Full of Confidence!

On the first day living at Meteor Falls, a third of the food Hu Yang had brought was already gone.

Hu Yang watched Axew wolf down its food, his heart trembling.

That was enough food for him, Roserade, and Cramorant for five days!

Damn!

Could this Axew have transformed from a bottomless-pit Snorlax?

Could he really afford to raise a Pokémon that ate this much?!

Unlike Roserade, a vegetarian Pokémon, food for a Pokémon like Axew mainly consisted of all kinds of fresh meat rich in protein.

It ate Berries too, but those were merely snacks after a full meal.

After eating, Axew went to the side and began grinding its teeth against a rock.

Hu Yang's heart ached as he hid to the side and opened his backpack to count the ores Cramorant had brought back.

Not enough. Still not enough.

God, raising Pokémon was way too expensive!

Hu Yang felt that he had already been frugal enough. New Year was approaching, yet he had not even been willing to buy himself a new set of clothes!

"Caw?"

At that moment, Cramorant, which had been lowering its head to preen its feathers nearby, suddenly raised its head and looked in Hu Yang's direction.

Then, it flapped its wings and flew away.

Before long, it landed in front of its Trainer with a hard, irregularly shaped stone in its beak.

[Hard Stone: A stone that will never crack. When held by a Pokémon, it increases the power of Rock-type moves.]

"Thanks, you goofball."

Hu Yang was deeply grateful for Cramorant's presence. Without it, he might have game over long ago.

All sorts of past events surfaced in his mind.

When he had first arrived in this world and needed food, Cramorant had gone out to catch fish and bring them back.

Later, after he got a job and wanted to catch a starter Pokémon, Cramorant had brought back a Budew.

And later still, when he wanted to mine ores for money and catch a second Pokémon, Cramorant had...

Wait!

Looking at the ores in his backpack and Axew grinding its teeth in the distance, Hu Yang suddenly realized something.

Cramorant's actions all seemed to have appeared in response to his needs?

When he wanted food, Cramorant brought him fish.

When he wanted a Pokémon, Cramorant brought him Budew.

And now that he wanted to mine for money, Cramorant went out to bring back stones.

All of this... probably, maybe, perhaps, was not a coincidence?

That couldn't be, could it?

Hu Yang looked at Cramorant before him in shock.

Its eyes were still vacant and foolish, without the slightest hint of any other emotion.

"You... can actually understand what I'm saying, right?" Hu Yang stroked its cheek and asked.

Cramorant did not seem to understand. Faced with the question, it merely gave a meaningless, "Caw."

The idea shook Hu Yang to his core. He turned and looked around, his gaze settling on a rock.

"I want that. Can you bring it back for me?"

Cramorant did not react at all.

That did not work...

Had he been overthinking it?

No, he probably had not.

His mind raced, and he quickly figured out what made this request different from the earlier ones.

It was the intensity of his feelings!

It was not simply wanting something, but wanting it "urgently," "desperately," "more than anything."

When he had been hungry in the forest and badly wanted meat, Cramorant had gone and brought back fish.

At school, he had urgently wanted to begin his journey as a Trainer and catch his first companion, so Cramorant had brought back Budew.

And now, it had sensed his burning desire to make money...

So this Cramorant seemed capable of sensing his thoughts?!

To verify his guess, Hu Yang filled his mind with the thought that he desperately wanted more stones to sell for money, so he could provide everyone with the best possible care.

He looked at Cramorant nervously and expectantly.

Cramorant blinked its vacant eyes, then moved the next second.

Its orange body looked slightly clumsy as it flapped its wings and took flight.

!!!

It had sensed it!

Hu Yang felt a little excited. He stood up and watched Cramorant disappear into the cave.

Twenty minutes later, the orange figure returned and placed a green stone with lightning-like patterns into Hu Yang's hand.

[Thunder Stone (Common Quality): A magical stone that can make certain Pokémon evolve. It bears lightning-like patterns.]

Hu Yang stood there blankly, staring at the stone in his hand.

Cramorant's data surfaced in his mind.

[Species: Cramorant ♂ (Shiny)]

Type: Flying, Water-type

Ability: Gulp Missile

Base Stats: 1530 (HP: 255, Attack: 255, Defense: 255, Special Attack: 255, Special Defense: 255, Speed: 255)

Known Moves: [Precipice Blade], [Origin Pulse], [Spacial Rend], [Roar of Time]

Current Mood: ＆＃?+!＃

Physical Condition: Perfect

Friendship: 100 (You are its most beloved Trainer. It loves you more than itself.)]

It did not have the Pickup Ability.

Nor did it have Telepathy.

So how did it sense his thoughts, accurately find these things outside, and bring them back?

After putting down the stone, Cramorant went off to mine again.

Since Gengar could not eat real-world food, it would return to the orb whenever everyone ate, then come back out after the meal was over.

It had just come out and saw Hu Yang standing there in a daze. It floated over and asked in confusion, "What's wrong with you?"

"I..." Hu Yang felt as though the surprise was about to make him lose his mind. He leaned against the rock wall and sat down, taking a deep breath. "Nothing. I just figured something out."

Gengar asked, "What?"

Hu Yang glanced at it and said, "I think I might be invincible."

So he had not been given the underdog Trainer script written by those fanfic authors on Qidian.

He had been given the script of an invincible, pure wish-fulfillment novel!

Gengar: "?"

"Gengar, let's punch Groudon and kick Rayquaza, then climb to the top of this world together!"

Gengar: "..."

It had to be dreaming.

It turned around and floated back into the orb, planning to talk after it woke up.

Hu Yang: "..."

It took Hu Yang quite a while to calm down.

Although he had successfully figured out how to use Cramorant's ability, probably, he did not plan to use it immediately.

That was because any one of Cramorant's four moves possessed world-destroying power.

If he used Cramorant to challenge a Gym, it would probably knock out both the Gym Leader and the entire Gym in one move.

He did not want to make an enemy of the world.

As a man with the mental age of thirty, Hu Yang felt that he should take things a little more casually.

Rule the world and establish a dictatorship?

He had no such intention.

With Cramorant around, he could at least live without worries about food or clothing and walk sideways through this world.

Of course, that was assuming no one came looking for trouble.

At that thought, Hu Yang instantly felt reassured.

Right, becoming the world's number one Trainer would start with mining!