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After moving WEST, EAST, WEST, EAST, NORTH, SOUTH (which is where the ancient monolith was found in the previous game), you get this:

Shattered Void wrote:...

> look

THERE IS NOTHING NORTH.

THERE IS NOTHING NORTH.

THERE IS NOTHING NORTH.

THERE IS NOTHING NORTH.

> move north

You soon find yourself standing in front of a massive antenna. It almost looks like it has no end, piercing through endless void.

At it's bottom, there is a console. It appears it has been receiving a transmission, or intercepting something, for a long time now. The timestamp is illegible. You start reading...

Captain Phyco, Ultra megalopos, private log.

Our glorious lord has embraced a new world to be saved. As usual, we here do not interfere, but... I must admit that our new arrival has made me do something I have never quite done before. I have been paying closer attention.

This latest world that is to be molded into the fold... It does not match what one should expect.

This world is far from endangered. Troubled, perhaps. But not something our lord should have taken an interest in. Yet, he is here. Why?

It is at this time, a thought has begun lingering with me, and it has stuck. One based on previous observations.

We have noticed before, our lord not able to extinguish all of the MissingNo in these doomed worlds. Some already ingrained so deep, to tear them out would destroy the world itself. Not something our lord desires.

But with it, comes an interesting phenonomen. These monsters, usually bound to but one aspect, become more... Fluid, when there is nothing else to compensate. They begin to embrace multiple subjects - And feed on each one in turn.

And with that, comes a thought I have had a very long time ago, and I've carried in secret and fear.

What if one day, one of these monsters comes to abuse this?

Seek to eleminate it's opposition, so it may grow more powerful?

Is perhaps our friend correct, and we depend on his gifts too much..?

If at any point you move North when the Glitched Castle isn't there, then move South, that's when you get the '...' prompt.

I'll start with the big one first, since it ironically, I feel, holds the fewest/least significant revelations. Since it's fairly long altogether, I'll go over it in pieces.
Here we have the Great Mind taking on the image of the king formerly-known as Zygarde's best friend. It's interesting that the Great Mind can physically manifest itself here, though I suppose it can do whatever it wants considering what it says later.

Also, it's a cute touch that it's the 'Divine Manager', or DM for short.
So this is where Marshadow gets his name from, literally 'Mar's Shadow'.

We also get Marshadow's original motivation for summoning Zygarde and relying on its power to become king and unite the world under his rule.
Not much to say here, just the observation that even though Zygarde's gone, the void-dimension that it lorded over will continue to exist. There's a bit later that I won't copy/paste about the Void nipping away at the light Necrozma puts out into the dimension, as Marshadow is escaping, which is interesting since Zygarde itself no longer exists at that point. Remember, Missingno. only embody aspects of their respective universes, they're not the lynchpins allowing those aspects to function.
More confirmation that the Great Mind is the DM and can literally do anything. It's also where we apparently have been getting our free crits and rerolls.

It's interesting to note, though, that it was the Overseer that gave us our free trainer level back on Christmas 2016. It was also the Overseer that drained EXP out of Drake in the form of Unown. This seems to imply that this aspect of how the game-world functions is the Overseer's domain, which actually might be a dangerous precedent considering what I'll touch on later.

I'm not sure who Marshadow and the Great Mind are referring to as the 'enemy' here, and why it's problematic that the Great Mind would hand a bunch of crits off to Marshadow to escape with.

Now we get into some meatier revelations!
So there's some stuff to unpack here. First, some backstory as to the fundamental aspects of the multi-verse. The Great Mind has 2 rules that must be followed:

- For every yin, there must be an equal and opposite yang.

This is why Arceus and Giratina, referred to in the book as 'weavers', both need to exist. They are each others' opposites. It is also why demons exist in Babylon and not in our world. While everything has equal capacity to be good or evil in our world, the Babylonians are predominantly good and therefore need a counter in the form of demons. Thus, it is also important to note that the 'demons' that the Babylonians refer to are not necessarily all Missingno.

- All things must come to an end.

Thus the Missingno. are created. They exist purely to end the universes in which they manifest. That is their purpose, regardless of how 'good' or 'evil' they seem to be. It is the Spark's purpose just as much as it is the Overseer's. The Spark might be our friend now, but it's got the same end goal in mind.

Or rather, that 'might' be what the Spark has in mind. It might have the grander goal of trying to become another Great Mind. This goes for the Overseer, as well.

Remember that the Great Mind is considered the Divine Manager, or the DM. Also remember that the Overseer has the power to grant levels and deduct trainer EXP in some capacity, which are things you normally attribute to the DM's responsibilities. The implication is that the Overseer might be dangerously close to achieving this end-goal of becoming, effectively, another DM.

And now for some extra lore!
So first off, Captain Phyco comes from the Ultra Sun/Moon games. In those games, he comes from a people of dimension hoppers whose home dimension's light has been stolen by Necrozma, and comes to Alola to stop Necrozma from stealing your dimension's light, too. Don't read too much into that, as the games' lore is different from our game's lore anyway. Though, there's still an interesting parallel to be made between Ultra Megalopolis (their world) and Babylon, where a legendary pokemon is responsible for their world's light, or lack thereof.

The presence of an antenna telling us this at all is interesting. It might imply that the Ultra Recon Squad has been here, in Zygarde's void dimension.

Anyway, we get another reminder that Necrozma's been targeting different dimensions to recreate in his own image for a while. As a reminder, this strictly goes against the Great Mind's rule of 'all things must come to an end'. Necrozma seeks to preserve all these worlds, in it's own twisted way, rather than letting any of them end. Thankfully it doesn't have DM powers yet, or it could just do all of this instantly. Though, the fact that it came here in particular, despite our world not 'needing' his presence yet, seems to indicate that it's searching for something here that will grant it that power.

We then get a revelation as to why Necrozma doesn't simply kill the Spark. It's not that Necrozma isn't able to, rather, because the Spark has fused itself with a piece of the Red Chain, the physical representation of our world, if Necrozma were to kill the Spark then Necrozma would be destroying our world along with it.

There's also the implication that the Spark is no longer bound to its single aspect of Creativity. This might be why it wanted to gain control of the Psychic Temple, to further its influence in directions it didn't have access to before.

Then there's the line about Missingno. seeking to eliminate their competition, which I think applies to both the Overseer and the Spark. The former for obvious reasons, but remember that after the battle against the Overseer, the Spark offered us a way to deal with the Overseer, to strike back at it. Remember, both these Missingno. have their end goals in mind, always.

Finally, there's mention of a 'friend'. Who is this friend? Well, something interesting to note is that, in the Ultra Sun/Moon games, it's actually Colress that met up with the Ultra Recon Squad and created a device for them to restrain Necrozma. Obviously he doesn't have the same purpose in our game, but its' very, very interesting to note that Colress is still MIA due to inter-dimensional shenanigans. The 'friend' could be anyone, but since it makes sense that Colress would be the one tying all this stuff together, I think there's a very real possibility that he made contact with Phyco and gang.

And if it is Colress, the idea that it was Colress giving Phyco a warning of not relying on Necrozma's gifts too much would imply that Colress seems to know quite a lot about how Missingno. work. I wonder if Colress will continue playing a bigger part in the story to come?

At the end of the conversation that you reached, where it mentions travel, you can give the command to travel. I'm too lazy to go through the whole process again, but basically it results in Marshadow travelling to the Overseer and seemingly becoming one of its "children" thanks to the Divine Manager's blessing.

I don't read that as Marshadow being taken in by Necrozma, which wouldn't require any rolls, I read this as Marshadow burning 3 crits in a row for that 'one-in-a-million' chance he was discussing with the Great Mind about earlier, specifically to escape the dimension and Necrozma's clutches. That thing that popped out of the void is probably Marshadow, waiting for Alex to come pick him up. It seemed obvious to me, so I didn't comment on it.

I guess while I'm typing this, though, I suppose I can comment on how Necrozma is trying to appear all angelic and stuff, being a 'beacon of light'. If you didn't know any better you'd probably believe it, too, and it's not a big stretch to assume why the Babylonians lumped Zygarde in with all the other 'demons' of their world.

I thought that "one in a million chance" was of becoming an Ultra Beast, on of the Overseer's children, because Marshadow had spent so long as a Shade that it was too weak to be likely to survive the process normally.