Pokemon: This Trainer is Too Cautious!

The Poké Ball opened, and the shiny Gastly was instantly absorbed into it. Golbat, with a quick turn, flew rapidly towards Ace and his companions.

By the time Gengar and the others reacted, they saw Ace and the others already running into the abandoned power station.

Seeing this, the Gengar, who had initially wanted to pursue them, hesitated.

They knew very well whose territory the power station was. Even with several times their courage, they wouldn't dare cause trouble in its domain.

The Gengar cursed under their breath and reluctantly disappeared.

After all, it was just a mutated Gastly; there was no need to cause too much trouble with the one inside.

Ace and Cynthia rushed into the abandoned power station. Cynthia, wearing a mask, panted and muffled, "Snatching and running away is really exciting."

"It's just luck. I didn't expect it to go so smoothly."

Ace also sighed with emotion, then took the now calm Poké Ball from Golbat's mouth.

Pokémon: Gastly

Gender: Male

Level: 7

Ability: Levitate

Shiny Ability: Soul Absorb

Nature: Timid

Aptitude: Mid-grade

Egg Moves: None

Moves: Confuse Ray, Lick, Hypnosis, Mean Look

Note: Soul Absorb: Absorbs soul fragments from deceased Pokémon, which can enhance ability strength.

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"Side Quest (All Members Assembled) completed. Quest Evaluation: S. Reward: 100 gold coins, 50 quest points. Pokémon egg is incubating, remaining time: 2 hours."

Ace's eyes were filled with joy; he knew he had hit the jackpot!

Although this Gastly's overall aptitude was only mid-grade, its shiny ability was somewhat BUGged!

Absorbing soul fragments could enhance its ability strength. As long as he took the time to train it slowly, this Gastly, once it evolved into Gengar, would definitely be a terrifying, old-monster-level combatant!

It was precisely because Ace captured it that the side quest evaluation directly soared to S, and 50 quest points were credited!

As for the S-rank evaluation gift pack, Ace decided to save it for later.

Looking at the quest points that instantly became 168, Ace directly recalled Golbat and jumped to the quest point exchange page, spending 100 quest points to choose aptitude improvement.

"Aptitude improvement. Target: Golbat. Aptitude is being improved. Host, please do not use Golbat within half an hour, otherwise, the aptitude improvement will fail."

Following the system's prompt, another countdown appeared in Ace's vision, showing the time for Golbat's aptitude improvement.

"Ace, we ran in here, how do we get out now?"

Cynthia looked at Ace, who seemed lost in thought, assuming he was trying to figure something out. She quickly comforted him, "Worst case, we can dig a hole next to the building to avoid those Gengar."

"It's fine, I didn't just come to this abandoned power station to catch Gastly."

Ace regained his composure, glanced at the somewhat dark power station, and took a deep breath, "I want to challenge a Pokémon and see how strong I am with my current abilities."

The quest to challenge Zapdos didn't say he had to defeat Zapdos, meaning, from the system's perspective, it was impossible for him to defeat Zapdos.

But if Ace could win, there was no doubt an S-rank quest evaluation would be inevitable.

"Challenge a Pokémon?"

Cynthia was a bit stunned, but Ace walked into the power station on his own. Cynthia, seeing this, quickly followed.

Inside the somewhat dilapidated power station, footsteps approached from afar. Ace and Cynthia walked without any hesitation.

There were some Electric-type Pokémon living in the power station, but they didn't attack Ace or Cynthia.

On the contrary, to Cynthia's eyes, they all looked somewhat stunted, or rather, malnourished.

"There must be an extremely powerful guy who has hogged most of the electricity, causing these Electric-type Pokémon to be underfed," Cynthia thought silently, becoming interested in the Pokémon Ace wanted to challenge.

Soon, Ace and Cynthia arrived at the electricity storage room, which no longer had a door. Looking inside through the wide-open entrance, it was empty, with no Pokémon in sight.

"There's nothing here," Cynthia said, a little disappointed. She had been full of anticipation and now felt a bit tricked.

Ace, however, wasn't disappointed. He looked up at the ceiling of the electricity storage room.

There was a broken hole in the ceiling of the room, and photochemical smog drifted into the power station through the hole, making the entire station as foggy as the outside, severely affecting visibility.

"Didn't get the wrong place."

Ace tossed a Poké Ball, and Aerodactyl landed in the electricity storage room.

Ace walked in, raised his hand to look at his watch, and whispered, "It's almost time."

"Almost time? What do you mean?"

Cynthia was a bit confused by Ace and didn't understand what he was thinking.

"Stay here and don't move. This is probably the safest place for now."

Ace warned Cynthia, then Aerodactyl grabbed Ace's shoulder and flew him towards the hole.

Easily flying out of the hole, Ace looked down at the entire abandoned power station. After confirming the terrain, Ace said to Aerodactyl, "Aerodactyl, provoke it a bit! Roar!"

Aerodactyl nodded, opened its large mouth, and let out a fierce roar that echoed in all directions.

Along with Aerodactyl's roar, a faint, ethereal bird cry returned from afar.

Ace grinned: the main event is back!

Aerodactyl carried Ace down, landing on the roof of the abandoned power station.

Two more Poké Balls opened, and Lapras and Weepinbell also appeared on the roof.

As Ace got ready, a yellow figure appeared in the distant sky, diving down towards the abandoned power station at an extremely fast speed.

"Aerodactyl, Ancient Power! Lapras, Ice Beam! Weepinbell, you'll primarily take damage this time."

The three Pokémon nodded. Ace had practiced the upcoming battle strategy with them several times.

The only difference from the practice was that Golbat wasn't participating.

But Ace had never intended for Golbat to participate from the beginning; Golbat was too heavily countered by Zapdos in terms of typing.

The yellow figure approached, met first by Lapras's Ice Beam, followed closely by Aerodactyl's Ancient Power blocking its path.

Zapdos was enraged by the sudden attack, letting out a long cry. Its entire body erupted with intense electrical light, and a Ten Thousand Volt attack, even larger than the Ice Beam, directly collided with Lapras's and Aerodactyl's attacks.

There was no explosion as imagined. Instead, the Ten Thousand Volt attack, with a destructive force, directly overpowered Lapras's and Aerodactyl's attacks!

Seeing the electric light heading towards them, Aerodactyl didn't hesitate, grabbing Ace and flapping its wings to escape from the roof.

Lapras had already turned the roof into an ice surface. With a gentle glide on the ice, it quickly carried Weepinbell away from its original position.

"Boom!"

With an explosive sound, a large crater was immediately blasted into the roof by the Ten Thousand Volt attack. The Pokémon inside the abandoned power station were terrified, fleeing out of the power station one after another.