Chapter 465: Battle Against the Hanging City

The first place Dark went after leaving was not Romania, but a trip back to Tristin.

The clone he left in the Pokémon League suddenly dissolved, and a lot of memories poured in.

A lot of messy official memories appeared, but the clone was definitely not dissolved because of these.

The reason for the clone to be dissolved was that the battle against the floating city-Aincrad was completely completed.

With the help of the engineering department and the Vegapunk Institute, this aerial maglev castle, which took a whole year and a month to build, was finally built.

A total of ten floors of steel castle.

The tenth floor is the highest floor.

The final challenge against the floating city, the ‘castle lord’ Kayaba Akihiko, will be waiting for the challenger on this floor.

At the same time, the earth element family will also serve as a landscape here. If the challenger has the ability, he can try to subdue these stone men who don’t look very smart.

As for the ‘rock pillar god’ Regirock, he hid in the deepest part of the tenth floor and fell asleep.

From the outside, the sleeping Regirock looks like an ordinary big rock. Even if a challenger passes by here, he can't see the specialness of this rock.

Each of the first nine floors can be decorated with a village as a place for challengers to rest.

These villages must have a Pokémon Center, a Friendly Store, and some hotels, restaurants, etc.

The first two are naturally stationed by the Alliance, and a small Pokémon Center and a Friendly Store are placed on each floor.

And hotels, restaurants, etc. need to recruit people from outside.

These villages also need some people to act as 'NPCs'.

Kayaba Akihiko just wants Dark to help solve the source of these 'NPCs'.

However, in fact, this does not require Dark to solve it specially. Kayaba Akihiko just sends a notice to the Ninja World or the sea, and a lot of people are scrambling to enter the Battle Sky City to live.

After all, this is an opportunity to live in Pokémon Island for a long time and become a legal resident here.

With Kayaba Akihiko's brain, it is impossible not to realize this. Most likely, he intends to let Dark use this rare opportunity to conquer some people.

"As expected of Jingyan, you came just in time."

Dake recalled the memories in his head and couldn't help grinning.

There are many different races living in this magic world, some of which can become 'familiars', and some of which have human appearance.

The elves are one of them.

But there are also some other races, cat people, werewolves, snake people, fox people.

Moreover, these are not the same as the fur people.

The fur people have animal blood higher than human blood, and their human characteristics are not as many as those of animals.

But these half-humans in the magic world have much more human blood than animal blood.

They are creatures that conform to people's fantasy, with ears on their heads, tails swinging behind their hips, and other parts are basically human.

Are there any creatures more suitable to act as 'NPCs' than these magic races?

These half-humans who look very distinctive will become one of the special landscapes of the battle against the Hanging City.

Just like the fishmen and mermaids in the Fishman City, the Sky Islanders in the Angel City, and the elves in the current Uktrashil City.

And

There are not many of these half-human magic races in the magic world, and they are almost endangered species.

If the number of races is too large, then the Hanging City cannot accommodate them at all, and there is no need for so many "NPCs". The extra ones have to consider accommodation.

But there is no need to consider these now.

Because of the sparse population, they can let the entire race move into the Hanging City.

The reason why Dak came to Toristin was to collect intelligence on these humanoid races.

The continent of this world is basically a square.

Cut it along the diagonal line from the lower left corner to the upper right corner, and it is divided into two triangular plates in the upper left and lower right.

All the magic races are basically gathered in the upper left plate.

Because the lower right triangular plate is basically occupied by human kingdoms, waging wars everywhere, these magic races have no living space at all.

The human nobles don't want to hurt these magic races, because they need these magic races to become servants.

So thousands of years ago, these magic races have been expelled to the upper left plate.

And there are only three countries involved in this plate in the upper left corner.

A complete Tristyn.

Half of Albion, and Albion is still floating in the air.

Half of Germania, located at the bottom corner.

That's why Dak came to Tristyn first to collect information about these magic races.

The kingdom that has the most contact with these magic races is Tristyn. The hunters here are basically familiar with the forests in the country and know where the territories of some magic races are.

"It's not difficult to take those races away."

Dak looked at the information he bought from others and had a rough idea in his mind.

Although the natural environment of the upper left plate is very superior and beautiful, it does not mean that it is suitable for all magic races to survive.

To be more precise.

It is suitable for the survival of animal magic races, not human magic races.

These half-humans don't live very well, and their lives are like extremely backward human villages.

He believed that these races would be happy to live in a place like the Battle Sky City, greatly improving their living environment and quality of life.

Even if not for themselves, for the growth and happiness of their offspring.

The elders and clan leaders of this race would surely not refuse this proposal.

In the first nine floors of New Aincrad, no two floors are the same.

This is to test the abilities of trainers and Pokémon in various wild environments.

And these magic races can also choose which floor to live in according to their own racial characteristics and preferences.

Of course, it is normal that no one wants to live in environments such as rocky land, volcanoes, oceans, and ice fields. The NPCs of these floors will be served by robots made by Vegapunk.

"Let's deal with Romania first."

Dark stretched and decided the order of things to do.

The Battle Sky City has just been built, and Kayaba Akihiko is still checking if there are any areas that need to be improved. The birth of Aincrad will not be announced to the public for a while.

Moreover,

Even if people know about this floating castle, not everyone can enter it.

At least you need the help of flying Pokémon. If there is no flying Pokémon that can carry people, you can only rely on the service of "Didi Pokémon" to enter it.

Anyway, the battle floating castle will not land on its own.

So there is no need to rush to bring the magic race over for the time being. The priority is to deal with the Pope.

The attack on Louise a few days ago was really beyond the expectations of Dak and Long.

The main reason is that they did not expect Louise to go to the toilet so far away from the main force.

After all, this Pope is a great troublemaker, and who knows how he will interfere with their plans next.

If the Pope finds out that the Gefu army has infiltrated Goria and helped Tabatha regain the throne, then the other party will definitely reveal this matter to Joseph.

At that time, it will be more troublesome to deal with Goria.

The nobles of Goria will not be convinced by a force that killed their king, unless that person is no longer the king.

Dark stood up and used the Door-Door Fruit to go to the south of Albion.

Because he didn't know the exact location of Romania, he only knew that it was in the south of the continent, so Dark had to use teleportation to search one area at a time.

But it wasn't too difficult to find.

It took him a quarter of an hour to enter Romania's territory, and only half an hour to find the capital of Romania.

After all, the capital of Romania.

It is very conspicuous.

It can be called shining.

This is a luxurious city with white and golden as the main colors. It looks extremely luxurious. Under the scorching sun, the whole city reflects the golden light.

"Hey, you are really afraid that others don't know that you are the boss."

Dark glanced at the entire Romanian capital and immediately determined where the Pope was.

Whose kingdom is the church bigger than the palace?

The outside of this church is even carved with gold strips of gold edges. I'm not afraid that someone will scrape it off with a knife.

In Dark's perception.

The 32nd Pope is hiding in the palace at this time?

Dark glanced at the church, and his observation Haki told him that there was a "Pope" holding a scepter there.

But his wave power told him that the magic fluctuations of nothingness appeared in the palace.

The superpower gave him the feeling that both of them were present. There was a person who looked exactly like the Pope sitting in the church, but the spiritual power that only the user of nothingness had was always in the palace.

"Puppet."

Dark immediately made his own judgment.

That must be to choose to believe in the perception power brought by special abilities.

Although the perception range of observation Haki is extremely high, it is not comparable to wave power and superpowers.

But in terms of status and the fineness of perception, observation Haki cannot be compared with the latter two.

After all, the latter two are legendary powers, used by some legendary figures in the Pokémon world to save the world from the collapse of Daxia.

Therefore, the real Pope should be hiding in the palace.

And the one sitting in the Pope's Palace is a scapegoat.

"I guessed it."

Dark shook his head and moved towards the palace instantly.

This pope was indeed cunning and cautious enough. He guessed that someone might come to assassinate him and specially arranged a scapegoat.

The fake pope in the pope's palace looked no different from the real pope.

It was probably a substitute generated by some magic prop, which could even deceive the perception of observation Haki and blur superpowers.

If it was anyone else, even a dragon, they might have been deceived.