Baimu passed through the arched entrance of the Sky Pillar.
Just as Zinnia had said, a ripple suddenly appeared in the air. The invisible seal had not stopped him.
After the scroll containing the Ancestral Blessing, this was one more thing that proved he had Draconid blood.
Fate had a strange sense of humor.
Who would have thought that the wooden tag he had once used to make a show of absorbing new Pokémon would evolve into something that affected his entire life?
Baimu could feel Zinnia's gentle gaze on his back. Then another thought struck him: if the seal had blocked him outside, that would have been quite a scene.
"Sa-song!"
At Hydreigon's cry, darkness suddenly swallowed his vision. Only thin, mottled rays slipped through gaps in the walls, faintly lighting the way ahead.
He had seen something similar in Mirage Tower, but visibility in the Sky Pillar was clearly worse—
Because it was relatively less run-down.
Just as Baimu was about to wonder why Ash and his companions could always see perfectly well inside ancient ruins, the walls began to give off a faint glow, as though luminous stones had been mixed into them.
Once his eyes adjusted, he could make out most things within twenty meters of himself.
Baimu looked at the flashlight in his hand. "..."
He'd jumped the gun.
Clearly, the ancient Draconids' ingenuity was not for him to question.
After a moment's thought, he decided against switching on the flashlight. He had no idea what waited inside the Sky Pillar. If he could see well enough already, why create a bright beacon for anything lurking here?
For all he knew, this place had special guards like Mirage Tower.
His curiosity grew as he surveyed his surroundings. The Sky Pillar was not the neatly divided