Fusion!

It had to be said that Corey's physical constitution was fairly good.

Even after enduring a massive nuclear explosion, he still had not passed out.

Of course, Corey was not much different from actually being unconscious. Nearly his entire body had lost sensation, and his hearing, sense of smell, and sense of touch had almost completely failed.

The only thing that was still somewhat useful was his mechanical right eye.

However, the mechanical right eye's signal was also poor. Not only was it blurry and choppy, but there were also afterimages.

Through the blurry image from his electronic right eye, Lugia happily circled through the sky before descending and lowering his head to look down at him.

After landing, Lugia's cheerful expression gradually vanished. As he looked at Corey, a somewhat complicated, human-like expression appeared on his face.

Corey realized something at that moment.

—Lugia had broken free of his control.

It should have been the shockwave produced by the atomic bomb explosion that had damaged the Mind Control Device on his body, causing Lugia to break free of his control.

But why had an atomic bomb appeared in the Chaos Space of the Desert of No Return?

Why had the atomic bomb been so powerful?

What exactly had happened?

He did not continue dwelling on his confusion.

Using every ounce of strength in his body, Corey tried to call out to Lugia for help.

Unfortunately, nothing came out. His body was simply incapable of producing speech.

A stream of water appeared.

Lugia had originally planned to kill the evil human who had controlled him for so long, but in the end, he could not bring himself to do it. He merely spat a mouthful of water onto Corey's face.

Lugia flapped his wings. There was an extremely powerful Pokémon