Considering Giovanni had indeed created it, if not for the fact that he had used armor to suppress it and attempted to control it, Mewtwo might have directly killed Giovanni just now.
"Damn it!"
Fortunately, although Giovanni was furious and anxious, he had not completely lost his reason.
When he saw that the hole led to the outside and faintly heard police sirens coming from above, he knew this place had been exposed.
He immediately released Crobat and had it grab him, fleeing through the hole.
At the same time, he did not forget to press the control button on his wrist, activating the base's self-destruct system.
Immediately, red warning lights lit up throughout the entire underground base, and even the Viridian Gym above it began blaring alarms. The arriving Officer Jenny and League investigators were all frightened into evacuating the area.
Taking advantage of the chaos, Giovanni escaped Viridian City.
"BOOM!!"
One minute later, a violent explosion rang out.
A towering pillar of fire erupted from beneath Viridian Gym.
The entire Viridian Gym was instantly reduced to ashes, leaving behind only a massive crater.
Officer Jenny and the others had been too close and were directly blown more than ten meters away. If not for the fact that people in this world generally had strong physiques, along with their Pokémon helping to offset part of the impact, that blast alone would have been enough to knock them unconscious.
After Officer Jenny and the others climbed up from the ground, patted the dust off their bodies, and looked toward the direction of the Gym, they immediately sucked in a cold breath.
If they had not evacuated in time just now, would they all have been killed?
At this moment, far away in Pallet Town, Professor Oak heard the commotion and immediately rushed out of his research institute, looking toward Viridian City.
Even from here, he could see the towering pillar of fire and smoke.
"What's going on?"
Professor Oak frowned deeply.
At that moment, Daisy Oak also ran out while holding a ninja cat. She looked in that direction and said, "That direction is Viridian City, right? Looks like something serious happened. Grandpa, are you going?"
Professor Oak nodded, then glanced at the ninja cat in Daisy's arms and said to her, "Keep a close eye on this ninja cat! I'll test it when I get back. Looks like it came from the same place as those previous animals. I'll be back soon."
As he spoke, Professor Oak took a Poké Ball from his body and released Dragonite, then said to it, "Please, old partner. Take me to Viridian City as fast as possible."
Dragonite nodded, reached out, and placed Professor Oak carefully in its palm, protecting him with its hand. Then it flapped its wings and shot into the sky, flying west toward Viridian City at high speed.
The image ended there.
"Ahem!"
Shiro Akira smacked his lips with an unsatisfied expression. "So the unlucky one this time was Giovanni? However, it seems like Arceus was manipulating things from behind the scenes! Otherwise, that ninja cat should have gone to Giovanni!"
Clearly, Arceus did not want Giovanni to obtain the ninja cat.
After all, with Giovanni's unscrupulous research methods, if he really obtained a ninja cat, he would definitely experiment on it. There was no telling if he might even try mixing ninja beasts with Pokémon.
At that point, even more Pokémon would inevitably suffer.
This time, Arceus had probably long been displeased with Giovanni's actions and just happened to take the opportunity to screw him over.
So one must never get targeted by something like a world will or a creator god. Otherwise, who knew how they would mess with you?
However, Shiro Akira cared more about this exchange's reward right now.
At that moment, two crystals appeared in his hand, and relevant information surfaced in his mind.
[Giovanni's Viridian Force Crystal]: Contains Giovanni's Viridian Force, which he developed and accumulated to the peak Champion level. Absorbing it allows one to directly obtain peak Champion-level Viridian Force.
(Once, Giovanni was a king. Unfortunately, he offended a certain alpaca.)
[Giovanni's Super Viridian Physique Crystal]: Contains Giovanni's Super Viridian Physique, tempered over many years. This physique possesses extremely powerful vitality, making one like an unkillable cockroach.
(Once, Giovanni was also a Super Viridian Human who could tank Hyper Beam head-on!)
"Whoa! Good stuff!"
After receiving this information, Shiro Akira's eyes lit up. "Peak Champion-level Viridian Force. If I remember correctly, Viridian Force allows communication with Pokémon and lets you understand their thoughts. At the same time, it also has pretty good healing ability. Not bad. I just wonder whether it can be used to heal humans?"
In theory, it should be possible, right?
In addition, there was the Super Viridian Physique—and it was Giovanni's Super Viridian Physique, tempered over many years. It should be quite good.
Immediately, he chose to fuse with both crystals.
In an instant, two endless streams of warmth surged into his body and began transforming and strengthening his physique.
At the same time, he also felt a special power enter the sea of consciousness between his brows, turning into a dazzling, mysterious ball of light that slowly revolved around the Beast Taming Space crystal.
This light orb radiated a gentle glow and began continuously nourishing Shiro Akira's sea of consciousness, causing both its strength and size to slowly increase.
Even Shiro Akira's mental power seemed to be nourished.
When the fusion and transformation were complete, Shiro Akira opened his eyes and shook his fist. "My strength and physique have increased by about fifty percent. Not bad!"
One had to know that after fusing Rob Lucci's physique and strength, his body and power were already incomparable to before.
For Giovanni's physique fusion to bring him such a large improvement was already very surprising.
"Looks like I underestimated the Super Viridian Physique!"
Of course, these were not actually the key points. He sensed that other changes had also appeared in his body.
"This unusual vitality…"
He felt as if some kind of power had awakened inside his body. Beyond the Super Viridian Human traits, his vitality had increased by more than twofold. At the same time, he also felt that his talent and control over Water and Earth-nature chakra had improved.
"Could it be…"
Shiro Akira immediately opened his attribute panel and checked it. Sure enough, he found several key additions.
[Shiro Akira]
[Talent]: Exchange LV2 (47/100)
[Chakra Attributes]: Lightning, Earth, Water
[Abilities]: Rumble-Rumble Fruit, Viridian Force (Peak Champion Level), Beast Taming Space
[Bloodline]: Senju Bloodline (Initial Awakening, 15%)
[Physique]: Super Viridian Physique
[Skills]: Swordsmanship (Proficient), Lightning Mode (Proficient), Thunder Breathing Technique (Proficient), Lightning Body Tempering Technique (Proficient), Six Powers, Life Return, Medical Skills (Master)
[Ninjutsu]: Lightning Release: Thunder Sphere Technique, Three Basic Techniques, Shadow Clone Technique, Water Release: Water Stream Technique, Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet Technique, Earth Release: Earth Spear Technique
[Overall Strength]: Early Kage Level
[Items]: Spatial Ring… omitted
"As expected, the Senju clan bloodline has awakened?"
Shiro Akira looked at this result and was not especially surprised.
Admittedly, the Senju bloodline in his body should have been rather thin, but after multiple major increases to his physique—especially the huge amount of vitality brought by the Super Viridian Physique this time—it was not difficult to understand why it had stimulated the awakening of his Senju bloodline.
"Now I can openly claim that I awakened a Senju physique. Heh!"
Shiro Akira chuckled softly.
Previously, when he said his cheating was caused by an awakened physique, he had merely been fooling the Third Hokage and the others.
This time, it had truly become confirmed.
"Not bad. It's only an initial awakening, though. I wonder if continuing to improve it later will allow me to awaken Wood Release, or whether Wood Release needs to be fused and created by myself?"
Shiro Akira was highly suspicious that Hashirama Senju's Wood Release back then was either a Kekkei Genkai he created by fusing the nature transformations of Water and Earth, or it was caused by Asura's chakra.
The possibility of awakening Wood Release solely by relying on the Senju physique was probably not high.
In the past, so many members of the Senju clan had possessed purer bloodlines, but no one had ever awakened Wood Release. The only one with that ability was Hashirama. The result was already obvious.
"Perhaps once I raise my Senju physique to a level comparable to Hashirama's—or even Asura's Sage Body—developing Wood Release will become incredibly easy."
Shiro Akira made a bold guess.
Of course, for now, he did not have such a strong obsession with Wood Release. If he could obtain it, that would naturally be good. If not, it didn't matter.
His Rumble-Rumble Fruit ability was no weaker than Wood Release in terms of destructive power and versatility.
Besides, without enough vitality to support it, even if he awakened Wood Release, it would probably only reach construction-worker level.
Wasn't Yamato the classic example?
Don't say it was because he was an imperfect fusion or had an incomplete Wood Release.
The real root of the problem was the Sage Body—the difference in vitality.
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