Could that form be the reason why the strength of his Pokémon became more powerful?
Especially that Lucario, who held in his hands two things resembling weapons capable of continuously firing Aura Spheres, and also had a pair of wings spread out on his back. He could even fight in the air against Dragonite through direct attacks. That was a complete miracle!
Once again, it overturned Kael's understanding of Pokémon.
However, in this instant, he confirmed one point even more.
Dragonite, this Dragon-type pseudo-legendary Pokémon of the Kanto region, although its upper limit was high and, as a Dragon-type Pokémon, it had almost infinite possibilities, was still not enough. Its advantage was still not great enough. The deterrent power of Dragon-type Pokémon was still not powerful enough!
When Kael arrived, Cain also perceived him. However, he did not stop him, nor did he make Lucario and the others stop battling or end their Mega Evolution.
Before this, Cain had already understood a little that Celebi's purpose in making him cross through time was not some battle, nor obtaining something concrete. It was to change Kael, so that afterward he would influence the Pokémon world.
All of this was the main reason why he crossed through time and came here.
Everything, in the end, fell upon Cain.
This was also the reason why, before Cain was reborn, even including the Pokémon world he had known on Earth, there existed no information about an organization like the Sacred Church.
Everything, absolutely everything, began to change after his rebirth.
He was the true little butterfly influencing the course of the entire Pokémon world.
A journey through time allowed him to influence an important person, thereby causing the birth of a special organization like the Sacred Church.
This was the main reason Celebi had sent him here.
It was to make him create the bishop of the Sacred Church, Kael, a person of special identity and special position!
Only, not even Cain himself had imagined that the true reason for the birth of the Sacred Church lay with him.
He was the true unknown variable.
But thinking about it carefully, one could actually discover that this was a temporal paradox.
He was reborn, obtained his current strength, and found Celebi in order to return to the past, create a change in Kael, and teach him some special ways to use psychic power, allowing the Sacred Church to use them and survive. But those special ways of using psychic power, had Cain not learned them precisely from the people of the Sacred Church?
Because of that, this was equivalent to the paradox of which came first, the chicken or the egg.
It was a temporal circle, with neither beginning nor end.
Whether it was Kael who first created the Sacred Church, or Cain who first learned those techniques from the Sacred Church and then returned to give them to Kael, was a topic without conclusion.
However, from this, Cain also roughly understood why, when he saw Celebi for the first time, she acted as if she were very familiar with him. It turned out that they, in the past, had actually already met.
His future self had already made the Celebi of the past know him. It sounded like a tongue twister.
But the facts were exactly like that.
Cain understood all of this, and at the same time understood why, although he clearly had not said anything about Mega Evolution, when Kael appeared for the first time, his Latios and Latias already had their corresponding Mega Stones.
It also explained why, when Kael saw Cain at the beginning, he did not act directly to kill him, even though Cain had destroyed the Sacred Church's plans several times and was, without a doubt, the absolute number one on the Sacred Church's assassination list.
At the summit of Mt. Silver, facing Cain's obstruction, Kael, who possessed an absolute crushing advantage, only had a Mega Latios fight against Cain, instead of directly eliminating him at the first moment.
Even after confirming his own defeat, Kael directly cut off both of his own hands.
At that moment, it seemed like a form of personal redemption, and even Cain had thought so, although more or less, he had also felt that Kael's action was strange.
But now he understood. All of this was also related to the psychic seed he had planted in Kael's mind in this era.
Although it was not a psychic seed of forced control, it could influence Kael in a subtle and imperceptible way.
After more than twenty years of accumulation, what kind of effect it had produced exactly, not even Cain, the "culprit," was too certain.
So now, without a doubt, it was the moment when Cain had to make Kael learn the information about Mega Evolution in advance.
The final attack of Mega Lucario's Aura Sphere, Mega Gardevoir's Moonblast, and Mega Venusaur's Frenzy Plant; without a doubt, the five Pokémon on the opposite side were completely defeated.
Cain obtained the qualification to enter the temple!
The Pokémon watching around them, when looking at Cain, carried more or less some respect and fear in their eyes.
Being able to defeat the five Pokémon guarding the temple was something worthy of respect.
"Come out!" Cain said toward Kael, who was hidden in the upper part of the temple.
At the same time, Lucario and the others also undid their Mega Evolution one after another. The two Clawitzer and Togekiss were also withdrawn by Cain into their Poké Balls.
With Dragonite's help, Kael appeared in front of Cain. He looked at the three Pokémon beside him with an expression of wanting to speak, yet not quite doing so.
Pokémon, after evolving, could actually return to their original form. This once again overturned his understanding.
In this single day, he no longer knew how many times the knowledge he had accumulated for more than ten or twenty years had been knocked down.
However, he also saw that the Mega Evolution energy that scattered in the end returned to the special stones those Pokémon carried.
Several stones shining with multicolored light.
Cain smiled at Kael. In that smile, there were many meanings difficult to express.
(End of chapter)