Platinum Silver Mountain.
By the time Baimu returned, the entire mountain had turned lush and green.
From where he stood, dense forest covered the foothills beside the highway, its branches and leaves forming a wall.
He could no longer see the fields Barza and his sister had cleared at the foot of the mountain.
He turned toward the neighboring mountain.
It, too, was blanketed in greenery. Only near the summit did patches of brown rock remain exposed, where plants struggled to take root.
"So fast!"
He left the Hover Motorcycle by the roadside and hurried into the woods, following his memory.
He had barely taken two steps.
"Odd!"
An Oddish sprang out of the bushes and weeds ahead, scattering bits of soil as it fled with tears in its eyes.
What incredible camouflage!
Baimu was startled. How had he missed it?
Oddish were timid and weak, close to the bottom of the pecking order among Wild Pokémon.
They could restore their energy through Synthesis and absorb a little nutrition by burying themselves in soil, so they needed little food and rarely drew attention.
With both disadvantages working against it, the Oddish hadn't dared speak to someone whose presence felt so dangerous.
It was afraid that getting in his way would earn it a beating.
Baimu: "..."
What am I, some bully Pokémon?
Damn it!
One day, that Oddish will know why they call me the Wealth-Scattering Boy!
Fuming, Baimu thumped Dragapult beside him. Then, under Dragapult's aggrieved gaze, he walked on and began paying closer attention to his surroundings.
Once he spared some attention for them,
the Wild Pokémon hiding all around, previously impossible to spot, became obvious.
Just then,
a roar came from the distant sky.
"Hydrei! Hydrei!"
It seemed the Dog-Nosed Dragon back home had caught his scent