(Still taking stock of the rewards.)
"...I have named the region below Area Zero 'Area Zero.'"
Xia Chi silently finished reading the research notes in his mind and rubbed his temples.
"So the key to creating Tera Orbs and a time machine was the Stellar energy active in Area Zero?"
"Maybe that's why Professors Sada and Turo's research has stalled in this timeline," Xia Chi murmured.
According to the games' lore, the first people to explore the Great Crater of Paldea were the Area Zero Survey Team, led by Heath.
They were the first to reach the bottom of the Great Crater of Paldea, the place now known as Area Zero.
There, they saw many incredible Pokémon they had never encountered before and drew pictures of them.
After returning to the surface, they compiled what they had seen and heard in Area Zero into the Scarlet Book and Violet Book, then published them.
But later explorers never saw the strange Pokémon recorded in those books, so people dismissed them as fantasy novels full of urban legends.
The deeper reaches of Area Zero were only discovered after Professors Turo and Sada established the Area Zero Lab.
The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero DLC also hinted that their research breakthroughs had all come after exploring those depths.
That meant the [Professor Sada's Research Notes] System Bro had produced were like information sent back from the future.
Then Xia Chi and Professors Turo and Sada in this timeline would use those notes to create a time machine.
In a sense, it had a bit of a grandfather paradox feel to it.
But that hardly mattered. The Pokémon world was made up of countless timelines anyway, so there was a reasonably coherent explanation for this sort of thing.
At this point, apart from the