Elf: Seriously? You only get a cheat code when you're about to die?

Chapter 326 Ripple and the Mega Evolution of All Members!

After parting ways with Himeya, Ange rode home on the Ditto that had transformed into a Talonflame.

Emerging from the spatial passage, An Jie walked onto the third-floor balcony, where he was suddenly stunned by the sight before him.

On an open space outside the wall, two Pokémon were engaged in a fierce battle.

The Pokémon in Ange's family spar with each other every day; this is nothing unusual.

However, the two Pokémon in the battle at this moment were quite different. One of them was covered in silver armor, with sharp claws and teeth, and its body was as burly as a prehistoric beast; the other was covered in soft white feathers, and its long tail feathers swayed in the wind like ribbons.

The one wearing armor is Super Aggron.

The one with white feathers is the Super Tanabata Bluebird.

Anjie was puzzled. He had never obtained the Mega Stones for Aggron and Altaria! How come his Aggron and Altaria had both Mega Evolved?

As for why Ange could recognize that the Mega Evolved Pokémon was its own, it's naturally because of Aura!

Although Aggron and Altaria have undergone Mega Evolution, their Aura remains unchanged.

With a sense of doubt, Anjie, carrying the Ditto, quickly ran towards the outside of the wall.

When Anjie arrived, she found everyone gathered around watching Altaria and Aggron battle, cheering them on from time to time.

Strangely enough, the Metagross, which had been hiding in the laboratory, also came out today, and it was watching the battle in the arena intently.

"Metamorphoses, what's going on?" Angie nudged Metagross.

The Metagross hadn't noticed Angel at first, only snapping back to reality after being nudged, though its gaze remained fixed on the battlefield.

"Meta~Meta~" I'll talk to you after I finish watching the battle.

Anjie had no choice but to watch along with them.

"Kadola!!!" Super Boss Caterpillar roared, and the ground began to crack inch by inch. Rock pillars rose from the ground and transformed into spears that shot towards Super Altaria in the air.

"Qi~" Super Altaria naturally wouldn't sit idly by and wait to die. With a flap of its wings, it nimbly turned in the air, dodging Aggron's attack, and then opened its mouth to spew out a pillar of fire towards Aggron.

Before its Mega Evolution, Aggron is a Steel/Rock type Pokémon that is weak to Water, Fighting, and Ground.

However, after Mega Evolution, it becomes a single Steel-type Pokémon, and its weakness to Water becomes its weakness to Fire.

Although Aggron's resistances have improved relatively without the Rock type, its coverage has also become much worse due to the loss of its Rock-type STAB.

In the game, Aggron's Mega Evolution is somewhat of a negative upgrade.

However, in reality, hyper-evolution affects all aspects of life, from the improvement of one's own data to the control and mastery of energy, which is on a completely different level from before.

Therefore, even though Super Boss Doraemon has three more weaknesses, its strength has still been greatly enhanced.

The raging flames surged toward Aggron, but Aggron remained fearless. It raised its thick tail and swept it out, activating the Iron Tail skill, instantly shattering Altaria's flame jet into pieces.

Then Aggron used Heavy Slam, leaping towards Altaria, the powerful impact creating gusts of wind.

Altaria's original type was Dragon and Flying, and its weaknesses were Rock, Ice, Dragon, and Fairy. However, after Mega Evolution, its type became Dragon and Fairy, its Rock and Dragon weaknesses disappeared, and it gained Poison and Steel weaknesses.

Therefore, Aggron becomes type-counter to Altaria.

The Altaria was startled by Aggron's sudden action and instinctively used Cotton Defense.

Its feathers rapidly expanded, completely enveloping the Bosscodora in the blink of an eye. When Bosscodora crashed into it, it felt like hitting cotton; it was bounced back.

Cotton Defense is a skill that can greatly enhance the user's defense, increasing it by a full 3 levels at once, making it extremely powerful.

However, relatively few Pokémon can learn this skill. Currently, only Mareep, Goose, Ampharos, Swabbit, Altaria, Cottonball, Whimsicott, Saurium, Dorimia, Swabbit, Slimie, SpongeBob, Wooloo, and Wooloo are known to have learned it.

(Note: The traits of shuttlecock grass and afro-haired buffalo can be inherited.)

Most of these Pokémon have soft bodies or fluffy fur, which is the only way to maximize the defensive capabilities of Cotton Defense.

After Altaria undergoes its Mega Evolution, its feathers become more numerous and softer, naturally resulting in a stronger defense.

Bosscodora was bounced and slammed heavily to the ground, creating a large crater.

"Oops~" The Altaria pressed its advantage, opening its beak and spitting out a flame that instantly engulfed Aggron.

When the flames subsided, Bosscodora was charred black all over.

After quickly getting up from the ground, Bosscodora's eyes darted around rapidly.

At this moment, the Tanabata's flame-breathing attack came again.

Aggron raised its iron tail to disperse the flames, while knowing full well that with Altaria's defensive and flight advantages, it couldn't defeat its opponent without using its brain.

Suddenly it seemed to remember something, and with a flash of inspiration, it opened its mouth and spat out a blast of icy wind at the Albizia chinensis.

Blue ice crystals suddenly scattered and fell upon the Tanabata Bluebird.

"Tsk~ Tsk~" The Altaria laughed at Aggron, saying, "What effect can this little attack have?"

Indeed, it is weak to ice, but the power of the freezing wind is limited, and it is a special attack move that Aggron is not good at. Aggron can hardly deal any damage with it.

Even gua sha isn't done like this!

"Chirp~ Chirp~~" The Altaria felt that its victory was assured, flapping its wings and flying rapidly in the air, constantly attacking Aggron with its flamethrower.

Although Aggron disperses the flames each time, Aggron, which is weak to fire, cannot last long; its tail will be burned little by little.

No matter how much Altaria mocked it, Aggron continued to defend against Altaria's attacks while simultaneously spewing icy winds at Altaria.

I must say, the fluttering ice crystals were quite beautiful, especially the moment they melted into the flames—it was like a dream.

But as time went on, the Tanabata began to realize that something was wrong.

Why is its body getting heavier and heavier? And its originally fluffy feathers are now almost stuck together, making it feel extremely difficult to flap its wings.

Watching the Altaria struggle to fly more and more, Anjie said with a smile, "Bossadora is quite clever."

It turns out that Aggron used the freezing wind not to attack Altaria, but to create water vapor by using Altaria's flame jet.

As the ice crystals melt, the air becomes increasingly humid, and since the feathers of the Altaria are extremely absorbent, once it has absorbed enough moisture, it will feel increasingly heavy.

Seeing that the time was ripe, Aggron launched another heavy ramming attack, crashing hard into Altaria.

The Qixi Bluebird didn't take it seriously and was about to use cotton to defend, but was surprised to find that cotton defense was no longer usable.

It turns out that its feathers were too wet and heavy to puff up like cotton, let alone provide any defense.

Just as Aggron was about to collide with Altaria, its body suddenly floated into the air.

"Meta~Meta~~" The outcome is decided, it's over!

It turned out that Metagross had made a move, using its psychic powers to stop Aggron.

With its feathers wet, the Altaria has difficulty flying and it is no longer possible for it to win against Aggron.

After Bosscodora landed back on the ground, it grumbled and complained.

It took so many hits from the Tanabata Bluebird, and it was finally about to win, but it had to stop short of winning. That's not fair!

The battle ended, and both Pokémon simultaneously reverted from their Mega Evolution state.

The Queen of the Night and the Beautiful Flower quickly stepped forward to treat them with the grassy ground, while the Sun Rock floated above the Altaria's head, releasing warm light to dry its feathers.

Anja said to Metagross, "Now you can tell me what's going on, right?"

"Meta~Meta~" That's the result of my research over the past few days!

"Metamorphosis said excitedly."

"Research findings?" Anjie looked surprised.

Metagross nodded and explained, "Have you forgotten the sundial fragment and the boulder fragment you gave me?"

After research, Metagross discovered that when the sundial fragments and the boulder fragments combined, they released a special ripple.

This ripple pattern is very similar to the ripple pattern emitted by Mega Stones.

No, they are the same.

However, the ripples released by different Mega Stones are singular, but the ripples released by Rock Shard and Sundial Shard can match the ripples released by any Mega Stone.

Former Defense Secretary Jarvis once researched a method for Mega Evolving Pokémon without the aid of Key Stones and Mega Stones. However, his research had significant flaws, causing great suffering to Mega Evolved Pokémon and failing to fully realize the advantages of Mega Evolution.

Inspired by Jarvis's research, Metagross changed its approach and finally developed a method that allows Pokémon to Mega Evolve without pain.

The ripples released by the rock fragments and sundial fragments are difficult for Pokémon to receive and utilize, so Metagross used the Key Stone obtained from Angel to act as a ripple amplifier and created a ripple receiving device.

Pokémon can undergo Mega Evolution on their own by wearing a Ripple Receiver and absorbing the Ripple released by a Rock Shard and a Sundial Shard.

Of course, this method of Mega Evolution is not without its drawbacks. Once a Pokémon leaves the area covered by Ripple, the Ripple receiver will malfunction, and the Pokémon will no longer be able to Mega Evolve.

The ripples released by the boulder fragments and sundial fragments could only cover the area of ​​the Nibel Plateau, and that was only after being amplified by the keystone.

After hearing this, Anjie suddenly realized, "Metamorphoses, you're absolutely awesome!"

He walked up to the Bosscodora and Altaria and sure enough, he saw a button-like device on them.

It is a ripple receiving device.

Tiny silver buttons, no bigger than a fingernail, are attached to Bosscodora's armor and Altaria's feathers, respectively.

Ange turned to Metagross and said, "Let's go check out your Ripple device."

"Meta~" Metagross nodded and took the lead towards the underground laboratory, with Angel following closely behind.

Upon arriving at the underground laboratory, Anjie immediately spotted the enormous device in the very center, with a glass sphere floating in its center.

Floating inside the glass sphere is an object resembling a jade bracelet, but it is clearly made up of two semicircles joined together, as the two parts were polished from fragments of a boulder and a sundial, respectively.

The sundial fragments are darker in color, while the boulder fragments are brighter.

Floating in the center of the jade bracelet is the key stone that Ange gave to Metagross.

The jade bracelet and the keystone were both held aloft by the special magnetic field released by the ripple device and floated inside the glass sphere.

Anjie could clearly sense a special energy field spreading outwards from the glass ball.

This energy field must be the ripples that Metagross was talking about.

"This is truly amazing!" Anjie exclaimed.

Although the device has a minor flaw and can only be used on the Nibel Plateau, it is sufficient.

Anjie suddenly realized that he had planned to build a gym. It would be very interesting if people who came here to challenge the gym found that the Pokémon they challenged could Mega Evolve.

Hehehe~~~

Thinking of this, An Jie couldn't help but laugh out loud.

"Meta~Meta~" Metagross saw Ange's mischievous grin and asked him what was wrong.

Anjie waved her hand with a smile and said, "It's nothing, I just thought of something interesting."

Then he asked, "Are there still any ripple receivers? Are those difficult to manufacture?"

"Meta~Meta~" It's not difficult, it's not difficult, that thing is not hard to make.

As he spoke, Metagross took out a box, which was filled with a whole box of wave receivers.

Anjie exclaimed in surprise, "So many?"

The giant metal monster called out, "Meta~Meta~" I made a few extra as spares.

Anja took the box and said, "Let's go, let's try finding other Pokémon too!"

"Meta~" Metagross nodded and followed Angel out.

Once outside, Angel gathered all the Pokémon in the house that could undergo Mega Evolution.

Gardevoir, Gallade, Lucario, Salamence, and Beedrill.

Several Pokémon stood in a row, and Ange distributed the Ripple Device in his hand to them one by one.

"Everyone, let's all try out what super evolution feels like."

Several Pokémon, clutching the Ripple receiver, looked excited. They hadn't Mega Evolved yet, so they were really looking forward to it.

After they had all put on their devices, Anjie asked, "Is everyone ready?"

"Shana~" is ready!

"Ailu~" Ready!

"Hiss~" Ready!

……

The Pokémon all nodded in unison.

Anjie said, "Then let's begin!"

Upon hearing this, the Pokémon all placed their hands on the device, and a burst of colorful light erupted from them, causing their shapes to rapidly change within the light.

Soon, Gardevoir and Gallade were the first to complete their Mega Evolution, and the Psychic Queen and her rider appeared.

Next up was the Salamence, its pair of blood-red wings swaggering around, exuding an overwhelming sense of oppression.

Next up is Lucario, whose flowing fur billows in the wind, making it incredibly cool.

Finally, there's Beedrill. It flaps its wings and flashes in the air, leaving afterimages that appear and disappear. So cool!