Chapter 704: Destruction Envelops Kalos
The crimson-black pillar of light descended from the sky, landing in the western part of the Allearth Forest.
The splashing light waves scattered in all directions. The destructive energy, devouring all vitality, spread out like a tsunami.
In almost no time, it spread to the Nebel Plateau and the grasslands further west.
Wherever the light waves passed, the world seemed to lose all its colors, turning entirely into a dead ash hue.
All the trees shed their past tender green and became withered wood.
All the Pokémon gradually petrified, turning into statues.
This scene was ten times, a hundred times more terrifying than what was shown in the original work. The sheer imposing presence of the God of Destruction in reality was ultimately far superior to its image in the anime.
Fortunately.
At least there was no backstabbing Kazuya.
After the topsoil petrified, the destructive energy contained within the earth did not continue downwards, allowing the Pokémon shivering underground to find a sliver of hope.
"What terrifying power this is."
Volcanion looked at the petrified earth above, His eyes full of shock.
This was His first time seeing another Legendary Pokémon.
And it was Yveltal, a violent, combat-oriented primary god.
As the saying goes.
Going dark makes one ten times stronger, being redeemed makes one three times weaker.
While applying this saying to Legendary Pokémon is somewhat exaggerated, it's not entirely without reason.
In terms of base stats.
Yveltal is on the same level as the ordinary Two Idiots (Groudon and Kyogre) and the Gold and Silver Birds (Ho-Oh and Lugia).
But in an actual fight.
Yveltal's combat power requires specific analysis depending on the situation.
With Xerneas around, Yveltal would have scruples and its combat power would be a few degrees weaker.
But if the former wasn't present, the latter wouldn't care about anything. Unlike other gods who have to consider this and that, once it starts fighting, it's like a mad dog, not looking ahead or behind, striking ruthlessly and decisively.
Under these circumstances.
The combat power Yveltal truly displayed was naturally a notch higher.
Coincidentally.
The current Yveltal.
Was exactly in this situation.
Zygarde wasn't showing up, Xerneas wasn't present. No one in the entire Kalos region could contend with it, and other Legends didn't care about it. Yveltal naturally had no scruples and unleashed its full power.
Volcanion was thus able to witness its peak combat power, understanding that even among gods, there were gaps.
"So, you have to take what I said earlier seriously."
Kazuya nodded and pointed to the Pokémon hiding underground. "Now is a good opportunity, go give it a try."
He believed Volcanion understood his meaning.
At this moment.
Many strong and weak Pokémon from the Allearth Forest were gathered here. They were panicked and restless, exactly in a period of mental vulnerability.
If Volcanion could take this opportunity to offer these Pokémon some "comfort," He could persuade a few Pokémon to join the Nebel Plateau.
Relying on this friendship forged in adversity, they would have fewer barriers when interacting in the future.
The plateau's strength would be somewhat reinforced through this.
And they would have a bit more help when encountering various situations in the future.
Kazuya remembered very clearly that the future protector and spokesperson of the Nebel Plateau was Volcanion.
But the current Volcanion was at most a powerful thug or bodyguard.
He was not competent for that job.
So Kazuya had long planned to cultivate Volcanion's ability as a leader.
"Me? This..."
"Go on. No matter what, if you go chat with them, you can also distract them and make them feel a bit more relaxed."
Kazuya reached out and stroked Volcanion's rock-hard head.
"Alright."
Volcanion nodded gently and began to try as Kazuya instructed.
His physique.
Looked slightly ferocious in the League Era.
But in this Magical Beast Era, He was relatively petite.
Approaching those Pokémon wouldn't make them feel tense.
This could be considered an advantage.
Of course.
An external advantage.
Volcanion was still far inferior to Kazuya in this life.
If Kazuya took action.
He probably wouldn't need to waste much breath.
With just a few words, he could coax those Pokémon into bowing down before his pomegranate skirt.
But that was meaningless.
It would only be useful for a while.
Kazuya couldn't stay holed up in this Nebel Plateau forever.
In the future, there would eventually be a day when the position of head of this plateau would fall on Volcanion's head.
It was better to take the opportunity while he was still here to properly cultivate Volcanion's abilities in this aspect.
"Next, we just have to wait for Xerneas to awaken, right?"
Kazuya closed his eyes and radiated psychokinetic energy towards the surface.
He wasn't sure about places further away.
But this Nebel Plateau could be said to be dead silent, completely devoid of vitality.
Many Pokémon that ran over from the forest didn't manage to hide underground in time, resulting in them becoming stone statues on the plateau.
The God of Destruction.
Was actually this terrifying.
The life-plundering ability of Oblivion Wing was comparable to Groudon triggering volcanic eruptions or Kyogre stirring up tsunami tornadoes; they were all terrifying authorities capable of easily destroying a region.
However.
With such a massive commotion.
Xerneas would definitely sense it.
Why is the God of Life always entangled with the God of Destruction?
That's naturally because the two have points of competition.
Just like Groudon and Kyogre, one land, one ocean, but the area of this world is only so large. If there's more land, there must be less ocean. The two naturally cannot tolerate it, and competition is inevitable.
And the sky is only so big; the expansion or reduction of land and ocean doesn't affect the sky, so as a fellow god, Rayquaza has no competition with these Two Idiots.
Of course.
As the big brother.
Kazuya also knew that the Two Idiots didn't actually care much about this aspect.
Their fighting.
Was purely just "playing around."
It's just that the consequences caused by this playing around were not something the living beings of the world could endure.
But the God of Life and the God of Destruction were not "playing around."
With Yveltal depriving life like this, Xerneas, as the God of Life, naturally couldn't sit still. It had probably already opened its eyes and was in a groggy state.
Xerneas wouldn't sit idly by while Yveltal expanded the scale of destruction; it needed to create life to counter the destruction.
Once the balance was broken...
The natural ecological environment of this Kalos region would inevitably face a great disaster.
At that time, it would be the turn of the ecological guardian, the God of Order Zygarde, to come out and forcibly maintain the balance.
If even Zygarde couldn't stabilize the situation.
Then it would be the result seen in the anime.
The energy in the Kalos region would lose balance, dark vines would grow everywhere, and Greninja would need to take on the responsibility of a lumberjack, cutting down trees everywhere to save Kalos from deep water and scorching fire.
"The Allearth Forest..."
"Is going to turn a disaster into a blessing."
Kazuya muttered, opened his eyes, turned around, and left.
While the Pokémon were digging holes and fleeing, some unfortunate incidents inevitably occurred, causing injuries.
As a Pokémon Doctor.
He needed to use Heal Pulse and Life Dew to heal the Pokémon.
Not only could he save the lives of the Pokémon, but he could also familiarize himself with them and increase his "reputation value."
When he walked out of the plateau in the future.
The Pokémon of this Allearth Forest might even have to bow deeply when they saw him.
While Kazuya was busy underground.
On the plateau southwest of the Allearth Forest.
The army of the Azoth Kingdom was confronting the armies of the Boulder and Mountain Kingdoms.
Wherever the eye could see.
There were only severed limbs, broken armor, and corpses; the entire plateau was dyed crimson.
War is just this extremely cruel.
However.
When the God of Destruction appeared.
All things in the world had to look up.
Everyone couldn't help but turn their heads to look at the sky above the Allearth Forest, at the distant figure that looked like just a "black dot."
At first.
No one cared.
Only thinking it was some ordinary Pokémon.
However, when the crimson-black energy pillar filled with the aura of destruction swept across the earth.
Everyone realized that disaster had already arrived.
AZ and his younger brother XY were standing at the very rear of the main force, staring dumbfounded at the end of the plateau, in the direction of the Allearth Forest.
They couldn't see exactly how the Allearth Forest was doing.
But.
The ash fragments filling the sky in that direction were so conspicuous.
And the ash gradually spreading from afar made every Azoth soldier who witnessed this scene tremble with fear.
When Yveltal's figure swept across the sky above the plateau.
And once again brought that Oblivion Wing symbolizing destruction down upon the heads of the people.
Only then did AZ understand.
Just what kind of terrifying existences the "gods" in those ancient legends and storybooks were.
In the legends and storybooks.
There wasn't the slightest element of false exaggeration.
Even the descriptions fell short.
Only those who had personally seen this scene could profoundly understand the mighty power and terror of the gods.
At the same time...
They would also understand the gods' indifference towards all things in the world.
Unfortunately.
Everything was already too late.
The black and red energy splashed onto the plateau.
In the blink of an eye, thousands of strong soldiers were all turned into stone statues on the grassland.
When AZ and XY realized something was wrong and were about to turn and run, the energy that deprived all things of vitality had already arrived at their feet.
They could only watch helplessly as their bodies gradually turned into stone.
Despair.
Enveloped their entire hearts.
[If everything could start over, I would definitely create the strongest weapon in the world, a weapon enough for humans to contend with the gods! The destiny of humanity should be in our own hands.]
This final thought appeared in AZ's mind.
The crimson-black giant bird flew over the plateau.
Leaving only a scorched grey earth to this world.
Just as Yveltal was planning to head to the next location to continue spreading destruction and death.
A five-colored brilliance shot into the sky from the east of the Allearth Forest!
Yveltal turned its head to look, its eyes narrowing.
It knew.
That troublesome guy had awakened.
Its journey of spreading destruction was probably going to end not long after it started.
Yveltal did not flee.
As the God of Destruction, it wasn't afraid of Xerneas, so why should it flee?
Not only did it not flee.
Instead, it plunged headfirst towards the east of the Allearth Forest.
An earth-shattering great battle erupted.
The vibrations stirred up by the battle could even reach thousands of miles underground, disturbing the creatures of the Diamond Domain living there.
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