Chapter 728: Another Path Given by Future Sight
A quarter of an hour ago.
Somewhere in an underground cave.
"Is someone here?! Damn it! So fast! The absorption of destruction energy has been going on for less than half a day!"
Seeing Fletchling-kun flying over to find him, Jax instantly cursed in exasperation.
But no matter how much he cursed verbally, his actions were extremely calm and decisive. He directly grabbed the Soul-Heart and walked outside, completely suppressing the greed and wishful thinking in his heart.
Jax rushed back to the surface holding the Soul-Heart, and then headed towards his secret base without stopping.
At this point, he had no way out.
Of course, Jax had no intention of retreating anyway.
"Although the destruction energy collected is only a third of the life energy..."
"But the natural energy produced after combining them should be enough to activate the Ultimate Weapon. It is the energy of gods, after all..."
"Soul-Heart... you absolutely must not let me down..."
Jax sprinted along the road, muttering crazily to himself.
At this moment, no one besides himself could understand the excitement in his heart.
It was not because he fantasized about becoming the Eternal Emperor by using the Ultimate Weapon.
It was simply because he was about to see the results of his scientific research.
The current Jax was, in essence, more of a mystic scientist.
His desire to explore mystic science far outweighed his thirst for power and status.
However.
This type of character was actually more dangerous.
Because at this moment, Jax only had eyes for activating the Ultimate Weapon.
He just wanted to see what the actual effect of the Soul-Heart—a culmination of the lifelong ultimate secrets of many masters in the field of mystic science—would be.
As for the power and status he had considered in the past.
They were not worth mentioning in Jax's eyes right now.
Those things were not worth making him hesitate in the slightest.
Therefore.
As long as Jax stuffed the Soul-Heart into his homemade Ultimate Weapon.
There was an extremely high probability that he would activate the Ultimate Weapon immediately.
When that time came.
The Allearth Forest, being the closest, would probably face a true Great Destruction event.
At the same time.
When Jax climbed out of the underground pit.
AZ and Floette also rushed headlong into the Allearth Forest without stopping.
He held an object similar to a pocket watch in his hand.
On the dial, a small stone could be seen constantly trembling left and right.
The amazing thing was.
No matter how AZ and Floette changed directions.
The small stone always pointed in the same direction, like a compass.
Returning to Kazuya's perspective.
When he found that the Tree of Life was also not in its future location.
He originally planned to turn around immediately and find AZ.
But the scene in his vision flickered, and a hallucination-like scene appeared before his eyes.
[ Kazuya, AZ, and Floette were sprinting rapidly through the forest.
During this time, he could be seen frequently using Teleport, taking the other two to rush quickly in a certain direction.
Right after one of the Teleports.
The three appeared beside a massive lake.
And on the shore beside the lake, Jax could be seen lying on the ground, seemingly having lost consciousness.
But it was too late.
The Soul-Heart had already been placed into a bronze device shaped like a Charizard.
The dragon's mouth had opened to its maximum extent.
A rainbow-colored light gathered in the dragon's mouth, looking like it would fire in the next second, and the direction it aimed was the direction they came from—the direction of Azoth.
A concentrated beam of natural energy, representing the power of nature, shot towards them.
The world instantly lost its color.
Kazuya grabbed AZ and Floette and teleported hundreds of meters away, dodging the beam's firing trajectory.
But the blast radius of the Ultimate Weapon covered the entire Kalos continent.
Watching the neon-colored wave rolling over like a tsunami in the distance.
The figures of the three were instantly disintegrated into nothingness amidst the light and shadow. ]
The vision ended there.
He could not even see what the Kalos continent turned into afterwards.
Kazuya's Future Sight actually warned him suddenly at such a moment—just now, you made the wrong choice.
"Was that my original ending in this life?"
Kazuya muttered.
He did not waste much time on this question.
Future Sight only gave him an opportunity to defy the heavens and change his fate, rather than directly helping him do so.
If Kazuya continued to stand there in a daze.
Then his ending would not change at all.
Now.
The chance to change his fate was right before his eyes.
Whether he could seize it.
Depended on Kazuya's next choice.
"Jax activated the Ultimate Weapon, meaning the life energy has also been fully absorbed. Then there is no point in searching for the Tree of Life anymore. I must find Jax immediately."
"There are three lakes of that scale in this forest: one in the north, two in the south."
"The two in the south are quite close to each other, and closer to Yveltal's slumbering place."
"In the Future Sight, I went to find AZ first. Although I do not know how long it took, given Jax's travel speed, he could not possibly rush from Yveltal to the great lake in the north within a day."
"But when AZ, the others, and I rushed to the lake, it was clearly too late. Jax had already reloaded the Soul-Heart into the Ultimate Weapon..."
"So..."
"This is not a gamble of one out of two. Jax must be at one of the two southern lakes."
Kazuya's brain operated at top speed, figuring everything out in just two seconds.
Perhaps because he was reborn as a Psychic-type Pokémon in this life, his brain was extremely developed.
Coupled with years of practicing psychic powers, his brain capacity had been developed even more broadly.
Therefore, Kazuya's thinking ability had become faster than before.
This was growth that was not reflected on his status panel.
After making the choice.
Kazuya immediately headed south without any hesitation.
However, there was ultimately a hint of complexity on his face.
He was not a god, after all.
He also had many concerns in his heart.
And the source of these concerns was emotion.
Kazuya was also worried whether he had made the wrong choice.
Which would cause Florges, the Dragon Clan descendants, and his friends on the plateau to lose their lives as a result.
Perhaps his biggest difference from those gods was not the gap in strength, but these very emotions.
If he could discard these emotions.
Perhaps he would have become a god long ago, and most likely the strongest one.
But unfortunately.
He, who was the most qualified to become a supreme god, had the least obsession with becoming one, even to the point of not caring at all.
He only wanted to protect every bond.
After all.
Only he himself knew.
These bonds were far more precious and valuable than becoming a god.
It was precisely because of this persistence.
That the power of Aura inherited from Sir Aaron would follow by his side lifetime after lifetime, always choosing him to be that Aura Guardian.
When the day comes in the future.
That Kazuya struggles to advance even a single step in the field of Aura.
And can entirely only rely on his status panel to forcibly retain a sliver of Aura power.
At that time.
He will absolutely no longer be the person he is now.
Heading all the way south.
Kazuya's figure continuously shuttled through the forest.
With the buffs of Extreme Speed and Agility, his speed had reached an unimaginable level.
Occasionally, his figure would disappear, appearing hundreds of meters away in the next moment.
Such consumption was undoubtedly quite massive.
But he also needed to consider that he would not need to fight next.
He only needed to arrive in the fastest time and prevent the Ultimate Weapon from being activated.
At a certain moment.
Kazuya raised his hand and pressed it against the red horn on his chest.
A white light vaguely glowing with neon colors instantly covered him; the response was just that swift.
And even more miraculously.
That black ribbon hair accessory Kazuya wore on his head all year round actually miraculously participated in this evolution, seemingly treated as a part of Kazuya's main body.
When the white light dissipated.
The form of Mega Gardevoir immediately replaced his original appearance.
What was different from an ordinary Mega Gardevoir.
Was that the sleeve-like arms on Kazuya's forearms were actually the exact same grayish-black as the ribbon hair accessory.
That should originally be the sleeve color belonging to a Shiny Mega Gardevoir.
This miraculous phenomenon.
Probably even Professor Sycamore, who specialized in Mega Evolution research, would not be able to explain.
Even the knowledgeable Kazuya.
Could only guess it was probably because the ribbon, like that photo, was an item connecting his bond with Cynthia.
After evolving.
Kazuya's speed was much faster than before.
More importantly, the energy within his body became more abundant, enough to support him maintaining top speed all the way.
About half an hour passed.
Kazuya had crossed almost more than half of the Allearth Forest.
When a touch of blue appeared in the corner of Kazuya's eye: "I see it."
His figure instantly disappeared from the spot.
In the next second, he landed on the massive lake like a dragonfly skimming the water.
Both Aura perception and Confusion perception were released outwardly.
In an instant, they enveloped the entire lake within.
Even everything at the bottom of the lake was perceived clearly.
"Not here."
Kazuya did not hesitate.
He immediately set off for the other lake nearby.
The two great lakes were very close, connected by a wide river channel in the middle.
Kazuya followed the river channel all the way to the other side.
It only took a mere two or three minutes.
Before even approaching the other lake.
He had already sensed a surging energy tide coming from that direction.
This terrifying energy fluctuation caused Kazuya's heart to palpitate while also making him incredibly worried: "Has the Ultimate Weapon already been activated?"
In a flash.
Kazuya's figure instantly appeared on the surface of the great lake ahead.
Turning his head to look at the nearby shore.
The bronze device shaped like a Charizard's head was already aiming in the direction where Azoth was located.
Jax lay beside the Ultimate Weapon.
It was not just as simple as losing consciousness and fainting; his life aura was completely gone, seemingly having his life energy sucked dry.
Kazuya teleported beside Jax.
Glanced at his corpse.
Kicked it into the adjacent lake, letting it sink to the bottom.
Subsequently, his gaze immediately shifted to that Ultimate Weapon with a different appearance.
The Soul-Heart was already loaded.
It emitted quite a terrifying energy fluctuation.
If one were to ask what the difference was between this and the scene he saw in Future Sight.
It would probably be that the current Ultimate Weapon had not opened its mouth yet; it was in the process of slowly opening.
The speed was not considered slow.
It would probably open to its maximum extent within ten minutes.
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