Bottom-tier trainers in the Pokémon world

Who else?!

It is beginning to resemble the sword of a king.

Xia Yan, who witnessed the whole thing, laughed, as did the Kadabra, Beedrill, and Togekiss next to him.

Great!

However, the elf with the dual sword sheaths, who is usually so reserved, has an unexpectedly flamboyant personality on the other side, and this extreme contrast brings an extreme visual impact.

then.

"sigh!"

"Alas..."

"sigh!"

"sigh......"

"..."

The twin sword sheaths hovered in front of the fallen leader of the heavy mud-drawn horse, beginning their "talking to themselves" mode.

In short, the senses were very... harmonious.

Yes, harmony.

Xia Yan subdued all the heavy mud horses and mud donkeys, and also obtained a piece of "Light Clay".

The mud-drawn horses have a lot of clay on their bodies, and they will naturally shed and produce clay every once in a while. During this production process, there is a certain probability that "Light Clay" will be produced.

When Xia Yan finished cleaning up the battlefield, the twin sword sheaths finally finished their "heart-to-heart talk" and came to Xia Yan.

Seeing its lingering fear, Xia Yan couldn't help but laugh and pat its sword hilt.

"How about it?"

"sigh......"

"It's... alright."

"It's alright. You'll get to know each other better if you communicate more in the future," Xia Yan nodded.

"sigh?"

The two sword sheaths tilted their heads.

Doesn't Xia Yan blame it for its unauthorized actions?

Having spent so much time with Xia Yan, as Xia Yan's Pokémon, it clearly understands Xia Yan's requirements for Pokémon, especially during battles.

Strict adherence to orders is the most basic standard.

Normally, we can joke around, but once we're in battle, we must strictly follow the plan and requirements.

It thought Xia Yan would be angry.

Xia Yan patted the hilt of his sword again, then looked up at the steps leading to the higher floors.

"Am I that heartless? I only demand a lot of you in battle because I'm afraid you'll get hurt. But different situations require different approaches. You did very well today. You can try more, but only if you're confident. Don't act recklessly."

It was relatively at ease with the cautious nature of the dual-sword sheaths.

"sigh!"

'Okay!'

The two sword sheaths nodded heavily.

Another aspect of Shuangjianshe's personality was that he left the team while grumbling and cursing.

It felt like everyone was targeting it, whether it was Xia Yan or "itself".

There are always treacherous subjects trying to harm me!

Including itself.

Chapter Sixty-Two: You Can Always Trust Teacher Bo

After dealing with and subduing the not-so-large herd of mudhorses, Xia Yan, along with a few elves, rested briefly before continuing up the stairs to the top floor.

In the process of moving upwards.

You might encounter wild Pokémon on some floors, but not on others.

Among the wild Pokémon they encountered, some were gentle and wouldn't attack unless provoked, while others were more violent and would engage in battle the moment they saw Xia Yan and his companions.

But overall, the results are the same.

The only difference is whether Xia Yan acquired a batch of valuable Pokémon that he could sell.

However, Xia Yan has been more restrained in catching wild Pokémon lately.

The Night Thief Salamander troop, consisting of sixty or seventy females and a few males, almost filled half of his inventory of blank Poké Balls.

With the addition of some scattered elves and the newly subdued Mudwight horse tribe, more than half of the force has been depleted.

He thought he was well prepared, but he never expected to subdue such a large group as soon as he entered the alternate dimension.

Therefore, he is now more restrained; he won't recruit someone unless they are truly valuable.

Those with a better temperament might be spared, while those with a violent temperament would be thrown into the Grim Reaper's Coffin and buried.

These past few days have been the most comfortable for the three Coffins of Death. They spend their days eating and sleeping, or sleeping and eating, and the abundant energy has allowed them to progress and grow rapidly.

Two of the Coffins that swallowed two of Tom Rukki's Pokémon are not far from breaking through to the Gym Leader level.

And so, walking and stopping along the way, Xia Yan was finally getting close to the top of the precipice-shaped sword tower.

How do you know?

The higher you go, the higher the ambient temperature becomes, and the humidity in the air drops significantly, which is similar to the feeling he had when he first entered the lava cave where the Blazing Turtle Beast was located.

However, it's not as hot as a lava cave.

Once they reached another floor where no wild Pokémon lived, Xia Yan looked up at the floor above.

Gently wipe your forehead.

"These layers are quite similar to the tower climbing games I used to play." He said, a smile spreading across his face.

Even the most tedious and boring activities can be made enjoyable.

"There must be something good on the top floor, right?"

He captured quite a few wild Pokémon along his journey.

However, the results from the ruins fell far short of his expectations. If he hadn't had such high hopes at the beginning, it would have been fine, but once he had those hopes, he was bound to feel disappointed when they weren't met.

"There might also be one or a group of very strong wild Pokémon guarding it."

With that in mind, Xia Yan decided to make some more repairs on the spot.

Wait until you're in the best possible condition before moving forward.

Otherwise, if they encounter a strong elf attack, they might be in danger.

This repair lasted a full hour.

"Let's go, let's go all the way up in one go." Xia Yan stood up, dusted himself off, and called back the elves who were playing around nearby.

I climbed the stairs again.

Things went much more smoothly than I had imagined.

As you go higher up, the temperature increases, and the number of wild Pokémon decreases sharply, making them less frequently encountered.

Come to think of it, they are currently at a height of several hundred meters. Normally, how many wild elves would live in such a place?

Especially inside the Cliff Sword Castle, there is practically no other food source besides rocks.

at last.

As Xia Yan stepped onto the last step, he finally arrived at the top of the Cliff Sword.

Compared to the vast space of the first level, the space here is significantly smaller, and the overall structure resembles a pyramid.

What attracted Xia Yan's attention the most was a dark red stone that continuously emitted light and heat, placed on a strange-looking dark blue stone platform in the center of the empty top floor. It also had golden patterns on it.

Fragments of the original Groudon's shell!

As Xia Yan had expected, there was more than one fragment of the original Groudon's carapace in this alternate dimension. Thousands of meters underground in the magma, at the top of the Cliff Sword Tower in this desert ruin, this was the second one he had seen.

The golden patterns on the fragments flickered, and upon closer inspection, one could see the same dark red patterns shimmering in the cracks of the cliffside sword stone tower.

Furthermore, these patterns are also distributed on the ground of the top floor, resembling spreading branches, and they converge at the peculiar stone platform where the stone is located.

"Cha-ke-yi!!"

Togekiss pointed at the fragments of Primal Groudon's carapace, his face beaming with excitement.

Xia Yan knew what it was excited about.

It's not that I'm excited to have found something good, but rather that I'm excited that the direction it initially pointed in was correct.

When Xia Yan first arrived at this desert, he was a bit lost, so he asked Togekigu to point in a direction at random, saying that he wanted to try his luck and see if he could find any fragments of Primal Groudon's shell.

As a result, they encountered the quicksand vortex where the rogue crocodile lived, and had no choice but to avoid its attack.

But now.

As it turned out, Togekiku was right in the direction it pointed out; there were indeed fragments of the original Groudon's shell, located within the ruins beneath the quicksand vortex.

Xia Yan rubbed its head with a strange expression.

really.

You can always trust Teacher Bo.

If you don't achieve your goal, it's definitely not because Teacher Bo is wrong, but because you didn't do a good job.

Who knows there might be a ruin beneath that quicksand vortex?

Who would have thought that this ruin was actually Groudon's ruin, and that there really was such a stone inside the Broken Sword left behind.

He twitched the corner of his mouth.