After leaving Akala Island,
Li Wei spent another two days challenging all the Dominants he wanted to face on the remaining two islands.
After that, they had only one destination left.
The artificial island-Aether Paradise.
More precisely, the Aether Foundation.
Aether Paradise lay at the center of the four islands, which surrounded it in a semicircle.
Aether Paradise was an enormous floating structure on the sea, owned by the Aether Foundation.
As the Aether Foundation's base, it housed many injured Pokémon.
Besides protecting Pokémon, it also conducted related Pokémon research.
Type: Null, which Li Wei knew about, was an artificial Pokémon created at Aether Paradise.
Professor Burnet, whom Professor Kukui liked, worked at Aether Paradise.
With an introduction from Professor Kukui, Li Wei and Cynthia arrived at the gleaming white, magnificent artificial island-Aether Paradise.
"Welcome!"
Professor Kukui explained as they walked,
"This place isn't just a sanctuary for Pokémon. It also conducts some very bold research."
The bold research Professor Kukui mentioned
was research into Ultra Space.
That was precisely why Li Wei had come.
However, Li Wei did not know whether the Aether Foundation had mastered a way to open an Ultra Wormhole.
Li Wei knew of only one method,
which was to use the power of Legendary Pokémon from Ultra Space, such as Cosmog and Cosmoem.
There was another, more obscure method: using the Sun Flute at the Altar of the Sunne to summon Solgaleo.
Solgaleo could also take them there.
But that essentially amounted to the first method.
In the president's office,
they met Lusamine.
The beautiful president, with her long blond hair, carried herself with elegance and looked sharp and capable.
Lusamine was Lillie's mother, but her obsession with work had led her to neglect Lillie somewhat.
There was a reason Lusamine was so obsessed