Chapter Summaries

A Gigantamax battle endangered a little girl aboard the carriage, and Su Hao jumped out to save her. After Lucario rescued the girl, Su Hao brought Leafeon toward the battling Pokémon, where it prepared to test its Leaf Blade against their attacks.

• The guide ordered the Corviknight to leave as Gigantamax Centiskorch and Gigantamax Carbink continued their destructive battle.
• Carbink's G-Max Rockfall appeared above the carriage, and the Corviknight's evasive maneuver sent the little girl falling out of a window.
• Su Hao jumped from the carriage, released Hisuian Braviary, Lucario, and Leafeon, and used Aura to locate the girl.
• Lucario caught the unconscious girl and safely stopped her fall while Hisuian Braviary carried Su Hao and Leafeon toward the battle.
• Su Hao sent Leafeon between Centiskorch and Carbink, and the two Gigantamax Pokémon directed their G-Max Moves at it.
• Leafeon answered Su Hao's command to use Leaf Blade, unleashing a sword of light into the sky.

Su Hao rescued a girl from the Gigantamax Pokémon Park and learned from Marshadow that a Carbink carried the aura of the Sacred Diamond. After returning to the hotel, he shut himself in his room to question Marshadow about the Ore Kingdom and Diancie.

• Su Hao and his Pokémon examined a Carbink that had reverted from Gigantamax, and Marshadow recognized it as a Carbink from the Ore Kingdom by the aura of the Sacred Diamond.
• When the Carbink tried to flee, Marshadow dragged it into the Shadow World and said they would discuss the details after returning.
• The girl's mother thanked Su Hao, while Xiao Zijian and Cheng Liming said the park had compensated them and admitted fault.
• Su Hao wondered whether the Ore Kingdom and Queen Diancie were hidden beneath the Augusto Mountains or in a Secret Realm, and decided to investigate for his Diancie.
• Back at the hotel, Su Hao returned to his room and called on Marshadow to talk.

Su Hao and Marshadow questioned Carbink about the Sacred Diamond and the Ore Kingdom after revealing Diancie, who Carbink initially mistook for its queen. The next day, Su Hao’s team gathered at the London Giant Beast Arena for the International Youth Exchange Competition draw and saw Xavier Baden among the leaders drawing lots.

• Marshadow brought the restrained Carbink to Su Hao, who summoned Diancie and persuaded Carbink to speak.
• Carbink recognized that Diancie was not its queen and, after Marshadow revealed his connection to Queen Diancie, agreed to answer Su Hao’s questions.
• At the London Giant Beast Arena, Su Hao and his teammates watched the International Youth Exchange Competition crowd and spotted Champion Liao among the dignitaries.
• Su Hao recognized Xavier Baden, the German Alliance’s Grass-type Elite Four member, among the team leaders drawing lots.
• The team leaders drew their lots, and the results appeared on the arena’s giant screens.

The Divine Land Alliance prepared to face the France Alliance in the Zone A upper-bracket Elite Eight match, with Su Hao expected to be the central threat because of his Diancie. The match began with both teams fielding their aces, and Diancie faced Carbink, Aegislash, and Chesnaught.

• The Divine Land Alliance reviewed the France Alliance's Carbink and identified it as a likely tactical core.
• France Alliance Elite Four François planned to build the lineup around Charlotte's Carbink, Anthony's Aegislash, and James's Chesnaught to counter Su Hao's Diancie.
• Su Hao told Cheng Liming and Xiao Zijian to focus on attacking while he handled defense, prompting them to accept the challenge.
• The referee started the Zone A upper-bracket match, and both teams sent out their Pokémon.
• The France Alliance fielded Late Gym-level Carbink, Aegislash, and Chesnaught, while Su Hao sent out Diancie.

The quarterfinal match between the Divine Land Alliance and the French Alliance began, with Su Hao fielding Diancie against Charlotte’s Carbink. As both teams raised screens and launched their opening moves, Su Hao spotted an opportunity to exploit Aegislash’s Blade Forme.

• The host introduced the quarterfinal match, highlighting the two Carbink Trainers and Su Hao’s Diancie.
• At Jiangcheng University, Li Xiao and the others watched the match as Li Xiao dodged a junior’s question about Diancie’s strength.
• Charlotte ordered Carbink to raise screens for its teammates, while Su Hao had Diancie set up Dual Screens on Steelix and Fire-type Tauros.
• Cheng Liming sent Steelix after Aegislash, and Su Hao told him to ignore Sacred Sword and attack Aegislash’s lower half while it was in Blade Forme.
• Steelix swung its tail at Aegislash with High Horsepower, prompting Anthony to suspect the teams were trading injuries.

Su Hao’s team used Diancie’s powerful Reflect and a precisely controlled Earthquake to put the French Alliance on the defensive. Charlotte tried to turn the battle around with Trick Room, but Diancie shattered it, leaving the fight poised to continue.

• Steelix broke through Carbink’s Reflect and slammed Aegislash into the ground, while its own Reflect stopped Aegislash’s Sacred Sword without a scratch.
• James ordered Chesnaught to use Spiky Shield against Xiao Zijian’s Fire-type Tauros, but Tauros shattered Reflect and began overpowering the shield.
• Xiao Zijian’s Fire-type Tauros retreated behind Steelix, which unleashed an Earthquake confined around the French Alliance’s three Pokémon.
• Anthony ordered Aegislash to use King’s Shield, protecting the French Alliance as the Earthquake subsided.
• Charlotte ordered Carbink to set up Trick Room, allowing Aegislash to rush toward Fire-type Tauros, but Su Hao had Diancie shatter the effect.

Su Hao’s team faced Charlotte, Xiao Zijian, and Cheng Liming as Carbink’s Ally Switch tactics set up Aegislash to attack Diancie. Diancie revealed overwhelming defensive power, then knocked Chesnaught out with Meteor Beam.

• Charlotte’s team abandoned its Trick Room plan and attacked Diancie, while Aegislash dropped its Iron Ball to move faster.
• Chesnaught threw Carbink toward Diancie and shielded Aegislash as it boosted its Attack with Swords Dance.
• Charlotte used Carbink’s Ally Switch to protect Chesnaught and let Aegislash break Diancie’s Reflect with Brick Break.
• Diancie raised a vastly stronger Reflect that stopped Aegislash’s attack, and Su Hao ordered Meteor Beam.
• Charlotte switched Chesnaught in to take the hit, but Diancie’s Meteor Beam overwhelmed Spiky Shield and knocked Chesnaught out.

After Diancie led the Divine Land Alliance to victory over the Pokémon League team, the six teammates celebrated with a London meal and discussed the unusual Starry Sky Pie. Su Hao left to train his Pokémon in the wilderness, while Liao Xingchen secretly sent Marshadow after him.

• Diancie defeated Chesnaught, and the Divine Land Alliance won its quarterfinal match against James's team.
• Liao Xingchen congratulated the players and left Francois to reflect on Diancie's strength.
• The Divine Land Alliance teammates ate at a famous London restaurant, then joked about Su Hao's description of Starry Sky Pie.
• Xiao Zijian and Cheng Liming went to find more food, while Bai Linglong and Jin Lin headed to a beauty salon.
• Su Hao took a taxi to train his Pokémon in the wilderness, and Liao Xingchen asked Marshadow to follow him.

Su Hao entered the Augusto Mountains with Carbink to reach the Ore Kingdom beneath them, while Zeraora joined him for its first wilderness expedition. They encountered over a hundred Zubat and Golbat blocking the only route deeper underground, and Su Hao sent Zeraora to fight them.

• Su Hao had Marshadow release Carbink and asked it to guide him into the Augusto Mountains.
• Carbink led Su Hao and Zeraora through a cave entrance to a passage into the Great Underground Cavern.
• Carbink explained that the Sacred Diamond's blessing let it find its way back to the Ore Kingdom, and it used Flash to light their path.
• Su Hao sensed many wild Pokémon ahead and had Carbink hide behind him.
• Su Hao identified a swarm of more than a hundred Zubat and Golbat and ordered Zeraora to take them on.

Su Hao and Zeraora defeated a swarm of Zubat and Golbat, then continued exploring the underground caves with Carbink. They avoided a sleeping, powerful Onix and reached a mineral-rich area beneath the Augusto Mountains.

• Zeraora ambushed and defeated the strongest Golbat, then took down more than a hundred Zubat and Golbat in the cave.
• Su Hao restored Zeraora's stamina with Tokiwa Power and continued onward with Zeraora and Carbink.
• As they explored the underground ecosystem, Su Hao pulled a Diglett from the soil to see what its hidden body looked like.
• Su Hao sensed a powerful Onix sleeping in a large cave and chose a narrower detour to avoid provoking it.
• Su Hao, Zeraora, and Carbink encountered several Corphish and entered an area rich in mineral deposits.

Su Hao and his Pokémon found a miner trapped by a Sableye and Garchomp fighting over gemstones. With no other route forward, Su Hao sent Metagross to intervene, and the chapter ended with Garchomp fleeing and Su Hao helping the miner stand.

• Su Hao watched a Sableye and Garchomp battle while a miner named Henry was trapped nearby with gemstones in his hands.
• Carbink told Su Hao that the passage beyond Henry was the only nearby route toward their destination, so Su Hao decided to act.
• Metagross struck Sableye into a rock wall, then faced Garchomp as Henry watched in shock.
• When Su Hao ordered Metagross to use Psychic, Garchomp dug a hole and escaped.
• Su Hao checked on Henry and helped him to his feet, and Henry thanked the stranger Trainer for saving him.

Su Hao entered Dominic Company’s underground mining area and chose abandoned Tunnel No. 7 to search for a Ground-type Pokémon while continuing toward the Ore Kingdom. Carbink warned him about a fast-flying Steel Bug as the story introduced company heir Ian Dominic and his family’s rise to power.

• Henry explained that the nearby mines belonged to Dominic Company and helped Su Hao speak with the person in charge.
• The person in charge recommended several abandoned tunnels and warned Su Hao that the company heir might try to take his Shiny Metagross.
• Su Hao recalled Metagross and entered abandoned Tunnel No. 7 with Cycloze and Carbink.
• Carbink warned Su Hao that a fast-flying Steel Bug lived ahead in the area.
• Ian Dominic was introduced as the heir to a powerful mining company built up by his father, Charles Dominic.

Ian pursued a Shiny Corphish into a hidden passage, where Charles Dominic ordered GT-002 to kill Ian’s bodyguard. Meanwhile, Su Hao and Cycloze reached the Great Underground Cave’s lowest level, unaware of the danger ahead.

• Ian abandoned the search for Corphish after learning that a foreigner with a Shiny Metagross had entered the cave, and decided to intercept him.
• Ian kicked the rock wall, revealing a concealed passage, and GT-002 attacked him and his bodyguard.
• Charles Dominic arrived, ordered GT-002 to eliminate the bodyguard, and had it carry away the bodyguard and unconscious Ian.
• Su Hao and Cycloze followed Carbink into the cave’s lowest level, defeating wild Pokémon along the way.
• Su Hao remained cautious about a fast-flying Steel Bug that Carbink had encountered and suspected it was guarding something connected to the possible R Institute branch.

Su Hao and his companions avoided a patrolling Genesect by entering Marshadow’s Shadow World and reached a bottomless passage leading to the Ore Kingdom. After learning the passage connected to a separate space, Su Hao jumped in while carrying Carbink, and vanished.

• Su Hao recognized the patrolling Genesect and decided to avoid alerting it rather than fight or sneak past it.
• Marshadow drew Su Hao, Carbink, and Cycloze into its Shadow World, allowing them to slip past Genesect unnoticed.
• Su Hao’s group found a seemingly bottomless passage that Carbink identified as the way into the Ore Kingdom.
• Marshadow explained that the Ore Kingdom occupied a separate space and that Carbink’s Sacred Diamond aura would make the passage a route there.
• Su Hao recalled Cycloze, let Marshadow enter his shadow, and jumped into the passage with Carbink in his arms.

Su Hao entered the Ore Kingdom with Xiao Qi and was escorted to Queen Diancie, where Marshadow revealed that it already knew her. Su Hao began to introduce his own Diancie to the queen.

• Su Hao and Xiao Qi arrived in the Ore Kingdom, and A-Yi’s Carbink Guard Squad came to meet them.
• Xiao Qi explained how it had left the kingdom and met Su Hao, and A-Yi welcomed Su Hao and agreed to take him to Queen Diancie.
• Su Hao met Queen Diancie in her castle and saw that she was a Class Two Legendary Pokémon.
• Marshadow emerged from Su Hao’s shadow and greeted Queen Diancie, who treated it as an ancient elder.
• Su Hao told Queen Diancie that he had a companion for her to meet and called out his Diancie.

Su Hao and Diancie visited the Ore Kingdom, where Queen Diancie and the Carbink Guard Squad were shocked to meet a second Diancie. After learning Diancie came from Xerneas’s essence, Su Hao and Diancie saw the Sacred Diamond, but Queen Diancie said Diancie could not inherit it.

• Su Hao released his Diancie, astonishing Queen Diancie and the Carbink Guard Squad with the sight of two genuine Diancie.
• Queen Diancie recognized Diancie as a fellow born from Xerneas’s essence after Su Hao explained her origins.
• Queen Diancie revealed the Sacred Diamond above the Ore Kingdom, which she had concealed until she understood Su Hao and Diancie’s intentions.
• Marshadow reacted with disbelief to Diancie’s origin, and Queen Diancie reassured him that there was no need to dwell on it.
• Queen Diancie told Su Hao and Diancie that Diancie could not receive the Sacred Diamond’s inheritance.

Su Hao offered the Queen Diancie a Diancie Mega Stone in exchange for Little Diancie’s chance to receive the Sacred Diamond’s inheritance. The Queen Diancie Mega Evolved, restoring the Sacred Diamond’s power and renewing the Ore Kingdom’s hope.

• The Queen Diancie explained that the Sacred Diamond lacked enough energy to grant Little Diancie a full inheritance until the Queen’s death.
• Marshadow urged Su Hao to show the Queen Diancie an item that could solve the energy shortage.
• After Diancie agreed, Su Hao revealed a Diancie Mega Stone and offered it in exchange for Little Diancie’s inheritance, without seeking the Queens’ Authority.
• The Queen Diancie accepted the stone, which merged into her body and awakened her inherited knowledge of Mega Evolution.
• The Queen Diancie Mega Evolved as the Sacred Diamond shone brightly, and she granted Su Hao and Little Diancie the Ore Kingdom’s eternal friendship.

Mega Queen Diancie awakened the Sacred Diamond’s power, strengthening the Carbink throughout the Ore Kingdom and naming Diancie her younger sister and Diamond Princess. Diancie began the inheritance ceremony, preparing to enter the Sacred Diamond and receive the queens’ accumulated knowledge to help forge her own path.

• Mega Queen Diancie’s resonance with the Sacred Diamond sent energy tides across the Ore Kingdom, raising the Carbink’s strength and helping A-Yi break through to the middle stage of Elite Four Level.
• Mega Queen Diancie summoned Diancie to receive her inheritance, and Su Hao encouraged Diancie to go to her.
• Diancie resolved to forge her own path even without the queens’ inherited Authority, and Mega Queen Diancie decided she no longer needed to worry about her future.
• Mega Queen Diancie announced that the foretold Great Calamity was approaching and introduced Diancie as her younger sister and the Ore Kingdom’s Diamond Princess.
• Mega Queen Diancie began Diancie’s inheritance ceremony, channeling the Carbink’s faith and the kingdom’s gathered power into the Sacred Diamond.
• Mega Queen Diancie told Diancie she could absorb the queens’ accumulated knowledge and Authority insights from the Sacred Diamond, and Diancie called her Sister before entering.

After Diancie entered the Sacred Diamond to undergo the inheritance, the Queen Diancie told Su Hao that it could take days or weeks and revealed that the Ore Kingdom was preparing to face the Infinite Comet, or Disaster Dragon, when it revived. Su Hao and Marshadow left the kingdom, troubled by the prophecy and the apparent absence of the heroes who had once stopped the threat.

• Diancie vanished into the Sacred Diamond to receive the Queens’ inherited knowledge and power, while the Queen Diancie explained that the inheritance’s length depended on talent and progress.
• The Queen Diancie reassured Su Hao that the inheritance was harmless and said Diancie might stay inside even longer than her own eleven days.
• Su Hao asked about the Great Calamity, and the Queen Diancie revealed that the Ore Kingdom had come to confront the Infinite Comet, which she also called the Disaster Dragon, when it revived.
• The Queen Diancie gave Su Hao a Pink Diamond that would guide him back to the Ore Kingdom after Diancie completed the inheritance, then invited him and Marshadow to stay.
• Su Hao and Marshadow declined the invitation and left the Ore Kingdom after touring it with Xiao Qi.
• In a cave, Su Hao and Marshadow worried that Nihilego might undergo Gigantamax and that Zacian and Zacian were no longer present to stop it.

Su Hao returned from the Augusto Mountains in time for the quarterfinals and announced that he would use Lucario against the German Alliance to help it reach Gym Level. The chapter ended with Su Hao confronting German Elite Four Xavier Baden, who had been staring at him during breakfast.

• Su Hao left the underground area with Marshadow's help and learned that the Divine Land Alliance would face the German Alliance that morning.
• Liao Xingchen planned for Xiao Zijian, Jin Lin, and Bai Linglong to compete if Su Hao did not return, but Su Hao landed in front of them after Marshadow dropped him.
• Su Hao rejoined his teammates, learned who would battle alongside him, and chose Lucario for the quarterfinals, explaining that his Aura could help it overcome its level disadvantage.
• Su Hao noticed Xavier Baden glaring at him in the breakfast hall and challenged the German Elite Four directly.