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Finally, Ash sat down, persuaded by Misty and Brock, and comforted by Gardevoir.
To be fair, Gardevoir not only came to no harm but also grew healthily and vigorously, possessing amazing aptitude and learning abilities far surpassing her own kind.
This must have something to do with the amount of spiritual origin Blaine injected into the Pokémon egg.
In other words, Gardevoir was not only unaffected but also received many benefits.
This was also the reason Gardevoir persuaded Ash to sit down.
Blaine's original intention was definitely not good for Gardevoir, but the outcome was positive.
Seeing Ash calm down a little, Blaine sighed, "Ash, you are still too young, which is why your ideas are so naive. Nothing in this world is perfect. It is only natural to pay this price to stop that organization."
"Let alone a Pokémon egg, if I could bear Mewtwo's spiritual origin, then I would be the one to bear it. Even if it meant sacrificing my old life, I would never let Mewtwo grow up. Do you understand what I mean?"
Ash: ...Blaine's words made Ash completely calm down and think.
His meaning was that if stopping Mewtwo required him to pay with his life, he would do so without hesitation. This was Blaine's obsession with sealing Mewtwo's power.
"Is Mewtwo really that terrifying?" Misty couldn't help but ask.
"Those who haven't seen Mewtwo won't know how strong its power is, and that was just its nascent power. If I hadn't taken its spiritual origin, Mewtwo would probably have reached that legendary realm by now."
"The legendary realm?"
"God-Tier," Blaine uttered three words calmly, but it caused Ash and the others to change their expressions drastically.
God-Tier, that is the most top-tier grade in the Pokémon world. Most Pokémon cannot even glimpse that realm. Legend has it that only Legendary Pokémon can possibly step into that realm.
Among all the Trainers currently, only Leon is rumored to have a Pokémon that has reached that realm, but it has not been confirmed so far.
It is a realm that all Trainers dream of achieving, the pinnacle of the world's pyramid.
If Mewtwo really reached the God-Tier, it would indeed have a huge impact on the entire world. The God-Tier is not nonexistent in the world, but a God-Tier controlled by humans has not yet appeared—not counting the unknown factor of Leon.
"...Blaine, what exactly is this organization you keep talking about? How do they have Mew's genes and such vast financial resources? An organization with these two factors is definitely not an ordinary one, and why not ask the Alliance for help? With the Alliance's help, Mewtwo could be contained before it grows, right? They could even eradicate that organization in one fell swoop."
Brock raised his insights after a moment of silence.
If they felt they couldn't handle it, why didn't they seek help from the Alliance?
As both a researcher and a Gym Leader, if he went to the Alliance, they would certainly not take Blaine's words as a joke. At that time, with the Alliance's full power, any organization could be wiped out in one fell swoop, right?
Blaine shook his head and said, "If the Alliance could eliminate that organization, they would have done so long ago. Perhaps before, the Alliance allowed them to develop to maintain the balance between good and evil, but now they have grown to a point where even the Alliance finds it difficult to eradicate them. You should have heard of that organization, it is... Team Rockets."
Team Rockets! They were all too familiar with them! After all, ever since they started their journey, they had been constantly harassed by Team Rockets, and they were even dealing with Team Rockets just recently!
However, the Team Rockets they dealt with were like comical clowns, always making a grand entrance and an even grander exit. Since they first met, those three had never succeeded in doing anything bad.
Despite this, it doesn't deny their villainous identity, but the things they did... indeed lacked that sense of threatening urgency.
From the beginning, when they met the trio, they felt crisis and tension, but now, when they see those three, their first thought is to laugh.
From the time they met those three until now, they haven't done much bad, but they have done quite a lot of good deeds.
Some of Ash's Pokémon were caught thanks to those three guys.
So, having dealt with those three guys who constantly claimed to be Team Rockets, they had forgotten how massive Team Rockets was in Kanto!
Not only in Kanto, they had their bases all over the world, a world-class criminal organization.
As the saying goes, a cunning rabbit has three burrows. Even if the Alliance wanted to wipe them out in one go, they would first have to find all their secret bases.
It wasn't until Blaine mentioned the name Team Rockets that they truly felt a sense of oppression.
Team Rockets was not a comedic organization; they were a real, worldwide, leading criminal organization!
"So what's the situation with Mewtwo now? Also, what impact will injecting the spiritual origin into the Pokémon egg have on Gardevoir? And why did I find Ralts's Pokémon egg on Mt. Moon?"
Ash asked a series of questions that were on his mind. These were the main points they should be focusing on now.
Since things had already happened, there was no point in dwelling on the past. Dealing with the present was the most important thing.
"I don't know Mewtwo's current situation, but what's certain is that it won't reach the God-Tier. Without that spiritual origin within Gardevoir, Mewtwo will be trapped at the Champion Grade for life, unless something can compensate for the origin, such as finding Mew's true body," Blaine said casually.
As long as it didn't have Gardevoir's spiritual origin, Mewtwo would never reach the God-Tier, no matter how much time passed, because it was not complete.
Although Blaine didn't know the conditions for reaching the God-Tier, he knew that if one wasn't complete, it would definitely be impossible to step into that realm. So Mewtwo was definitely not at the God-Tier now.
"As for what impact it has on Gardevoir... actually, since she has hatched, it means there won't be any impact. But looking at her current state, she probably hasn't unearthed the power of Mewtwo's spiritual origin yet. Otherwise, she shouldn't be only at this level," Blaine said slowly, looking at Gardevoir.
"I injected the spiritual origin into her body when she was still a Pokémon egg. So if she still hasn't activated that power, it means that power must be hidden deep within her body, in her gene chain."
"To activate it, she needs to evolve, but she has already reached her final evolution. That means the path of evolution is no longer viable. Besides evolution, there's also the option of having Mewtwo intervene, extracting that power for Gardevoir to use, but... do you think Mewtwo would return it to itself or give it to Gardevoir after extracting it?"
Facing Blaine's rhetorical question, everyone immediately thought of the answer—Mewtwo would, of course, take the spiritual origin back into its own body.
That thing originally belonged to Mewtwo, so how could it return it to Gardevoir after extracting it?
"If Mewtwo takes the spiritual origin, what impact will it have on Gardevoir?" Ash suddenly raised a question: the impact of the loss of the spiritual origin on Gardevoir.
He wasn't particularly proficient in Pokémon research, but how could an act of taking something from Gardevoir's gene chain not affect Gardevoir?
Blaine was silent for a moment before saying in a low voice, "If the spiritual origin is extracted but not used on Gardevoir, then Gardevoir will forever be stuck at her current level. In severe cases, it might even shorten her lifespan, and she won't live for more than five years."
"Also, if Gardevoir is outside and within fifty miles of Mewtwo, she will be sensed by Mewtwo, as its spiritual origin is within Gardevoir's body. If Mewtwo senses Gardevoir..."
Ash: !!!
Damn! Why didn't you say such a dangerous thing sooner!
Although Blaine didn't continue, even an idiot would know what would happen if Gardevoir were sensed by Mewtwo.
From Blaine's description, Mewtwo was definitely not an easy Pokémon to get along with. If the origin within Gardevoir was sensed, the other party would definitely forcibly take the origin back.
Even though it originally belonged to Mewtwo, this thing was now linked to Gardevoir's life, so how could Ash let the other party take it back?
In other words, from the moment Ash got Ralts's Pokémon egg, he was already up against Team Rocket and Mewtwo!
What a twisted fate!
Ash rubbed his temples, feeling a headache. Even with his personality, thinking about confronting the entire Team Rockets and Mewtwo made him feel a little down.
If it were just Mewtwo, it would be fine. With his current strength, as long as Mewtwo hadn't reached the God-Tier, he could stop it.
But with the entire Team Rockets involved, that was trouble upon trouble. He definitely needed to ask Professor Oak for help.
"Gardevoir?" Ash, have I caused you trouble?
"No, you are my partner. Even if it costs me my life, I will protect you." Ash quickly composed himself and smiled at Gardevoir.
As a Trainer, his job was to ensure his Pokémon were not in a state of confusion or panic.
If the sky falls, he would hold it up!
"Thank you, Blaine, for telling me this. By the way, is there a way for Gardevoir to sense Mewtwo in reverse?"
"The same. Within fifty miles, Gardevoir can also sense Mewtwo's aura."
"Alright, at least that's a precaution." Ash nodded, finally hearing some good news.
"Actually, at first, I never thought Ralts's Pokémon egg could hatch. All I thought was to use it as a vessel to carry Mewtwo's spiritual origin, and then use a teleportation machine to randomly teleport the Pokémon egg to a place a thousand miles away. It didn't matter where it was teleported, what was important was to get it away from Mewtwo."
"As long as it was a hundred miles away from Mewtwo, even if the Pokémon egg shattered and the spiritual origin came out, it wouldn't automatically return to Mewtwo's body because the distance between them was too great. Then, as time passed, the spiritual origin that remained outside would slowly disappear, and Mewtwo would never be able to reach the God-Tier by recovering its spiritual origin."
Ash: ...He finally knew how Ralts came to be. It turned out she was an abandoned existence.
Although Blaine had used every means to save Ralts, he had never thought that Ralts could hatch. Perhaps from the very beginning, when he saved Ralts, it was to make Ralts serve the purpose of restricting Mewtwo.
And when he used the spatial teleportation device to randomly teleport Ralts to another place, he never thought the Pokémon egg could survive. Without nutritional supplements and a good environment, that already incomplete Pokémon egg might have died directly in the wild.
This way, Mewtwo could be permanently restricted.
It was clear that Mewtwo had caused Blaine a considerable psychological shadow. Even using such means, he had to stop Mewtwo from growing up, and it also showed that Blaine's heart was indeed ruthless and decisive enough to come up with such a method to restrict Mewtwo.
However, now, Ralts had not perished in the wild and had even hatched and evolved into Gardevoir.
Blaine could only sigh silently in his heart, not knowing if this was fortunate or unfortunate.
Fortunately, this life did not unexpectedly pass away, but unfortunately, if Gardevoir was truly discovered by Mewtwo one day, her fate would probably not be good... "I've told you everything you wanted to know, Ash. Listen to my advice, hand Gardevoir over to the Alliance. Under the Alliance's protection, even if Team Rockets and Mewtwo truly find her, they won't be able to do anything to her. But if they know the spiritual origin is in your hands, not only Gardevoir, but you might also encounter misfortune."
Blaine advised earnestly. It must be said that, on the surface, Blaine's method might indeed be the best.
But Ash still shook his head, "Unless Gardevoir herself wants to leave me, I will not abandon my Pokémon. Mewtwo or Team Rockets, if they dare to come, I'll make sure they leave on their backs!"
Hearing this, Blaine shook his head helplessly. In his opinion, Ash was just young and hot-blooded. He had had too much Tailwind since he started his journey and didn't know how to write the word 'setback'.
When he truly learned a lesson, he might not even have time to regret it.
'Ash said he would protect me, and he will. Ash is amazing!' A soft but firm female voice echoed in everyone's minds.
Everyone was startled at first, then realized that Gardevoir was speaking using telepathy.
Normally, since Ash could translate, she would speak normally, but this time she wanted to speak for Ash, so she chose to use telepathy, letting her own voice resonate directly in everyone's minds.