Chapter 678: This is the Strongest Power
A heart-rending, lung-tearing roar pierced through the nightmare imprisoning Rayquaza, like a bolt of lightning fiercely cleaving through the profound darkness.
He jolted awake from his dream.
Upon regaining his senses.
He immediately raised his head, looking eagerly towards the sky.
The scene that appeared before his eyes made him freeze on the spot.
Above the firmament.
A tragic and heroic charge was taking place.
One proud dragon after another was following their revered Dragon King, surging without hesitation towards the comet bringing destruction in the sky.
You use your life to protect us.
We use our lives to repay you.
If this is the destiny of the Dragon Clan, then we gladly embrace it.
Their figures, in contrast to the massive behemoth, were as insignificant as moths darting into a raging fire.
Streams of cold air wrapped around the giant dragons.
Hard ice froze their bodies, sealing their bravery and resolve.
Chunks of ice plummeted towards the churning ocean below like dumplings falling into a pot, finally splashing silently.
But so what?
Death cannot stop true heroes.
They roared and intensified the force and speed of their charge, seemingly intent on avenging their fallen kin.
Which generation of world Overlords.
Was ever a spineless coward lacking blood and backbone?
The fact that their Dragon Clan could become the Overlords of this world within a hundred years proved they had an inextinguishable pride.
If one thought mere death could scare them away.
That would be a grave mistake.
In Rayquaza's trembling pupils.
They...
Used to be hunters and prey, killing each other.
But now...
They actually chose to work together at this moment, using their flesh and blood to jointly resist the natural disaster.
[The most terrifying ability in this world is not the power of the Plates, but the power to turn the people around you, and even hostile people, into companions.]
This world has never exclusively belonged to any single person or thing.
This is everyone's world.
Therefore.
The power that can gather everyone together is the strongest power in this world!
At this moment.
Rayquaza completely understood what Kazuya had said back then.
Just like right now.
Even if one gathered all eighteen Plates, this comet in the sky still couldn't be stopped.
But when everyone's power and will are united... then.
Even this comet...
"Wait, what about the other one?"
Rayquaza suddenly turned his head to look at the other side.
He saw that the 120-kilometer comet was already about to crash towards the earth.
A terrifying white light enveloped the ground.
Bringing a suffocating sense of oppression.
He thrashed his body, his strong giant tail slapping the ground, wanting to pounce forward to stop it.
However, just as his dragon body hovered a few meters off the ground, he fell heavily to the dirt in a sorry state.
Grass and dirt covered Rayquaza's face messily.
He turned his head anxiously to look.
He saw that the tip of the tail he was so proud of was actually missing a horn.
Just this one missing piece made the Sky Dragon, who controlled the atmosphere, lose control of his body's balance in a short time.
"Damn it, mere balance..."
Rayquaza struggled unwillingly on the ground.
But that would only worsen his injuries, causing the natural energy in his body to be consumed even faster.
Despair shrouded his heart like seawater.
But right at this moment.
A shadow obscured the white light, turning into a tangible curtain that covered this chaotic land.
Rayquaza raised his head and looked forward.
That figure, like a mountain range, pounced fearlessly towards that comet.
He positioned himself, in the posture of the oldest challenger, between that comet and the vast earth.
Just like an unknown, incredibly long time ago, he positioned himself between the Creator God and his seventeen companions.
Boom!
The earth was violently shattered by a single foot, as he firmly rooted himself on the broken continent.
Then, he raised that giant fist capable of crushing mountain ranges and threw it out fiercely.
"Regi!!"
I will finish you with the move he taught me!
Focus Punch!!
The golden light radiating from the giant fist completely swallowed the white light of the comet. Contained within the golden light was an indestructible will.
Bang!
The fist collided with the comet.
An unparalleled impact force acted on Regigigas's body, making his steel-like body let out a 'creaking' wail.
Crack!!
The continent beneath Regigigas's feet was the first to give way.
Several abyss-like fissures spread in all directions at this moment, not stopping even at the edge of his vision.
Boom!
At a certain moment.
A sound that made the whole world tremble rang out.
This continent, which had existed for hundreds of millions of years.
Split apart!
Seawater continuously churned and poured backwards, converging into roaring rivers rushing eagerly into the fissures.
Swoosh!
Regigigas's body was pushed back continuously by the comet, his hard feet plowing two bottomless chasms into the earth.
Just as he was about to fall into the abyssal rift behind him.
"Roar!!"
"Ooom!!"
One red and one blue figure crashed fiercely from the left and right directions.
Giga Impact x2!
The God of the Earth and the God of the Ocean.
Since the moment they were born into this world, they had never been afraid of anyone!
Let alone a mere rock?!
Boom! Boom!
Two earth-shattering loud bangs exploded almost simultaneously.
The combined force of three ancient gods standing at the apex of the world.
Actually managed to forcibly intercept the comet that was destroying the continent and causing tsunamis!
Freezing cold air covered Regigigas's palms.
But he turned a blind eye to it.
The comet's impact force gradually receded, the light on its surface quickly dimmed, and it subsequently turned into a grey-black giant rock like a mountain.
"Regi!"
Boom!
Regigigas threw the giant rock onto the ground nearby.
He turned his head to look at the higher sky.
Right at this moment.
Crack!
The sound of glass shattering spread all over the world, and also reached deep into the universe.
The curtain of light in the sky, like glass covered in cracks, finally met its end.
The next moment.
Smack!
The 180-kilometer comet in the sky.
Actually exploded into a sky full of starry dust, like a gentle snow, fluttering down towards the scarred world below.
The Dragon Clan.
Finally succeeded.
They used their lives to create a miracle.
Even if the losses were disastrous.
Even if there would be just as many problems to face in the future: a broken earth, drastic climate changes, a long and difficult path of survival...
But at least.
The world was saved at this moment.
The hope of the Dragon Clan was not extinguished.
Rayquaza gazed at the brilliant rain of stardust in the sky, his pupils reflecting the black afterimage falling from the sky.
"The strongest power in the world... I've witnessed it."
Rayquaza murmured, then lay on the ground, falling into a trance.
He often said they were gods.
But in Rayquaza's view.
He was the true god.
It's just a pity.
This god was about to face his curtain call.
Rayquaza looked up at the end of the empty sky, as if he had obtained some kind of answer:
"Arceus, even as strong as you are, you couldn't do to that extent, could you?"
"That's why we don't submit to you."
"In this world..."
"I only submit to him."
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