A water-type trainer who specializes in dragon-type water.

Below, above the icy sea.

Casavan landed on the deck of one of his own battered flagships like a stray dog, followed closely by Risgow and the nearly unconscious Manji.

He was breathing heavily, his face was bloodless, but his eyes burned with a morbid madness.

Looking around, my heart sank to the bottom. The Chinese Alliance, like an enraged steel behemoth, led by several Elite Four level trainers, was annihilating the ice-type army with astonishing efficiency.

Kyurem's massive form remained suspended in the center of the dark clouds, its icy blue vertical pupils flashing with furious light. But every time it attempted to gather a terrifying breath powerful enough to destroy a fleet, the void around it would distort in a strange way, like ripples on the surface of water!

It's Giratina!

It continues to disrupt the Reverse World, preventing Kyurem from using his full power!

They could only rely on an instinctive surge of Ice-type Pokémon and a widespread blizzard to suppress the enemy. This gave the Chinese alliance a precious respite and a chance to counterattack!

"Damn Giratina!" Casavan cursed inwardly. But he knew complaining was useless.

His gaze, like that of the most venomous snake, suddenly fell upon the massive glacier frozen by the power of Kyurem, which was now slowly crumbling and sinking—the battlefield he had forcibly pulled from the deep sea and buried countless Chinese soldiers!

At the core of that glacier slumbered the most crucial and dangerous piece in his plan—the legendary giant Regice, the Ice God, who possessed the divine authority of "Eternal Ice"!

The Chinese Alliance's offensive is getting fiercer and fiercer. They seem to have found the rhythm to fight under the pressure of Kyurem, and have even begun to consciously direct their firepower in an attempt to attack Kyurem itself!

Kyurem's furious roar shook the ice surface, yet it could not shake off the invisible interference.

“We can’t wait any longer…” The last trace of hesitation vanished from Kassavan’s eyes, leaving only a desperate, mad gamble. “You think you can win like this? Dream on! Giratina… you must shut up!”

He suddenly pulled out a strange block of ice from his pocket—an unmelting ice—that emitted a ghostly blue light and pulsated like a heart!

This was precisely the ice he had chipped off Regios at great cost, while Regios slept, using up much of the resources of the Thousand Islands Kingdom.

He removed this piece of unmelting ice to enhance his Articuno's strength, but now, this small piece of unmelting ice will become Regice's "key" and "fuse"!

It is the core of the sacrificial ceremony!

He no longer needed to slowly awaken; what he needed was to use the largest ice-type energy source on the battlefield to forcibly drive the remaining divine power of Regice and complete an impossible task: freeze the spatial passage opened by Giratina!

"For the glory of the Thousand Islands! Offer your icy shells to awaken the sleeping giants! And then... seal off the interference from another world!!!"

Casavan roared madly, gripping the ice core tightly with both hands, and with all his might, hurled it fiercely towards the massive, sinking glacier core below—the spot where Regice slept!

At the same time, he recited that obscure and ancient incantation, but this time the incantation ended with a sharp and piercing sound, full of the meaning of plunder and coercion!

If Zhang Heng heard the incantation he recited, he would surely have discovered that it was exactly the same as the plot before the six divine pillars were subdued in the original plane; both were the prerequisite steps for awakening them.

"Om-!"

The ice core seemed to possess a life of its own, ignoring the chaotic energy flow and falling ice blocks, and precisely shot into the depths of the glacier, instantly disappearing into Regice's core composed of ancient ice!

Then, a terrifying scene unfolded!

"Then...what is that?!"

On the battlefield below, both the Chinese champions and the commandos looked towards the glacier.

On the glacier and in the surrounding sea, all the Ice-type Pokémon that were frozen, fighting, or even dead suddenly burst forth with a dazzling, eerie blue light!

The ice-type energy within the bodies of the Sea Lion, Clamshell, Ice Rock Monster, Snow Moth... and even the remains of Ice Oni and Snow Fairy that were previously shattered and scattered on the glacier by China, were forcibly extracted as if by an invisible giant hand!

"Those are all precious legacies of war; even those who died in battle have other values!"

Manji felt a little sorry for those Ice-type Pokémon. Their bodies were losing their luster at a visible rate, turning gray and crystallizing.

"Woo——!!!"

The cries of countless Ice-type Pokémon on the glacier and the shrill screams of energy being torn apart converged into a chilling dirge that echoed across the battlefield!

This massive and complex ice energy, forcibly extracted, surged wildly towards the core of the glacier, like rivers flowing into the sea!

The glacier itself was also trembling and collapsing violently, but at its core, a huge and incomplete giant body, forcibly pieced together from countless ice crystals and Pokémon remains, was "growing" at a speed visible to the naked eye!

Its body was no longer smooth and intact, but covered with sharp icicles, twisted shell fragments, and frozen limbs, exuding a nauseating, deathly, and violent aura of extreme cold!

"Crack... Boom!"

Time seemed to freeze at that moment. All the Pokémon engaged in battle momentarily froze in their movements!

An indescribable chill, more ancient, purer, and more...deadly than the absolute zero of Kyurem, descended with the will of the broken giant, built from countless sacrifices!

"Regice?! It...it's alive?! Using the Ice-type Pokémon we've been raising for so long..."

As Liskov stared at the twisted giant, his voice trembled, his heart filled with the rage of being used.

"call out--!"

Just then, two figures tore through the wind and snow like meteors and arrived beside Duan Guanjun.

It was Du Ling Shuang, Tang Jing Chuan, and their heavily injured main Pokémon.

"Brother Duan! What's going on down there? That commotion..."

As soon as Du Ling Shuang landed, the Snowstorm Horse trotted uneasily on its icy hooves. Her sharp gaze instantly locked onto the enormous figure that was taking shape, radiating a terrifying, deathly chill. Her voice stopped abruptly, and her pupils contracted sharply!

Duan Guanjun's face was ashen, and he spoke rapidly: "You've come at the perfect time! That madman Kassavan! He used all the Ice-type Pokémon on the battlefield, including the corpses of his own people, as sacrifices! He forcibly 'pieced together' the crippled Regice!"

Tang Jingchuan stared at the twisted giant made up of countless ice crystals and debris, and gasped: "Sacrificing the creatures of the battlefield to awaken the divine pillar?! Has he gone mad?! We just shattered this divine pillar; even if it awakens, it will be at its last gasp. What is he after?!"

Duan Guanjun's eyes were extremely serious as he pointed towards Kyurem in the sky: "Look around Kyurem! That spatial distortion... is weakening! Regice's target isn't us! It's the passage opened by Giratina!"

"It's using the power of 'Eternal Ice' to forcibly freeze that spatial node! Kassavan wants to use this broken divine pillar to seal off Giratina!"

As if to confirm Duan Guanjun's words, the core of the Registeel Giant, which was built from the remains of countless sacrifices (the location where Casavan threw into the unmelting ice), burst out with an unprecedented ghostly blue death light!

This beam of light was not directed toward China, but rather transformed into countless fine, spiderweb-like rays of extreme cold, precisely piercing the weakening spatial ripples around Kyurem!

"Zi la——!"

The space seemed to emit a piercing groan, as if frozen glass!

Those passages connecting to the reversed world are being covered and blocked at an alarming rate by layers of eerie blue, deathly ice!

Casavan knew perfectly well that Regice alone could not completely withstand Giratina; his intentions were far more sinister than his outward actions suggested.

"As long as Regice buys Kyurem a little time, allowing it to unleash its true power, let's see if those Chinese ants will still be alive! Hahahaha..."