Recaps

Roy captured Shelgon and gained Master Level Dragon Tamer Power, then explained to Calyrex how he planned to use it and Gigantamax Energy to help Shelgon evolve. Calyrex confirmed that Shelgon had absorbed Necrozma’s power and recognized Roy’s plan as promising.

• Roy captured Shelgon and used 99.8 million points to obtain Master Level Dragon Tamer Power.
• Roy returned to Calyrex and described natural evolution through resources as the safe way to treat Shelgon.
• Roy deduced that Shelgon’s enlarged body came from absorbing Necrozma’s power, and Calyrex confirmed it had absorbed a trace of that power.
• Roy proposed using controlled Gigantamax Energy to promote Shelgon’s evolution into Dragonite.
• Roy revealed his Gigantamax Band and Dragon Tamer Power as tools to control the energy and help Shelgon absorb it, and Calyrex judged the plan promising.

Roy began training at Crown Temple, using his newfound wealth to buy Z-Crystals for his Pokémon and test their Z-Moves. Lucario showed promise in learning Fighting-type Sage Art, while Metagross and Blastoise struggled more, and Roy’s team continued preparing for Shelgon’s evolution.

• Roy and his Pokémon cleaned a room at Crown Temple and settled in for the night, with Shelgon joining the team and Mimikyu enjoying Roy’s arms while Ninetales was away.
• Roy began training in the Crown Tundra, prioritizing Shelgon’s evolution while planning to improve the rest of his Pokémon.
• Roy spent three hundred million points on Fighting, Water, Steel, and Electric Z-Crystals and Mimikyu’s exclusive Z-Crystal.
• Roy used Lucario’s Fighting Z-Move, One-Hit Wonder Fierce Fist, and Lucario said it could master the related Sage Art with time.
• Metagross and Blastoise demonstrated Corkscrew Crash and Hydro Vortex, but Roy saw that they would need more effort to comprehend Sage Art.

Roy and Calyrex helped Shelgon absorb Gigantamax Energy, beginning a process that could strengthen the Salamence form within its cocoon. After ten days, a crack appeared in the cocoon, while Roy remained away as the students gathered for the official Gigantamax event.

• Roy ordered Mimikyu to train her Fairy-type Moves and roused her fighting spirit by warning her that only strength could prevent tragedy.
• Calyrex and Roy took Shelgon to a Crown Tundra energy point and used the Gigantamax Band to stabilize the Gigantamax Energy.
• Roy and Calyrex jointly controlled the energy as Shelgon absorbed it successfully, avoiding damage to its body and life force.
• Roy found that Shelgon's body-nurturing progress had reached 10% and arranged a day's rest after each energy point.
• After ten days of training and absorption, a crack appeared in the cocoon nurturing Shelgon.
• The students from the four strongest schools gathered for a Gigantamax event, while Hu Jun worried that Roy had not returned and prepared to search for him.

Shelgon evolved into a powerful Dragonite, and Roy Mega Evolved it to reveal its specialized flying form. Mega Dragonite briefly lost control to its violent instincts, but Roy calmed it with Dragon Tamer Power.

• Hu Jun worried that Roy was vulnerable while away from the group, but Fang Hang explained that Roy was riding a legendary Pokémon and Hu Jun concluded that even Calyrex respected Roy’s divine patron.
• On the tenth day, Shelgon’s shell cracked, and Roy took it to Crown Tundra’s highest peak to evolve.
• Shelgon evolved into an unusually large Dragonite, whose accumulated strength brought it directly to the Professional level.
• Roy gave Dragonite a Mega Stone and used his Key Stone to trigger Mega Evolution.
• Mega Dragonite’s instincts turned violent, but Roy suppressed them with Dragon Tamer Power, and Dragonite calmed down remorsefully.

Roy developed a training direction for Mega Dragonite’s Aerilate Ability and gave it a powerful welcome package after it evolved from Shelgon. Electivire returned from training with Zapdos having learned to combine Fighting and Electric energy in its Thunderous Fist.

• Roy tested Mega Dragonite’s Aerilate with Hyper Voice and planned to develop a small-scale turbulence domain modeled on Rayquaza’s airflow control.
• Roy decided he would visit Lugia to learn more about precise airflow manipulation.
• Roy gave Dragonite customized Energy Cubes, Master Level Move Disks, team abilities and training methods, and Flyinium Z and Dragon Z.
• On the tenth day after arriving at Crown Tundra, Shelgon evolved into Dragonite, while Blastoise hoped Roy would help it fly someday.
• On the eleventh day, Electivire returned with Zapdos and showed Roy that it had learned to combine Fighting energy and Electric Energy in a Thunderous Fist powered by Teralvolt.

Roy reunited his team in the Crown Tundra, where Electivire and Ninetales both reached Professional-level, then prepared to leave and asked Calyrex whether Cosmog could still evolve. Calyrex used its foresight to examine Cosmog, but the chapter ended before it answered.

• Electivire returned to Roy's team after training with Zapdos, said an emotional goodbye, and bonded with Dragonite over their tragic romantic pasts.
• Blastoise admitted it had pretended to relate to their tragedies because it thought their backstories seemed cool, leaving Dragonite and Electivire to exclude it from their conversation.
• On the final day of the restricted zone's opening, Articuno brought Ninetales back, and Roy confirmed she had learned Extreme Cold Psychic Power and reached Professional-level.
• Roy thanked Calyrex before leaving the Crown Tundra and asked whether Cosmog could still evolve.
• Calyrex joined its mental power with Spectrier's, looked into the flow of time, and began examining Cosmog.

Roy learned from Calyrex that Necrozma’s seal was weakening and that Roy might be a crucial variable in the coming crisis. On September 1, Roy skipped Sheng Hai University’s opening ceremony to take the Professional-level assessment.

• Calyrex warned Roy that a tremendous trial awaited him and hinted that Alola might offer a path to faster evolution.
• After Roy and Dragonite left, Calyrex discovered Gigantamax Energy near Crown Temple and feared he could no longer contain Necrozma beneath the Bottomless Pit.
• Calyrex took heart from the signs that Roy, marked by multiple gods, could help confront Necrozma.
• Professor Xing called Roy about missing Sheng Hai University’s opening ceremony and the New Star Cup, but Roy said he was taking the Professional-level assessment.
• Roy told Professor Xing that he had six Professional-level Pokémon, and Professor Xing approved his leave.

Roy registered for the Professional-level Trainer assessment and arrived at the Sheng Hai examination grounds, where his presence drew national attention. As the first stage was about to begin, nine examiners arrived and called the first five examinees.

• Roy registered for the Professional-level assessment at the Sheng Hai Trainer Association and read about its three stages.
• Roy joined forty-four other East China Trainers at the assessment venue, where examinees and social media users reacted to his appearance.
• News of Roy’s assessment spread online, while Zenia Reginald complained that he had missed the Sheng Hai New Star Cup.
• Noah Reginald learned Roy was taking the assessment, inferred he would join the Island Challenge Trial, and sent a message canceling the original plan.
• Nine examiners arrived at the grounds and called examinees No. 001 through No. 005 to accompany them.

Roy faced Senior Lin Qing in the Professional-level assessment and sent out his Ice-type Ninetales against her Fire-type Ninetales. Their opening attacks revealed that Roy’s Ninetales could withstand Lin Qing’s flames, but Lin Qing shifted tactics and began draining its energy and life force.

• Roy met Lin Qing, learned she had completed seventeen missions the previous year, and waited for his assessment after the first three candidates failed to score against her.
• Roy chose his Ninetales, while Lin Qing sent out her own Ninetales; the male fox tried to court Roy’s Pokémon, who dismissed him.
• Roy and Lin Qing ordered Ice Beam and Flamethrower, and their attacks met evenly despite Lin Qing’s Ninetales having the Fire-type advantage.
• Lin Qing recognized that Roy’s Ninetales used Unmelting Ice, a defensive High-grade energy that resisted her Ninetales’ unusual flames.
• Lin Qing ordered Inferno to fill the arena with Ghost-infused heat that drained Roy’s Ninetales’ life force and energy, then followed with another Flamethrower.

Roy’s Ice Ninetales defeated Lin Qing’s Ninetales by combining three kinds of Ice-type High-grade energy, earning praise and passing the first assessment stage. Roy then sent Mimikyu to battle Lin Qing’s Arcanine, and the chapter ended as Mimikyu’s three illusory attacks passed harmlessly through it.

• Ice Ninetales used Ice Cold Gaze to briefly freeze Lin Qing’s Ninetales, then struck it with a Sage Art Blizzard that left half its tails frozen.
• Lin Qing conceded defeat and praised Roy’s Ice Ninetales for mastering three complementary kinds of Ice-type High-grade energy.
• Lin Qing let Roy count his proven competition results and Ninetales’s victory toward the assessment, asking him to show two more combat Pokémon above Professional-level.
• Roy sent Mimikyu to face Lin Qing’s Arcanine, which absorbed the lingering Inferno flames with Flash Fire.
• Mimikyu vanished into the Spirit World and created three copies that attacked Arcanine with illusory Ghost Claws, but the blows passed through harmlessly.

Roy's Mimikyu used her Double Team and Destiny Bond tactics to wear down Lin Qing's Arcanine, then interrupted its final attack with Dazzling Gleam and struck with a Master Level Play Rough. The battle's outcome remained undecided as Mimikyu's finishing move hit Arcanine.

• Lin Qing's Arcanine defeated Roy's three Mimikyu doubles with Extreme Speed and Fire Blast.
• Roy's Mimikyu created hundreds of Double Team illusions and used Destiny Bond to drain Arcanine's vitality whenever a double perished in its flames.
• Lin Qing used Harsh Sunlight to distort the illusions and expose Mimikyu's remaining doubles, but Arcanine took two more Destiny Bond curses while destroying them.
• Roy's Mimikyu emerged from the Spirit World as both Pokémon neared their limits, and the trainers ordered their final attacks.
• Mimikyu used Dazzling Gleam to interrupt Arcanine's Burn Out, then struck it with her Master Level Play Rough.

Lin Qing sent out her strongest Pokémon, Blaziken, to battle Roy’s newly evolved Electivire, whose Overclock Drive Mode revealed a powerful new ability. Blaziken’s extreme speed overwhelmed Electivire until Electivire began tracking its movements, leaving Blaziken stunned.

• Lin Qing chose Blaziken as her ace, and Roy sent out Electivire, explaining that it was Electabuzz’s ordinary Evolution.
• Lin Qing’s Blaziken used Speed Boost and explosive Flame Kicks to strike Electivire faster than Roy’s other Pokémon could match.
• Roy told Electivire to stop playing, and Electivire activated a more controlled Lightning Armor called Overclock Drive Mode.
• Blaziken accelerated into the domain of Extreme Speed, but Electivire followed its movement with its eye and began raising its left arm.

Roy's Electivire defeated Lin Qing's Blaziken, and Roy's group passed the first stage of the Professional-level assessment. Lin Qing then explained the second stage's simulated life-and-death six-on-six battles, which Roy was about to face alone.

• Roy's Electivire seized Blaziken with Teralvolt and forced Lin Qing to surrender before it could finish the attack.
• Lin Qing accused Roy of hiding Electivire's transformation, and Roy stepped aside for candidate No. 25's test.
• All five members of Roy's group passed the first assessment stage, while Roy's Pokémon chatted about flying through their Aura connection.
• Lin Qing announced that the second stage would be unrestricted six-on-six battles using remotely controlled metal Substitutes in place of Trainers.
• Lin Qing said defeating her guaranteed a pass and that others could pass with a score above sixty; Roy's turn arrived at five in the afternoon.

Roy and Lin Qing began their Trainer Association assessment, pitting Roy’s versatile team against Lin Qing’s all-Fire-type Four Protect One formation. The battle escalated as Roy’s team disrupted Arcanine’s Flame Fusion, leaving their Water Pulse and Lin Qing’s Fire Blast colliding.

• Roy controlled a Substitute in the assessment arena and chose Blastoise as his main force against Lin Qing’s all-Fire-type team.
• Torkoal and Ice Ninetales clashed to control the weather, while Lucario, Electivire, and Mimikyu attacked Lin Qing; her Pokémon combined their flames to protect her.
• Lin Qing’s Arcanine absorbed the four flames through Flash Fire, powering up as the core of her Four Protect One team.
• Roy Mega Evolved Blastoise, while Metagross blocked Blaziken’s kick and Ninetales froze it long enough for Metagross to strike back.
• Blastoise fired a massive Aura-powered Water Pulse at the Flame Shield Wall, forcing Arcanine to stop fusing flames and answer with Fire Blast.
• Roy’s Water Pulse and Lin Qing’s five-flame Fire Blast collided, producing a burst of evaporation.

Roy and Lin Qing’s team battle left both sides with only two Pokémon standing, but their duel continued as Arcanine and Electivire clashed. When Lin Qing attacked Roy directly, he revealed he could use Confusion to immobilize her Substitute.

• The Power of Steam knocked out Lucario, Mimikyu, Ninetales, Metagross, Blaziken, and Camerupt, leaving Roy with Electivire and Blastoise and Lin Qing with Arcanine and Camerupt.
• Lin Qing congratulated Roy on passing the second stage of the assessment, then accepted his challenge to settle the battle completely.
• Electivire fought Arcanine and, with Teralvolt, disrupted Arcanine’s fused flames and raised its lightning power to match them.
• Blastoise and Camerupt battled while Lin Qing charged Roy and attacked him with martial arts to prevent him from using a Z-Move.
• Roy used Confusion to lift and immobilize Lin Qing’s Substitute, revealing that he had powers beyond Aura.

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.