Amid the ruins of the Flame Gym, the ashes continued to drift in the air after the flames had died down.
Iemitsu and the remaining Sand Ninjas staggered to their feet. They had thought Red's fall marked the end of the battle...
But they never imagined it was merely the beginning of an even greater upheaval.
Suddenly, a deep pulsation echoed from deep within the earth.
Like the heart of the land awakening.
Boom!
At the center of the ruins, the ground violently erupted as an ancient tree burst forth from the soil.
Its trunk was rugged and thick, its branches and leaves shimmering with an indescribable vitality.
A chilling yet serene force instinctively drove all the Sand Ninjas back several steps.
"What... what is this?"
No one could answer.
The ancient tree did not stop growing. As if responding to the heavens and earth, its branches stretched upward, growing brighter and brighter.
The treetop began to split.
"Is that... antlers?"
"How can a tree grow antlers?!?"
Under the astonished gazes of all, eight massive tree-like antlers sprouted from the top of the ancient tree.
Each antler branched into two slender tips at its end, resembling some sacred emblem.
The colors were bizarre: a beige, bone-like main structure entwined with orange, red, purple, and light blue protrusions. Light and shadow pulsed rhythmically across the antlers, carrying a faint, divine energy.
The colors grew softer toward the top and darker toward the tips, as if depicting the entire cycle from birth to end.
At that moment, Shiroishi emerged from the great waterfall of the Land of Rain, a line of information appearing on his glasses.
[Mythical Pokémon incubation successful!]
[Xerneas!]
[Awakened Ability: Fairy Aura!]
[Skill Awakened: Earth Control!]
The next second!
Xerneas's Fairy Aura activated.
A rainbow-colored light spread from the base of the giant tree, rippling outward to cover the entire Mount Kikyō.
Wherever the light passed, the earth seemed to awaken: barren, dead sand instantly transformed into moist, fertile soil.
Cracked rocks were enveloped by green vines, and ancient, dried-up mountains began to gush with springs.
The air filled with the scent of flowers and the vibration of life!
The entire Mount Kikyō...
Transformed from a desert into an oasis.
The Sand Ninjas were too terrified to speak.
"This..."
"Altering the terrain... rewriting nature itself!!"
The intensity of the earth's tremors gradually increased.
Xerneas raised its head, its rainbow antlers blazing brightly.
[Earth Control]
A rainbow-colored wave swept across the entire battlefield.
The Sand Ninjas had no time to react.
The moment the rainbow light brushed past their bodies!
Their Chakra crumbled, their life force drained away,
As if silently consumed by nature itself.
One by one, the Sand Ninjas dissolved into particles of light, absorbed by the earth.
Iemitsu roared in despair, "Fall back!!! Report to Mother and Lord Kazekage at once!"
No sooner had he spoken than the rainbow light swept over the ground beneath his feet, his puppet instantly disintegrating into dust.
He fell to his knees, trembling as he looked up.
The giant tree rapidly transformed within the light.
The bark split open, and an elegant yet indescribably divine figure slowly emerged.
A deer-like form, glowing hooves, and a flowing, rainbow-hued aura of life!
As if the god of the earth had descended.
Xerneas.
It stood silently at the center of the ruins.
Amid everything around it.
Trees, rivers, mountains, and the sky were all given new life because of it.
Iemitsu had completely lost the ability to resist and could only watch everything unfold.
Xerneas lifted its hoof and gently stepped on the air.
The next moment.
Boom!
It transformed into a seven-colored rainbow light, leaping toward the distant horizon.
Leaving behind the land it had reshaped.
Across the ground, alongside Chakra, a soil more suitable for Pokémon Ninja Beasts to thrive had formed.
Meanwhile, high above the Land of Rain, a suffocating darkness was quietly swelling.
The Cocoon of Death hung among the clouds, pulsating like a massive heart, each beat causing the entire Amegakure to tremble.
The ninjas on the ground dared not approach, only gazing upward with extreme terror.
Crack... crack... crack!
The cocoon split open.
Black light spewed from the fissures like Poison Mist, devouring the surrounding rain.
A sharp, massive, and indescribably oppressive bird-like silhouette slowly unfurled from the dark cavity.
Its wings were wide enough to blot out the sky, yet flowed with an eerie red and black energy.
Its body seemed composed of ancient bones and dark Chakra, every pattern etched with symbols of death.
The moment the cocoon shattered completely, the world seemed to twist.
Then, Shiroishi received a second piece of feedback.
[Mythical Pokémon successfully hatched!]
[Yveltal!]
[Awakened Ability: Dark Aura!]
[Skills Awakened: Evil Pulse, Oblivion Wing!]
The Dark Aura spread!
The sky over Amegakure was swallowed by darkness, sunlight stolen, and the air turned piercingly cold.
One by one, the ninjas knelt, feeling their lives being quietly drained away.
"What... what is this?"
The ninjas of Amegakure panicked, the entire village seemingly cast into the shadow of death.
Yveltal raised its head.
Its wings spread wide.
Black energy formed at the tips of its feathers.
Boom!!!!!
A dark shockwave erupted.
Not an attack, but an erasure.
The clouds it brushed against vanished instantly, evaporated, smoothed into nothingness!
The rain clouds were completely dispersed in an instant, revealing an unprecedented azure sky.
But it was not clear weather.
It was a broken sky.
The entire firmament seemed torn open, allowing the scorching sun to beat down directly on the Land of Rain.
The ninjas were too stunned to speak.
"...It destroyed the sky?!"
"Even the clouds... are gone!!!"
Yveltal hovered above the people, its wings like a pair of deadly scythes.
The Dark Aura continued to spread, withering all things, even causing the wood of buildings to lose moisture and crack.
Evil Pulse stirred restlessly, as if ready to annihilate the entire ninja village at any moment.
Just as death loomed.
A clear, resonant cry echoed from afar.
A deer's call.
The sound pierced through the earth, the forests, and the darkness in the air.
A seven-colored light rose from the direction of Kikyō Mountain.
The power of life spread like sweet rain after a long drought.
The ninjas of the Land of Rain turned their heads.
The seven-colored light cut across the sky, leaping upward like a flowing rainbow bridge.
Xerneas made a dazzling entrance.
It halted high in the air, its antlers emitting a warmth brighter than the sun.
Life and death.
Xerneas let out a second cry.
Darkness and brilliance collided.
Deathly energy and life force tore at each other.
Above the sky, the perpetually overcast heavens of the Land of Rain,
For the first time, displayed such a breathtaking scene: one half vibrant with seven-colored life, the other half shrouded in dark silence.
Under the astonished gazes of the ninjas, two mythical-level Ninja Beasts officially appeared in the Land of Rain.
As the cycle of life and death completed,
the World Tree's body surrounding the Land of Rain began to unleash terrifying explosive power!
In an instant, countless bodies and trees enveloped the entire Kikyō Mountain area.
With the birth of the two mythical-level Ninja Beasts and the initiation of the life cycle system, Shiroishi's power within the Land of Rain received an epic-level enhancement.
"The next step is to transform this chaotic and bloody land into the dreamlike, cozy Pokémon world."
The Land of Rain began to be physically sealed off, as the World Tree's trunk isolated everything.
Shiroishi slowly rose into the air.
He did not rely on any technique,
but simply ascended step by step, as if the sky itself was making way for him.
When he reached the clouds, the rain beneath his feet automatically parted, forming a clear staircase of light.
He looked down upon the Land of Rain.
Below, Hanzo and others appeared, staring at the young Shiroishi with expressions of shock and awe.
As he landed gently, Shiroishi spoke with utmost elegance.
"From now on, I am the god of the Land of Rain."
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