"So it really does exist...?"
Luo Mu stared at the seemingly cracked sky for a long while, a complicated expression surfacing in his eyes.
"Time-Space Rift."
At the beginning of Pokémon Legends: Arceus, Arceus, shrouded in holy light, appeared before the protagonist controlled by the player and transformed the protagonist's smartphone into an Arceus Phone.
Then, the unconscious protagonist passed through a Time-Space Rift and fell into a place called Prelude Beach, where Professor Laventon found them.
According to Professor Laventon's investigation of the "Time-Space Rift" in the game, a Time-Space Rift was a phenomenon that only appeared when several universes overlapped and their power reached saturation.
Mew in the game had also mentioned that Time-Space Rifts were caverns connecting several worlds. If left alone, the balance of time and space might be disrupted.
The protagonist, a "Time-Lost Wanderer"—that was, the character controlled by the player—had been entrusted with the mission of resolving this incident.
In a sense, Luo Mu himself also counted as a Time-Lost Wanderer.
And he knew the true reason Time-Space Rifts appeared.
When the reverse side of the world fell into chaos, Time-Space Rifts would emerge.
Those words had been recorded on a stone collected in the game.
And the reverse side of the world naturally referred to the Reversal World, the world inhabited by Giratina, known as the "Renegade Pokémon."
Wanderer, a merchant from the Ginkgo Guild, had secretly joined forces with Giratina to strike at Dialga and Palkia. Using the power produced by their battle, he opened a Time-Space Rift and sought an opportunity to enter the Hall of Origin, the space where Arceus resided.
Luo Mu did not know whether the Time-Space Rift was why Mew had sent him to this era, nor did he know whether he had replaced the protagonist who