"Congratulations, Tyranitar."
Seeing that Tyranitar had successfully completed Mega Evolution, Ethan walked over and spoke.
"Tyran!"
Tyranitar looked its new body up and down and roared happily.
Back then, Ethan had precisely used Mega Evolution to attract it into joining his team.
Now, after so much effort, it could finally be said that it had fulfilled its wish of completing Mega Evolution.
"Let's test your current strength."
After Tyranitar completed Mega Evolution, Ethan also released Lucario.
Currently, after megaevolving, Tyranitar had already barely entered the Elite level.
Under these circumstances, Lucario, which already possessed Elite-level strength in its normal state, was undoubtedly the best opponent.
After one round of battle, the two Pokémon fought very evenly.
In the first part of the battle, in the direct competition of physical strength, Mega Tyranitar even came to hold the advantage.
However, when Lucario used the power of Aura, that advantage disappeared completely.
As was natural, in the end, victory went to Lucario.
Knowing Lucario's strength in advance, Tyranitar was not too discouraged.
On the contrary, it felt that being able to face Lucario now was already an enormous improvement.
"Good work, you two."
After the battle, Ethan and several Pokémon gathered again in front of the sealed stone door.
"Luucaarr!"
Not long after Ethan sat down, Lucario suddenly cried out.
Following the direction Lucario indicated, Ethan's gaze fell on Piloswine.
At that moment, Piloswine's body was emitting a faint white light!
At the same time, Ethan discovered in surprise that the sealed stone door was also radiating a similar light.
However, that light only lasted for a moment before dissipating.
Piloswine was left blinking its little eyes, confused.
"Was that just now the light of evolution?"
"And what was that change in the sealed stone door?"
Ethan observed everything in front of him, his eyes flickering. Vaguely, he felt that he had grasped something key.
"Piloswine, did you master the move Ancient Power?"
Returning his gaze to Piloswine, Ethan asked.
Hearing Ethan's words, Piloswine nodded. Then it activated the move Ancient Power.
When it activated the move Ancient Power, a faint white light once again shone over its body.
In the distance, the sealed stone door did the same, also emitting white light.
"Ancient Power!"
"It really is the move Ancient Power!"
Seeing the changes in Piloswine's body, Ethan also became a little excited.
While Tyranitar was practicing Mega Evolution, Piloswine had comprehended the move Ancient Power thanks to it.
However, Piloswine already had a very high mastery of Rock-type energy, so this could also be considered natural.
"In addition, aside from Piloswine's evolution, does the sealed stone door also need the move Ancient Power to open?"
"Yes, it has to be like that."
After discovering the key point, Ethan became excited.
Without hesitation, he directly called Professor Harris and the others to explain the situation.
"Use the move Ancient Power to open the sealed stone door?"
Hearing Ethan's explanation, Professor Harris's eyes also lit up.
In reality, back then, when they helped the Silver family open the sealed iron door, Professor Harris and the others had already learned the method to open it.
But when it came to the sealed stone door, they had not been able to find a compatible energy source.
Now, seeing the sealed stone door's reaction to the move Ancient Power, they also understood the key.
Perhaps only enough energy from the move Ancient Power was needed, and through the method obtained from the Silver family, they could open the sealed stone door.
"Piloswine's evolution and the opening of the sealed stone door."
"It seems the center of the research will have to shift to this."
Professor Harris took a deep breath. Although research was very busy, for a researcher, that was extremely satisfying.
After defining the next research topic, the entire team quickly began to act.
To obtain enough energy from the move Ancient Power, it was necessary to train some Pokémon capable of using it.
Therefore, they planned to first make Piloswine evolve into Mamoswine through the move Ancient Power, and then help Mamoswine further master the move Ancient Power, using that energy as the source to open the sealed stone door.
...
Thus, another half month passed.
Inside the Life Transition Research Institute, a large number of instruments were running.
On the experimental platform, Piloswine's enormous body stood.
After this period of training, Piloswine's use of the move Ancient Power was already very skillful.
Seeing this, Ethan finally decided to allow Piloswine to begin evolving.
In the field, Piloswine began to activate the move Ancient Power.
Then, a bright light enveloped its entire body.
Within the white light, Piloswine's body underwent intense changes.
Very soon, an enormous figure standing on four legs, with a mainly brown body, a pig-like nose, and two especially long tusks appeared in the field.
That Pokémon was precisely Mamoswine, Piloswine's evolved form through the move Ancient Power.
"It succeeded! Piloswine evolved successfully!"
"Evolving through the move Ancient Power, returning to the primitive... this is an extremely important discovery!"
Alex recorded the evolution process from Piloswine to Mamoswine and spoke with great excitement.
Seeing this, the other members of the research team were also very happy and quickly began to analyze the energy changes during the evolutionary process.
The move Ancient Power was, in itself, an extremely mysterious force, and Ethan also began to feel expectant.
The essence of Mega Evolution was returning to the primitive. He did not know whether they could discover something from Piloswine's evolution, which was also a form of returning to the primitive.
In addition, during the process in which Piloswine evolved into Mamoswine, Lucario and Slowking had also been observing from the side.
At that moment, the faces of both Pokémon showed thoughtful expressions. It seemed that they had also obtained something.
"Congratulations, Mamoswine."
Ethan arrived beside Mamoswine and patted its leg.
Although he had not always brought Mamoswine with him, he had not neglected its training at all.
Now that he saw Piloswine successfully master the move Ancient Power and complete its evolution, it could be considered that he had fulfilled his promise.
Of course, his training of Mamoswine was only just beginning.
After successfully mastering the move Ancient Power, it would have many more training paths going forward.
The Ice type and Ground type, as its original types, could also be trained next.
Mamoswine, in itself, was also a very powerful Pokémon. Both in the moves it could learn and in the capabilities of its species, it was very outstanding.
Of course, for now, the development of the move Ancient Power was still the priority. After all, they still needed to rely on Mamoswine's Ancient Power move to open the sealed stone door and release the Legendary Pokémon inside: Regirock!
(End of chapter)