The Tsundere Princess and the Steel-Hearted Dragon

To Xia Chen, who had Koraidon and Deoxys at his side, getting in and out of a supposedly heavily guarded underground base was about as difficult as entering his own home.

Even if this was Team Flare's most heavily defended underground base.

Once he learned that the terrifying Ultimate Weapon was hidden here, Xia Chen stopped holding back and directly had Koraidon and Deoxys destroy every facility in the place.

The Team Flare members stationed there surrendered without offering much resistance at all, as smoothly as if they had rehearsed it countless times.

Xia Chen could not exactly kill them either. After all, Team Flare's ordinary members might not have known Lysandre's ultimate objective.

After destroying the Ultimate Weapon, he passed the information on to Diantha. The rest could be left entirely to Kalos's current Champion.

Although Diantha found it unbelievable that "Lysandre and his Team Flare are Kalos's largest criminal organization,"

given that Xia Chen, the "criminal nemesis," spoke with such certainty, and the complete chain of evidence from the underground base lay right before her, she had no choice but to believe it.

She immediately ordered the arrest of the famous Kalos figure who was a scientist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist.

Unfortunately, Lysandre had likely received word the moment Xia Chen destroyed the underground base.

By the time a large force from the Kalos League reached Lysandre Labs, the place was already empty. Even AZ, who had been imprisoned in the lowest level of the labs, had vanished without a trace.

Even more frighteningly, countless miniature "Ultimate Weapons" were hidden within the underground base beneath Lysandre Labs.

Xia Chen did not know whether they were models or genuinely functional weapons, but it meant one thing—Lysandre had been researching replicas of the Ultimate Weapon all along!

That made it uncertain