The upheaval at Cinnabar Island's volcano crashed like a massive boulder into the seemingly tranquil lake of the Pokémon League's upper ranks.
This was no longer a simple geological disaster warning.
On the satellite cloud maps, the dark red energy cloud covering the entire island and steadily spreading outward, along with the string of terrifying readings from the monitoring stations that had long since exceeded their instruments' limits, all proclaimed one horrifying fact.
Once Cinnabar Island's volcano fully erupted, its power would far exceed the combined force of every volcanic eruption in human history.
What it triggered would be far more than mere tsunamis and earthquakes.
That immense, uncontrolled Fire-type energy would completely shatter the Kanto Region's already fragile climate balance.
Through a chain reaction, the glaciers of the Seafoam Islands would expand at an unprecedented speed, and the thunderstorms at the Abandoned Power Plant would sweep across the entire continent.
Ice, thunderstorms, raging flames...
It would be a true apocalyptic catastrophe.
At that moment, the entire Pokémon League war machine sprang into action.
An Emergency Response Team of the highest level was established in the shortest possible time.
All the Pokémon League's elite forces, its foremost scientists, and its strongest Trainers were urgently summoned.
And Lorelei, as the Ice-type Elite Four member, the person who best understood the changes at the Seafoam Islands, and one of the first to encounter the theory of "the world falling out of balance," was naturally appointed one of the operation's on-site commanders-in-chief.
Though Ye Li's case weighed on her mind, her duties as an Elite Four member required her to put the bigger picture first.
She could only temporarily set aside her internal investigation, put on a specially designed heat-resistant combat suit, and lead a team of the Pokémon League's foremost volcanologists and