Should We Jump? Right Now?

"Carbink... is this the Steel Bug you mentioned that flies at incredible speeds?"

Su Hao, along with Cycloze and Carbink, hid behind a massive boulder. In the nearby passage, a disc-shaped purple Pokémon floated silently in the air, its eyes sweeping the surroundings like searchlights.

There was no doubt it was some kind of Steel-type Pokémon. Judging by its appearance, it was probably Bug-type as well. It looked like something four times weak to Fire-type attacks, the sort that Incineroar could instantly kill with a single Explosion Blaze.

Su Hao, whose face seemed to hurt a little, knew this Pokémon all too well.

Genesect, also known as the Bug of Destruction.

An ancient Pokémon that had existed in the Pokémon world three hundred million years ago, it had risen to the top of a food chain as the strongest hunter of its time despite being a Bug-type Pokémon.

In the games, they were discovered by Team Plasma, revived from fossils, and then technologically modified by Team Plasma into creatures with metal shells and mounted technological cannons.

But the Genesect in the movies had been revived directly from fossils without being modified, which meant they had already possessed this futuristic appearance three hundred million years ago.

Still, no matter how contradictory the lore was, this Genesect undoubtedly had some sort of connection to humans. It might even have been a product of the R Institute hidden somewhere beneath the Augusto Mountains.

Su Hao had been in the Augusto Mountains for four or five hours already and had explored the Great Underground Cave for quite some time. He was now not far from the entrance to the Ore Kingdom.

Whether he defeated Genesect or slipped past right under its nose, neither option was particularly wise. Either could alert the enemy, and that