Chapter 734: The Same Plate
Magearna's arrival had quite an impact on Volcanion.
Anyone with a large golden egg stuck to their left arm every day would have their daily activities somewhat affected.
At first, Volcanion was indeed a bit annoyed with Magearna.
He felt that having this golden egg hanging on His body was inconvenient everywhere.
But as time passed.
He got used to Magearna's presence and took care of her attentively.
If any Pokémon wanted to pull Magearna off.
Volcanion would even get anxious.
Sometimes, to tease Him, everyone would specifically chase after Volcanion, saying they wanted to pluck the egg off Him.
Then Volcanion, unwilling to hurt everyone, could only run around wildly while being chased.
These amusing anecdotes.
Kazuya was unaware of.
After all, he had been away from the Nebel Plateau for quite some time.
It had been a full three years.
Kazuya didn't travel too far away; he just kept wandering around the Kalos continent.
After all, Florges was still here.
Following Florges's hints, he had traveled to quite a few places in the Kalos region over these three years.
Inspecting those things suspected to be Plates one by one.
Because most of these places were located on the surface, they were places Florges's hands couldn't reach.
So she could only guess whether those things were Plates or not and couldn't verify it herself.
Fortunately, Kazuya could go verify it now.
Traveling far from home alone for the first time after practicing in the underground world for twenty years, he could tentatively be considered the Sword God of Shi Li Po [1].
A champion right out of the gate.
On this Kalos continent today.
Probably no one other than Zygarde could defeat Kazuya.
But as the God of Order, Zygarde, in the vast majority of cases, wouldn't actively interfere with the secular world, lest His actions affect the balance.
Therefore.
It could be considered.
During this period on the Kalos continent.
Almost no Pokémon could kill Kazuya.
After all, if he couldn't win, he could run. Perhaps his combat ability in this life wasn't outstanding among his seven lives.
But his ability to escape and save his life was absolutely top-notch; the previous six lives couldn't compete with this life.
The reason for using the word "almost".
Was to consider.
Whether there might be upper-level Champion Psychic-type Pokémon on the Kalos continent.
That kind of character might still be able to control Kazuya.
However, Psychic-type Pokémon were exceptionally intelligent, and they presumably wouldn't be willing to actively provoke a powerful Kazuya.
Therefore, it wasn't a big problem.
Kazuya could run rampant on this Kalos continent.
This strength was also why Florges was willing to tell Kazuya those pieces of intelligence.
Otherwise.
As long as she didn't tell him.
Then Kazuya wouldn't be able to do anything about it.
Speaking of which.
The reason Florges kept an eye out for these things.
Was intrinsically because Kazuya had said he wanted to collect Plates back then.
Otherwise, she would have no reason to care about this.
Then one day.
Kazuya arrived at the northwest corner of the Kalos region.
This place was located outside the territories of the three major human kingdoms in Kalos, and there were no signs of humans living nearby.
"This should be the future Shalour City. Haven't human settlements been built here yet?"
Walking in a small forest, Kazuya looked around.
In Kalos three thousand years later.
The vast majority of cities were built on flat terrain.
Shalour City was an exception.
It was built in a small seaside forest with steep and uneven terrain, and a mountain road was built to connect urban areas at different heights.
Because of this, this city produced many climbing enthusiasts, cyclists, roller skaters...
Building a city in such a place wasn't easy.
At least against the backdrop of an era with underdeveloped infrastructure technology, humans probably wouldn't want to come to such a place to establish settlements.
So in this place three thousand years ago, there were no traces of humans to be seen either.
Walking out of the forest.
He arrived at the coast.
Looking at the massive sandy area appearing on the nearshore sea surface.
Kazuya had to marvel at the uncanny workmanship of nature.
The extent of the sandy area before him wasn't small.
It was at least enough to build a human village on it.
And even more amazingly.
The path connecting this piece of land to the continent.
Would only reveal itself when the sea tide receded.
Otherwise, if humans wanted to go to this sandy area on ordinary days, they could only go by boat or by riding Water-type Pokémon.
This place would be quite famous in the future.
A magical building called the "Tower of Mastery" was built here.
The reason the Tower of Mastery was so famous.
Was mainly because the legend of the "Mysterious Stone" circulated here, and it was also the Fighting-type Gym established ever since the Kalos League was built.
The Mysterious Stone had nothing to do with Kazuya's goal for this trip, the "Plate." It actually referred to Evolution Stones and Key Stones.
This seemed to be one of the earliest locations where Evolution Stones and Key Stones were discovered.
The discoverer was the ancestor of the future Fighting-type Gym Leader, Korrina.
The Tower of Mastery was also the place built by Korrina's ancestor.
"Is that the place? I didn't hear Professor Sycamore or his grandmother mention that a Creation Plate appeared here back then. Florges must have been mistaken."
Kazuya muttered to himself as he stepped onto the path heading towards the sandy area.
The path beneath his feet was also composed of sand.
What's more miraculous.
Whether it was this sandy area or the sandy path beneath his feet, neither had been washed away by seawater over these three thousand years, and still existed three thousand years later.
Florges passed on the message to Kazuya that something resembling a Plate was suspected to have appeared here.
But during Kazuya's third and fifth lives.
He had traveled in the Kalos region for a considerable period of time.
And had respectively befriended the grandparent and grandchild duo of Professors, Sycamore and his grandmother.
Coincidentally.
Both Professor Sycamore and his grandmother knew Korrina's grandfather and ancestor; they were all fellow researchers of the mysteries of Mega Evolution.
So Kazuya had somewhat heard a bit about the matters concerning the Tower of Mastery.
In his memory, there was never any similar memory of the Tower of Mastery being related to "Plates."
Although.
Kazuya believed there was a high probability there was no Plate here.
But since Florges mentioned this place.
He might as well come take a look.
Whether it was here or not.
He would know once he saw it.
Arriving on this completely empty sandy area.
Kazuya closed his eyes, and invisible Confusion radiated in all directions.
Half a minute later.
He raised an eyebrow, an expression of disbelief appearing on his face.
"There actually is a Plate."
Kazuya muttered, and waved his arm.
Poof!
The sandy ground was broken through.
A black Plate flew out wrapped in Confusion, landing in Kazuya's hands in the blink of an eye.
"It's the Dread Plate again."
Kazuya glanced at the Plate in his hand, feeling slightly disappointed.
That's right.
The Plate Kazuya discovered this time.
Was the Dread Plate he had already obtained in the previous world.
[Two make matter, and three make spirit, shaping the world.]
Every Plate recorded a portion of the mysteries from the beginning of the world's creation.
And this was the content recorded on the Dread Plate.
And Kazuya still had the Splash, Earth, and Zap Plates, which respectively recorded:
[The original one breathed alone before the universe came.]
[When the universe was created, its shards became this Plate.]
[The power of defeated giants infuses this Plate.]
The mysteries symbolized by these three Plates were relatively ordinary, not as profound as the content recorded on the Dread Plate.
The crucial point was.
No one could prove the content recorded on these Plates was true.
Of course, no one could prove it was fake either.
At least a significant portion of people believed it was true, after all, this thing came from the God of Creation Arceus, and indeed some of the content matched this group of people's speculations about history.
For example, the Flame Plate:
[The power of defeated giants infuses this Plate.]
Coincidentally corresponded to content that might be related to that ancient history of Regigigas.
"A duplicate Plate doesn't seem to be of any use..."
Kazuya placed the Plate into his status panel.
Possessing the Dread Plate, he was already immune to the damage of Dark-type moves.
Even with one more Dread Plate.
It wouldn't change anything about that.
As for the bonus to Dark-type move damage...
Kazuya raised his hand and used the Dark-type move "Knock Off" against the empty air in front of him.
He carefully felt the intensity of the Dark-type energy on his palm.
"The effect amplification of the Plate didn't stack; it's different from those ordinary items..."
Kazuya muttered to himself.
He had tried carrying multiple Mystic Waters on him.
But the damage bonus to Water-type moves didn't increase further; this effect stacked together.
The Plate seemed to be different.
Assuming a single Dread Plate amplifies Dark-type move damage by 20%, turning the original power from 100 to 120.
Then after obtaining the second Dread Plate now, this amplification became 40%, turning the original 100 into 140.
That's right.
It wasn't adding another 20% on top of the enhanced 120.
Instead, it was an additional 20% enhancement based on the initial base value of 100.
This point was actually quite different from the power calculation of type effectiveness.
Therefore.
"There's an effect, but not much."
Kazuya shook his head helplessly.
He couldn't say this trip yielded no harvest, but the harvest was indeed not very big.
The impact of an extra Dread Plate on him could only be described as better than nothing.
The Dread Plate itself was one of the Plates with the least presence.
Many times, Kazuya would even forget the existence of this Plate.
After putting the Plate away safely.
Kazuya turned and left this sandy area.
"To think that one of the Creation Plates actually existed in a place like this. Could the stone legend of the Tower of Mastery have been distorted as it was passed down, and actually originally referred to the Creation Plate?"
Kazuya couldn't help but make a snarky remark.
He remembered in the previous world.
The Dread Plate was dug out of his toy pile and tossed to Kazuya by that little guy Mew.
He didn't expect the Dread Plate in this world to actually be buried in this corner of Kalos.
Kanto and Kalos are separated by a hundred and eight thousand miles.
The gap was truly massive.
But considering the influence he left behind tens of millions of years ago.
He felt it wasn't unacceptable either.
Even the Tree of Beginning had changed to a different tree.
It seemed normal for the Dread Plate to change its location.
Kazuya ultimately didn't spend too much thought on this kind of detail.
However, a somewhat dazzling light lit up on the distant horizon, attracting his attention.
What made it even more impossible for him to ignore was.
That light was falling towards the direction of the Allearth Forest.
[1] Translator's note: Sword God of Shi Li Po refers to a player who reaches the max level in the starting area of a game.
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