Bottom-tier trainers in the Pokémon world

Xia Yan squeezed the Poké Ball and put it in his pocket.

With such a talisman, I feel much more at ease.

Chapter Eighty-Eight: Purgatory

Xia Yan took the Poké Ball off his waist.

Accompanied by a red light, Casey, whose mental state had recovered fairly well, appeared.

As soon as Casey appeared, she sensed the presence of Agatha Christie's Gengar, and sweat beaded on her forehead.

Especially when Gengar's gaze fell on it, even its psychic powers momentarily faltered.

"Kashi!"

It's that terrifying Gengar again!

Casey growled and gritted her teeth as she approached Xia Yan.

“Kou Jie”.

Gengar chuckled, a hint of interest in his eyes.

Kikuko's eyes flickered. "This Casey has improved. Not bad."

It's quite difficult to get her to say "not bad."

"Casey is not the enemy."

Xia Yan patted Casey on the back to comfort her, then turned to Kikuko and said:

“King Kikuko, Casey can take us there directly.”

Casey was previously only at a passable level, and his ability to teleport long distances was rather limited.

But now that he has been promoted to the Excellent level, and has the "Life Crystal" to stimulate his superpowers, he can cross a vast distance, if not an immense one, but he can certainly traverse the entire Golden City.

"Oh? That would save a lot of time."

Kikuko came to Natsuhiko's side, and Gengar once again slipped into her shadow, peeking out half its head to silently observe its surroundings.

Xia Yan nodded to Casey.

Casey visibly relaxed when Xia Yan said he wasn't an enemy.

As long as they're not enemies.

They are simply no match for us.

It had mustered all its strength to come to Xia Yan.

After slightly recovering from her violently fluctuating mental state, Casey closed her eyes, and her invisible superpowers rapidly extended, traversing a vast distance, and quickly locked onto a "anchor" point that had been left earlier.

next second.

Xia Yan and Ju Zi disappeared from the spot as Casey's superpowers were used.

When I opened my eyes again, all I saw was a scene of utter devastation. The jagged rock walls were uneven, and some elves were struggling beneath piles of rocks.

Above, a huge hole.

Fine snow fell down the cave entrance, slowly accumulating on the ground and rocks.

The departure of the fossil pterosaur caused immense damage to this cave.

Casey's original "anchor" for her superpowers wasn't here, because Casey was still asleep at the time.

However, the location they later set up was not too far from the fossil pterosaur's cave. Now, due to the massive damage to the cave, including the collapse and landslides of large amounts of rock, they have been brought to this vicinity.

Kikuko leaned on her cane and looked around. The rock walls were densely covered with numerous caves.

His brows furrowed slowly.

Obviously, finding that group's secret base in such a complicated place is not an easy task.

But since Kikuko found Natsuhiko instead of Anji, who had also been here, there must be a reason.

He looked at Xia Yan.

"Where did you find that giant rock snake, or rather, that dark stone?" Kikuko asked.

Upon hearing this...

Xia Yan finally understood how Kikuko found him.

'Just tell me why you came to me instead of Anci...'

It seems that the giant rock snake and the dark stone involve far more than he imagined.

No wonder he was targeted as soon as the giant rock snake was sold.

"Casey," Xia Yan called softly.

Fortunately, after Casey woke up, he deliberately left some superpower "anchors" in some places in the tunnel. He originally wanted to wait until he was stronger to see if he could explore it again and maybe get something from behind the cave wall of the giant onion.

I didn't expect to use it so soon.

But Casey, who had just closed her eyes, quickly opened them and shook her head at Xia Yan.

“Ke Xi”.

"What's wrong?" Kikuko also noticed Casey's unusual behavior.

Xia Yan pursed his lips and said in a deep voice:

"Casey said something was interfering with its superpower perception. It wasn't strong, but it affected its ability to lock onto teleportation points, making it unable to concentrate its superpowers."

“This is good news,” Kikuko said.

Xia Yan lowered his eyes in agreement.

That's right.

good news.

Casey's superpowers were definitely affected by that group's scheme.

This means that Xia Yan and the others are already very close.

only......

Looking at the messy cave and the rocks piled up everywhere, large and small.

'I wonder if Togepi can still find his way.'

Just as Xia Yan was thinking, Kikuko took out a pink fragment the size of a fingernail from the pocket in the middle of her apron and threw it at Casey.

"Ke Xi?"

Casey looked at the thing that was thrown at her and wanted to ask Xia Yan what he thought.

But it felt a great attraction to this small stone.

It almost subconsciously used its superpowers to envelop the fragment.

Not big.

But when Casey instinctively incorporated it into her superpowers, her superpowers, which had just been transformed by absorbing the "Life Barrier," surged again.

"Hmm?" Xia Yan looked at Casey in confusion.

I noticed the small pink flake floating around it.

"This is......."

"Looks like it worked. This thing is useless to me, so consider it payment for leading the way this time," Kikuko said calmly.

Despite being able to see its color and function, Xia Yan had a bold idea flash through his mind.

It was so bold that I was startled and instinctively rejected it.

"Try again, little one."

“Ke Xi?” Casey looked at Xia Yan.

Although he had just received something good from Kikuko, what he did with it still depended on Natsuhiko's decision.

Xia Yan, regaining his senses, nodded slightly to Casey without hesitation.

'If it really is that thing, even just this tiny fragment, Casey would be rolling in it.'

This time, Casey's superpowers have become more stable, with increased resilience and overall strength.

After expending more effort, they finally located the location of the Great Onix Cave.

"Kexie—"

With a soft call, Xia Yan and Ju Zi were enveloped in their superpowers and teleported once more.

Big Rock Snake Cave.

The rock wall that Beedrill forcibly cleaved open to extract the Dark Stone remains unchanged; the black, chilling substance can be clearly seen seeping through the rock fractures.

"Kou Jie!"

Upon arriving here, Gengar emerged from Kiku's shadow, its previous playful and jovial expression gone, replaced by a very serious one.

Kikuko's expression grew even more somber.

Xia Yan felt the air around him getting colder, and an idea popped into his head.

'He seems very angry?'

Gengar walked to the rock wall, and the palm of its hand pressed against the rock wall glowed with black light. It then released a Shadow Ball directly against the wall.

boom!!!

A tremendous roar accompanied the tremor of the entire cave, and the very thick rock wall was blasted open, creating a large hole.

But when he saw the scene behind the cave, Xia Yan's pupils suddenly contracted, and his breath almost stopped.

Casey stared wide-eyed for the first time ever, her superpowers running rampant around her body for a short time, and angry flames "spitting" from her eyes.

Kiku and Gengar had some suspicions, but when they actually saw what was happening, terrifying black energy surged from Gengar's body.

Simply because what is presented before them at this moment...