Mt. Silver.
A small meeting room in the Pokémon League headquarters building.
An internal meeting of the royal and noble descendants who had now become the upper echelon of the Pokémon League, led by White Elder.
The Pokémon League was filled with factions, and the major factions were far from as harmonious as outsiders imagined.
The Battle Faction, Academy Faction, Radical Faction, Conservative Faction, and others all had their own connections to varying degrees.
The royal descendants, meanwhile, had not formed any obvious faction.
Instead, they had infiltrated the major factions and worked to become their backbone, gradually nibbling away at the Pokémon League's power.
Yet it was precisely because of these complicated and conflict-ridden internal relationships that the Pokémon League had never been particularly united.
Even when many problems were discovered, without someone taking the lead, no one was willing to be the first to stick their neck out.
Especially when the other party was the Pokémon League's vice president, someone in a high position who held great authority.
But this time.
Xia Yan became that person.
And.
He fired the first shot without hesitation.
Once Xia Yan, the first bird to fire, failed to receive the appropriate punishment, the other higher-ups who had long been dissatisfied with those royal descendants would surely swarm in and tear a piece of flesh from them.
Bang!!
"How could that guy? How dare he?!"
They had all seen the news of Xia Yan publicly provoking the Pokémon League and declaring that he would break away from it.
Those who did not know better thought Xia Yan was challenging the entire Pokémon League.
But anyone with eyes could see that the people he was really challenging were White Elder and his group.
Therefore.
Many people remained silent for the time being and chose