Along with a harsh creaking sound, the pitch-black stone pillar suppressing Wo-Chien completely shattered.
Countless fragments of stone engraved with ancient inscriptions shot out in all directions.
A tangible aura of calamity, hundreds of times more terrifying than its previous phantom state, spread out like a nuclear shockwave!
Purple-black energy surged into the sky, staining it with an ominous hue.
The ground trembled violently, splitting into countless bottomless chasms. What poured out from them was no longer mist, but thick, black magma-like malignant energy.
The legendary Ruinous Pokémon, Wo-Chien, had finally completely broken free from its seal.
Its true body was much smaller than the phantom, yet far more horrifying.
Its shell was covered in ancient, decayed bark, carved with curse runes that brought disaster.
Beneath its massive body writhed twisted black tendrils, each movement greedily draining the life force of the earth and forest.
Its crimson eyes swept across the surroundings, filled with ancient majesty and a desire for destruction that disregarded everything.
"S-succeeded!", The female executive of the Explorers looked at the scene like a demon god descending. Instead of fear, she trembled with excitement.
Her face flushed with a sickly red, riding on Charizard as she shouted loudly at Wo-Chien, "Ancient being, it was I who freed you from eternal imprisonment."
"Acknowledge me as your master, and join our Explorers in reshaping this world!"
Wo-Chien glanced at her indifferently, its eyes filled with the same mockery and disregard a human would have toward ants.
It gave no response. Instead, it summoned a massive vine and casually swept it across the surroundings, the terrifying force instantly turning several dead trees into dust.
"Ungrateful!", The female leader's expression stiffened, feeling insulted. She sharply ordered her companions, "Charizard, make it understand who the master is. Use Flamethrower!"
"Roar!"
The Charizard beside her let out a roar. Blazing flames gathered in its mouth, forming a thick pillar of fire that slammed heavily into Wo-Chien's shell.
The flames exploded violently, but… The Charizard she was so proud of, which even had a huge type advantage over Wo-Chien, became nothing more than a joke in the face of absolute power.
On Wo-Chien's shell, the ancient bark lit up with a dim glow. Grass-type and Dark-type energy intertwined to form a strange protective layer.
The flames struck it, only to be rapidly absorbed and extinguished by that oily sheen, leaving behind nothing but a charred mark without causing any real damage.
["Your power is too insignificant,"] A cold, ancient voice echoed directly in the minds of all living beings.
It released another vine, lashing out at a speed beyond visual perception, instantly wrapping around Charizard's neck!
Charizard's painful cry was cut short. The flames on its body dimmed and went out at a visible rate, as if its life force was being forcibly drained.
"Roar!", Charizard struggled desperately, but the vine held it tightly. No matter how it struggled, it couldn't break free from the grip of absolute power.
["Insignificant beings dare covet the authority of a god?"], Wo-Chien's telepathic voice was filled with majesty and disdain.
["This empire is already rotten beyond saving. Your fate is only submission or destruction!"]
Wo-Chien flung the nearly drained, dying Charizard aside like trash. It crashed heavily in front of the female leader, kicking up a cloud of dust.
More calamity energy spread out from its body like the source of a plague.
Wherever it passed, the land turned completely into desert, all life force stripped away.
Its crimson eyes locked onto the stunned crowd, ["This era is already decayed. Hatred fills every corner. The kingdom has long fallen into ruin."]
["I will establish a new ideal nation, reverence, eternity, a land without hatred!"]
["And you… will become the first foundation stones of the new nation."]
Powerful psychic force, like an invisible hand, instantly gripped the minds of the Explorers. Their eyes turned empty and dull, strange smiles appearing on their faces.
Then, like walking corpses, they began digging the ground with their bare hands, their eyes turning crimson.
["Hate, I hate! Damn Explorers, I hate this region!"]
["Only by following Lord Wo-Chien can this nation be saved!"
Their voices became incoherent, panting heavily, their chests rising and falling violently. The only thing left in their eyes was hatred.
Despair and terror instantly enveloped everyone. The trainers from the nearby town and even the original security personnel all turned pale, trembling at the apocalyptic scene.
They could hardly imagine that such an evil Pokémon could exist in this world.
Just as Wo-Chien's power was about to devour the forest and turn everything into a land of death, the sky split open once again.
This time, it wasn't the calamity caused by Wo-Chien. A massive spatial rift, its edges flickering with strange light, appeared out of thin air, forming a golden portal in midair.
From within flowed a deep, dark energy, carrying a dense aura of antimatter.
A dragon-like figure slowly descended from it, with six black bat-like wings and a golden, ghostly body.
The lord of the Distortion World, the Renegade Pokémon, Giratina, had arrived.
To disrupt the Explorers' plans, Axel had sent out Rayquaza, Giratina, and Groudon.
Giratina had been lurking here for a long time, finally waiting for Wo-Chien's emergence.
Its crimson-gold eyes looked down coldly at Wo-Chien below, letting out a deep roar that seemed to shake the soul itself.
Wo-Chien's movements suddenly froze. It could feel a power from Giratina that was even more terrifying than its own.
It raised its head and let out a threatening hiss at Giratina, calamity energy surging wildly.
Giratina said nothing. Its wings spread wide, endless shadow energy gathering in its mouth, forming an attack that could swallow light itself.
At the same time, the dark energy around Giratina instinctively threw Wo-Chien into a state of confusion.
Right from the start, it used its signature combo, Confuse Ray plus Hex.
Boom!
With a deafening explosion, Giratina's ghostly power and Wo-Chien's calamity energy collided violently, the shockwave flattening everything around them.
Even the Explorers who had been filled with hatred just moments ago were blasted away by the impact, unable to help Wo-Chien at all.
Facing Giratina, Wo-Chien finally understood.
Just as it could ignore type disadvantages to control Charizard, other top-tier legendary Pokémon could also ignore type disadvantages, and pin it down just the same.
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