Lu Li, holding the trophy, was filled with joy. Although the trophy was made of pure gold, the gold was the least noteworthy thing about it. What the trophy represented was a pseudo-legendary Pokémon.
After the award ceremony, Lu Li was taken to a conference room.
A middle-aged woman wearing glasses handed Lu Li a form.
"These are all the pseudo-legendary Pokémon eggs that our Kyushu Alliance possesses. You can choose any one you like."
After only a quick glance, Lu Li asked, "Can I choose one in person?"
"No." The female secretary directly shook her head in refusal, and then explained, "The location of the pseudo-legendary Pokémon's habitat is an Alliance secret and cannot be exposed."
Lu Li wanted to say that he could go to the hatching room to take a look, but if he did that, his purpose would seem a little too obvious.
Lu Li flipped through the information in his hand, thinking about how to choose.
Most of the pseudo-legendary Pokémon are Dragon-type. There are currently only two non-Dragon-type Pokémon: Metagross and Tyranitar.
There's no need to say more about the former. Metagross, with its four brains, possesses computational power that surpasses a supercomputer. This terrifying ability appearing in a living being is, in itself, an outrageous thing.
Tyranitar, on the other hand, is known as the Desert Tyrant, a truly powerful Pokémon.
In addition, those Dragon-type pseudo-legendaries are not bad either, such as Dragapult, which possesses the noble Ghost-type and Dragon-type.
Or Dragonite, known as the world's fastest, and Hydreigon, which has three heads and can simultaneously use three types of beam attacks.
In short, there are almost no bad Pokémon among the pseudo-legendaries.
As someone who has trouble making decisions, Lu Li wanted to say that he wanted them all.
But he could only dream of such a good thing. Right now, he could only choose one.
"Give me the Metagross egg," Lu Li said, returning the file to the female secretary.
The reason Lu Li chose Metagross was simple: he had Metagross's Mega Stone.
"Metagross?" The female secretary looked at Lu Li with some surprise, and then earnestly advised, "I suggest you choose a different Pokémon. Metagross is not suitable for you."
After a moment of hesitation, the female secretary added, "I know your background. Coming from a common background, you are not suitable to train Metagross because the cost-effectiveness is too low. I suggest you change to another one."
"Why?" Lu Li looked at her in confusion.
Although he hadn't interacted with her for very long, Lu Li could tell that she wasn't the kind of person who looked down on people from common backgrounds.
The female secretary asked, "Do you know the conditions for Metagross to evolve?"
Hearing this, Lu Li also remembered something.
Before he transmigrated, the official Pokémon website had stated: Mega Metagross is formed by combining 1 Metagross, 1 Metang, and 2 Beldum. Its weight is equal to the combined weight of the four Pokémon that make it up.
Metagross is formed by combining 2 Metang, but its weight is heavier than 2 Metang.
The game didn't have this requirement, and the anime didn't directly state it, but fusion evolution does exist.
"For Metang to evolve into Metagross, two Metang must fuse and evolve. In other words, if your Beldum wants to evolve, you must find another Beldum, and that Beldum must be weaker than the Beldum you're raising, otherwise the other Beldum will take the lead. You should understand what I'm saying, right?"
After the female secretary finished speaking, she stared directly at Lu Li.
Lu Li asked in confusion, "I seem to remember there's another type of evolution, right?"
The female secretary smiled and asked, "Are you talking about fission evolution? That is possible, but it also means you'll have to spend four times or even more resources."
So-called fission evolution is a bit similar to Pokémon laying eggs. Metagross are genderless Pokémon, and they generally reproduce by splitting themselves.
Beldum can indeed split off new individuals, but that new individual can't really be considered its offspring, at most just its clone.
But this method is actually the same as laying eggs. It will still consume the source of life during the process. If you want to evolve to Metagross through fission and then fusion, the resources you'll have to spend may be four times or even more than other pseudo-legendaries.
They are both pseudo-legendaries, but the resources required for Beldum to evolve into Metagross far exceed those of other pseudo-legendaries. The cost-effectiveness can be said to be despairingly low.
Even Dragapult, which also uses fission evolution, has a higher cost-effectiveness.
Lu Li said firmly, "It's okay, I don't lack resources."
Do you understand the value of an Alchemist Master! Would my Metagross lack resources?
"I'm just advising you. I don't have the right to make decisions for you. Just don't regret it," the female secretary said, taking a deep look at Lu Li, and then continued, "The Metagross egg will be delivered within two hours. In the meantime, you can stay at the Pokémon Center."
The female secretary handed Lu Li a tablet: "What kind of Pokémon treasure do you need? These are the types of Pokémon treasures that the Alliance has. You can choose any one you like."
Lu Li quickly took the notebook and began to browse the Pokémon treasures on it.
Treasures are different from Pokémon items. This stuff is really priceless.
Tropius had already used a Pokémon treasure, so that only left Onix, Charmander, and Milotic.
Charmander and Onix are currently too weak and don't need the assistance of Pokémon treasures. Strictly speaking, Milotic doesn't seem to need it very much either.
After all, Milotic hasn't reached the point where it needs a Pokémon treasure to break through a bottleneck.
Although Tropius had used a Pokémon treasure once, Tropius had already understood the origin of the law and could almost grow to the Champion level without a bottleneck.
Pokémon treasures are just icing on the cake for Tropius. Apart from speeding up Tropius's growth, it's almost useless.
And Tropius's growth rate is already fast enough.
After thinking it over, Lu Li ultimately chose a Water-type Pokémon treasure.
After all, the main effects of the Water-type Spirit Pill are not as good as those of the Grass-type Spirit Pill. Venusaur's growth rate is actually the slowest among all his Pokémon.
Even the newly joined Onix is stronger than Milotic. After all, the effect of the pills that Onix is taking now is similar to that of the Grass-type Spirit Pill.
With a goal in mind, Lu Li directly searched for Water-type Pokémon treasures.
Water-type Pokémon treasures are particularly simple. The only representative is a lonely Water Gem.
Lu Li hesitated as he looked at the Water Gem.
The Water Gem is born deep within a Water Stone mine. A Water Stone mine can probably produce 1-3 Water Gems.
As for the specific number, it depends on the energy richness of the mine. Mines with low Water-type energy concentrations generally only produce one, while high concentrations may produce two or three.
The problem now is that he has an undiscovered Water Stone mine in his hands. As long as he is willing to look for it, it shouldn't be difficult to find the Water Gem deep within the mine.
Thinking of this, Lu Li re-entered Fire-type and directly chose the Fire Gem.
After selecting the Pokémon treasure, Lu Li returned the tablet to the bespectacled secretary.
"The treasure and the Pokémon egg will be delivered to you within two hours," the female secretary said before turning and leaving the conference room.
Her mission was complete, and now it was time for others to perform.
Not long after the bespectacled secretary left, the conference room door was knocked on again.
Lu Li said "Please come in," and two older men with smiling faces walked in.
"Hello, student, I am the vice-principal of Kyushu University."
"I am the vice-principal of Alliance University."
The two old men introduced themselves first.
Lu Li roughly understood the purpose of these two old men.
Lu Li knowingly asked, "Are the two principals here to recruit students?"
The vice-principal of Alliance University glared at the vice-principal of Kyushu University unhappily, and then nodded, saying, "Student, as long as you join our Alliance University, your tuition will be completely waived, and you will receive a scholarship of 10 million every year, and you will have one opportunity to enter the Alliance University's secret realm every year."
"Student, as long as you come to our Kyushu University, I will double the benefits that old man mentioned," the vice-principal of Kyushu University said smugly.
The vice-principal of Alliance University: "???"
"Do you think your Kyushu University is richer than our Alliance University?" Vice-Principal Li looked at Vice-Principal Ji unhappily.
Vice-Principal Ji said with a straight face, "My point is that our school's investment in talent is greater than you think."
Vice-Principal Li gritted his teeth and said, "20 million a year, you can enter the school's secret realm as you please. If you need it, the school can prepare any Pokémon for you other than a pseudo-legendary."
"We can give you all the benefits that this guy mentioned. I'll give you an extra benefit. You can browse our school's knowledge repository as you please," Vice-Principal Ji said earnestly as he looked at Lu Li.
Hearing this, Lu Li's eyes lit up.
He doesn't really have any pursuit of money right now, but Kyushu University's knowledge repository is really attractive.
Kyushu University has produced many commoner Heavenly Kings. After these Heavenly Kings become honorary alumni of the school, they generally leave a Heavenly King training notebook in the school's knowledge repository.
This is what Lu Li desires the most.
Lu Li looked at Vice-Principal Ji with utmost sincerity and said, "Principal Ji, I will join Kyushu University."
Hearing this, Vice-Principal Li could only sigh despondently.
Kyushu University's knowledge repository is indeed better than Alliance University's. One reason is that Kyushu University has a long enough history, and the second reason is that the students who graduate from Kyushu University seem to be more grateful?
Kyushu University recruits mostly students from the Kyushu region, unlike Alliance University, which recruits students from almost all regions of the Asian Alliance.
Some commoners from some regions basically don't contact Alliance University after graduating. Although some honorary alumni have left some knowledge inheritance, it really can't compare to Kyushu University.
Vice-Principal Ji glanced at Vice-Principal Li smugly.
"Old Li, you still don't know what you've lost," Vice-Principal Ji thought smugly in his heart.
Born into the Ji family, he had long speculated about Lu Li's identity.
Although he couldn't be 100% sure, he was at least 80% confident that Lu Li was the legendary Rainbow Hero.
Vice-Principal Li might know, but his certainty was definitely not as great as his, so he hesitated so much when betting.
"Our school starts on September 1st. There are still half a month until the start of school. If you have any needs, you can return to school early."
After Vice-Principal Ji finished speaking, he added, "By the way, our Kyushu University's Trainer Academy is in the secret realm, and your dormitory is also in the secret realm. If you have nothing to do, you can come to school early."
Lu Li certainly knew the difference between the secret realm and the real world.
However, he didn't plan to enroll early. One reason was that he had gained too much these past few days and needed to go back and digest it properly. The second reason was that he had more important things to do.
After saying goodbye to the two vice-principals, Lu Li received several reporters.
That was a task assigned by the official Alliance, and Lu Li had no choice but to cooperate.
A commoner genius, a special ability holder, and a champion with overpowered strength. To put it bluntly, he was politically correct right now.
The Kyushu Alliance naturally wanted to publicize this widely, one reason being to suppress the restless aristocratic families. In the Ancient Capital attack, some aristocratic families had gone too far.
Even if there were people in the Alliance pushing behind the scenes, this kind of thing was something that the Alliance could do, but the aristocratic families couldn't.
Of course, the main reason was to motivate all the commoner trainers in the Kyushu Alliance.
After all, Lu Li belonged to the academic faction. After breaking away from the Asian Alliance, the Kyushu Alliance also intended to support the academic faction. There was no way around it; the death rate of the traveling faction was too high. Even if they were expendable, they couldn't be expended like this.
Lu Li, this kind of pure and upright academic faction, was too suitable for publicity.
Lu Li also knew this, so he braced himself and cooperated with the Alliance to accept interviews.
If possible, Lu Li really hoped that more commoners would choose the academic faction rather than the traveling faction.
Thinking of Ike and those brothers and sisters who went traveling and never returned, Lu Li felt that the burden on his shoulders was even heavier.
After finishing the interview with the reporters, it was already four o'clock in the afternoon.
Calculating the time, the Pokémon egg should be arriving soon.
Just as Lu Li was calculating the time, a knock on the door sounded.
The female secretary who had left earlier walked in with an incubator and a small box.
"This is the pseudo-legendary you need. Originally, we were supposed to give you an ordinary pseudo-legendary, but the chairman and the champion overruled everyone's objections and prepared this egg for you."
The bespectacled secretary looked at the incubator in Lu Li's hand with envy.
"This is the offspring of a Champion-level Metagross. Most importantly, that Metagross is Shiny."
Hearing this, Lu Li's eyes lit up.
Shiny Metagross is super handsome!
You have to know that Metagross reproduces by splitting, which means that the offspring of Shiny Metagross is almost 99% likely to be Shiny. The probability of it not being Shiny is lower than the probability of a normal Pokémon appearing as a Shiny individual.
The probability of Shiny Metagross appearing is also quite low, lower than the probability of other pseudo-legendaries appearing as Shiny.
Because if it's fusion evolution, the Shiny Beldum will definitely be contaminated, so you can only choose fission evolution. But in fact, most Metagross are fusion evolved.
Because the time and resources spent on fission evolution are proportional. If a Beldum relies on fusion evolution, it may take about 60 years.
If it relies on fission evolution, it will take at least 240 years.
How does that saying go? One generation passes it on to the next, and the Pokémon hasn't evolved by the time the person dies. That's what it's like for fission-evolved Beldum.
