The disaster that had struck Hammerlocke shook the world the moment Eternatus was finally defeated.
No one had expected an unidentified Legendary Pokémon to attack nearby Hammerlocke while the Masters Tournament finals were being held in Wyndon. If the attack hadn't been stopped in time, the consequences would have been...
Hours after the incident, preliminary figures from the Galar League put property damage at over 3.5 billion and the number of injured at more than 3,000!
A significant number of those injuries were severe, and Pokémon casualties were still being counted. If the mysterious game salesman Big Turnip hadn't been handing out games while rescuing people, there might already have been deaths.
Hammerlocke Stadium had been the main battlefield, but the International Police had sealed it off for an investigation days earlier, so few people had been nearby. Most of the damage had been caused by rampaging Dynamaxed Pokémon.
Rose, chairman of the Galar League, had vanished at this critical moment. Champion Leon had to step forward to explain what had happened and visit the injured.
It was a crushing disappointment for the countless spectators awaiting the Masters Tournament finals. Just one battle had remained before a winner could be decided.
But there was no way the finals could continue under the circumstances. Officials said they were postponed, but who knew for how long?
Mingyou, one of the central figures in the incident, cleanly distanced himself from it. He had no desire to be mobbed by reporters. He would have wracked his brains trying to explain the Terastallization in Hammerlocke alone.
For now, he was still in Hammerlocke.
Everyone in the Laboratory had been rescued. When the Blinding One's enormous hand withdrew, it had destroyed the equipment used to open the Ultra Wormhole. Fortunately, they had escaped before getting caught