Visitor

A café in downtown Mossdeep City.

"Suspected Power of Time from Dialga? That really is troublesome."

Steven took a sip of coffee, his brows tightly furrowed.

Throughout humanity's long history,

there had been no shortage of civilizations that coveted the power of Legendary Pokémon.

The vast majority of them never succeeded, unable even to brush against its fringes.

But there were exceptions.

The core ruins of the Claydol Civilization that Tetsuya had discovered, along with the Magic Array it had left behind,

were clearly one of those rare exceptions.

However,

there was one thing that had also been certain since ancient times.

Civilizations that coveted the power of Legendary Pokémon usually did not meet good ends.

Overwhelming power would always fill human minds with greed and other desires, until they ultimately lost the ability to think.

Neither of them wanted to look too deeply into the fate of the Claydol Civilization.

A single Roar of Time was enough to warp space while conveniently wiping out a fairly advanced civilization.

That was probably why Tetsuya had only spent a few hours on Mist Mountain, yet an entire week had passed outside.

Warping, destruction, rebirth.

Those White Mists might have looked like ordinary fog,

but they were actually an outward manifestation of time's power.

Tetsuya had not found any traces of other Trainers in the ruins of the Claydol Civilization, not even bones.

It was not hard to imagine

that they had never entered the ruins at all.

Instead, they had wandered endlessly through the chaotic Mist Mountain,

until the power of time treated them all equally and turned them into dust in this world.

Tetsuya might have made getting out look easy.

But unless it was necessary,

even Steven was unwilling to risk entering a place that had been destroyed by