Chapter 1738 - 1732: The Champions Gather!

Chapter 1738: Chapter 1732: The Champions Gather!

"Alva, did you transmit my requirements to the League?" Cain looked at the sky for a while, briefly immersing himself in that clear, starry sky, almost without clouds.

Hearing that, Alva nodded repeatedly.

"Lord, I have already transmitted them. The League has already prepared what you need."

Cain nodded with satisfaction and rose from the steel throne.

With his movement, that originally extremely majestic steel throne gradually disappeared, merging into the Heaven Castle.

"Since that is the case, then send the information to our people. Everything will take as its signal what I already told them!"

Cain slowly walked to the edge of the Heaven Castle and contemplated the vast world below.

"The change of the entire Pokémon world will begin today!!"

"After today, I will make this world change completely!!"

After saying that, Cain faced the cold wind of the heights and jumped from the Heaven Castle.

The instant he jumped, a black shadow flew out of the Heaven Castle. In the night, its appearance could not be seen clearly, but that blood-red on its wings could vaguely be distinguished.

Mega Salamence!

Cain, riding on Mega Salamence, descended at full speed toward Mt. Chimney.

At that moment, all the people with sufficient strength from the League in the entire world had gathered there, around Mt. Chimney in the Hoenn region, within a radius of hundreds of kilometers.

Because according to the calculations, by pure coincidence, the place where the meteorite from outer space would impact was precisely Mt. Chimney in the Hoenn region.

In that instant, the survival of the entire world was at stake, so the League no longer hid too much strength. Everyone came out, only hoping to reduce the losses to the minimum.

And Cain, without hiding at all, descended from the sky riding Mega Salamence, also attracting the attention of the people present.

Those who were there basically already knew what had happened with Cain. Because of that, after seeing him appear, there were all kinds of gazes.

Joy, compassion, suspicion, disgust, and many more...

However, Cain ignored all those gazes and flew directly toward the summit of Mt. Chimney.

At that moment, there were very few people there. But all those who could appear in that place represented, without exception, the greatest combat force or the highest status of each region.

Among them were people known to Cain: Juan, president of the Hoenn League; Alder, current Champion of the Unova region; Cynthia, current Champion of the Sinnoh region; Diantha, current Champion of the Kalos region; Lance, current Champion of the Johto region; Lorelei, current Champion of the Kanto region; and Steven, current Champion of the Hoenn League!

The Champions of all regions had gathered!!

Except for the Alola region, which had not yet been incorporated into the League’s territory, there were six complete regions, six Champions!

Of course, Cain’s master, old Matsuda, overall president of the League, was also there, as well as Magnus, general commander of the League’s legions, and the white-robed bodyguard, Samael, whose true identity was still not completely clear.

"Well... It seems all my old friends are here. It really has been a long time," Cain said with a smile as he jumped from Mega Salamence’s back and landed in front of several of them.

Only one year had passed without seeing each other, but it gave the feeling that everything had changed and people were no longer the same.

Including Steven, everyone looked at Cain with complex expressions. They looked at that guy who, just like before, wore a confident smile on his face. They looked at the one they had always chased with all their strength.

They never would have imagined that someone they had lived with for so long, someone they believed they knew down to the root, had actually been a person of Team Rocket from the beginning.

When they had just learned this news, none of them believed it.

Seeing Cain again, it seemed that he had not changed at all. But at that moment, their identities were already on opposite sides.

"You all have already become regional Champions, how impressive. As expected of the members of our little team back then. One by one, you developed your own potential," Cain said as if nothing were wrong, chatting with those present.

But no one answered.

Nor did they know how to answer.

Only a feeling of pity filled their minds.

Of course, there was also an exception. Steven!

It was as if, on that day when he learned Cain’s identity, he had already released all his emotions. Now he only looked at Cain coldly, without any fluctuation in his eyes, without any feeling. It was like looking at a dead object unrelated to him.

Everyone also knew why Steven had become like this.

In that group, the one who had the best relationship with Cain was Steven. The one who trusted Cain the most was also him. And, of course, the one who could least accept Cain’s true identity was also him.

Because of that, during the last year, Steven carried out missions frantically and raised his strength.

He used all his free time to improve his power, and in just one year, his strength underwent an earth-shaking change.

Steven’s current strength, even within this group of Champions, belonged among the top ranks.

Lance took a step forward and looked at Cain with a complex expression.

Without exaggeration, Cain had grown little by little before his eyes. Seeing him in that situation, he also felt much sadness.

"Cain... Is there really no way?"

Cain waved his hand, stopping Lance’s next words. He swept his gaze across everyone present, taking in their expressions, and especially stopped for an instant on the faces of old Matsuda and Steven.

For some reason, he, who had always considered himself someone who placed benefits above everything, someone cold enough, felt a faint pain in his heart.

However, he did not show it on his face. He opened his mouth and revealed a big smile.

"Do not say too much. Now is an extremely urgent moment. We cannot delay even a second. Let us leave the catching up for later."

"Is what I asked for ready?"

Whoosh!

An emerald-green bead shot out from Steven’s hand.

Smack!

Cain caught that green bead at the exact moment and looked again at Steven, whose face showed no expression.

(End of Chapter)