Above Arus Forest,
an invisible Flying Battleship cruised steadily through the sky.
Seeing Lairt and Liling captured, even Argus Steel and Molly hesitated to make a move.
Molly suggested again, "Maybe we should just stay out of this?"
Lairt and Liling were both notorious thieves, yet they had been utterly helpless against Li Wei and Steven.
Not to mention Darkrai and Giratina, who had just appeared beside Li Wei...
Neither was a being they could afford to provoke.
Argus said nothing, silently eating mint chocolate from the Hoenn Region.
Li Wei and Steven had no idea that Argus and Molly had fallen deep into thought.
Meanwhile, led by Diancie and the three Carbink guards,
Li Wei and the others reached a cave entrance barely wide enough for one person to pass through.
Serena could not help asking, "What is this place?"
Diancie explained, "Our Diamond Domain extends throughout the underground. This is one part of it."
For Steven, this was practically like coming home.
Of course, the underground Diancie referred to was beneath the Kalos Region.
Still, it was not quite as extensive as Diancie made it sound.
The underground ore veins beneath Laverre City, in the northernmost part of the Kalos Region, were not within the Diamond Domain.
A Carbink added, "The different Diamond Domains are all connected by this Diamond Road."
"How fascinating," Steven said thoughtfully.
Steven believed that the Carbink must have tunneled out this Diamond Road.
They were now taking a shortcut along the Diamond Road to reach Arus Forest.
Otherwise, traveling on foot would require them to climb the mountain or circle the entire mountain range to get there.
What Diancie had not expected was that a shadow had already fallen over the Diamond Domain.
The energy fluctuations that had once filled the air were