"Actually, I don't know exactly when the calamity will come. It might still be a long way off, and it might even be delayed for a while," Manaphy said with a smile, seemingly finding the topic too heavy.
"The calamity... can be delayed?" Cheng Tian found it somewhat inconceivable. A catastrophe that could devastate civilization could actually be delayed?
"Yes," Manaphy said. "That brings us back to the cause and effect I mentioned before. Actually, the seventh calamity should have descended twenty years ago, but it was delayed for no apparent reason. Even we Mythical Pokémon don't know why."
"But I suspect someone may have forcibly grafted that cause and effect onto themselves, delaying the calamity."
"Transferred the cause and effect onto themselves?" Cheng Tian said. "I can't imagine that."
"It's an extremely painful thing. Anyone who grafts that cause and effect onto themselves needs tremendous courage and resolve," Manaphy said. "If it were me, I would never have the courage to do something like that in my entire life."
"So we still have a chance!" Manaphy said. "If all your Pokémon reach the same level of strength as Lugia someday, perhaps you could turn heaven and earth around single-handedly?"
"Has anyone in history managed it? Changed the calamity?" Cheng Tian asked curiously.
"Not as far as I know..."
Whatever this calamity was, and whenever it would arrive, Cheng Tian still had to set off on his return journey now.
Nalu would not wake up anytime soon, because her inheritance was not yet complete. Cheng Tian now had to consider how to recount his experiences over the past month in as much detail as possible while making them believable, yet keeping certain details hidden.
After all, for one person to have witnessed the legendary Temple of the Sea, met