetales on Latios’s back to increase mobility.

If Florges and Ninetales were to fall to the ground to fight, Torterra could stomp them to death just by lifting its foot. They wouldn’t even have the chance to dodge because it was simply too massive.

At this moment, Nana had already completed her Mega Evolution. Behind her appeared a giant full moon, and the silver moonlight poured onto her body, condensing into a thick beam of light that shot toward Torterra.

Nana’s power of the moon struck squarely on Torterra’s forehead, causing its head to jerk to the side. But this creature’s defense was simply too strong—the damage dealt by the moon’s power was very limited.

Feeling the pain, Torterra withdrew its limbs and head into its shell, clearly using the move Withdraw to strengthen its defense. This made breaking through its defenses even harder.

Torterra re-extended its head and used the move Crunch to try to bite at Latias and Latios, who were flying around it, but the siblings dodged skillfully.

Latias and Latios’s Dragon Pulse, Florges’s Energy Ball, and Ninetales’s Fire Blast simultaneously attacked Torterra.

Torterra lifted one massive foot and stomped heavily on the ground, instantly causing the earth to shake. Even Akai and the others, who had already evacuated far from the village and forest, could feel the wailing of the earth.

A huge rock was lifted by Torterra’s stomp, perfectly blocking Ninetales’s Fire Blast and Latios’s Dragon Pulse, while Florges’s Energy Ball and Latias’s Dragon Pulse struck its back.

The turtle shell was the most defensively powerful part of Torterra. The attacks from Florges and Latias left only slight marks and truly did no real damage.

At least Nana’s earlier attack had managed to cause it pain.

Seeing this, Yuga started to feel a headache coming on. This Torterra was far more troublesome than he had imagined. Even with so many Pokémon joining forces on his side, they couldn’t even break through its defenses.

Sure enough, Torterra used Withdraw again, making its defenses even more exaggerated.

When Torterra once again extended its head and limbs from its shell, Florges waved her hands, and countless trees began to grow wildly, instantly binding Torterra’s neck and thighs, attempting to hinder its movements.

However, Yuga’s team had underestimated not only Torterra’s defense but also its strength.

"Roar~"

Torterra let out a furious roar, and all the branches binding it were uprooted. Not only that, but those trees began to wither and decay at a speed visible to the naked eye. In no time, they turned into yellowish-brown powder and drifted away with the wind.

Yuga instantly recognized that this move from Torterra was a derived form of Absorb, Mega Drain, and Giga Drain.

As the trees vanished, the area around Torterra suddenly became wide open, with nothing left beneath its feet but bare earth. Meanwhile, Torterra itself seemed to have taken stimulants—its eyes even began to glow green.

Seeing this, Celebi became furious and kept attacking Torterra with Energy Balls. But since its power hadn’t fully recovered, it couldn’t inflict much damage on Torterra.

"ROAR!!!"

Torterra howled toward the sky, and suddenly, countless giant rocks fell from above, crashing down toward Yuga and his Pokémon, forcing them to constantly dodge.

It was Torterra using the move Rock Slide.

The forest suffered once again. Those boulders smashed into the ground, creating one giant crater after another. Numerous trees were shattered into pieces, and the once vast forest was now full of bald patches—it looked absolutely awful.

"Celebi~ Celebi~ Celebi~"

Celebi was truly furious at Torterra’s actions—its eyes turned red with rage. Without any hesitation, it charged straight toward Torterra.

This forest was Celebi’s home. With its home being destroyed, how could it possibly remain indifferent?

"Celebi!"

Yuga shouted anxiously, trying to stop it, but Celebi had already lost its rationality in its anger and completely ignored Yuga’s call.

Seeing this, Florges, Ninetales, Latias, Latios, and Nana all launched attacks, aiming their Moonblast, Fire Blast, Mist Ball, Luster Purge, and Psychic at Torterra, trying to prevent it from attacking Celebi.

But Torterra turned a blind eye to Florges and the others’ attacks, letting those moves strike its body. Although the attacks did indeed cause some damage to Torterra, they were far from enough to harm it seriously. Torterra didn’t even flinch.

Chomp—

Torterra suddenly opened its huge mouth and swallowed the charging Celebi in one bite. Celebi didn’t even have time to let out a scream.

"Celebi!!!!"

Yuga was stunned. Nana was stunned. Florges and the other Pokémon were all stunned.

Celebi had been eaten!!!

The other wild Pokémon in the forest all witnessed this scene. They had been trembling in hiding, too afraid to approach the battlefield.

But at this moment, they couldn’t hold back any longer. Like a tide, they surged out and rushed toward Torterra, forming a dark mass that almost covered half the sky.

Then Yuga saw countless Pokémon flying out of the forest—Staraptor, Murkrow, Pidgeot, Tropius, Fearow, Jumpluff, Yanmega, Skarmory, Mothim, Altaria, Mothim again, Chatot, Drifblim... An uncountable number of Pokémon surged toward Torterra, launching a frenzied assault. Their expressions and actions were utterly unhinged.

The scene was extremely spectacular. The sheer number of Pokémon that rushed out in this wave must have been in the tens of thousands—no matter who faced them, it would be overwhelming.

To these Pokémon, Celebi was not only their provider and guardian deity—it was their faith. It was precisely because Celebi existed that this forest was so bountiful.

But now Celebi had been eaten!

"Roar~"

The buried Torterra let out a furious roar. Yuga immediately sensed danger and shouted to his Pokémon, "Everyone, protect those Pokémon!"

Although the energy generated by those wild Pokémon gathering together was terrifying, they were far too weak individually. Torterra could sneeze and kill them all.

Nana and the others understood Yuga’s intention instantly. A psychic shield created jointly by Nana, Ninetales, Latias, and Latios appeared out of thin air and enveloped Torterra inside.

Within the psychic barrier, a sudden green storm arose. Unable to break through the shield, the storm spun wildly inside, most of it ending up slamming into Torterra’s face, causing it to roar once again.

That green storm was Torterra’s Razor Leaf attack. Its original target had been those wild Pokémon, but because of its overwhelming power, it looked more like Leaf Storm.

However, due to Nana and the others’ interference, the Razor Leaf ended up hitting Torterra itself.

Meanwhile, those wild Pokémon, frightened by the blast, abruptly snapped out of their rage and disappeared in the blink of an eye, flying off without a trace.

Too terrifying, I almost died!

However, Torterra was indeed in an extremely miserable state at this moment. Although the wild Pokémon were weak, when tens of thousands of them gathered together and launched a united assault, no one could withstand that.

Not only was the tree on its back bare, even its shell had developed a visible crack. Torterra let out roars and cries of pain.

Seeing that the wild Pokémon had scattered in time, Yuga let out a sigh of relief. He was even more pleased to see Torterra in such a sorry state—this guy’s defense had finally been broken.

However, the psychic shield that Nana and the others had created didn’t last long either. With one stomp from Torterra, thick and sharp stone pillars erupted from the ground, piercing straight through the shield.

The next scene left Yuga dumbfounded.

Torterra could use Grassy Terrain!

Green light surged from beneath Torterra, and the trees in the forest began involuntarily growing toward it. Under the healing effect of the Grass-type energy, the crack on Torterra’s back slowly began to heal, and new buds sprouted on the large tree on its back.

"Everyone, stop it quickly!" Yuga shouted.

Hearing this, Nana and the others once again launched an attack on Torterra, but Torterra seemed to have anticipated it. More green light emerged from its body, and the trees reaching toward it had all their life force drained in an instant, turning to ashes.

In the blink of an eye, the large tree on Torterra’s back had regrown lush branches and leaves. The crack on its shell had become nothing more than a scar.

The wild Pokémon’s efforts had been completely wasted!

But Torterra wasn’t satisfied. It slowly lifted a foot and crawled to another patch of trees. First, it used Grassy Terrain to promote growth, then Ultimate Drain to completely extract their life force.

In no time, a large section of the forest had disappeared.

Even though Torterra’s injuries had completely healed and its vitality had reached an extreme, it still showed no signs of stopping. It devoured the forest patch by patch.

Yuga tried to stop it, commanding Nana and the others to attack Torterra relentlessly, but Torterra ignored them. The slight damage that Nana and the others managed to cause healed in the blink of an eye.

This Torterra had clearly already become a calamity—a calamity that devoured forests.

The nearest city to this forest was Hearthome City. If Torterra were allowed to continue devouring like this, it wouldn’t just be the forest that would disappear.

At that moment, Yuga suddenly noticed that Torterra’s devouring movement paused for a moment, and then the large tree on its back suddenly withered rapidly.

A flash of pain appeared on Torterra’s face.

But that moment only lasted briefly, because Torterra soon resumed its emotionless forest-devouring, and the large tree on its back once again burst into full bloom, even flowering.

Yuga felt that something was wrong, but he couldn’t quite figure it out.

Soon, the large tree on Torterra’s back withered again. The flowers it had just bloomed hadn’t even had time to bear fruit.

This time, the withering only lasted for a short while. With the massive vitality Torterra absorbed, the tree once again became lush with flourishing branches and leaves.