Pokémon: Who let him leave Pallet Town?

Chapter 216 Inheritance
The clamor of voices, reaching inside the eggshell, made a rumbling sound like an earthquake.

All around were cheers from Moltres, which, though muffled, reached the eggshell, but Zapdos heard them clearly.

"Gana!"

Zapdos was indignant and couldn't help but think of that day when Moltres didn't take it seriously and turned away.

"Go Zapdos!"

Xiao Zhi was unconvinced and shouted loudly outside.

"Pickup!"

"Roar!!!"

Behind him, Pikachu and Charizard, who had just woken up, cheered loudly in support.

But this sound will be instantly drowned out by the countless shouts inside the arena.

negligible.

Zapdos couldn't hear anything, and even Natsume's telepathy was blocked.

"Gah-"

Moltres spread its wings, its whole body radiating a dazzling crimson light, and just quietly watched Zapdos, seemingly not taking it to heart.

“Gana—”

Zapdos transformed into a streak of light, sweeping towards the Divine Moltres amidst flashes of lightning and fire, arriving before it in an instant.

I'm going to beat you!
"boom!"

Zapdos's fighting spirit was about to decline due to the influence of the Arena, but it failed!

Zapdos's fighting spirit has increased!

Outside, although he didn't know what was happening inside, Natsume could still guess the situation inside the arena based on the deafening shouts and the system announcements.

"They're all venues."

Natsume frowned.

Teaming up with Mewtwo, he had already gathered information about the divine roles of Zapdos and Articuno.

The opponent's divine skills are all field-type.

Natsume speculates that the divine skill of the Firebird is also a field-type skill.

But the arena that the priest Moltres has created seems a bit off!
As he spoke, Natsume pulled up the information on the two priesthoods he had collected.

The special ability of Zapdos is that Electric-type moves have a 100% chance of paralyzing the opponent, and the probability of the opponent losing action while paralyzed is doubled.

Her unique skill is to summon an electric field that deducts health from all units, while restoring the health deducted from the remaining units.

Articuno's special ability is to double the chance of freezing with Ice-type moves, and to freeze the opponent while restoring its own HP.

Its unique skill is to summon a field with four ice coffins. If an opponent is frozen, the ice coffins will fix them and drain a quarter of their health.

"Why is it different when it comes to Moltres?"

Natsume stared in astonishment at the towering wall of fire in front of him.

At least he could see what kind of skills the other two sacred birds used.

Once we got here, we couldn't see anything at all!

"Could it be related to humans?"

Mewtwo asked with some suspicion.

"What do you mean?"

Natsume turned around and looked at it strangely.

"It's nothing." Mewtwo shook its head and said no more.

"boom!"

A violent roar erupted, and everyone looked sharply toward the wall of fire in front of them.

The firewall disintegrated instantly at that moment.

[The Moltres's divine authority is incomplete; the effects of its divine skills are diminished!]

At the same time, the broadcast sounded in Natsume's mind.

Whether or not one is fully or not seems to affect the perfection of their clerical skills.

For example, the Dream Armor with the middle parting looks intimidating, but when you actually get it, it's just two small kitchen knives.

Why isn't it complete?

The fire wall disintegrated, and Natsume looked curiously at the firebird.

The latter spread its wings and looked down at the lightning bird egg.

The cracks on the Zapdos egg multiplied, and countless drops of cool liquid oozed out, while the lightning and fire grew increasingly weak. [Unwilling to fall, ??? It stood up!]

With a loud boom, lightning and fire surged up to an unprecedented height, even threatening to overshadow the power of the firebird.

"Gah-"

Seeing this, the Moltres mechanically plucked a burning feather from its body.

"That is?"

Natsume was taken aback. The moment the feather left his body, it flashed with light, looking from afar like an exquisite flame crystal.

At the same time, the torch crystal on the Moltres's head dimmed slightly.

"Whoosh!"

The feather transformed into a flame, which flowed into the lightning bird egg and merged seamlessly into the thunder and fire.

A burning flame pattern, resembling a feather, quietly appeared on the eggshell.

Natsume scanned the area and noticed three more flame-like patterns on the Zapdos egg.

This means that Moltres has given the opponent four feathers.

Moreover these feathers
Natsume remained silent, his gaze fixed on the crystal torch atop the firebird's head.

"It is dead, but instinct drives it to seek out something that can assume authority."

Mewtwo's voice rang out as it looked at Moltres with a complicated expression, its gaze fixed on the vacant, blank stare.

“Gana—”

Zapdos was furious.

Not going all out is to underestimate your opponent and to trample on the spirit of competition!

"boom!"

Driven by even more ferocious lightning and fire, Zapdos slammed into the Cleric Moltres.

[Unwilling to fall, it stood up!]

Every time Zapdos falls, Moltres pecks off a feather and throws it to its opponent.
After countless repetitions, the Moltres had plucked out half of its feathers, leaving half of its body covered in blood, a horrifying sight.

Ash fell silent; he stopped cheering for Zapdos.

Following Natsume's example, he stood quietly to the side, solemnly watching the battle that resembled a handover ceremony.

"boom!"

I don't know how many times it was hit.

Zapdos's eggshell is covered with cracks, like a hard-boiled egg that has been smashed countless times, the dense cracks are terrifying.

This time, Zapdos Egg failed to stand up.

[…Reached its limit,…… collapsed!]

20 rounds, 20 feathers!
Natsume carefully recorded the information for Zapdos.

"Gah-"

As Zapdos fell, Moltres roared to the sky.

This time, its voice was incredibly loud!

The dim torch crystal on his forehead shattered completely at that moment, turning into fine powder that drifted onto the blazing feathers on his body.

Hundreds of feathers instantly transformed into fiery crystals, stained with blood, and were extracted from the firebird's body.

All the feathers soared into the sky, these feathers carrying the remaining divine power of the Arena Fire scattered across the world.

After doing all this, Moltres's eyes became completely lifeless, and it fell into a daze.

Its current appearance is exactly like the Zapdos I first saw, completely featherless, and extremely comical.

However, the constant dripping of blood did not bring any smiles to anyone's faces.

Moltres mechanically walked toward the shattered Zapdos egg.

Blood flowed down, leaving a trail with each step.

Upon reaching the top of the Zapdos egg, it wobbled and eventually collapsed, powerless.

"boom!"

The fiery feather patterns on the eggshell, upon contact with the molten bird's blood, seemed to come alive, transforming into real flames that began to burn fiercely, scorching everything around them, including the molten bird's body.

Strangely, the latter, despite being burned, did not have any unpleasant odor.

Instead, a strong, bright, and sunny scent filled the air.

Everyone fell silent, watching as the Moltres nestled its Zapdos egg beneath it in the firelight, as if incubating it, and closed its eyes.

(End of this chapter)