Originally, Cain planned to first release Moltres in order to give it some treatment. With its status as a legendary Pokémon and the body of a legendary Pokémon, its recovery speed was still quite fast.
Perhaps, in a short while, it could also be of some use in the battle against the Sacred Church.
As for whether it would obey when the time came, that would no longer depend on it.
However, Tyranitar's body had now begun to change, something that did take Cain somewhat by surprise.
Mega Tyranitar automatically undid its Mega Evolution. Its eyes were tightly shut, and its expression was solemn.
Not only that, the dark red patterns that had covered its body while it was in Mega Tyranitar form did not disappear. At that moment, those dark red markings alternated between glowing and dimming, giving it a rather mysterious aura.
Cain did not know what was happening to Tyranitar. Only after scanning it with the system did he discover that, after defeating Moltres, Tyranitar had in a single stroke polished its power to the absolute peak of the first barrier of the Champion level, and was now breaking through.
And judging by its appearance, this did not seem to be merely a simple breakthrough. The patterns on its body represented a special meaning.
"Darkaaaii!" Darkrai appeared beside Cain. Gengar also undid its Mega Evolution and came to Cain's side, looking at Tyranitar, whose state was strange.
Upon hearing Darkrai's words, Cain suddenly opened his eyes wide. "What do you mean? Are you saying you've sensed in Tyranitar a trace of an aura similar to the one Moltres had before? Although it is much fainter, it is undoubtedly not an aura that an ordinary Pokémon could possess."
Darkrai nodded with a serious expression. It was the first time it had seen such a phenomenon and also the first time it had encountered such a situation, but Tyranitar had indeed, to a certain extent, been imbued with Moltres's aura.
If Tyranitar were a Pokémon like Moltres or Articuno, that is to say, a "normal" legendary Pokémon, then being imbued with that aura would mean that it had obtained the opportunity to contend for a divinity.
Because in the case of Moltres, Articuno, and Zapdos, compared to other legendary Pokémon, the number of individuals of their species was relatively high. And within their species, there always existed only a single true legendary Pokémon.
If another Pokémon wished to obtain that divinity, there was only one method: defeat that legendary Pokémon head-on and seize the divinity it carried.
But before that, not just any Moltres or Zapdos could contend for divinity. At the very least, they first had to possess the aura belonging to a true legendary Pokémon; only then would they be considered to have the opportunity to contend for that divinity.
And when such Pokémon encountered one another, an intense battle inevitably occurred.
How could a legendary Pokémon allow another to lie beside it?
Any Pokémon that possessed the qualification to compete for a divinity was the mortal enemy of these true legendary Pokémon. Once they met, the battle was inevitably fierce and did not end until one of the two died.
That was the law of the Pokémon world: the weak are devoured by the strong, an absolute cruelty.
However, in such situations, ninety-nine percent of the time the result was that the Pokémon already possessing the divinity would win. It would then absorb the opponent's aura of divinity to strengthen itself and make its own divinity even more stable and powerful.
Earlier, Darkrai had already sensed that although that Moltres was a legendary Pokémon, its divinity was strangely superficial and unstable. At the time it did not know why, but now it finally understood.
It was because, ever since obtaining its divinity, that Moltres had always hidden within Mt. Silver, never once experiencing the challenge of other Moltres. That was why its divinity was superficial and unstable, and it could not truly display all of its power. That was the reason why, although Moltres was very strong, it was not strong in an exaggerated way.
Whether it had hidden within Mt. Silver of its own will, or whether it had been forced to remain there due to the restrictions of the League, or perhaps both were true at the same time, did not have much to do with Cain.
What he wanted to know now was what kind of situation this law, present among Moltres, Zapdos, Articuno, and other legendary Pokémon, would cause when manifested in Tyranitar.
Tyranitar, Metagross, Hydreigon, Dragonite, and other Pokémon whose strength far surpassed that of ordinary Pokémon were called pseudo-legendary Pokémon, but that was merely a nickname given by trainers. They were not legendary Pokémon; pseudo-legendaries still belonged to the category of normal Pokémon.
It had never been heard that a pseudo-legendary could possess a divinity.
Although Tyranitar, after repeatedly integrating elements of Groudon, had to some extent obtained abilities and characteristics belonging to Groudon, and had also eaten on the Space-Time Continent the eggshells of three legendary Pokémon — Giratina, Dialga, and Palkia — becoming somewhat different from other Pokémon.
To be precise, the current Tyranitar, in a certain sense, was no longer a pure Tyranitar. Its uniqueness was not something an ordinary Tyranitar could possess.
Could it be that, because it had absorbed so many things from first-tier gods, Tyranitar had obtained the aura of a divinity?
After learning of Cain's doubt, Darkrai expressed that it was not entirely sure either.
Although it knew considerably more than Cain, after all in the past it had also been an existence that possessed that kind of aura. That proved that it had the qualification to receive a divinity, and precisely for that reason, Darkrai's entire group had considered it the Pokémon with the greatest possibility of inheriting the divinity corresponding to Darkrai as a legendary Pokémon.
But ultimately, it had only come into contact with it; it had never truly become a legendary Pokémon, so it did not understand its inner mysteries either.
The only thing it could tell Cain was that perhaps Tyranitar truly possessed the capacity to harbor a divinity.
But what the divinity of someone who was not a legendary Pokémon would be, no one knew.
Upon hearing Darkrai's words, Cain fell silent once more. If one of his Pokémon could become a legendary Pokémon, he would naturally be delighted, but the current situation gave him the feeling that things were going beyond his control, and he did not like that at all.
If there truly could be a divinity, it would be enough to simply give it directly. Why did there have to be so many complications?
Then Cain asked a question that left Darkrai dumbfounded: "I mean, hypothetically, just as an example. Supposing that I had Tyranitar finish off this Moltres, could Tyranitar obtain the divinity that belongs to Moltres? You also know that my Tyranitar has the ability to control fire."
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(End of chapter)