Zacian's Failed Trial

"If I'm not mistaken, Zacian must have sensed the Rusted Sword and Calyrex's power, so it came looking for me to deal with the Eternatus of this Parallel Time-Space..."

Mark lightly pinched his chin as he analyzed the situation to himself.

Although Calyrex had a rather unusual personality, he had never hidden his past experiences. According to the animated images Calyrex had shared, in the distant past, Sword King Zacian and Shield King Zamazenta had once fought alongside Calyrex against Eternatus.

In fact, the Pokemon Adventures manga Mark had read before crossing over had contained a similar storyline.

But while that was the situation, there was one crucial problem.

Zacian seemed to have misunderstood something.

Without dwelling on it, Mark surveyed the underground forest around him. The pitch-black forest had no source of light, but light was no longer that important to him.

With Aura Power, Mark's perception here was almost no different from what it would be during the day.

The forest environment here was no worse than that aboveground. The plants were bursting with life, with no sign at all that they had grown underground.

As he continued forward, the arrow in Mark's vision vanished, while the voice repeating in his mind grew increasingly clear.

It seemed Zacian was nearby.

Bzz—

Mark was still searching for Zacian's traces when he suddenly heard a faint buzzing sound.

The next moment, a strange Fairy-type Energy rose from the ground. The Fairy-type Energy clung to the plants, causing every plant to emit a faint glow.

The colors of those glows varied noticeably depending on the plant.

The flowers of some plants gave off strange, multicolored streams of light. As their fragrance spread, those streams drifted on the wind. Some firefly-like insects also awakened under the influence of the Fairy-type power, their