The simultaneous appearance of more than thirty Legendary Pokémon shook Steven and the others like nothing ever had before.
Before this, none of them would have dared believe that these Legendary Pokémon, who were hostile to one another and could barely coexist, would actually join forces.
Steven even saw Groudon sitting... sitting on Kyogre?!
What the fuck.
Steven felt as though ten thousand alpacas were stampeding back and forth through his mind.
The sight before him shattered the worldview he had built over the past twenty years.
Groudon was riding Kyogre.
And judging by Kyogre's expression, it seemed to be voluntary.
People in the Hoenn Region couldn't have dreamed this up.
"...Miracle?" Cynthia stared in astonishment at Chen Shi, who stood at the very front of the Legendary Pokémon.
He raised an eyebrow slightly. "I like that name!"
"But now isn't the time to chat."
As he finished speaking, he looked away from Cynthia and slowly extended a hand. Incomparably powerful Psychic power spread outward, forcibly slicing through the space before him.
Then, after he did something none of them could discern, that section of space suddenly vanished, and a huge group of Pokémon appeared, their auras overwhelmingly powerful and their appearances drastically changed.
"H-how did you do that?" Chen Shi asked in astonishment from deep within his consciousness.
He explained, "It's actually very simple. Once you take one path to its utmost limit, you can apply that understanding to other paths."
"Hmm... to put it in a more melodramatic way, all paths lead to the same destination."
"I just used Psychic power to cut out a section of the space in front of me, then swapped it with the space those Pokémon occupied."
"And that's how you got the scene you just saw."
Chen Shi's mouth twitched violently. *All