Recaps

Roy persuaded Mew to negotiate with the humans entering the Spirit Realm and planned to appear as its divine envoy. When the investigation team arrived, Roy stood atop Mew transformed into Rayquaza, shocking the team and especially Hu Jun, who recognized him.

• Mew sensed the approaching investigation team, and Roy warned that force alone would not keep humans away, advising it to display power and compromise on access.
• Roy offered to negotiate for Mew and asked it to transform into Rayquaza so they could put on a show.
• Mew used Confusion to show Roy that Hu Jun had joined the investigation team, and then transformed into a Rayquaza hatchling.
• Hu Jun reflected on Dragon Country's costly efforts to secure his place on the rescue mission as the team surveyed the Spirit Realm.
• A powerful Intimidate silenced the area, and the investigators saw a jade-green divine dragon looming above them with Roy standing on its head.
• Hu Jun recognized Roy, and the European investigators also identified him and turned to Hu Jun to speak first.

Roy presented Mew as a god capable of perfectly transforming into any Pokémon, persuading an investigation team that she surpassed all other gods and that he was her divine envoy. The team reported the encounter, and confirmation from legendary Pokémon spread Mew’s reputation as the strongest god, making Roy famous alongside her.

• Roy told Hu Jun that the transformed divine dragon was Mew and claimed she could perfectly use every Pokémon’s powers.
• Mew transformed into Ho-Oh and Lugia, displaying Divine Domain-level Intimidate as the investigation team watched in awe.
• Roy reassured the investigation team, declared himself Mew’s envoy for future negotiations, and asked them to inform the Pokémon League.
• The investigation team left the Spirit Realm unharmed and reported their encounter, prompting major nations to seek confirmation from friendly gods.
• Legendary Pokémon judged the reports about Mew plausible and approved of her, causing her title as the strongest god and Roy’s fame to spread.

After becoming a divine envoy, Roy learned that his fame had driven a surge in his Pokémon’s Popularity Points and that the Alliance had accepted Mew’s terms for protecting the World Tree Spirit Realm. He then asked Hu Jun about advancement beyond the Professional level and learned that Master-level growth depended on mastering High-grade energy, leaving him to wonder about the exceptional power of Mimikyu’s Nature-enhanced energy.

• Roy’s divine envoy title and reputation spread across social media, earning his Pokémon 80 million Popularity Points in one day.
• Hu Jun told Roy that the Alliance had named the area the World Tree Spirit Realm and limited investigators to forty, with Dragon Country receiving twenty places.
• Roy decided to remain in the World Tree Spirit Realm to train under Mew and the three Regi.
• Hu Jun explained that reaching Master Level after S3 required mastering High-grade energy, which had to be at least three times stronger than basic energy at equal output.
• Roy realized that Mimikyu had reached the High-grade energy threshold after only one optimization, suggesting that Nature Power was exceptionally potent and compatible with all eighteen Types.

Roy returned to the World Tree with the Blastoise Mega Stone and considered how the Regis optimized energy through extreme compression. He proposed a new way for Ninetales to learn Unmelting Ice, just as Registeel and Metagross emerged from underground.

• Hu Jun told Roy that Kurama was an Illuminati member who had been ordered to kill him, and explained how Kurama and his Pokémon would be dealt with.
• Roy received thirteen Mega Stones, including the Blastoise Mega Stone, and flew back to the World Tree on a requisitioned Pidgeot.
• Roy reunited with Ninetales and learned that she was struggling to comprehend Unmelting Ice under Regice's harsh teaching method.
• Roy reasoned that Registeel optimized Steel Energy through compression and suggested that Ninetales learn Role Play to imitate Regice's Frozen Body Ability.
• Registeel and Metagross burst up from underground in front of Roy.

Roy completed Metagross’s underground tempering and began Mega Evolution training for his team, first transforming Blastoise into Mega Blastoise. After discovering that Blastoise’s Water Pulse could travel 50 kilometers, Roy noted that it needed better accuracy; Metagross then began its own Mega Evolution.

• Metagross completed three rounds of underground pressure training, and Roy sensed that its body had become thirty percent harder after two days.
• Roy gathered his Pokémon and gave Blastoise the Mega Stone, explaining that it would restore missing genes and merge into its body.
• Roy used the Key Stone to Mega Evolve Blastoise, whose evaluation rose to EX-class and whose Ability became Wicked Blow.
• Blastoise fired a Water Pulse that Metagross tracked to a range of 50 kilometers, and Roy wrote down the need to improve its accuracy.
• After Blastoise’s Mega Evolution ended, Metagross took its Mega Stone and resonated with Roy as its Mega Evolution began.

Roy confirmed that Mega Evolution loosened Blastoise and Metagross’s Species Limit Values and set training plans for his Pokémon. He headed to the World Tree’s core to check on Lucario, with Cosmog riding on his shoulder.

• Mega Metagross panicked because Mega Evolution had given it eight brains, and Roy realized the extra brains could help it manage multiple combat forms without losing focus.
• Blastoise and Metagross confirmed that Mega Evolution loosened their limiters, supporting Roy’s belief that it could speed their progress through the accumulation period.
• Roy reassured Electabuzz about its lack of other breakthrough paths and encouraged it to rely on the determination that had helped it survive the Teralvolt experiments.
• Roy assigned training plans for Blastoise, Metagross, Mimikyu, Ninetales, and Electabuzz, and the Pokémon left to train.
• Roy decided to visit the World Tree’s core to check on Lucario, who had been learning from Mew, and Cosmog hopped onto his shoulder while continuing to eat.

Roy activated a Time Flower in the World Tree’s Crystal Chamber, and the surge of power caused Cosmog to open an Ultra Wormhole. Pheromosa emerged and attacked Mew, but Roy judged the Ultra Beast to be surprisingly weak.

• Roy used Aura Power to activate the Time Flower and view images of the World Tree’s past.
• Cosmog collapsed, and a Space Quake opened an Ultra Wormhole above the Crystal Chamber.
• Roy suspected the Time Flower had triggered Cosmog’s power and recognized the creature emerging from the wormhole as Pheromosa.
• Pheromosa ordered Roy to hand over Cosmog and struck Mew with Brick Break.
• Mew revealed it was unharmed, and Roy assessed Pheromosa as weak because its attack had not reached the Professional level.

Roy captured Pheromosa and learned that it had become five times stronger after arriving on Earth, prompting him to suspect that Pokémon gain strength when crossing into a new world. Mew kept Pheromosa as a playmate through Hypnosis, while Roy set aside his questions about the world’s truth until he was stronger.

• Roy ordered Lucario to attack Pheromosa, and Lucario defeated it with its new move, Aura Rasengan.
• Roy restrained Pheromosa and used Mew’s Hypnosis to question it, learning that all its stats had increased fivefold after crossing the Ultra Wormhole.
• Roy theorized that Pokémon and Ultra Beasts gain strength when they arrive in a new world, and reflected that Mew had been asleep when the Pokémon World was destroyed.
• Roy concluded that learning the truth of the world would have to wait until he gained more strength.
• Mew made Pheromosa its playmate by using Hypnosis to force it to obey, while Roy checked that Cosmog was feeling better.

Roy learned that Cosmog had accumulated enough energy to evolve and planned to help it by having it open Ultra Wormholes. Lucario used the Time Flower to comprehend Future Sight, while Roy looked ahead to the National Tournament and the training still to come.

• Roy realized Cosmog’s energy was nearly overflowing and, following Mew’s advice, told it to open Ultra Wormholes regularly to prepare for evolution.
• Mew volunteered to capture any Ultra Beasts that appeared, hoping to keep Pheromosa company.
• Lucario used the Time Flower and Aura Power to comprehend Future Sight, and Roy suggested combining the move with Aura Power.
• Roy threatened to halve Cosmog’s food unless it opened a wormhole each day, then raised the demand to two when Cosmog agreed too eagerly.
• Roy surveyed the World Tree and reflected on his team’s hard-won progress before the National Tournament; the story then shifted to Japan on July 23 amid a summer heat wave.

Aihara Take completed intense training after his defeat to Roy and prepared to travel to Dragon Country as an exchange-student reinforcement for a school team in the National Tournament. Zenia waited for news of Roy while a major announcement revealed that Lin Xingchen had earned Master-level Pokémon certification.

• Aihara Take's Infernape mastered Explosive Fire, and Aihara Take confirmed that all six of his Pokémon had reached Professional level and the S2 stage or higher.
• Aihara Take learned that his teacher had arranged for him to join a Dragon Country school team as an outside reinforcement and planned to leave in two days.
• Zenia watched her viral defeat video again and asked the Roy fan group when Roy would return, learning that he was expected at the National Tournament in August.
• Lin Xingchen passed the Master-level Pokémon certification, setting a new record for Dragon Country.

Four months after the National Tournament buzzed over Lin Xingchen’s Master Certification, Roy reached Master Level in Psychic power and gathered his Pokémon at the World Tree. Mimikyu had advanced to Professional level, while Ninetales struggled with the severe cold caused by training Unmelting Ice.

• Lin Xingchen’s Master Certification led spectators to regard Tianjing University as the overwhelming favorite to win the National Tournament, while Jinghua University recruited the newly Professional-level Aihara Take.
• Roy demonstrated Master Level Psychic power after ten months of training with the D virus, then used Aura to summon his Pokémon.
• Mimikyu joined Roy and accepted his affection, having broken through her Species Limit Value a month earlier and reached Professional level.
• Ninetales arrived from training with Regice, and Roy had to protect his hand with an Aura Barrier before petting her because Unmelting Ice made her body intensely cold.
• Roy reassured Ninetales that he would find a way to address the chilling side effect, though he had no solution yet.

Roy checked on his Pokémon after four months of training, as Cosmog struggled with its new Cosmoem form and the others showed mixed progress. The gathering ended with Lucario still absent because it was maintaining the World Tree while Mew took the Ultra Beasts away.

• Ninetales had mastered Regice's Unmelting Ice and Ice-type Sage Art but could use only one of its high-grade Ice energies at a time.
• Electabuzz used Cosmoem, which weighed 999.9 kilograms, as a training weight, while Roy explained that it could no longer eat and instead absorbed the radiance of the sun and moon.
• Electabuzz had not broken through its Species Limit Value, though its Lightning Armor modes had doubled in duration.
• Metagross reached its current limit of ten thousand meters in underground pressure training and completed an Absolute Defense State usable only while Mega Evolved.
• Blastoise arrived with three times its previous Aura Power and had fused Water Energy with Aura Power.
• Roy explained that Lucario was maintaining the World Tree because Mew had taken the Ultra Beasts away three months earlier.

Roy and Mimikyu escaped the World Tree Spirit Realm by breaking its spatial barrier and riding the turbulence back to the outside world. They emerged at a guarded Space Node, where soldiers and Pyroar challenged them.

• Roy learned that leaving an unmerged Spirit Realm required a Professional-level Finishing Move to break its spatial barrier.
• Roy ordered Mimikyu to shatter the barrier, and she used a Dark Flame Shadow Claw empowered by Sage Art to break it.
• Mimikyu protected Roy from the spatial turbulence as they traveled through the crack and returned to the outside world.
• Roy emerged from a Space Node guarded by eight soldiers and more than twenty Pyroar, and he calmed Mimikyu as they aimed their weapons at him.

Roy returned to Shenghai after months away, learned about Alola’s Island Challenge Trial, and resolved to reach Professional level before October. After reuniting with his family and friends, he hinted that his hidden technologies could give Mu Tianyang a chance to build a new business, then visited the Pokémon Competition Club.

• Roy used Aura to verify his identity at Berlin’s Space Node, then called Hu Jun and left by helicopter.
• On the flight home, Roy learned that the Alola Island Challenge Trial would begin registration in October and require Professional-level Trainers under twenty-five.
• After landing in Shenghai, Roy asked Hu Jun where to register for the Professional-level assessment and decided he needed to qualify before October.
• Roy ate with his parents and the Mu family, then caught up with Mu Tianyang and Mu Xixi, who had skipped a grade.
• Roy hinted to Mu Tianyang that emerging technologies could create a new business opportunity, then visited Sheng Hai University’s Pokémon Competition Club and met Fang Hang, Mo Xuexin, and the Yang brothers.

Roy and the Sheng Hai University team watched the National Tournament draw and learned they would face Jinghua University in their first group match. At Jinghua, Aihara Take welcomed the matchup and secured the right to face Roy as part of his exchange agreement.

• Roy revealed Cosmog's evolved Cosmoem form, and Yang Bowen failed to lift the extraordinarily heavy Pokémon.
• Fang Hang and the others discussed their National Tournament hopes, the strength of Jing University and Jinghua University, and Lin Xingchen's final chance to win a student championship.
• The group draw placed Jinghua University against Sheng Hai University in Group A's first match, shocking Roy's teammates.
• Aihara Take celebrated the draw and asked Jinghua captain Yu Ge to leave Roy to him.
• Yu Ge agreed, noting that Aihara Take had earned the chance through an agreement requiring him to stay at Jinghua University through graduation and compete for its varsity team next year.

Roy reassured his Sheng Hai University teammates that he could win the National Tournament with a secret weapon, then prepared to face Jinghua University and Aihara Take. As he left for the tournament, he told reporters his goal was to change how the world viewed the relationship between Pokémon and trainers.

• Fang Hang, Mo Xuexin, and the Yang brothers worried that Sheng Hai University's team would hold Roy back against Jing University and Jinghua University.
• Roy announced that he had a secret weapon and insisted it would let him win, while keeping its details to himself.
• Roy learned that the Pokémon League called Mew “that great being” out of respect, and told his teammates his secret weapon had nothing to do with Mew.
• On August 2nd, Roy joined Sheng Hai University's students and staff at Pudong Airport as they prepared to fly to the National Tournament.
• Reporters questioned Roy about Jinghua University, Aihara Take, and Mew, and Roy confidently dismissed Jinghua University while naming his goal of changing how people understood Pokémon and trainers.

Roy arrived in Heaven Capital as his bold pre-tournament remarks stirred public debate, then attended the National Tournament opening ceremony at the Bird's Nest. After the two Heavenly Kings visited their alma maters' teams, Roy Hao questioned Roy about his promises, and Roy kept his plan for the tournament secret.

• Reporters and online commenters argued over Roy's arrogance and Mew's influence after Roy's interview went public.
• Roy arrived in Heaven Capital, checked into his hotel, and viewed the Bird's Nest arena from his window.
• At the August 3 opening ceremony, Roy learned that the fireworks depicted signature Pokémon from past championship MVPs.
• Fighting Heavenly King Roy Hao and Superpower Heavenly King Xiao Muyi entered the guest seats, drawing cheers from the crowd and excitement from their alma mater teams.
• Roy Hao spoke privately with Roy, challenging his confidence and asking what he meant by changing how people understood Trainers and Pokémon.
• Roy told Roy Hao that he would reveal his plan at the right time, while Xiao Muyi's silent visit left the Jing Hua University team moved and awkward.

Xiao Muyi visited the Sheng Hai University team before their match, while Jing Hua University built a commanding lead. Roy entered the battle against Jian An’s Empoleon with Blastoise, whose astonishing defense revealed that it had reached Professional-level strength.

• Yu Ge approached Xiao Muyi, who remembered him by his old nickname, making the team and cameraman laugh.
• Xiao Muyi wished the Sheng Hai University players good luck but privately believed they would lose.
• Jing Hua University’s Jian An completed a one-versus-three with Empoleon, leaving Fang Hang without any Pokémon able to battle.
• Roy took Fang Hang’s place and sent out Blastoise, prompting speculation that it had mastered a Water-type Z-Move.
• Jian An ordered Empoleon to attack with Hydro Cannon, but Blastoise shielded itself with its shell and emerged without a scratch.
• Jian An and the crowd realized Blastoise had Professional-level strength.

Roy’s Blastoise overwhelmed Jian An Chengtong’s Empoleon with relentless, perfectly tracking Water-type attacks and won the battle. Jian An sent out his remaining Professional-level Pokémon, Bronzong, and both Trainers opened the next round with their first moves.

• Roy ordered Blastoise to use Water Pulse, but its immense water pressure overwhelmed Empoleon’s Steel Wing and Hydro Pump blasted it across the arena.
• Empoleon charged with Surf and Steel Wing, but Blastoise dodged and used Water Aura to curve its Hydro Pump around Empoleon’s evasions.
• Jian An realized Blastoise’s Water Aura combined tracking with its powerful defenses and reactions, leaving Empoleon unable to evade or approach safely.
• Empoleon unleashed Hydro Cannon, but Blastoise fired its stronger version first and knocked Empoleon unconscious.
• Jian An Chengtong recalled Empoleon and sent out Bronzong for the next round as Roy and Jian An simultaneously ordered Fantasy Space and Water Pulse.

Roy’s Blastoise defeated Jian An’s Bronzong and Magneton despite Bronzong’s clever use of Wonder Room and Skill Swap, meeting its quota and astonishing the audience with its rapid growth. With Jian An eliminated, Aihara Take prepared to face Roy, who had been forced onto the field earlier than expected.

• Jian An’s Bronzong used Wonder Room and Skill Swap to turn Blastoise’s power against it, but the Pokémon fought to a stalemate.
• Bronzong and Blastoise struck each other with Psychic and Hydro Cannon, and both fell; Blastoise got back up before the referee finished counting.
• Jian An sent out Magneton, which held on for forty seconds before Blastoise defeated it with Hydro Pump and met Roy’s three-opponent quota.
• The audience and Roy Hao reacted with disbelief when they learned Blastoise’s stats had reached the Professional level after only a little over five months at its Species Limit Value.
• Jian An returned to his team, and Yuge reminded Aihara Take that it was his turn to battle Roy.

Roy’s Lucario faced Aihara Take’s Infernape in a rematch, evading its arena-wide Flame Meteor Shower and exposing the gap between their Pokémon’s current strength and their levels from four months earlier. The chapter ended by explaining that Lucario had combined Future Sight with Aura vision to develop a new power.

• Aihara Take asked Yuge to switch the match order, then revealed that Blastoise had not been part of Roy’s lineup when they fought four months earlier.
• Roy and Aihara Take sent out Lucario and Infernape, whose crimson Explosive Fire fueled an arena-wide Flame Aura.
• Aihara Take ordered Infernape to use Flamethrower, and its explosions spread the attack into a hypersonic Flame Meteor Shower.
• Lucario evaded every fireball with precise movements, while Roy told Aihara Take that his strategy had been designed for their weaker selves from four months earlier.
• Roy’s narration revealed that Lucario had spent months combining Sage Art-enhanced Future Sight with Aura perception to create a new power.

Lucario used its Terminal Acquisition Power to counter Aihara Take and Infernape’s fire-based tactics, then revealed Future Sight and defeated Infernape with a colossal Aura Sphere. Roy’s strategy left Lucario standing amid the ruined arena, while Aihara Take’s remaining Pokémon still awaited battle.

• Lucario’s Terminal Acquisition Power let it predict attacks and evade Aihara Take and Infernape’s Meteor Shower tactic.
• Aihara Take used Heat Wave to scatter explosive sparks across the arena, then combined the hazard with Flamethrower to force Lucario into repeated Teleports.
• Fang Hang explained that Aihara Take was trying to exhaust Lucario and prevent it from using a Z-Move, while Roy said the outcome had already been decided.
• Roy revealed that Lucario knew Future Sight, which struck Infernape with Confusion at the moment its exhaustion left it unable to move.
• Lucario launched a massive Aura Sphere that engulfed Infernape and left it unconscious at the bottom of a huge crater.

After Roy defeated Aihara Take, Yuge faced him with Solrock against Roy’s final Pokémon, a Shiny Metagross. Solrock’s fiery attacks seemed to hurt Metagross, but the chapter left it discovering that the heat felt comfortable instead.

• Lucario defeated Aihara Take’s Toxicroak and Heracross, and the referee declared Roy the winner.
• Aihara Take left the field devastated by his overwhelming defeat, while Yuge prepared to battle Roy.
• Roy sent out his Shiny Metagross, and Yuge chose Solrock despite its disadvantage against Metagross’s Steel and Psychic defenses.
• Solrock used Harsh Sunlight to strengthen its attacks, but Metagross evaded Fire Spin and struck the battlefield with a powerful Earthquake.
• Solrock hit Metagross with Psychic and Flamethrower, and Metagross found the attacks barely painful and the heat surprisingly comfortable.

Roy’s Shiny Metagross overwhelmed Yuge’s team in the National Tournament, demonstrating extraordinary defense and power. After Aihara Take withdrew, Roy focused on his team’s progress and identified Lin Xingchen as the one opponent he cared about.

• Metagross endured Yuge’s Fire-type attacks, then used Stomping Tantrum to accelerate and knock Solrock unconscious with a crushing blow.
• Metagross defeated Yuge’s remaining Pokémon, Jynx and Natu, as Roy’s one-versus-three sweep left other school teams searching for ways to counter it.
• Roy Hao recognized that Metagross’s Steel of a Thousand Hammers was High-grade energy and wondered how Roy had trained it to such a level.
• News of Roy’s sweep spread online, and later Aihara Take withdrew from the tournament, leaving Jing Hua University unable to field a substitute.
• Roy joked about Aihara Take’s pressure tolerance, then praised Metagross while washing it and reflected on its rapid growth and rising strength.
• Roy regarded Lin Xingchen, the Dragon King and a Master-certified Trainer, as his sole opponent in the National Tournament.

Roy led his team to defeat Jing Hua University, eliminating them from the tournament and cementing his reputation as the Demon King. Xiao Muyi visited him afterward and instructed him to watch a livestream at four in the morning, which began as an ordinary food stream in Los Angeles.

• Roy fielded Lucario, Metagross, and Blastoise and defeated all four Jing Hua University opponents with their Aura-linked coordination.
• Jing Hua University lost the individual and team battles, ending its decades-long records and championship streak.
• Roy Hao noticed Xiao Muyi watching Roy and grew wary when she called him special without explaining further.
• Xiao Muyi appeared in Roy's room, gave him a YouTube livestream link, and unexpectedly offered to show him her underwear before leaving.
• Roy woke at 3:50 a.m., followed Xiao Muyi's instructions, and entered a Los Angeles food stream featuring a creator and his Snorlax.