High overhead, black clouds piled layer upon layer, like a deep, fathomless sea.
Within them, pale dragons and serpents writhed and danced wildly, their deafening thunder proclaiming pure power.
Boom!!
A flash of ghastly lightning illuminated a black warship like a monstrous beast from the abyss. Sinister and serpentine, it stretched a hundred meters across, its searchlights sweeping in every direction like countless eyes, radiating menace.
If a warship like this were loaded with black-market weapons, what it represented was—
Humanity's naked, dark military might!!
This warship alone could practically be called a crime in itself.
And the one who dared pilot it through the thunderclouds was none other than Hunter J!!
The ship's prow tore through the rolling black clouds. The lightning did nothing to harm it, only lending it an even more terrifying presence.
Strangely, the enormous warship had entered the Unova Region without alerting anyone.
Every region monitored its airspace through a combination of technology and Pokémon, a system that was virtually foolproof.
This was also why almost no Underground Faction dared commit crimes across regional borders.
On the technological side, the League had its own means of detecting any abnormal fluctuations.
Likewise, on the psychic side, the League kept countless Castform. They might not be capable battlers.
But they had profound mastery of a single move—Future Sight!!
Their ancestors, and indeed every generation before and after them, were exceptionally gifted specialists in Future Sight.
This was the League's method of selectively breeding Pokémon for organized military deployment.
Breeders who possessed such specialized breeding techniques ranked almost second only to each region's Elites.
The Elites represented their regions' glory and fighting strength, while these Breeders represented the League's overall military capability, making them indispensable pillars of the organization.
With such measures in place, virtually nothing unusual should