This wildly and rapidly increasing strength sent Shiko's mind into a brief daze.
In an instant, an indescribable, frenzied emotion spread through his heart.
It nearly swallowed his entire consciousness.
Fortunately, at the final moment, Shiko came back to his senses in time.
He suppressed that restless emotion and those thoughts.
What was going on?
Logically speaking, he should not have lost his rationality just because his power had increased too quickly.
Shiko was puzzled.
Immediately afterward, his gaze instinctively fell on the two Plates in his hand. Their energy had already been completely absorbed, leaving them as dull, ordinary stone slabs.
All at once, Shiko came up with a bold guess.
Could that divine will that had nearly made him lose control just now have belonged to Arceus?
Was it the will Arceus had left inside these Plates?
The more Shiko thought about it, the more he felt that this had to be the case.
Otherwise, if that supreme god had made no arrangements at all inside his own energy Plates, would that not be far too absurd?
However, Arceus probably never imagined that a madman like Shiko could exist in this world.
Someone who would dare stretch his claws and ambitions toward Arceus himself.
Crack!
Coming back to his senses, Shiko crushed the Plates in his hand into powder.
Then he opened his palm and watched the powder scatter with the wind.
After that, Shiko looked not far away.
There, the allied forces that had come to wage war against the Lighthouse Alliance were gathered.
Shiko's gaze passed through the crowded masses and accurately landed on Himeko.
Their eyes met.
In that instant, Shiko's heart filled with mixed emotions.
Scenes from the time they had spent together flashed through his mind one after another.
He was very grateful for the care Himeko had given him back when he was still weak.
But now, he had already become the strongest Pokémon on this planet.
And a Pokémon like that no longer needed a Trainer at all.
Still, the friendship between Shiko and Himeko remained.
Perhaps when the time came, bringing that girl back to serve as his private cook would not be bad either.
A few strange thoughts surfaced in Shiko's mind.
He shook his head. After glancing at Himeko once more, he soared into the boundless sky, turned into a streak of yellow light, and disappeared.
Now was not the time to waste by staying here.
With such powerful strength, Shiko had already keenly sensed that the current him now possessed the same ability as Regigigas: the ability to grant life to inorganic objects.
His power might even be stronger than Regigigas's.
Then next, it was finally time to create the Digimon army he had long awaited!
His first stop next would naturally still be Dragon Valley!
Arceus, who was observing the situation on the Earth, suddenly felt a powerful sensation of something being torn away.
It felt as though a force had been forcibly stripped out of his body.
It was incomparably real.
A bad premonition surfaced in Arceus's heart.
Immediately afterward, golden streams of light surfaced in his azure eyes.
Long chains passed through layer after layer of dark cosmic space and encircled that lonely planet.
With the help of time flowing backward, he saw everything that had happened there.
Dialga, whom he had sent to eliminate the aberration, had actually failed.
Moreover, Dialga had failed even after using the power of the two Origin Plates that Arceus had granted him.
This result was completely beyond his expectations.
Logically speaking, Dialga in Origin Forme had long since surpassed the category of an ordinary first-tier Legendary.
His true strength had surpassed planetary level and reached the cosmic level.
At that level, eliminating an aberrant Pokémon that had only reached the level of a second-tier Legendary should have been effortless.
But the facts were clear.
Dialga had been defeated cleanly.
Worse still, the two Plates containing Dragon- and Steel-type Origin Power that Arceus had left him had also been lost and had fallen into the hands of that so-called WarGreymon.
That being was actually this powerful?
How long had it even been?
From the moment Arceus became aware of his existence until now, according to the Earth's time, only a little more than half a year had probably passed.
In that amount of time, even a first-tier Legendary would not be able to cause any truly effective interference or influence.
Yet he had actually done it?
Arceus fell silent.
He realized that every judgment he had previously made about Shiko had been wrong.
This aberration was far stronger and far more troublesome than every destabilizing factor that had appeared in this universe before.
Then, as he continued to trace the flow of events backward, he discovered an even more shocking and unexpected fact.
His two Plates had actually had their power directly absorbed by that WarGreymon!
Only then did Arceus understand where that intense feeling of being stripped away had come from.
So it was because his own Origin Power had been absorbed by that being.
But if that was the case, then another problem appeared.
The power he possessed was the purest and most fundamental power in this universe.
Its intensity was absolutely not something an ordinary Pokémon could withstand.
Even powerful beings such as Dialga could only borrow a portion of the Origin Power within the Plates to temporarily enter their Origin Forme.
Throughout the boundless years, Arceus had already confirmed one thing.
Aside from himself, no one else could absorb and control the energy contained within the Plates.
But today, this aberration that had suddenly appeared not only absorbed all of the power inside them.
He also erased the connection Arceus had hidden within them.
He even wiped away every trace of the consciousness Arceus had tried to infiltrate with.
He turned those two Plates into pure, powerful energy bodies.
One had to understand that this was the most powerful Steel- and Dragon-type energy in the entire universe.
All Steel- and Dragon-type energy in this universe had evolved from those Plates and come into existence because of them.
Therefore, according to that understanding, every Pokémon that possessed either of those two types should have all of its energy anchored to the most fundamental power and be guided and controlled by it.
Absorbing that power should have been completely impossible.
But now, Shiko had completely overturned Arceus's understanding.
He had truly absorbed the power within them.
How exactly had he done it?
He was clearly an unknown aberration.
But he was still a Pokémon.
Then he should still be bound by the rules of this universe.
Arceus only felt that Shiko's bodily structure was extremely mysterious.
He existed within this universe, yet he was completely outside the control of this universe's rules.
Interesting!
The next second, a large number of Plates flew out from around Arceus once again.
Brilliant light seeped out from within them.
Then it illuminated the entire dark cosmic space in multicolored radiance.
The Plates spun rapidly around his body like a prismatic wheel of light.
A very interesting being.
For the balance of the universe,
and also so that he himself could find a path one step further ahead,
perhaps he needed to capture this being and thoroughly study and dissect him.
Arceus thought for a moment and decided to continue carrying out the plan to eliminate Shiko.
Only, before erasing him, he would first thoroughly study the specific secrets inside Shiko...
Since Dialga alone could not do it,
then this time, he would send Palkia and Giratina together.
To be safe, he would send that one as well.
Three cosmic-level first-tier Legendaries.
With the power of his Plates supporting them on top of that,
this time, no matter what, they should be able to take him down.
At this thought, Arceus frowned slightly again.
He still felt somewhat uncertain.
Thus, after thinking it over, he decided to directly mobilize all available forces.
He would awaken every first-tier Legendary on the Earth that was currently dwelling in seclusion or lying dormant.
He would give them a clear command.
All Pokémon were to surround and attack Shiko.
One fighter could not withstand an army.
And this time, the force attacking him would be far more than a single army.
If Arceus did not still need to repair the massive black hole in the universe,
and if he did not have to stay vigilant against the recent invasion from another world,
he would have personally gone to the Earth and brought WarGreymon back himself.
However, with such a powerful formation deployed,
it would be more than enough to accomplish his goal.
The next second, with a thought from him,
a Pokémon with six thick, heavy legs like stone pillars and purple batlike wings emerged from the surging darkness of cosmic space beneath his feet.
Afterward, another Pokémon appeared.
It was an upright, white, dragon-like Pokémon, with four fence-like structures behind it that bore dragon-horn-like protrusions.
Giratina, ruler of the Distortion World.
And Palkia, master of space.
After sensing Arceus's summons, both appeared almost immediately.
After assigning them the task of bringing Shiko back,
Arceus lightly tapped the prismatic Plates and told them that Dialga had already been defeated by their target.
This news shocked Giratina and Palkia deeply.
They naturally knew how strong Dialga was.
Like them, Dialga was a cosmic-level first-tier Legendary.
And now, Dialga had actually been defeated.
No wonder the Creator God wanted the two of them to set out together.
Immediately afterward, Arceus gave them two more Plates.
One was the Splash Plate, for Palkia.
The other was the Spooky Plate, for Giratina.
These two energy Plates, which matched their respective types, could help them unleash their strongest Origin Formes in battle.
(End of Chapter)
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