After a brief mont of stunned silence, Cynthia suddenly snapped to attention.
She controlled her character to quickly approach the stone.
Golden text began appearing on the screen:
[Special Item: Pokémon Fossil (???)]
[Description: A fossil of so unknown ancient Pokémon. It seems to still contain the breath of life within?]
Just as she'd suspected—this really was a fossil of an ancient Pokémon!
And not only that—judging by the fossil's appearance, it was a completely new species she had never seen before.
Cynthia couldn't help but feel amazed again. From the earlier Lileep to that Archen that seed to be an ancient fossil Pokémon...
Why was this ga creator so knowledgeable about ancient fossil Pokémon?
He'd even deliberately placed a fossil here for players to find, combined with the system prompt that had just appeared...
Could there be so thod in the ga to revive these fossils?
Thinking about this, Cynthia felt a bit regretful. When she'd finished battling Roxanne earlier, she hadn't asked where her ancient Pokémon had co from.
The battle had been so intense, and when she finally won, even soone as experienced as her had been swept up in the joy, completely forgetting she could have normal conversations with NPCs.
She shook her head slightly and clicked to put the fossil in her bag.
The chat began updating:
[What ancient Pokémon fossil is this? Look at that huge mouth!]
[Don't know, but my gut tells with a mouth that big, it must love to eat.]
[Big eater ans strong, right? Snorlax eats a lot, Tyranitar eats a lot—which one's weak?]
[So what? A fossil's just a fossil. It's not like it can co back to life, right?]
[True, but selling it should still make decent money, right?]
The chat didn't know that revived ancient fossil Pokémon had already appeared in the previous gym battle.
So they didn't think this fossil could be revived—at most, it had so collector's value.
But Cynthia thought differently!
Her instincts told her that maybe later, there really would be a chance to revive this fossil.
While the possibility was slim in reality, this was a ga after all—what couldn't be done?
Speaking of which, she wondered how Professor Oak was doing now...
During her brief breaks from gaming, she had already sent him information about Lotad's and Stufful's abilities.
As she pondered this, a figure quickly erged from the darkness nearby.
"Hm? Young person, what are you doing in a place like this?"
The speaker was a man with blue hair, orange goggles, and a black tracksuit.
His voice was rough but cheerful, radiating an upbeat, sunny disposition.
This was Brawly, the Gym Leader of Dewford Town in the Hoenn region—the target character Cynthia had entered the cave to find!
Although Cynthia had never dealt with Hoenn Gym Leaders, she had heard of Brawly.
Bruno, the Fighting-type Elite Four mber from Kanto, had once ntioned Brawly to her, saying he was naturally gifted in the fighting arts and might one day beco a Fighting-type Elite Four mber himself.
"I ca to challenge the gym, and I heard you were training in the cave, so I ca here," Cynthia pressed the interaction key and responded politely.
"Ahaha, I see! Sorry about that—today just happens to be my training ti."
Brawly seed a bit embarrassed, scratching the back of his head with a laugh.
"In that case, I'll head back to the gym to prepare."
"Oh, by the way, I thought I heard so battle sounds from the upper level. Were you fighting wild Pokémon?"
"No, Team Rocket mbers."
Cynthia had her character explain what had just happened.
Brawly was imdiately stunned.
"Team Rocket?"
"Strange... what are they doing in Granite Cave?"
He stroked his chin thoughtfully for a mont, then turned to look at Cynthia.
"I didn't see any Team Rocket people co to this level. Looks like they're operating on the second floor—maybe they're after so minerals in the cave."
"In that case, I'll go up and deal with them."
With that, Brawly turned and headed toward the second level.
Cynthia stood there thinking, originally wanting to follow and see what was happening.
But she suddenly noticed that not far behind her, there seed to be a path leading to the next level down.
And sohow, sothing seed to be calling her in that direction.
After a brief hesitation, she decided to trust her instincts and entered the next level through the passage.
After a long downward climb, she finally reached the fourth floor.
This ti, the surroundings weren't dark but brilliantly bright.
Cynthia could clearly see the scenery around her—
This fourth level had an enormous space, with darkness stretching over ten ters high above, and below was a vast, completely flat open area.
In the center of that open space stood a stone monunt.
The monunt continuously emanated brown light, illuminating the entire space.
Besides that, there was nothing else here.
Cynthia's gaze and attention naturally fell on the stone monunt.
Just that single glance made it impossible for her to look away.
The monunt was densely covered with so kind of symbols, like stars arranged across the universe—mysterious and profound.
Looking closely, she could see that all the monunt's lights actually ca from these symbols.
The radiance rose and fell as if the mysterious symbols were breathing.
anwhile, the stream viewers began comnting:
[What is this thing? It looks so impressive!]
[Don't know... can't understand it, but it feels like so kind of writing?]
[Isn't Cynthia an archaeology expert? She should recognize it?]
As they say, laypeople watch for excitent, experts watch for technique.
As Sinnoh's top ancient mythology scholar, Cynthia recognized this as a special script from an ancient civilization.
This civilization had vanished in the river of ti, leaving only broken fragnts.
Even she only had a superficial understanding of this ancient script—most of it was completely incomprehensible to her.
Ordinary archaeologists wouldn't even know this script existed.
But why were these characters now appearing in a ga, on the monunt before her eyes?
As Cynthia felt amazed, she unconsciously controlled her character to approach the monunt.
But the next mont—
"WHOOOM!!!"
The symbols on the monunt transford into streams of light, suddenly shooting skyward!
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