Perhaps because they were too close to the ruins, they encountered no more powerful groups of Pokémon along the way. After all, even Pokémon were afraid of ghosts.
Only when they reached the Lake did everyone finally stop.
Before them lay a depression in the ground. The only way to enter the Lake was to jump straight down from its edge.
Normally, no Pokémon would come here to drink, either. The banks were simply too high.
Looking into the Lake, they saw large numbers of Pokémon churning through the water. Basculin were by far the most numerous, practically monopolizing the entire body of water.
And the Dynamax Pokémon leading them was an enormous Gigantamax Basculin.
Its massive body was a tight fit in the shallow basin. Every so often, its tail slapped against the banks, trying to expand the small pool.
"If we set up a pot here, could we have fish soup?" Lin Mingzhe suddenly asked.
"Hmm, we have a pot, but do you have enough firepower?" Jiang Zhuyue nodded solemnly, giving Lin Mingzhe a doubtful look.
"Are you looking down on me? Who can't boil water?" Feeling that his abilities had been called into question, Lin Mingzhe immediately stood up and summoned all his Fire-type Pokémon.
"Everyone, go! Today, we're cooking this whole pot of fish into soup!" Lin Mingzhe declared grandly.
His Fire-type Pokémon immediately cried out, unleashing Flamethrower, Fire Spin, Inferno Overdrive... Torkoal even brought out Sunny Day again.
But faced with this overwhelming barrage of Fire-type moves, the Dynamax Basculin in the pond merely glanced over with its dead-fish eyes. Then a thick column of water rose, extinguishing Lin Mingzhe's flames in one fell swoop and replacing Torkoal's Sunny Day with rain for good measure.
"Tsk, Max Geyser! It can even force a downpour!" Xuan