"Since he does not have one hundred percent certainty, he clearly could spend more time accumulating strength. Although the Elder's strength will not decrease with the passage of time, I am sure Giovanni still has some room for improvement."
"Put that way... is the problem Mewtwo?"
What made Giovanni choose to act even without having absolute certainty...
"Then, Mewtwo's consciousness has inevitably already begun to be born. If he does not act now, his control over Mewtwo will become weaker and weaker..."
Of course, all of this was only conjecture in Cain's heart, not a definite answer.
"Then, I must see what the result of this world-shaking battle will be. Only in that way can I find my position in the enormous changes that are coming."
A murmured voice came from Cain's mouth.
...
Three days later.
Upon arriving again at Mt. Silver, Cain's arrival was still just as silent.
Just like the previous time, Cain first went to the inner area of Mt. Silver. Not for anything else, but only because of Moltres.
Last time, Cain had extracted a tube of blood from Moltres to use it as material for his Pokéblocks. More than a year had already passed, and that valuable blood of a Legendary Pokémon had already been consumed by him.
So... Cain once again found Moltres.
Under its terrified gaze and Tyranitar's "kind" consolation, Cain once again gently extracted a tube of blood while Moltres had an expression of being about to cry.
But this time was different from before. Cain left it some good medicines and pills to replenish blood.
Moreover, he gifted it a motivational phrase: "Bleeding a little every so often is a good thing. It can promote the circulation and flow of blood in your body, and also stimulate the functioning of your hematopoietic stem cells. In any case, leaving it there is a waste. Better let me make use of it."
It had to be said that Moltres, upon hearing this information, almost pissed itself from fright.
From Cain's tone, it seemed that he would come every so often to draw a little blood from it.
Thinking that it would have to face such a situation in the future, Moltres even felt like dying.
Now, just thinking of Tyranitar or Cain's smile, it had nightmares when sleeping at night.
That person and that Pokémon had already become its nightmare.
Fortunately, Cain only extracted one tube of blood from it and did nothing else to it.
After having its blood extracted, Moltres would only be weak for a few days and would not have major problems. Moreover, with the help of Cain's medicines, at most, it would recover in one or two days.
And in this place, it was an existence like a king and ancestor. Even if it was weak for a few days, no Pokémon would dare attack it.
It was pure, very pure: it had simply developed a fear toward Cain from the deepest part of its heart.
Only, it was a pity that the current Cain no longer paid too much attention to it. As a mobile blood bank, it was indeed quite useful.
Under Moltres's gaze full of despair, Cain left the inner area and directly entered Mt. Silver.
It was different from Mt. Silver during the Sacred Church's invasion. Back then, Kael led the members of the Sacred Church in secretly, taking advantage of the period when the League's high-ranking officials were not there.
But Giovanni did not do that. Giovanni, who possessed extreme confidence, and Team Rocket, far more powerful than the Sacred Church, directly deployed an enormous army at the foot of Mt. Silver.
Tens of thousands of Team Rocket members gathered there. Even the entire Kanto-Johto League was incapable of ignoring such a force.
No, it could not be said "ignore." Such an enormous force could no longer be described only as something the League had to take seriously. It was a force that made the entire League tremble.
Under Giovanni's leadership, all the high executives of Team Rocket, as well as those Team Rocket troops that had always remained hidden in the darkness, were brought out this time.
This was a battle in which they bet all their foundations.
It could no longer be called simply a battle. It should be called... war.
Giovanni looked proudly at the council Elder, who was in front of him in the distance.
"Last time it was Kael. This time, it is finally your turn, right, Giovanni?"
Even in a situation like this, the council Elder's face still carried a barely visible smile, without showing too much pressure.
Giovanni floated in the air, accompanied by that armored Mewtwo.
During this past year and more, the armored Mewtwo had already raised its strength to the extreme. Because it did not possess thought or consciousness of its own, it did not restrain its aura. Because of that, at this moment, the powerful pressure it emitted was so strong that almost no Pokémon could float or fly beside it in the air.
Only the council Elder was not affected at all. The others, to a greater or lesser extent, suffered quite a bit of pressure. Because of that, the maximum height those people could fly at could only remain below Giovanni.
Even Magnus, the current general commander of the League army, could not stand at the same height as Giovanni.
This was the reason Giovanni could challenge the entire League and the council Elder, who had sat in the position of overall president of the League for who knew how many years!
"There is no other choice, Elder. Although both Kael and I received your careful teaching and obtained great benefits from it, each person has their own ambitions in their heart. And if the League cannot fulfill my ambitions, then I can only take them for myself."
Giovanni did not underestimate the council Elder just because he seemed calm.
Since he met the council Elder, he had always given him a feeling of being impossible to see through. Even now, Giovanni still had not managed to understand what kind of person he truly was.
"Oh?" The council Elder smiled.
While everyone was confronting each other, Cain silently entered the League headquarters of Mt. Silver and headed directly toward the deepest area.
Now everyone's attention was attracted by Team Rocket led by Giovanni, and inside the League headquarters, there were not too many defensive forces.
Added to Cain's powerful psychic power and barrier ability, as long as he was careful enough, no one could discover him.
This time, the first thing he was going to do was see one person.
Kael, imprisoned in the deepest prison of the League headquarters!
(End of chapter)