Chapter 84: First Glimpse Of The Truth
“Pikachu!”
“Gardevoir?!”
“Let go quick, Hangzi Ge!”
“Let go! Zuo Hang!”
“Stinky little brother! Let go quick!”
Five voices rang out, and Zuo Hang had already let go, but the blue ribbon at the end of Perrserker’s sword hilt was still wrapping around him.
Memories of the world dying kept replaying in his mind,
Zuo Hang could feel his stamina continuously draining away.
This Perrserker harbored great hatred toward humans.
It absolutely wouldn’t stop on its own until it had sucked all of Zuo Hang’s life force dry.
“—I know you have strong hostility toward humanity, but this world is no longer the one you once lived in. Open your eyes and take a good look! This is a completely different world!” The ghostly face above the sword scabbard stared at Zuo Hang.
Clothes.
Demeanor.
The gazes of the people around.
Pokémon.
Perrserker swept its gaze over the few Pokémon in the area one by one.
Pikachu, Gardevoir
Pikachu???
Perrserker was a Pokémon from the dead world. In the original world, whether human or Pokémon, everyone had an ability—danger perception!
The moment they encountered an opponent, they could instantly know the strength gap between themselves and the other, thereby judging whether to fight or flee.
The ghostly face above the sword scabbard had already judged the strength difference between them the moment it saw Pikachu.
If it wanted to kill or defeat the Electric Mouse in front of it, the difficulty was no different from a speck of dust trying to kill a Legendary Pokémon.
Without a doubt, he would be one-shot!
Perrserker released Zuo Hang’s wrist and stopped absorbing his life force.
Because Pikachu was looking at him.
Cute and adorable on the surface, but Perrserker felt that he had already developed killing intent toward it!
And this Gardevoir, the Ninjask flying in the sky, and the occasional chilling sensation coming from underground!
Seeing Perrserker suddenly let go.
Zuo Hang pretty much guessed what was on its mind.
Not long ago, Zuo Hang had seen the remnants of this secret realm from Perrserker’s world perspective; his consciousness was somewhat fused with Perrserker’s, so he could roughly know what Perrserker was thinking.
“I’m a trainer, Pikachu is my partner. This place is different from your world. Trainers and Pokémon aren’t enemies; we live together and fight together as friends…”
Friends…
This was a distant, unfamiliar, yet somewhat familiar word to Perrserker.
His only friend was Sableye.
Watching Sableye gradually regain color from grayish-white… Perrserker’s ghostly face seemed to regain some spirit, and the hatred in its heart seemed to be gradually fading.
—Illusion.
Everyone present understood.
The gradually coloring Sableye was merely an illusion created by the White Dragon principal’s phantom Pokémon. This place was also a maze constructed from illusions.
Sableye wouldn’t revive.
Everyone knew this clearly.
But Perrserker didn’t know.
It thought its former partner could revive like it had.
“Although I don’t want to ruin the mood, your friend probably won’t come back.” Zuo Hang said.
The principal had modified the maze with illusions.
It might be very complex.
But he wouldn’t create a maze that couldn’t be solved to trouble his own students.
There must be some point in the maze that could deny the illusion.
As long as a person or Pokémon in the illusion could deny the illusion laid by Zoroark from the observer’s identity, the illusion would lose the acknowledgment from the observer and collapse on its own.
And Zuo Hang had now found the key to breaking the situation.
Perrserker.
The most unusual thing in the cave was this stone sculpture of Sableye.
The time Sableye started coloring coincided exactly with the time Perrserker regained consciousness.
This phenomenon was easy to understand.
The Pokémon creating the illusion was trying to make Perrserker accept the existence of this Sableye.
If even its former close friend could acknowledge the fake Sableye, then this illusion maze would undoubtedly become even more solid than before.
The reason Zuo Hang directly told Perrserker that Sableye was an illusion.
Was to make it deny it first before believing.
These words clearly had an effect.
Earlier, Zuo Hang had only gripped the sword hilt but hadn’t drawn Perrserker.
But after Zuo Hang said “your friend won’t come back,” Perrserker actually flew out from the soil on its own.
—Skill, Lightweight Body!
Lightweight Body: Shed unnecessary parts of the body, greatly increasing one’s own speed while also reducing body weight.
In the darkness, faint blue fluorescence vaguely flew away from Perrserker’s body.
That was the souls of the dead people it had once absorbed.
At the same time, the bit of life force previously absorbed also returned to Zuo Hang’s body.
Perrserker performed a war dance in the dark environment—its attack power rapidly increasing.
Two skills in a row, clearly preparing to attack.
Xingye and Lin Ping had already assumed defensive postures.
Snowy Child held an Ice Blade in front of itself, and Swablu was also ready to counterattack at any time.
But
Perrserker’s attack target wasn’t them.
Its target was the Sableye that had regained color.
Single Sword unsheathed!
Sword light bloomed in the dark environment!
—Sacred Sword, X-Scissor!
Countless blades swept over Sableye’s stone sculpture.
Perrserker was a Pokémon, but at the same time, it was also a sword.
A sword’s existence was to cut through falsehoods and see the truth.
It struck without any hesitation.
Even facing its former close friend.
But fake was fake.
Sableye was pierced by ten thousand swords.
—Skill Sacred Sword: Slash at the opponent with long horns or sharp body parts, ignoring the opponent’s ability boosts.
The stone statue shattered, and the illusion dissipated along with it.
The tunnel that originally had no end turned into a ruined temple.
Zuo Hang looked around.
The stifling black in the cave was gone, replaced by a false sky twinkling with dead stars.
Perrserker had denied the illusion created by Zoroark from the “observer” identity.
The maze was broken.
The points on everyone’s terminals increased simultaneously.
+5000
This wasn’t a publicly listed points item; it was considered hidden points.
5000 was equivalent to each person defeating an S+ level Pokémon.
The blue pupils above the sword scabbard seemed slightly forlorn.
It looked at Zuo Hang.
“—Buzz~” A sword cry sounded.
“Want to come with me?” Zuo Hang hesitated for a moment.
“Pika!”
“Gardevoir!”
Pikachu and Gardevoir said at the same time.
Go with Hang Hang?
Absolutely not!
This guy was the sea king of the trainer world, with several warehouse managers! Going with him would definitely let you see the dangers of society.
Zuo Hang scratched his head.
“Don’t listen to their nonsense. My Pokémon are traveling all over the world; only the more homebody ones stay at the Pokémon Day Care.”
“Buzz~” Ninjask let out a bug cry.
He was one of the Pokémon staying at the Pokémon Day Care.
But he flew fast; even if he ran all over the world during the day, he could rush back in time at night. Moreover, back when he ran secret realms with Zuo Hang, he had pretty much been to every place in this world.
It wasn’t because he was a homebody that he stayed at the Pokémon Day Care; it was because Ninjask no longer had any dreams.
When he was still a Nincada, he could only crawl a very short distance each day, so his childhood dream was to travel the world.
And now that dream had been fulfilled.
As a ninja, his pursuits were just to stay at the Pokémon Day Care, sleep, wait for Zuo Hang’s summons, and spar a couple times with stronger Pokémon.
He hoped one day to meet the Pokémon he once fought alongside, but that Frog didn’t know where it was adventuring and didn’t often return to the Pokémon Day Care.
“Buzz~” Ninjask let out another bug cry.
