Deep within the Augusto Mountains, Great Britain Alliance.
The Gigantamax Pokémon that usually rampaged throughout these mountains had either been beaten out of their Gigantamax state or chosen to hide, as though they were avoiding something.
Naturally, the ones capable of doing this were the Great Britain Alliance, who had maintained the upper hand against these giant beasts' devastation and had even successfully pushed them back, possessing extensive experience in fighting such monsters.
The entire core region of the Augusto Mountains had been completely sealed off by Great Britain Alliance personnel.
Even the former Dominic Mining Group had been directly taken over by the Great Britain Alliance in the name of the Pokémon League, due to its collusion with the R Institute, the death of its largest shareholder, Charles, and Charles's son becoming intellectually disabled after being brainwashed repeatedly.
Furthermore, under the Great Britain Alliance's control, every miner working deep within the Augusto Mountains had been sent home, causing a tremendous uproar.
Countless people wanted to learn the truth behind the Great Britain Alliance's massive operation, and many reporters wished to obtain firsthand information, but the highest level of secrecy and martial law left them unable to make any breakthroughs.
The fact that not even a mosquito could fly inside made them realize just how determined the Great Britain Alliance was this time.
"How are things?"
Outside a tunnel leading underground, a stern-looking man in his thirties questioned his subordinate.
If Su Hao were here... being slightly face-blind, he probably would not recognize the speaker as Auston, the Great Britain Alliance's Grass-type Elite Four member whom he and Ogerpon had steamrolled in the Divine Bird Sanctuary.
Not long after returning from the Divine Bird Sanctuary with the feather, Auston, who had conscientiously handed it over, received a much better assignment—one