Chapter Summaries

Roy passed the first two assessments for Professional-level Trainer status and received a mission to capture the suspected spy Chang Qi in New York while attending the Achroma Award ceremony in Los Angeles. He returned to school as he began considering how to evade surveillance and complete the mission.

• Roy defeated Lin Qing by using Confusion to destroy her metal Substitute, then accepted the mission documents after passing the strength and team battle assessments.
• Lin Qing explained that Chang Qi had stolen Alola survey maps and Pokémon information, fled to New York, and was being protected by an influential American conglomerate.
• Roy learned that his Achroma Award nomination would provide a legitimate reason to enter the United States, and that President Augustus Ivali's authority would discourage interference with the ceremony.
• Roy realized he would need to travel more than 3,500 kilometers from Los Angeles to New York while avoiding surveillance to capture Chang Qi.
• Roy returned to school, where his presence excited the students, and Zhuo Feng and Xiao Bin joined the school team after Fang Hang and Mo Xuexin graduated.

Roy attended a Los Angeles banquet before the Achroma Award ceremony, where President Augustus explained the Illuminati’s origins and growing support within the Pokémon League. The chapter ended with Augustus warning that the Illuminati may have inherited dangerous knowledge from Dr. Colress.

• Roy received an invitation to the Achroma Award ceremony and traveled to Los Angeles with Mimikyu, intending to rely on her for a secret mission.
• President Augustus greeted Roy at the exchange banquet and spoke with him about their roles as divine envoys.
• Augustus explained that the Achroma Award honored the scientist whose research had provided much of the Pokémon League’s technology.
• Augustus revealed that the Illuminati had split from the Pokémon League after factions disagreed over peace and using Pokémon as tools.
• Roy criticized the Illuminati’s creed, and Augustus said that growing human strength had revived support for its cause.
• Augustus warned Roy that the Illuminati’s increasing influence was dangerous because no one knew what knowledge it had inherited from Dr. Colress.

Roy sent Mimikyu through the Spirit World to find Chang Qi, but the Illuminati’s allies ambushed her with a legion of Professional-level Ghost-type Pokémon. Mimikyu’s power surpassed any single opponent, yet she faced thirty attackers at once.

• President Augustus warned Roy that the Illuminati had inherited research about gods and might possess hidden gains from the Alola Spirit Realm.
• Roy returned to his hotel, detected watchers nearby, and sent Mimikyu through the Spirit World toward New York to locate Chang Qi.
• Mimikyu reached Chang Qi’s area and was struck by a coordinated volley of Shadow Balls that wrecked several streets.
• Gengar revealed that five Ghost-specialist Trainers had anticipated Roy’s plan and assembled thirty Professional-level Ghost-type Pokémon to ambush Mimikyu.
• Mimikyu’s resentment-fueled strength made the assembled ghosts tremble, but all thirty attacked her at Gengar’s command.

Mimikyu used medicine to sustain sixteen powerful doubles, defeated the ghost army, and killed Gengar and Chang Qi. She returned to Roy after completing the mission.

• Mimikyu created sixteen doubles and drove the attacking ghosts into retreat.
• Mimikyu's doubles overwhelmed Gengar, who died after his vitality was drained.
• Mimikyu revealed that she had sustained her doubles by continually consuming Vitality Blocks and Energy Cubes.
• Mimikyu found Chang Qi and killed him by devouring his dreams, vitality, and Inner Focus with Nightmare.
• Roy woke as soon as Mimikyu returned.

Roy received the Achroma Award and a League-recognized doctoral degree for his contributions to Mega Evolution research. He chose Lugia’s Silver Feather as his award resource, which he hoped would help develop Dragonite’s Turbulence battle style.

• Roy refused to cooperate with FBI agents investigating Mimikyu’s alleged murder without concrete evidence and embassy approval, so they left without taking him in.
• President Augustus presented Roy with the Achroma Award and a doctoral degree in Evolutionary Studies during a globally televised ceremony.
• After the ceremony, Augustus gave Roy a list of rare research resources from the League’s reserves.
• Roy recognized several items as artifacts connected to legendary Pokémon, including a Dragon Stone that likely contained Reshiram and a meteorite potentially tied to Rayquaza’s Mega Evolution.
• Roy selected the Silver Feather, and Augustus arranged for it to be sent to Roy’s country within three days.

After returning from Los Angeles, Roy became the world’s first Trainer to reach Professional-level after only one year and learned that his new rank entitled him to a custom genetic enhancement serum. The chapter ended as Lin Qing explained why the serum had to be tailored to each person’s DNA.

• Roy planned to unveil Energy Cube technology and earn an Achroma Award each year, then flew home to escape the chaos caused by Darkrai’s Nightmare Power in Los Angeles.
• The international search team lost Darkrai in Europe, and the pursuit mission was declared a failure.
• Roy passed all three assessments at the Sheng Hai Trainer Association, becoming Dragon Country’s first nineteen-year-old Professional-level Trainer and the first person worldwide to reach the rank after one year.
• News of Roy’s achievement spread across Dragon Country’s social media, while Lin Qing took him to the Trainer Association’s research institute and explained his new benefits.
• A researcher brought Roy a custom genetic enhancement serum, and Lin Qing explained its history and why it had to be made according to his DNA.

After receiving a genetic enhancement injection, Roy opened his Achroma Award package and let Dragonite borrow the authority contained in Lugia’s Silver Feather to study air currents. His Pokémon continued training, and the chapter left Roy preparing Ninetales to resume her Fairy-type training.

• Lin Qing explained that the genetic enhancement reagent could gradually make recipients’ descendants stronger and smarter, and Roy accepted an injection.
• The day after the injection, Roy noticed his appetite had increased as his body began a gradual second development.
• Lucario delivered a Pokémon League package to Roy, who unlocked it and found Lugia’s Silver Feather inside.
• Roy and Dragonite felt the feather’s power let them command air currents, and Roy urged Dragonite to study that state rather than simply absorb its power.
• Lucario had mastered Fighting-type Sage Art and fused it with Aura Power, while Metagross and Blastoise advanced their stats through Overlord aura.
• Roy arranged for Ninetales to resume Fairy-type training while she continued researching the Ice-type.

Roy prepared for the Island Challenge Trial, where the Alola Guardian Deities would select divine envoys from among young Trainers worldwide. At the gathering in Heaven Capital, he encountered Xiao Muyi and learned that the trial would include several celebrated international talents, including another Elite Four-level Trainer.

• Roy trained his Pokémon as Ninetales and Mimikyu practiced Fairy-type moves, Electivire worked on Electric-type moves, and Dragonite developed its Turbulence fighting style.
• On October 5, Roy joined the qualified Trainers at Heaven Capital Airport before their flight to Hawaii and the Alola Spirit Realm.
• Roy found the lounge unusually quiet and saw that the other Trainers were intimidated by Xiao Muyi, who sat across from him and watched him with an unusually heated gaze.
• Lin Xingchen arrived, congratulated Roy on becoming a Professional-level Trainer, and told him that leading international talents had entered the trial.
• Lin Xingchen named Aihara Take, Ooki Yukiteru, Amola, Noah Reginald, and the American Superpower Heavenly King Morey Evan, noting that Morey and Xiao Muyi were the only Elite Four-level participants.

Roy, Lin Xingchen, and Xiao Muyi arrived in Hawaii for the Island Challenge Trial, where young Trainers from around the world had gathered. At the Space Node meeting point, they encountered several powerful foreign contenders, including the American Elite Four Morey Evan.

• Roy complained that an expensive Alola-flavored hot dog was merely spicier than a normal one, and Xiao Muyi secretly caused the shop's appliances to break.
• Roy, Lin Xingchen, and Xiao Muyi reached the guarded building around an Alola Space Node and learned that the Guardian Deities had rejected an opening ceremony.
• The three entered the gathering hall, where other Trainers wondered why Roy seemed to be leading the group.
• Roy noticed Japanese contender Ooki Yukiteru, Indian Master Amora, and French Water-type Trainer Noah Reginald among the attendees.
• Roy saw Morey Evan, the American Superpower Heavenly King who had become an Elite Four before Xiao Muyi.

The Island Challenge Trial began under the supervision of four world-renowned leaders, and Tapu Koko explained the rules for earning the Four Great Overlords’ recognition. Roy learned who the Overlords were from Mimikyu, then entered the Space Node for Akala Island as Tapu Koko noticed his divine aura and Z-Ring.

• President Augustus, Lin Wuya, Lucas, and Aiden Demos arrived to oversee the trial, and Tapu Koko appeared to announce its rules.
• Roy asked Mimikyu about the Four Great Overlords and learned they were Ribombee, Fomantis, Wimpod, and a thousand-year-old Kommo-o.
• Roy entered the Space Node with the fourth group, after Lin Xingchen had entered with the third.
• Tapu Koko sensed the divine aura around Roy and recognized the Shining Stone in his Z-Ring, wondering why he possessed it.

Roy and Mimikyu entered the Alola Spirit Realm on Akala Island, where they encountered feralized Armored Warriors and drove them off. As Lucario advanced toward mastering the second stage of Aura Fist, Tapu Koko observed Roy and informed the other Guardian Deities about him.

• Tapu Koko sensed Roy’s Shining Stones, judged him worthy of observation, and sent information about him to the other Guardian Deities.
• Roy and Mimikyu emerged on Akala Island, where Mimikyu recognized her former homeland and led the way toward the Overlord Ribombee.
• Four feralized Armored Warriors ambushed Roy and Mimikyu, but Electivire and Lucario defeated them without killing them.
• Lucario sensed that the Armored Warriors’ hearts were clouded by feralization, while Mimikyu said most Pokémon on the island had been that way before becoming Overlords.
• Roy praised Lucario’s Aura and Fighting-style progress, and Lucario said it was close to mastering the true Aura Fist, which would raise its stats to S3 and meet the Master Level standard.

Roy and his Pokémon crossed the dangerous Spirit Realm and reached Ribombee’s territory, where they stopped to rest. Cosmog’s appearance attracted Kapu Fini, who mistook Roy for a poacher and surrounded the camp with her Misty Maker; Roy recognized her as the likely source of the Psychic Sage Art.

• Roy’s group endured repeated attacks from feral Pokémon, and a Corviknight flock wounded Roy before his Pokémon drove it off.
• Mimikyu blamed herself for the ambush and led the group more cautiously through the Spirit Realm.
• After six hours, Roy reached Ribombee’s flower-field territory and decided to camp outside it for the night.
• Cosmog emerged from its Beast Ball to absorb radiance, drawing the attention of a hidden Kapu Fini.
• Kapu Fini mistook Roy for one of the poachers who had stolen Cosmog and enveloped the camp in Misty Maker.
• Metagross woke the group, and Roy identified the Psychic Sage Art as Kapu Fini’s.

Roy and his Pokémon survived Kapu Lele’s Nature’s Wrath by combining their strongest attacks, but the Guardian Deity vanished before Roy could escape. Roy discovered that Kapu Lele’s Scale Powder had healed their injuries and restored their energy, leaving her intentions unclear.

• Kapu Lele attacked Roy and his Pokémon with Nature’s Wrath, and Gigantamax Metagross blocked it long enough for the others to gather their strength.
• Roy’s Pokémon combined Gigantamax, Mega Evolution, a Z-Move, and their strongest attacks to neutralize Nature’s Wrath.
• Kapu Lele noticed Cosmog had stayed beside Roy despite being afraid, and she began to suspect she had misunderstood the situation.
• Roy prepared to use a Psychic Doll to flee, but Kapu Lele disappeared and her psychic field faded.
• Roy found that his Pokémon were fully healed and refreshed, and he realized Kapu Lele’s Scale Powder had restored them.

Roy realized Tapu Lele had left healing scale powder as an apology and drew inspiration from her Nature’s Wrath to explore combining natural energy with weather moves. He reached Overlord Ribombee’s flower-field domain, where she began a trial of inheritance by revealing the extraordinary way she used her Overlord aura.

• Roy recognized that Tapu Lele’s scale powder had healed his Pokémon as a gesture of goodwill and regretted missing a chance to make peace with her.
• After dreaming about Nature’s Wrath, Roy concluded that weather moves might also be transformed through natural energy and decided to experiment when he could train in peace.
• Roy and his Pokémon entered the flower field, where Overlord Ribombee’s feral Pokémon gathered around them without attacking.
• Overlord Ribombee welcomed Roy with honey, and he accepted her hospitality before asking what trial she would give him.
• Overlord Ribombee began a trial concerning inheritance and revealed golden wings of light formed from her Overlord aura, explaining how she had become one of the Four Great Overlords.

Roy learned that Tapu Koko had arranged an Inheritance Trial to compensate him, and Mimikyu began training to master the refined use of Overlord aura. Meanwhile, Tapu Koko watched Roy with growing fascination and told the other Guardian Deities that Cosmog had returned as Cosmoem, though they could not explain how it had gained the power to evolve so soon.

• The Overlord Ribombee explained that Tapu Koko had arranged an Inheritance Trial as compensation for the previous night's misunderstanding.
• Roy chose Mimikyu to learn the refined use of Overlord aura, and she began training under the Overlord Ribombee.
• Tapu Koko watched Roy through a light projection and became smitten with him.
• Kapu Mingming, Kapu Fini, and Kapu Bulu arrived at the Life Ruins after Tapu Koko summoned them.
• Tapu Koko told the other Guardian Deities that Cosmog had returned to the Alola Spirit Realm as Cosmoem, astonishing them.

The Guardian Deities stripped Roy of the chance to become an Island King but let him continue the trials as inheritance trials, while other challengers began taking on Overlord tests. Meanwhile, Morey Ivan and Noah Reginald searched for a hidden altar in the Alola Spirit Realm, exploiting gaps in Tapu Koko’s surveillance.

• Tapu Koko and the other Guardian Deities learned that Cosmoem had recognized Roy and decided he was unsuitable to become an Island King, but allowed him to continue with inheritance trials.
• Roy trained Mimikyu in mobile Haki while challengers adapted to the Spirit Realm and sought information from Overlord Pokémon.
• Aihara Take injured himself during his first attempt at Ribombee’s trial, then used Mind’s Eye and a team formation to locate Ribombee on his second attempt.
• Xiao Muyi passed Wimpod’s trial by scattering its school and finding its true body, while Ooki Yukiteru also passed Fomantis’s trial and Amora followed.
• Morey Ivan told Noah Reginald that he still had not found the altar, and the two discussed how Tapu Koko’s broad but imprecise surveillance left them room to search.

Morey revealed the Mirror of Manifestation as a way to counter illusions and call on the Three Cloud Gods to stall the Guardian Deities. Roy left Akala Island for Ula-Ula Island after Mimikyu mastered Overlord Ribombee’s mobile aura, but he felt that a major event might disrupt his pilgrimage.

• Morey showed Noah the Mirror of Manifestation and explained how it could expose transformations and bring the Three Cloud Gods into their Therian Formes.
• Overlord Ribombee gave Roy honey tea while Mimikyu mastered its mobile Overlord aura, and Ribombee pleaded for Roy to stay longer.
• Roy reassured Ribombee that they would meet again, while Ninetales warned him that Ribombee was only pretending to be affectionate.
• Roy sailed from Akala Island to Ula-Ula Island aboard Blastoise, fending off several Gyarados clans along the way.
• Roy recognized Ula-Ula Island’s lush growth as the influence of Tapu Bulu and set out toward Overlord Fomantis’s forest.

Roy arrived at Overlord Fomantis’s forest for a trial and learned that the Guardian Deities had changed his trials into inheritance trials because of Cosmog’s connection to them. Fomantis demonstrated its Fusion Overlord Aura, an Aura Burst that temporarily brought its power close to Elite Four level.

• Roy entered the ancient forest and was surrounded by the Pokémon army serving Overlord Fomantis.
• Roy introduced himself to Fomantis, which dismissed its subordinates and told him that his trial had become an inheritance trial.
• Fomantis explained that Roy’s bond with Cosmog, the Star Child, meant he was destined for a status above the Guardian Deities.
• Roy released Cosmog, and Fomantis bowed to it in reverence.
• Fomantis demonstrated its Fusion Overlord Aura, and Roy recognized the technique as Aura Burst, which could briefly cross the Elite Four threshold.

Roy had Mimikyu learn Aura Burst while Ooki Yukiteru challenged the final Overlord, Kommo-o, and was defeated. Five days later, Roy reached Poni Island, where Mimikyu had become the first Pokémon on his team to reach Master Level.

• Roy chose Mimikyu to learn Aura Burst, and she mastered the technique in four days.
• Ooki Yukiteru reached Melemele Island and confronted the final Overlord, Kommo-o.
• Ooki released all eight of his Pokémon and challenged Kommo-o, but the battle ended after three hours with his entire team defeated.
• Roy arrived on Poni Island five days later and learned that Mimikyu had reached Master Level after mastering several techniques.

Roy met the Overlord Wimpod on Poni Island and learned its inheritance allowed it to fuse Overlord auras, while Mimikyu demonstrated that it could fuse with its own clones. Meanwhile, Morey Evan found the Sun Altar, and an anomaly at the Alola Spirit Realm node triggered an evacuation in Hawaii.

• Roy comforted Lucario after Mimikyu became the first of his Pokémon to master an Overlord inheritance.
• Roy met the Overlord Wimpod, which revealed that it fused the auras of 9,999 Wimpod into one body.
• Mimikyu created four clones and demonstrated that it could use Aura Fusion by combining with them.
• Morey Evan and Noah Reginald used the Reveal Glass to find the Sun Altar, a site connected to the Reverse World and Ultra World.
• President Augustus received reports about the Island Pilgrimage while three Champions stayed in Hawaii to protect their forces and prepare for Spirit Realm exploration.
• On the eleventh day, an anomaly at the Spirit Realm node triggered air-raid sirens, and authorities ordered everyone in Hawaii to seek shelter.