Chapter 1421: From now on, here, the ocean no longer flows

Seeing Dark Lugia's miserable state, Zapdos flapped its wings, its expression a bit hesitant:

【It looks like this is coming to an end. The backup plan we prepared is no longer needed. Can we prepare for the matter of sealing it?】

It would be fine if Zapdos didn't speak. As soon as its words fell, Su Hao, Articuno, and Reshiram looked at Zapdos with condemning gazes.

Why say anything else, but set a flag here? What if Dark Lugia really counterattacks!?

Being stared at by three pairs of condemning gazes, Zapdos was both puzzled and aggrieved. Did it say something wrong?

【Hey, look over there...】

At this time, Moltres's shocked voice sounded. Following its blank gaze, Dark Lugia, which was still tossing in pain just now, had stopped tossing at some point, and the screaming had also stopped abruptly.

Even though its body and spirit had been burned by Blue Flare, Dark Lugia at this time was frighteningly quiet...

【Hehehe, so this is the so-called Blue Flare? The stronger the other party's desire, the more violently it burns. However—】

【Do you think that by relying on this degree of Blue Flare, you can burn out my hatred, my anger, and my desires?】

【Junior... don't look down on people!】

【If you can burn out my endless desires, then come and try!】

Dark Lugia's hoarse and cold voice echoed in the secret realm like a banshee's screech. Under Reshiram's reaction of facing a formidable enemy, with Dark Lugia as the center, infinite malice, evil thoughts, and desires expanded.

For a time, even Blue Flare couldn't burn these endless negative emotions clean. Dark Lugia took the opportunity to flap its wings and fly up. Emitting endless malice, it was like a demon god returning from the abyss of hell, emitting a hair-raising temperament.

Su Hao's expression suddenly became ugly. Even though he had tried his best to overestimate Dark Lugia, was the negative energy that could reverse a legendary Pokémon that should be in the Lawful Good alignment really too vast...

【Dark... Cyclone!】

While grinning, Dark Lugia didn't care about its body, which was covered in scars from being burned by Blue Flare, and let out a roar and screech. Countless black cyclones lingered around its side, turning into a black airflow vortex that seemed to be able to destroy everything, and burst out violently with an oppression that made people breathless!

Even the storm vortex formed by the Dynamax Pokémon's Max Airstream was nothing more than a slightly larger ant in front of this Dark Cyclone.

Moltres's face turned pale. Although it had always wanted to explode with Dark Lugia, it also knew very well how terrifying this Dark Cyclone, which was derived from the Lugia clan's exclusive move Aeroblast, was.

Not to mention the Dark power brought by the soaring malice around Dark Lugia now, which pushed the power of the Dark Cyclone to a whole new level!

Shock was shock, but whether it was the three legendary birds or Reshiram, they couldn't sit still because of shock at this time.

Fire, lightning, and frost jointly erupted with the strongest power. The aftermath of the collision of moves between legendary Pokémon caused the originally solid secret realm space to start shaking, which also meant that the High Seas Secret Realm was sinking toward the main world faster and faster.

Even with the addition of the three legendary birds, Reshiram's Intertwined Fire, under the blessing of Terastallization, barely offset the Dark Cyclone erupted by Dark Lugia.

Reshiram's gaze looking at Dark Lugia hid a trace of surprise.

As the reversed body of an ancient god, Dark Lugia's strength was as unfathomable as the sea. Its Blue Flare had clearly been burning, but it couldn't affect Dark Lugia because of the negative emotions like malice constantly gushing out from Dark Lugia's body.

Seeing that its angry blow was blocked, Dark Lugia just sneered, manipulating the seawater that had poured back to rise and form pitch-black water tornadoes that reached the sky, whipping up endless hurricanes, attacking everything around indiscriminately.

At this time, the reversed god was wantonly venting its power.

Dark Lugia didn't care whether its attack was blocked. From the beginning, its victory condition was gradually approaching it with the passage of time.

【Hahaha! There is still one hour left, time is running out. What other means do you have to take out to please me? Just take them out!】

As the main force against Dark Lugia, Reshiram took the responsibility of bearing most of Dark Lugia's firepower.

But, the battle between two first-tier legendary Pokémon would only accelerate the speed of the secret realm's fall.

The three legendary birds, who were dealing with the aftermath of the battle between the two first-tier legendary beings, also understood this point. Su Hao looked at the Z-Ring embedded with the Fire-type Z-Crystal he had re-exchanged on his wrist, took a deep breath, and knew that it was not the time yet.

Su Hao shouted: "Articuno, use the backup plan!"

Moltres and Zapdos also sent messages together.

【Our kin are almost here too, God of Ice, you start first!】

Articuno, which had flapped its wings to freeze several pitch-black water tornadoes, paused its movements and nodded gently:

【Good!】

Moltres and Zapdos flew to Articuno's side, helping it defend against Dark Lugia's indiscriminate attacks.

And Articuno hovered in mid-air, closed its eyes, opened its beak, and let out a screech that seemed to be able to penetrate space—

"Li!!!!"

Outside the High Seas Secret Realm, in the Articuno secret realm that had been floating in the air for a long time, fourteen Articunos surrounded the shrine at the center of the secret realm, closing their eyes and resting.

Suddenly, the Articuno in the center, which was slightly petite in size, opened its eyes. Just now, it sensed the call of the God of Ice.

Skadi looked at its kin and said passionately:

【Now, the time has finally come for us to help Lord God of Ice. For—the glory of the Articuno clan!】

The other thirteen Articunos also shouted together:

【For the glory of the Articuno clan!】

In the secret realm of sky-filling frost and snow, the dazzling ice-blue brilliance lit up accordingly, and the transparent orb enshrined in the center of the shrine also shone together.

In the eyes of the fourteen Articunos, there was a flicker of determination to win.

The Articuno secret realm, whose scale was not inferior to an ordinary secret realm, began to approach the High Seas Secret Realm at a very fast speed, like a flowing river merging into the sea, merging with the High Seas Secret Realm!

Inside the High Seas Secret Realm, far from the battlefield, on the highest mountain peak of Ice Island, the figures of fourteen Articunos appeared together with the snowflake-shaped shrine.

Dark Lugia, who was in a fierce battle with Reshiram, narrowed its eyes. Just now, the sinking speed of the secret realm had increased by a chunk out of thin air, but it didn't do anything...

Dark Lugia's gaze was cast toward Articuno, who was protected by Moltres and Zapdos in the distance. Intuition told it that it was Articuno who had done something.

Flapping its wings to shake back Reshiram, Dark Lugia sneered:

【Hehehe, no matter what you do, it's all in vain. Just struggle!】

But the next instant, Dark Lugia's sneering expression froze.

Articuno's voice, which sounded like ice that had not melted for ten thousand years, echoed throughout the secret realm.

【The Ice Shrine has returned to its place. From this moment on, this secret realm will be constrained by brand-new rules.】

【In this secret realm, the ocean will no longer flow and will turn into ice that will not melt for ten thousand years.】

After Articuno's words fell, the sea that was roaring and surging under Dark Lugia's authority instantly turned into a piece of ice mountain range emitting cold air.

The depth of that freezing reached the seabed.

Dark Lugia's complexion changed drastically. It felt that its authority as the God of the Sea was sealed... no, there was nothing it could mobilize!

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