"Chirp~~" "Chirp~~" "Chirp~~"
The three great birds kept calling, pouring their thoughts into Xiao Ran's mind through Telepathy. It gave him a splitting headache, but he managed to grasp the gist.
Their first concern was doubt: could the girls really reach such heights?
After all, Ye Ling and the others were not very strong yet, and their Hidden Power had not been refined. It offered negligible benefits to these adult Legendary Pokémon.
More often than not, the girls still needed to draw on these Legendary Pokémon's power to refine their own energy and grow faster.
Thus, becoming Ye Ling's and the others' Pokémon now would be a losing proposition for the Legendary Birds. Not only would they gain nothing, but they would also have to fight for the girls and even help them refine their energy.
Cobalion and Terrakion had taken an interest in Jiang Cheng and Jiang Zhuyue precisely because of their future potential, believing that their power would eventually help them grow.
But the Three Dumb Birds were still the Three Dumb Birds. Their brains were too small to think that far ahead, and they could only focus on immediate benefits.
Aside from their doubts, the other issue was exactly what Xiao Ran had anticipated: their duty. They needed to protect this Giant Tree from harm.
Moreover, he learned from the Legendary Birds that the Giant Tree could not only grow every kind of Berry, but also refine energy.
The reason the Crown Tundra had far more Legendary Pokémon than anywhere else in the Galar Region was precisely the presence of the Ancient Ruins and the Giant Tree.
The structure in the former that sealed away Regigigas could itself supply the Crown Tundra with vast amounts of spiritual energy.
The latter possessed a fraction of the Tree of