Chapter 419: Fairy Light

Su Hao estimated that he had been in the secret realm for about three hours, which meant it was currently three in the morning.

It was approaching sunrise, but it was hard to say if there was a sunrise in the situation the Spiral Secret Realm was in.

A strong wind blew from bottom to top. Su Hao squinted his eyes and looked down, seeing Articuno using air currents to carry dozens of ice spheres upward; it should have successfully contained the blood-red mist.

Next, it was time to experiment with which of Diancie's moves had a special effect on the blood-red mist formed by this negative energy.

Without further ado, once Articuno arrived in front of him, Su Hao directed Diancie to place him on Articuno's back, and they immediately began the experiment, racing against time.

"Let's try the two status moves, Light Screen and Reflect, first."

Su Hao directed Articuno to release its control over ten of the ice spheres. Following the pre-agreed procedure, Diancie took over the ice spheres with her psychic power. Psychic energy flowed, and six seamless walls of Light Screen and Reflect wrapped around five of the ice spheres respectively.

Having completed her task, Diancie turned to look at Articuno. Without needing a reminder, Articuno withdrew the energy maintaining the ice spheres. As the ice melted and disintegrated, the blood-red mist trapped inside broke free and immediately scattered in all directions.

Su Hao, Diancie, and Articuno stared intently at the inside of the double walls; whether these two moves could trap the blood-red mist determined whether the experiment could continue.

The Reflect move was more like a physical barrier, which could be used to resist physical moves.

The Light Screen move allowed special attacks to pass through, but their power would be weakened after passing through the screen.

Even Articuno had to use the power of its authority to barely contain this blood-red mist, which had corrosive capabilities and could drain the life force of plants or living beings, into the ice spheres.

"I observed for a short while below. This mist's characteristics include not only the ability to absorb negative emotions to strengthen itself, but also the ability to stir up and amplify the negative emotions of intelligent beings, while simultaneously absorbing life force."

"But, since this mist can do all that, why were those Pokémon expelled from the secret realm?"

"Negative energy is a type of energy controlled by Dark Matter; it should have no intelligence and only devour everything around it according to set targets..."

"Those wild Pokémon were only slightly berserk, carrying incredibly fragile black energy, and were expelled from the secret realm. In that black energy, I couldn't even detect the handiwork of negative energy."

While watching the blood-red mist scattering inside the Light Screen and Reflect, Articuno added the details it had observed below.

"That means there was another entity that drove the wild Pokémon and humans out of the secret realm before the negative energy could unfold?" Su Hao instantly understood Articuno's unspoken meaning.

It believed that there was a third-party force in this secret realm.

"I think the third party that took this action must be the Reshiram I mentioned," Su Hao said firmly.

"Very likely. Look, the blood-red mist is starting to touch the Light Screen and Reflect."

As Su Hao and Articuno continued to speculate, the mist had already touched the two types of walls, and an invisible contest unfolded.

Inside the Reflect, the blood-red mist made a sizzling corrosive sound the moment it touched the wall, and a small pit was corroded into the Reflect at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Inside the Light Screen, it was a different situation. The mist was like a mouse seeing a cat; it tried to corrode the Light Screen but ended up losing more than it gained, with its own scale of existence being dissolved by the Light Screen instead.

Now the blood-red mist curled into a ball, no longer touching the Light Screen.

"... As expected, the Light Screen, which has resistance to energy moves, is effective. When using Light Screen, you used the Power of Radiance to strengthen the effect of the move, right?"

Reflect was ineffective, but the Light Screen and the Power of Radiance had excellent synergy.

Diancie, who was questioned, nodded in affirmation. She had mobilized a small amount of the Power of Radiance within her and added a bit to it when creating the Light Screen.

The so-called Power of Radiance was the power derived from the Diancieite that Diancie had absorbed. Its approximate storage could support Diancie in unleashing a move at full power three times; it was equivalent to an enchantment.

After releasing it, she would have to enter a cooldown state and would need to bask in sunlight or moonlight for a period to recover slowly.

This power was called the Power of Radiance by Su Hao. The energy needed when using the Power of Radiance was called light energy. They hadn't played this card when battling White Du previously.

"Although there is restraint, the effect is not very powerful. It has about the same effect as when Suicune exercises the power of purification."

Articuno shook its head. If it was only to this extent, Suicune could also do it.

Su Hao instructed Diancie: "Then let's try attack moves. Just add a little bit of the Power of Radiance to change the nature of the move; you can't consume too much at once."

Diancie obediently began to use moves one by one through the Light Screen to deal with the blood-red mist.

Power Gem, Meteor Beam, and Flash Cannon had about the same effect on the blood-red mist as the Light Screen.

On the contrary, after Diancie's Fairy-type moves were infused with a little bit of the Power of Radiance, they dissolved the blood-red mist at a speed visible to the naked eye until it was completely gone.......

Su Hao exchanged glances with Diancie and Articuno, and they all said with joy in unison: "This is it!"

Whether it was Rock-type, Steel-type, or Psychic-type light-category moves, the lethality against the blood-red mist after adding the Power of Radiance was not outstanding.

On the contrary, Diancie's two Fairy-type moves, with only one-tenth of the Power of Radiance of a full-power enchantment added, left the negative energy in tatters.

In other words, Fairy-type energy + Power of Radiance = the nemesis of negative energy!

Su Hao looked at Diancie with concern: "How much light energy of the Power of Radiance is left now?"

"Um... only half is left."

Diancie hung her head, her expression dejected.

Most of the power of the Diancieite had been consumed when she evolved. Now, the light energy of the Power of Radiance she could mobilize in her body was not much.

Now, the range of her moves probably couldn't eliminate the negative energy covering the entire Spiral Secret Realm in one go. This fact caused a hint of impatience to stain her mindset.

Seeing Diancie's mindset, Su Hao crooked his finger, and Diancie floated toward him obediently.

Su Hao reached out and stroked the smooth, beautiful pink diamond on top of Diancie's head, saying softly: "Articuno and I will create opportunities; you only need to attack the negative energy phantom with all your might."

Diancie squinted her eyes, feeling the gentle stroking on her head, and her somewhat impatient mood quickly cooled down.

It was the same during her Carbink stage; Su Hao often stroked the diamond on her head to soothe her.

She liked this feeling very much.

Articuno stared downward and also spoke to console her: "He is right. Leave the task of restricting the negative energy phantom to me; you only need to eliminate the negative energy phantom in one go. We can consider the purification of the entire Spiral Secret Realm later."

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Lugia, Marill, Sapphire. ***

Lugia, Azumarill, Diancie.