Pokemon: Spiritual Master-Chapter 615: Hope Everything Goes Well

July 1st, Snowpoint City in the Sinnoh region, clear skies and beautiful sunshine.

As the northernmost city in the Sinnoh region, Snowpoint City's temperature remained below freezing year-round. Natural snowfall and snow drifting down from Mt. Coronet kept Snowpoint City perpetually covered in pristine white snow.

With July approaching, signaling the arrival of summer, combined with warm sunshine, Snowpoint City's temperature briefly rose above ten degrees.

Wearing a burgundy velvet suit, with light purple long hair, carrying a book, and sporting light-colored sunglasses, Lucian walked on the white snow, making "crunch crunch" sounds.

Lucian gazed at Snowpoint City in the distance, muttering to himself.

"Must the capable always do more work? How come the boss and Teacher Johan don't have to work extra? Flint and Aaron may not be bright, but they're certainly capable..."

He walked to the entrance of the Snowpoint Gym.

The Snowpoint Gym Leader, dressed in a school uniform, was running toward him from outside.

"Elite Four Lucian," Candice called out with a smile, her breath visible in the cold air.

That's right, Elite Four Lucian.

Lucian was the first from the "Sinnoh small team" to pass the "evaluation" and officially become an Elite Four member, ending his probationary period. The others, Flint and Aaron, were still probationary members. As for Cynthia...

Cynthia was an exception.

Lucian: Evaluation? What evaluation? Was there such a procedure? Wasn't I just brought in to serve as an Elite Four member and assigned work directly?

Lucian's purpose in coming to Snowpoint City and the Snowpoint Gym was simple: he had taken on the job of "Gym Auditing."

Every year in each region, the League needed to audit the region's gyms, including revenue, badge distribution, the likelihood of trainers with badges participating in conferences, the strength of gym trainers themselves, their qualities, and so on.

Taking advantage of the decent weather, Lucian had come to Snowpoint City to evaluate the Snowpoint Gym.

"Gym Leader Candice," Lucian greeted with a smile.

They knew each other well enough to get straight to the point.

"Gym audit."

Candice then led Lucian into the gym. For Snowpoint Gym, the biggest "achievement" this year should be Teacher Johan.

Teacher Johan had successfully obtained a badge at Snowpoint Gym and participated in the "Lily of the Valley Conference," winning the championship.

Lucian reviewed Snowpoint Gym's badge distribution records and couldn't help but furrow his brows.

"There's a rather low number of badges distributed..."

Candice seemed unfazed, explaining somewhat helplessly: "Snowpoint City is in a remote location with an extremely cold environment. The highest temperature throughout the year doesn't exceed fifteen degrees, so many young trainers choose to bypass Snowpoint Gym."

This was unavoidable.

After all, there weren't only eight gyms in the Sinnoh region, but the conference only required eight badges, so trainers inevitably made choices.

Some chose gyms that favored their specialized type, while others simply didn't want to visit such a cold place.

Lucian nodded.

Distributing fewer badges was better than handing them out carelessly.

Like Sunyshore Gym in Sunyshore City, which last year distributed more badges than three or four gyms combined. Although Gym Leader Volkner had become more restrained afterward, his restraint had made Sunyshore Gym the most difficult gym from which to earn a badge.

The contrast was striking.

That said, Volkner from Sunyshore City was indeed very powerful, so even though some aspects didn't meet requirements, the League chose to "let it slide" appropriately.

"Alright then."

Lucian put away the records, preparing to take them back to the League headquarters.

As for evaluating the Gym Leader's strength and quality—

BOOM—

Suddenly.

A disturbance came from outside Snowpoint City, and the entire city seemed to shake slightly.

"Hmm?"

Lucian and Candice both raised their heads almost simultaneously, looking in the same direction.

"That's..." Lucian began.

Candice immediately responded: "Snowpoint Temple!"

Hiss—

The two exchanged glances.

Previously, they had witnessed Regigigas awakening in Snowpoint Temple firsthand. At that time, if Teacher Johan hadn't pacified Regigigas, perhaps...

"Let's go!"

Lucian and Candice immediately headed toward Snowpoint Temple.

From a distance.

Lucian saw that familiar yet terrifying figure—none other than the legendary titan that pulled continents: Regigigas!

"It-it's awake, Regigigas is awake again?" Candice murmured.

Lucian immediately took out his phone, preparing to report this to the Sinnoh League.

At the same time, as an Elite Four member, he would go to the scene and do his best to minimize any damage and impact Regigigas might cause. This was his responsibility as an Elite Four member!

"So I have to face Regigigas alone this time?" Lucian felt bitter but didn't know who to tell.

Just as he took out his phone, before even reporting to the League, he suddenly thought of someone and quickly dialed his number.

"Teacher Johan, Regigigas... it's awake."

To translate Lucian's words simply:

Help! Save us!

When Johan received Lucian's call, he was training with his Pokémon.

It was Sunday, and after training, he had planned to take his little ones out for a meal.

Given his current status and how recognizable his Pokémon were, Johan really wished he could bring back the name "Wuda" to the scene.

But Lucian's call disrupted his plans.

Regigigas was awake?

Johan immediately thought of the incident two days ago when the ice titan Regice mysteriously awakened.

He couldn't believe these two events weren't connected.

Before Lucian could finish speaking, Gengar, who was training nearby, ran over and tugged at Johan's clothes, then placed its own phone in front of him.

On the small screen sat Giratina, drinking tea.

It held a teacup, with pastries placed beside it. If not for the Distortion World in the background, Johan would have thought he was watching some wellness TV program.

"Giratina?"

Giratina slowly raised its head, and several words appeared on Gengar's phone screen.

[It is about to awaken.]

Johan: "!!!"

If Johan understood correctly, this "it" Giratina referred to should be... the Original One, Arceus, right?

Wait.

Arceus was about to wake up, and Giratina was this calm?

Did you pick up the wrong script?

Seemingly sensing Johan's confusion, another line of text appeared on the phone screen.

[Being anxious won't help. What will come will come. Let me finish this cup of tea first.]

Johan looked at Gengar.

What have you been watching with your "electronic pet"?

Gengar scratched its bottom.

"Ka-kaah..."

Nothing much, just some "Let the Soul Travel" kind of stuff...

Johan: "..."

He couldn't help giving Gengar a thumbs up.

Impressive.

"So, when will it arrive?" Johan asked.

Giratina shook its head.

[Don't know, but... the ones who should be most nervous aren't me, but those two.]

Arceus's anger had caused a certain degree of tremor throughout the Pokémon world. This tremor would spread from weak to strong, gradually extending from some corners to the entire world.

The first to suffer this angry impact would be Dialga's domain of time and Palkia's domain of space.

As for Giratina's "Distortion World," being in the shadow on the reverse side of the Pokémon world, it was actually the least affected and influenced.

"So, there's still time?"

Johan gently rubbed his chin.

Actually...

Johan did know something about Arceus's situation.

In ancient times, Arceus received help from humans. To repay them, it combined its Ground, Water, Grass, Electric, and Dragon-type plates into the "Jewel of Life" and lent it to a person.

But when Arceus came to reclaim the "Jewel of Life" at the agreed time, it was betrayed by that person, ultimately leaving severely injured and forced into slumber.

This was the source of Arceus's fury.

In the movie "Arceus and the Jewel of Life," Ash and his friends used the power of the time deity Dialga to travel back in time, change the past, and ultimately eliminate Arceus's anger.

But there was one issue.

If Arceus had fallen into slumber very early on, then who was the "Sinnoh Legend" summoned to Spear Pillar hundreds of years ago during the Michina era?

Moreover, if the almighty creator could be killed with mercury and electricity from a few hundred Electric-type Pokémon, then wouldn't that mean...

He might have a chance...

A bold and dangerous light flashed in Johan's eyes.

"Hello? Hello! Teacher Johan, are you listening? Hello?!"

Lucian's alarmed voice from the phone brought Johan back from his wandering thoughts.

"Ahem..." He coughed lightly, suppressing those unrealistic ideas in his mind.

Joke.

The idea that Arceus could be suppressed by mercury was one of the biggest jokes in this world.

Rather than believe that—

"I'd rather believe I could live forever," Johan muttered.

"Ka-kaah?"

Gengar's eyes immediately lit up, looking at Johan hopefully.

You've finally started looking forward to living forever?

I'm so pleased!

"I heard you, go on, Lucian."

"I've already finished! Regigigas is awake. Do you have any solution, Teacher Johan?"

"Solution? Is Regigigas causing havoc?" Johan asked back, as he hadn't heard much commotion or huge disturbances from Lucian's call.

"Uh..."

Hearing this, Lucian was slightly stunned, then looked toward Regigigas.

Concern breeds confusion.

Actually, after awakening, apart from the initial large disturbance, Regigigas had been quite quiet.

"Phew—" Lucian let out a slight sigh of relief and said: "It's not."

After speaking, he took out his phone, took a picture of Regigigas, and sent it to Johan.

When Johan received the message and looked at it.

His mouth twitched.

Regigigas was being so well-behaved, what are you getting so excited about...

"So there's no problem then?" Lucian asked.

"Hmm..." Johan made a sound through his nose, drawing it out before saying: "It's hard to say. Regigigas might still be in its 'Slow Start' state."

Lucian wiped his forehead. freewebnσvel.cѳm

He had almost forgotten about that.

"Anyway, I'll come to Sinnoh," Johan said.

With that, Johan hung up the phone.

This time, facing the Arceus awakening event, he chose not to evade.

On one hand, there was nowhere to escape to.

On the other hand, he also felt that Arceus, in its rage, might need help.

Hatred and anger shouldn't erupt from others' schemes. Some things needed to be clarified.

In fact.

Regarding the Arceus awakening event, Johan had anticipated it and had already prepared some contingency plans.

The first option:

Perhaps the most stable and secure method was to follow Ash's approach—have Dialga help twist time, send him back to the past, then resolve Arceus's inner conflict, thereby dissolving its anger.

The second option:

Although Arceus's "Jewel of Life" had been embezzled by Damos's subordinate Marcus, the jewel still existed. Finding it might alleviate some of Arceus's anger.

The third option, which Johan felt was best avoided:

Directly confronting Arceus!

"I wonder if Arceus would give face to a 'nobody' like me..." Johan muttered to himself.

"Goka?"

Ceruledge glanced at him, its sword blade gently swiping down from top to bottom, creating a shallow arc of blue light that slowly faded in the air, accompanied by a hint of scorching heat.

Isn't respect earned through one's own strength?

Johan's cheek twitched. The "respect" from Arceus wasn't so easily earned.

For the three contingency plans he had envisioned, he felt that... implementing all three simultaneously would be most secure!

So, Johan took out his phone and dialed a number.

"Teacher Johan?"

Through the phone came Matori's voice, tinged with surprise and confusion.

"Matori," Johan said slowly. "I think there's a place in the Sinnoh region with very nice scenery, quite suitable for photography or tourism..."

"Eh?" Matori's voice rose a few notches. "How did Teacher Johan know we were planning a team-building trip to Sinnoh?"

Hmm?

Team-building trip?

To Sinnoh?

Wait, does Team Rocket offer such good benefits?

Ahem, pulling back his wandering thoughts, Johan cautiously asked: "Where in Sinnoh are you planning to go for team building?"

"Michina. I heard the scenery is quite nice. We're planning to go rock climbing and hiking," Matori said without thinking.

Well, all guesses and doubts were dispelled. The Arceus event was definitely happening!

Johan said: "Michina is good, Michina is good..."

"By the way, what did you want to say earlier, Teacher Johan?"

"Nothing now. Just enjoy yourselves."

"Okay~(๑•̀ㅂ•́)و✧"

Hanging up the phone, Johan let out a slight breath.

With the trio there, at least... they could block four of Arceus's "Judgment" attacks. Secure.

Four immunities to attacks, how could they lose?

Plus, if Johan remembered correctly, when the trio were rummaging through the ruins in Michina, they likely found the staff of Damos's subordinate Marcus, which contained the "Jewel of Life."

If all went well, the "second option" might be achievable.

Hopefully...

"Everything goes well," Johan said softly.

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