Slurp!
Gengar let out a sinister, echoing cackle as its massive, crimson tongue swept through the air, swallowing the blue draconic soul-flame whole.
Instantly, a monumental surge of pure, high-density draconic plasma flooded through its spectral limbs. Its shadowy purple skin began to vibrate with violent kinetic energy as it rapidly digested Kingdra's Champion-tier core. To a phantom of Gengar's exceptional caliber, siphoning the residual lifeforce of broken apex predators was the ultimate catalyst to permanently multiply its baseline stats.
Concurrently, Kingdra's massive, lifeless serpentine chassis began sinking down into the roiling depths. Before the scavenger Sharpedo could lock their teeth onto the carcass, a flash of violet telekinetic light enveloped the frame. Mewtwo executed a precise, short-range Teleport, cleanly filtering the entire physical body directly into Feng Che's high-capacity spatial ring.
"A pristine, Mid-Champion Kingdra specimen... Its bone marrow can easily be refined into high-purity Dragon Essence Elixirs, its hide can be harvested to forge a custom Dragon King's Whip, and more importantly, its throat still anchors a fully intact, storm-calling Dragon Core."
"This single harvest houses more than enough elemental weight to double the combat metrics of my dual Gyarados or any other high-order Dragon-type on my ledger," Feng Che calculated smoothly, a cold smile playing across his lips.
"Now, the board is narrowed down entirely to the Basculegion and the atavistic Mega Gyarados."
If Gengar could systematically unseat and consume the soul-cores of the remaining two titans, its baseline capability would easily undergo a permanent, paradigm-shifting breakthrough.
"Furthermore, that black sea dragon anchors a secondary, high-purity Dragon Pearl within its cranial crest—the ultimate nutritional supplement to optimize a Gyarados's framework."
"This promotion circuit is yielding an exceptional return on investment."
Having solidified his status as an active Elite-tier commander, Feng Che's long-term sights were already locked beyond the Champion threshold. His ultimate career roadmap was to clear the absolute summit—shattering the modern ceiling to claim the title of a Mythic-Tier Grandmaster, a sovereign rank where primordial gods and legendary deities naturally bent their knees in absolute submission to a human's command.
The Malicious Sovereign
Seeing Gengar casually smacking its lips after forcefully stealing the dragon soul right out from under its jaws, the Basculegion went completely berserk with fury.
Its burning, unholy irises fixed onto the phantom with absolute venom, its serrated jaws snapping shut with a violent, silent vibration that rippled the deep channels—an overt declaration of total extermination.
Concurrently, the black Mega Gyarados witnessed Kingdra's soul being forcefully reaped from its shell, causing its own massive, armored skull to tighten with immense dread.
Mega Gyarados (Circulatory Panic): Exceptional fortune that my house maintained the structural integrity of the water vortex shield... Had my frame been exposed without a kinetic buffer like that miserable sniper, my core would have been liquidated instantly.
The prehistoric leviathan cast a highly apprehensive, guarded look toward the ghost-fish, its tracking arrays registering the pure, unmitigated avarice reflecting in Basculegion's eyes.
Basculegion (Predatory Matrix): A minor tactical delay... Gengar managed to secure the vanguard position to harvest Kingdra. However, that black sea dragon is sitting on the absolute brink of total metabolic failure.
My sensory arrays can track the heavy, creeping presence of Absolute Death venting from its obsidian skin.
Within a brief chronological window, its biological engine will experience total structural collapse, forcing its soul to disconnect from its chassis.
When that inflection point materializes, my school will tolerate zero interference from that purple ghost. That dragon core belongs explicitly to my ledger.
The sinister ghost-fish stabilized its orientation, quietly coiling beneath the foam like a patient executioner, ready to violently snatch the next harvest.
Right at that juncture, the underlying current within Mega Gyarados's protective water wall fractured as massive, high-voltage golden static arcs grounded directly into its spine.
The black titan unhinged its massive jaws, attempting to project a definitive, maximum-yield Hyper Beam to clear its airspace.
However, Feng Che's custom visor monitored the internal cavity of its snout—the entire tissue block was heavily pinned and lacerated by dozens of spectral phantom arrows. Decidueye had executed its master directives flawlessly from the shadows, its precision sniper shots systematically targeting the beast's internal thresholds.
Sustaining the internal trauma, Mega Gyarados's life-force index slid into a rapid, vertical decay.
The sheer concussive torque of the incoming Hyper Beam manually pulverized the remaining fibers of the Great Wooden Buddha, grinding the botanical deity back into loose kindling. Having expended its continuous energy loop, Gigantamax Venusaur smoothly exited its giant configuration, its mass reverting back to its baseline parameters before Feng Che clicked his luxury capsule to recall it from the field.
"Your service was impeccable, Venusaur. Rest your roots," Feng Che encouraged softly.
"The endgame belongs to my command."
The black sea dragon felt its biological clock ticking down to its final seconds. Driven by a desperate, primeval urge to survive, it locked its remaining muscle torque to authorize a final, catastrophic Dragon Rush.
But right at that exact millisecond, the overhanging crystalline armor of the Lugia Egg fractured completely, shattering into millions of glittering shards as a colossal, pitch-black silhouette tore out of the shell.
The newborn entity meticulously preserved the grand, aerodynamic silhouette of the Legendary Sea Lord, yet it radiated an entirely heretical, terrifyingly dense Dark-type energy frequency.
The Shadow Lugia had officially awakened.
Its massive, avian-draconic chassis was draped in a deep, midnight-black hide, complemented along its spine by a localized, swirling matrix of charcoal storm clouds that hovered continuously above its wings.
Boundless lines of golden lightning and indigo plasma crackled violently across its primary pinions. Looking at the newborn titan, Feng Che realized it no longer functioned as a traditional deity of ocean currents; its biological code had inverted, converting it into a sovereign Lord of the Tempest.
"Feng Che, the embryonic fluid within that incubator was magnificent; it housed an exceptional concentration of Flying and Dark-attribute energy matrixes," Mewtwo's voice reported, its analytical arrays running a full diagnostic scan on the newborn.
"The target core has thoroughly assimilated and stabilized the black corruption leaked by the Shadow-Sky Fiends during its incubation cycle. Its primary typing has systematically rewritten itself to absorb the dark element."
Feng Che locked eyes with the Shadow Lugia. The god's irises were perfectly clear, sharp, and highly intelligent; its advanced cognitive pathways instantly recognized Feng Che as the singular anchor who had continuously bankrolled its development and shielded its core from the planetary sentinels.
The exact millisecond its boots locked onto the open deck, the giant dragon executing the Dragon Rush closed the distance. Shadow Lugia merely opened its pitch-black beak, discharging a pristine, point-blank Aeroblast.
A monumental, highly compressed column of jet-black acoustic kinetic energy blasted through the air.
The sheer concussive velocity of the black beam instantly disintegrated the protective dragon-shroud wrapping Mega Gyarados's chassis. Against the unmitigated authority of a Mythic Scion, the Mid-Champion sea dragon failed to sustain its alignment for a single fraction of a second.
With a broken, high-pitched shriek of absolute agony, the hundred-meter leviathan was violently batted out of the sky, its broken frame plunging straight down into the crashing waves.
"Shadow Lugia, execute an absolute climate-override. Pacify this entire marine quadrant," Feng Che commanded telepathically, his neural link locked.
The midnight-black deity turned its head, its gaze resting calmly on Feng Che for a brief moment before it took a monumental structural breath, launching a secondary, sky-clearing Aeroblast straight into the center of the overhanging storm clouds.
A monumental shockwave of compressed air surged into the stratospheric layer.
BOOM—CRACK!
An explosion that vibrated the very foundations of the ocean floor ripped through the sky. The expanding air wall tore outward across all four quadrants, manually scattering the thick, charcoal-indigo clouds until the entire hurricane grid was completely unraveled like broken fish scales, revealing a pristine, deep-blue sky above.
"Human Commander Feng Che... you have the uncompromised gratitude of my house. Your vanguard successfully secured the critical chronological window required for my cells to finalize their alignment."
"However... having just broken the evolutionary shell, my internal power banks have reached temporary depletion metrics. My core requires immediate transition into the Life Greenhouse to initiate deep-sleep parameters."
Shadow Lugia fanned its heavy, midnight wings with slow, rhythmic majesty before its massive form dissolved into particles of dark light, slipping cleanly back into Shaymin's specialized spatial pocket.
The little Grass mythical remained entirely oblivious within its deep slumber that a secondary, continent-tier sovereign had just anchored its mass inside its greenhouse fields.
Reaping the Leviathan
With the storm clouds completely expunged from the map, the catastrophic hurricane wind decayed into a gentle breeze, and the multi-meter rogue waves collapsed back into an absolute, glass-like marine stillness.
Right at that exact millisecond, the ocean surface a few hundred meters out ruptured violently as a gargantuan silhouette broke the water, throwing up massive plumes of white froth.
Mega Gyarados surfaced, its broken coils thrashing erratically as it let out a series of frantic, suffocating cries of absolute agony.
The Basculegion had already clamped its serrated jaws violently onto the dragon's lower tail assembly, its fangs ripping through the flesh as it greedily siphoned the closing life-force of the titan.
But before the fish could finalize the harvest, Gengar materialized smoothly dead-center of Mega Gyarados's massive cranial trident.
Leveraging its unique, high-order Soul-Siphon sub-routine, the shadow ghost took a monumental breath, executing a violent, psychokinetic suction pull straight down the dragon's central nervous system.
The obsidian leviathan's motor functions froze instantly, its control parameters unraveled completely.
Its sovereign soul-core—manifesting as a magnificent, brilliant royal-blue flame—was manually wrenched out of its forehead, drifting through the air.
桀桀 (Jie-jie)!
Gengar let out a manic, triumphant cackle, opening its shadow-maw wide to swallow the Mid-Champion dragon soul in a single, clean gulp.
Basculegion (System Inversion): Despicable phantom...! My database tolerated its previous theft of the sniper, yet this wretched shadow has dared to forcefully strip the apex dragon core right out from under my teeth!
The ghost-fish's compound eyes flared an absolute, unholy crimson red. It violently released its clamp on Mega Gyarados's mangled tail, its massive jaws unhinging as fluid draconic blood dripped continuously from its teeth.
Its heavy mouth-plates ground together, generating a sharp, rhythmic clack-clack-clack frequency that resonated across the water like a death knell.
Gengar merely smirked from its high perch, slowly raising its stubby shadow claw to execute a chilling, horizontal slit-throat gesture straight toward the fish's visor.
Seizing the absolute stillness of the coordinate grid, Feng Che extended his telekinesis, smoothly hoisting Mega Gyarados's massive, hundred-meter physical chassis out of the water and siphoning the premium material carcass directly into his spatial ring.