Chapter 852: Temporarily Parting Ways
Blackthorn City.
Nearly thirty years ago.
When they came here, this place was already quite deserted.
Now.
This place is no different from a dead city.
Of course.
It is not just Blackthorn City.
This is basically the situation all over the world.
Whether it is survivors or magical beasts, their numbers are dwindling.
After all, life will not reset.
Fortunately.
Items will.
So Kazuya planned to return to the Dragon Clan territory with Dragonite and the others for a trip.
After all.
In the League Era.
It is hard to say if there are Dragonite Mega Stones elsewhere, but the Dragon Clan definitely has no shortage of them.
The young people of the Dragon Clan.
Not to mention anyone else.
Just Lance and Clair alone couldn't possibly lack this stone.
The former is the Champion of the Indigo League, the Flying-type Elite Four member of the previous generation.
The latter is the Gym Leader of the Blackthorn Gym in the Johto region, a Dragon-type specialist Trainer, a quasi-Champion level powerhouse, and also the later gatekeeper of the Dragon's Den.
In League Calendar Year 220.
These siblings were the public face of the Dragon Clan.
It is obviously impossible for them not to have Dragonite's Mega Stone.
Even if Lance didn't have one.
Clair would definitely have one.
After all, Clair's signature Pokemon is the Dragonite line, unlike Lance.
Perhaps back then they placed the Dragonite Mega Stone in the Dragon Clan's home.
Even if it is not there today.
Perhaps it will spawn tomorrow.
It will appear one day.
Kazuya and Mewtwo couldn't stay long in the Dragon Clan territory, but Dragonite could.
Returning after thirty years.
He believed Dragonite also wanted to live here for a period of time, and then look for those members of the Dragon Clan who ran out to survive, to see how they were living.
"Scizor, Lucario, you two stay by Dragonite's side these next few days and act together with her. Make sure you don't separate."
"If you encounter a Demon God, immediately make a commotion. Mewtwo and I will instantly use the Power of Space to come and support you."
"If you don't encounter one, then stay here the whole time, searching every day until you find the Dragonite Mega Stone."
Kazuya emphasized solemnly.
He and Mewtwo couldn't stay here for long.
Especially him.
Otherwise, it wouldn't even take until the next day.
A bunch of Demon Gods would come knocking to fight, and Shadow would also immediately rush in this direction.
Encountering Shadow isn't terrifying.
What is terrifying is that after Shadow arrives at the Dragon Clan territory, He would guess Kazuya and his team's objective.
Then the situation would be terrible.
Shadow would definitely have the Demon Gods guard the Dragon Clan territory.
Then they could only go to other places to look for the Dragonite Mega Stone.
This stone is very important.
Right now.
The importance of this Mega Stone.
Even surpassed the two tasks of obtaining Plates and devouring Demon Gods.
After all.
Dragonite needed this thing to prolong her life.
And in Kazuya's heart, Plates and divine power obviously wouldn't be more important than Dragonite's life.
Therefore.
Until they find the Dragonite Mega Stone.
Other matters could be put on the back burner.
Besides.
It is not like they had no other things to do.
"What about Master and Mewtwo?"
Scizor asked a question.
He didn't really want to stay in this place, feeling a bit idle.
He still hoped to follow by his Master's side.
But since his Master said so.
He wouldn't disobey orders.
"We are going to find Silver, to see if the new batch of Reversion Pills is ready, and conveniently cooperate with him on some research," Kazuya answered.
This was the content of their original deal with Silver.
Silver used the materials left over by Team Rocket in the past to manufacture new Reversion Pills for Kazuya's team.
And Kazuya would use the devoured powers to assist Silver in creating Mewtwo Mark III based on Mewtwo's blood.
Mutual benefit.
Both sides were happy to make this deal.
Originally.
Silver also wanted Kazuya's blood.
To try and create a Darkrai Mark II, or a combination of Darkrai and Mewtwo.
But considering the precedent of the Dark Hero of the Leaves.
Kazuya rejected this request.
If his blood was used to clone an ordinary Darkrai, he would be very happy to support this research project.
But if it cloned a Darkrai possessing a portion of his memories, then they could kindly get lost.
They had suffered enough losses in this regard.
Fortunately.
Although Silver was disappointed, he wasn't obsessed with it.
He understood the logic of biting off more than one could chew.
He couldn't even research a Mewtwo Mark III yet, and he wanted to research a Darkrai he had never understood?
That was purely overestimating his own capabilities.
So.
His ultimate goal had always been Mewtwo.
Mewtwo's blood was Silver's baseline requirement, not allowing any compromise.
Fortunately, Mewtwo Himself didn't mind this.
After all.
He Himself was a Pokemon artificially created based on Mew's blood.
So His acceptance of this was very high, even carrying some anticipation.
Moreover.
As the "artificial Pokemon" party involved.
There were some things Mewtwo understood better than creators like Team Rocket.
The so-called memory inheritance.
Was an extremely fragmented myriad of memory pieces, the vast majority of which were trivial things.
Like the most frequent parts in Mewtwo's memory were [Mew stealing a certain toy] and [Mew researching a new way to play with a certain toy].
Otherwise.
He wouldn't have lacked so much common sense back then.
And as for these memories.
If Shadow knew them, so be it.
Just right.
Let Him find a toy to play with when He is bored, saving Him the trouble of having nothing better to do all day and coming to bother them.
Therefore.
After repeatedly considering it.
Kazuya still agreed to it.
After all.
Even if this Mewtwo Mark III cloned by Silver became corrupted by darkness.
Kazuya could also devour It, thereby gaining the exclusive divine power belonging to Mewtwo to strengthen himself.
"Alright, Master and Mewtwo be careful too."
Scizor nodded, feeling relieved.
He knew Team Rocket's headquarters was at the Indigo League on Mt. Silver.
That place was quite close to Blackthorn City.
With the commotion they would cause if they fought now, it wouldn't be a big problem to affect each other's locations, and they could support each other then.
"I have the Power of Space. Unless Shadow is willing to call out Dialga, we can escape no matter what. You guys pay more attention to the situation on your end."
Kazuya waved his hand.
Over these years, they also gained a general understanding of the Demon God faction.
The number of Demon Gods under Shadow's control was still vast; there were over 20 first-tier gods alone.
Among them, the most terrifying were undoubtedly Arceus, who carried unknown Plates, and Dialga, who fused the Draco Plate.
However.
Shadow couldn't control Arceus.
The reason was unknown.
But Shadow had never been able to order Arceus around.
Otherwise, Kazuya and his team would have been finished long ago.
As for Dialga.
That was purely because Shadow couldn't bear to let this guy show His face and take risks.
At this time, Dialga should still be somewhere in the Orre region utilizing Its abilities, causing the world to continuously rewind.
"Kazuya, I want to go see those children of the Dragon Clan."
Dragonite spoke, her tone hesitant.
She seemed somewhat worried about causing trouble for everyone.
"Whatever you want to do, just go ahead. Scizor and Lucario will accompany you."
Kazuya nodded.
He didn't say much else.
He could understand Dragonite's feelings of wanting to see her juniors.
Besides, this wasn't a troublesome matter in itself.
It is just that finding those people of the Dragon Clan might take some time.
"Mm, thank you everyone."
Dragonite smiled and nodded.
The two sides temporarily parted ways.
The three Pokemon, Dragonite's group, headed towards the Dragon Clan territory.
Along the way, they also paid attention to the surroundings, seeing if there were any footprints left by survivors gathering supplies.
Kazuya and Mewtwo traversed the spatial wormhole.
And landed directly inside the Indigo League building.
The Team Rocket members monitoring the surface were badly startled.
But after seeing it was Kazuya and Mewtwo, they breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly went to find Silver.
Not long after.
Silver brought two middle-aged men to the surface: "The Power of Space is still as scary as ever, but fortunately, you obtained it."
Time is paramount, space is king.
Different domains, each with their own strengths.
In aspects like sudden attacks, escaping, and traveling.
Palkia's Power of Space could indeed compete for No.1 among many divine powers.
Another competitor was Hoopa's Power of the Demon God.
But Hoopa was killed by Skitty.
So Kazuya failed to devour Hoopa's Power of the Demon God.
Of course.
With the Power of Space present.
The overlap with the Power of the Demon God was too high; not having it didn't matter.
"I didn't warp directly behind you just to avoid scaring you."
Kazuya sized up the two people behind Silver.
He recognized them.
They were the group of people who participated in besieging them thirty years ago.
It is just that...
The group of people back then were basically a bunch of teenage lads.
Now they had all become middle-aged uncles in their forties and fifties.
It seemed.
By League Calendar Year 200.
The human population would probably be reduced to five digits.
By then, even the three major world-saving organizations would find it very difficult to achieve anything particularly significant.
Presumably, because of this.
Shadow in the past didn't specifically target humans.
After all.
If Yui doesn't die.
There will always be new life born in the world.
But as long as Yui died.
Then He didn't need to do anything. He just had to quietly wait for the passage of time, and all life in this world would naturally perish completely.
"Stop talking about these meaningless things. You came at the right time. The materials provided last time have all been consumed..."
Silver shook his head.
He didn't want to continue wasting time on this nonsense.
An inch of time is worth an ounce of gold.
He cherished these moments very much now.
Consequently.
Kazuya and Mewtwo had just arrived at the Team Rocket base.
They hadn't even had a sip of hot tea.
Before they were dragged into research by this former enemy, Silver.
Silver's idea was very good.
He planned to try and create a new god within five years.
[Mewtwo Mark III, fused with a portion of the Power of Racing Thunder, the Power of Space, and the Power of Spring!]
Excluding the Power of Victory.
These three abilities were also the three most useful ones among the eight abilities Kazuya currently devoured.
However.
No matter how good the idea was.
It was just an idea.
Realizing it would ultimately be very difficult.
On the other side.
Because Scizor and Lucario couldn't fly.
And the sky above Blackthorn City was more dangerous than the ground.
So the three Pokemon heading to the Dragon Clan territory didn't travel through the sky, but took the Dragon's Den waterway.
Inside the dim and deep Dragon's Den.
The water flow was turbulent.
But for Dragonite, who had lived here for over a thousand years.
It was nothing at all.
She led her two companions deep inside.
And soon walked out of the Dragon's Den.
Arriving at that vast valley plain.
The moment their feet stepped onto the plain.
An invisible, mysterious force pressed down from all directions.
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