After promising to help Lillie's family find Professor Mohn, Mingyou and Akari rode Latias toward Hammerlocke. They left the situation in Wyndon to Cynthia and the others.
On Latias's back,
Akari held Mingyou tightly and asked, "Shouldn't we heal our Pokémon first? Diancie and the others can't keep fighting."
"It wouldn't help."
Mingyou shook his head. He had seen Uva's message: Koraidon had suffered a crushing defeat against Eternatus and been led around by the nose.
This was how Calyrex's Galar Kingdom had been destroyed thousands of years ago. Even Calyrex could not withstand Dynamax Energy. The Sword King Zacian and Shield King Zamazenta had defeated Eternatus because they bore the Fairy King's Sword and Fighting King's Shield and were unaffected by Dynamax Energy.
To defeat Eternatus, they first needed a way to resist Dynamax. Speaking of which, where was Calyrex? Had he vanished for days again?
Meanwhile, Calyrex...
"Uh... I'll keep playing dead..."
An explosion caused by the Dynamaxed Koraidon had sent Calyrex flying. He had finally escaped the shroud of Dynamax Energy, but his situation was hardly any better.
Eternatus had revived, while the Fairy King's Sword and Fighting King's Shield had lost their luster. Without soaking in the waters of Slumbering Weald for a century, they would likely never regain their power. No one could defeat Eternatus now. Once the power of the Darkest Day was fully unleashed, it might swallow the entire Earth.
Because...
Calyrex, who had fought Eternatus for a hundred years, knew perfectly well that it had no will of its own. It was nothing but an energy plunderer, going wherever it found energy to feed on.
It had come from space, and absorbing the Galar Region's ecological energy was only the beginning. Its true target was Earth's ecological energy. Eternatus grew by consuming