The dimensional platform was bustling with activity.
[Shocking the World: Professor Oak of Kanto Discovers Another Eevee Evolution!]
[Eevee's New Evolutions Revealed—Beyond Fire Stone, Water Stone, and Thunder Stone, Eevee Also Has Moon Form and Sun Form!]
[Umbreon and Espeon Fully Revealed!]
[The Sinnoh League Championship Comes to an End—Cynthia Defeats the Previous Champion to Become the New Champion of Sinnoh, and the Most Beautiful Champion in History!!!]
Kanto Region — Pallet Town
Professor Oak's Laboratory
"Grandpa, Umbreon looks so cool! In the future, I'm definitely making Umbreon my ace!"
Six-year-old Gary was snuggling in Professor Oak's arms, acting spoiled.
"Alright, alright. When the time comes, Grandpa will give you an Eevee," Professor Oak said, rubbing his grandson's head. "Now go play with Ash."
After coaxing his grandson away, Professor Oak looked at the videos on the dimensional platform.
"To think little Cynthia has already grown this much…"
"She's become the new Champion of the Sinnoh region."
Cynthia's grandmother and Professor Oak were old friends who would entrust their lives to each other, and the two families had always been close.
Professor Oak had watched Cynthia grow up.
He never expected that the little girl from back then would one day reach such heights.
Then suddenly, he noticed a video pinned at the very top.
[All trainer Here Are Trash — Ranking the Top 10 Strongest Legendary Pokémon!]
The dimensional platform had existed for a year now, but never before had a video been pinned.
trainer?
Back in the ancient past, there had indeed once been such a term.
In that savage era, Pokémon had been called magical beasts, and humans who commanded Pokémon were called trainer.
But Professor Oak's gaze quickly settled on the words:
Legendary Pokémon.
The Top 10 Strongest Legendary Pokémon?
As a world-renowned authority with enormous influence, Professor Oak was naturally no stranger to Legendary Pokémon. Every region had its own legends about them.
Even so, humanity still knew far too little about that realm.
After all, any Pokémon worthy of the title Legendary Pokémon possessed the power to destroy the heavens and the earth, had lived for countless ages, and rarely appeared before humans.
In Kanto and Johto, the most widespread legends were only of Articuno, Zapdos, Moltres, Suicune, Raikou, and Entei.
However, according to investigations into certain ruins, none of those were the strongest Legendary Pokémon.
As a Pokémon researcher, he had absolutely no resistance to the words Legendary Pokémon.
Without hesitation, he clicked into the video.
…
The Sea Between Hoenn and Sinnoh
There was an island here.
Not long ago, the ruins of an ancient civilization had been discovered on it.
Archaeological teams from Sinnoh and Hoenn were jointly working to decipher and study the ruins.
Whoosh—
A disturbance sounded from the sky as a figure descended riding a Pokémon.
The newcomer was dressed in black, with flowing blonde hair, skin as fair as snow, and a breathtakingly beautiful face that even celebrities would envy.
"Cynthia, what brings you here?" asked a Sinnoh archaeology professor as he looked at the blonde girl. "You just became Champion. Shouldn't you be enjoying yourself?"
Cynthia looked helpless.
"They keep dragging me to one TV interview after another. It's boring. I heard a ruin was discovered here, so I rushed over immediately."
"Haha, that's just like you."
Aside from being a Champion Trainer, Cynthia was also a scholar of archaeology. She possessed extensive knowledge and was deeply interested in the history and ruins of the world.
"What kind of Legendary Pokémon ruin was discovered this time?" Cynthia asked.
At the mention of that, the Sinnoh archaeology professor became visibly excited, nearly trembling with excitement.
"A huge discovery. There's a very high chance it belongs to a Legendary Pokémon that doesn't even exist in the current records!"
Cynthia's pupils suddenly contracted.
The first-ever discovery of a Legendary Pokémon?!
Another Legendary Pokémon had been unearthed from history?!
This news was enough to shake the entire archaeological world of the Pokémon universe!
"The entrance to the ruins has already been opened. Once some of the gas inside disperses, we'll be able to go in."
Because the ruins were unimaginably ancient, harmful gases might have accumulated inside over the ages, so the air had to be cycled first.
For the moment, the archaeologists had nothing to do.
With a thought, they opened the dimensional platform to pass the time.
And then—
A pinned video appeared before their eyes.
[All trainer Here Are Trash — Ranking the Top 10 Strongest Legendary Pokémon!]
Legendary Pokémon?
That instantly captured Cynthia's attention.
"What the heck? What kind of video is this? Was it posted by some archaeology team from another region?"
"This is way too careless, isn't it? Archaeology is supposed to be rigorous work. No one even knows how many Legendary Pokémon exist in this world, yet this person dares rank the Top 10 Strongest Legendary Pokémon?"
"But why is this video pinned?"
Discussions immediately broke out around her.
The other archaeologists had seen it too—after all, with it pinned at the top, it was impossible to miss.
They wanted to see just who was so arrogant as to think they could judge Legendary Pokémon.
Driven by curiosity, Cynthia clicked into the video as well.
In an instant—
The soundtrack began to play, stirring the blood and setting hearts ablaze.
The scene slowly emerged.
The heavens and earth were dyed a blazing crimson. The entire sky looked scorched red, heatwaves billowing endlessly.
It was as though the whole world had been swallowed by searing flames.
Even through the screen, everyone felt as if they could sense that suffocating heat.
A Legendary Pokémon!
Only a Legendary Pokémon could create such a horrifying scene.
Only a Legendary Pokémon could possess such world-destroying power.
Judging by the image, this was a Fire-type Legendary Pokémon!!!
But which one?
Among the known Fire-type Legendary Pokémon, there were only Moltres and Entei.
"Could it be Moltres?"
Cynthia stared fixedly at the screen.
The camera angle was high in the sky. Entei couldn't fly—only Moltres could.
The camera slowly shifted, moving from the heavens down toward the earth.
And then—
Everyone's eyes widened.
It wasn't Moltres!!