"Le… Legendary Pokémon!?"
Professor Shen froze, his voice starting to tremble.
"Could it be… what you mean is…"
He slowly turned his head and met the Team Dark boss's eyes, catching the look of tacit understanding in them.
In an instant, Professor Shen felt the idea was far too insane.
"Th-this… Dynamax power is indeed strong, but if it's applied to a Legendary Pokémon…"
At that point, he paused.
A doomsday-like scene surfaced in his mind—
Rivers running dry, mountains shattered, the earth splitting apart…
The entire world sinking into endless darkness and ruin, without a single trace of light.
And within that chaos,
only one Dynamaxed Legendary Pokémon after another, howling and roaring, destroying everything without end.
"It could cause consequences beyond imagination!"
Professor Shen pushed up his glasses as he added that, shivering as his expression turned grave.
If that kind of technology
were used on those hard-to-control Legendary Pokémon,
there was a very high chance it would lead to a terrifying outcome.
"I know."
The Team Dark boss caught the fear in Professor Shen's eyes.
He patted Professor Shen on the shoulder, then paced around inside the training room, which had already been wrecked into a complete mess.
"Opportunities and risks always come together."
"As long as we succeed this time, Team Dark won't just escape our current situation—we can even overturn the entire Tianxing Alliance."
His voice was low,
carrying a magnetic quality and a strange, bewitching force.
Of course he knew
how much destructive power a Legendary Pokémon would have after being Dynamaxed.
And if it lost control,
the destruction and crisis it caused would absolutely not be a joke.
Not just one city—
dozens of major cities across an entire region, with hundreds of millions of people, would be overturned and wiped out!
The danger was simply too great!
"However, I'm confident I can control them!"
His tone suddenly shifted.
A smile began to form on his face.
"Even if it's not one hundred percent, the odds are worth gambling on."
"Really!?"
Hearing that, Professor Shen's emotions surged.
To be able to control Legendary Pokémon!
Even if the success rate wasn't one hundred percent, that was still terrifying!
Legendary Pokémon possessed the strongest power in the world!
If they could truly be used as tools…
then Team Dark really could turn everything around.
"That's right."
The Team Dark boss turned back to Professor Shen, revealing two neat rows of clean teeth.
"And for Legendary Pokémon that have only just awakened and haven't fully recovered their strength yet, the control works best."
He added that final line,
and the look he gave Professor Shen carried deep meaning.
The moment Professor Shen heard it,
his mind felt like it had been jolted by electricity.
"Isn't that one Pokémon too risky?"
"If a second-tier Legendary gets Dynamaxed…"
Professor Shen's expression became heavy and hesitant once again.
If it were a third-tier Legendary, that would be one thing.
But their current target was a second-tier Legendary.
After Dynamax, its power
might be able to briefly approach the level of a first-tier Legendary.
A first-tier Legendary!?
That was true world-ending power!
This was madness beyond madness.
"Enough. Pack up. We're heading to Wintergreen Forest later. This time, I'm leading the team personally."
The Team Dark boss didn't bother responding to what Professor Shen said.
He only issued a cold order.
…
He took out a Poké Ball
and pressed the button while aiming it at Persian.
Under the red light,
Persian was withdrawn back inside.
That ribbon-like, purple aura of energy
lost the target it had been wrapping—
and then returned to the purple crystal set into the Dynamax Band on his wrist.
...
At the same time,
over on Shiko's side…
During these ten days,
he also made time to find a Steelix colony.
However, a Pokémon with such harsh evolution conditions didn't have large numbers in its group.
Altogether there were only around a hundred of them.
But their levels were all very high—
every single one was at peak Gym-level or above.
These Steelix were extremely useful to Shiko.
After forcibly subduing and capturing them through sheer strength,
Shiko sent them out to do the same kind of work as Corviknight:
to search like crazy through the Mt. Silver mountain range region for Steel-type materials and rare items,
then bring everything back to him.
As Pokémon that lived year-round underground and among rocky mountains,
and Pokémon that fed on metal ores and material items,
Steelix naturally possessed an innate, keen sensitivity for these things.
The efficiency of these hundred Steelix
was even better than that of several hundred Corviknight.
And precisely because of this fresh fighting force joining in,
Shiko's plan progressed exceptionally smoothly.
Within ten days,
his level rose by one.
He reached Level 71, the early stage of Champion-level.
The Steel-type law within his body,
through continuously absorbing the energy contained in those rare items they brought back,
also increased by another two percent—
reaching a mastery level of thirty-two percent.
(End of Chapter)
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