After experiencing short-distance time-space travel once, Xia Yan's trip back from Mirage Island to Sootopolis City was much easier than before.
He no longer had to send one hand ahead to scout the way.
When he opened his eyes again, the smell of gunpowder flooding his nostrils and the unceasing booms told him that he was back.
"Xia Yan!"
Steven and Wallace both stared at him intensely.
"Did you get it?"
Xia Yan nodded, helplessness appearing on his face. "But there's a small problem."
"A small problem?"
Xia Yan raised his right hand.
On the back of his hand, three patterns intertwined: green "Delta," blue "Alpha," and red "Omega."
Halos of light flickered one after another, as though none of them wanted to yield.
Steven/Wallace: "..."
Both the Vermilion Orb and the Indigo Orb had acknowledged Xia Yan?
Of course.
An Orb's acknowledgment and the ability to use an Orb's power were not the same thing.
But this situation was enough to show that Xia Yan was far more suited than Ruby and Sapphire to bear the hopes entrusted to him in this Hoenn disaster.
At the same time.
It also showed.
That Xia Yan truly had a special attraction to Legendary Pokémon.
Steven's mouth twitched as he watched Xia Yan fiddle with the back of his hand as though trying to straighten out the lines. Unable to resist, he asked:
"Xia Yan, can you solve it?"
The Hoenn Region could not withstand another upheaval caused by three super-ancient Legendary Pokémon.
Although Groudon and Kyogre clearly could not stand against Rayquaza.
Rayquaza also could not completely defeat Groudon, whose feet stood upon the earth, and Kyogre, who bathed in the ocean.
How long had it even been?
More than half of Sootopolis City had already been destroyed.
If this continued.