Elf: Starts with small diamonds, then mutates into Diancie.

Chapter 823 Last Wish

Mega Sharpedo possesses a burst speed comparable to that of a Champion-level Agile Pokémon, which even Diancie couldn't stop.

The Diamond Storm only left countless wounds on the suddenly appearing Megalodon, but it still couldn't stop the Megalodon, which was determined to leave the Temple of the Sea. It could only watch helplessly as it escaped with Chi Lang's arm and the indigo orb.

The whole series of events took less than 20 seconds. Mega Sharpedo appeared too suddenly, its speed was too terrifying, and even its purpose was beyond Su Hao's expectations. Wouldn't the first reaction of an ordinary Pokémon be to save its master?

The indigo orb, carrying most of the Sea King's Crown's energy, was thus taken away.

With a grim expression, Su Hao landed on the trembling floor of the Sea God Temple, looking at Chi Lang, who was writhing in pain yet letting out a gleeful laugh.

He knew perfectly well that Chi Lang was willing to die himself to awaken Kyogre.

"You crazy person."

Looking at Chi Lang, who was vomiting blood while laughing wildly, Su Hao said from the bottom of his heart.

Chi Lang's eyes were unfocused, and blood kept flowing from his severed arm: "Hahahaha, it's all thanks to your announcement of the EVA, otherwise Sharpedo might really have been stopped by your Diancie."

"How does it feel to have your past achievements ruin what was once a sure-fire success?"

Su Hao sighed, unmoved by Chi Lang's provocation. While listening to Reshiram's suggestion in his mind, he coldly said, "Just hold on to your long-cherished wishes and ideals, and bleed to death."

Even if I don't care about Chi Lang's injuries, he will die from excessive blood loss after a while if he is not properly treated.

Since the Megalodon has already escaped its waveguide detection range in just a few seconds, it is probably impossible to catch it now.

It seems the only solutions are to deal with the unconscious Manaphy in my arms and the rampaging Sea Temple.

"I'm sorry, I didn't react in time. If only I had been faster..."

Tianxi looked guilty, her voice full of self-reproach.

It is truly a lapse in judgment that it, as the strongest combat force, would neglect the possibility of unexpected combat power appearing suddenly.

Su Hao rubbed Diancie's head and comforted it, "It's okay. Even the waveguide I deployed didn't detect its movement the moment it appeared. It's not your fault."

"The most urgent matter is dealing with the Sea Temple and Manaphy. Could you please go and check on the situation outside?"

Tianxi nodded gently: "Okay."

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At this moment, outside the Temple of the Sea God.

The rampage of the Sea Temple was not just a matter of the entire temple trembling; there was a risk that it would completely collapse, disintegrate, and fall into the sea.

Having lost most of its energy, the Sea King's Crown initiated its final operation at the core of its operating system—

Those were the rules written together by the first generation of sea people who built the Temple of the Sea.

If the Temple of the Sea is in danger of disintegrating due to insufficient energy from the Crown of the Sea, the Crown of the Sea will use the power of the Manaphy within it to forcibly draw natural energy from the surrounding area to maintain the operation of the Temple of the Sea.

Natural energy is an extremely advanced form of energy. Both Kyogre, the creator of the ocean, and Groudon, the creator of the earth, used this energy to revert to their primordial state and expand their territories.

Legend has it that two legendary spirits engaged in a protracted struggle for natural energy. During the battle, natural energy was forcibly drained, causing unimaginable natural disasters to erupt in the surrounding environment, which was deprived of natural energy.

This is one of the reasons why the surrounding environment is severely damaged when Kyogre and Groudon fight.

Now, due to the disorder of natural energy, the area surrounding the Temple of the Sea is being ravaged by a massive tsunami, and thick, dark clouds are bringing torrential rain that makes it difficult to even open one's eyes.

Countless waterspouts connecting the sky and the earth linked the ocean with the dark clouds, and the surrounding scene was less like a natural disaster and more like the end of the world.

Upon arriving at the open-air platform of the Sea God Temple, this is the scene that Diancie witnessed.

The ocean Pokémon were also forced to choose due to the raging waves.

They chose to dive deeper into the water to hide. In Diancie's view, all she could see were the fleets of the various leagues in the high seas, swaying in the wind and waves, barely managing to stay afloat thanks to the power of her Pokémon.

But the power of Pokémon is ultimately limited. Even Elite Four and Champion Pokémon struggle to protect themselves in the face of the wrath of nature, let alone protect a much larger ship.

If this continues, the outcome will likely be that most of the ships sink, most of the crew members perish in the abyss, and only a few of the stronger trainers manage to escape.

Diancie looked distressed; she didn't want to see so many lives vanish like this.

After a moment of silence, Diancie turned and prepared to return to the core room of the Sea God Temple, as she needed to quickly inform Su Hao of the current situation.

At the bottom of a turbulent ocean, a megalodon is biting an arm and a pearl as it dives deeper and deeper, where time and light have become meaningless.

After an unknown amount of time, in the pitch-black seabed, the Megalodon's body suddenly returned to its original form under a burst of light... This also meant that it had exited its super-evolved state.

The super evolution was automatically deactivated even though I was far from exhausting my energy.

It seems... there's only one reason.

As if realizing something, Megalodon's face showed sadness, and it recalled the happy adventures it had with Chi Lang when it was young, when Chi Lang was not like this now...

But it will always be Chilang's Pokémon. Let it pull the final trigger to fulfill its master's last wish, even if it is about to open Pandora's box.

Heading towards the coordinates that Chi Lang had last given it, the Megalodon swam vigorously towards the seabed.

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"A disruption of natural energy? No wonder we can't get close to the Crown of the Sea now."

Upon receiving the intelligence brought back by Diancie, Su Hao looked troubled.

At this moment, he was holding in his hand a fragment of azure stone slab that he had taken from the weakened Milotic. Regarding the unconscious Manaphy, its body was riddled with holes, just like a sieve, as detected by the waveguide.

It's even worse than when the Motor Lizard was first born.

At Reshiram's suggestion, he temporarily borrowed a fragment of the Water Droplet Slab from Milotic. It was probably the only item left to replenish the Sea Crown's energy and help Manaphy restart its legacy.

However, it seems that because the Sea Crown is frantically absorbing natural energy to maintain the operation of the Sea Temple, no one can get close to the Sea Crown, let alone use the stone slabs to charge it.

Reshiram's voice rang out at the right moment: "Now, only I can suppress the disorder of natural energy in the outside world and burn this raging sea so that you can approach the Crown of the Sea."

Su Hao asked hesitantly, "Burning... what about the Pokémon in the sea?"

Reshiram shook his head: "I can't guarantee they'll be alright. None of us wanted this, but it's an unavoidable sacrifice, Su Hao."

"If this drags on any longer, the casualties will only increase."

Time was running out. Su Hao remained silent for a few seconds, and just as he was about to close his eyes and agree, a chill suddenly emanated from the Articuno tail feathers he carried close to his body.

This means... Skadi and the others have assembled!

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Chapter 824 Articulated Bird Formation, Frozen Sea!

Waterspouts connecting heaven and earth, tsunamis with waves rising higher and higher—everything looked like the end of the world. The people on the nameless island had returned to the warship, but even so, the swaying of the ship still made them uneasy.

If the waves get any bigger, the ship will sink, right?

In the sky, the moment something went wrong, Chu Ya had Mega Gengar take her to another dimension to escape the disaster.

She had already seen many Elite Four level trainers doing their best to avoid the raging disaster, and even a fool could guess that something must have happened to the Sea Temple below.

I wonder what's going on with Su Hao. Could something have happened? Otherwise, things wouldn't have turned out this way. Anyway... we need to get to the nameless island first to protect the warship and the crew members on board, and then seek help from the Alliance.

Thinking this to herself, Chu Ya patted the Mega Gengar carrying her and whispered, "Let's go over there first..."

Halfway through her sentence, Chu Ya realized that Super Gengar hadn't been listening to her at all, but was looking at something outside with a shocked expression.

Chu Ya followed the gaze of the Super Gengar, and saw the scenery outside reflected in the organ on its forehead that resembled a third eye.

In the pitch-black sky, that bright, icy blue hue seemed to bring a ray of redemption, sending a jolt through one's heart.

The number of icy blue light spots continued to increase, 1.....3......5......10.....14, a total of fourteen beams of light appeared in the sky at the same time. As they descended, their noble figures were exposed to the eyes of the people struggling in the face of the apocalyptic disaster.

That is Articuno, the legendary Pokémon with bright ice-blue feathers, trailing a flowing tail, and radiating an ice-blue glow!

Some people never even see a legendary Pokémon in their entire lives, but at this time, a total of fourteen Articuno appeared.

"Articuno..."

Chu Ya's beautiful eyes widened. She was probably the person who had the deepest impression of Articuno. The power of the Ice God that froze the sea in Shanghai still shocked her to this day.

Could it be that the God of Ice knew about the disaster here and came to help again?

No, that's not right... Judging from the aura alone, there don't seem to be any Articuno with that kind of divine power among them. In other words, are these Articuno people members of the Ice God's clan?

In a corner of the high seas, the Ice-type Pokémon was summoned with the intention of freezing a portion of the sea. The Ice-type Elite Four member of the Urshifu League, who was protecting the warship, stared wide-eyed and murmured, "My God... how beautiful."

The White Eagle Alliance's Electric-type Elite Four member narrowed his eyes and murmured, "If there's a chance to bring them back to the Alliance later..."

As soon as the Articuno appeared, they were evenly distributed in the sky, led by a slightly smaller but exceptionally wise Articuno.

They didn't care how other humans viewed them; they simply faithfully and joyfully carried out the orders from the divine messenger—to temporarily freeze the sea and forcibly calm the chaotic natural energy for a moment.

The next instant, people scattered across the high seas felt the temperature plummet. They saw endless frost surging around the arthropods, and the torrential rain pouring down from the sky closest to them, along with the dark clouds, was frozen.

Fourteen neat torrents of frost descended from the sky, bringing winter and frost to this sea area ahead of schedule.

This is absolute zero!

As the frost spread, the turbulent sea turned into thick blocks of ice, and the waterspouts connecting heaven and earth were frozen from bottom to top into spiral-shaped pillars of ice.

In an instant, the Articuno froze the entire roaring high seas, turning it into a frosty, icy wasteland.

Chu Ya, who had just left the other dimension with Mega Gengar, murmured, "What incredible power this is."

Although the power of a single Articuno is not comparable to that of the Ice God, with their combined efforts, the weakest of the fourteen Articuno, which is at least in the early stage of the Elite Four level and the strongest in the late stage of the Champion level, managed to freeze the entire sea area.

Chu Ya suddenly understood why Guang Lan had been so desperately searching for the legendary ice-type spirit, and felt that with it, she could defeat Bai Du.