Chapter 2460: ?Arceus: This Familiar Mirror Barrier... I Have a Bad Feeling!

The scene fell utterly silent.

Professor Oak's heart trembled, and he fell silent.

He was well aware of the terrifying nature of battles between multiple legendary Pokémon.

It was no exaggeration to say that, if mishandled, humanity could be declared extinct.

After pacing two laps around the laboratory, Professor Oak instead calmed down, his voice low, "Do the people from the other regions know about this?"

"I informed those guys the very first moment!"

The "those guys" in Ash's mouth were naturally the champions of each region. "Lance said he's coming to find me... but he's in Johto right now! Even with his Dragonite, it'll take at least an hour to get here."

"Good!"

At a time like this, Professor Oak appeared extremely decisive. "Is there anything you need my lord with?"

"Lend me your research institute... to entertain some people!"

Ash paused for a moment, slightly bashfully scratching his own cheek with his finger.

Professor Oak: "..."

Professor Oak's face was blank with confusion. He had already prepared himself to organize legendary Pokémon data, and even to go to war with legendary Pokémon.

And then you tell him, to entertain people? Entertain who? Dragon Tamer Lance? Is now the time for such things? Just as Professor Oak was furiously ranting in his heart, a resplendent flash of light suddenly rose up beside the three of them.

"... This is a phenomenon similar to before!"

Professor Oak's pupils suddenly contracted.

He realized that what Taichi Yagami had done earlier wasn't teleportation, but cross-world teleportation.

Professor Oak was undoubtedly much more sensitive to this kind of spatial movement phenomenon.

And in the next instant, Su Han and his group suddenly appeared.

"Ash! It's been a long time."

Su Han smiled and nodded.

"Indeed, it's been a while!"

Ash stepped forward, embraced Su Han, and also breathed a sigh of relief. "Seeing your arrival, I can completely relax now."

"... You are?"

Professor Oak's brow twitched several times, his gaze sweeping over the group before him one by one, finally settling on Su Han.

He recognized Su Han! Perhaps among the common folk of the Pokémon world, Su Han's name wasn't prominent.

But anyone in the upper echelons of the Pokémon League... basically knew of Su Han's existence.

After all, the scene of Su Han leading a group of ridiculously powerful experts to beat Arceus up... was still recorded in the Pokémon League's top-secret files.

Before Su Han and Ash could finish catching up, an earsplitting roar rang out from the heavens above.

Then, the earth shook.

"... What's the situation?"

Bracing one hand against the wall, Professor Oak's expression was somewhat ugly. "Could it be that the Earth God Groudon has made a move?"

Su Han released his Observation Haki, gazing toward the ceiling, and quickly understood exactly what had happened.

"It has nothing to do with Groudon."

After some thought, Su Han spoke. "This time, it was Arceus who made the move."

"They've already started fighting so quickly?"

Ash was somewhat shocked and worried.

He hadn't expected that a battle at the creator-god level would begin so quickly.

"The current situation... is that the World Tree has torn through space and come to the Pokémon world, and is tentatively engaging Arceus, right?"

Su Han answered.

"Is that so?"

Gudako pondered thoughtfully.

"... Didn't I remember! The president once destroyed the Digital World's World Tree."

Onyxia rubbed her own chin, her expression strange.

"No! Regarding that incident, I heard from people in the guild... it should have been purified."

Gudako retorted, spreading her palms open. "The World Tree is equivalent to the root server of the Digital World! If it were truly destroyed, the damage to the Digital World would be too great."

"Indeed!"

Taichi Yagami nodded in agreement.

Professor Oak silently listened to the words of the group before him.

Even though he was the foremost professor of the Kanto region, a genuine big shot, at this moment he kept his mouth shut.

Perhaps he could be considered a genuine big shot even within the Pokémon League, but before this group of monsters, each and every one of whom could chat and laugh with legendary Pokémon.

He was nothing... he even suspected that the reason he was allowed to listen to their conversation was that this group was doing it for Ash's sake.

Boom—a tremendous roar, and the earth shook once again.

"... Their clash is having too great an impact on the world!"

Su Han narrowed his eyes slightly.

He turned his head, immediately saw Ash's face full of worry, thought for a moment, and spoke to comfort him. "How about this! I'll first shield the Pokémon world."

"Can you?"

Ash was stunned for a moment, then immediately nodded excitedly. "Thank you ever so much!"

Su Han said nothing, extending his hand and lightly patting the void before him.

Accompanied by a crisp boom, the entire world twisted apart like building blocks, the directions of the surroundings inverting.

Though he was inside Professor Oak's laboratory, the ceiling opened autonomously like a portal, then smoothly extended across the ground.

This violation of physical laws made Professor Oak swallow hard again.

Then, the scene above the sky appeared before his eyes.

Two terrifying figures collided at a speed invisible to the naked eye.

Every clash sent shockwaves rippling through the void; whenever these shockwaves touched the earth, the entire land trembled.

A suffocating aura spread outward in all directions.

The expansion of the mirror world instantly alerted the two creator gods above the sky to something amiss.

"...... Is this? Is this the other guy's special ability?"

The World Tree did not manifest a form; at this moment, it hung in the sky like a great sun, yet it was still thinking.

"To avoid the clash from causing irreversible damage to its own world, it created this place?"

The World Tree erupted in radiance, yet it had no effect whatsoever on the mirror world; its expression grew grim. "The spatial stability has reached this level... What a terrifying ability."

Yet on the other side, Arceus's expression shifted unpredictably, for within this power he sensed a familiar presence.

"...... Is that guy? Yes! This method of transforming the world into a mirrored inversion—exactly the same as before."