--Wouldn't it be enough to grab a few more people to fill the quota?
The moment that thought surfaced in Glacier's mind, he personally snuffed it out.
The reason was simple. In this vast Arctic continent, how could human traces be so easy to find?
If not for the identity and knowledge he had gained as one of the scientific researchers stationed in the Arctic before awakening the greatest wish of his life,
he would never have thought of abducting people from the research stations established by the various Pokémon Leagues and using them as his "lab rats."
When he had first arrived in the Arctic, he had not actually intended to have any dealings with those research stations.
After all, once he found the Strongest Dragon on the Surface and made it freeze everything in the world into eternal, unchanging ice sculptures, nothing else would matter.
But plans could never keep up with change. Although he had successfully found the Secret Realm where the Strongest Dragon on the Surface slept and spent a great deal of time merging it with reality,
before he could awaken it, an obstacle had appeared before him.
"Hollow Trial."
Only those capable of filling the hollow were qualified to begin the Trial and gain the opportunity to awaken the Strongest Dragon on the Surface.
As for how one could tell whether they were qualified?
The method was simple. Just walk inside, and they would know.
If Regice had not been at his side as a guard back then, Glacier thought he would probably have become one of those humanoid ice sculptures.
The entire Trial was built upon countless geometric snowflakes and powered by an unknown energy source. It could determine whether an entrant possessed the "qualification."
The fact that he did not possess the