"Interesting. Was this something unique to Sableye, or an unusual use of Ghost-type energy...?"
Dian watched the scene before him.
The mist that formed naturally on Mt. Pyre drifted gently. Mega-Evolved Sableye rose and fell within it as shadow after shadow, eerie and impossible to pin down.
Through Mental Power and the intuition he had honed over countless battles, he could sense that every figure before him might be false, but the Night Shade each contained was real.
A single Night Shade might have had no more power than the ace of an Ace Trainer. Nothing worth worrying about.
But black specks crowded his vision. Even a rough glance was enough to make his scalp prickle.
If those countless Night Shades struck any one Pokémon at the same time... the force would be devastating!
He lowered his head with a smile. As expected of the Elite Four. Even if this was not one of Pheobe's main Pokémon, it had more than enough strength to deal with some Veteran Trainers. Even a Hall could suffer an upset if caught off guard.
But how had she done it?
The laws of conservation of energy and matter might already be struggling to stay in their coffins, but the coffins were still there. One could not simply become infinity.
Either matter had been converted into energy, or energy had been drawn in from outside.
Dian narrowed his eyes. Sableye's body in the mist seemed to have grown a little smaller. So had the Gem Shield it gripped—the one it could never afford to lose.
He licked his lips. There was clearly more to Mega-Evolved Sableye than met the eye.
Perhaps its body and the Gem Shield shared an extraordinary connection, and it had gained the ability to freely convert matter and energy?
No. There