A green figure slowly emerged from the darkness.
It was smooth and translucent all over, with a metallic texture, yet it exuded vibrant vitality. A touch of red on its forehead gave off a dangerous aura, as if it contained endless power.
Its four legs were strong and powerful, and each step was steady and precise.
Its sharp eyes were not filled with hostility.
Chen Kai recognized this Pokemon—Iron Leaves.
“Oh! And welcome, travelers from afar.
It’s been decades since any human has come here.”
At the same time, the lights in the room came on, allowing Chen Kai and his group to see inside the Astronomical Observatory.
The interior was like a conventional government office lobby, grand yet simple, though it seemed to have been unmaintained for a long time, with thick dust inside.
But this dust didn't seem to stick to Iron Leaves.
Miraidon attempted to communicate with it telepathically: “Hello, Iron Leaves, sorry to disturb you.”
Chen Kai also politely greeted: “Hello, Iron Leaves.”
Iron Leaves gestured like a gentleman: “Please come in first.”
After speaking, he led Chen Kai and his group to a reception room.
He saw a faint red light glowing on its forehead, and all the dust on the way gathered in the air. A window opened, and the dust ball flew out of the window.
Several teacups flew onto the table in the reception room, steaming hot, with some tea leaves inside.
“Some coarse tea, please excuse us.”
Chen Kai sat in front of the table, holding the teacup, and asked: “Iron Leaves, my name is Chen Kai. May I ask you a few questions?”
Iron Leaves stared at Chen Kai for a while, then at Miraidon for a while.
A hint of a smile appeared in its expression.
“I probably know what you want to ask. I’ll speak first. If I can clear your doubts, then may I ask you a few questions?”
Chen Kai and Miraidon exchanged glances. After confirming Miraidon had no objections, Chen Kai nodded: “Okay.”
“First, let’s talk about the space underfoot. This space is the territory of a first-tier deity, just like your Family, Miraidon, also has its own spatial territory, right?”
Miraidon nodded: “Yes, but this space is a bit different.”
Iron Leaves continued: “Yes, the territories of Legendary Pokémon are all detached from the main world. The only difference between this space and a conventional Legendary Pokémon territory is distance. It is very far from the main world.
If the distance between a conventional Legendary Pokémon territory and the main world is 1, then this space is 5 units away from the main world, and about 5 units away from Blue Star.”
Chen Kai said in surprise: “You know Blue Star!”
Iron Leaves nodded: “Yes, this is what I was going to say next. Humans from the main world once stationed here, and I once entered that time-space of Blue Star with them.
Humans, they all like to expand their territory.
It’s just that Blue Star is also the main world, and it was too exclusive to visitors from other worlds, so they gave up on entering Blue Star.
Later, the Legendary Pokémon in this space became extinct, and humans gradually moved out of this space.
However, it seems now that that species has not gone extinct.”
Iron Leaves looked at Chen Kai and Miraidon again.
“After all, Miraidon, you belong to the same main world as me, and as for you, human, you are even more miraculous.
Now that you have come to this space, it can only be that Legendary Pokémon—Terapagos—has not gone extinct.”
Terapagos! So it was him? Chen Kai remembered that in the game, Miraidon and other Paradox Pokémon traveled through time because of the power of Terastallization, and this power came from Terapagos.
This way, the source of his and Miraidon's Crossing was known.
But he hadn't seen Terapagos yet?
“Miraidon, have you seen Terapagos?”
Miraidon shook his head: “No.”
“Neither of you have seen Terapagos?” At this point, Iron Leaves was also a bit confused.
“It’s possible Miraidon hasn’t seen him, but the Terastallization energy on you, human, is so strong, Terapagos should be on you, right?
Their Family can transform into gems. Check if you have one on you.”
“Ah?” At this moment, Chen Kai was also completely bewildered.
He had Terapagos on him? How did he not know?
At the same time, he began to search his entire body, almost taking off his underwear. All he had on him was a mobile phone, a house key, a Pokédex, and three Poké Balls. The food in his bag had long been eaten by Miraidon.
“No!”
“Emm…” It was Iron Leaves’s turn to be silent.
“Then how did you come to this space?”
Chen Kai exchanged glances with Miraidon again.
Miraidon secretly communicated telepathically with Chen Kai: “The Iron Leaves Family is very friendly as long as you don't provoke it.”
With Miraidon's words, Chen Kai felt relieved and said to Iron Leaves: “We were in a cave, and we just came through.”
“Which cave?”
Chen Kai pointed in the direction of Zining Mountain.
Iron Leaves asked: “Can you accompany me to take a look?”
Chen Kai nodded: “Yes, it’s just a bit far.”
“No problem, just relax.” As he spoke, the red light on Iron Leaves’s head lit up, and Chen Kai and Miraidon both floated in mid-air.
“I’ll take you there. Just point the way.”
Then, with a ‘whoosh’.
Iron Leaves took Miraidon and Chen Kai flying out of the Astronomical Observatory and into the air.
Iron Leaves nodded, indicating a direction: “Is that the direction?”
Chen Kai took out the map and showed it to Iron Leaves: “Yes, right here.”
“Okay, relax, we’ll be there soon.”
On the way, Chen Kai originally wanted to warn Iron Leaves that there was a Hydreigon there, but then he thought about it, Iron Leaves also seemed to be a legendary Pokemon!
“Iron Leaves, are you very strong?”
“Not bad, a second-tier legend.”
Miraidon seemed to show some surprise, but didn't say much.
Chen Kai took out his Pokédex and tried to scan it.
The Pokédex displayed:
Name: Virizion
Type: Grass, ?
Level: ???
Looking at the string of question marks, Chen Kai still put away his Pokédex.
Even the name is wrong, hey!
Although he didn't know how strong Iron Leaves was, the Salamence flying steadily in the distance looked as if it had seen a ghost and quickly fled.
Passing through Hydreigon's airspace, Hydreigon had no reaction at all.
Chen Kai roughly guessed that he was very strong.
In only about 10 minutes, they arrived at the summit of Zining Mountain.
Chen Kai pointed to the small cave entrance and said: “It’s just this, that’s why I could travel through with you.”
“Hmm!”
Seeing Iron Leaves agree, Chen Kai placed his hand on Iron Leaves and entered the cave with him. With a spatial fluctuation, Chen Kai brought Iron Leaves to Blue Star.
The Zining Mountain of Blue Star was still calm and peaceful, with the sun shining on the mountaintop, and nothing unusual happened.
Iron Leaves appeared calm on the surface, looking around, but inwardly, his heart was surging.
He had been to Blue Star decades ago. At that time, Blue Star was very exclusive to foreign creatures like him. He could barely stand firm only by suppressing the world's exclusion with all his power.
This was also why the humans of his main world could not come to Blue Star.
But now, he felt almost no repulsion.
As they had already traveled through, Chen Kai let go of his hand.
Iron Leaves began to feel a slight repulsion from Blue Star, and as time passed minute by minute, this repulsion grew stronger and stronger.
He took advantage of the repulsion not being too great and used his telepathy to sense his surroundings, but he did not sense Terapagos.
At the same time, a Pokemon in the distant northwest seemed to have sensed him.
“Chen Kai, how do we go back?”
“I touch you, and then we walk back.”
As one person and one Pokemon returned to Area Zero.
The atmosphere was a bit silent.
Iron Leaves was processing information.
With so much information at once, Chen Kai was also thinking.
Miraidon saw that they weren't speaking and didn't know what to say either.
After a while, Iron Leaves broke the silence: “Standing here isn’t doing us any good. Why don’t you two come back to my place and sit for a while?”
Chen Kai nodded: “Okay, let’s sit down and talk.”