Chapter 875 868: Devouring Chandelure

"Chaandeelll!"

Realizing that it no longer had any chance of winning, Chandelure's gaze became fierce.

In the next instant, under Ethan's solemn gaze, Chandelure plunged headfirst into the body of the Demonic Fire Shadow!

The flames roared. It could be seen that the body of the Demonic Fire Shadow began to churn rapidly.

Inside the body of the Demonic Fire Shadow, Chandelure was quickly absorbing the flames and Ghost-type energy. From its attitude, it seemed that it wanted to completely absorb Lampent together with the Demonic Fire Shadow.

"This Chandelure also has the Flash Fire ability."

Seeing this scene, Ethan frowned. The reason Lampent was so strong was entirely due to the development of the move Substitute and the Flash Fire ability.

If Chandelure broke the balance of Lampent's Demonic Fire Shadow through its own Flash Fire ability, Lampent would probably be exposed directly in front of Chandelure.

"Since you want to devour, I'll let you devour until you're full!"

"Lampent, condense your clones and give them to it to devour!"

Seeing Chandelure continuously devouring the power of the Demonic Fire Shadow on the field, Ethan spoke directly.

Lampent understood and began condensing clones, sending all of them toward Chandelure.

The current Chandelure was also trapped in a difficult situation and was forced to begin devouring Lampent's clones. The flames on its body surged.

Feeling its power become more and more terrifying, no excitement appeared in Chandelure's eyes, but instead a deep terror.

Although the Flash Fire ability could absorb flames to increase its power, it also had a limit.

Even the Litwick from back then, which had developed the Flash Fire ability to the extreme, needed to use the form of the Demonic Fire Shadow to condense the power, and even then, it had a limit.

Now, the energy inside Chandelure's body had already slightly exceeded the load it could withstand. Its entire body began to burn!

Originally, it was an evil spirit that grew by devouring souls. It would never have imagined that one day it would be burst apart from feeding on too many souls.

The dazzling flames burned. Everything turned into nothingness, and only purple flames remained burning in the void.

Seeing this, Lampent flew until it was in front of the burning flames.

Afterward, the purple flame inside Lampent's shade could be seen swaying, beginning to draw those purple flames into its own body.

Whether it was Lampent or Chandelure, the purple flames inside their bodies were both life and source of power to them.

Now that Chandelure had died from being overwhelmed by too much energy, as long as Lampent absorbed those purple flames left behind by Chandelure, it would be like absorbing all of Chandelure's power.

Moreover, since both Pokémon belonged to the same evolutionary species, the efficiency of absorbing that energy could also reach an extremely high degree, almost as if it were perfect absorption.

"Although Litwick possessed Quasi-Elite-level combat strength thanks to two high-level techniques, the infinite clones and the Demonic Fire Shadow, its own strength was always its weak point."

"Litwick has already evolved into Lampent, and its base strength has increased considerably. Now, by absorbing the origin flame of this Quasi-Elite-level Chandelure, its own strength will also be able to enter the Quasi-Elite level."

"When Lampent later evolves into Chandelure, relying on the form of the Demonic Fire Shadow, perhaps it can try to reach the Elite level."

Seeing Lampent continuously absorb and digest Chandelure's flames, Ethan also became a little excited inwardly.

Fuu, fuu, fuu~

After Chandelure's death, gusts of gloomy wind began to blow around them.

"Luucaarr!"

Lucario opened its eyes and looked around.

Under the perception of its aura, a large number of Ghost-type Pokémon had appeared in the surroundings.

All those Pokémon looked cautiously at the purple flame burning on the field. Amid their fear, there was also a hint of excitement.

Evidently, for a long time, those Ghost-type Pokémon had lived under Chandelure's terror. Now that they had sensed Chandelure's death, they gathered from all directions.

Lucario lightly released its aura. Now was the crucial moment for Lampent to absorb the purple flames, and it would not allow any Pokémon to disturb its companion!

Sensing the power emanating from Lucario, those Ghost-type Pokémon were intimidated one by one, watching helplessly as Lampent absorbed that energy they so coveted.

Returning to Lampent's side.

After absorbing the flames left behind by Chandelure, Lampent's body began to emit terrifying energy fluctuations.

Boom!

In the next instant, a white light suddenly enveloped Lampent's body.

Originally, for Lampent to evolve into Chandelure, it needed a Dusk Stone. But now, after absorbing the flames left behind by Chandelure, Lampent unexpectedly showed an evolution reaction.

"Lampent, now isn't the time!"

Seeing this, Ethan spoke directly.

Although Lampent could evolve immediately, they were about to find the Dusk Stone vein.

With the help of the Dusk Stone vein, Lampent's evolution could be even more perfect. For a Pokémon, evolution was an opportunity for the sublimation of life.

"Lammppett!"

Lampent forcefully endured the light of evolution and forcibly stopped its evolution.

It completely obeyed the words of Ethan, its Trainer.

Along the way, it knew that the reason it could be so strong was thanks to Ethan's training.

Otherwise, it would only have been a lonely Litwick, and its strength would never have been so great, nor would it have had so many companions.

"Get lost. There's nothing to see."

After Lampent completely absorbed the purple flames, Ethan spoke to the Ghost-type Pokémon surrounding the place.

Hearing Ethan's words, those Ghost Pokémon dispersed in a mass.

Although they felt some pity at not absorbing those purple flames, they knew they were finally safe.

For so long, under Chandelure's threat, they had had to hide everywhere. Now everything was over.

Seeing those Ghost-type Pokémon leave, Ethan also took Lampent and left the place, leaving behind a devastated battlefield.

The reason Chandelure was able to become so strong was mainly because of the Dusk Stone vein in the Chandelure territory.

Therefore, Chandelure was also the guardian of that Dusk Stone vein. Now that they had encountered Chandelure there, that meant the Dusk Stone vein was not far away.

After advancing for a while, Lucario found the presence of the Dusk Stone vein through its aura power. That place should be the destination of their journey.