In the blink of an eye,
a month had passed since Fang Yuan returned to his original timeline.
In this month, life had been relatively peaceful for Fang Yuan and his Pokemon.
Mewtwo, whom Fang Yuan had anticipated would be challenging to handle, turned out to be low-maintenance.
After arriving in this timeline, Mewtwo's first goal was to defeat Dream.
This was also one of its life's pursuits.
To defeat Dream, Mewtwo was almost in a state of intense meditation above the Fang Yuan Institute around the clock.
For the time being, it didn't matter that Dream was unwilling to accept its challenge, as Mewtwo itself was not certain of victory, so it chose to first undergo intensive training for a while.
Dream was here and couldn't escape; once Mewtwo became stronger, it would not allow Dream to refuse the challenge.
Its ultimate training goal was to achieve autonomous Mega Evolution.
And accomplishing this goal would certainly take a long time.
Fang Yuan was amused, well, it seemed he could enjoy a period without worrying about the problem child Mewtwo until it defeated Dream.
However, as Mewtwo's Trainer, Fang Yuan couldn't let it fumble through entirely on its own.
He summoned Rotom and Dragonite and, combining his own understanding of Mega Evolution, sorted out the development directions for both of Mewtwo's XY forms and handed them over to Mewtwo.
Mewtwo X: The development direction is to use mental power to enhance physical strength, evolving into Superpower and Fighting type.
Mewtwo Y: The development direction is to compress physical strength and enhance mental power for the ultimate use of superpower abilities.
For both forms, Mewtwo needed to fully master the Destruction Gene and unlock the block on its own life energy as a basis.
For each form, Fang Yuan provided similar Mega Evolution data to Mewtwo, such as for Mewtwo Y's form. Hudidi's Mega Evolution was a good reference.
Whether Mewtwo was willing to take the reference was up to it, but at least the two developmental directions for its Mega Evolution forms provided by Fang Yuan should be trouble-free according to the original work.
Elsewhere,
Monferno and Ditto had already been healed by Dream.
Having recovered earlier, Monferno and Ditto proved even stronger in enduring the Intersected Force.
Now Monferno, with the help of Milotic's healing, could open The Fifth Gate by itself without much pressure, possessing a relatively stable combat power close to that of a high-level Guardian.
Together with Ditto, it could open The Sixth Gate, possessing the power to suppress a high-level Guardian, and could fully recover on the same day after treatment by Milotic. If assisted by Victini to open The Sixth Gate, suppressing a top Guardian God was also feasible, although recovery would be more challenging.
This increase in strength also provided some consolation to Monferno internally.
At the same time,
after healing Monferno, Dream also studied the remnants of the World Tree from another timeline and concurred with Mewtwo:
the death of the World Tree was definitely not due to negative energy. As for the actual cause, without any other clues, Dream could only tentatively conclude it was due to a simple incompatibility with the world that led to the depletion of energy.
If that was really the case, it would be good...
Having Victini and the legendary life Mewtwo, who mastered Wave Guide, this problem would be the easiest to solve.
Over the month, Fang Yuan spent most of his time slacking off.
The only project he needed to focus on, the Cosmic Battleship initiative, and the resurrection technology for Destructive Bug were being handled by Rotom and Dragonite, who had learned future technology—none of this required his involvement.
As for training, all the Pokemon had just made new breakthroughs in strength, and daily training was primarily about consolidation with no new content to learn, so Fang Yuan didn't need to worry about it.
So, for Fang Yuan, this month was essentially a vacation.
He used this vacation to bring Father Fang and Mother Fang from Pingcheng to Magic City for a half-month holiday. After sending the elders back, he finally re-entered his regular routine.
Rather than saying Fang Yuan got back into the groove, it was Dream who wanted Fang Yuan to do so.
The Mane Rock Werewolf causing chaos at the World Tree all day long... and the increasingly powerful Mewtwo, both were headaches for Dream.
Dream wanted Fang Yuan to start the new mission as soon as possible and take them away.
And so,
after letting Fang Yuan rest for a rare month, Dream came looking for him again, sitting on the sofa in the Fang Yuan Institute's lobby with Celebi, both with serious expressions, sipping juice and quietly facing Fang Yuan.
"Just one month."
In the lobby, looking at the two Pokemon, Fang Yuan said seriously.
It had been only a month since the tense and exciting Mewtwo game, a month since he had retrieved three new Tablets, and now Dream was dispatching him on a mission again??
This was really squeezing too much out of him.
In a single Pokémon contest, Fang Yuan could make tens of millions, and for a lecture, countries would offer prices without a cap. Dream, can't you just give me a few more days off?
"Mew!" Dream puffed up its cheeks, just tell me if you're going or not.
Fang Yuan was rendered speechless.
He really wanted to refuse... and rest for a few more days.
He still had many things undone, like excavating the Five Brothers of the God Pillars in this time-space, or teaching the Huge Dragonite a more complete system of Super Ancient Transformation.
"Fine."
"Which time-space is it this time? Do you know where all the Tablets are?"
Fang Yuan finally sighed and said, let's just go ahead and carry out a mission.
"Mew~~" Dream slowly floated up from the sofa and nodded.
Although it had taught Fang Yuan the power to Overcome in searching for the Tablets, the level of mastery he had was not as high as Dream's. Over the last few days, with the help of Celebi's power, Dream had successfully locked onto several time-space coordinates, clearly knowing the locations of all the Tablets across time-spaces.
Fang Yuan only needed to go there and conduct a thorough search!
"Mew Mew~~~ (Arceus's Tablets have been scattered across four different time-spaces,)" Dream spoke.
"Mew~~ (Two of which are this time-space, and the one you've been to before.)"
"Mew~~ (That is to say, you only need to make two more trips to collect all the Tablets.)"
Dream waved its fingertips, providing Fang Yuan with a mission briefing, which is also why it was so eager; the locations where the Tablets were scattered were much more concentrated than it had anticipated.
Maybe they could be collected very soon.
"Which two time-spaces?" Fang Yuan asked with folded arms and a calm tone.
"Mew..."
Dream glanced at Celebi, then explained: "Mew~~(If we define our current time-space as 'now' and the parallel time-space you visited as 'future', then the third time-space with fallen Tablets would be 'past', possibly a historical time-space from decades ago.)"
"'Past', 'now', 'future'?" Fang Yuan was taken aback.
Dream and Celebi nodded.
Fang Yuan asked, "And the fourth time-space?"
Mentioning the fourth time-space, Celebi sighed, and Dream's brow slightly furrowed.
"Mew~~ (If these three time-spaces are parallel universes of 'Earth', then the last place is a parallel space from the already destroyed Pokémon World, a planet different from Earth, likely Mewtwo's place of origin. It's hard even for Celebi to make the journey there successfully, but if helped by Victini, Mewtwo, and myself, it might be possible to attempt.)" Dream said earnestly.
Celebi also sighed, wondering why it had to take on such an exhausting task.
A parallel time-space from the already destroyed Pokémon World?
Mewtwo's place of origin?
Isn't that the Pokémon World from the original plot?!
"You mean to say, some Tablets have fallen in the world where Mewtwo was born??!" Fang Yuan was stunned.
"Mew!!" Dream nodded.
"Mew~~ (However, going to this time-space might consume quite a lot, so let's go to the 'past time-space' first.)" Dream suggested.
"No!"
Fang Yuan stood up abruptly, stating firmly, "No, let's go to the Pokémon World first."
Damn, so there really were Tablets that fell into the Pokémon World, and we can actually travel there??
The desire to slack off in Fang Yuan's heart suddenly surged with life.
Interesting.
Hirona... Little Ju... Caitlin... Lily Ai... He had long wanted to challenge these powerful Trainers.
"I can't wait to collect all the Tablets, when do we depart??"
"Mew??" "Victini?..."
Dream and Celebi looked at each other, facing the spirited Fang Yuan.
Are you really trying to save the world, to save Arceus?
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