Chapter 273: Magma World!
“No one?”
Lu Li frowned, realizing the matter was not simple.
“I’m on your shoulder!”
That voice rang out again.
Hearing this, Lu Li jerked as if electrocuted, quickly glancing at his left shoulder, finding nothing, then rapidly checking his right shoulder.
“This…” Lu Li looked at the Pokémon in front of him in shock and doubt.
To be precise, it should be a deity.
“Zygarde?” Lu Li transmitted via spiritual sense.
Zygarde nodded in satisfaction and praised, “I wouldn’t have guessed it, kid—you’ve got some knowledge.”
Lu Li: “…”
The Zygarde in front of him should be the cells controlled by the sensory core.
In theory, Zygarde’s core could shift back and forth among all its cells, which was one of the main reasons Zygarde could be everywhere.
As the God of Order, what Zygarde maintained was not just the operation of the real world, but also the basic order of various secret realms.
Groudon had awakened with endless rage, causing such great loss to this super large secret realm, so it was normal for Zygarde to appear at this time.
Unlike in anime or the game world, the divine beasts of this world did not have fixed territory, nor did every continent have its own deities that did not interfere with each other.
What truly surprised Lu Li was why Zygarde had come to find him?
Normally, there were many people in this secret realm more suitable than him.
For example, master-level trainers Ken Lin and Wen Gongmao; even ignoring strength, there was forest messenger Huang Meng, and Rainbow Hero Li Zhi.
Whether by strength or by background, he wouldn’t even be in the queue.
Zygarde instantly understood what Lu Li was thinking and patched it up, saying, “You have a very special aura on you, something not like our this world, something outside of order, so I came to find you.”
“Is that so?” Lu Li mused thoughtfully.
Zygarde had been attracted by his spiritual energy; if that was really the case, it seemed somewhat normal.
Considering he was still in danger, Lu Li quickly asked, “Zygarde, won’t you intervene in this matter?”
“No can do. In a secret realm, I can aggregate at most 50%, and that’s if the secret realm passage hasn’t closed. Now that it’s closed, I can at most aggregate 20%.”
“But whether 50% or 20%, I actually can’t stop enraged Groudon.” Zygarde answered helplessly.
Although Groudon was often disciplined by Rayquaza, it was still a Tier 1 God no matter what, and in primal reversion state, Groudon could even be considered T2 or even T1 among Tier 1 Gods.
Lu Li: “…”
The only hope now seemed to be having Celebi open a spacetime tunnel to let them escape.
Lu Li even suspected the spacetime tunnel that inexplicably opened in his backyard was caused by Celebi.
Despite the impending disaster, Wen Gongmao calmly reminded, “Prepare for battle. The Earth God’s rage is not so easily appeased.”
“Hahaha! To die in a showdown with the Earth God—old man can die content.” Ken Lin, equally brimming with fighting spirit, gazed at distant Groudon.
At this moment, these two clear mortal enemies were both prepared to face death together.
Lu Li did not want to fight to the death; he only wanted to survive right now.
While others weren’t paying attention, Lu Li quietly asked Huang Meng, “Meng Meng, can you call your friend to come help now?”
Huang Meng pondered upon hearing this, then nodded.
“I can try, but Celebi can probably only help us escape.” Huang Meng said.
“As long as we can survive.” Lu Li thought silently in his heart.
At a time like this, Lu Li had no other thoughts at all.
Wen Gongmao left behind Claydol.
“Old acquaintance, please protect them.” After saying this, Wen Gongmao jumped onto the back of a fossilized Aerodactyl.
As the saying goes, rock and ground go together; without a good ground type flying Pokémon, Wen Gongmao settled for the next best thing.
Ken Lin said, “I think we should focus on defense.”
Although Ken Lin was already resolved to die, he still hoped to salvage something—just in case Groudon’s morning rage subsided and it went back to sleep.
Wen Gongmao, who had originally prepared to charge forward, also stopped and nodded.
If they could live, they definitely wanted to live.
Wen Gongmao said, “I’ll hold the front; hope you can wait until the secret realm entrance opens.”
Seeing this, Ken Lin sneered, “You even brought a few deadweights—serves you right to face this calamity.”
This was Ken Lin striking back at Wen Gongmao’s earlier mockery of him.
Wen Gongmao just gave a cold laugh and said nothing.
You laugh at me for bringing deadweights; I laugh at you for failing to recognize Mount Tai.
Whether old man could survive today depended on whether these big shots behind him would step up.
Whether Celebi came to check the spacetime tunnel or the Lord of Shadows took them back to the shadow world, as long as either was willing to take him along, he had hope of survival.
…………
After being woken with explosive morning rage, Groudon’s first target was to settle accounts with whoever woke it.
With feet on the earth, Groudon instantly connected to the entire earth.
The earth bore everything and could similarly record everything that happened on it.
As the Earth God, Groudon could even trace back events that had already occurred on the earth, thereby tracing to the origin of the matter.
Through earth traceback, Groudon saw that reckless poison attribute Pokémon and heard the conversation of those two humans.
Earlier, Groudon had wondered who was so careless as to dare wake sleeping it.
But now it seemed this was clearly deliberate.
“Damn humans!”
Groudon’s gaze turned cold, and the earth beneath its feet churned continuously.
Soon after, a barely alive Weezing was pushed before it by the soil.
The barely alive Weezing was filled with doubt and fear in its heart.
In its trainer’s plan, after using explosion, it would be buried in the earth, but as a champion level Pokémon, it wouldn’t lose its life over that—just wait until the matter ended, and the trainer would come find it.
That was the original plan.
But why?
How did the Earth God find it?
Filled with immense doubt, Weezing despaired as it watched the approaching shadow.
“To die by the Earth God’s hand is an honorable death?” Thinking this, Weezing slowly closed its eyes.
Boom rumble!
The explosion sounded again, but this time much more muffled.
Weezing was crushed under Groudon’s foot, without any resistance or even struggle.
After doing this, Groudon of course would not let it go just like that.
Stepping on an ant was not enough to quell its anger.
Activating the authority of the earth again, Groudon wanted to know where those two bastards who dared scheme against it had fled?
Moments later.
Rage rose in Groudon’s heart.
Those two crawlers had actually escaped!
“I do not accept this!”
The furious roar echoed through the entire secret realm again.
The earth began to tremble, and terrifying lava spread continuously from the mantle toward the surface.
…………
“Aaaahhhh!!!”
“Why am I so unlucky!”
The disheveled Qu Gang shouted in collapse, while Li Zhi, dodging the falling lava behind him, appeared at ease.
You could doubt the Rainbow Hero’s intelligence, but never question his physical fitness.
Qu Gang shouted, “This won’t do! Dodging lava from the sky is one thing, but now we have to watch for cracking earth too—a moment’s carelessness and we’ll fall into a bottomless abyss. What then!”
Li Zhi didn’t reply, just kept dodging the lava from the sky.
As for why not reply?
Of course because he also had no good method.
“Sigh!”
In the shadow world, Marshadow sighed helplessly.
This generation’s Rainbow Hero was really too hard to lead.
And Groudon—who had angered that old man? Now this secret realm might collapse.
Thinking of this, Marshadow knew it was time to act.
The two frantically dodging hadn’t noticed the shadow underfoot; Qu Gang and Li Zhi just felt darkness before their eyes, then completely lost consciousness.
After doing this, Marshadow emerged from the shadow world.
“Celebi seems to be in this secret realm too—is it because of that little girl? Should I go say hi?” Marshadow thought thoughtfully.
…………
Receiving earth’s feedback, a bloodthirsty glint flashed in Groudon’s eyes.
“There are still humans alive in this secret realm?”
“Then just perfectly accompany this secret realm to the grave!” Groudon thought with a cold laugh.
It didn’t care about humans still alive in the secret realm, nor whether they were divine envoys—what mattered now was venting its rage.
“Think cutting off the secret realm entrance lets you dodge my rage?” Groudon swiftly gathered the authority of the earth.
Precisely locating the earth of the real world, Groudon unhesitatingly initiated transfer.
Unable to fly, Groudon had long ago considered how to solve travel issues.
Later, when creating the planet, Groudon thought of earth’s veins.
The entire earth was like a giant; even split into countless parts, it could freely transfer via the veins between earth and earth.
In less than 30 minutes, the entire Fugaku Secret Realm had become a lava land; the only survivors in the secret realm were Lu Li and the others standing on rock condensed from ground attribute energy.
Wen Gongmao and Ken Lin drifting in the lava world felt utterly bitter in their hearts.
They had thought they’d die in battle with Groudon, but never imagined dying so ridiculously.
“Think we’ll be roasted alive, or starve to death?” Wen Gongmao asked with a bitter smile.
Ken Lin gritted his teeth and asked, “Can’t it be escaping alive? If we hold out long enough, the secret realm passage will open eventually.”
Wen Gongmao sneered, “So what if the secret realm passage opens? The whole world is now a sea of lava—whoever opens the secret realm entrance will get drenched in it.”
Now the entire secret realm was like a spherical container full of lava; once someone opened the secret realm export, all the lava inside would pour into the real world.
The only hope was if the secret realm entrance opened into the sky.
But with countless secret realms in the world, almost none had entrances opening in midair.
Lu Li pondered if his teleportation talisman could tear space to return to the real world.
After thinking a bit, Lu Li gave up this naive hope.
What he made was a teleportation talisman, not a void breaking talisman—it shouldn’t have reached the degree to break the spatial barrier.
Yao Yifei nervously gripped Lu Li’s arm with both hands, her face full of panic.
Having lived over twenty years, it was her first time facing a predicament where survival depended purely on luck.
“Your luck has always been good; we’ll definitely turn danger into safety this time.” Lu Li comforted softly.
Nearby, Huang Meng nodded too, energetically chiming in, “Big sister, don’t be scared. Once my friend comes, we can leave this secret realm.”
Ken Lin indifferently listened to the trio’s interaction without moving, even finding it amusing in his heart.
Pinning hope on vague and unpredictable luck—new generation trainers were too naive, and that little girl’s so-called friend.
Your friend comes and you can leave?
You think your friend is…
Damn it!
Celebi?
Ken Lin, whose face had been full of disdain, now looked joyfully manic at the mysterious Pokémon that suddenly appeared.
Celebi! The legendary God of Transmigration, Forest God.
For them now, the God of Transmigration was what they desired most.
Celebi sighed regretfully in its heart, “What a pity! So much forest turned to sea of fire by that big dummy again.”
After appearing, Celebi asked with concern, “Meng Meng, are you okay?”
Huang Meng quickly shook her head, indicating she wasn’t hurt, then pleaded, “Celebi, can you please take us out?”
“No problem! Leave it to Celebi.” It didn’t say the last part aloud: you have more important missions.
“Looks like I don’t need to act after all.” Zygarde said luckily too.
Floating in midair, Celebi gently waved a hand, and a spacetime passage appeared before everyone.
Seeing this familiar spacetime passage, Lu Li’s mouth twitched slightly.
Now it was truly confirmed—the spacetime passage in the backyard was made by this guy.
Strongly suppressing the urge to question and complain, Lu Li quietly pulled Yao Yifei behind Huang Meng.
Lu Li: “Big shot, one of us.”
Seeing this, Celebi said nothing more.
Taking Huang Meng into the spacetime passage on its own, Lu Li hurriedly followed upon seeing, with Wen Gongmao right behind.
Before entering the spacetime tunnel, Wen Gongmao paused slightly, gave Ken Lin a complex look, then ultimately went in.
Originally he wanted to block Ken Lin, but compared to troubling the opponent, Wen Gongmao cared more about his own life.
Seeing this, Ken Lin breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.
“Forest messenger, truly enviable.” Ken Lin sighed inwardly.
Such a cute little girl—why isn’t she one of us America folks?
