Chapter 416

Articuno flapped its wings, and powerful Flying-type energy surged out. Strong collision airflow formed, and Articuno directly relied on its own strong constitution as the God of Ice to rush straight into the sky.

This move directly saved the time necessary for ascending, and it ascended quickly like an alternative rocket.

The next moment, the blood-red energy light cannon bombarded the position where Su Hao and the others were originally, countless materials were blown into fragments and flew everywhere, leaving a deep trench.

Because the situation was urgent, Articuno didn't have time to build an energy shield on its back to prevent Su Hao on its back from being thrown out or injured by the powerful force.

"Ugh..."

Even though Su Hao's own constitution was already superhuman, this sudden move almost made him spit out his overnight meal.

Fortunately, Diancie was supporting him nearby, otherwise, Su Hao would definitely have been thrown out.

There was no time to wait for his body to recover. Su Hao grabbed Articuno's feathers and looked down.

It seemed that because Su Hao and the others climbed to a very high altitude instantly, that negative energy phantom Reshiram lost their tracks and, like a machine, swayed back to the top of the Dragonspiral Tower.

"Why did you dodge?"

Su Hao patted Articuno, puzzled.

With Articuno's strength, even if it was a phantom changed from negative energy, it shouldn't have run away directly without even fighting.

"... That Pokémon should be the Reshiram you mentioned, right?"

"... Yes, and no."

"The appearance is similar, but the essence is different." Su Hao answered hesitantly.

"Indeed, rather than calling it a Pokémon, it's more appropriate to call it an aggregate of negative energy. The 'Phantom Reshiram' you call it is very appropriate."

Articuno stared straight down for a while, then suddenly turned its head: "Little Diancie, how is your state?"

Diancie, who had been silent, waiting for Su Hao and Articuno to discuss, heard Articuno call her and stammered: "I feel... no problem, everything is normal."

Articuno nodded to indicate it knew, then looked at Su Hao: "What about you? Sure enough, it's the same as in the Spirit World, you have no reaction at all?"

"Hmm..."

Su Hao was certain that he was no different from being outside the secret realm now.

The reason was simple...

The system panel in his eyes didn't have a bunch of garbled code like in the Spirit World, but clearly displayed a red-marked sentence————

【Detected alien energy, protection enabled】

How come this system has this function?

Pinching his thigh and throwing away the complicated emotions, Su Hao looked at the top of his head and frowned: "What should we do next? Negative energy like this appearing here is no small matter."

"This should be... the highest sky of the Spiral Secret Realm, right? Aura can feel an invisible air wall on top of my head, which cannot be penetrated."

After all, this is just a secret realm, not the real world, so there must be boundaries.

"Hmm, the reason I chose to fly to the highest altitude is simple."

"This form of negative energy... I have never seen it before, and I don't know what kind of power it possesses." Articuno's tone was bitter; it felt unbelievable about the situation in front of it.

It originally thought that some kind of virus or something man-made was the source of the black energy. It hadn't seen such a situation in the long years.

In that wisp of black energy, it didn't perceive any aura related to the dark matter of the past.

Even this phantom composed of negative energy, if it weren't for the foul smell characteristic of negative energy, even it would have mistaken it for other alien energy.

Su Hao's eyes rolled around, and he probed: "You haven't seen it? That is to say, it's not necessarily possible to eradicate it in the way you are familiar with?"

"That's right. In a situation we don't know, it seems to have evolved into a new form. This form gathered by a large amount of negative energy is something I have never seen in a long time."

Articuno gave an analogy: "If the dark matter we fought at that time used negative energy to manipulate the flesh of Pokémon in another world, and after the negative energy was driven away and eliminated by the power of purification, only the empty shell of the flesh would be left."

"Then, the feeling this negative energy phantom gives me is a pure aggregate of negative energy, without the existence of flesh."

Su Hao gradually understood everything, and he probably understood Articuno's idea: "I understand. That is to say, this situation is easy to be 'first-time killed,' so we must find a way to figure out the phantom's means, right?"

In game terms, if he and Articuno were careless and rushed up directly without dodging, they would likely fail because they didn't understand the boss's mechanism and kill conditions.

Articuno nodded and shook its head again: "At that time, the coalition forces spent a huge price to deal with the endless means of dark matter, but because I was only a soldier at that time, I didn't know the intelligence of the high level."

"As far as I can see, the strength of this phantom can only be called a miscellaneous soldier on the battlefield at that time. Even I at that time could pick ten. The problem now is whether it is possible to purify these negative energies that fill the entire secret realm."

Articuno bird's-eye viewed the land of the entire Spiral Secret Realm. Although the blood-colored mist dyed the clouds red, it couldn't touch them at the highest altitude.

The intelligence Su Hao collected was that someone would forcibly break in today at noon or even in the morning.

If the negative energy leaks into the main world because of the intrusion from the outside, the trouble will be big. This thing feeds on negative emotions, and I think it will grow rapidly in this real world full of desires.

If this little phantom could do what dark matter couldn't do back then, what would Arceus and the coalition forces back then think?

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Zekrom.

Zekrom.