Eterna City History Museum.
After Yuka announced that Li Wei and Cynthia had won a Gold Award, a mechanical voice rang out in Li Wei's mind.
[Ding! You have won a Gold Award at the Eterna City Research Forum Summit. Your rewards have been issued.] [Rewards: Pokémon Item Prize Ticket ×3, Ancient Language (Top Tier)]
Li Wei's command of the ancient language had already been sufficient, but top-tier proficiency gave him access to more obscure and difficult material.
Just as modern people spoke with different accents,
the ancient language had its variations too.
Previously, Li Wei's knowledge of the ancient language had been limited to its common tongue. Now, he could understand much more.
That included certain passages he had actually been unable to translate before.
Li Wei had inferred their meaning from the surrounding context and his knowledge of the Pokémon world.
Now that he recalled those passages,
his deductions had turned out to be correct.
With his ancient language proficiency now at the top tier, he was probably the person who understood it best in this world...
Li Wei had already noticed that the others' proficiency in the ancient language was not particularly high, probably because so few records remained.
When Li Wei's ancient language proficiency had reached the advanced level, he had already been roughly on par with Professor Carolina, if not better.
Compared with excavated stone tablets and poetry, they had always relied more heavily on ancient legends.
They had worked out the syllables of the ancient language one by one by matching them against ancient texts.
Li Wei had suddenly become the authority on the ancient language, assuming there were no old men who had lived for an extraordinarily long time...
Such as the legendary King AZ.
Those three Pokémon Item Prize Tickets