Chapter 202

Carbink said timidly: 【Xe... Xerneas, do you know me?】

She was a little afraid, because she had never communicated with Xerneas and didn't know what kind of attitude Xerneas held toward her.

【I didn't expect you to be able to find your way back, little one.】

Xerneas was still in the state of a dead tree, because it had only linked to the autonomously separated authority power and had not re-fused; now its main body had no way to change back, and only its consciousness had awakened.

Xerneas's consciousness carried a soothing taste, gently circling Carbink.

Perhaps due to the influence of the life authority, Xerneas's self-gender cognition was more inclined toward female, so now it and Carbink were as intimate as a pair of mother and daughter.

After a while, Xerneas said: 【You should leave quickly; before long, Yveltal's death power will strike again.】

At that time, it opened a small spatial rift to send Carbink out of the life-and-death secret realm, precisely because it knew that it was about to be unable to resist Yveltal's power.

Celebi, who had been silent, suddenly spoke: 【Xerneas, tell us what happened.】

It wanted to know for what purpose Xerneas had split part of its authority and given it to Carbink.

After a moment of silence, Xerneas seemed to have figured something out, and it explained: 【Little one... Carbink is my child.】

Su Hao: "???!!!"

Celebi: "666"

Carbink: o(〃'▽'〃)o

Resisting the urge to complain so as not to interrupt Xerneas's explanation, Su Hao continued to listen.

Xerneas's voice carried a hint of reminiscence: 【At that time, Yveltal and I were still maintaining a balance of mutual restraint, and this child was suddenly born from my origin.】

【Logically speaking, even the offspring of us Legendary Pokémon should be of our own species.】

【I don't know why, but after the little one was born, it wasn't Xerneas, but Carbink.】

Su Hao still couldn't help but ask: "Um... interrupting for a second, wasn't Carbink born from an egg?"

Xerneas's voice carried a hint of strangeness, and it answered as a matter of course: 【No, she was born directly from my origin.】

【But as long as it's my child, it doesn't matter what species it is; Carbink grew up in the ecosystem catalyzed by my Fairy Aura, but unfortunately, good times didn't last long.】

After finishing this sentence, Xerneas paused.

Both Su Hao, Celebi, and Carbink knew that what followed was the reason why Xerneas chose to split its authority and send Carbink away.

Xerneas continued: 【Yveltal's power suddenly increased a lot; it won't be long before its Dark Aura overwhelms my Fairy Aura, and the death power will devour everything in this life-and-death secret realm, except for me.】

It knew that the competition between it and Yveltal had lasted for countless years, and no matter who won, the loser would only turn into a dead tree or a Cocoon of Destruction and fall into a deep sleep again.

But now that Carbink was in Xerneas's Fairy Aura, it couldn't watch the child without authority be devoured by the power of death.

After much deliberation, it decided to open a spatial rift to send Carbink out of the life-and-death secret realm.

But it was afraid that the newborn Carbink would not live well outside, so it unhesitatingly split part of its own authority and the power of Fairy Aura and sealed it into Carbink's body.

This way, Carbink could stably mutate in the direction of Diancie, and would not be unable to break through to the Legendary level because the authority of the Diancie species already belonged to the contemporary Queen Diancie.

Xerneas had now

turned into a dead tree and fallen into a deep sleep; it was the aura of Carbink, who was "blood-related" to it, and the lost part of its authority that had awakened it.

Xerneas finished telling the story, looked at Carbink with maternal love, and said: 【Leave quickly, when the deep sleep ends, I will wake up again.】

Carbink's eyes were filled with tears, and she asked sadly: 【Then how long will you sleep?】

【I don't know...】

【Then I don't want that!!】

Carbink threw herself into Su Hao's arms and looked at Su Hao for help.

In her heart, besides Xerneas, Su Hao was the person she trusted the most; Su Hao could solve problems through various magical ways, and perhaps Su Hao could have a way.

Su Hao hugged Carbink to comfort her while asking Xerneas; he had an idea.

"Will your authority affect Carbink's mutation into Diancie?"

【No, authority is just the manifestation of some kind of rule; her mutation is naturally destined.】

"Then, no problem." Hearing this, Su Hao showed a confident smile.

He switched to the Aura private chat channel and proposed a proposal to Carbink.

"Na na!"

【Carbink has no problem, Carbink can do it!】

Su Hao and Carbink smiled at each other.

Celebi, Xerneas: 【?】

Su Hao picked up Carbink and stood up, saying to Xerneas: "Xerneas, please take back the authority on Carbink."

"Both Carbink and I have the confidence to find the path that belongs exclusively to her!"

They intended to rely on Carbink's own talent to construct the authority of Diancie that belonged only to Su Hao through the 【Light】 in the Brilliant Stone!

"Na na!"

【I want to be like the first-generation Queen Diancie in the story, walk my own path, and create the authority that belongs only to me!】

【So, Mother Xerneas, don't worry about me.】

【As long as you and Su Hao are here, I can do it!】

The Legendary Pokémon and deity who had lived for countless years, Xerneas.

At this moment, it felt for the first time what it was like to be a mother's joy after her child grew up.

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Incineroar: So I'm the only one who isn't a second-generation god, right?

Diancie, Carbink