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Wouldn't it be disastrous if Team Rockets' leader became Kanto's strongest Gym Leader?
Is there no one left in Kanto? How did Team Rockets' leader become a Kanto Gym Leader? And he even became the strongest Gym Leader!
Ash thought about the rumors concerning Giovanni at Viridian Gym—how he was gentle and refined, how he was an excellent teacher, how patient he was with challengers, possessing the demeanor of a strong individual... Now, knowing that he was Team Rockets' leader, looking at those rumors again, he just wanted to laugh!
Team Rockets, Kanto's largest villainous organization, has bases stationed all over the world, engaging in arson, murder, robbery, and Pokémon trafficking, with money and world domination as their ultimate goals.
In various regions across the world, there are villainous organizations, but Team Rockets is the largest among them, without a doubt!
The leader of such an organization not only became Kanto's Gym Leader but also received widespread praise. Kanto is doomed!
[Newbie Ash: Why didn't you tell me about this before? If I had known Giovanni was Team Rockets' leader, I would have reported him to the Pokémon League or Professor Oak long ago!]
[Champion Ash: It's no use. The Pokémon League, and even Professor Oak, are aware of Giovanni's identity. The reason they haven't acted against Giovanni, and even allowed Giovanni to hold this position in the Pokémon League, is actually a delicate balance between the Pokémon League and Team Rockets.]
[Newbie Ash: Why?! Why does the Pokémon League, knowing Giovanni's identity, still allow Giovanni to become Viridian Gym Leader, and his reputation in the Pokémon League and among the public is incredibly good? What is the reason for this?!]
Champion Ash's words made Ash even more puzzled. Why, knowing that Giovanni was Team Rockets' leader, did they allow Giovanni to grow even stronger and let Team Rockets continue to do evil deeds!
Since they knew his identity, shouldn't they have apprehended him with decisive action?
[Champion Ash: You are still too young; it's normal not to understand many things. In this world, where there is white, there must be black; where there is good, there must be evil. If evil can be controlled, it is actually a better course of action than directly eliminating it.]
[Newbie Ash: ...I don't understand.]
[Champion Ash: Simply put, even if you take down one Giovanni, take down one Team Rockets, in the future there will still be Team Aqua, Team Magma, Team Galactic. And currently, Team Rockets operates under the Pokémon League's supervision. As long as they don't do anything too outrageous, the Pokémon League will turn a blind eye.]
[Champion Ash: Allowing Team Rockets to gather the dark forces of Kanto and even other regions under their unified management is one of the reasons the Pokémon League tolerates Team Rockets. If Team Rockets were gone and new evil organizations emerged, the Pokémon League would have to expend who knows how much effort to encircle, suppress, and manage them, and things would probably become even more chaotic.]
After seeing Champion Ash's words, Ash was slightly silent. Even if that logic was sound, he still couldn't quite accept it.
Is this the price one must pay for growing up? He couldn't accept it.
If given the choice, even if it meant eradicating them a thousand times, he would thoroughly clear out all evil organizations!
If they didn't act just because of the time and cost involved, then those who had their Pokémon stolen and the suffering Pokémon themselves would be the ones to endure hardship.
[Champion Ash: However, it seems your Pokémon League is unaware of Giovanni possessing Mewtwo. Otherwise, they would have already taken the initiative to attack. And honestly, Giovanni is not someone so easily controlled. Even in my opinion, he is a very formidable opponent. The Pokémon League wanting to control him is purely wishful thinking.]
[Champion Ash: Blaine might later contact the Pokémon League, or Professor Oak, to inform them about Mewtwo. So your challenge to Viridian Gym will be your first, and also your last, challenge.]
[Champion Ash: As long as you challenge Viridian Gym, you must be prepared to encounter Mewtwo. So... go draw a prize and see if there's anything useful.]
Champion Ash's sudden change of topic made Ash pause for a moment. Then he looked at the notification bar, and after opening it, he found that he indeed had more lottery chances.
[Defeat five Elite Pokémon in an official battle, reward: Lottery Chance * 1]
[Directly defeat one Elite-level Pokémon in an official battle, reward: Lottery Chance * 1]
Two new lottery chances appeared in the backend, but the reason for the second reward somewhat puzzled Ash.
[Newbie Ash: Champion big shot, why did this second lottery chance for defeating an Elite-level Pokémon only appear now? Didn't you already defeat Mr. Koga's Crobat with Bulbasaur once before?]
The notification on the notification bar about defeating an Elite-level Pokémon appeared after defeating five Elite Pokémon. This meant that the previous battle where he defeated Koga's Elite-level Crobat was not counted.
It was only after defeating Blaine's Magmar that it was counted towards the achievement.
[Champion Ash: Because Koga's Elite-level Pokémon was defeated by me, of course it wouldn't count towards your achievement. But honestly, I haven't experienced this kind of thing either, as by the time I joined the group chat, I had basically completed all achievements once already.]
[Newbie Ash: ...]
To use a term he learned from the group chat—that's true Versailles!
Ash decided not to watch the big shots show off in the group and turned to the lottery. Currently, the big shots were showing off to him, but he believed that what he drew would surely dazzle their eyes.
It seemed like it had been a while since he had a lottery session. His luck shouldn't be too bad, right?
Ash thought to himself, clicked on the lottery interface, and then directly started the draw. Two pointers spun wildly on the lottery disc. After about ten seconds, the two pointers slowly stopped. When one of the pointers landed on that barely perceptible area, Ash instantly beamed with joy!
He hit the jackpot!
[Congratulations on obtaining S-Rank One-Time Exclusive Ability: Limit Break.]
[Congratulations on obtaining A-Rank One-Time Ability: All-Star Proxy.]
One S and one A, another moment of abundant harvest. Ash had seen the latter ability once before, and that ability directly gave one of his Pokémon a qualitative leap.
Now, Venusaur's strength has reached the Professional level, almost reaching Advanced Professional, placing it in the first tier. Currently, Charizard and Gardevoir are only Advanced Professional. However, the former was already close to breaking through to Elite, while the latter, after this battle, developed some of Mewtwo's power and directly caught up.
So, overall, Venusaur still has a bit of a distance from them, but it's safe to say it's not far.
Half of this was due to Xerneas's Life Tree Branch, and part was the power granted by All-Star Proxy.
In terms of A-rank abilities, Ash felt it was much stronger than those direct-boost A-rank abilities. He didn't know why this thing was classified as A-rank; theoretically, it should be S-rank.
However, the true power of this ability actually lies with the people in the group, not the ability itself.
If the Ash's in the group were all in their initial state, or if there were no powerful players at all, the power boost from All-Star Proxy would be negligible.
And the reason Bulbasaur's abilities and level could skyrocket in one go was inseparable from the Champion-level Venusaur that possessed it.
Given how powerful the group members are, this ability is indeed quite overpowered.
But this wasn't the focus of this lottery. The main point was the first reward he received: what exactly was Limit Break?
It didn't sound particularly impressive, but the reward's rank alone was enough to prove that this thing was definitely not something ordinary.
[Newbie Ash: Big shots, big shots, I've finished drawing!]
[Unlucky Ash: Bro, why are you drawing again?! Why am I always so unlucky every time I come online? I was just about to show off the Shinny Magikarp I caught! I finally got lucky once, don't you dare ruin it for me!]
[Water Master Ash: Shinny Magikarp? Not bad, you actually caught a Shinny one. What's the deal, has your luck turned around?]
[Unlucky Ash: Turned around my butt! I've been fishing here for almost half a month, caught at least two thousand eight, if not three thousand, Magikarp, and only now finally caught this Shinny Magikarp!]
[Unlucky Ash: My fishing technique, plus my specially formulated bait, usually only attracts differently colored Pokémon. This was after I scouted ahead and confirmed there were Shinny Magikarp here. Yet, I practically emptied this area of Magikarp before I caught this Shinny Magikarp. You call that a turn of luck?!]
[Water Master Ash: Emptied it? How did you manage to empty it of Magikarp? Did you catch one and then capture one?]
[Unlucky Ash: Of course not! I'd catch a batch, then release them all into another unconnected lake. If I put them all back into the same lake, I probably wouldn't catch anything else in this lifetime!]
Now the people in the group understood Unlucky Ash's fishing method. If luck wasn't on his side, then he'd get practical.
Setting aside fishing technique and bait, if he wanted to catch a specific Pokémon and knew it was in that particular lake, then all he had to do was fish out all the Pokémon in the lake, and naturally, only the one he wanted to catch would be left.
Although Unlucky Ash shouldn't have been so ruthless as to fish out every single Pokémon, judging from the fact that he caught thousands of Magikarp, he was indeed quite unlucky.
The unlucky buff was still attacking him!
[Unlucky Ash: Forget it, I'm in a good mood today. Let's see what you, the newcomer, drew. Show it, I'll evaluate it.]
[Newbie Ash: Uh... one of them is an A-rank one-time ability, All-Star Proxy.]
[Unlucky Ash: All-Star Proxy? I remember you seemed to have drawn that before. Although this ability is written as A-rank, considering that everyone in the group has already reached the pinnacle of their respective fields, it's actually no less powerful than an S-rank ability.]
The phantom of Unlucky Ash nodded silently. Good, it was the familiar taste. The quality of the lottery draws was still so abnormal. If it were him, he would never draw such a thing in his life.
However, that kind of thing was useless to him now. As long as the Divine Realm didn't appear, he basically had nothing to fear. If he couldn't even handle Champion-level strength while fishing, then he would be too unlucky.
Wait, why did he feel like he was setting himself up for something?
[Champion Ash: What about the other one? You had two lottery chances, right?]
[Newbie Ash: The other one I don't understand. It says it's a one-time S-rank exclusive ability called Limit Break. It's the first time I've seen an ability with so many prefixes.]
Ash also revealed his other ability.
The prefixes for this ability were quite long—one-time, exclusive. It seemed to have many restrictions, and he didn't know what it did.
However, S-rank abilities come with dedicated analysis, so he would know its effect as soon as he exited the group chat.
[Unlucky Ash: What?! Limit Break! Are you kidding me?! Can that even appear in the prize pool?!]
[Breeder Ash: Limit Break, I didn't expect you to draw that. The title of absolute lucky king is truly well-deserved!]
[Aura Hero Ash: Tsk tsk, this will save a lot of hard training. It seems you won't need to go to Hoenn to show off your skills.]
[Newbie Ash: What do you mean? What exactly is this thing? It says it's an exclusive ability, but it doesn't say whose exclusive ability it is.]
Ash saw everyone in the group exclaiming, but they were all speaking in riddles, not getting to the point, so he couldn't help but ask.
[Breeder Ash: Let me explain.]
[Champion Ash: Alright, you're the breeding expert, you tell him.]
[Breeder Ash: I'm sure you've already noticed that Pikachu's level and strength haven't seemed to increase at all recently. And after so much training, aside from the fixed ability values extracted by Ability Extraction, its other abilities are still in a fluctuating state, right?]
[Newbie Ash: Yes! Yes! Pikachu's level hasn't moved for over half a month, and its strength and ability values won't increase no matter how much it trains, with no signs of a breakthrough. Why is that?]
Ash remembered that the big shots in the group had said before that they would tell him when the time was right. Now it seemed that the exclusive ability was related to Pikachu's current situation, and Breeder Ash intended to tell him everything at once.
[Breeder Ash: Because your Pikachu has reached the limit of its current region. To improve further, it can only do so after you leave Kanto.]
[Newbie Ash: Huh? What does that mean?]
[Breeder Ash: Simply put, Pikachu's potential has been exhausted. The Professional level is Pikachu's current limit.]