Ignoring the commotion behind him, Yong resolutely followed the path onward.
The steps descended along the blue-green ground. Glowstone embedded in the surrounding mountain walls gave off a hazy light.
Exactly like the dream...
At that thought, Yong couldn't help quickening his pace.
Soon, the path widened, and the view opened up.
A vast cavern like a palace, with ruins strewn across the ground!
Broken stone slabs lay mixed with ruined steps. Twelve enormous pillars, six on each side, stood in two neat rows. But every one of them had snapped.
Evenly spaced small holes covered the stone walls, with brighter light shining from the glowstone set inside.
It was more real, more vivid than the dream.
At the very center of the cavern, wisps of black mist seeped from a heap of ruins buried beneath rocks.
Yong sighed in understanding.
"So it really is..."
He slowly walked forward and recalled Larvesta into its Pokémon Ball, leaving only Swampert to guard him.
Just as he had in the dream, Yong crouched and gently brushed the rubble on the ground, looking at the indecipherable words and symbols on it.
"I don't know what you are, but I followed your call here, so... show yourself!"
Bang!!!
The moment he finished speaking, black mist swept up all the rubble before him and scattered it around!
A black crystal stood on the blue-green ground, its deep color brimming with an ominous presence...
Huge clouds of black mist poured endlessly from the crystal, forming an eerie shadow exactly like the one Yong had seen in his dream.
But now, Yong could see an even darker figure shrouded within that black armor. It was faintly visible, yet impossible to identify.
"Were you the one who called me here?"
Yong looked at the black mist and spoke