Pokemon: Reborn Rich Alternate Earth

Chapter 1085: Chapter 1302: Road To GodhoodChapter 1086: Chapter 1303: EQ

Julian hadn't expected that the degree of cellular aging could be used to diagnose his remaining lifespan.

After having five hundred years of his lifespan extracted by Xerneas, his cells had already aged severely—resembling the cells of an elderly person.

"Love, let's go."

Under the doctor's trembling gaze, Julian turned and left.

Love hesitated for a moment before following him. It very much wanted to hear what the doctor had been about to say, but clearly its cub didn't want it to know.

So it just decided to pretend it didn't know anything.

Not long after they left, the doctor wanted to continue studying Julian's report. After all, if he hadn't misread it just now, Champion Walker's cellular aging was truly severe.

But when he went back to his computer, he discovered that Julian's report was no longer there.

And that very night, the doctor suddenly lost all his memories on his way home.

The hospital concluded that excessive work fatigue had triggered the sudden condition, so they awarded workplace injury compensation and paid the doctor's family a large sum of money.

Regarding the matter of his lifespan, Julian didn't want anyone to know.

So he had no choice but to do the doctor a grave injustice.

It seemed he couldn't even go to the hospital for check-ups in the future, or it would certainly be exposed.

Since his body had already recovered, Julian could finally eat normal food again. At last, he no longer had to eat those blood-nourishing medicinal dishes.

No matter how well-prepared a medicinal dish was, it would always carry a hint of herbal taste.

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[Ding!]

[Main Mission Issued: Metagross's Path to Godhood]

[Mission Requirements:

- Defeat fifty peak Champion-level opponents. Reward: Rare Candy X6 (usable at Champion level).

- Defeat three Pseudo-First-class Legendary opponents. Reward: Unown Guidance Charm X5.

- Obtain the marks of six First-class Legendaries. Reward: Mythical Origin X1.]

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As Julian was scrolling through short videos at home, the System's voice suddenly resounded in his mind.

The System had finally issued a Main Mission.

After the previous one of defeating the five King Form Pokémon had been completed, the System hadn't issued any new Main Missions.

Only now, more than half a month later, had a new one finally been issued.

And this one was directly tied to whether Metagross could become a First-class Legendary.

Metagross was already a peak Champion. And to be honest, neither Julian nor Metagross itself had any idea how to further improve its strength from here.

Forget about becoming a First-class Legendary—even reaching the Pseudo-First-class Legendary tier was something Metagross had no idea how to achieve.

It felt as if Champion Peak was already the absolute limit of its strength.

The same was true for Aggron. At the time, Julian had fed it four Rare Candies in one go, instantly pushing its strength up to the peak of the Champion tier.

Aggron felt exactly the same as Metagross.

They couldn't find any way of breaking through.

In the past, whenever they reached a certain limit, they could vaguely sense the existence of a bottleneck.

For example, from pseudo-Elite to Elite, or from Pseudo-Champion to Champion—they could distinctly feel the barrier standing in front of them.

But from peak Champion to First-class Legendary, they couldn't sense any barrier at all. It was as if they had already reached the ultimate limit of their strength.

This naturally made Julian somewhat anxious.

After all, they were now only one step away from becoming First-class Legendaries, yet they had no idea how to take that step.

It was like being one step away from ascending to immortality, only to discover there was no path forward.

Fortunately, the system had already provided a hint.

The mission was divided into three stages.

And the very first stage alone gave Julian a headache—defeat fifty peak Champion opponents.

The greatest difficulty of this mission lay in where to find those fifty peak Champion Pokémon.

Across all the Secret Realms, Ruins, and Wilderness areas in the world, there were certainly peak Champion Pokémon, and there were definitely more than just fifty.

Julian himself knew the locations of several peak Champion Pokémon.

Among the Secret Realms currently controlled by Drakoria, there should be twelve peak Champion Pokémon.

As for the rest, they would have to be found in Secret Realms abroad.

With that thought, Julian dialed Ella's number.

"Commander!"

The phone had barely rung once before Ella's voice came through, and there was obvious excitement in her tone.

This was the first time Julian had contacted her since the incident. Before this, he had only sent her a message letting her know he was fine.

"Investigate which secret realms around the world contain peak Champion Pokémon. Also, how is the collection of the Ancient Stone Tablets going?"

Julian had previously tasked Ella with collecting Ancient Stone Tablets, from which he had obtained a number of Unown. Currently, there were seventeen Unown inside his body.

And if not for these Unown back then, he would have died under the gaze of Hoopa.

Julian had a premonition that the battle against Hoopa might come sooner rather than later, and when it did, it would be a war between gods.

And the number of Unown was directly tied to his two major passive abilities. So Julian felt that if he could gather all the Unown, it would not only enhance those two passive abilities but might even grant him new ones.

[Unown's Protection: Makes it easier to gain the favor of First-class Legendaries. Allows the user to command a First-class Legendary for 60 minutes without any side effects. During this time, the commanded First-class Legendary's strength increases by 40%. (Number of First-class Legendaries enhanced x2)]

[Unown's Evolution: Can designate one First-class Legendary that has an alternate form to undergo transformation, without needing the required item.]

These were his two current passive abilities.

Since a war between gods was about to begin, the importance of these two abilities went without saying.

So if the number of Unown increased and the two passive abilities grew stronger, or if new ones were added, it would certainly be a tremendous help in the coming war.

"Commander, over a thousand stone tablets have already been collected."

"However, since we've already conducted two rounds of collection, the number of tablets we can gather has become very small, and some countries are unwilling to give their tablets to us."

All the stone tablets within Drakoria had already been given to Julian. Although there were still some that hadn't been handed over, but most of those belonged to private collectors.

But generally speaking, the majority of the tablets were in the possession of the governments, with relatively few in the hands of private collectors.

"I'll have Grand-uncle handle the overseas side. You can release a statement: if anyone provides a stone tablet that I need, they can receive assistance from the Walker Group or even the Walker family."

The only stone tablets that truly mattered were those containing Unown. Not just any stone tablet was useful to him.

And to encourage more people and nations to hand over their tablets, Julian didn't mind offering some benefits.

After all, what the tablets recorded was merely text. As long as a copy was made, whether one possessed the original wasn't really that important anymore.

Besides, the vast majority of the tablets were useless to Julian, and those useless ones would simply be returned to wherever they came from.

"Understood. If that's the case, there will certainly be many countries willing to trade."

Ella nodded. The chance to receive help from the Walker family—even Celestria would find that hard to refuse.

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Regarding these Ancient Stone Tablets, this was already Julian's second time collecting them. The first time, he had gathered them not only domestically but also from abroad.

So from that very first collection, foreign nations knew that there must be some secrets hidden within the tablets—secrets unknown to them—otherwise Julian wouldn't be collecting them.

Yet no matter how much they studied the tablets, they couldn't uncover any secret. Some even ground the tablets into powder, yet still found nothing.

Later, Julian even returned the tablets to them, leaving various countries utterly baffled.

After all, they had assumed the tablets held secrets, but if secrets truly existed, why would Julian give them back?

If, upon their return, a few tablets had gone missing, that would have indicated something was definitely amiss. However, every single tablet that various nations had given to Drakoria was returned in full.

And there was no forgery whatsoever.

This greatly puzzled those countries, yet one thing remained certain: the tablets absolutely harbored some secret unknown to them.

So now that Drakoria was trading with countries around the world for stone tablets a second time, it served as even stronger proof that the tablets contained a great secret.

Unwilling to give up, the nations launched a second round of research.

At the same time, the Walker Family publicly announced that if a stone tablet turned out to be one that Julian needed, its owner would receive assistance from the Walkers.

From this statement, it wasn't hard to infer that not every tablet held a secret—only a select few did.

This also perfectly explained why the various nations had failed to uncover any secrets.

They believed that the tablets they had been studying were all ordinary ones, not the special tablets Julian truly sought, which was why they had found nothing.

The Walker family's public announcement quickly drew the attention of many countries and the major clans within those nations.

From a national perspective, the Walker family was now a colossal entity. And with Julian present, any country other than Drakoria was essentially at his mercy, a target for his bullying.

Add to that the strength Organization Y had recently displayed.

If that organization were to appear in their own country—never mind that mysterious Demon God, even the Pseudo-First-class Legendary Dragonite alone was something they couldn't handle.

At that point, wouldn't they have to seek help from Drakoria?

Therefore, building good relations with Drakoria in advance was definitely necessary. So if Julian wanted stone tablets, they would give them.

Since they couldn't figure them out anyway, they might as well hand them over.

On the clan level, it was even simpler.

If the stone tablet they provided happened to be one Julian needed, then their family would effectively gain the support of the Walker Family's enormous backing.

If other families wanted to make a move against them, they would first have to consider the Walker Family's stance.

Killing a few of their people might not be enough to provoke the Walker Family into action. But if anyone dared to exterminate their entire clan, that would be a direct slap to the Walker Family's face.

At that point, the Walkers would definitely wipe them out in return.

It was essentially the equivalent of possessing an immunity token. It couldn't guarantee that the family would prosper. But it could guarantee that the family's bloodline would never disappear.

Countries and clans alike were all making their moves.

Not just for Julian, but also for their own sake.

The higher-ups of various nations were also no fools. The power Organization Y had displayed was completely beyond their ability to handle—only Julian could deal with it.

And when Organization Y resurfaced, the one who appeared next time might not be the Master, but that Demon God. So when that time came, who would step up to face it?

That Demon God, without even having shown itself, was already capable of isolating Drakoria, Celestria, and Volkaria, preventing all three from summoning their First-class Legendaries.

That alone showed just how terrifying its strength truly was.

From this, it was very likely that the Demon God's power surpassed even the First-class Legendaries the three nations could summon.

So when it truly emerged, the three nations probably still wouldn't be able to summon their First-class Legendaries. And by then, only Julian would be capable of stopping it.

So helping Julian was tantamount to helping their future selves.

When it came to matters concerning the very survival of their nations, each country still possessed a strong sense of the bigger picture.

Normally, around the negotiating table, they might dislike each other. They could argue, insult one another, or even fight—those are all trivial matters. But if someone wanted to flip the entire table over, everyone sitting at that table would oppose it.

Naturally, they would unite and deal with the one trying to overturn the table.

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"Love, I'm heading out for a bit."

"Dee?"

Love: "Where are you going?"

Love looked at Julian with a vigilant expression.

Ever since the last time Julian had said he was "heading out for a bit" and almost ended up getting himself killed, Love had become extremely wary of those words.

It always felt as though whenever Julian said he was going out, he was actually going to fight someone—and not just any fight, but the kind where either you die or I die.

Ahem.

"I'm just going to the Primal Secret Realm. I'll be back soon," Julian quickly explained.

Seeing Love's expression, Julian understood exactly what it was worried about.

He really wanted to say that last time was an accident—how was he supposed to know Organization Y would pull such a massive stunt with him?

As for why he was going to the secret realm, it was because even though the King Form Pokémon in the two remaining regions of the Primal Secret Realm had already been defeated by Deoxys, the World-class treasures located there still hadn't been claimed.

Moreover, those two remaining regions should contain other Ultimate treasures as well.

So he had to go in and retrieve them.

"How soon?"

Love was still not reassured.

"I should be back in time for dinner."

Julian checked the time—it was a little past noon.

This time, he had no intention of personally exploring the remaining two regions. He would simply have Metagross use Teleport to search and collect the treasures while he waited in place.

And given Metagross's speed, exploring the two regions should not take more than a few hours.

"Mhm."

Love scrutinized Julian once more, and deciding that he probably wasn't lying this time, nodded in agreement.

Julian: 'I wasn't lying last time either. That was an accident.'

With Metagross's Teleport, Julian quickly arrived at the Primal Secret Realm.

The two remaining regions were the Coronet Highlands and the Alabaster Icelands.

Julian handed the Dowsing Machine to Metagross and had it go explore, retrieve the Ultimate treasures and World-class treasures, and bring them all back while he waited in place.

"Meta~"

Metagross nodded and soon disappeared from the spot.

"Julian, I feel like I'm about to become a Champion soon. When the time comes, can I have that World-class treasure?"

Celebi lay on top of Julian's head, its eyes filled with anticipation.

It was currently at the peak of Pseudo-Champion tier and was indeed very close to breaking through.

"If you can become a Champion through your own efforts, I'll reward you with ten thousand in spending money."

Julian had originally intended to reject Celebi outright.

But after thinking about it, he knew that if he did, this little troublemaker would definitely start pestering him again. So he chose a different method of refusal.

Low EQ: 'I'm not giving it to you.'

High EQ: 'Level-up on your own and I'll reward you with ten thousand.'

"Then it's a deal. You can't go back on your words."

The moment Celebi heard there was that much money involved, its fighting spirit immediately shot through the roof.

Ten thousand!

That was even more than Jirachi's entire savings stash.

All it had to do was break through to the Champion tier and it would get ten thousand. This deal was simply too good.

Jirachi, meanwhile, was so jealous its eyes turned red.

It had spent over half a year saving money and had only managed to accumulate fifteen hundred bucks.

Strangely enough, it never seemed able to save beyond that amount.

Every time its savings exceeded fifteen hundred, the extra money would somehow end up being spent because of Celebi.

It was starting to suspect that Celebi had discovered the location of its secret stash again.

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