At that time, no one expected that the Pokemon that had battled alongside the first King of Pendragon for half a lifetime would suddenly turn on its master.
It was only then that the people of the Pendragon Kingdom truly understood the nature of Aegislash. Despite being a powerful Pokemon, its sinister trait of absorbing life energy showed that it was an uncontrollable and immensely evil creature.
Eventually, the descendants of the Pendragon King led the Kingdom Army to vanquish the malevolent Aegislash. However, not long after that incident, deeply affected by the ordeal, the Pendragon Kingdom still fell due to internal strife.
From then on, various legends about the Aegislash began to spread, reaching every part of the world.
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The interior of the tomb was shrouded in thick blue-purple fog.
Fu Rong stared at the "Ghost" Guard barring her path, her expression growing ever more serious.
The Ghost Legion before her, standing like soldiers of the kingdom in front of her, consisted of various Ordinary Elves that weren't limited to the Ghost Type and should have had no business appearing in the Spirit World. Yet there they were, trained like soldiers, guarding this collapsed tomb.
Nido King Ghost, Big Rock Snake Ghost, Leave King Ghost, Big Cat Boss Ghost...
"It's true—an issue has arisen here."
"The origin of this aberration is this tomb!!!"
"Moreover, their consciousness seems to be completely controlled just like the Ghosts I encountered before... There's no way to communicate with them..."
Hibiscus King signaled to the Pokemon beside her and said, "Take them down!"
As one of the Four Heavenly Kings of the Area of Fragrant Fate, Fu Rong quickly decided to use brute force to investigate the cause. Needless to say, her strength was not to be underestimated.
Pokemon like Night Spirit, Chandelure, Wind Following Ball, Dream Demon, and Banette, all King Level, appeared by her side and charged forward in unison.
There was also a Dusclops with a Mega Evolution Stone, its glowing eyes keeping a vigilant watch beside Fu Rong.
In just a brief moment, dozens of Ghosts that had emerged from the Tomb Ruin were scattered by Fu Rong's Pokemon.
This act seemed to incense the true master of the ruins.
In the center of the ruins, a blue-purple sword embedded in an altar suddenly emitted a strange mist. The blue-purple fog almost instantly covered the sky above the area, forming a shield-shaped Ghost Face.
"Intruders... die..."
Within the mist, a deep and terrifying voice was heard, not through Mind Induction but as an actual voice.
Meanwhile, on the outside, Hibiscus King and her Pokemon looked up at the sky.
Fu Rong looked up and smirked, "I really didn't expect that a Pokemon eradicated thousands of years ago could have survived in 'Soul' Form."
"Did the Pendragon Kingdom fail to completely eradicate you, then."
"Intruders... die...!!!"
As Fu Rong spoke, the cluster of mist became noticeably angrier and transformed into the Sprite Form of a blue-purple Pokemon, poised to attack.
This Pokemon was none other than Aegislash.
Fu Rong correctly identified the perpetrator. This Ghost was the very Pokemon that had accompanied the King of Pendragon in conquering the lands and later absorbed all of the King's life energy, causing internal discord and the downfall of the Pendragon Kingdom—the Aegislash.
Much of the unfavourable information in the Pokedex about Aegislash, the majority of the bad legends about it, originated from this very Aegislash!
Now that she had discovered the culprit, Fu Rong naturally felt elated, but also not amused.
Because although it was now a Ghost, a Soul Form, the soul strength of this millennia-old Aegislash caused all the Ghost-type Pokemon at Fu Rong's side to shudder.
"This oppressive feeling... It might be comparable to Da Wu's Metagross Mega..."
This Aegislash, when it came to cultivating soul power, was exceptionally strong...