Chapter 671: Team Black Dragon Adds Another Member
The opportunity to verify Kazuya's words came quickly.
When that Master-level Deoxys disappeared again, Charizard and Rayquaza attacked behind Kazuya simultaneously.
Before Deoxys even appeared.
The Flamethrower and Hyper Beam arrived one after another.
By the time Deoxys revealed its figure, the scorching flames and the pale beam of light had already struck both sides of its body.
Looking forward.
A fist burning with raging fire was already smashing towards its core.
Attacked from three sides, at point-blank range.
At this distance, even a god would find it hard to evade.
Boom!
The Flamethrower and Hyper Beam exploded right in front of him.
Being so close, Kazuya was inevitably caught in the explosion, but compared to Deoxys, who took three attacks head-on, Kazuya, who only took secondary damage, was in much better condition.
As the smoke from the explosion cleared.
Kazuya looked at the 'relic' falling from the sky and couldn't help but laugh out loud.
Deoxys's Forme Change was incredibly broken, the greatest advantage of their species.
But if their actions were anticipated in advance, it could instead become a fatal flaw.
Just like now.
Deoxys switched to Attack Forme, preparing to deliver a Superpower to Kazuya's kidneys.
But it didn't expect.
Its action was anticipated by Kazuya.
Drawing three fierce attacks.
Coincidentally, Deoxys in Attack Forme had a defense equivalent to a Caterpie or Igglybuff of the same level, so it was instantly 'killed'!
Turning his head to look now.
The remaining two Deoxys each grabbed a companion's core and quickly fled out of the atmosphere using Teleport.
Rayquaza narrowed his eyes and gave chase, seemingly intending to make them stay permanently.
And as for what happened next.
Kazuya and his brother didn't participate anymore.
Battles in a place like space were beyond their ability to join.
Ordinary creatures like them couldn't survive without oxygen.
Returning to the sea surface below.
Florges and the three Pokémon were waiting expectantly. Seeing Kazuya and his brother return, they quickly cast curious glances.
"Deoxys was chased away. Rayquaza went after them, but I guess he probably won't catch them. He might come looking for us in a few minutes."
Kazuya explained the situation to them.
Mega Rayquaza was very fast, and also knew Extreme Speed.
Relying on the massive level difference, his speed stat could crush those two Champion Deoxys.
But the problem was.
Champion Deoxys also knew Agility, and had Teleport as an auxiliary.
He felt it would be tough for Rayquaza to catch up.
And that was indeed the case.
When five minutes later.
Kazuya saw Rayquaza flying down from the sky looking displeased and cursing, he knew his guess was right.
It had to be said.
The young Rayquaza was quite hot-tempered.
At least he didn't have the sense of composure from the League Era.
When Rayquaza flew down and saw Regigigas and the ancient idiots, his eyes couldn't help but narrow.
All ancient gods who came from the ancient era.
Who hadn't seen whom?
At most, they had never communicated.
In the past, they would just pass by each other if they met.
Unlike the three below.
Rayquaza acted alone out of preference and habit. He liked staying alone in the quiet ozone layer, enjoying a peaceful life undisturbed by anyone.
"Regi."
Regigigas was the first to try to break the ice.
As the only god among the four present with almost no airs and no arrogance at all, he proactively waved to Rayquaza.
Rayquaza glanced at him, just nodded, then turned to look at Kazuya:
"Thanks."
Telepathic communication, concise and to the point.
Rayquaza was indeed different from the idiots.
The idiots still had no intention or awareness of learning telepathic communication, completely speaking their own language.
Of course.
They indeed had no need to learn this.
After all, no one communicated with them in the past, and even now, Kazuya and the others could understand them.
Rayquaza, on the other hand.
Probably started learning telepathic communication to communicate with Deoxys.
Maybe to taunt the opponent or something?
Talk some trash?
Anyway, based on Rayquaza's current personality, that was the most likely reason.
In the end, he found out that even knowing telepathic communication was useless; Deoxys spoke cosmic language.
"You're welcome. Do you want to join us? We can hang out together and exchange ideas in the future."
Kazuya smiled at Rayquaza, then added, "We often get together and fight, which can improve each other's strength and help us learn new moves."
He knew the first half of the sentence would probably have near-zero appeal to Rayquaza.
So he added the second half.
Enhancing strength, learning moves.
That should be quite tempting for Rayquaza.
Upon reaching the Master stage.
Leveling up becomes extremely strenuous.
Kazuya remembered that in his fourth life, it took him a full sixty years or so to go from Lv. 90 to Lv. 93.
And that was just an ordinary Pokémon.
The level increase of Legendary Pokémon seemed to have some other restrictions he didn't know about.
Anyway, at least Kazuya felt.
The idiots in the League Era weren't much higher in level than the idiots now.
They might not have leveled up at all.
In that case.
If they wanted to enhance their combat power.
They definitely had to take other paths.
Accumulating combat experience and expanding their move pool were the main ways.
Based on the battle in the sky just now, Kazuya guessed the current Rayquaza probably didn't know many moves at all.
He reckoned the move pool was full of naturally learned ones.
So learning new moves should hold some temptation for him.
Sure enough.
As soon as he said this.
Rayquaza, who originally had no interest and was even a bit resistant, actually produced an Aura of slight inclination.
His eyes darted around.
He seemed a bit tsundere and shy, embarrassed to agree the first time.
"Roar?"
What are you pretending for?
"Ooom."
Yeah, you're probably drooling inside.
Kazuya and Rayquaza stared blankly at the two idiots who suddenly spoke up.
The former seemed to understand.
Why Rayquaza often scolded them and was so ruthless later on.
By the way.
Couldn't these two guys see that Rayquaza was stronger than them?
How dare they say that?
And a hint of anger appeared in Rayquaza's eyes.
That was the reaction of having one's thoughts exposed.
"Welcome to the team. My name is Kazuya."
Kazuya started talking to Rayquaza, diverting his attention.
Rayquaza turned his head to look at Kazuya.
When did I say I was joining?
That's what Rayquaza thought in his heart.
But he didn't say it.
He still accepted the out Kazuya provided.
For the latter's sake, he wouldn't bicker with these two seemingly stupid idiots on their first meeting.
Thus.
Team Black Dragon added another fierce general.
In terms of strength.
Mega Rayquaza was probably temporarily greater than or equal to Kazuya.
Although his move pool was relatively barren and his combat experience couldn't compare to the future.
But his base stats were right there, and it was a certainty that he was stronger than the two idiots combined.
If the perfect-form Regigigas was T1 tier.
Then Mega Rayquaza was T0 tier.
Only the perfect-form Kyurem could be mentioned in the same breath.
"Flor~"
Florges smiled and waved.
She introduced every Pokémon here, and then mentioned that this team was called Team Black Dragon.
Team Black Dragon.
This name made Rayquaza raise an eyebrow. Although he knew the name was likely related to Kazuya, it still gave him a slight sense of identity.
After all, he was also a black dragon.
"Let's go. I'll take you to see where we live first. Can you shrink your size first, like them?"
Kazuya pointed at the three Land-Sea-Regi gods.
Then turned to look at the current Rayquaza.
Rayquaza's size wasn't huge. He had probably already shrunk himself using Life Return, and now looked to be only about twenty meters long.
"Mhm."
Rayquaza nodded, giving Kazuya quite a bit of face.
In less than two seconds.
Rayquaza's length shrank again, shortening to only eleven or twelve meters.
Visually.
Rayquaza's presence was even less intimidating than Groudon and Kyogre.
But as long as the dragon himself didn't care, it was fine.
They traveled all the way to the grassland.
When Rayquaza saw the Dragon Clan encompassing so many Pokémon species and occupying such a large area of land.
He inevitably showed a look of shock.
That's right.
Shock.
It was true he had lived a long time and seen a lot.
Unlike the two idiots who either slept or fought, he had spent time observing this planet and other Pokémon when he wasn't fighting.
But exactly because of this.
Rayquaza knew how difficult it was to achieve this.
However.
The shock was only temporary.
After that feeling passed, he felt it was nothing much.
It wasn't that no Pokémon had done it before.
The Bug Clan had done it.
It's just that the Bug Clan didn't have a clear single leader then, but had multiple Bug Kings.
The Dragon Clan managed to have only one voice, the Dragon King.
In the eyes of the current Rayquaza.
With Kazuya's strength, it was normal to achieve such a thing.
He felt that if he wanted to do it, he could definitely do it too.
Only in the future would he understand.
Some creatures.
Will not submit to force.
Trying to rule the world with force is absolutely impossible.
Of course.
The current Rayquaza didn't understand this.
He was more curious about the other party:
"You have a special aura about you."
"Hmm? You mean this?"
Kazuya was taken aback for a moment, then raised his hand.
In the palm of his hand quietly lay an uneven ice-blue stone.
The moment this stone appeared.
Let alone Rayquaza.
Even the nearby Dragon Clan members couldn't help but look sideways.
Some little dragons lacking self-control even pounced over directly, bringing their heads close, wanting to take a lick.
"What is this?"
Rayquaza asked in confusion.
This thing had an inexplicable attraction to him, but it was limited to that.
Obtaining this thing would be of no help to Rayquaza; he still had that intuition.
"This is a God Stone, also known as the Dragon Stone. A friend gave it to me."
Kazuya grinned, then added, "Speaking of this, I have a favor to ask you."
"Speak."
"In the future, a dragon Pokémon transformed from a comet will come to this world. I'm not sure when he will arrive, but he is my friend. Please don't attack him; he won't be detrimental to this world."
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