Roy looked at his popularity points, which had increased by another 100.
He hadn’t expected that even eating a meal could increase them—not bad, not bad.
It seemed that the popularity points the system mentioned didn’t just refer to Ghost-type Pokémon; Ghost-type Trainers could also count.
After finishing the ice cream cone in his hand, Roy went to take a look around the academy’s clubs.
Most of them were some kind of baby clubs, each focused on various types of Pokémon.
The only thing missing was a Ghost-type club.
There was even one called the Love Steven Only Club.
What the heck is this?
Does Steven know about this?
Roy felt that these clubs were useless to him at this stage.
Perhaps in the future, he could establish a Love Ghosts Only Club or a Love Roy Only Club to increase his popularity points?
Returning to the quiet backyard, he pushed open the door to his shabby, solitary dormitory.
After confirming there was no one around, Roy impatiently opened his system panel.
[Congratulations to the host for accumulating 1000 popularity points.
The shop function is now enabled.]
Seeing that his popularity points had crossed the 500 mark and reached 1000, the system shop was finally unlocked.
Roy couldn’t wait to see what the system shop could offer him.
The system shop’s status changed from gray to green.
A total of five items appeared neatly in front of Roy.
They were:
1.
Item: [Reaper Cloth] Exchange Points: 10000.
Effect: A cloth containing astonishingly powerful spiritual energy.
A certain Pokémon loves it.
2.
Item: [Dusk Stone] Quality: High.
Exchange Points: 15000.
Effect: A mysterious stone that allows certain specific Pokémon to evolve.
As black as the night.
3.
Item: [King’s Rock] Quality: Medium.
Exchange Points: 10000.
Effect: When held by a Pokémon, the opponent hit by it may sometimes flinch.
4.
Item: [eviolite] Exchange Points: 8000.
Effect: If the Pokémon holding this item is a Pokémon that can evolve, its Defense and Special Defense increase by 50%.
5.
TM: [Rest] Exchange Points: 2000 Popularity Points.
Effect: Rest restores all of the user’s HP.
Rest causes the target to fall asleep.
Looking at the 5 items in the system shop, there were actually two Pokémon items, two items needed for Pokémon evolution, and one TM.
Three out of the five items were useful for him at his current stage, which wasn’t bad.
Looking at it this way, the shop was quite useful.
At the very bottom of the system shop, there was also a refresh button, which required 100 popularity points to refresh the shop.
What a ripoff!
He only had 1000 popularity points in total right now; one refresh would cost him a tenth of it.
Damn system!
Damn profiteer!
Damn…
Exhausted from cursing, Roy stopped worrying about the refresh issue.
He began to analyze the function of each item one by one.
Starting with the first one, the Reaper Cloth.
Roy actually didn’t intend to exchange for this piece of black rag, even though the Reaper Cloth could allow his Dusclops to evolve into Dusknoir.
After evolution, Dusknoir’s base stat total would reach 525, which wasn’t much different compared to the starter Pokémon.
But Roy knew that the 70 base stats added after Dusclops evolved were all useless.
Like +5 to both defenses, +5 to HP, and +20 to Speed—it could be said that they were completely meaningless.
The added 30 Attack could at least bring Dusknoir’s Physical Attack to 100 points.
But what could 100 Physical Attack even do?
Was Dusknoir supposed to go melee with the opponent?
The move pool for Ghost-type Pokémon on the physical attack side wasn’t very large to begin with.
Adding 20 Speed was simply a purely negative improvement for Dusknoir.
In summary, Roy directly gave up on the Reaper Cloth.
Because there was a Pokémon item in the system shop that was more suitable for Dusknoir.
It was the eviolite right in the middle of the shop.
The eviolite didn’t have different qualities; it could allow unevolved Pokémon to increase their dual defenses by 50%.
In Roy’s eyes, the Reaper Cloth couldn’t even compare to a single strand of the eviolite.
Or rather, the greatest significance of Dusknoir’s existence was to allow Dusclops to hold the eviolite.
Dusclops’s base dual defense stats were already as high as 130 points.
With the eviolite’s bonus, adding another 50% to each would bring them to 195, approaching the 200-point mark.
At that time, Dusclops’s total base stats would reach 585, surpassing the starters, lower than pseudo-legendaries, and even some Pokémon that could Mega Evolve didn’t have such high base stats.
Of course, you shouldn’t go head-to-head with Dark-type Pokémon that know Knock Off, after all, Dusclops’s HP base stat is only 40.
According to Roy’s idea, the future role of Dusclops, the evolved form of Duskull, would be a support for a Trick Room team.
After activating Trick Room, it would reverse its own speed, specifically used to annoy people.
With super-high dual resistance, plus Pain Split, Disable, Will-O-Wisp, Curse, Substitute, Poltergeist…
these moves.
Just go ahead and play; once you do, they won’t even make a sound.
Not to mention this wasn’t a game; Pokémon didn’t have the 4-move limit, which was simply an invincible, sky-high existence.
But thinking was just thinking; Roy still sought out Duskull’s opinion.
“Dusk.”
Duskull, who was playing dead on the windowsill of the small shack, was suddenly @’d by Roy.
“Do you want to become a warrior?
Or do you want to become an ultimate, invincible, big slacker of a tank support?”
Duskull’s already small head turned 0.1 circles.
Did that even need to be said?
The name Roy said later obviously had more characters than the one before, so it chose the latter: the ultimate, invincible, big slacker.
Roy also understood the personality of his Duskull.
If it could lie down, it would absolutely never sit; if it could sit, it would absolutely never stand.
Asking it to be a warrior was out of the question.
As for the King’s Rock, he wouldn’t consider it for now either.
First, the required popularity points were too high, and the quality was only medium.
The Dusk Stone was a necessity for Lampent to evolve into Chandelure, and it was of high quality.
However, when he left Mt.
Pyre, Gengar had already given him a perfect-quality Dusk Stone.
Besides, he didn’t know when he would be able to save up 15000 popularity points, so he wouldn’t consider it for now.
The last one was the TM for Rest, which allowed a Pokémon to enter a sleep state and restore all its own HP.
This was also what he wanted; he could equip it for Duskull to increase its move pool and fault tolerance.
It was a pity that there was no TM for Sleep Talk; otherwise, the two could work together.
He would just have to see if he could find it when the shop refreshed later.
Roy’s final decision was to first save up popularity points to exchange for the Rest TM and the eviolite, requiring a total of 10000 popularity points.
It was a pity that he had too few points right now; he only had 1000 points in total and still needed 9000 more to exchange for the eviolite.
Most of his current popularity points relied on helping Officer Jenny arrest poachers in Lilycove City and the number of people at the battle arena this afternoon.
There were almost several hundred people at the battle arena this afternoon.
If there had been more people, perhaps his popularity points could have reached a thousand.
Then, could he…
tomorrow?
Roy stared with a wicked grin at Duskull, who was wandering around the room, and Litwick, who was role-playing as a desk lamp.
“Tomorrow will depend on you, my little darlings!”
Duskull and Litwick actually felt a cold current coming from Roy’s gaze.
Even as Ghost-type Pokémon, they couldn’t help but shiver.
What kind of thing was even more sinister than them?
At the same time, a chubby figure appeared in Roy’s mind.