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What happened? King Toklandis... was eaten by Gengar?!

Chapter 277 The Fallen King

The room fell silent instantly...

It was more like silence, a silence that was almost eerie.

Everything that just happened, from Ye Feng discovering the shadowy figure's sneak attack to Gengar eating it, actually occurred in just two or three seconds.

Everything happened so suddenly that the group hadn't even had time to process what was happening.

"Hmm, what just happened?" Master Ye was the first to react.

"Huh? It seems... the shadowy figure was planning to ambush Master Ye, but was eaten by Gengar?" Master Yu replied blankly.

"Yes, that's true." Master Wang nodded. Although he didn't see the black shadow attack Master Ye, he did see Gengar swallow a black ball.

Especially the black ball's death-like scream.

"Well... um..." Ye Feng opened his mouth but didn't know what to say. This was the first time he had encountered such a situation.

Is it really okay for Gengar to eat that thing?

"Gengar... are you alright?" Ye Feng asked cautiously.

He'd seen plenty of stories like this in novels and TV dramas where someone tries to possess another body but ends up being sexually assaulted and killed instead; and there were also quite a few plots where someone tries to devour another body but ends up being possessed instead!

"Gengar!" Gengar grinned, patting its belly to indicate that it was completely fine.

"The taste is not bad?" Ye Feng muttered to himself, then couldn't help but shudder.

Although it was his own spirit, this was the first time he had ever witnessed a scene of a living person... no, a living ghost being swallowed whole.

"What did Gengar say?" Master Ye asked.

"..." Ye Feng looked at Master Ye with a strange expression and said meaningfully, "It said it tastes good."

Master Ye.

"..." Master Wang.

Master Yu.

"Ahem!" Master Yu coughed. "Although Master Ye is alright, there's a problem now..."

"What?" The group looked at Master Yu.

"That dark figure... might be the former king of this Togekiss Empire..."

Ye Feng wanted to correct him, saying it was the Poklandis Empire, but after thinking about it, he realized it wasn't necessary, so he didn't say anything.

"This king..." Master Yu paused for a moment—Ye Feng thought she was doing it on purpose, and looked at Gengar, "He was eaten by Gengar, so we originally had a very convenient way to understand this empire, but now it seems... By the way, can Gengar make that king spit out?"

Spitting it out? That won't do.

Ye Feng was stunned for a moment. Gengar isn't a cow; it can't just spit out what it's eaten.

"Kuja!" Gengar suddenly patted its belly, then moved its mouth and vomited out a small, dark lump.

He really vomited it out?! What's the principle behind this? Ye Feng's eyes widened.

Seeing Ye Feng's shocked expression, Gengar spoke up: "Gengar! Gengar!"

"Huh? You only need to absorb the energy inside? The rest are impurities that are hard to absorb?" Ye Feng scratched his cheek, barely understanding.

Is this the kind of behavior that comes with being a scumbag?

The black mass wriggled on the ground for a while, then slowly transformed into a human shape, though this human shape was rather small, about the size of a soccer ball.

The shadowy figure looked up and saw the giant Gengar, immediately screaming, "You! Don't come any closer!"

He shouted as he backed away, his movements swift as lightning, and in the blink of an eye he was shrunk into the corner.

Gengar, a Ghost-type Pokémon, especially with its Master-level strength, is a natural counter to King Toklandes in its spirit form. Even the slightest aura it emits is enough to make King Toklandes tremble with fear.

Master Yu looked at Hu Di, who nodded to her, indicating that the shadowy figure now had almost no excess energy and could only barely maintain its state of not disappearing, and was no longer a threat.

"Confess honestly!" Master Yu walked confidently to the shadowy figure and looked down at it.

"Confess...confess what..." the shadowy figure stammered.

"who are you?"

"I am the King of Poklandis, and you commoners..."

"Hmm?" Master Yu raised an eyebrow, and Gengar grinned at him with a sinister smile.

"Ahem, heroes, please spare me!" The shadowy figure, now powerless, knelt on the ground with a thud and began to kowtow.

Isn't this Wang Tai spineless? The group exchanged glances.

"Alright, we won't hurt you for now. Explain the situation here," Master Yu said.

The shadowy figure looked up and, after confirming that the people in front of him, especially the Gengar, had no intention of making a move, secretly breathed a sigh of relief and began to speak.

Just as Ye Feng had expected, the dark figure was the last king of an empire called the Poklandis Empire.

Countless years ago, this king was ambitious and determined to rule the world, so he set his sights on the power of the legendary elven pillar king.

But he couldn't find Regigigas, nor even the three legendary pillars, so he turned his attention to Ho-Oh, which occasionally appeared in the world—was Ho-Oh already a photographer back then? Ye Feng secretly speculated.

In order to capture Ho-Oh, King Pokrandis used an evil sacrificial ritual of unknown origin, which could grant immense power by sacrificing souls.

So he devised various schemes and finally lured the Phoenix King to this specially built military fortress, and successfully launched the ceremony.

However, what he did not expect was that Ho-Oh's power exceeded his imagination. Even after sacrificing the power of everyone in the fortress and surrounding cities, he still could not withstand Ho-Oh's power.

When Ho-Oh was enraged and unleashed its sacred fire, in order to avoid being destroyed along with his nation, he used all his power to seal his soul inside the stone sphere, hoping to escape this catastrophic disaster.

He did succeed; the empire was destroyed, but he survived, albeit in spirit.

For so many years, he has been waiting for an opportunity, for someone to enter this place, so that he can possess that person's body through soul possession, reappear in this world, and then restore the civilization of the empire.

He didn't know how much time had passed, but he finally waited for humans to enter this place.

Although there were a few more people, one of them happened to be a strong human.

However, to his surprise, several near-successful possession attempts were thwarted by this seemingly young and weak human, and in the end, he was even eaten by a terrifyingly powerful Gengar.

Although his time inside Gengar was short, he had spent so many years there, and his already dwindling power was completely drained, leaving him with only a meager amount of energy that barely survived.

King Poklandis honestly confessed everything.

At the same time, he sighed inwardly. If he had been more cautious from the beginning and hadn't revealed himself directly from the stone sphere to possess the person sooner, but instead had tricked the strongest person into touching the stone sphere, the success rate of possession would have been the highest.

Then this kind of thing wouldn't happen.

Just as the human was about to touch the stone sphere, another person noticed its unusual feature and stopped him.

King Pokrandis waited for countless years, and seeing that his hope was about to slip away, he could no longer hold back and directly appeared to forcibly possess the body. However, he was unexpectedly destroyed, and that Gardevoir actually unleashed such strong psychic power that it almost shattered him.

Then he tried to distract them with words in an attempt to launch a sneak attack, but the attack failed and he was eaten by Gengar instead!

Chapter 278 Ancient Power

Those who learned the whole story shook their heads inwardly.

I never imagined that the king of an empire could be so evil, sacrificing his subjects for power, and ultimately meeting such an end.

"But you're really brave, daring to covet the power of the Phoenix King," Master Yu mocked.

Having personally challenged Emperor Yan, she knew very well the power of the Phoenix King. How dare this so-called king?

"Hmph! I possess an ancient power that can grant Pokémon bodies comparable to mountains and increase their strength a hundredfold or a thousandfold. Ho-Oh, a mere..."

"But your country was destroyed," Ye Feng said mercilessly.

This King Poklandis, who shares the same name, also possesses that ancient power of gigantification? If only we could obtain that power...

"Me!" King Poklandis was speechless for a moment. "Hmph!"

"I'm very interested in the ancient power you mentioned. According to you, is this power the source of your confidence in challenging Phoenix King?" Ye Feng asked.

"You want to know, don't you?" King Poklandis's tone shifted.

Ye Feng nodded.

The three masters exchanged glances without speaking, intending to observe how Ye Feng would proceed.

"Hmph! I won't tell you!" King Poklandis changed his tone and refused outright.

“Gengar.” Ye Feng looked at Gengar.

"Gengar?" Gengar tilted its head. What do you want?

“He seems to have a lot of energy when he speaks. Did you not absorb all the energy? Don’t waste it, take a couple more sips.” Ye Feng pointed to the soccer ball-sized Poklandis King.

"!!" King Poklandis was shocked. Two sips? Is that even human language?!

"Kou Jie?" Gengar scratched its head. It had just absorbed almost all of it. Let alone taking two sips, even one sip would probably make the king disappear immediately.

However, after seeing Ye Feng give it a look, Gengar immediately understood and grinned, revealing its signature wicked smile: "Hehehe!"

Gengar walked toward King Toklandes while laughing.