Chapter 673: The Oldest Challenger - Regigigas
Returning to the grassland full of joy.
Kazuya was so excited tonight that he couldn't fall asleep at all.
He couldn't help it.
The Plate was a truly immense harvest.
Every additional Plate meant immunity to another type; how could he not be excited?
Perhaps a Plate alone couldn't directly help Kazuya realize his dream.
But it could definitely become a major boost on his path to realizing it.
Even setting everything else aside.
Just this one Plate.
Was enough for Kazuya to say that this lifetime had not been in vain.
At night.
Kazuya sat alone in the lake, soaking.
Wanting to use the lake water to cool his somewhat overly excited brain.
Not far beside him.
Kyogre was floating belly-up on the lake's surface, snoring soundly.
Having spent so much time together.
Regigigas and the three idiots had all developed the habit of sleeping every day.
Of course.
For them.
This could probably only be called a short nap.
In fact, wasn't it the same for Kazuya?
Only when he died in each life.
Could he truly say he got a good sleep.
Splash~
The water ripples ahead spread out.
Rayquaza's head popped out from under the lake.
Kazuya glanced at him but didn't speak.
Rayquaza was new here.
He hadn't yet developed the habit of sleeping every day.
It was normal not to sleep at night.
"You're from the future?"
Rayquaza asked.
"Yes."
Kazuya wasn't surprised and nodded gently.
What he said before should have been obvious enough. Whether these gods could figure it out or not, he wouldn't be surprised.
A smart one like Rayquaza.
Could definitely figure it out.
The other three who weren't so smart.
Would have no reaction at all.
"Oh."
Rayquaza nodded, saying nothing more.
From the future, so be it.
It didn't feel like something particularly surprising.
After all, as far as he knew.
It wasn't like there weren't Pokémon that could travel through time.
So it was acceptable.
"We even fought together in the future,"
Kazuya turned his head and smiled at him.
"Tch, I can tell."
Rayquaza grinned disdainfully.
From the moment Kazuya admitted he was from the future.
He had already guessed this point.
If it weren't for some relationship in the future, Kazuya wouldn't have brought his brother to help him fight the rubber man right away.
"True, after all, we've been friends for so long."
Rayquaza tilted his head, too embarrassed to continue this topic, and changed it. "That comet friend of yours, tell me about it? Don't want to hit the wrong guy later."
"Oh, called Kyurem. Hmm, it's a bit complicated to explain. His true form is..."
The night was still long.
Kazuya wasn't sleepy himself, and seeing Rayquaza wasn't either.
He started talking about some things regarding Kyurem.
From a comet evolving into the Unova dragon god, the dragon god and the first king of the Kingdom of the Vale, the dragon god splitting into three...
In short, anything related to Kyurem.
He talked a bit about it all.
The more Rayquaza listened, the more interested he became. So such interesting dragons could be born in the universe.
To naturally possess the powers of ice, fire, and electricity.
It must be extremely powerful.
Perhaps they could have a match in the future.
Mhm!
Right before that dragon splits.
After Kazuya told Rayquaza about Kyurem, his heart immediately relaxed.
This way.
When Kyurem lands in the future, there shouldn't be any problems.
"By the way, do you know Xerneas and Yveltal?"
Kazuya asked Rayquaza.
In this life, when Team Black Dragon was traveling everywhere.
Kazuya also thought about looking for the God of Life and the God of Destruction.
In this era where natural energy was incredibly abundant, the strength of those two gods should also be very powerful.
Perhaps even stronger than in the future League Era.
So Kazuya prepared to go see them.
But.
He didn't find those two.
He didn't know if they had turned back into an ordinary tree and stone and were sleeping somewhere.
If that were the case.
If Kazuya didn't get close and use Aura to sense them.
He wouldn't be able to detect their whereabouts.
"There are no guys with those names."
Rayquaza shook his head, confirming that the two Pokémon Kazuya described didn't exist in this world.
"Not born yet?"
Kazuya frowned in confusion.
"Yeah, probably not born yet."
Rayquaza nodded without much surprise. "Creatures like us weren't born alongside this world from the very beginning."
"That much I know."
Kazuya nodded.
Setting aside those secondary gods.
Even among the primary gods, it was obvious that some didn't exist from the very beginning.
The Unova Trio was a very typical case.
In the League Era.
The earliest legends and biographies of Kyurem.
Could only be traced back to the Kingdom of the Vale over a thousand years ago.
Before that, there were absolutely no legends or totems related to it.
This indicated that Kyurem either remained silent for a long time when it first arrived, or perhaps it just arrived very late.
"When I was born, this world already had a rudimentary form, but you Pokémon hadn't been born yet."
Rayquaza turned his head.
He gestured to Kazuya at the Dragon Clan members sleeping soundly on the grassland.
"What was the world like back then?"
Kazuya asked curiously.
"Only sky and ocean."
Rayquaza turned to look at Kyogre beside them, then glanced at Groudon on the ground. "After Arceus created the land, that guy was also born immediately after."
Groudon, who was sleeping, felt an itch on its butt.
It reached out its short little hand and scratched.
"So you guys are considered created by Arceus?"
"Indirectly, I guess. Anyway, from my perspective, the three of us are the incarnations of the sky, ocean, and earth."
Rayquaza had his own views.
His words always carried a hint of unyielding towards Arceus.
He seemed unwilling to admit Arceus had a higher status.
"Then you guys must be among the earliest born gods."
Kazuya sighed with emotion.
It had to be said.
Compared to learning these things from human research and speculation, hearing it personally from these Legendary Pokémon was much more impactful.
Even though.
The former was more interesting and brought more of a sense of accomplishment.
But after all, not knowing if it was true, the conclusions reached felt a bit like a castle in the air, a sense of falsehood.
"Not really. We're considered the third batch. The earliest... should be that batch."
Rayquaza lifted his chin, gesturing towards Regigigas's direction.
"...?"
Kazuya's eyes widened slightly.
He felt he had heard something incredible.
Rayquaza said he was the third batch.
Then the second batch should be the Creation Trio.
Then the only one earlier than the Creation Trio must be the Creator God.
But when Rayquaza mentioned the first batch, he included Regigigas?
"Yeah, just like you think. That guy is a creature from the same era as Arceus."
A strange look appeared on Rayquaza's face.
"How do you know?"
Kazuya stared at Rayquaza.
"Arceus told me."
Rayquaza's words were astonishing.
"!!"
Kazuya was shocked.
"Let me put it this way. Me, him, and three other guys, all challenged Arceus, and all failed. I should be the last one to challenge, hundreds of millions of years ago now."
Rayquaza gestured at Regigigas again. "And, he was the first challenger. Although I don't know why he seems to know nothing now, this was said by Arceus himself, it should be correct."
The other three he mentioned.
Must be the Creation Trio.
Those three biological sons of Arceus had always been rebellious sons, especially Giratina, the kind who wished he could go against the heavens.
It was Rayquaza bringing up Regigigas again.
That reminded Kazuya of the story of a certain two game versions in the past.
The details of the stories in the two versions were different, but the theme and result were the same.
One was.
[This planet used to have a group of ancient giants, which is the Regi family.
They challenged the Creator God, Arceus, but failed.
Arceus destroyed all the giants except Regigigas, and turned them into the power of the Plates.
But Arceus couldn't kill Regigigas, and finally could only choose to seal it.]
The other version was.
[In the past, Regigigas possessed a full eighteen types.
It challenged Arceus, but was defeated, and all its typings and abilities were stripped away, leaving only the Normal type.
Its other abilities became the Plates on Arceus.]
The first version had higher recognition.
The reason being that Regigigas, indeed lonely later on, created many Golems of various types similar to itself using materials.
Some readers interpreted this as remembering past companions.
In short.
Regardless of which version.
Regigigas's status was considered to be on the same level as Arceus.
Some fans joked:
If Regigigas had defeated Arceus back then, the later game wouldn't be called [Pokémon Legends: Arceus], but [Pokémon Legends: Regigigas].
Of course.
The reason for putting Regigigas and Arceus together wasn't limited to the claims of these two versions.
There were lore researchers digging deep in various ways.
They discovered many special things about Regigigas that other Legendary Pokémon couldn't compare to.
From appearance rate, typing, to the initial source of inspiration for character creation...
Various analyses.
Some analyses forced connections.
For example...
[The Regi family appears in almost every generation of Pokémon games, it can be called the perfect attendance king of Pokémon, this appearance rate alone makes it impossible to be ordinary.]
[Excluding artificial and Terastal theories, the entire Pokémon world has and only has pure Normal-type Mythical/Legendary Pokémon: Arceus and Regigigas from the same generation.]
Some analyses indeed made sense and combined game lore.
[One of the inspirations for Arceus is Zeus, the King of the Gods in Olympus, while Regigigas represents the older Titans.
Zeus led the gods to defeat the ancient Titans and imprisoned them. This perfectly corresponds to "Arceus defeating the Regi family, turning them into Plates, and sealing Regigigas".
According to this prototype, Zeus and Regigigas are somewhat related.]
Various theories abounded.
Of course, some people also believed Regigigas was just an ordinary Legendary Pokémon.
Based on its game appearances, it was even just a secondary god.
But after hearing what Rayquaza said here.
Kazuya believed the versions he had heard in the past.
The 'Colossal Pokémon' Regigigas, is the oldest challenger in this world.
A Legendary Pokémon from the same era as Arceus, and the first to challenge Arceus.
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