Chapter 726: Ultimate Weapon - Ancient Dragon God No. 1
After an emergency discussion.
The trio consisting of Kazuya, AZ, and XY reached a conclusion: Jax must be hiding in the Allearth Forest.
The Soul-Heart needs to absorb the energy of Xerneas and Yveltal, and these two Pokémon are slumbering in the Allearth Forest.
If Jax wanted the Soul-Heart to absorb their energy, he could only personally bring it to find them.
Anyway, it was absolutely impossible for him to hand the Soul-Heart over to anyone else.
This thing was a product that, currently, no one other than AZ could replicate.
If Jax lost the Soul-Heart.
Then all his wild ambitions would fall short of success at the final stage.
Therefore.
To stop Jax.
They had to find him in the Allearth Forest and retrieve the Soul-Heart, or just kill him outright.
The Allearth Forest is the largest forest in the Kalos region.
Its scale was so massive that it could be compared to the Viridian Forest in the Kanto region.
Trying to find a person in such a forest.
Was about as difficult as finding a needle in a vast lake.
But even so.
They couldn't just give up searching.
AZ and XY mobilized a large number of personnel to conduct a carpet search in the Allearth Forest.
This was only possible because many Pokémon living in the Allearth Forest had fled since the Great Destruction event.
Otherwise, many people would definitely die this time around.
As for AZ and XY themselves.
They didn't deploy personally.
Instead, they plunged headfirst into the underground research lab, seemingly planning to make a last-minute effort.
With this massive Allearth Forest, finding Jax wouldn't depend on just the two of them.
On the contrary, as participants in the creation of the Soul-Heart and the Ultimate Weapon, they might be able to use this little bit of time to make some tools specifically designed to counter the Ultimate Weapon.
At the bottom of a massive lake in the southern part of the Allearth Forest.
Surprisingly, there was a human moving freely at the bottom of the lake, seemingly completely unaffected by the lake water.
But upon closer inspection, one could discover.
This person was actually inside a space isolated from the lake water by a glass dome. Moreover, the top of this glass dome extended all the way to the surface of the lake, forming a ventilation shaft that kept the air flowing.
This person was exactly the Jax that the Azoth Kingdom was searching for.
As early as when he was exploring the mysteries of natural energy in the Allearth Forest, he had already completely figured out everything about this place.
Therefore.
Two years ago.
When he decided to steal the Soul-Heart and use the Ultimate Weapon to seize political power.
Jax immediately set his sights on this lake and began preparing to build a secret space at its bottom.
From the day the secret space was completed.
He possessed an exclusive research institute where he could hide himself, hide the Soul-Heart, and secretly rebuild an Ultimate Weapon.
Not only that.
Starting from two years ago as well.
He had been secretly hiring people everywhere to investigate the possible hiding locations of those two Magical Beasts.
Others might not know how to distinguish them.
But how could Jax, who had researched natural energy for over a decade, not know?
Finding those two Magical Beasts was actually not difficult.
He only needed to find "the most vibrant place" and "the most lifeless place" in the Allearth Forest.
Therefore.
Jax didn't need to hire any professionals or look for them himself.
He could simply hire those hunters in Azoth who were very familiar with the Allearth Forest to look for such two places.
"Damn it... If I could just work freely, it wouldn't even take two years... It's all because of that foolish AZ."
Jax cursed under his breath while inspecting his homemade Ultimate Weapon.
Different from the flower bud shape created by AZ.
The Ultimate Weapon Jax built was in the shape of a dragon's head, specifically a Charizard's head.
Jax's ancestors.
Came from an ancient tribe that worshipped the Ancient Dragon God.
Legend had it that the Ancient Dragon God was an older deity than the God of Creation and the God of Destruction, and had once ruled the entire world for a full century.
A hundred years.
Might not seem like much compared to a deity's long lifespan.
However.
In the many legends and stories from ancient times to the present.
The Ancient Dragon God.
Is the only deity who has ever ruled the entire world.
Therefore, Jax believed that the Ancient Dragon God must be the most powerful God among all deities!
Consequently.
The Ultimate Weapon he built.
Was modeled after the appearance of the Magical Beast descended from the Ancient Dragon God.
He even named it the "Ultimate Weapon - Ancient Dragon God No. 1"!
It could be considered placing high hopes on this Ultimate Weapon.
Kazuya himself probably couldn't have imagined that he had been forced to achieve a "100% participation in team fights" achievement.
However.
Because he had always been operating secretly.
Whether in terms of manpower or materials, it was completely incomparable to the past in various aspects.
Therefore.
This Ultimate Weapon he built himself.
Could only be called the [Ultimate Weapon - Lite Version], or to put it simply, the beggar's version of the Ultimate Weapon.
This point somewhat disgraced the Ancient Dragon God.
Jax didn't mind spending a bit more time on this.
He also had the confidence to build a stronger weapon that surpassed the first-generation Ultimate Weapon.
But the problem was.
The Azoth Kingdom had already noticed something was wrong.
Recently, he found that there were a large number of Azoth soldiers in the forest, obviously looking for him.
Jax no longer had the time to leisurely gather materials and upgrade the Ultimate Weapon.
He had to hurry up and act!
Otherwise, it was only a matter of time before this place was discovered.
"Fortunately, the slumbering places of those two Magical Beasts have pretty much been confirmed... The life energy has been collected for a day and a night, I wonder if it's enough."
With a gloomy expression, Jax changed his clothes, put on a straw hat and a scarf, and turned to leave the secret base. "Whether it's enough or not, I can't leave the Soul-Heart there anymore. The slumbering place of the God of Creation is too conspicuous. I must start collecting the destruction energy."
He walked into a glass passageway.
A quarter of an hour later.
He appeared in the forest near the lake.
At this moment, Jax looked no different from an ordinary hunter.
However, in this extraordinary period.
If he ran into Azoth soldiers, even an ordinary hunter would be grabbed and subjected to a thorough inspection and interrogation several times over.
"Xiu xiu!"
Jax whistled a few times at the sky.
A few seconds later.
A small Fletchling, about 40 centimeters in size, flew over from nearby and landed on top of Jax's head.
This small Fletchling, clearly considered malnourished in the era of Magical Beasts, was Jax's partner.
Of course.
Jax just didn't treat this little chicken as his partner, that was all.
It could only be considered a barely useful Magical Beast.
"Scout the surroundings properly. If there's anyone nearby, alert me immediately."
Jax casually gave an order, a look of disgust flashing through his eyes.
He just looked down on this Magical Beast.
In Jax's view.
He must find a very powerful Magical Beast.
For example, a descendant tribe of the Ancient Dragon God, the kind of flying dragon that could breathe fire. In Jax's heart, that was the optimal choice, bar none.
As for the intelligence of the Magical Beast...
Jax didn't need it.
It was enough that he had intelligence.
Magical Beasts that were too smart were harder to tame.
"Ji ji."
The little Fletchling nodded, and then flew away.
How could she not see the disgust in Jax's eyes?
Pokémon are very sensitive to this aspect.
The little Fletchling could certainly sense Jax's attitude towards her.
But what could she do?
She was born weak, her constitution couldn't compare to other Magical Beasts, and she couldn't even defeat some Bug-type Pokémon.
In this Allearth Forest, the little Fletchling was almost at the very bottom of the food chain.
If she didn't rely on Jax, she might not even survive until the next day.
So even though Jax was disgusted by her, she would still work for him.
If you asked how heartbroken she was.
It wasn't to that extent.
After all, just like Jax didn't treat the little Fletchling as a partner, the latter didn't treat the former as a partner either. The two merely had a mutually beneficial employment relationship.
When a person is doing bad things they enjoy.
They don't feel fatigue.
So even after running continuously in the forest for five or six hours, Jax didn't feel tired at all.
When he arrived at his destination.
He saw a dense forest surrounded by colorful, blooming flowers.
Right in the center of the dense forest.
There was an "X"-shaped "small" tree.
In the League era, this would be a very ordinary small tree, but in the Magical Beast era's forest, where giant trees were the norm, it looked quite bizarre.
Especially since this small tree was surrounded by a cluster of enchanting flowers.
For anyone deliberately looking for Xerneas, this was almost plainly telling them He was here.
This was why Jax was in such a hurry to come and recover the Soul-Heart.
He dug out a dirty iron ball from the soil beneath this X-shaped small tree.
Although this iron ball was covered in mud, the iridescent light radiating from beneath it was still incredibly dazzling.
If Kazuya were here at this moment, he would discover.
The current Soul-Heart was I-don't-know-how-many times more brightly colored than when he first saw it.
If during their first encounter.
The Soul-Heart was just an iron ball with a dim bluish-purple light.
Then the current Soul-Heart was a rainbow sphere.
The Soul-Heart had been buried here for a day and a night, absorbing a massive amount of life energy that unintentionally leaked from the slumbering Xerneas.
Next, he just needed to collect some destruction energy to let the two types of energy merge into a massive amount of natural energy.
One part destruction energy and one part life energy.
How much natural energy could that create?
Although Jax didn't have a specific standard in mind, he could more or less determine a range.
If the Soul-Heart could also absorb a day and a night of destruction energy.
Then he estimated it should be able to let the Soul-Heart reach a state of full energy.
"Next is the destruction energy. I hope the speed of those idiots is a bit slower."
Jax looked up at the color of the sky.
A dark and windy night.
It was the perfect time to transfer the Soul-Heart.
Coincidentally.
Kazuya thought the exact same thing.
"The commotion the Azoth Kingdom is making is huge, that guy must have already noticed. In this situation, if he still wants to act, he can only pick this time slot at night."
His figure flickered back and forth in the forest like a phantom.
Although he couldn't confirm the exact location.
But Kazuya believed.
Jax must be carrying the Soul-Heart and walking somewhere in this forest right now.
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