Another three months had already passed since the last meeting between Team Rocket and the League.
During these three months, Team Rocket, which had remained silent for a long time, and the underground forces of the various regions began almost at the same time to launch attacks against the League.
When the Sacred Church still existed, merely sending a portion of its members to harass the various regions had already made the leagues of those regions feel that it was something extremely troublesome.
But now, what they considered the worst-case scenario ended up happening: harassment attacks were launched at the same time in several cities across multiple regions.
Although the League had made certain preparations, when had they ever faced such a situation in all these years? Even though they had estimated the offensive level of these underground forces quite highly, they still failed to prepare completely. For a time, they were unable to withstand it, causing those towns and cities to suffer enormous losses.
The very first attack alone already caught the League's defenses by surprise.
And it was not only in other regions; the same thing happened in the Hoenn region.
However, all of this had been personally planned by Cain.
Although Team Heaven's attacks were just as fierce, under Cain's instructions, they did not attack ordinary people.
The targets set by Team Heaven were those small and medium-sized family forces.
Did looting and sweeping through these family forces not bring far more gains than looting ordinary people?
Moreover, after these families, which were like tumors, were greatly weakened within those cities and towns, for ordinary people, the space and paths for advancement would become more and more evident.
Perhaps most people would not perceive this at first, and would only feel panic because of Team Heaven's attacks. But as time passed, they would discover that most of what Team Heaven did was actually something good for them.
The loss of short-term benefits was only for a better future.
However, since Team Heaven had begun its attacks, then Cain, as the representative of the armed force of the Hoenn region, naturally also had to launch a counteroffensive.
At that moment, Team Heaven and the Hoenn League were like two sharp scalpels, while the Hoenn region was a gravely ill patient.
Although this illness was not directly fatal, it was like a tumor that slowly consumed the nutrients of the Hoenn region.
And Cain transformed into the person holding the scalpel. He acted decisively and ruthlessly. Although it hurt greatly in the short term, from the perspective of long-term goals, it would only bring benefits to the Hoenn region.
Team Heaven acted against those large and small families. Then, what did the Hoenn League do?
Of course, it acted harshly against some rotten parts within Team Heaven.
Where there are people, there are conflicts. Even Team Rocket, under Giovanni's command, had many internal conflicts and no small number of people who wanted to harm him. Now Team Heaven was already an enormous force that covered an entire region. How could it not have internal problems?
As a person's strength and power increase, their desires also grow.
Cain used Team Heaven to sweep away the useless families, and also used the power of the League to eliminate discordant voices within Team Heaven.
The only one capable of observing and understanding all of this together was Cain.
Compared with other regions, the Hoenn region at that moment was practically a pure land of happiness. Everything was under Cain's control. In reality, it was equivalent to one person fighting against himself with his right hand and his left hand. No matter how much strength was used, no matter how hard the blows were, there would always be a limit that could be endured.
After finishing processing the documents he had to handle each day, Cain left his office.
He directly disappeared from the office through Teleport.
When he appeared again, he was already in a room filled with metal everywhere. On the walls of that room, gears were turning all over the place, accompanied by the "click, click" sounds produced as they moved.
Heaven Castle!
Hidden several thousand meters high in the sky, no one could detect where it was located.
After Cain appeared, the machinery in the room began to transform. A black steel throne slowly rose from the floor and appeared beneath Cain's feet.
"My lord!"
When Cain sat down, respectful voices echoed inside the room.
They were precisely all the highest-ranking members of Team Heaven. Among them were Brad and Catherine, who had recently begun to command Team Heaven's combat troops under Cain's orders; there was also Rose, who had always acted as Team Heaven's chief administrator; as well as Skye and the others, who had followed Cain from the very beginning and left Trial Island with him; and also Karen, who had once joined as the person in charge of the Pokémon Hunters.
Of course, there was also Shelly, who currently administered Team Heaven's maritime division in Cain's place. The power she possessed within Team Heaven was only inferior to that of Brad and Catherine.
All of these people were absolutely loyal to Cain, and they were also the true core of Team Heaven's power.
Now, only they knew where Heaven Castle was located, and only they knew how to reach it.
"During this time, have the people below calm down for a while. We have already given the explanations we had to give. What comes next will be to digest everything we have devoured and transform it into our true strength," Cain said to those people.
"Yes!" everyone replied.
Team Heaven's actions were partly due to the need to give an explanation to the alliance led by Team Rocket.
After all, the other regions had already acted fiercely. It would not be appropriate for the Hoenn region not to give some kind of explanation.
However, these three months had more or less already allowed Cain, with the help of the Sacred Church, to eliminate all the unstable factors within Team Heaven.
At the same time, during this period, Team Heaven had plundered an unknown amount of wealth from those families. It was already time to convert it into its own strength.
After saying this, Cain turned again and disappeared from the place.
(End of chapter)