Lucario had just taken a step, intending to give chase, but ultimately forced herself to stop.
It was not that she did not want to, but that she could not.
That Pokémon called Mewtwo possessed unfathomable strength. It must have been the one that had silently subdued her earlier.
As Shedinja's trainer, she considered her Inner Focus training to have reached a considerable level, yet before that opponent, she had been as helpless as a child.
Charging after it now would only bring further humiliation and might even lead to worse consequences.
Only then did the Champion's support team arrive at the scene, panting heavily. At the sight before them—a collapsed airship wreck, a plateau restored to life, and a Legendary Pokémon floating in the air and radiating holy light—they were all dumbfounded.
Lucario swiftly steadied herself, forcibly suppressing her unwillingness to let Cheng Yu escape, and immediately ordered the team members to restrain and remove all the researchers.
The situation had already gone far beyond what ordinary people could interfere with. Staying would only create more chaos.
Xerneas did not leave immediately after the matter settled.
It continued to float quietly in midair, its peaceful aura of life like gentle rain nourishing this land that had just suffered such trauma.
With it present, the adult Pokémon felt reverence and did not dare make too much noise.
But the young ones, who had just gone through the cycle of life and death and been bathed in the radiance of life, seemed exceptionally bold. They actually dared circle curiously around the Houndoom they normally feared, brimming with unprecedented vitality.
This was the gift of the God of Life. All who received its grace would gain greater life force.
So could every Pokémon get the Vital Spirit Ability now or something? Not