Axel was fairly trusting of what the Black and White Dragons said.
As the complete souls of the Unova Dragon God, even if their mental power hadn't been developed like Gardevoir's, its quality was still terrifyingly high.
Their perceptions were very likely things that could actually happen.
Not long after, the old granny and old grandpa who guarded Mt. Chimney, along with the two Gym Leaders, were brought back together by Zekrom.
At first, they were somewhat wary of Axel, but after hearing what Shafiya said and seeing the "mandarin duck hotpot" in the sky, that wariness completely disappeared.
The reason was very simple. With Axel's strength, there was absolutely no need for him to trick them.
To avoid things dragging on and causing trouble later, Axel didn't rush to leave Mt. Chimney. Instead, he planned to fuse with the Crimson Red Orb right there, at the old man's house on the summit of Mt. Chimney.
As night fell, Axel prepared food for the Pokémon, then made a training plan for Lillie. After that, he took Gardevoir and the Crimson Red Orb into the room.
"Gardevoir, I'll have to trouble you to guard me today. After all, you're the only one here who has developed psychic power."
"If you see any sign of me being controlled, help suppress the two orbs."
"Of course... the probability of that happening isn't very high."
Axel didn't really feel that these two orbs could pose much of a threat to him. He was just used to eliminating potential problems when doing things.
If he weren't afraid of damaging the orbs, he would've wanted to turn the two of them into dishes.
Gardevoir nodded lightly, her expression serious. Sitting beside Axel, she kept hold of his arm, the two of them maintaining a state of mental connection.
"Then... I'm starting!"
Axel took out the Crimson Red Orb and slapped it straight onto his forehead. His consciousness once again entered the mental sea.
Within his mental sea, the Indigo Orb had already very obediently transformed into the shape of a miniature Kyogre, swimming through the ocean and occasionally lifting its head to look at the sky.
Over the course of the day, he had tried several hundred times, but every single time he reached the boundary wall of the mental sea, he would be bounced back.
It wasn't until night fell that he finally figured out the whole sequence of events.
That Crimson Red Orb bastard had actually been playing mind games with him.
It pretended to have found a suitable human, then deliberately used Precipice Blades to wake him up, tricked him into coming in, and locked him up here.
That way, the Crimson Red Orb would have plenty of time to look for a suitable person, and wouldn't have to worry about him stealing anyone.
After figuring all this out, the Indigo Orb suddenly felt utterly hopeless about life, "When is this ever going to end..."
All of a sudden, a sharp whistling sound came from above the calm ocean. Little Kyogre raised its head slightly and saw a fiery red "meteor" tear through the clouds and smash down toward the mental sea.
It was precisely the fiery red orb that Axel had slapped in.
With the appearance of the Crimson Red Orb, Axel's mental sea underwent another drastic change.
Scorching red light flared from the orb, countless streams of magma raining down. The instant they touched the mental sea, they formed terrain that resembled land.
Those "magmas" seemed to react with Axel's Pokémon power. After forming land, they spread rapidly, soon occupying half of the mental sea.
"Damn it, you still dare to come?"
"You were fighting my main body for Hoenn outside, and now that you're inside you're still fighting me for the mental sea?"
The Indigo Orb, which had arrived first and discovered it couldn't leave, had already taken Axel's mental sea as its own territory.
Seeing the Crimson Red Orb enter, it immediately bared its teeth and opened its mouth toward the sky.
'Take this, Origin Pulse!'
The water in the mental sea surged rapidly toward Kyogre, forming countless cyan-white, dazzling beams of light that roared through the air as they attacked the Crimson Red Orb.
The Crimson Red Orb reacted just as quickly, transforming into a small Groudon and standing on the newly formed land as it unleashed Precipice Blades...
Watching the two little guys start fighting inside his mental sea, Axel, who was observing his mental sea from within, couldn't help twitching the corner of his mouth.
He had been very seriously waiting for a mental power transformation. He had even called Gardevoir over.
And this was the result?
Aside from his mental sea turning into a mental region, Axel didn't feel any change in his body or brain domain at all.
The biggest change was probably that there was now an extra Hoenn in his head. It was like watching a movie inside his brain, where he could appreciate a world-famous masterpiece at any time. Groudon battling Kyogre.
"This can't really be called a transformation, can it?", Axel watched the two of them fight their pointless battle for a bit, then planned to leave the consciousness sea and go ask Zekrom and Reshiram what was actually going on.
Suddenly, a sharp pain struck his head. He hurriedly plunged the consciousness he hadn't yet withdrawn back into his mind, and then saw a terrifying scene.
The battle between Kyogre and Groudon was getting more and more out of hand. The shockwaves from their clashes were already affecting the edges of the mental sea.
The headache Axel had just felt was because a crack had appeared at the edge of the mental sea.
Fortunately, compared to the vast mental sea, that crack was minuscule and was quickly repaired by the flowing mental power.
Axel secretly let out a sigh of relief, his tone turning stern as a vast, booming voice echoed throughout the entire mental sea, "You two, quiet down right now!"
But Kyogre and Groudon seemed completely possessed, unable to hear Axel's voice at all, continuing to fight on their own.
The land crumbled, waves surged sky-high. Axel's mental sea completely devolved into a battlefield for the two orbs.
Every time they used Precipice Blades and Origin Pulse at the same time, a tiny crack would appear at the edge of Axel's mental sea, causing him splitting headaches.
After several repetitions, Axel discovered something terrifying.
Every time a crack was repaired, it consumed his mental power.
Up to this point, Kyogre and Groudon hadn't clashed many times. The collisions between Precipice Blades and Origin Pulse numbered fewer than ten. Yet Axel could clearly see that the water level of his mental sea had already dropped visibly.
Not only that, after every crack was repaired, Axel's mental sea seemed to grow a little larger, continuously expanding outward as its area increased.
This further accelerated the rate at which the mental sea's water level dropped.
Later on, cracks began appearing faster and faster, and the entire mental sea was expanding wildly every single moment.
"Damn it, so this is the kind of development it is. The Black and White Dragons' prophecy is way too unreliable," Axel felt the corners of his mouth go numb and his heart pound wildly.
If his mental power dried up because of this... the consequences would be unimaginable.
Realizing this, Axel's eyelids twitched violently. He never expected these two orbs to be this dangerous.
If he'd known earlier, he would've turned the two of them into jelly and eaten them.
Luckily, he still had two Pokémon on his side who were extremely proficient in the mental domain, so there shouldn't be too big of a problem.
"Gardevoir, the two orbs are expanding my brain domain, and my mental power might be close to being completely drained."
"See if you can bring the Unova Dragon God in here and teach these two orbs how to behave like proper beings!"
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