The appearance of Xerneas was something Cain had not expected, just as he had not expected the appearance of Yveltal either.
However, since Yveltal had come to destroy, then Xerneas had clearly come to protect Magearna.
Seeing how, with Xerneas's help, Magearna's condition was gradually stabilizing, Cain remained at one side without interfering.
Whether for Cain as a human, or for Tyranitar and the others as the Pokémon at his side, the descent of a divinity was something extremely rare to witness.
After a few moments, Xerneas stopped moving and looked at Cain, who was waiting at one side. In its eyes was a meaning that was difficult to describe; then it turned around and disappeared directly.
Cain watched Xerneas leave without the slightest hesitation, not knowing whether it had appeared there purely to help Magearna withstand Yveltal, who had suddenly emerged, or whether it had come to help Magearna stabilize her divinity, or perhaps simply to do both things at once.
But, once everything was over, it left without the slightest hesitation, something very similar to what had happened before with Diancie.
The common point between the two Pokémon was perhaps that both were Fairy-type and, in addition, both possessed the potential to become true Legendary Pokémon.
Just when Cain was still thinking about Xerneas's intentions, Magearna's body began to undergo changes.
Her mechanical body, with the clasp she had on her chest, began to open slowly, and the Soul-Heart inside floated out from the seal, radiating a dense life energy impossible to look at directly.
However, Cain could clearly perceive that, within the Soul-Heart at that moment, was Magearna's consciousness.
Because of such abundant life energy, the entire aerial fortress transformed once again; it seemed like a Transformer, and in its outward form it resembled somewhat a gigantic version of Magearna.
The place where Cain and the others were standing right now was precisely inside one of the eyes of that gigantic Magearna.
As long as Magearna wished it, that enormous body could move freely exactly as she thought, without any obstacle.
The outermost metal layer of the aerial fortress was still more or less covered by bricks and stone walls, but now all of that fell away, exposing the hidden metal beneath.
Back then, when Nikola gathered the power of the entire country to create this aerial fortress, the metal used was by no means ordinary metal.
After all, the ancient Azoth Kingdom, thanks to the development of its arcane science, could be considered one of the largest countries in the entire Kalos region, and the resources it could mobilize were also considerable.
And moreover, with the transformation now brought about by the life energy of Magearna's Soul-Heart, those metals had also undergone some changes.
From the very beginning, Nikola's design had taken the Soul-Heart as the core of everything; absolutely everything had been designed to fit with it and allow it to unleash its power to the fullest.
Cain felt that even Nikola himself probably would not have been able to imagine everything that was happening at that moment within Magearna's body.
The presence of that life energy could even fully activate all the metal of the aerial fortress, transforming it into something similar to Magearna's small body, turning it into a part of her and growing together with her.
It was difficult to imagine that something like this could happen right before his own eyes: a metallic machine turning into a living lifeform?
From Cain's human perspective, that was simply an impossible fantasy, but precisely because of that, it made even more evident how extraordinary Magearna was at that moment.
After the aerial fortress transformed into Magearna's appearance, it changed once again and returned to its original form.
The Soul-Heart, which floated in the room, also withdrew its radiance and returned once again to Magearna's body.
"Magern!"
Magearna opened her eyes. At first, a trace of confusion appeared in them, but afterward she fully regained clarity, and when she looked at Cain, her eyes were filled with closeness.
Cain smiled and walked over to her. That aura of a Legendary Pokémon which was slowly strengthening had already gradually stabilized.
A true Legendary Pokémon!
On that day, not only had he witnessed metal that had "come alive," but he had also seen a Pokémon ascend from an ordinary Pokémon to a Legendary Pokémon in a single leap.
From then on, Magearna would be that enormous aerial fortress, and the aerial fortress would be a part of Magearna's body. As long as she was inside it, with a single thought the entire metallic fortress could move according to her will.
Even, as Magearna's strength continued to increase, that metallic fortress would also gradually become more powerful, because it had already completely fused with her.
Pokémon: Magearna (Black)
Gender: Genderless
Level: 85
Types: Steel + Fairy
Ability: Soul-Heart
Held Item: Soul-Heart (Second Awakening), Mechanical Soul
Egg Moves: None
Basic Moves: Crafty Shield, Gear Up, Shift Gear, Iron Head, Helping Hand, Sonic Boom, Defense Curl, Psybeam, Lucky Chant, Aurora Beam, Mirror Shot, Mind Reader, Flash Cannon, Fleur Cannon, Synchronoise, Aura Sphere
Learned Moves: Magnet Rise, Last Resort, Pain Split, Shock Wave, Heal Bell, After You, Iron Defense, Zen Headbutt
TM Moves: Protect, Ice Beam, Thunderbolt, Shadow Ball, Double Team, Energy Ball, Confide
"Just as I expected!" Cain thought silently when he saw the data the system had scanned from Magearna.
That her quality had risen to the Black color was within Cain's conjectures; in fact, at some point he had even fantasized about the possibility that Magearna's quality might break through the limit of Legendary Pokémon and reach Dark Black.
After all, not only had a divinity descended, but at the beginning she had also drunk that special potion; theoretically, there was indeed no small probability that her quality would improve.
Although, of course, Black color quality was not Purple color quality; wanting to raise it was not something so easy.
Of course, Cain's focus was not there, but rather on the held item column. Before, only the Soul-Heart had appeared there by itself, but now there was one more: Mechanical Soul!
(End of Chapter)