Leaving the League Store, Roy brought his Pokémon to a clearing at the foot of Mt.
Pyre.
“Litwick, Duskull, here it comes!”
“Litwick.”
“Duskull.”
Roy gripped the Poké Ball in his hand, half red and half white—the most traditional, standard Poké Ball.
Of course, better Poké Balls came with a higher price tag.
For example, a Luxury Ball costs 5,000 yen, and it has more space inside.
It wasn’t that Roy didn’t want to get them Luxury Balls; it was just that the League Store at the foot of Mt.
Pyre currently only had these standard types of Poké Balls.
Roy threw two Poké Balls, which hit Litwick and Duskull respectively.
A flash of red light pulled the two Pokémon, Litwick and Duskull, into their respective Poké Balls.
The floating Poké Balls landed on the ground, wobbled three times, and then fell still.
Capture successful.
Roy mimicked the pose of Ash from his past life, raising the Poké Ball high in his left hand.
“I caught a Pokémon!”
Sss~ It felt a bit chuunibyou, but it was actually quite satisfying.
So, he was finally someone who owned Pokémon now?
Calculating it, Phoebe in this life was only 6 years old, so Ash, who was around the same age, should also be about 5 or 6.
Perhaps he was playing in the mud somewhere in Pallet Town.
Thinking of this, Roy clenched the Poké Ball in his hand.
“Aunt Delia, wait for me!
Lorelei, wait for me!”
“Pokémon world!
Here I come!”
[Congratulations to the host for obtaining your first Pokémon.
System binding in progress: 1%…
10%…]
Suddenly, a mechanical voice echoed in Roy’s mind.
System!
Roy was stunned.
When he first transmigrated, it wasn’t as if he hadn’t fantasized about having a golden finger, marrying a wealthy beauty, and reaching the pinnacle of life.
But after two years of waiting, nothing happened, which made him settle down with the idea of staying on Mt.
Pyre.
After all, although it was a bit boring here, safety was guaranteed.
This damn system only showed up now.
At first, Roy thought he would be like other transmigrators and get a Rayquaza right from the start.
If he had known, he would have bought an unmarked Poké Ball on the black market to catch Litwick earlier and activated the system sooner.
Just as Roy was fantasizing about riding a Rayquaza to the pinnacle of life, the system’s progress bar reached 100%.
A ghostly purple light rose from beneath Roy’s feet, enveloping him.
Was he going to evolve too?
Litwick and Duskull stared blankly at Roy in the light.
They had never heard of humans evolving before!
When the light faded, Roy felt as if his body hadn’t changed at all.
However, he felt that his Ghost Power had improved significantly.
Roy moved his thoughts, and the ghostly purple energy appearing in his hand was much more solid than when he fed Litwick and Duskull that morning.
Litwick didn’t know why its Trainer suddenly smelled so good, and Duskull was uncharacteristically rubbing against Roy’s clothes.
However, Roy pushed it away—rejected due to ugliness.
“Sorry, we’re not a good match.”
Duskull: ( ¯ ( ∞ ) ¯ )
Anyway, what exactly was the use of this system of his?
As if it had heard Roy’s thoughts, the mechanical voice echoed in his mind again.
[This system is a Hype Value System, intended to help unpopular Ghost-type Pokémon gain Hype Value.]
[The host can obtain Hype Value by generating hype for Ghost-type Pokémon.
Hype Value can be used to exchange for powerful items.]
Before Roy could ask, a translucent panel appeared before his eyes.
“Litwick, can you see a transparent panel?”
The flame on Litwick’s head swayed, indicating it couldn’t see it.
After observing Litwick and Duskull’s reactions, it seemed only he could see this panel.
Host: Roy.
Ability: Extreme Ghost Force (Beginner Lv.1) [Upgrade requires 20,000 Hype Value].
Pokémon: 2.
[Eye of Inspection] [Store] (Locked, unlocks after 500 Hype Value).
After listening to his half-baked system’s introduction, Roy thought for a while before he understood.
Simply put, his system was about him validating Ghost-type Pokémon and earning Hype Value.
He could use Hype Value to exchange for items in the store.
Although he didn’t know what kind of items they were, he figured they shouldn’t be too bad…
right?
But on the panel, wasn’t he training Ghost Power?
How did it become Extreme Ghost Force (Lv.1)?
Could it be because of that ghostly purple light from earlier?
Before he could figure it out, the Eye of Inspection provided a description: Item: Extreme Ghost Force.
Function: Increases the Ghost-type move power of current team Ghost-type Pokémon by 1%.
(Max level 10, increases move power by 10%).
So, the system had turned him into a human-shaped curse charm?
It took 20,000 Hype Value to level up once, so that meant he needed 200,000 Hype Value to reach level 10?
The system’s mechanical voice rang out again: [For every level of Extreme Ghost Force gained, the required Hype Value doubles.]
Following the system’s claim that the required Hype Value doubles for each level, Roy did a quick calculation.
His Extreme Ghost Force Level 1 required 20,000 Hype Value, and every subsequent unlock would double.
By the time he reached Level 9 to Level 10, he would need 10.24 million Hype Value.
Sss~ Roy gasped.
10.24 million Hype Value—after calculating it all, it seemed like an impossible amount of Hype Value to achieve.
As the level of Extreme Ghost Force increased, Roy’s attraction to Ghost-type Pokémon would become stronger.
By level 10, Roy would be like a succubus in the eyes of Ghost-type Pokémon.
Roy tried injecting his Extreme Ghost Force into Litwick.
“Litwick, do you feel anything?”
Litwick, receiving the boost, flickered the flame on its head and communicated telepathically that it felt something, but it wasn’t very obvious.
Not obvious.
Looking at the 0 Hype Value on the panel, Roy immediately had the urge to completely give up.
Except for the system store which needed to be unlocked, the other two functions could be used.
Roy turned his attention to the system’s second function, scanning.
Just now, the scanning function had scanned the effect of Extreme Ghost Force.
So, was it…
“Litwick, don’t move!” Roy used the inspection function on his Litwick.
System Scan.
Pokémon: Litwick.
Level: 28.
Gender: Male.
Ability: Flash Fire (Absorbs fire when hit by Fire-type moves, strengthening its own Fire-type moves).
Moves: Clear Smog, Ember, Astonish, Minimize, Confuse Ray, Hex, Will-O-Wisp, Fire Spin, Night Shade.
Held Item: None.
Egg Moves: Heat Wave, Acid Armor, Attract.
IVs: 20.
TM/Tutor Moves: None.
As expected, the system could also inspect Pokémon information.
Roy looked at the panel before him with some surprise.
He hadn’t expected the [Eye of Inspection] to provide such a detailed panel.
Don’t think the identification system was useless.
Although it couldn’t provide immediate combat power, it was likely the most useful thing in Roy’s system at this stage.
His Litwick really did have the Flash Fire ability.
Roy had experimented with Litwick’s ability a year ago.
First, Litwick had a total of 3 abilities: Flame Body, Flash Fire, and the hidden ability Infiltrator.
It was a pity it originally also had Shadow Tag, but it was nerfed by the damn developers because it was too strong.
Flame Body was the first ability Roy ruled out; otherwise, Roy couldn’t have let Litwick stay on his shoulder.
There were almost no Fire-type Pokémon around Mt.
Pyre, so there was simply no opportunity to test the Flash Fire ability.
However, Roy had tested it on the Substitute of a Gengar that had saved his life before.
It couldn’t pass through the Substitute to hit the main body, so Roy quickly confirmed that his Litwick had the Flash Fire ability.
Although it wasn’t the hidden ability, it was even more useful than the hidden ability.
Flash Fire was equivalent to an enhanced Fire immunity; calculating it this way, his Litwick was equivalent to having 3 immune attributes.
Furthermore, the Fire type had always been a very popular offensive type from the first generation until now, so having an extra Fire immunity was a good thing.