Free Web NovelWasn't it enough as long as no one knew, right? Wasn't that precisely what the members of the Sacred Church were best at?
Moreover, the most important thing was that the Sacred Church valued usefulness far more. As long as someone could prove sufficient value, even if everyone knew it had been him, as long as there was no clear evidence, they would inevitably choose to turn a blind eye.
Just as had happened before with Number Four: when Tony presented the cluster of psychic energy, the evidence was not solid enough, so he could not act against Number Four in front of Marcus. However, when he later found Number Two's Delphox already dead, then Number Four's crime was firmly established.
For this reason, at that moment the atmosphere among everyone present was extremely subtle. No one dared to trust anyone. The matters of Number Four and Number Five had long since shattered the fragile trust that existed between them.
Now that Marcus and Tony no longer possessed overwhelming strength with which to suppress everyone, internal conflict was inevitable!
All that was missing was a spark. All the small mental calculations had already begun, and even Number Five, whom Tony had just saved, was not necessarily free of such intentions.
After all, Number Five's strength also placed him among the most powerful present.
And Cain wanted to become precisely that spark.
"To hell with this, I'm not going to keep playing with you anymore! There is no guarantee of personal safety here. The treasures inside the barrier—divide them among yourselves at your leisure," Cain said, signaling to Honchkrow and leaving the place at top speed.
Cain left brazenly, and no one dared to stop him.
At that moment, anyone who dared to attack first ran the risk of causing everyone else to turn on him. And with one person leaving first, naturally there would be a second.
Although Marcus and Tony wore unpleasant expressions, deep down both of them let out slight sighs of relief. As long as not everyone rushed to attack them, for them, in their current state, that was already good news.
As for the betrayals of these people, they could deal with them later; what mattered now was to protect themselves. ƒreeωebnovel.ƈom
When Palkia had forcibly expelled them with Teleport, their psychic powers had suffered damage of varying degrees, and recovering would not be a matter of one or two days.
With Cain taking the initiative, everyone present began to leave one after another, afraid of staying and ending up as the last scapegoat.
In less than a minute, the previously bustling summit of the continent's central mountain was completely empty.
After leaving the mountain, Cain concealed himself and looked for a place to recover his original outfit. For the moment, he no longer needed to keep pretending to be a member of the Sacred Church, although he calculated that after some time, he might have to do so again.
Although many unexpected variables had occurred during this operation, the result was far better than Cain had imagined. He had never thought that the intervention of Dialga and Palkia would end up causing the deaths of the main Pokémon of the two leaders of the Sacred Church on the continent.
All of a sudden, the Sacred Church lost the only absolute force capable of suppressing the restless hearts of its members, and the group completely fell apart.
Originally, Cain's plan had only aimed for the members of the Sacred Church responsible for different regions to maintain an appearance of external harmony while internally attacking one another. In that way, they would no longer have enough energy to pay attention to Cain and the other members of the League.
But he had not expected such an exaggerated result: now not only did they have no time to deal with the League, but they would even begin to attack each other with the intention of obtaining resources and materials for themselves.
By this point, the abundant resources and plants of the continent had probably already been almost completely collected by the members of the Sacred Church and the League.
At this stage, it was clear that seizing the resources others carried on them was the fastest way to get rich. Moreover, those wild Pokémon that had already been tamed also possessed very high value.
And the resources collected by the people of the League, thanks to Cain's hard "work," had practically all ended up in his pockets.
Including the resources obtained by Number Two and Number Six, everything was now in Cain's hands. With such an amount of resources, it was enough to cover the expenses required for training his Pokémon for quite some time.
After using Teleport several times in succession, Cain returned to the Aura Valley. Since it was still night, no one had awakened.
The arrival of Dialga and Palkia had caused an enormous commotion, but the Aura Valley was too far from the continent's central mountain. Lance and the others could not clearly see what had happened on the summit; they had only been startled a little.
Cain did not wake them. Instead, he left another letter in front of Steven's tent, briefly explaining a few things, and then immediately shut himself inside a cave within the Aura Valley.
He planned to use that period to give his Pokémon an intensive boost in strength.
After more than three months of battles and training, Cain was convinced that his Pokémon had already undergone a qualitative improvement in both their bodies and their internal energy.
Now he planned to use some unconventional methods to increase their power. Thanks to the solid foundations established earlier, there would not be too many negative effects.
Especially Darkrai. The increase in its strength was crucial to Cain, and it would very likely be the Pokémon with the greatest speed and scope of growth among all of his.
More than an increase in strength, it could be said to be a recovery of power.
A Pokémon capable of attracting Palkia's attention could definitely not be so simple.
During the return journey, Cain also asked Darkrai why it had appeared involuntarily at that moment. Although it had not caused serious consequences, a Pokémon acting outside its trainer's control was something that a trainer of Cain's level could not tolerate.
If it had not been because Cain fully trusted Darkrai, he would already have severely reprimanded it.
However, Darkrai revealed to Cain some ancient secrets that he did not know.
