As the Pokémon they encountered grew stronger, their Surf-and-Icy-Wind strategy no longer worked. They had to commit Pokémon to taking out the opposing Elite Class leaders first.
"We've reached the outskirts of the underground palace. It'll only get more dangerous farther in!" The three of them stopped in a room to rest, and Brother Chen spoke as he gazed down the dark passage.
Qin Shi Huang's Mausoleum was divided into the underground palace, the inner section, the outer section, and the area beyond it. The outer section, and even the inner section, were manageable. Now that they had reached the underground palace, even the weakest wild Pokémon they faced would probably be Elite Class.
"I wonder what's in here that attracted the Hall," Xiao Ran said, puzzled.
The Hall never acted without something to gain. Something unusual must have been unearthed in Qin Shi Huang's Mausoleum to draw them here, but what could it be that even the Xi'an Military and the archaeological team knew nothing about?
"I heard there was a powerful surge of energy deep in the mausoleum a while ago. Could that have something to do with it?" Brother Chen said after some thought.
"A powerful energy surge? That must be it, then. But haven't our archaeologists figured out what it was?" Xiao Ran asked.
"No, but they have a few theories," Brother Chen replied.
"One is that a powerful dark spiritual object came into being."
"The second is that a powerful Pokémon made a breakthrough."
"The third is that two Pokémon had a brief clash."
Hearing those three theories, Xiao Ran couldn't help rolling his eyes. Wasn't that the same as figuring out nothing? What other possibilities were there?
The important thing was analyzing the energy fluctuations. Could they determine what had happened from those fluctuations?