Of course, there was also the possibility that, during the fight between the Temporal and Spatial dragons in Alamos Town, Darkrai had used the power of numerous Darkrai and the Spacial God once, utilizing the ability to materialize dreams. With that experience, within a short period of three days, it had mastered the technique of combining spatial ability with the power of nightmares into a tangible form.
"Understood."
In front of Fang Yuan, the Nightmare God Darkrai slowly floated in the air, its arms slowly drawing apart as a huge Dark Hole formed in front of it.
"Roar!!!!!"
"Roar!!!!!"
It conjured a Dark Hole but did not throw it; instead, the phantoms of the Temporal and Spatial dragons flew out from the Dark Hole.
Just like the previous battle with the Temporal and Spatial dragons, where it had pulled the phantoms of the dragons out of the materialized "Dreamland".
"Roar!!"
The huge roar of a dragon resounded, making Pokemon like Eevee and the Space-time Three Dragons turn their heads.
"Wooowww~~"
Little Hoopa stared with wide eyes.
Ever since Darkrai learned this move, Little Hoopa had not been quiet.
Too cheeky, too cheeky, it wanted to learn as well.
It felt like Darkrai was just copying its abilities.
Hoopa Unbound was able to pull the true forms of Legendary Pokemon out from the ring.
While Darkrai was pulling the phantasms of Legendary Pokemon out from the Dark Hole.
Although there was a big difference in essence, Little Hoopa was envious because Darkrai could create whatever dream image it wished, even construct Arceus within the dream and then materialize it.
Of course, the phantom could never be as powerful as Arceus herself.
However, this ability combining space with dreams was somewhat similar to the projection skill of Arceus, which could project the illusory power into the real world and materialize it.
Besides, it was also somewhat similar to Ditto's mimicry ability.
Because the dream phantoms Darkrai materialized were all the more powerful the more realistic they were in the dream.
If Darkrai constructed a nightmare of an ordinary fire, it could naturally achieve 100% reality.
The materialized phantom of flames could also cause 100% real fire damage.
However, like the phantoms of the Temporal and Spatial dragons that Darkrai was creating now, because it only had a rudimentary understanding of the dragons, the phantoms could not exhibit power at the Legendary level at all.
The abilities Roar of Time and Aerial Ace they had successfully used previously, couldn't be used this time due to the lack of powerful nightmare energy and insufficient spatial force.
Even so, the current Darkrai, with the power of nightmares and space-time enhancing it, was much stronger than before.
The combination of reality and illusion in dream power made it possible for Darkrai to materialize not only the dream phantoms of Legendary Pokemon but also those of Pokemon like Eevee, Monferno, and Magnemite.
Just as Ditto could almost perfectly mimic Monferno, Darkrai, which had trained with these Pokemon in the Dream World for so long, found it much easier to construct their phantoms than those of Legendary Pokemon.
Combined with the phantoms of Eevee, Monferno, Magnemite, and others, although they couldn't exert their real battle power, as a summoner like Hoopa, it would be no difficult feat for the current Darkrai to hold its own against ordinary Legendary Pokemon.
"Dream God, this time you will see me with new eyes," Darkrai murmured.
It was ready to refine its skills, and then, with its near-legendary-level strength, it would attempt to challenge the true Legendary Darkrai of Alamos Town.
Even though the opponent had a richer heritage, its own power level was higher, so a battle was not out of the question.
Once it returned to Earth, it planned to seek out that Dream God for a duel, thinking about it made it excited...
"Alright, stop daydreaming, and focus on training," Fang Yuan said after giving a few words of advice to Darkrai, then went on to check the progress of the other Pokemon.
Training the Sinnoh Elite Three and the Pokemon, time did seem to pass quickly...
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Several days later, Fang Yuan's ranking in the championship had reached number 12.
As for Aliu, Satoru, and Ohba, their rankings had all dropped beyond the top 100 and could no longer battle Fang Yuan.
(ಥ_ಥ) The three teared up.
This complex emotion of being both happy to be freed and sad for what happened to oneself, what's that all about?
"Ah..."
"Only 12th place."
As for Fang Yuan, he was rather anxious; he had thought that after demoting the three to beyond the top 100, he could be in the top 10.
However, the point gap among the top 12 wasn't much, so perhaps one or two battles would be enough to climb higher.
"You could go for Caitlin," someone suggested.
"She seems to have started climbing the rankings again recently; she's back in the top 50."
Before parting, Sky King Satoru suggested that, causing the nearby Ohba and Aliu to nod vigorously.
Makes sense, makes sense...
Taking advantage of the little time left before the season's end, they planned to get back into the top 100, they couldn't let Fang Yuan keep picking on just the three of them.
Lure them to Unova... Lure them to Unova!
"Forget it, Caitlin's state of mind isn't very stable..." Fang Yuan said with an awkward smile, I don't like taking advantage of girls.
Sinnoh Elite Three:（╯‵□′）╯︵┴─┴ We're not in a good state of mind either!!
"Are there any other strong trainers nearby?" Fang Yuan asked.
"Speaking of which... there is one," Aliu began, "Yesterday, a ridiculous trainer showed up in the neighboring town... with a decent ranking, possessing strength not much less than the Elite Four, and has been quite popular lately. He's captured a number of legendary Pokemon and always likes to battle with them. The trainers who have battled him say they've been left with quite a mental shadow, feeling very much like Sir Shinto's style."
Ohba said, "I've heard about it too."
"His name is something like... Tobias?"