Charizard crashed heavily onto the battlefield and was completely unable to continue fighting. The strongest Champion, Leon, had ultimately failed to hold on. He could only watch Hammerlocke be destroyed by the Dynamaxed Pokémon, his face filled with unwillingness.
Even Rose, standing atop Eternatus, seemed not to have anticipated this. The power of the Eternatus he controlled appeared to be steadily slipping out of control. How could this be?
He had no idea. This was beyond his expectations.
But destruction would bring new life. Eternatus's power was exactly what he wanted. As long as it continued expanding, the Dynamax Energy it provided would be enough for the Galar Region to develop for ten thousand years.
At this point, he had no choice but to use every means necessary.
That was how he had risen, step by step, from a lowly miner to the supreme authority controlling ninety percent of the Galar Region's economic lifelines. Even his own family had gradually abandoned him...
Under Rose's reckless indulgence, a beam of purple light shot into the sky from Eternatus's core. At that moment, almost everyone throughout the Galar Region could clearly see that eerie beam.
"Could it be..."
Calyrex's eyes widened as it recalled some unpleasant events from the past. The disaster of the Galar Kingdom had begun the instant this beam appeared.
Even though it had desperately tried to stop it, it had been powerless.
It could only watch helplessly as humans were displaced, Pokémon lost control while Dynamaxed, the Ecological Energy of Galar's land continuously drained away, and even the Crown Tree, standing at the highest point in Galar, completely withered and died, forever buried beneath the snow.
Everything from the past surfaced in its mind.
As the dark-purple beam shot into the sky and toward the void above, Eternatus's