Chapter 55: Spirit in the Egg

"Side quest (Zapdos of the Abandoned Power Plant) completed. Quest rating: S. Rewards: 1000 gold coins, 50 quest points."

With Zapdos's escape, the side quest was smoothly completed. Ace hadn't expected Zapdos to be scared away.

He knew very well that Zapdos wasn't out of fighting strength; it was simply intimidated by his ability to perfectly heal Aerodactyl.

Zapdos was cautious. The moment it sensed something was off, it immediately forced Ace and the others back and fled without any hesitation.

"It seems that when I truly have the strength to capture a Legendary Pokémon in the future, I'll need to use a Pokémon with Mean Look or Shadow Tag to restrain the legendary beast, to prevent it from escaping."

He sighed with emotion, temporarily storing the S-rank reward package. Ace wasn't planning to open it yet.

Returning to the roof of the power plant, Ace recalled Lapras and Gloom, which were almost unharmed, then followed the hole back into the power storage room.

Inside the room, Cynthia watched Ace descend, her expression somewhat peculiar as she said, "That was Zapdos, one of the three Legendary Birds of Kanto, wasn't it? You actually defeated it?!"

"No, it escaped."

Ace shook his head. "If it were a genuine one-on-one fight, I would definitely lose."

Ace was well aware of his limits. His battle with Zapdos wasn't just a three-on-one; he also used the system's perfect-grade body restoration to intimidate Zapdos. All these factors combined scared Zapdos away.

If any one of these elements had been missing, the outcome likely wouldn't have been the same.

"Oh."

Cynthia responded, but only she knew what she was truly thinking.

"Let's go. The objectives for coming here have all been completed," Ace said to Cynthia, recalling Aerodactyl.

"Where to? And the Gengar outside..."

"Just follow me."

Ace waved his hand. "As for the Gengar outside, they probably won't dare to bother us for a while."

With that, Ace directly pulled Cynthia along, not giving her a chance to resist.

Cynthia's cheeks flushed slightly as Ace held her hand. She quietly mumbled "no romance," then was pulled out of the power plant by Ace.

Leaving the power plant, the outside was indeed as Ace had said; they encountered no interference whatsoever, as if the group of Gengar didn't exist.

However, Ace knew very well that those Gengar were still around, but having witnessed Zapdos's escape, they were momentarily filled with fear of Ace and dared not cause any trouble.

So, under the watchful eyes of the Gengar, Ace walked to the somewhat dirty water, released Lapras, and with Cynthia jumping onto Lapras's back, they quickly left the vicinity of the abandoned power plant.

After they were far away from the abandoned power plant, Cynthia looked at the boundless sea and temporarily forgot about what had just happened, gazing at the ocean with some excitement.

Ace, meanwhile, took out two Poké Balls and opened them.

Golbat and Shiny Gastly appeared before Ace. Golbat's expression was one of pleasant surprise, while Gastly looked at Ace in terror, then realized it was far from its home and nearly cried, its eyes welling up with tears.

"This personality is just too timid."

Ace glanced at Gastly and said to it, "From now on, I'm your Trainer. You need to listen to me carefully, understand?"

Facing Ace's words, Gastly nodded frantically, not daring to show even a hint of resistance.

Ace rolled his eyes in exasperation, then focused his main attention on Golbat.

Half an hour had passed, and Golbat's aptitude had improved to Superior grade. However, Ace checked its panel and found that aside from changes in the aptitude section and its stats, nothing else had changed.

Aptitude: Superior

HP: 100 (97)

Attack: 85 (83)

Defense: 79 (72)

Special Attack: 74 (69)

Special Defense: 80 (79)

Speed: 92 (88)

PS: Original data in parentheses.

As for the unseen data, it was similar to Golbat's comprehension and learning abilities.

These were invisible attributes, but with the help of the system, they had significantly improved.

Golbat's surprised expression was actually due to its feeling that things it hadn't understood before, or difficulties in learning skills, now seemed to be easily resolved. It also gained some unique insights into skill execution and its regularly trained flying ability.

After checking Golbat, Ace turned his gaze to Gastly.

Gastly's potential was undeniable, but the current situation was that Ace had to first overcome Gastly's timid personality.

How could it battle if it was afraid of everything?

Thinking of this, a series of methods for training Gastly quickly appeared in Ace's mind.

Recalling Golbat and Gastly, Ace brought up the system store and spent six hundred gold coins to purchase a Gastly training manual.

Training Gastly was very difficult, or rather, training Gastly well was hard.

The first problem to face was Gastly's frail physique.

A gaseous Gastly, one could say, could be blown away and shrink with just a gust of wind.

But in contrast, Gastly's Special Attack was extremely high, and its gas-like body could merge into any crevice undetected, and infiltrate anywhere.

The main training method currently was to feed Gastly, providing it with ample energy to increase its destructive power.

"Pokémon Egg is about to hatch. Please take it out, Host."

Just as Ace was leisurely reading, leaning against Lapras's neck, the system's prompt suddenly made Ace realize that the Pokémon egg's hatching time had arrived!

Ace immediately put away his book, then opened his backpack and took the Pokémon egg out of the incubator.

The hurried movement made Cynthia turn around. She drew her delicate white feet from the seawater, walked barefoot to Ace, and asked, "What's wrong?"

"The Pokémon egg is hatching."

Ace held the egg, looking at the light slowly emanating from its shell, a look of surprise on his face.

As the light gradually brightened, Ace could feel the eggshell slowly softening and then deforming through touch.

When the light dissipated, a tiny, soft pink Pokémon appeared in Ace's arms.

"This is... Happiny?!"

Cynthia looked at the Pokémon in Ace's arms, momentarily stunned.

Ace was also stunned, not because the Pokémon egg hatched into a Happiny, but because Happiny's Pokémon panel appeared before his eyes, and Ace was completely amazed by Happiny's astonishing mutation effect!

Pokémon: Happiny (Mutated)

Gender: Female

Level: 1

Abilities: Natural Cure / Huge Power

Shiny Ability: Type Conformity

Nature: Diligent

Aptitude: Peerless

Egg Moves: Seismic Toss, Heal Bell, Gravity.

Moves: Pound, Double-Edge, Growl, Defense Curl.

Note: Type Conformity: All attributes will align with the strongest attribute.

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