Above Michina—
Nearly all the first-tier divine beasts in the world had gathered there.
Even though they had restrained their auras and let not the slightest trace leak out, all kinds of strange phenomena still appeared around them, enough to shake the heart.
Arceus, surrounded by so many first-tier divine beasts, had already learned why the five origin Plates of Water, Ground, Electric, Dragon, and Grass, which it had fused into the Jewel of Life, had returned to its body.
It was because Ash, at a future point in time, had borrowed Celebi's power and traveled back to the past.
They had changed the past—
And affected the present.
It also now knew that Damos had never betrayed it.
The anger in Arceus' heart had completely vanished.
But—
Looking at the divine beasts before it, each one with an absurdly powerful aura, it opened its mouth—
Yet could not say a single word.
Its mind was in complete chaos.
It stared blankly at them.
What… what was going on?
Could it be—
That it still hadn't fully woken up?
Was it still dreaming?
Why had these divine beasts become so powerful?!
Rayquaza, Kyogre, Ho-Oh…
What exactly had happened here?
Logically speaking, among all of them, only Giratina should have stood at the peak of the first-tier divine beasts.
But now—
These guys had all reached that level.
Its gaze continued moving across them—
Then froze again.
Palkia. Dialga.
Quasi-Main God level.
And among them—
Giratina had reached the peak of Quasi-Main God level, only one step away from becoming a true Main God.
Arceus was numb.
These three divine beasts it had created with its own hands—
How could they possibly be this strong?!
Then a crimson glow pierced its eyes.
Arceus seemed to sense something and looked further.
A scarlet dragon-like figure came into view.
—Eternatus.
Arceus sensed a familiar kind of power from it.
Main God level.
Its gaze turned dazed.
Main God level…
In a certain sense, that meant it stood on the same tier as itself.
Arceus' mind grew hazy.
This had to be a dream.
There was no way a Main God-level being could exist in a world it had created.
The world had been created by it.
It was subject to limits.
The growth limit of the entire world would rise only as Arceus' own strength rose.
In other words—
Only if Arceus itself became stronger would the world's upper limit increase, allowing these divine beasts to grow stronger as well.
So why were there Quasi-Main God-level and even Main God-level beings now?!
Its own strength hadn't increased at all!
Logically, the strength limit of the world should have been the peak of first-tier divine beasts.
At most, there might have been one or two special beings able to glimpse the level of Quasi-Main God.
At most, only half a step into Quasi-Main God.
So what the hell was going on with these Quasi-Main God and Main God levels?!
Arceus was lost.
Its gaze became unfocused. Its mind was being violently shaken.
It kept muttering inwardly:
"This is a dream… this has to be a dream…"
Seeing Arceus in such a dazed state—
The other divine beasts inwardly wanted to laugh a little.
Shocked, weren't you?
Of course they knew what was going on.
It was true—
Their own strength gains had always been limited by the world's rank.
They had long since reached the limits of how strong they could naturally become.
That was why they spent most of their time sleeping.
If they didn't sleep, what else was there to do?
Their strength wouldn't increase anyway.
And the world's rank itself was tied to Arceus' own strength.
The stronger Arceus became, the higher the limit of power the world could contain.
While Arceus had been asleep, the world's limit should not have changed.
But—
The ranking rewards from the Top Ten Strongest Divine Beasts had completely broken that ceiling.
These divine beasts, after making the ranking and receiving their rewards, had undergone earth-shaking transformations.
If they stayed in the main world now, they had to be careful.
Because the world was beginning to reject them.
If the limit of what the world could contain did not rise soon—
Then all of them would have no choice but to go open their own subspaces.
Still—
The world's rank would rise very soon.
After all, Arceus' own ranking reward still hadn't been issued.
Neither had Necrozma's.
Judging from the situation, both rewards would probably be distributed together with TOP 0.
And once they were—
Arceus itself would also undergo a world-shaking change.
Meanwhile—
Arceus' face, which had been full of confusion, slowly broke into a smile.
It had figured it out.
This really was a dream.
Its lips curled slightly as it looked at the 17 Plates floating around it.
It had found a flaw in the dream.
Even though the dream felt extremely real—
There was still a contradiction.
Even if Ash had changed the past and caused the Jewel of Life to return to its body—
The Jewel of Life had been formed from five origin Plates.
That was the flaw.
Added to the six Plates it had originally possessed—
That only made eleven.
So how could there possibly be seventeen?!
"Once I return to my subspace, I should wake up."
"All of this is fake. All of it."
"What Ash changing the past—fake."
"Yes. That's right."
"Dreams are always the opposite. Damos not betraying me is fake too."
"Hmph. Humans still deserve to be destroyed. Even in a dream, such a cunning and deceitful species should be wiped out."
Arceus' killing intent surged.
Even in a dream, humans should be exterminated.
But—
It glanced at the divine beasts in front of it, each with terrifying auras.
…Forget it.
It was still injured.
And it looked like it really couldn't beat them all working together.
It would probably just get beaten up.
And even in a dream—
It could not tolerate being defeated by the divine beasts it had created itself.
Arceus raised its head.
With a thought, golden light rippled before it.
It was preparing to return to its subspace.
Once it got back, the dream should end.
Just as it was about to step through—
Whoosh!
A seven-colored ring suddenly appeared without warning.
Caught completely off guard, a small figure shot out from it—
DUANG—!
It slammed directly into Arceus.
"Ow—!"
Hoopa rubbed its head.
Arceus staggered a step back, its own face aching a bit too.
It blinked.
…Could a dream actually have pain?
"Hey, hey!"
Hoopa flew up, circling around Arceus excitedly.
"You should thank me! I'm the one who found all the Plates scattered across the world and sent them back to you!"
Arceus froze.
Its Plates—
Had been sent back by Hoopa?
"You… how many did you find?"
"You already had six, right? Plus the five that were turned into the Jewel of Life, that makes eleven. I found the other six."
Arceus' mouth fell completely open.
No—
It wasn't a flaw in the dream.
Wait—
There was more.
Hoopa's birth itself was deeply connected to Arceus.
Hoopa's existence had to be traced back to the countless smaller meteors that had once fallen toward the world.
Hoopa had been born from the interaction between Arceus' power and those meteor impacts.
In order to stop those meteors, all 17 of Arceus' Plates had shattered apart.
Fragments of the Plates combined with the forces generated by those small planets striking the main world—
And from that, Hoopa had been born.
Because Hoopa's birth involved the fragments of the Plates,
its ring ability normally should have been unable to access the subspace Arceus created for itself.
Which meant—
Hoopa too should have been restrained by Arceus' power.
No—
Had it entered another layer of the dream?
But in the next instant, Arceus froze again.
It stared at Hoopa.
Main God level!!!
Hoopa too had reached Main God level?
If Hoopa was Main God level—
Then could its rings now reach Arceus' subspace?
That…
Probably yes.
Energy surged over Arceus' body.
A sphere of energy formed above its head—
Then it smashed it directly down onto itself.
Boom!
Arceus got hit full-force.
It hurt.
This wasn't a dream!!
It sucked in a breath of cold air.
Looking at the divine beasts before it—
All of this was real!!
Eternatus and Hoopa were Main God level.
The strength of the other divine beasts was real too.
So what the hell had happened?!
"Arceus, how was it? Did you see the TOP 0 ranking video from Top Ten Strongest Divine Beasts?"
"What is that golden dragon bigger than the universe? Do you know it? Hoopa was scared stiff when it saw it!"
"Why did you just hit yourself?"
Hoopa danced around in front of it, gesturing wildly as it described everything.
Arceus remained frozen.
What was Top Ten Strongest Divine Beasts?
What was the TOP 0 video?
It turned toward Palkia and the others.
Those divine beasts were all staring at it with full anticipation, clearly eager for its answer.
Arceus—
Suddenly felt terribly out of place.
What exactly were they all talking about?
A few minutes later—
After listening to the explanations from the divine beasts, Arceus grew even more confused.
A Dimensional Video Platform.
The series Top Ten Strongest Divine Beasts.
Rayquaza, Kyogre, and the others had become stronger and broken through the world-rank restrictions because of ranking rewards.
At first, hearing this explanation, Arceus thought it was complete nonsense.
What kind of ridiculous thing was that?
Getting stronger just from appearing on a ranking list?
That was absurd.
How could strength possibly increase so easily?
And if it itself was TOP 1—
Then why hadn't it received any reward?
But—
Feeling the real strength of the divine beasts before it, it couldn't deny it.
Faced with Arceus' suspicion—
The divine beasts all said,
"You can open the platform yourself and see."
Under their guidance, Arceus focused its mind.
Sure enough—
A virtual interface appeared before it.
Pinned at the top was the series Top Ten Strongest Divine Beasts.
It opened it.
And began watching carefully.
About an hour later—
Buzz!!
Arceus' Plates trembled violently.
It suddenly raised its head and stared at the divine beasts, golden light blazing in its eyes.
"My ranking reward—when does my ranking reward get issued?!"
Even its voice was trembling with excitement.
Shock. Terror. Limit-breaking.
So it was all real.
It was true—
Ranking really came with rewards.
Palkia and the others really had broken through the world-rank limits because of them.
"Your reward will probably be distributed together with TOP 0," one of the divine beasts said.
"TOP 0?"
Arceus froze.
"Wait… you didn't watch TOP 0?" the divine beasts asked, confused.
They had been expecting Arceus to identify the golden dragon in TOP 0.
They all wanted to know what kind of existence that golden dragon was.
The damn cliffhanger author hadn't revealed any useful information.
"TOP 0?"
Arceus frowned.
Hadn't it been ranked TOP 1?
Wasn't it supposed to be the strongest?
Didn't TOP 1 mean the last video in the Top Ten Strongest Divine Beasts series?
Its consciousness re-entered the Dimensional Platform.
It went to Rin Aokawa's creator homepage—
And found the trailer.
It clicked in.
A long while passed.
The aura around Arceus kept surging.
Its presence rippled violently.
Looking at the golden dragon on screen—
Its immense body seemed almost as large as the universe itself.
The deep stars of the cosmos were swallowed into its belly.
The shock in Arceus' heart reached an unprecedented level.
What kind of existence was that?!
It did not even dare blink.
Staring at the golden dragon, it could feel an overwhelming divine majesty.
At the end of the video—
The golden dragon shattered apart.
And after shattering, it seemed to transform into something else.
Just as Arceus' curiosity reached its peak—
The trailer ended.
Immediately, it exited the platform and urgently asked Hoopa and the others:
"What about the rest? Where's the full video?!"
"It was only a trailer," Giratina replied through telepathy.
"The full version still needs some time before it's released."
"Arceus," Hoopa asked, "you really don't know what that golden dragon is either?"
Arceus' expression turned incomparably serious.
It shook its head.
Even recalling that terrifying golden dragon now, the aura around its body was becoming unstable.
It didn't know.
It had never seen such a being.
And it very much wanted to know—
What level of existence that golden dragon truly was.
Its body was nearly the size of a universe.
A single turn of its body could probably wipe out countless star systems.
But for now—
There was only one thing to do.
Wait.
They could only wait for the full TOP 0 feature to be released.
Blue Star
Countless laws were merging into Rin Aokawa's body.
He was bathed in sacred light.
But in truth—
Rin Aokawa felt awful.
All those laws were rampaging through his body, completely out of his control.
This was unbearable.
He needed something to contain them.
These laws were mutually opposed, clashing violently within him.
A miscalculation.
He shouldn't have extracted them all at once.
He should have done it little by little, merging them into his body step by step.
But now they had all poured in at once and turned his insides into a battlefield.
If not for the fact that these were system rewards—
He would already have been torn apart by these laws.
He had to find a solution.
Then suddenly—
A thought flashed through his mind.
He remembered the scene of Arceus creating the world.
Consciously, he began guiding these conflicting laws upward, into his head.
In an instant—
Those laws entered the Nirvana Palace within his head.
That was where his Beast Space resided.
He drove all those laws into his Beast Space.
Rin Aokawa's Beast Space was already as large as a planet.
As the laws entered—
Those laws, which had been constantly opposing and consuming one another, suddenly stopped fighting.
It was as if they had been drawn by something.
They began merging into the Beast Space itself.
And then—
Rin Aokawa's Beast Space underwent a tremendous transformation.
It was like the beginning of creation itself.
Rumble—
Within the previously empty Beast Space, things began to appear.
Land.
Ocean.
Sky.
Forest.
And at the same time that Rin Aokawa's Beast Space was being remade—
Time passed quickly.
Across the anime multiverse—
Everyone discovered—
The video had updated.
TOP 0 — Full Feature Released.
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