Divine Plan? But I'm a Pokémon trainer.

Chapter 120: Homeward Cave

Quack! It's haunted!
Before Link, who allowed the souls of the savage bass to be reincarnated, could be moved, he was startled by the sudden appearance of red eyes in the water.

“Ghost ahhhhhhhhhhh!!!”

Xiaoxia at the side reacted even more violently than him. She jumped back as if she could slash out with sword energy, and ran towards the cave behind the two of them in panic.

"Wait, don't go in there! Fly up into the sky!"

It was a pity that Link's reminder was a little slow, and Misty finally ran into the cave behind her with Golduck, while the Savage Bass hurriedly flew into the sky.

He looked into the water speechlessly, his red gaze gradually forming a gray, six-legged, golden semi-ring extending from the back to the chest with black and red stripes, and a dragon-like creature with a pair of black wings of uncertain air/liquid.

There is no doubt that this is the Giratina who has always been beaten but never behaved in games, TV and movies.

I didn't expect to come across it here.

"Fu?"

The fire fox looked at its reflection in the water. It was a little scared, but then it realized that the other party didn't move and just stayed in the water quietly.

After a moment, it gradually faded out of sight as if it had never appeared, and the creepy feeling disappeared out of thin air.

It seemed to be just a very simple haunted incident.

The savage bass finally reacted and looked at the elf egg that had appeared out of nowhere and was quietly hatching in the water.

"Elves are really amazing. Even fish lay eggs... It seems that fish are born to lay eggs?"

In any case, his mission with the Savage Bass was half completed.

"Bass?"

Is this its hometown?
But why doesn't it have any impression?

"I think it's because there is some special power in the Fountain of Farewell."

He subconsciously recalled the figure of Giratina just now.

Giratina represents antimatter and soul/jade. Although the destroyed world is not the spiritual world, its exit is the intersection of the real world and the spiritual world.

It is very likely that the special nature of this place allows the souls of the dead to be reincarnated as in the Sinnoh legend.

"Bass~"

Not reincarnation.

The underwater light gradually faded. In addition to the 294 elf eggs that gave birth to white-striped wild bass, there were also an equal number of souls.

These souls still exist in the world, but the resentment and hatred of the past hundred years have been purified, causing them to change from an ominous color that seemed as if they could go berserk at any time to a warm orange-red color.

A moment later, these red flames, carrying the water from the Farewell Fountain, rushed towards the savage perch in the air, as spectacular as a hundred birds paying homage to the phoenix.

It’s a pity that Xiaoxia didn’t see this scene. She had already walked away. In many ways...

As all these souls returned to the body of the Savage Bass, Link's long-dormant sacred plan was shaken violently again.

"This is!?"

I saw that the Hope Badge, which evolved from the golden badge obtained in Golden Yellow City before, was shaped like a meteor and burst into a golden light that was more dazzling than the previous times.

The light penetrated into the body of the savage bass, and the souls of 294 of its kind turned into flames and burned violently, forming a brilliant light of evolution on its body surface.

After a moment, the fish's body was reborn, and it continued to grow larger and evolved into a new form - the dark fish!
The new appearance is even more majestic than before, with a long body wrapped in a soul burning like a flame, sharp eyes, spots, beard, and eyebrows are all dyed with warm red. It looks more like a fire-attributed elf...

[Ghostfish, a big fish Pokémon with water + ghost attributes. 】

[The souls of the companions who died halfway through the journey upstream are entangled with it, and the anger of the dead companions dyed its body red. It has amazing jumping ability and is invincible in the rivers flowing through the Xicui area. 】

"Bass?"

The sudden change made the Dark Tail Black Fish feel particularly shocked. It felt the changes in itself and found that those souls that were full of resentment in the past seemed to have been cleansed, and were now completely willing to assist its actions in all aspects.

Not only can it enhance physical abilities, it can also think in multiple cores, perform different variations of moves in an instant, or serve as a floating cannon to assist in attacks, and it can even help it stay focused and construct extremely complex illusions!
"You sound much stronger than before, and you seem to have the advantages of both male and female Phantomfish... Although I would like to test your evolved abilities with you, we have to find Xiaoxia now."

Hearing this, the Fire Fox and the Dark Tail Black Fish nodded.

Although the latter's hometown still could not be found, at least a great burden had been lifted after completing the task of reproduction, and it had plenty of time to travel around the rivers of Sinnoh with the other party.

Link took back the Phantom Flame that had gained the ability to fly after evolving, and rode on Arcanine with Fire Fox into the return cave behind them.

The fog inside the cave is thicker than outside. When walking in it, one will feel a sense of confusion from time to time, as if the further one goes forward, the further away from the world one is.

"Fu!"

The Fire Fox soon noticed that the space inside the cave was distorted, consisting of discontinuous rooms, and it was impossible to determine the direction according to common sense.

Arcanine followed the trail by its sense of smell, but as expected, it immediately lost Misty around a corner.

It’s not that its sense of smell has failed, but that Xiaoxia’s scent has disappeared out of thin air.

In the game, there is a pillar here as a hint, but in reality there doesn't seem to be any reference.

Wild Pokémon also disappeared. This place, which was supposed to be populated by various ghost-type Pokémon, was now empty.

Fortunately, Fire Fox saw through the subtle changes in energy in the cave through the "Eye of Miracles" and kept guiding Windy Dog deeper into the cave.

The deeper you go, the more depressing the atmosphere in the cave becomes. It seems as if the atmosphere can drive the mentally fragile crazy. Even the shadows of humans and elves gradually become ferocious.

"Perhaps we shouldn't go this deep. It's unlikely that Xiaoxia would go this deep."

"Fu..."

The fire fox thought so too, but after reaching such a deep place, its "miracle eyes" were completely unable to tell where it was.

The energy intensity in every direction has exceeded its perception limit, as if it is in complete darkness and cannot see anything clearly.

"It doesn't matter, we can just walk around and leave."

As it spoke, Arcanine carried Link headfirst into the deepest part of the Homeward Cave.

This is an axially symmetrical cave with stairs on all sides extending continuously to the open space below.

At the bottom of the stairs was a stone tablet with a message written in an unknown language, and in front of it was a large platinum gem.

Link and the elves ignored the ominous-looking gem and looked at the inscription on the stone tablet in the deepest part of the cave.

The translation ability was as reliable as ever, and I read out its meaning on the spot -

here it is,
Brilliant life,

With the life that is lost,
A place where two worlds intersect and overlap.

(End of this chapter)