Because using Cube City would affect the residents, Axel decided to only test the city's defensive cannons.
Under Axel's command, the "Axel the Savior" system quickly activated a portion of its functions.
Terrifying energy of every type grew dense. The entire Sky Island burst into dazzling, multicolored light.
"The defense system… has activated on its own."
Colress, who had been treated as the test subject by Axel, spoke in a trembling voice. Streams of data scrolled rapidly across his glasses.
Every analysis result made the chill in his heart deepen.
"Lysandre, the energy density here far exceeds any Pokémon we know."
"Those statues may not be living beings, but they're absolutely terrifying. They appear to be pure manifestations of law energy!"
"Prepare to risk it all. One hundred meters. Run out!"
As if to confirm Colress's words, in the city's central plaza, the giant statues that had originally stood silent lit up at the same time as Sky Island, radiating heart-pounding light.
Lysandre nodded sharply. Red light flared around his Pyroar, and its speed surged.
But before they could run even ten meters, the enormous Groudon statue suddenly glowed faintly. An invisible, crushing pressure descended in an instant.
Colress and Lysandre felt their bodies grow several times heavier. Even breathing became difficult.
Their Genesect and Gyarados let out mechanical and physical cries, almost crushed to the ground.
In this state, escaping was impossible.
Before they could react, the other statues lit up as well.
Black-gold light surged across Rayquaza's coiling dragon body. A dragon's might that looked down on all creation pressed down like something tangible, and the air itself buzzed under the strain.
It did not move. Just the aura of its "awakening" made Lysandre's Gyarados tremble, letting out a fearful growl.
From the Mewtwo statue, invisible psychic power poured out like flowing mercury, covering the entire battlefield.
Colress and Lysandre instantly felt as if icy metal spikes had pierced their brains. Their thoughts slowed.
Colress, whose body was covered in technological devices, could not help but press a switch on the arm of his glasses.
Immediately, the background music of the Lycanroc and Mareep cartoon started playing from the frame of his glasses.
The Unova dragon trio statues began their main assault at the same time.
On the Zekrom statue, the massive turbine at its tail roared. Wild blue lightning serpents leapt and gathered around it.
The Reshiram statue shone with blazing white light. The terrifying heat distorted the air itself.
From the ice crystal wings and mouth of the Kyurem statue poured absolute-zero cold. Thick frost instantly formed across the metal ground beneath their feet.
Their energies were not separate. They circulated faintly and complemented each other.
Very quickly, they formed a destructive energy cycle.
"Attack! Attack now! Don't let them fully activate!"
Colress roared at the top of his lungs, completely giving up on the idea of escaping.
At this point, if they did not resist, it would be certain death.
"Genesect, use maximum-power Techno Blast!"
The damaged Genesect barely managed to light up the cannons on their chests, firing several high-pressure water beams.
Their targets were the seemingly most fragile Mewtwo statue and Ho-Oh statue, trying to counter Ho-Oh's flames with water.
"Gyarados! Hyper Beam!", Lysandre went all in as well.
However, in front of those statues, their attacks were nothing more than ants shaking a tree.
The Mewtwo statue merely cast a glance. An invisible psychic barrier formed instantly.
The Genesect's Techno Blast struck it several meters away, as if crashing into the hardest alloy wall, exploding into harmless splashes.
The sacred fire on the Ho-Oh statue flickered slightly. A pure crimson wave of flames swept out.
Those splashes evaporated into white mist as if they had never existed. The terrifying heat instead injured Colress and the Genesect.
The Hyper Beam fired by Lysandre's Gyarados was twisted and compressed midair by the suddenly intensified gravity field from the Groudon statue.
In the end, like a flattened tube, the energy collapsed and vanished weakly into the air.
"H-How is this possible?", Lysandre staggered backward.
His eyes were filled with disbelief and complete despair. He could not understand why his strongest attack looked like child's play before these statues.
But Sky Island gave them no chance to hesitate any longer.
The turbine of the Zekrom statue erupted with blinding blue light.
A crisscrossing bolt of lightning, far thicker than Techno Blast, tore through the sky like a spear of judgment, crashing down with the force to destroy everything.
The Reshiram statue followed, its tail releasing azure flames that could burn all things. A blazing pillar of fire formed a massive ring, sealing off every path of escape for Colress and the others.
Kyurem released an icy blue ring of energy. Terrifying cold swept outward.
Wherever it passed, all affected humans and Pokémon saw their speed plummet.
The purple light of Eternatus's core flickered. Invisible energy waves spread like a plague.
Even from hundreds of meters away, Colress and Lysandre felt intense dizziness and nausea.
At the same time, the Rayquaza statue finally moved.
It released a long, resonant dragon roar. Terrifying Dragon-type energy surged outward, forming a dragon phantom nearly identical to Rayquaza itself, crashing fiercely toward the Pokémon in front of Colress and Lysandre.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The dragon phantom swept through the air. Each time it struck their Pokémon, a terrifying impact echoed out.
As the guardian deity of Aurient and a top-tier Pokémon capable of working with Axel to create the miracle of Sky Island, even as a mere statue, it remained an insurmountable top-level force.
Whether Genesect, Pyroar, or Gyarados, after enduring the attacks of the Unova dragon trio and the others, they were completely unable to withstand Rayquaza's dragon phantom.
And by this point, of the one hundred meters Axel had given them, they had barely managed less than three.
Colress's face was pressed firmly against the cold ground. His glasses were shattered, his vision blurred.
Watching his carefully modified Genesect be defeated twice in a row, he felt like a complete joke.
Lysandre was even worse off. The strong body he took pride in was twisted under gravity. His red hair was smeared with filth.
The madness in his eyes was gone, replaced by ash-gray emptiness and bone-deep fear.
Axel grinned and nodded in satisfaction, then waved lightly behind him.
"Colress, ask these Pokémon if they're willing to join the city's defense."
"Also, assess roughly what level Ultra Megalopolis's defensive power is at right now."
"Yes, my Lord Savior!"
Colress bowed deeply to Axel. From the corner of his eye, he glanced at Mewtwo, then ran over and kicked Colress and Lysandre once each.
"You guys, hurry up and say thank you!"
Colress, Lysandre: "???"
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