"Uh… Selene."
Hearing that name, Axel's head started to ache. He really did not want to mess around with her right now.
That girl's tags were kind of filthy. Axel was afraid that if they dropped and he put them in his bag, they would even affect his Pokémon's path to godhood.
The system right now was still pretty trash. When would it finally roll out a feature for selecting specific tag.
After that thought flashed through his mind, Axel ignored the string of curses flooding his head and shifted his attention to Selene on the phone screen.
"What is it? Don't tell me you couldn't handle the newly appeared Ultra Beast."
After going through it twice already, Axel was very clear about the power hierarchy in the Ultra Beast world.
With a small Nihilego, plus the two unlucky bodyguards he had detained, the newly appeared Ultra Beast should not dare to resist.
["That's not it!"], Unlike what Axel expected, Selene looked extremely anxious.
["The three Pokémon you had me bring are even more terrifying than I imagined. The rift just fully opened, and several Ultra Beasts were peeking out from inside."]
["But after seeing your three Pokémon, not a single one dared to come out."]
Axel was puzzled, "Then just wait there until the rift closes. Why are you calling me?"
Selene shook her head and cut him off, ["If it were only that, it would be simple."]
]"But while we were waiting just now, a gigantic ice dragon swept across the sky and bit off the head of one of the Pokémon inside the rift…"]
"The head?", Axel was a bit surprised.
["Yes, the head!"], Selene was clearly shaken, her chest rising and falling rapidly.
["What's even more ridiculous is that after its head was bitten off and taken away by that giant ice dragon, the Pokémon actually jumped down to the ground and chased after it, like something straight out of a ghost story."]
'Emm..'
Hearing the latter part of Selene's words, Axel got a rough idea.
The Pokémon that showed up this time was probably Blacephalon.
This Pokémon was good at scaring people in a clownish way, and it especially liked showing off, treating its own head like a toy. Even among Ultra Beasts, it was considered an oddball.
'But… Blacephalon's combat power is clearly very high. How did a dragon manage to snatch its head away?'
'And that dragon is an ice dragon. With Kyurem having been beaten into hibernation, what other ice dragon could be this fierce?'
'Baxcalibur?'
After thinking for a moment, Axel decided he still had to go take a look in person.
As far as Alola's combat power was concerned, a dragon that could suppress Blacephalon was already way over the limit and could easily cause unknown chaos.
Searching for Aether Paradise had already made Axel irritable. He absolutely could not allow any more trouble to pop up.
Axel lifted Eva off himself and instructed her, "Be good and wait at home for me, okay. I'll still leave the black and white dragons with you."
"If they don't behave, call me. I'll just refine the two of them into pills for fun."
Eva looked worried, "You won't be in danger, right?"
"I mean, Sister Selene said that dragon is really strong. How about you bring Reshiram and Zekrom along too?"
"Forget it. Those two don't have their true bodies yet. They can't handle high end battles right now. Having Gardevoir and the others with me is enough."
Eva obediently waved her arms, "Th-then come back early. I'll make lunch for you."
"You can cook now?"
Eva's pretty face turned red, "I just happened to learn how to stew chicken soup from my mom recently. I'll make more sea cucumber for you to replenish yourself."
Axel: "..."
He had to say, Eva really was a good girl.
Even Gardevoir was thinking about how to conquer him, but after being conquered, Eva was thinking about how to nourish him instead.
If this kind of nourishment kept going, sooner or later it would be two people going out and three people coming back.
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After riding Gyarados up into the air, Axel felt a bit of stomach pain.
He had planned to rest properly, wait for clues to come to him, and at the same time get a better grasp of Z-Power.
In the end, he still had to head out anyway. That was just annoying.
"Gyarados, fly faster. Rotom navigation, be more responsive. Let's go see what that ice dragon actually is."
He had come out in too much of a hurry earlier and forgot to ask Selene for specific details.
There were only two ice dragons in the Pokémon world. One was the battered Kyurem, and the other was the pseudo-legendary Pokémon, Baxcalibur.
Once this Pokémon fully grew, it was also extremely powerful. Even when facing scorching magma, it could freeze it into ice in an instant, earning it the title of the god who controlled the air conditioner.
Axel actually leaned more toward the latter having appeared, because Kyurem should not have the ability to wake up yet.
Unless someone intervened and manually revived Kyurem.
But the leader of Team Plasma had already been dealt with by Gardevoir, so they should not be able to stir up any waves.
"ROAR!", Suddenly, Gyarados let out a roar, snapping Axel out of his thoughts.
Axel looked down and saw that they were already above a mountain range. Everything around was lush and green, with only a black rift as thin as a thread gradually fading away in the air, looking completely out of place.
"We're already here?", Axel glanced at the rift in the sky, feeling somewhat irritated.
If only he could just rush straight in.
Unfortunately, he had already had Gyarados test it once. This spatial rift seemed to be a one way passage. Even this dragon, which controlled part of the authority of space, could not pass through it.
Axel scanned the surroundings and did not see Selene or the others.
And the ground was covered with tiny trenches, which looked like traces left behind during a Toedscool migration.
With so many traces masking everything, it was very difficult for Axel to determine which direction Selene and the others had gone.
"Rotom, make a call and check."
"Roto! Roto!", Rotom spun a circle in midair, found one of the few available signals, and dialed the number.
Unfortunately, Selene's side seemed to have lost signal.
Axel's head started to ache, and he began to regret not carving one out for himself when he was carving rock pillars earlier.
"Pheromosa, can you sense Blacephalon's presence?"
"Yo~", Pheromosa shook her head helplessly. In other places, she might be able to sense the aura of other Ultra Beasts.
But the spatial rift here had just closed, and the aura of the Ultra Wormhole was extremely strong, making it impossible to track Blacephalon.
Axel sighed helplessly and was just about to wait it out here when a familiar roar suddenly came from not too far away.
The sound tore through the mountains and forests, making the entire mountain tremble.
["Little jellyfish looking thing, I recognize you. Tell me where Axel is, now!"]
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