What came next would take patient, painstaking work. Progress could only accumulate over time.
With the Preliminaries over, Qin Ming and the others had returned to Nancheng to resume classes, while Ye Ling accompanied him and Qiu Yuxuan to Magic City.
They could no longer use a Teleportation Array to travel abroad, partly because the distance was too great and partly because it was unsafe.
Who could sleep soundly with another country's Teleportation Array sitting within their borders? The other side might sneak through it and kill them without anyone noticing.
The Hawaiian Islands belonged to the Federation Empire and lay in the central Pacific Ocean. They were the largest secondary island group in the Polynesian Islands, stretching in an arc across the Tropic of Cancer, and were a world-famous tourist destination.
Few ships sailed to the Hawaiian Islands, and the fares were expensive. Most importantly, the journey took a very long time.
Crossing the ocean by sea would take roughly half a year, so Xiao Ran and the others had chosen to fly.
By comparison, aircraft were much safer than ships when crossing the ocean, because there were not many birds capable of flying over the open sea.
Even Pokémon like Wingull only lived in coastal regions.
Of course, that did not mean the ocean was free of danger. The ubiquitous Gyarados were enough to pose a threat to the entire world.
"I don't know how long I'll be away this time. This is the branch Xerneas gave me. I'll leave it with you!"
"But remember, you mustn't put yourself in danger. If anything unusual happens to the branch, notify the Alliance or get Xuan Yuan Tianyu and the others to go with you!"
Xiao Ran had already handed Xerneas's Branch to Ye Ling, but he still could not