The light expanded at a speed visible to the naked eye. Then, as if white paint had been stained with ink, dark specks emerged from its center and spread at breakneck speed. In the blink of an eye, it became a pure blackness that seemed capable of swallowing even light.
Cynthia, standing on guard with Porygon2, shrank back, her pupils contracting as she cried in disbelief, "A spacetime... rift!?"
But something even more horrifying awaited her the very next second.
Countless eyes abruptly opened within that pitch-black spacetime rift!
"Unown!?"
Even someone as composed as Cynthia let out a startled cry.
In the exposed corner of the spacetime rift, countless Unown of varying forms were packed together. They were so densely clustered that they resembled storm clouds pressing down upon a city, filling the air with terror and oppression.
Cynthia could not understand it. She should not have triggered any mechanisms in the ruins, so why had such a sudden anomaly appeared?
The instant Cynthia observed those Unown, a strange power spread outward. A terrifying suction force surged toward them as though it had locked onto them.
Porygon2, which had just been about to gather energy and fire a Hyper Beam, was dumbfounded.
It could not use its moves!?
Cynthia's mind also trembled at this sudden turn of events. After gritting her teeth and thinking for a moment, she made up her mind.
She took out a Poké Ball and recalled Porygon2 immediately. Even if she was sucked into some unknown place by that force, she at least had to make sure she would not be separated from Porygon2.
The next instant.
Unable to resist the suction any longer, Cynthia suddenly felt weightless. Her vision blurred, and she vanished amid an intense white light.
A few minutes later.
When the