Roy's fame spread throughout Lilycove City's television station even titled its report "The Savior Hero."
To thank Roy for his contributions to Lilycove City, several photos of Roy interacting with the Vespiquen Beedrill and Beedrill were specially placed on the promotional image for the upcoming Pokémon Contest in Lilycove City.
Roy's fame spread like wildfire throughout Lilycove City, with discussions happening everywhere.
Some people hailed Roy as a great hero who saved Lilycove City.
Some conspiracy theorize that Roy orchestrated the entire Bug Tide, and of course, their ultimate Harvest was Officer Jenny's silver handcuffs and a luxurious ten-day trip to prison.
However, Roy was unaware of these things; he was currently at the Pokémon Center in Lilycove City with Agatha.
Due to the Bug Tide in Lilycove City, the port is gradually reopening, and their ships will not arrive until tomorrow morning.
Roy and Agatha could only stay at the Pokémon Center for one day.
After settling the Primeape group and issuing repeated warnings, Roy lay down on the large bed in the lounge where he had previously stayed at the Pokémon Center in Lilycove City.
Roy opened the system. The total Popularity Points he obtained this time was the same as Popularity Points of the Drake battle, both being 5 million Popularity Points. Now the total Popularity Points in the system has reached 10 million.
As usual, Roy opened his iQ on his Communicator to find the most popular video on his iQ, and soon Roy found his video with a million likes.
However, the most popular scene in the video was neither when he and Officer Jenny Liya emerged from the Bug Tide, nor when he returned in time with the Pokémon Egg.
It turned out to be the scene of Agatha grabbing my ear and admitting my mistake when I emerged from the Bug Tide.
No!?
So, instead of his glamorous side going viral, the scene of him being lectured by Agatha did? What kind of weird fetish is that?
Do you enjoy watching yourself get beaten up?
Forget it, let's think about how to spend these 10 million Popularity Points first. Just as Roy was struggling with how to use so many Popularity Points in the system, a prompt came from the system.
Roy noticed that a progress bar at the bottom of his personal profile panel, representing his overall Popularity Points in the Pokémon World related to Ghost type Pokémon and himself, had reached 10%.
The second blind box below the progress bar also lit up, and the system indicated that the second blind box could now be opened.
If the system hadn't reminded him, he would have almost forgotten that he still had unopened blind boxes.
The first blind box from the system with a 0% success rate yielded Giratina's Scale; I wonder what treasures the second box will hold.
Roy clicked on the second box without hesitation.
This time, however, there was no golden light; instead, three large, purplish-pink mushrooms appeared before Roy's eyes.
What... what is this?
Max Mushrooms?
Item: Max Mushrooms *3
Effect: A mushroom with some kind of magical power that can change the appearance of Pokémon Dynamax. In battle, it can boost all of Pokémon's stats.
Roy also remembered that Max Mushrooms was an ingredient in the Max Soup that Allister, the Ghost type Gym Leader of Stow-on-Side Ash, made for Ash's Gengar in the anime.
After Gengar drinks Max Soup, it can Transform from Dynamax to Gigantamax form.
Compared to the Giratina Scale from the first blind box, the Max Mushrooms from this second blind box seems rather ordinary.
However, the Giratina Scale in the first blind box was also a one-time use item. It was only because his Ghost Power was useful to Giratina that Giratina returned the scale to himself.
So from this perspective, Max Mushrooms seems pretty good too.
When talking about Dynamax, we have to mention the Galar region. As the origin of Dynamax arose because Eternatus of the Pokémon with the highest base stats had the Dynamax Factor from Pokémon.
Of course, this is in the game and anime. In reality, Roy has never heard of Gigantamax in the Galar region, and he doesn't even know where Eternatus is now.
Furthermore, it's unknown Eternatus has any Divine Authority.
To achieve Dynamax and Gigantamax, you need Dynamax Band. According to the anime, the Dynamax Band was first developed by Oleana, the secretary of Rose, the chairman of the Galar Region Pokémon League, and was made by Wishing Star.
Similar to the Key Stone, but with one difference, Dynamax only requires a Dynamax Band, unlike Mega Evolution Pokémon also need Mega Stone.
Dynamax is Pokémon that can use Dynamax simply by activating the Dynamax Band.
There is another way to achieve Dynamax: contact with the Gigantamax factor emitted by Eternatus can also allow wild Pokémon to Gigantamax, but this is only a one-time trial.
In the games, Dynamax lasts for three turns, while in the anime, the Pokémon will exit Dynamax after a certain amount of time.
What they have in common is that only one Pokémon can Dynamax in a single battle.
When Pokémon Dynamax, it becomes immune to forced exit moves like Whirlwind and Dragon Tail. Its moves also change to moves like Max Guard and Dynamax Cannon, and these moves are guaranteed to hit.
After discussing Dynamax, we should talk about Gigantamax. Unlike all Pokémon can Dynamax, only specific Pokémon can Gigantamax. After Gigantamax, they will have their own unique new moves.
Like Gigantamax Gengar's G-Max Terror, its moves have additional effects, and its Mega Evolution's Shadow Tag effect prevents the opponent from switching out or being recalled.
While the stat boosts from Dynamax and Gigantamax are actually more significant than those from Mega Evolution, Dynamax is generally less popular and enjoys greater nostalgia than Mega Evolution.
Of course, Dynamax and Gigantamax aren't all advantages; they also have their drawbacks. Because of their enormous size, enemy attacks are almost impossible to dodge, leaving them with no choice but to take the hits, turning them into easy targets.
Roy took out the Max Mushrooms that had automatically appeared in his Spatial Bracelet.
Three enormous purple mushrooms appeared in the room. Each Max Mushrooms was the size of an Annihilape, and these were much larger than those in the anime.
The Misdreavus and Snorunt stared curiously at the large mushroom in the room, wondering if Roy was going to eat it as a midnight snack.
Night snack?
Upon hearing the sound of midnight snacks Dusclops immediately jumped out of its Poké Ball.
Where can I find late-night snacks?
Roy blocked Dusclops's charge towards Max Mushrooms with one hand, casually tossing it a Shaderoot Carrot to Dusclops away.
Looking at the three large mushrooms in the room, Roy was also troubled. Did he need any other ingredients to make Max Soup, or could he just boil it into a soup and drink it?
Confused, Roy could only put the Max Mushrooms back into his Spatial Bracelet.
Just as Roy was getting ready to wash up and go to bed, there was a knock on the door. Roy opened the door and found... no... it was Chansey from the Lilycove City Pokémon Center.
"Good luck, good luck!"
Chansey was holding a box of wooden cards left behind by Roy years ago; she had come specifically to play cards with Roy.
Seeing Chansey's excited expression, it's clear that Chansey has a card addiction.
(Here I'd like to talk about some changes in the settings.)
The reason why the level of Ghost Power was changed from a maximum of 10 to 15 was mainly because the author was bad at math, and it was also inevitable that the Popularity Points gained later would increase.
Level 15 Ghost Power increases the power of Ghost type Pokémon by 15%, and the Popularity Points gained from Tractor also doubles.
In other words, it takes 327.68 million Popularity Points to upgrade the Ghost Power from level 14 to level 15, which is more than 300 million Popularity Points.
Okay, that's the only change for now; the settings for the previous chapters have already been modified.