After helping himself to some of the herba mystica grown by the Titan couple, Qingyu had achieved his goal. He sensibly left their territory with Steven soon afterward.
Once they stepped out of the cave, Qingyu felt completely at ease and immediately stretched.
"The journey had its twists and turns, but I suppose we accomplished what we came for. I never imagined Paldea would have such incredible Pokémon."
Steven couldn't help marveling, too.
Originally, he had only wanted to visit because he'd heard there might be "Pokémon from ancient times" here.
After all, aside from the very few Pokémon that had survived from ancient times to the present, humanity's only way of learning about the past was to excavate fossils and activate them with special biological devices, bringing Pokémon from tens of millions of years ago into the modern world.
He hadn't expected that in Paldea, they could skip fossil restoration altogether and see living ancient Pokémon directly.
And that wasn't all. There were even Pokémon that seemingly came from the future, like the Iron Treads he'd just seen.
"Do all future Pokémon abandon their flesh entirely and take on metal bodies like Iron Treads?"
Steven couldn't help being curious.
If his theory was right, that would be incredibly cool!
Would every Pokémon in the future have the powerful Steel type, with skin full of that intoxicating metallic texture?
As a die-hard steel lover, Steven had absolutely no resistance to these unbelievably cool future Paradox Pokémon.
If Iron Treads and Great Tusk hadn't already started a family and were therefore surely unwilling to go to the Hoenn Region with him, he really would have wanted to give it a try.
Still, judging by Iron Treads, these Pokémon presumably all had corresponding "ancestors." He wondered whether the mainstays of his own