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This girl named Sheena—
everyone could only feel that she was wrapped in layers upon layers of mystery.
In this era, investigating a person's information was extremely easy, especially for a behemoth like the Pokémon League.
In every region, every person was registered with the League from birth.
And yet—
just moments ago, the Leagues of every region had checked.
They found nothing on this girl called Sheena.
Not even the slightest trace of information.
A person like that—
was effectively undocumented.
She had never been entered into the records.
Such people could not enjoy any services from the League.
They could not even enter a Pokémon Center, nor could they purchase Poké Balls.
Strictly speaking—
they were black households.
Generally speaking, only primitive tribes cut off from the outside world and still preserving ancient customs would produce people like that.
As the ages advanced, such stubborn, isolated tribes had become fewer and fewer.
Judging by Sheena's retro clothing and appearance—
she should belong to exactly such a primitive tribe.
Subspace… Reverse World…
Palkia, Dialga, and Giratina also finally understood why Sheena had been able to summon Dialga at the very beginning.
That so-called Transcending Power—
was Arceus's power.
Or more precisely, it carried a portion of Arceus's power.
They had all been created by Arceus.
So it was only natural for them to feel close to someone who possessed Arceus's power.
At the same time, Palkia and the others were also puzzled.
From ancient times until now, humans had always been synonymous with weakness.
If all Pokémon had not lost their enormous size—
if humans had not later invented tools that allowed them to control Pokémon—
then humanity would never have been able to rise to a dominant position in the world.
Even now, with human traces spread across the globe, and Trainers capable of commanding Pokémon in battle—
in the eyes of the divine beasts, humans were still weak.
A single third-tier divine beast could inflict massive damage on human civilization.
And yet a species that weak…
actually had individuals who possessed Arceus's power.
And it was not just Sheena…
Their minds recalled the Hoopa special.
The Traveler and the Traveler's descendants had also possessed Arceus's power.
Their eyes were filled with confusion.
What exactly was going on?
Why were there so many humans with Arceus's power?
Could it be…
that they had been created by Arceus too?
But no.
They had personally witnessed the birth of humanity.
Humans were a species naturally evolved by the world itself.
They had nothing to do with Arceus.
Very soon, the video itself denied that guess.
The narration sounded once more, drawing everyone's attention back to the ranking video.
[From the girl named Sheena, Ash learned of Arceus. However, they were filled with questions about Arceus, and did not understand what kind of Pokémon it was.]
[It was Sheena's first time leaving her homeland. Her Transcending Power could sense good and evil, and she did not feel any malice from Ash.]
[Therefore, in order to answer Ash's questions about Arceus,]
[Sheena decided to bring Ash and the others back to her tribe.]
[The girl's homeland was called——Michina.]
[It was a completely isolated ancient village tribe.]
Hearing that, the higher-ups of the Pokémon world's various Leagues narrowed their eyes.
Just as they had guessed.
Sheena really was from a primitive tribe.
But…
the Michina tribe?
Many people searched their memories, but no matching tribe came to mind.
A tribe they had never known existed?
The screen shifted.
Sheena led Ash and the others to a gourd-shaped valley.
At the end of the valley stood a towering cliff wall.
Vines drooped down over the entire face of the cliff, and the rock wall rose so high it disappeared into the clouds.
This was a dead end.
"By my name, transcend here!"
Sheena's Transcending Power manifested once more, golden light blooming all over her body.
Then an incredible scene took place.
Under the illumination of that golden light, the valley began to change.
The cliff wall split open.
White light spread out, forming something like a spatial passage.
The fissure was ten meters wide, cutting all the way into the stone wall and cleaving it open.
Then the golden light faded.
"Let's go. I'll take you to Michina."
The group walked in.
Everything before their eyes was filled with white light, as if they had entered a vast blank dimension.
They passed through the long fissure.
Then suddenly—
their vision opened up.
Sunlight poured down.
The blinding radiance made Ash and the others instinctively shut their eyes.
A breeze brushed past them, carrying with it the fragrance of the air.
After a while, once they had grown used to the brightness, they opened their eyes.
Before them stretched lush green land and blooming flowers.
Pokémon lived freely upon the grass.
It was like spring all year round.
Even the air tasted sweet.
In the distance stood a dense cluster of buildings, neatly arranged in orderly layers.
Every building carried an ancient style and charm.
[This was Michina.]
[Michina was protected by a barrier, completely isolated from the outside world. Ordinary people could not enter or leave.]
[Only those with Transcending Power could leave Michina and travel to the outside world.]
[And Transcending Power existed only in Sheena's bloodline, passed down through a single heir each generation.]
[Bug Catcher]: Holy crap? Protected by a barrier?
[Gary Oak]: No wonder none of the regions had ever heard of a place called Michina.
[Leon]: If it's enclosed by a barrier, then it's completely cut off from the outside world, right? And if leaving it requires Transcending Power, that means only Sheena can go out.
[Lance]: That's total isolation from the outside world.
The people of the Pokémon world sighed in amazement.
At the same time, though, they were curious.
Why was this place covered by a barrier?
Who had set it up?
And for what purpose?
The image continued to change.
[In order to help Ash understand Arceus, Sheena brought Ash and the others to a temple.]
In the video, Sheena led Ash and the others to the foot of a mountain.
Before them stretched a long staircase, each step climbing toward the mountain's waist.
Halfway up the mountain, one could vaguely see a vast and majestic structure.
The entire mountain had effectively been hollowed out to build it.
Bathed in sunlight, it radiated a sacred aura that made people instinctively fear showing disrespect.
Ash and the others climbed the long stone stairs and arrived before the structure.
Before the massive gates, they looked as tiny as ants.
Standing right in front of the gates was a statue.
A thick aura of time and antiquity rushed toward them.
The carving was lifelike—
a creature resembling an alpaca.
Even through the screen, one could feel a pressure emanating from it.
Arceus.
Everyone recognized who the statue depicted.
After all, it had appeared at the very beginning of the video.
But why was there a statue of Arceus here?
It was Cynthia and the other archaeologists who found it the hardest to believe.
"A temple? This is a temple?"
A temple was a structure built by humans for divine beasts.
If a divine beast's building had not been buried by history, and was still being watched over by people, it was called a temple.
If it had been buried by history and later excavated by humans, then it was called a ruin.
What shocked those archaeologists was this:
even the Creator God Arceus had a temple?
Only divine beasts that had appeared before humans, or once protected humanity, would leave behind records and temples.
If Arceus had a temple—
then that meant Arceus had once appeared in Michina??
[Sheena was the priestess of the Temple of Creation.]
[Her bloodline had guarded the Temple of Creation for generations.]
"This is Arceus's statue," Sheena said, gazing at it with reverence.
"The being that created the world."
After introducing it to Ash, she led him toward the gate of the temple.
"ROAR!!"
A roar sounded out.
A creature walked forward.
It resembled a turtle, with one part of its body formed from rock and the other from condensed magma.
Its eyes locked onto Ash and the others.
It was yet another Pokémon the trainers of the Pokémon world had never seen before.
[Heatran]
[Guardian deity of the Temple of Creation]
[Rank: Second-tier Divine Beast]
[Type: Fire / Steel]
A second-tier divine beast!
Heatran!
Yet another divine beast had appeared.
Still, everyone felt that it was only natural.
This was Arceus's temple.
For a second-tier divine beast to guard it was the most normal thing in the world.
Then—
under Sheena's guidance, Heatran did not attack Ash and the others.
Instead, it opened the gates of the Temple of Creation.
The interior of the temple was enormous.
As they entered, the torches inside lit themselves one after another, their flames illuminating the entire hall.
Very quickly—
they arrived at the temple's core.
A ceremonial altar appeared on the screen.
Above the altar, the dome-shaped ceiling was made of a material like glazed tiles. Sunlight poured through it, making it seem as though liquid light was flowing overhead.
The altar was solemn and sacred. Ancient writing and patterns covered the floor.
Upon the altar stood two statues.
One was Arceus.
The other was a human.
The human knelt halfway before Arceus, holding a lotus flower in his hands. However, the flower bud remained tightly closed.
This dome was semicircular, built from material like glazed tiles.
Sunlight streamed through it, illuminating the entire altar and filling it with a sacred brilliance.
It was solemn and dignified.
Everyone's hearts tightened.
Looking at the statue of Arceus and the human before it—
they knew now that they had guessed correctly.
Arceus had indeed appeared before humans.
That was why a statue of it existed here.
The barrier over Michina should also have been Arceus's handiwork.
But why would Arceus reveal itself to humanity?
And why would it deliberately create a barrier around Michina?
And who was this human?
According to the explanation from the world-creation sequence, Arceus should not interfere with the world's development.
Then, in the next second—
Sheena's calm voice rang out.
"This is Arceus and my ancestor——Damos."
Everyone's pupils shook.
That man—
was Sheena's ancestor?
The scene continued.
"By my name, transcend here."
Golden light bloomed from Sheena's body again, dazzling all around.
Golden energy spread out, and the entire altar seemed to activate.
The writing and patterns on the floor began glowing.
Crack, crack—
In an instant,
the lotus bud held in the hands of the human statue—Sheena's ancestor—bloomed open.
A wave of verdant radiance illuminated the entire altar.
Within everyone's eyes appeared a green jewel.
It shone brilliantly, with strands of golden energy flowing through it.
It was simply a priceless treasure.
"This is Arceus's Jewel of Life."
"It was forged from five of Arceus's Plates."
Hiss!!
Everyone's eyes nearly popped out of their heads.
Forged from five of Arceus's Plates??
Arceus's Plates were the manifestations of the origins of its laws!
And yet this Jewel of Life had been forged from five of those law-origins!?
The people of the anime multiverse felt their scalps go numb.
Subspace
Even Palkia and the others' eyes trembled violently.
The Plates were Arceus's source of power.
Why would it condense five Plates into a Jewel of Life?
And why would such a thing be in human hands?
That question was quickly answered.
As Sheena's voice drifted on, everyone learned the origin of the Jewel of Life.
Long, long ago, Michina had been a barren wasteland. At that time, humans were still constantly waging war against one another.
A human named Damos hated war.
He left on his own and came to the desolate land of Michina.
And then—
the sky filled with falling meteors.
Those meteors that were about to strike the world were shattered apart.
At the same time—
a figure fell to the earth as well.
It was Arceus.
Damos rescued the weakened Arceus and helped it recover the scattered Plates that had fallen around the area.
Arceus awakened.
To express its gratitude, it fused five of its source powers into a Jewel of Life and gave it to Damos.
Arceus needed to return and heal its injuries.
It made an agreement that once its wounds had healed, it would return to reclaim the Jewel of Life.
Although Arceus had been wounded and less than one-tenth of its source power remained—
even so, the Jewel of Life formed from five source powers still possessed terrifying ability.
Under the influence of Arceus's Jewel of Life, the barren Michina gradually became fertile.
More and more people who hated war migrated there.
Later, Damos used the Jewel of Life to construct a barrier, isolating Michina completely from the outside world and freeing it from the effects of war.
After hearing Sheena's explanation, everyone sighed in realization.
So that was it.
No wonder Arceus, a being that stood above the world, had appeared within the world itself.
It had been wounded while stopping the meteors, and then saved by Sheena's ancestor.
But…
something felt off.
According to the scene from Necrozma's ranking video—
what Arceus had stopped were not meteors.
They were planets.
Small worlds crashing toward the Pokémon world.
And at that time, humanity had not even been born yet.
In fact, there had been no life in the world at all.
Those miniature planets striking the world had been part of the world's trial.
Only after passing that test could life be born.
The audiences across the multiverse were confused.
The only ones who knew the full truth were the first-tier divine beasts.
Subspace…
Palkia, Dialga, and Giratina immediately understood after hearing Sheena's explanation.
So that was why Sheena possessed Arceus's power.
It was most likely because she had been subtly influenced over time by Arceus's Plate.
As for the question that puzzled everyone else—
if what had struck the world were planets, then why had they become meteors here?
The first-tier divine beasts knew the answer.
That was something that happened later.
Arceus really had fallen into a deep wounded slumber, and it had still not awakened even now.
With that, all of the mysteries were finally resolved.
Back in the video—
Sheena said to Ash, "This is the story of my ancestor and Arceus."
"And it's also the origin of our Michina."
"As for those sudden spatial cracks from earlier, they're happening because the sleeping Arceus is about to awaken."
Her voice was filled with excitement.
"Arceus's injuries have healed. It's about to awaken, and that's why the world wall is unstable."
When Palkia heard this in subspace, joy surged through it.
Arceus was about to awaken?
So that was why spatial rifts were appearing.
But then—
they seemed to realize something.
No…
The aura coming from those two spatial cracks had been full of savagery and destruction.
Arceus waking up should not have caused instability in the framework of the world.
After so many years of development, the framework would not be shaken unless multiple first-tier divine beasts were engaging in all-out battle.
For space to be torn apart by such a savage aura—
it felt far more like Arceus was enraged.
[At the same time Ash was in Michina,]
[outside the world wall, within a chaotic space,]
[a terrifying existence awakened.]
The scene shifted abruptly away from Michina.
The camera moved into a void-like space, filled with rippling black-red aura.
At the center of that terrifying aura—
stood a figure.
As the camera drew closer—
Arceus!!
[Arceus, which had slumbered for many years, awakened.]
Buzz—
It opened its eyes.
In an instant—
countless people across the anime multiverse were once again kicked out of immersive viewing mode.
Everyone turned deathly pale in shock.
Although they had been thrown out, Arceus's eyes remained deeply burned into their minds.
Those eyes were filled with savagery and destruction, as if they wanted to annihilate everything.
Like an avenger crawling out of the abyss.
They hurried back onto the dimensional platform and switched to page viewing.
And sure enough—
Arceus was wrapped in terrifying aura.
Its eyes were crimson, as though it had walked up from the deepest depths of hell.
The entire cosmos trembled.
"Damos the human… die! I want all of you to die!!!"
BOOM!!
A horrifying shockwave tore out in all directions.
Nearby meteorites were instantly reduced to powder.
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