The next day.
Fang Yuan left Azure Cloud Mountain and departed Kanto.
He also bid farewell to Marshadow.
Next, it was time to retrieve the Plates.
His destination was the Orange Archipelago.
But to retrieve the Plates... it seemed he first had to find Lugia?
Hadn't that slacker Moltres said that if the Orange Archipelago's climate was currently out of balance, Ho-Oh and Lugia would need to jointly control the ocean currents and air currents, while the Three Legendary Birds worked to restore the balance?
"Lugia should be somewhere in the waters around the Orange Archipelago."
"It'll definitely be easier to find than Ho-Oh."
"Forget it. I'll go back and ask Moltres again."
Perched atop Dragonite, Fang Yuan muttered to himself.
Dragonite's gaze, meanwhile, was filled with determination.
The Orange Archipelago. Lugia, the Sea God!
To catch up to Milotic in strength, it was going to face Lugia today and challenge it...!
The nature of its power was very close to Lugia's. With the pressure Lugia brought, it would definitely achieve a breakthrough!
No one was going to stop it.
"No one's stopping you." Fang Yuan rolled his eyes.
It took Fang Yuan and the others roughly three days to find Ho-Oh, which was about what Fang Yuan had expected.
And to Moltres, three days were no more than the blink of an eye.
After Fang Yuan left, Moltres had only just relaxed and prepared to train for a while when, with a buzz, Fang Yuan and the others Teleported back to Moltres's home.
"Moltres!"
Boom!
At Fang Yuan's shout, Moltres flew out of the magma in a huff and glared furiously at Fang Yuan.
"Chirp!"
What was going on? They had only just left—why were they back already??
"I wanted to ask if you know where Lugia is."