"Wait, Regirock can't fly! How is it up in the sky?"
Sand and stones across the entire desert were swept toward the black core. Ye Lan held an elbow in front of his face to shield himself from the windblown sand as he voiced that burning question.
Of the six legendary golem Pokémon, Ye Lan vaguely remembered that only the "Toilet King" (kidding), Regigigas, and Regirock couldn't fly. The others all seemed able to.
Yet the black shadows enveloping the gradually forming "Regirock" before him looked far too much like those surrounding the mysterious Pokémon Professor Oak had described.
Ye Lan was experiencing that sensation firsthand now: a single glance made his negative emotions instinctively surge. He wasn't deliberately cracking a lame joke at such a critical moment. He was afraid that if he didn't say something, he would lose control of his "evil plan" to lead the Bunashicao in taking over the academy.
Yes, under the influence of the aura spreading around those black shadows, that was already the darkest thought Ye Lan currently had.
"It doesn't seem as bad as Professor Oak said. What exactly happened above Black Cloud?" Remembering how Professor Oak had hesitated to speak, Ye Lan knew there were still many secrets he didn't know.
For the moment, he could find no way out of this space. What Ye Lan failed to notice was that, in a corner of the desert, the usually carefree Marshadow's expression had changed the instant it sensed the aura emanating from the black core. Instinctive fear had even driven it to hide in a cactus's shadow.
"Mar... Marshadow!"
Images began playing through Marshadow's mind like a slideshow. It knew perfectly well that these weren't its own experiences, but watching them from a first-person perspective, it still couldn't help feeling the