Chapter 874 869: Perfect Evolution, Chandelure

"So this is the Dusk Stone vein?"

At that moment, Ethan was standing inside a cave.

Looking at the gray stone walls, from time to time, a faint gloomy glow could be seen passing by.

A large number of Dusk Stones were embedded in the walls, a scene so abundant that it dazzled the eyes.

"Luucaarr!"

Lucario nodded. At the same time, it kept its aura power activated.

According to the information in the records, this place should be the territory of the Chandelure. But now, the place was terrifyingly silent, without the slightest trace of life.

"I see. This may be the reason why that Chandelure was so strong."

Ethan pondered for a moment and soon reached a conclusion.

Without a doubt, it was because Chandelure had devoured its own companions!

Such a cruel Chandelure, in the end, ended up benefiting Lampent for free.

"In that case, I no longer feel any burden. Otherwise, if we destroyed this Dusk Stone vein, I would feel a little bad for those Chandelure."

A smile appeared at the corner of Ethan's lips as he looked at those Dusk Stones for a while.

Since before, he had already thought of a method to completely absorb the Dusk Stone vein. If it succeeded, after evolving, Lampent's strength would undoubtedly increase.

After all, a single Dusk Stone was already considered a very valuable resource. An entire Dusk Stone vein could completely be compared to a legendary resource!

"Lampent, let's begin."

Hearing Ethan's words, Lampent cried out excitedly.

Afterward, Lampent used the move Substitute, and one clone after another condensed.

After appearing, all those clones plunged headfirst toward the walls.

Taking advantage of the special nature of Ghost-type Pokémon, those Lampent continuously entered the inside of the walls.

When a Lampent clone touched a Dusk Stone from the vein in the wall, it could be seen that the Dusk Stone, due to Lampent's power, emitted a white light and directly integrated into Lampent's body.

This situation repeated nonstop, and very soon, the Dusk Stones in the walls were absorbed into their bodies.

After absorbing the Dusk Stones, all those Lampent clones quickly returned, plunging headfirst into Lampent's body and returning to the main body.

At the same time, the power of the Dusk Stones inside those Lampent clones also integrated into Lampent's body.

In the next instant, a faint white light appeared over the surface of Lampent's body.

But this still was not over. While Lampent was about to evolve, more clones continued returning to the main body.

Very soon, dozens and then hundreds of Lampent clones completely integrated into its body.

Boom!

In that instant, a terrifying energy fluctuation erupted from Lampent's body.

With the help of the power of evolution, Lampent instantly burned all the energy of the Dusk Stones inside it, making its body rapidly leap toward a higher level of life.

"It succeeded!"

"Using Lampent's clones to quickly plunder the energy of the Dusk Stone vein. Then, with the help of the power of evolution, instantly digest that energy to complete evolution."

"During the process of evolution, the Pokémon enters a kind of invincible state. Under these circumstances, it can perfectly absorb the power of the Dusk Stone vein."

Ethan looked expectantly at Lampent enveloped in the light of evolution. He watched as its body changed little by little, until it finally evolved into Chandelure.

The white light slowly dissipated. Then, a purple flame could be seen rising into the sky, directly striking the upper rocky wall of the cave. The terrifying flames directly pierced through the rock and rushed toward the sky.

In that instant, all the Ghost-type Pokémon in that area of the Spirit World felt that power. One after another, they began to tremble, and some even prostrated themselves on the ground, expressing their submission.

Under that power, they could not generate even the slightest thought of resistance. That aura was far too terrifying, much stronger than that of the previous demonic Chandelure!

"According to the aura, it has already reached the peak of the Quasi-Elite level?"

Hearing Lucario's judgment, Ethan's eyes showed a trace of excitement.

Litwick had absorbed the fire of life and evolved into Lampent. Then it absorbed the power of the demonic Chandelure and reached the Quasi-Elite level. Finally, using the Dusk Stone vein, it evolved into Chandelure. Its strength made several consecutive leaps and reached the peak in one go.

And this was only Chandelure's own power. If it used the form of the Demonic Fire Shadow, then it was very likely that Chandelure's strength would break through the threshold of the Elite level, just like Mega Garchomp and Mega Tyranitar.

Moreover, unlike Mega Garchomp and Mega Tyranitar, which needed to rely on Mega Evolution, Chandelure could achieve it with only its own power.

"Chaandeelll!"

While Ethan was pondering, Chandelure also finished adapting to its body and flew toward him.

At this, Ethan naturally did not spare any praise and asked Chandelure to use some moves to feel the changes in its strength.

Upon discovering the changes in its current power, Chandelure also became excited.

The first move it used was the ability of infinite clones. However, during the process, Chandelure encountered some difficulties.

Because its own strength had increased, the clones created with the move Substitute had also become very powerful. This caused the number of clones Chandelure could condense to decrease greatly. In total, it could only create nine Chandelure clones, far from being able to condense dozens or hundreds of clones like before.

"Ten Quasi-Elite-level Chandelure!"

Seeing this, Ethan was not negatively surprised; on the contrary, he was delighted.

As strength increased, the power contained in the clones also increased.

After checking the strength of the nine clones condensed by Chandelure, Ethan was shocked.

Compared with Chandelure in the form of the Demonic Fire Shadow, Ethan felt that ten Chandelure working together, like ten suns suspended in the sky, could also display terrifying combat strength.

Of course, if Chandelure wanted to use the ability of infinite clones again, it was also very simple: it only needed to control the amount of physical energy injected when condensing each clone.

In principle, the move Substitute consists of separating a part of the Pokémon's physical energy to turn it into a clone. The clone's strength depends entirely on how much physical energy is concentrated in it.

Now, under Ethan's training, Chandelure already had very strong control over life energy. The physical energy needed to condense its clones had also been greatly reduced.

In Ethan's conception, Chandelure could completely replace the consumption of physical energy through the condensation of life energy. In that way, the power of the move Substitute would become even more terrifying, and only then could it truly be called infinite clones.

Moreover, through the injection of life energy, perhaps it could even condense clones stronger than the main body itself.