chsdbacks Chapter 833 The Truth About the Stone Slab
Chapter 833 The Truth About the Stone Slab
“Arceus? What does this have to do with the Temple of the Beginning?” Akari listened to their conversation with a blank expression. “Isn’t the Pillar of the Spear a temple used to worship Dialga and Palkia?”
Neither of them paid him any attention; the leader of the Galactic Team stood there like an outsider.
Meanwhile, Apollo, a high-ranking member of Team Rocket, looked completely bewildered. As an outsider, he didn't even know the local legends of Sinnoh, let alone the existence of Arceus.
The local Sinnoh Gym Leaders, Trainers, and the three executives of Team Galactic all showed expressions of shock upon hearing the name Arceus. After all, while legends of Dialga, Palkia, and the three legendary lake gods circulated in the Sinnoh region, there were very few tales about Giratina and the Distortion World.
As for Arceus? Even the natives of Sinnoh only have vague records of him, such as "the God of a Thousand Hands," not to mention trainers from other regions.
As a descendant of a prestigious family in Sinnoh, Gadriya naturally knew of Giratina's existence, but she knew very little about the "Hall of Beginning" that Cynthia mentioned, and could only look at Yang Ming blankly.
"Hey, you know so much, do you even know what the Temple of Origin is?"
Yang Ming couldn't be bothered with her at all; he was busy adjusting the "Rocket Team gears" to see if he could contact the outside world.
Just as he had guessed, as the barrier between the reverse world and the real world weakened, ordinary electronic communication devices resumed communication.
"Contact headquarters now!" Yang Ming activated the communication function on Team Rocket's gear, intending to report the situation to Lambda in Johto, but suddenly noticed something very strange.
His stone slab is gone.
Team Rocket Gear has the function of teleporting items, so when Yang Ming collected the stone tablets, he would use Team Rocket Gear to teleport them away. However, when Team Rocket Gear returned to normal, he found that all of his stone tablets had disappeared!
"how so?!"
Just then, Yang Ming's backpack began to shake violently. A moment later, two pink stone slabs flew out of the backpack. They were the two magical stone slabs!
These two magical stone tablets first appeared in the Random Ruins, appearing as unknown totems. After obtaining them, Yang Ming believed that these two stone tablets were very special, so he did not store them elsewhere, but carried them with him, wanting to uncover the secrets of the stone tablets.
However, these stone slabs suddenly flew away on their own, which greatly alarmed Yang Ming.
Not only him, but the stone tablets possessed by the trainers present also began to fly into the sky. In an instant, the colorful stone tablets, like awakened shooting stars, broke free from the trainers' backpacks, bags, and even their arms, rising into the air. Fiery red fireball stone tablets, water droplet stone tablets, and lush green grass stone tablets... they drew magnificent trajectories in the air, ultimately converging in one direction—the Temple of the Beginning.
"My stone tablet!" a trainer exclaimed, trying to jump up and grab the flying lightning stone tablet, but missed.
Not only the stone tablets in the reversed world, but even those in the displayed world, pierced through the world barrier and flew towards the Temple of Origin.
Gazing at the countless stone slabs floating in the sky, everyone fell silent.
Chi Ri's face was grim as he watched his treasured stone slabs disappear, a sense of unease rising within him for the first time—a feeling that things were completely out of his control. No longer content to be a mere observer, he stepped forward and sharply questioned the dark figure: "What on earth is going on? These stone slabs…"
His words came to an abrupt end.
Because the stone slabs surrounding the Temple of Origin were constantly changing, shrinking, and turning into tiny fragments.
"I understand!" A sudden realization dawned on Yang Ming, and he couldn't help but shout it out.
"Idiot, what do you understand?" Gadriya couldn't help but ask.
"The truth about the stone slabs, and why there are so many stone slabs in the Sinnoh region," Yang Ming said, emphasizing each word, "what we found before were not the real stone slabs, or rather, the truly complete stone slabs, but rather fragments of the stone slabs!"
"According to the ancient documents passed down through generations of the gods and towns, there should only be one of each type of stone slab. Why would modern Sinnoh unearth so many stone slabs? This is clearly impossible!"
Recalling the time when he heard from Hyota that Sinnoh was full of stone slabs, Yang Ming felt something was wrong, but he didn't know what the problem was. After all, even if it was fake, no force could produce so many fake stone slabs all at once.
Now, everything makes sense.
"Do you remember the two sentences engraved on the back of the Earth Slab and the Sky Slab?" Yang Ming continued, "'When the universe was born, its fragments turned into slabs. Fragments of its power were sealed in jade and buried underground.' These two sentences reveal the whole truth about the slabs."
"The stone tablets themselves were fragments of Arceus, and these fragments became more fragmented for some reason, becoming the stone tablets we see today."
"As for those 'jewels' buried deep in the Sinnoh region, they should also be remnants further extracted from the stone slab fragments. However, this part of the power is too insignificant, and as time goes by, it will be slowly absorbed back by the stone slab fragments."
"So, what we found, what we dug out, what we fought for..."
After a long pause, Chi Ri's voice, tinged with bitterness and shock, said, "They were never complete 'slabs'. They were... fragments. Fragments of a higher power that, over the long years, collapsed, were lost, or... were 'stripped' off and settled into the real world."
Cynthia covered her mouth. Her unique background and familiarity with the ancient secrets of the Sinnoh region made her realize something. Suddenly, some vague records and contradictions connected: "The ancient scrolls of God and Town… do indeed only mention the 'single creation tablet,' corresponding to the foundation of the world. But later discoveries and artifacts are countless… If those 'artifacts' are merely fragments of the true tablet's power manifested… then everything makes sense! Like… like scales shed by deities, or crystallized, dissipated power!"
In the distance, Apollo, though unable to understand "Arceus" or the mysteries of the universe, felt a chill run down his spine from the extraordinary scene before him and the reactions of the crowd. He whispered an order to his subordinates: "Record everything! Send all energy readings and video data back to headquarters! This might be... a phenomenon beyond the level of legendary Pokémon!"