Ultimately, Cynthia and Roy were chosen to go to the Space-Time Rift.
Compared to Roy, who had traversed Space-Time Rifts before, Cynthia was noticeably more nervous.
Feeling the sweat on Cynthia's palms, Roy gently brushed his fingers across the back of her Cynthia to reassure Cynthia.
The warmth emanating from Roy's fingertips eased Cynthia's anxiety considerably; although she was still tense, she felt much better than before.
"Let's go."
"Um."
With everyone present as witnesses, Roy held Cynthia's hand, and the two entered the Space-Time Rift together.
After the two disappeared into the Space-Time Rift, the Space-Time Rift closed automatically as expected, and the Golurk slumped onto the Altar, as if his actions had exhausted all his energy.
The Unown that had been spinning in the air stopped spinning and fell to the ground of the Altar and Stone Chamber, whereupon they remained motionless.
If these Unown weren't still able to blink, Professor Shuli would have thought they had lost their vitality.
Professor Carolina could only pray in his heart that Cynthia and Roy would return safely.
After an unknown amount of time, Cynthia, who had entered the Space-Time Rift, tightly embraced Roy with both hands.
Aside from a feeling of dizziness when she first entered the Space-Time Rift, she didn't experience anything else. However, given Roy's instructions when she entered the Space-Time Rift, she still didn't open her eyes.
"Okay, you can open your eyes now."
Upon hearing Roy's words, Cynthia opened her eyes and saw that the surroundings were pitch black except for a glimmer of light in front of her, which was the exit connecting to the other side of the Space-Time Rift.
Once they step out of the glimmer of light, they will reach the other end of the Space-Time Rift, though they don't know if that other end is the Sinjoh Ruins they are looking for.
Suddenly, the Space-Time Rift began to shake, and the two of them began to shake as well.
Roy knew this was a sign that the Space-Time Rift was unstable and about to collapse; they had to leave immediately.
Are you ready?
"Um."
Roy pulled Cynthia through the light ahead, but the instant they passed through it, Roy realized that it was still pitch black.
Roy and Cynthia were directly transported to another dark place by the Space-Time Rift.
A chilling coldness lingered in the darkness.
As the two leaped out of the exit of the Space-Time Rift, they missed a step and plummeted downwards, losing all weight.
Damn it! How could those people design the entrance to the Space-Time Rift in mid-air!?
"Dragapult!"
Before he could even complain, Roy quickly hugged Cynthia tightly and summoned Dragapult from his Poké Ball as they fell.
"Doryu!"
Dragapult emerged from its Poké Ball and caught Roy just as Roy was about to land, placing both of them steadily on the ground.
"Okay, it's alright now."
Cynthia then opened her eyes, but could see nothing in the endless darkness.
Although she couldn't see Roy's face, she felt inexplicably at ease whenever she heard Roy voice.
"Chandelure, it's up to you now."
The Chandelure emerged from Roy's body, and the Ghostly Purple candlelight on the lamp holder turned bright yellow, instantly illuminating the surrounding environment.
It also warmed the surrounding temperature.
Cynthia finally saw Roy's bright eyes and face, and she also found herself in Roy's arms.
The atmosphere suddenly became ambiguous.
Suddenly, a biting wind blew against Roy's cheek, carrying away the ambiguous atmosphere along with it.
Roy put Cynthia down from his arms.
With the light, Roy observed his surroundings. All around him were massive snow walls, with only a faint, almost invisible light above.
Feeling the cold, snowy wind blowing, Roy felt a surge of hope. As long as there was wind, it meant there must be a passage in this unknown, eerie place.
Unsure of the surrounding situation, Roy did not act rashly. Instead, he released all his Pokémon and commanded Pokémon to scout out the area.
In particular, they investigated whether it was possible to get out from above the snow wall.
Following Roy's example, Cynthia released all her Pokémon Misdreavus Togetic Dragapult, flew upwards in search of a possible exit.
Roy took out the locator that Professor Iwaizumi had given him and pressed the button on it, but there was no response at all, and the Communicator had no signal at all.
It seems we can't contact them.
After waiting for about ten minutes, Misdreavus and Togekiss had finished checking the area around the Ruins. There were no other living creatures around except for them.
This is both good news and bad news.
Fortunately, there was nothing that posed a threat to them.
The problem is that they have no idea where they are.
"Doryu!"
Dragapult swooped down from the sky and came to Roy's side, indicating that there were only a few small holes on the snow wall above, and they were not connected.
The holes were not large, almost the same size as the hole in his head, and the cold wind and snow blew in through those holes.
The two Dreepy from his two holes flew out of the small holes to investigate. Through Dreepy perspective, they found that everything outside was a vast expanse of white snow, with nothing else at all.
Based on Dragapult's description, Roy was fairly certain that they had arrived in the northern Snowfields of the Johto.
Because of the surrounding snow walls, this area experiences cold winds but is not completely covered by snow.
This must be the Sinjoh Ruins.
"Doryu!"
Dragapult also stated that he had just used Flamethrower around the hole, but the snow wall showed no signs of Acid Armor.
Can't the snow wall Acid Armor?
Upon hearing this news, Roy frowned and pulled Cynthia to the nearest snow wall.
"Dream!"
Unconvinced, the Misdreavus flew to the snow wall and used Flamethrower.
But just like Dragapult's fate, the snow wall remained unscathed.
Even when Misdreavus transforms into Flutter Mane Form, significantly increasing its Special Attack, Flamethrower still has no effect.
"Togetic, use the Fire Blast!"
"Pok!"
Pokjigu condensed a flame in the shape of a large character from his mouth and fired it towards the snow wall, but it had no effect.
Annihilape and Lucario charged at the snow wall together, raising their fists to slam into it, but the snow wall remained completely still.
Something's wrong with this snow wall!
Roy didn't let his Pokémon use any moves against the Snow Wall, but instead Pokémon to conserve its stamina.
They were trapped inside these four snow walls.
Fortunately, Roy wasn't worried, because he had Giratina as a backup.
However, that was only a last resort.