Roy did not know whether he could not see Golurk's information because Golurk had become inactivated or because, like Legendary Pokémon, Golurk could not be scanned.
But just because he could not scan Golurk did not mean Marshadow could not.
Through Mind Communication, Roy asked Marshadow whether he sensed the aura of a Legendary Pokémon from Golurk.
Marshadow stealthily poked his head out of the shadows and carefully sensed the surrounding auras. Seemingly detecting something, he quickly ducked back into Roy's shadow.
Marshadow then said there was indeed a faint but powerful aura within the ruins, but it was not coming from Golurk.
A powerful aura that wasn't coming from Golurk?
Could there be some other Legendary Pokémon inside the ruins?!
"No, but I sensed a trace of the aura he left behind."
Roy breathed a sigh of relief at Marshadow's denial. That meant Golurk had simply lost its vitality and entered a state of "death," which was why the system could not scan its detailed information.
Fortunately, this was a Golurk. If any other Pokémon had died and been left for hundreds of years, it would have ended up like the remains beside the Altar-nothing but bleached bones that scattered when the wind blew.
Besides its unusual size, Roy also noticed that the seal on Golurk's chest had been opened, revealing a pitch-black hole.
Roy remembered that in the anime, the seal on the chest of Goh's Golurk, named Colossus, had once been opened. But after its seal was broken, that Golurk had merely gone berserk, rather than lying on the Altar as though dead like this one.
What exactly happened here?
Roy looked at Professor Shuli beside him, who was also studying Golurk.
"Professor Shuli, what's going on with this Golurk?"
"I don't know either. It was already