Pokémon: I just became a Gym Leader, and Cynthia proposed to me.

Chapter 689 Big snake monster

A deep, muffled roar came from deep underground, and the entire cave shook violently!

The crystal clusters from the dome fell like a torrential rain, shattering into dust upon hitting the ground.

A massive rift exploded from beneath the Holy Diamond, spreading wildly in all directions!

Tianxi screamed.

It's not because of fear.

It was because she sensed something awakening within the earth's veins.

That's not a Pokémon.

That was malicious.

It is the darkness deep underground, accumulated over millions of years and suppressed by the energy of the sacred diamond.

Mist began to seep out of the crack.

Black fog.

At first, it was just wisps of black smoke, like black smoke seeping from a crack in the ground.

But soon, the fog thickened, became sticky, and resembled some kind of living liquid, slowly seeping out along the edges of the cracks.

The crystal clusters that the fog touched instantly lost their luster.

Those crystals that once radiated a dreamlike glow turned gray, decayed, and turned into powder at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Back off!" Li Shuwen's voice carried an urgent tone for the first time.

Everyone quickly retreated.

But the worst is just beginning.

Something is growing from the deepest part of the crack.

Those were jet-black roots.

They emerged from the darkness of the crevices, initially as thin as a hair, but expanding with each inch they extended upwards.

The surface of the roots is not smooth, but covered with hideous nodules, each nodule undulating slightly as if breathing.

They grew, spread, and entwined wildly, like countless black serpents crawling out from the depths of hell.

In the blink of an eye, the ground within three meters of the crack was completely covered by black roots.

"That is..." Cynthia's voice tightened.

A vine lashed out at Diancie.

"Watch out!" Li Shuwen took a step forward, his arm sweeping out, the strong wind scattering the vines.

But the vine that had been swept away landed on the ground and took root directly into the rock, and in the blink of an eye, it sprouted three new branches.

"These monstrous things are breeding!" Cynthia gritted her teeth. "Garuda, Dragon Claw!"

Garchomp swept its claw across, severing a patch of vines.

However, the broken vines fell to the ground, and each piece quickly dried up.

But new roots have grown from every dry spot.

"Unbreakable!" Cynthia's pupils contracted slightly.

Li Shuwen's waveguide power surged into the ground.

These jet-black roots and vines, gushing forth from the cracks, are like a thirst released after millions of years, frantically rushing toward everything that is alive and breathing.

The poachers are fleeing.

"Run! Run!" Scarface's voice was completely broken. He abandoned the Pokémon still lying on the ground and was the first to rush towards the drilling machine.

But it was too late.

A black vine as thick as an arm lashed out from the side and wrapped tightly around his ankle!

"ah--!!!"

The moment Scarface let out his scream, he was hoisted upside down and struggled wildly in mid-air.

More vines, like venomous snakes attracted by the smell of blood, surged in from all directions.

"Help me! Help—" His voice was completely muffled by a vine that had crawled into his mouth.

"Aaaaaaahh ...

The blond-haired man's scream became the last sound he left in the world.

The bald man couldn't even run three steps.

His leg was pierced by a root that suddenly pierced out from the ground. Before he could even feel the pain, more roots had already overwhelmed him.

More than a dozen poachers and more than forty Pokémon were thrown into the abyss like pebbles, without even making a ripple.

Those ferocious Houndooms, those menacing Great Hounds, those hunters who had slaughtered countless wild Pokémon in their poaching, now found even their screams superfluous in the face of the dark vines.

A tank skunk tried to fight back, its flames burning several vines.

But the broken vines took root where they landed and soon grew more branches, completely enveloping him.

A poisonous skeletal frog used its agility to leap among the vines, dodging the first, second, and third waves.

Then a vine burst from the rock he was standing on and swallowed him whole.

Less than a minute.

The poachers and the forty-odd Pokémon they brought were all devoured.

Cynthia's pupils contracted slightly.

She has seen death.

But she had never seen a death like this before—silent, swift, and complete.

There wasn't even a body, not even a trace of its existence.

Those people who were just shouting, trembling with fear, and running away are now acting as if they never existed.

"That is..."

She didn't finish speaking.

Because those vines that had devoured life began to change.

They no longer spread outwards, but converge towards the center. Countless roots, vines, and branches intertwine, entwine, merge, and grow, like a giant black cocoon that is gestating something.

thump.

A muffled sound came from the black mass.

Thump. Thump. Thump.

A rhythmic sound, like a heartbeat.

Each time the sound rang out, the entire cavern trembled.

The crystal clusters in the dome fell and shattered into dust on the ground.

The air became thick and breathing became difficult, as if something was pressing down on everyone's chest.

Thump. Thump. Thump. Thump. Thump. Thump.

My heart is beating faster and faster.

The black cocoon began to swell, and dense cracks appeared on its surface.

What shines through the crack is not light, but a deeper black, a black that can make anyone who looks directly at it feel as if they are falling into an abyss.

Tianxi's face turned completely pale.

"That's...that's..."

She couldn't say that name.

boom--!!!

The black cocoon burst open.

From the center of the explosion, a huge head emerged.

It was the head of a snake.

But it is not any known Pokémon.

Its scales are pure black, each one like a fragment peeled from the deepest nightmare.

Its eyes were two dark red orbs of light, without pupils or focus, yet they sent a chill down the spine of anyone who was looked at by them.

After the head comes the body.

ten meters.

Twenty meters.

Fifty meters.

The jet-black snake body kept emerging from the bursting cocoon, coiling up in the cave and almost filling the entire space.

It slowly raised its head, looking down at the tiny creatures at its feet—

The poachers' remaining drilling rig lay beneath it like a pile of gravel.

Those enormous crystal clusters looked like grass in front of it.

It opened its mouth.

No sound.

But everyone heard it—

Those were whispers of countless grievances, the roar of evil thoughts suppressed by the earth's veins for millions of years, and the wailing of blood, lives lost, and dissipated resentment that had once flowed on this land.

Li Shuwen's pupils contracted slightly.

"Zygard..." he whispered, "Serpent form."

"The malice of the ley lines, the malevolent intent that took on the form of Zygarde—the giant serpent monster!"

The jet-black serpent merely shook its head slightly, and its massive head swept across the rock wall on one side of the cave.

Boom!!!

The entire rock wall collapsed as if struck by a giant hammer!

Rocks rained down, dust filled the air, and the dust that landed on the black serpent vanished without a trace.

It is devouring.

Devour everything—

Rocks, energy, life, even light.

"We can't let this continue!"

Diancie's voice trembled, yet it revealed a resolute determination.

She took a step forward, and the pink diamond above her head suddenly lit up!

The power of the moon!