Pokemon: Reborn Rich Alternate Earth

Chapter 936: Ancient Stone Tablets

"Gen~"

Feeling the Champion-level power coursing through its body, Gengar was quite pleased. It never expected to wake up from a nap and find itself already a Champion.

Especially when it saw the envious looks from its companions around, it was impossible not to feel smug.

Gengar wore its smugness right on its face.

"Gen~"

Gengar: "I accidentally became a Champion, everyone. You’ll have to work harder. As a senior, I can only say this much."

'Senior?'

Dragonite, Melmetal, Lucario and the others felt veins popping on their foreheads. Damn it, the moment it became a Champion, it started showing off.

'When I become a Champion one day, I’m definitely going to act even more smug than you.'

The Pokémon exchanged glances and saw the same unwillingness in each other’s eyes.

Only Arcanine felt that none of this mattered. 'What's the point of fighting over this? No matter how much you argue, isn’t it me that the trainer loves the most? Otherwise, why would he nap on me instead of on any of you?'

"Gengar."

Seeing Gengar acting cockier by the second, Julian called it over.

Gengar flew up to him and immediately greeted him with a Lick.

Even when it was a Pseudo-Champion, Julian couldn’t dodge its Lick, let alone now that it had reached the Champion-level.

The familiar sensation of paralysis spread through his body, and Julian quickly took a Cheri Berry from his pocket.

The paralysis from a Champion-level Pokémon couldn’t be cured by an ordinary Cheri Berry, but Gengar had toned down its power. It knew how to play around while still keeping things under control.

"Have you mastered the power of death?"

Julian squeezed Gengar’s chubby cheeks with both hands.

It was thanks to the power of death that Yveltal could fight on equal footing with Zekrom and Reshiram, even overpowering them later on. The power of death was absolutely a top-tier buff.

Gengar nodded.

It stretched out its left hand, and a mass of black mist appeared.

It really was the death energy.

"Can you absorb the energy from the deaths of living beings?" Julian followed up.

Absorbing the energy released upon the death of living beings was the most significant use of this ability.

As soon as he finished speaking, Julian saw dozens of black mist streams coming from all directions and entering Gengar’s body.

In forbidden zones, a huge number of wild Pokémon died every day.

However, given Gengar’s current mastery of the death energy, its range wasn’t very large.

After that, Julian had Gengar run a few tests and found that it could only absorb the death energy of creatures that died within a radius of thirty kilometers.

Once it fully absorbs all the Death Essence within its body, this range should expand significantly. For now, it could only be considered as an initial stage mastery.

Moreover, this method of absorption had no side effects for Gengar. At this point, Gengar could already be called a minor God of Death.

It had stolen a portion of the true Death God’s authority.

Any creature that died within its range would have its death energy absorbed by it—this was a passive ability.

This meant that Gengar grew stronger even while standing still, although the strength gained depended on the power of the deceased creature. The stronger the creature was before death, the greater the death energy produced afterward.

The death of a hundred thousand Magikarp couldn’t compare to the death energy produced by a single pseudo-Elite Pokémon.

"Let’s go, back to the capital."

Julian leaped onto the back of Reshiram, recalled all his Pokémon into their Poké Balls, and Gengar slipped into his shadow.

"Yay! We can finally leave this place!"

Celebi perched happily on Julian’s head.

Although Julian had set up a signal tower here so it could use a phone, it was nothing compared to the comfort of the city.

This so-called spirit of nature, had thoroughly fallen—it actually preferred the hustle and bustle of the city over the tranquility of nature.

Instead of returning home, Julian headed back to the capital to handle official duties, as many matters awaited his attention.

With Reshiram’s speed, it took only a few minutes to travel from the core area of White Mountain Range to the office building of the Elders Council.

At the political center of the capital—and that of entire Drakoria—everyone witnessed the splendor of the First-class Legendary, Reshiram.

At first, it caused a wave of panic; as the aura emanating from the White Dragon was simply too terrifying.

"So this is the White Dragon Reshiram—truly majestic!"

"I like the Black Dragon more."

"What’s the point of you liking them, it’s not like they belong to you."

"A lot of people are rushing over to watch—I’m going too."

Julian jumped off Reshiram’s back and saw many staff members gathering around, and several officials inside the building had also come out.

Good—his goal of showing off had been achieved.

Under countless gazes filled with admiration, envy, excitement, and jealousy, Julian returned the White Dragon to its Poké Ball and then strode forward confidently.

Ella, his secretary, was already waiting nearby.

"Commander, the ancient stone tablets collected from Babath have arrived, and many other nations are also willing to provide us with their ancient stone tablets."

Ella reported to Julian as they walked.

Unown were hidden within these ancient stone tablets, and there were simply too many such tablets in the world, with many still buried inside Ruins.

To obtain more Unown, Julian used his authority to have Drakoria provide all domestic ancient stone tablets and spread the message to other countries.

The Unown's Protection ability had given Julian a taste of its benefits. Acquiring more Unown might enhance this ability or even grant new ones.

As for whether the Unown might turn against him in the future, Julian wasn’t worried—there was no use worrying anyway—so he simply decided to collect them all and see what happened.

Babath had already been taken under control by the Drakorian military, and its stone tablets were naturally transported back by the military.

When other countries learned that Julian wanted ancient stone tablets, their first thought was that the tablets must contain secrets unknown to them.

But after studying them again, they still couldn’t find anything; even the material was nothing special—just ordinary stone that would shatter if thrown hard enough.

Thus, many countries handed over their already deciphered ancient stone tablets to Drakoria. Even Celestria provided quite a few tablets, partly to foster goodwill with Drakoria and Julian. Many of the tablets had faded inscriptions and held no research value.

But Drakoria made it clear: as long as it was an ancient stone tablet, they wanted it—even broken ones were acceptable.

The Elders didn’t understand why Julian wanted these tablets, but as long as his orders didn’t endanger or harm the nation’s interests, they were naturally carried out without question.

Currently, Julian held unparalleled authority and status in Drakoria—he was unequivocally the nation’s top figure.

Fortunately, he had little ambition for power, or the Elders Council would have had a headache.

Julian’s laid-back personality made the Elders Council quite at ease with him.

Of course, other nations also felt relieved that Julian had such a lazy temperament—otherwise, the unlucky ones might have been them.

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