The two didn't return to the Rustboro Academy until evening. After waving goodbye to Roy, Cynthia went back to the villa at the reception area to sort out their Harvest from the past few days.
Roy's first action wasn't to return to the villa in the back hills, but to bring his Drakloak to the back hills to use the skills he had learned that morning to Dragon Ascent.
This is Rayquaza's exclusive move; in the anime, Rayquaza can directly Mega Evolution once it learns this exclusive move.
The Dragon Ascent has a power of 120, and it's a physical attack. With the addition of the Life Orb, its power can reach 156.
With this unique attack, the Meteor Shower can reach a power of 169 (including the Life Orb bonus), and the Dragon's Edge is a powerful physical attack, making it perfectly usable as a super-fast dual-wielding bomber.
Roy once again evolved the Misdreavus into its Flutter Mane form, which condensed into a bright green energy shield in front of it.
"Drakloak, use the ' Misdreavus you learned this morning on the Dragon Ascent."
"Doryu!"
Drakloak flew into the sky, surrounded by a green energy. At first, Roy thought it was just a Dragon Ascent skill effect.
But as Drakloak swooped down carrying this energy, Roy sensed the silhouette of a giant dragon behind Drakloak.
With the blessing of the Life Orb within his body, the phantom grew larger and gradually solidified. Roy saw clearly that it was the phantom of Rayquaza.
Drakloak is now enveloped in Rayquaza's phantom, Drakloak, carrying this power, dives towards Misdreavus (Flutter Mane) using Protect.
The moment the phantom collided with the energy shield, a piercing sound was heard, but the energy shield did not shatter.
During his previous observations, Roy noticed numerous cracks in the energy shield surrounding the Misdreavus (Flutter Mane). Was its power really that great?
Don't assume that Drakloak's skill isn't powerful just because it didn't break through the energy shield directly. Keep in mind that this energy shield was created by Misdreavus (Flutter Mane), which is one level higher than Drakloak.
It's already quite impressive that they were able to create cracks.
Roy was surprised that the Rift Caterpillar people were so generous.
After Roy left the back mountain and returned to the villa behind the Rustboro Academy, he found that the lights in the villa were still on. It turned out that Professor Rowan had also returned to the Rustboro Academy from the Safari Zone the day before yesterday.
Upon meeting Professor Rowan, Roy immediately pulled Professor Rowan aside and started a live stream to hype up Old Deng's traffic and Popularity Points.
With only two days left, he needs to generate as much Popularity Points as possible to prepare for the Edge Cup a month from now.
The Edge Cup.
The word "edge in the front" refers to the beginning of the edge. The competition is a Pokémon battle event held for young people under the age of 18 in Fengyuan areas.
The event was held at the headquarters of the Hoenn League in Ever Grande City, and the arena was the same one used for the Hoenn League Grand Tournament.
It's clear that the Pokémon League values this major tournament.
At that time, young Pokémon Trainer from the entire Hoenn will be able to participate in the competition. The requirements are to have an intermediate Pokémon Trainer certificate or five Hoenn League Badge.
But for Roy, a student in the advanced class of the training school, he could simply go and participate.
This is a regional-level tournament, so it's sure to be Popularity Points. Roy definitely can't miss it.
Although Professor Rowan was reluctant, he had promised Roy that he would do a live stream for Roy if Roy allowed him to research Ghost type Pokémon.
I wish I hadn't agreed so readily in the first place.
In one night, Professor Rowan's live stream helped Roy gain another 500,000 Popularity Points. Combined with the 2.3 million Popularity Points he gained from previous live streams and daily activities, the total Popularity Points in the system have now reached 2.8 million.
Roy first spent 960,000 Popularity Points to directly upgrade the Ghost Power from level 5 to level 7.
After the Tractor of the Ghost Power, Roy was surrounded by a mysterious aura. He found that he could sense everything around him by relying on this aura, as if he were being monitored without any blind spots.
With this ability, if someone is watching him at the port of Lilycove City, like last time, he can detect them immediately, which is a very useful ability.
Moreover, he can even change the form of the mysterious gas surrounding him, but what its specific uses are yet to be discovered by Roy.
Roy opened the system shop again, constantly refreshing the Popularity Points, and began a frenzied shopping spree.
Technical Machine, cultivation Berry, and items like Thunderbolt, Plum Berry, Shaderoot Carrot, Icy Radish, and Sturdy Ore —exchange for them first, regardless of their usefulness.
After refreshing the page ten times in a row, Roy even managed to get Technical Machine for Swords Dance and Nasty Plot.
These two skills are Technical Machine that can greatly increase attack and Special Attack.
This was the first time Roy had ever appeared in the game, but the Popularity Points for redemption jumped from 2,000 to 20,000, increasing the price tenfold.
Even at ten times the price, it's worth it. Roy immediately redeemed them. He'll give the Nasty Plot Technical Machine to Misdreavus and the Swords Dance Technical Machine to Primeape.
Roy also exchanged the various types of Evolution Stone he obtained, since he had plenty of Popularity Points and these Evolution Stones would come in handy someday.
If you don't really need it, just grind it into pieces later and use it as cultivation material.
Roy also managed to get two more items in the end.
1. Item: Light Ball (Intermediate)
Effect: When Pikachu holds an electrified ball, its Special Attack will increase.
Required Popularity Points for redemption: 10000
2. Props: Soft Sand (perfect)
Effect: Increases the power of Ground type moves of the Pokémon holding this item by 20%.
Required Popularity Points for redemption: 200,000
After thinking for a moment, Roy directly exchanged the Soft Sand and the Light Ball; the Soft Sand could be given to Palossand.
As for the yellow Light Ball, it's also for Palossand, the difference being that one is for internal use and the other for external use.
After spending another 210,000 Popularity Points, the Popularity Points of the system page dropped from 2.8 million to only 50,000.