The ground trembled.
Legend had it that Groudon's awakening was often accompanied by volcanic eruptions.
Everyone had always assumed that the volcano where Groudon lay dormant would erupt with scorching lava because of its awakening.
They had never imagined it.
The true meaning of that saying was that Groudon, as the God of the Earth, could make every volcano in the world erupt—fortunately, that did not seem to include extinct volcanoes for now.
It was as if—
"It's as if the earth is cheering for the return of its king."
A Trainer spoke bitterly.
Tetsuya felt that description was spot-on.
It was just that the scale of this cheering was a bit too grand, so grand that humanity could barely endure it.
"Come to think of it, where did that bastard Maxie go?"
As if suddenly remembering something, Tetsuya looked around.
Fortunately, he quickly found his target—thanks to the land Groudon had created after awakening, the unconscious Maxie had not sunk straight to the bottom of the sea after being overlooked.
That said, his current condition could hardly be called good.
His mud-pit-like body looked as if every bone in it had been shattered, and his face had developed a condition eerily similar to Archie's.
"Another bodily collapse."
Tetsuya narrowed his eyes. "That guy Archie must be hiding some secret we don't know about."
If Maxie had ended up like this because he abused the Red Orb's energy—
Then what had caused Archie to become like that?
The Blue Orb?
But that thing had always been safely kept by the Beyond Shore Family. No one else should have had the chance to touch it.
Could there be a second Blue Orb in the world?
Tetsuya did not think that was impossible.
Put simply—
To those two legendary beasts, the Red