Elves: Angler's Rainy Day Team

Chapter 852, Main Tomb Chamber
"Luka..."

“Ah…”

In the silent tunnel, Lucario and Zubat shouted at the same time, and the shouts echoed in the empty space. It was obvious that they sensed Umbreon together.

They opened their eyes and looked into the depths of the dark tunnel, and ran towards the tunnel on the right without hesitation. Yu Hai could only follow closely behind, the flashlight in his hand emitting bright light, illuminating a small area in front, and then plunged into the depths of the tunnel.

The tunnel was filled with the smell of damp earth, and the walls were covered with dark green moss. When the flashlight shone on them, it reflected a faint green fluorescence. The ground underfoot was bumpy and uneven, and occasionally you could step on a few loose stone slabs, making a "crackling" sound.

However, Yu Hai and the others did not notice that just after they left, black ripples suddenly appeared on the originally calm tunnel walls, and transparent black figures slowly passed through the walls like smoke.

The eyes of these ghost-type elves flashed with strange red light. They looked at the direction where Yu Hai and the others left in a playful manner. The corners of their mouths slowly stretched into exaggerated arcs, and they let out a creepy laugh. The laughter echoed in the tunnel for a long time.

"Umbreon, Umbreon..." Ukai ran to the end of the tunnel panting and found Umbreon lying on the ground, its originally smooth hair becoming messy.

Moon Eevee's ears drooped limply, with an expression of painful struggle on its face, its eyes closed, its brows furrowed, its teeth biting its lips tightly, and its body twitching slightly, as if it was enduring tremendous torture and had fallen into a coma.

I wonder what happened to Moon Eevee after it fell down? Why did it become like this?

When Lucario saw Umbreon's state, he immediately stood in front of Ukai, with his legs slightly bent and his muscles tensed, ready to fight at any time.

Its eyes vigilantly scanned the dark corners around it. Its sharp gaze seemed to penetrate the darkness and find hidden threats. The blue light on its body flickered, emitting a powerful aura.

Zubat was hovering in the air, its eyes fixed on the movements around it, the frequency of its wings flapping significantly increased, and its sharp teeth flashed coldly in the dim light. They were all trying to prevent the wild Pokémon that attacked Moon Eevee from suddenly attacking them.

Yu Hai quickly reached out and put his hand on Umbreon's neck. After feeling the weak and rhythmic pulse, his heart finally settled down and he breathed a sigh of relief. He quickly took out the Poké Ball and pressed the button. A red light flashed and Umbreon was put into the Poké Ball.

He carefully checked the condition of Umbreon and recognized it at a glance. It was in a state where its strength was drained by the Dream Eater. The struggling expression on Umbreon's face probably showed that it was struggling in a nightmare.

He thought to himself, since it was attacked by Dream Eaters, it means there are many ghost-type Pokémon here, and they are very powerful, at least at the quasi-king level, and there are quite a few of them, otherwise Moon Eevee would not be in so much pain, it was probably beaten up by a group of people.

However, he was not worried about those ghost-type Pokémon, because he had the king of ghost-type Pokémon, Gengar, under his feet.

As long as there were no champion-level ghost-type Pokémon here, they would be safe for the time being, and perhaps they could try to explore this mysterious ruins.

"Geng Gui, release the aura of the king and drive away your kind." Yu Hai lowered his voice and shouted to Gengar. He could already feel the temperature dropping significantly, which meant that there was a large group of ghost-type Pokémon around.

After Gengar heard this, his scarlet eyes lit up in the shadow, and a powerful aura emanated from the shadow, sweeping through the tunnel.

After sensing the aura of the king emanating from Gengar, the ghost-type Pokémon hiding in the dark let out screams of fear and disappeared into the wall like smoke.

Seeing Gengar starting to exert his strength, he shone the flashlight on the wall and carefully examined the ancient murals and hieroglyphs.

After being in the ruins for so long, some familiar memories suddenly flashed through his mind. He seemed to remember where he had seen this relic and what kind of relic it was.

He tried hard to recall and remembered that there was an episode of animation about the ruins near Pitch Gray City. Relevant scenes gradually emerged in his mind. It seemed that this was the first time that Xiaozhi encountered the ruins of the Age of Gods.

At that time, Xiaozhi was planning to challenge the Battle Pyramid of the Age of Gods, but he was trapped in the ruins by a trap dug by Team Rocket and was possessed by the soul of some ancient king.

This ruins is near Deep Gray City, it seems to be called the Poclaantis Ruins...

In the spirit world, there are two ancient legends circulating in the Poclaindis civilization. Both legends are related to the Phoenix King. These two legends are...

The first legend states that during the glory days of King Poclaindis's reign, his greatest goal was to control the world. According to the legend, the ambitious king attempted to use the great power of the Phoenix King to achieve this goal.

However, how could the King of Phoenix obey such an unrealistic order from King Poclaantis? The King of Phoenix was furious and destroyed the Kingdom of Poclaantis in anger.

However, it is said that the king managed to escape through some unknown means, and out of revenge, he sealed the Phoenix King in a stone Poké Ball as a punishment.

The second legend is that in ancient times, the Poclaantis Empire angered the Phoenix King due to some of its actions, and thus suffered a devastating disaster. One day, the entire empire suddenly disappeared from the long river of history.

It is said that King Poclaantis, who managed to escape, sealed the Phoenix King in a stone ball for revenge and placed it somewhere in the ruins.

"The ruins of Poclaantis?" Yu Hai walked slowly in the dim passage, muttering the name of the ruins silently. There were also two legends pointing to the stone ball and Ho-Oh. These two things were bound together in the legend.

It seems that King Poclaantis has other purposes. He probably wants the outsider to release himself. Possessing Ash and continuing to conquer the world is King Poclaantis' ambition. Perhaps this is King Poclaantis' purpose.

He thought to himself, if this was really the relic, then he really didn't know what rare things were hidden here. After all, there was no detailed description of the treasure in the ruins in the animation.

He recalled the plot of the animation, where the Rocket trio once broke into the ruins and encountered a Tyrannosaurus, a Pidgeot and a Cuckoo.

These are most likely the researcher's elves. In a place like this, it is too slim to encounter a quasi-god like Tyrannosaurus. He shook his head helplessly and smiled bitterly in his heart. Don't expect to encounter such a good thing. He doesn't have such an expectation.

He continued to analyze the current situation carefully. There was one thing he was sure of. This relic had not yet been explored by the Age of Gods. There must be some good things hidden inside. It was unlike the ultra-ancient ruins where all the valuables had been taken away by the Alliance.

Thinking of this, his eyes lit up slightly, and he continued to ponder the current situation. Although he did not know what treasures were hidden in the ruins, the builder of the ruins, the remnant soul of the king, must know the secret.

It is just that a king who used some unknown mysterious power to seal his residual soul consciousness in a Poké Ball and has preserved it to this day, how much information about the ruins and treasures he can remember is unknown.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but sigh softly, and his pace slowed down a little. He was not worried about being attacked by the remnant soul. The king who had not yet turned into a ghost-type Pokémon was just a remnant soul with unclear consciousness. How could such a remnant soul compete with a powerful ghost-type Pokémon like Gengar?

What's more, he is a king-level Gengar.

Thinking of this, Yu Hai subconsciously stopped and his eyes involuntarily fell on the platform beside the tunnel, where there was a stone statue of a baby with lips.

If he remembered correctly, these statues of the milfs carefully placed on the platform should be the hidden mechanisms in this relic.

Since he knew clearly that these statues were mechanisms, how could he touch them easily? He continued to hold the flashlight tightly in his hand, and walked carefully towards the front of the passage with the bright light.

He tried hard to recall in his mind that the king's room in this ruin seemed to be a little different. He remembered that the king's room in the ruins was very special, and it was very different in style from the elf murals on other stone doors. Most of the rooms with elf murals were traps.

Along the way, whenever he encountered an unfamiliar stone door, he would walk up and study it carefully, but would be disappointed to find that this was not the stone door he was looking for.

Sometimes they would let Lucario use the waveguide to sense whether there was a trap behind the stone door, and then they would continue to look for the next stone door. Fortunately, with the King-level ghost aura emitted by Gengar, almost no ghost-type Pokémon dared to approach them along the way.

In this way, they wandered in the ruins for a long time, so long that their stomachs began to growl and they were obviously feeling a little hungry.

He had no choice but to stop searching, took out the food he had brought with him, and started eating lunch. Lucario and Zubat also wanted to eat lunch, so he released all the Pokémons so that everyone could eat something.

After a quick lunch, they took a short break and continued to search for the stone door. This time, their efforts paid off and they finally found something unusual on the murals on a stone door. A unique stone door appeared before their eyes.

The stone gate was covered with strange dots and lines, which looked quite mysterious. Under the light of the flashlight, the gems on the pattern flickered faintly.

His eyes lit up instantly, and he quickly asked Lucario to use waveguide to sense what was behind the door. If it was not a trap, then the king's room was most likely here.

"Luca, Luca." Lucario responded, and gently placed his paw on the stone door. He concentrated his mind, and the waveguide slowly penetrated into the stone door, sensing the space behind the door.

After a moment, the blue light in its eyes went out, and it found that behind the door was a very empty room, and there seemed to be nothing inside.

Lucario retracted his claws, slowly opened his eyes, turned to look at Yu Hai, with a hint of doubt in his eyes, and nodded slightly, indicating that this might be the place.

Seeing Lucario nod, Yu Hai felt excited. Perhaps the real secret was behind this door.

“Very good.” Yu Hai raised his voice and shouted to Lucario again: “Lucario, feel the wall carefully to see if there are any holes or any mechanisms that can open this door.”

He clearly remembered that there seemed to be some mechanism hidden in the stone door that could open it, or it could be opened with just a slight push, which seemed to be how Xiaozhi got in.

While letting Lucario sense the mechanism, he quickly walked to the stone door, stretched out his hands and placed them on the cold and rough surface of the stone door, slowly and forcefully pushing the stone door.

"Crash-"

Unexpectedly, he just pushed the stone door lightly, and unexpectedly a dull sound was heard. The stone door turned quickly like a revolving door and brought him in.

Even Lucario didn't have time to react before they were separated by a stone door, but there was no need to worry about Ukai's safety, as Gengar followed him into the stone chamber.

After Yu Hai stepped into the stone gate, a spacious and grand stone chamber appeared before his eyes. The moment he entered, with the flow of air, a slight sound burst out from the originally dim wall.

A bright flame suddenly came out of the brazier on the wall, and the flame spread rapidly, like a nimble fire snake, extending along the wall to the end of the room, illuminating the entire dim stone chamber.

Next to the stone pillars under the brazier, black elves were sleeping quietly. They were neatly arranged in two rows, like the king's most loyal guards, silently guarding this pure land.

“Don’t be afraid, Zubat.” Yu Hai lowered his voice and reminded softly: “These fires should be scale powder that can spontaneously ignite when it encounters air. Those black elves are clay elves, called telekinetic clay dolls, and are the same type of elves as the clay giants. They are in a dormant state. We just need to be careful and not disturb them. Under normal circumstances, they will not wake up…”

He knew very well that there would be no danger for the time being, but he had to gently remind Zubat to stay quiet so as not to trigger the mechanism that awakens the telekinetic clay doll.

Then he raised his head and looked carefully at this unique stone chamber. Apart from the burning stone basin and two rows of sleeping telekinetic clay dolls, there was nothing else.

There is also a wall here that is particularly eye-catching. On the wall is a tall statue of a king sitting on a huge stone throne. Between the king's huge rock feet, there is a slightly smaller stone throne.

After careful observation, he found that the scene here was roughly the same as that depicted in the animation, except that there were some more telekinetic clay doll guards.

Maybe the animation is limited in length and cannot depict all the details in the ruins. After all, the entire ruins cannot have only the things shown in the animation. Maybe those valuable items have been taken away by the Alliance and were not presented in the animation.

After the danger was over, he turned his head to look at the closed stone door behind him, and then looked at the flames burning in the brazier. A hot breath blew in his face, making his skin feel slightly hot.

He tried to open his mouth wider to breathe in more air, but found that the air became extremely thin. His nostrils were filled with the pungent smell of burning, which made his eyes sting and tears welled up in his eyes.

Beads of sweat the size of beans kept oozing out of his forehead and sliding down his cheeks. His clothes were also soaked with sweat and stuck tightly to his skin.

As time went by, he could clearly feel the temperature in the stone chamber rising, as if he was in a huge steamer. He felt his heartbeat becoming more and more rapid, and his chest felt like it was being pressed by a large stone, and every breath was accompanied by a burst of discomfort.

In this airtight space, the oxygen will become less and less, and the temperature will become higher and higher. If this continues, it won't be long before he suffocates to death...

(End of this chapter)