They were only a bunch of art students, after all. In this Pokémon World, any profession unrelated to Pokémon was, frankly, nothing special. No one paid it much attention.
But if one or two powerful Pokémon Trainers emerged from those art students, it would be a guaranteed return on investment for Nancheng Pokémon University.
A semester passed in the blink of an eye, and the Ultra Wormhole crisis finally erupted.
Many parts of the Alola Great Secret Realm had already been covered by Ultra Wormholes, and the Ultra Beasts within them were beyond counting.
Vast numbers of wild Pokémon had their living space squeezed out and kept fleeing the secret realm through entrances and exits that appeared by chance. The Hawaiian Islands remained engulfed in chaos.
By comparison, Japan, France, and the Great Britain Empire, which were also merging with secret realms, were faring much better.
After all, those secret realms had no crisis like the Ultra Beasts. Their Pokémon had no urgent need to flee into the outside world, nor were they likely to clash with Pokémon native to Earth.
The only surprise was that Japan had too little territory and too many great secret realms. The entrances and exits of many of them had already shifted to South Korea, Russia, and even northeastern China.
Even the relatively famous Sinnoh Region now had more than half its land bordering China. Judging by the merger's current progress, this secret realm would very likely become Chinese territory in the end, expanding China's northeastern region.
This development immediately sent Japan into a chorus of complaints. They were already short on land, and now not only did many of their citizens who could have lived in the secret realms have to evacuate, but those realms were becoming someone else's territory. How could they