You are not allowed to be a Pokémon Trainer

Chapter 512

Chapter 512

This conjecture brought Xia Chi a pleasant surprise.

I only started thinking about Z-Moves and Z-Crystals when I first arrived in Alola.

Later, when Daigo came, he even tricked him into going all over the island to mine.

Unexpectedly, a clue has now emerged.

If these body fragments dropped by Necrozma are indeed the result of my hard work...

Oh no, I should say that if Daigo's hard-won Z-Crystal was something he couldn't obtain, then it came to him effortlessly.

Thinking this, Xia Chi gently removed Reshiram's head from her lap.

Then he stood up, walked over to Daigo, and squatted down with him.

The crystallized seabed made a soft cracking sound beneath his feet.

He knelt on one knee, side by side with Daigo, his gaze falling on the crystal fragments scattered on the black glass surface.

The crystal fragments were of different colors.

Some are bright golden yellow, while others are a warm, emerald green.

But each one, regardless of size or color, presents a perfect prismatic structure.

Its facets are as smooth as a mirror, and its edges are as sharp as a blade, as if it were cut out with the most precise tools.

The afterglow of the setting sun shone on these crystal fragments.

Different colored crystals refract light of different colors, and countless rays of light of different colors intertwine to spread a dazzling patch of colorful light on the scorched seabed.

so similar.

Xia Chi's pupils contracted slightly.

This form, this energy fluctuation, this distinct color classification.

It was too similar to the Z Pure Crystal he remembered.

He closed his eyes and unleashed his waveguide power.

A pale blue waveguide light emanated from his chest, enveloping all the crystal fragments within a radius of several meters.

Waveguide power is a mysterious way of perception; it sees not the shape and color of objects, but the flow and texture of energy.

In the waveguide's field of view, those crystal fragments are no longer pretty little prismatic stones.

They transformed into clusters of energy cores condensed to their ultimate form.

Inside the yellow crystal is a constantly jumping mass of electrical energy.

He moved the waveguide toward the emerald green crystal.

Inside the green crystal is a quiet and enduring cluster of grass-based energy.

Then there are red, blue... each color of crystal corresponds to a certain type of energy.

As expected, this is the key item for using Z-Moves: Z Crystal.

Can't go wrong.

The correspondence between color and attribute, the prismatic crystal structure, and the highly condensed single-attribute energy inside.

All three characteristics match.

In his past life memories, the Alola region was the birthplace of Z-Moves.

Trainers must wear a Z-Bracelet with a Z-Crystal embedded in it on their wrist. Only when the Pokémon carries the same Z-Crystal can they resonate with each other.

This allows them to unleash extremely powerful Z-Moves.

The origin of Z-Crystals is, in the game's setting, intricately linked to Necrozma, the legendary Pokémon of the Alola region.

They are fragments of light scattered across the world by the Radiant God, the outward manifestation of the power of that legendary spirit.

Then another special type of mineral vein formed in the Alora region.

Now, this scenario has become a reality before his eyes.

After Necrozma was completely destroyed by the Azure Flame Judgment, its body, composed of countless prisms, did not completely vanish into nothingness as it dissipated.

The energy contained within those prism fragments, which it had devoured and assimilated from countless light sources, condensed on its own into these pure Z-grade crystal ores after losing the constraints of the main body.

Xia Chi stood up, his gaze sweeping across the entire crystallized seabed.

Those colorful specks of light scattered on the black glass surface were, in his eyes, an untapped treasure trove.

He immediately summoned the elves.

"Help me collect some of these crystals."

Magic Masked Cat landed beside Xia Chi, its crimson eyes following Xia Chi's gaze as it swept over the colorful lights on the seabed, its pupils narrowing slightly.

She didn't understand what was so special about these stones, but Xia Chi said to collect them, so she collected them.

Miaoha nodded slightly, its slender figure transforming into a green afterimage as it sped towards the nearest dense crystal area.

Soon, the other elves also scattered, racing against time to collect the Z-Crystals on this battlefield that was about to be submerged by the sea.

Xia Chi turned her head and found that Daigo had stood up at some point.

He looked at his Mega Metagross, his voice filled with suppressed excitement: "Metamorphose, help me out, be careful not to damage the crystal's facets."

The Mega Metagross let out a deep rumble, and its four iron fists opened simultaneously, with tiny psychic tentacles extending from between the fingers of each fist.

It drifted toward a dense area of ​​crystals, its spiritual tendrils acting like eight invisible hands, simultaneously peeling and gathering eight crystals of different colors from the ground.

Dan Di scratched his head, looked at Xia Chi, and then at the colorful stones scattered all over the ground.

Although he was somewhat confused, he still turned around and waved to his Charizard.

"Charizard, let's help too!"

Super Charizard X tilted its head, a hint of confusion flashing in its eyes burning with blue flames.

It looked down at its two claws, which were thicker than an adult's waist, and then at the tiny crystal fragments on the ground, no bigger than grains of rice.

"Woo-hoo?"

Are you sure you want me to do this kind of delicate work?

Dan Di also realized this problem.

He glanced at the Charizard's two claws, powerful enough to crush giant rocks, and his lips twitched.

"Uh...you just need to pry open the large crystals, and let the others collect the crystals inside."

Charizard nodded, thinking the mission seemed plausible.

Time passed by, second by second.

As the sun slowly sank below the horizon, the golden aura gradually receded from the center of the battlefield toward the edges.

The crystalline seabed, which was originally bright and clear under the sunlight, began to be shrouded in a light twilight.

The scattered crystal fragments became even more conspicuous in the fading light of dawn.

The backflow of seawater has begun.

On the distant horizon, the massive crater created by the shockwave of Reshiram's arrival is slowly recovering.

Sea levels are rising at a rate visible to the naked eye.

Every few minutes, a patch of previously exposed reef is submerged again, and a crystallized seabed disappears beneath the azure water.

"Phew!"

Dragonite looked at Xia Chi and shouted, pointing to the approaching seawater in the distance.

Although the white wall of water was not as high as it had been during the battle, reaching hundreds of meters, it still possessed an unstoppable momentum.

But this sea area is too vast, and there are too many scattered crystals. It's impossible for these few elves to collect them all before the sea completely submerges the area.

Xia Chi was certainly aware of this as well.

His gaze swept across the entire battlefield, and his waveguide power quickly marked the areas where the crystals were most densely packed.

"Prioritize collecting those with pure colors and intact facets; set aside fragments and small particles for now."

The elves immediately flew to different places to speed up the collection.

Finally, the mission was largely completed before the sea completely submerged the area.

The last piece of crystallized seabed was swallowed by the sea.

White waves surged and covered the black, glass-like surface, burying forever the tiny crystal fragments that had not yet been collected and were scattered in the crevices on the seabed.

The azure sea has once again taken over this area that was almost completely evaporated, slowly erasing the last trace of the battlefield.

The twilight reflected on the now calm sea, turning the entire area into a gentle purplish-red.

Crystals of all sizes were collected.

The bag on Dragonite's back was bulging, and the opening was tightly tied with energy vines formed by Meowth.

Xia Chi stood beside Lingyou Horse, looking at the sea that had returned to calm in the twilight.

He held a golden Z-grade crystal in his hand, which Dragonite had pried out from a crevice in a reef that was about to be submerged at the last moment.

He looked down at the crystal, his fingertips gently tracing its smooth facets.

Waveguide power seeped into my fingertips, and I felt the golden electric energy that was constantly jumping inside the crystal.

Z Pure Crystal.

A key item unique to the Alola region, enabling Pokémon to unleash Z-Moves beyond their limits.

In the game, trainers need to participate in the Island Tour and challenge the various Island Kings and Queens in order to obtain Z-Crystals of the corresponding type.

And now, these crystals have fallen into his hands in this way.

Xia Chi gently held the golden crystal in her palm.

He raised his head and looked at the sea, which was now completely obscured by the twilight.

Beneath the sea, many more crystal fragments are forever buried among the silt and reefs.

Perhaps many, many years later, they will be unearthed by an underwater volcanic eruption, accidentally brought out by a deep-sea Pokémon, or discovered by a diving trainer by chance.

But that was a long, long time later.

"Let's go, we should head back too."

Xia Chi turned to look at Xilona and the others, and said with a smile.

The overuse of wave-guiding power and superpowers left Xia Chi so exhausted that she fell asleep as soon as she got back.

Also falling into a "coma" were Miaoha and Fajie.

Although the elves did not directly face Necrozma in this war of the gods, they were by no means at ease facing a vast number of Ultra Beasts.

That black tide, composed of countless otherworldly creatures of various shapes, each possessed combat power no less than that of powerful Pokémon in this world.

They surged in wave after wave like a tide, giving no one a chance to breathe.

Meowth and the others, along with Cynthia, Leon, and Steven's Pokémon, used their bodies to hold back the flood that was enough to engulf the entire Alola region.

They also gave it their all.

Now, they can finally rest.

But during the half-day they were briefly disconnected from the world, the outside world did not calm down at all.

Five hours after the end of this battle of the gods, in the dead of night in Alora.

The lights in the Ethereum Foundation's press conference room were glaringly bright.

The press conference hall wasn't very big.

Etherland is an artificial island floating on the sea, where every inch of land is extremely valuable. Even the foundation's core facilities require careful planning of every inch of space.

But today, the small press conference hall was packed with people.

Journalists from around the world, official representatives from various alliances, and dozens of live streaming devices set up in the last row.

The eyes of the world are focused on this small white room.

Lusamine stood behind the podium.

She coughed softly and cleared her throat.

The sound traveled through the microphone on the podium throughout the entire press conference hall and across tens of millions of screens in the live broadcast room.

The scene fell silent for a few seconds.

"Everyone."

Her voice was steady and clear: "I am Lusamine, the Chairperson of the Ether Foundation."

"Regarding the events that occurred in the Alora region today, I will, on behalf of the Ether Foundation, provide a formal and complete statement to the world."

Lusamine raised her hand and pressed a button on the podium.

The huge screen behind her suddenly lit up, displaying a photograph.

It was a high-definition close-up of the Ultra Beast, taken from above the battlefield.

The image shows a bulging mosquito, its crimson muscles swollen to their limit under the setting sun, its transparent wings fluttering into a blurry halo, and the stingers on its arms glowing with an ominous blood-red light.

Even in still photos, the overwhelming sense of oppression made the reporters in the press conference room gasp involuntarily.

"These creatures, which have never appeared in this world before, are collectively known as Ultra Beasts."

The screen switched images.

That was an infographic compiled jointly by the Alola League and the Ether Foundation in a short period of time.

On the left is a high-resolution photo of the Ultimate Hole, with detailed size data and energy fluctuation frequency of the purplish-black crack marked on the image.

On the right is a list of several confirmed Ultra Beasts, each followed by a temporary number and provisional name.

"They come from a different dimension than ours, traversing from another dimension through the spacetime rift known as the Ultimate Hole. We don't yet know what their original environment was like, but what we do know is that Ultra Beasts are not mindless beasts."

She switched to the next picture.

The image shows a pheromone mantis, its long, almost biologically defying logic, limbs gracefully outstretched.

Even in the moment of being photographed, she retains a beauty that makes it impossible to look away.

"Through our preliminary research, Ultra Beasts also possess the same energy type as Pokémon in our world, and can use standard moves based on the same energy theory as us. Simply put..."

Lusamine's gaze swept across the room as she continued, "Apart from their appearance being different from the Pokémon we are familiar with, they are not fundamentally different from Pokémon."

As soon as he said that, a flurry of camera shutters clicked throughout the press conference room.

Reporters frantically pressed the shutter button, the flashes illuminating the podium in a blinding white light.

At the same time, the comments in the live stream chat started scrolling wildly.

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[No fundamental difference? That thing that looks like a giant mosquito has no fundamental difference from Pokémon?]

[I'm devastated. Do any trainers actually dare to catch that thing?]

Is that white, cockroach-like thing really not an alien?