"Rope it looks like this is the right entrance... but how do we get in?"
Hoopa asked with some confusion.
Rope scrutinized for a moment that Giratina was at the top, Dialga and Palkia were at the bottom left and bottom right corners respectively. The three outlined a precise equilateral triangle.
And the alpaca-like Arceus was in the center of that equilateral triangle.
Dark matter, time, space, the trinity. That in itself is Arceus' authority. And later, Rope hadn't heard of any special powers of Arceus. Among the legends Arceus created the Sinnoh Three Dragons and the Three Sacred Mushrooms. That would be like splitting his authority...
But why didn't he keep anything for himself?
Or does he have more cards up his sleeve?
Countless questions surfaced in Rope's mind, but none of them could be answered in a moment's time.
"Rope, Rope, wake up! Asking you!"
Hoopa's yelling voice was faintly heard in his ears.Rope rolled his eyes and said, "I heard you..."
Hoopa heard Rope's impatient words and gave him a blank stare back, then said in a rude voice: "You heard it, you tell me the answer!"
He pointed to the Plate floor in front of him.
"How do I get in? I can't open a portal, nor can I move instantly. The space inside is separate."
"Don't you realize that they're not in the right place? Do you think Arceus is supposed to be in the middle of the three of them?"
Rope asked rhetorically.
Hoopa flinched at the question. Of course he didn't know the answer to Rope's question. After all, they said they were everyone's gods, but they really didn't know each other that well.
After all, the positions they held weren't quite the same, and there was little intermingling of authority and between each other.
Rope saw Hoopa fall into silence and also knew that Hoopa, an illiterate person, would most likely not be able to answer his question.
"They are not reciprocal with each other. It's not like the Sinnoh Three Dragons are defending Arceus, but I feel that their relationship with each other is more like a father and his three children. It's just a pity that the Three Sacred Mushrooms didn't appear in this image, or else this would be a family portrait."
Rope's mouth said and his hands didn't stop. After crouching down, he moved these movable Plate one by one, and soon adjusted it so that Arceus was on top, and the Sinnoh Three Dragons that were added down were looking at Arceus in a tilted position at the bottom.
Then, the heavy sound of machine amplification came out in the ears.
In Hoopa's shocked eyes, the ground in front of him gradually parted and a downward staircase appeared in his sight.
Rope shrugged his shoulders and said, "An organ with no creativity at all... it's really off the mark..."
With that he shook his head and then looked at the shocked Hoopa and said, "Come on, come on, keep your mouth shut, we're going to see what's next."
With that said Rope led the way towards the entrance.
Rotom and Hoopa reacted and followed closely in Rope's footsteps.
Rope first felt around the sides of the steps for a while and sure enough found the torches on the wall. Rope pressed his hand on the wall and then the flame condensed into a line of fire that went all the way down the wall. Rope pressed his hand on the wall and the flame formed a line of fire that extended all the way down the wall. The torches on this side of the wall were lit one by one. Rope then went to the other side and lit the torches in the same way.
The originally dark staircase just became bright.
The feeling of approaching the abyss of hell before also dissipated a lot.
Looking at Hoopa and Rotom who were breathing a sigh of relief, Rope helplessly said, "Can you guys calm down a bit...this is a place to worship Arceus, not N'Zoth...it's very safe, okay."
"Which god is N'Zoth?" Rotom looks deferential. Hoopa looks puzzled.
Is it hard to believe that there are any other gods that I haven't snubbed over for a fight?
The corners of Rope's mouth twitched at how he had fished out the so-called evil gods from the original world game.
No, on second thought, Pokémon's world was real now, so I guess World of Warcraft might not be delusional either. Maybe there really was a Warcraft story going on in some sub-world.
"It's not important, I said it off the top of my head."
Rope had no intention of explaining more. After saying that, he proceeded down the path.
Rotom and Hoopa were puzzled, but they both knew they would never be able to pry Rope's mouth open.
Hoopa shrugged and then followed Rope's footsteps.
"Rotom take care to videotape the murals on the sides as well, it's something valuable to study. Get back to Whitley and give the stuff to him so he can study it then water a paper out of it."
Rope instructed in passing as he looked at the ancient and rugged mural.
"Okay loto! By the way Rope, Daisy's paper is already written and she asked me to tell you to help her revise it. Loto!"
Rope's mouth twitched at that...
What's the fuss? Daisy was the one who touched up all his papers. Now Daisy wants to ask herself to touch up her papers...
"Okay, send me the paper."
Unfortunately... there was no internet, so even sending it would have to wait until Rope and the others were back on the ground. After all, Rotom has his own work to do right now...
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And beyond the village, the children were having extra fun by a river. The adults were worried, but they didn't show it in front of the children. So the whole camp was still a happy scene.
And in the distance came the sound of a car. Diana and Whitley, who were on guard at the edge of the camp, were kind of relieved.
In no time, an SUV came close to the campground.
Eri and Yutsuki, dressed in strong armor, stepped down from the buggy. There were two or three other people with them.
Whitley was familiar with them, and although Diana knew that there was a group of icon holders, she had only heard of the three most famous ones.
Rope, Red, Blue...
The three that were active in the Johto region before her eyes, however, were the ones that touched on the blind spots of her knowledge.
"Whitley! It's been a long time!"
Crystal greeted Whitley excitedly. They were both the Doctor's assistants. But in comparison, Crystal was still just Professor Oak's assistant, but Whitley was already an assistant and student.
"Long time no see, Crystal, what brings you here?"
Whitley looked at Crystal, Gold and Silver who came down from the car together.
I didn't expect to expect so many combatants!
"Professor Oak asked me to bring Gold and Silver here to support you after hearing about the situation on your side. After all, Whitley, your current combat power is still unformed."
Crystal didn't say all of her words. But everyone knew what she meant. The general idea was that Professor Oak was worried that there might be some other changes on Rope's side. Causing Whitley and the others to be in danger when he wasn't around.
After all, now that little Lugia was also at Daisy's side, Whitley didn't even have a fighting elf at her side.
Whitley took Crystal's hand and brought her to Diana's side and said, ''Come, come, I'll introduce you! This is Sister Diana, the assistant and guide Rope found."
Whitley then beckoned Yutsuki and Eri to come over.
"Sister Diana, this is Crystal, Professor Oak's assistant and one of the iconography holders. Over here are Eri and Yutsuki, also members of our institute. We'll all be coworkers from now on."
Diana somewhat shyly greeted everyone, "Hello everyone, I'm Diana. please take care of me."
Looking at the lively women over here, Gold tsked and exclaimed, "Brother Rope is really a role model! With a girlfriend like Big Sister Cynthia, he is still surrounded by a large circle of women."
Silver ignored him and just calmly observed the surrounding. Like he was looking for the best place and way to fight.
"Hey hey hey, Silver! talking to you...you and your dad are really getting more and more alike."
Gold looked somewhat helplessly at Silver, who was not quite the same as before.
"There's nothing wrong with it...dad's way of doing things is fine." Silver glanced at Gold, "Can you not hold a grudge just because you're the only one who hasn't been recruited by Dad's Team Rocket..."
"Whoever...who cares about that!"
Gold denied, "I just think your dad's style of doing things is a bit much."
Silver also didn't deny that the things Team Rocket did before were indeed over the top. It's just that after Rope helped break the ice with their father-son reunion, Team Rocket washed their hands of it. Not to say it's pure white now. But at least it's gray.
And now Giovanni is just in charge of the consultant look. silver manages some major things from time to time. Matori is still in charge of Rocketry as a whole now.
So he'd still be traveling with Gold or Green a lot.
"And...seriously, if even Professor Rope thinks it's dangerous...I feel like the odds are that we're going to be in no small amount of trouble as well..."
Silver's tone was fairly calm, but a hint of uneasiness could still be heard.
Among the current group of trainers, those who really knew something about Rope, Red and Blue knew that they should be discussed together.
These three guys who grew up in Pallet Town had finally reached the same peak...
As for who is the strongest...it's going to take a battle between legends.
Countless people were looking forward to it...
Unfortunately, their anticipation might have to wait for a long time. After all, the immediate extinction crisis had yet to be resolved...
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"Hoopa, none of you were created by Arceus himself, were you."
Rope coldly posed the question.
"Of course he didn't create you! How could a dead alpaca create old me!"
Although Hoopa was unable to defeat Arceus, he really refused to lose at all with his mouth.
We are all guys who popped out from the laws of the world, no one is lower than anyone else. Why should they crouch down in front of you?
"But Ho-Oh they're just like you. But they're even slightly weaker than the Sinnoh Three Dragons...the Sinnoh Three Dragons together are all being pressed by Arceus."
"Tsk...I can do it too!" Hoopa said nonchalantly.
Rope also knew he wasn't lying. Hoopa's strength was considered a supermodel in Pokémon...
"But...why is his name the God of Creation?"
"Is that something you don't even know? It's just that meteorite from back then..."
"Can't you break that meteorite?"
Rope said immediately without waiting for Hoopa to finish.
Hoopa froze at Rope's question...
"Even if you can't break it, can you plus mega Rayquaza still not break it? What makes you the creator god of a meteorite? Is that name so worthless?"
Rope's tone was indifferent, as if he didn't give a damn about the world that was so close to being destroyed by the falling meteorite.
Such a tone made even Hoopa shiver...
"Time, space, the inverted world that represents death to a certain extent in this world... do you know what that means?"
Hoopa subconsciously shook his head, he didn't know exactly what Rope was going to say...
"It represents reincarnation..."
Rope said with emotion...
No matter what world it was in, reincarnation was always the most crucial thing. In a sense, it was another cycle that needed to be stabilized besides the stable ecological cycle... the cycle of life and death.
"The first gift Arceus gave me was a precious jade condensed purely from life force...life and death, time and space...if those powers hadn't been decentralized...do you have any idea just how powerful Arceus would have to be? "
Hoopa shook his head decisively.
But Rope didn't even look at him. Just walked to the end of the ladder and looked at the unadorned, but atmospheric gate in front of him.
"We'll find out soon enough..."
And so he pushed the gate open without hesitation.
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Sinnoh, in some unknown village.
The movements of a youth who was fetching water from a well suddenly lurched. The girl beside him rushed to show her concern, "What's wrong big brother Al? Are you hurt?"
The girl couldn't wait for Al to say that he was injured now, and then she could proceed to spend more time with him in the name of helping him heal his injuries or taking care of him.
Hearing the girl's question, Al smiled and shook his head, "No, it's just that something suddenly came to mind."
Saying that, he carried the water and said, "Let's go, take the water to your house, I still have to go and help Granny Wozhi chop wood later."
The girl's face could not hide some disappointment, then said, "Alright..."
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In another village. The youth who was rafting on the lake inexplicably felt a trace of panic.
He frowned as he recalled the events of these years...then silently shook his head.
There was no problem, and nothing would happen...it had been almost a hundred years. And how could something happen now?
I'm afraid those guys even forgot the rituals of the sacrifice...
So he continued rowing forward. Not far ahead was a small island.
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In the dense forest
"Chief... the statue of Lord Genesis is glowing!"
A young man rushed into the patriarch's treehouse with an arrow step, coming up for air.
The patriarch sat at the top, silent, his eyes closed.
A moment later, this old man opened his eyes and said in a thick, low tone, "Take careful precautions... don't let any outsiders enter the village during this time."
"Yes!" In another village. The youth who was rafting on the lake inexplicably felt a trace of panic.
He frowned as he recalled the events of these years...then silently shook his head.
There was no problem, and nothing would happen...it had been almost a hundred years. And how could something happen now?
I'm afraid those guys even forgot the rituals of the sacrifice...
So he continued rowing forward. Not far ahead was a small island.