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Chapter 96: Searching for the Fairy Tablet! Arrival in Carlos, Lost in the Forest!
Several hours after the Gluttonous King was taken into custody, the skyline of Shanghai finally shed its bloody gloom and was once again bathed in neon lights and moonlight.
On the streets, survivors erupted in thunderous cheers, and the official announcement from the alliance was broadcast on every screen, declaring the crisis over.
A sense of relief and ease filled the air.
However, none of this noise could penetrate the thick soundproof glass of the temporary command room where Lin Che was located.
He stood quietly, his gaze passing through the porthole to the brightly lit city in the distance, but his pupils showed no joy whatsoever.
That sense of victory that belonged to everyone did not reach his heart.
Instead, there was a cold sense of urgency that seeped from the depths of one's bones.
In his mind, every detail of the battle with the Ultra Beast was replaying in slow motion over and over again.
The Pheromosa's extreme speed defies the laws of physics and is so fast that even dynamic vision cannot capture it.
The Gluttonous King's terrifying maw, seemingly capable of devouring all concepts and even space itself, and its despair-inducing, unsolvable defense.
These existing "abilities" have gone beyond the traditional definition of "powerful".
They are distortions of rules, the extreme embodiment of laws.
Each recollection sent chills down Lin Che's spine, making him clearly aware of one fact—
He is far from strong enough.
Arcanine has enough explosive power, Hakron's growth potential is beyond doubt, Brave Eagle is reliable, and Smart Star is the absolute core of the tactics.
However, when facing an enemy of such extraordinary strength, his team had a fatal weakness in terms of overall hard power.
His gaze seemed to pierce through the barrier of the Poké Balls, landing on one of them, a "633".
Alola Ninetales.
That ice noble with champion-level potential, once its [Snowfall] ability is activated, can create its own absolute home field.
However, in the confrontation with the Gluttonous King, its proud Fairy-type skills seemed so powerless.
It's not that the Nine-Tails didn't work hard enough, nor that its talent wasn't high enough.
Rather, it's missing something.
A core treasure capable of unlocking its innermost power and unleashing its primal strength.
A method that can elevate its "fairy" attribute from a simple application of energy to a "final say" at the level of laws!
We must strengthen it as soon as possible.
This thought, not a choice but a command, exploded in his mind.
Lin Che turned around abruptly, no longer looking at the night view outside the window.
He walked to the tactical terminal in the corner of the room and, without the slightest hesitation, lightly tapped his fingertip on the personal terminal on his wrist.
A black, unmarked app icon lit up under his fingertip.
[Identity verification in progress...]
[Iris scan...facial contour matching...mental fluctuation verification...]
[Lin Che, a senior member of "Dragon's Spine," has been granted access.]
After the cold, synthesized voice ended, the tactical terminal screen in front of him lit up instantly, and a deep, golden emblem, like the eye of a dragon, flashed by.
Welcome to the "Dragon's Spine" internal redemption system.
[Member Lin Che detected, holding 9,750,000 points.]
A string of astronomical points was quietly displayed at the top of the screen. This was the enormous wealth he had earned from participating in Operation Dawn, from intercepting the spacetime collapse to capturing Guzzlord, saving the world from danger on several occasions—a fortune that would drive any Elite Four level trainer crazy.
Lin Che's breathing remained completely still.
He directly entered the keywords into the search bar.
[Fairy type], [Origin], [Legendary]
hum-
The data stream on the screen instantly transformed into a waterfall of light.
Countless dazzling treasures, existing only in myths and legends, flashed past his eyes.
【Life Orb (Imitation)】: A crystal containing pure life energy that can greatly amplify skill power, but will continuously consume stamina.
【Bond Ribbon】: A legendary item that can deepen the bond between trainers and Fairy-type Pokémon, with a very small chance of triggering "Bond Evolution" in battle.
【Eternal Garland of Floral Therapy】: Contains the purest healing power of the Florabe clan, which can qualitatively change the effect of the field skill 【Grassy Field】.
……
These treasures, any one of which, if they were to be leaked out, would be enough to cause a bloodbath in the underground black market, were merely glanced at by Lin Che.
His fingers slid steadily down the virtual scroll bar, his eyes sharp and his mind highly focused, as if searching for that one unique diamond among billions of grains of sand.
What he wanted was not simply an increase in power, nor a probabilistic burst of power.
What he wants is to complete the foundation and make a leap in essence!
Suddenly, his fingers stopped.
In the waterfall of data, an image of an object captivated his entire attention.
It wasn't a dazzling jewel, nor a fancy ornament.
It was just a fragment.
A palm-sized fragment of a stone slab with extremely irregular edges.
Yet this very fragment radiated an extremely gentle pink halo that seemed capable of calming all the restlessness in the world.
The light seemed to have a life of its own, rising and falling on the screen like the breath of a sleeping creature.
Just looking at it through the screen made Lin Che feel refreshed, as if his soul had been gently cleansed.
His gaze was fixed on the brief yet incredibly profound information about the props.
[Item Name]: Fairy Stone Tablet (Fragment)
[Item Information]: One of the fragments separated from the primordial laws when Arceus, the creator god, created the world. It is inscribed with the "Fairy" laws that form the foundation of the world. According to top-level intelligence, its existence is inextricably linked to Xerneas and Yveltal, the gods of "life" and "destruction" in the distant region of Carlos.
Arceus, the creator god!
The fundamental law!
These six words struck Lin Che's heart heavily.
It is it.
A burning impulse rose in his chest.
Without the slightest hesitation, he pressed his finger heavily on the "Lock Target" option.
[Target locked: Fairy Stone Tablet (Fragment)]
[Redeeming the intelligence location service requires 5,000,000 points. Confirm?]
Lin Che didn't even blink.
【confirm. 】
That enormous number of points was instantly halved.
In exchange, a massive flow of information, far more terrifying than any previous search, instantly flooded the "Dragon's Spine" backend server.
Lin Che could almost hear the sound of countless lines of code rushing and surging in his ears.
What he exchanged was the highest level of intelligence access in the alliance.
At this moment, all the satellites around the world, the detectors in secret bases, the encrypted intelligence uploaded by "Dragon's Spine" members lurking around the world... everything is serving one goal.
Locate that stone slab!
On the screen, a three-dimensional map covering the entire globe unfolds instantly.
Countless red dots flashed and lit up on the map, then quickly went out.
Those are all the places in history where the scent of stone slabs may have been present, and they are being ruled out one by one.
North America, Europe, East Asia... continental plates were scanned and filtered one by one.
Finally, all the lights went out.
Only one remains, a coordinate point flashing crimson light at the other end of the map.
The camera's perspective is zoomed in and magnified infinitely.
It was a continent enveloped by elegant architecture and a romantic artistic atmosphere.
Carlos region.
The map continues to explore, passing through the bustling city of Miare, traversing vast plains and mountains, and finally settling on a boundless primeval forest covered in lush, dense green.
A line of cold text was marked next to the map.
[Target locked: Carlos region, deepest part of the Lost Forest.]
[Note: The magnetic field in this area is extremely chaotic, and a natural, ultra-high-intensity illusion barrier exists, which the local residents call "a place where you can enter but not leave."]
Time allows no delays whatsoever.
Communication requests with the mentor and the alliance president were approved almost instantly. In the encrypted channel, the two highest-ranking members of the alliance issued permission without any unnecessary words, using only the most concise language.
"Permissions granted, depart immediately."
Lin Che turned off the communication; the operation instructions were already imprinted in his mind.
Regular commercial airliners were excluded outright. The slow flight paths and cumbersome security procedures were the biggest mockery of the current race against time.
The alliance's fastest private jet was already waiting on the tarmac.
It was an aircraft painted entirely in matte black with sleek and sharp lines. It had no Alliance insignia, only an internal number that was indistinguishable to outsiders, branded under the wing.
During the hours-long flight, the clouds outside the window were stretched into flowing ribbons of light by the extreme speed. The land and sea beneath our feet rushed past in our view, and the curvature of the Earth was clearly visible.