My Legendary Pokémon Friends

The so-called World Will was invisible and intangible, yet it truly existed.

In a normal world like Earth, it manifested as natural selection and energy cycles.

But a world controlled by Dark Matter would inevitably slide into the abyss of destruction.

And if a variable emerged that defied this trend, the World Will would correct it.

That was why, after Metropolis's first glimmer of hope appeared, the Ultra Beast Tide had only grown fiercer and more violent.

Of course, Xia Chen had not figured out this theory on his own. Volcarona had told him.

Xia Chen understood it perfectly—Dark Matter was like the sophons monitoring Earth in The Three-Body Problem, restricting humanity's progress and ruthlessly crushing any technology that might undermine the Trisolarans' plan to invade Earth.

The Radiant Stone, meanwhile, was like the nanofilament blades developed by Wang Miao. Dark Matter had sensed the threat, so it influenced the Ultra Beasts to attack Metropolis physically.

But Dark Matter possessed no intelligence and acted only on instinct. Otherwise, if it had simply sent Ultra Necrozma to kill them from the start, the people of Metropolis would have been done for long ago.

"So the key is not to research the Radiant Stone in Metropolis—or rather, in the Ultra World—where Dark Matter can sense it as a threat?"

After hearing Xia Chen's retelling, Cynthia immediately grasped the heart of the issue.

"Exactly. As long as Dark Matter doesn't perceive a threat, we can buy ourselves time to grow."

After thinking it over, Xia Chen suggested, "In that case, how about moving the research to our world?"

"Even if Dark Matter had long arms, it can't reach Earth right now. We'll pull a switcheroo."

If their enemy had been an ordinary human or Pokémon, this plan would have been rather insulting to