Just like Ash's Ralts, it actually still didn't know how much time it had until birth, but under the influence of the Giant Moon Stone, the hatching process was accelerated. In just a few seconds, it completed what a normal Poke Egg would take ten days to half a month to accomplish.
And the Poke Egg in front of them was even more exaggerated, having existed for five years. No matter whether it is a good egg or a bad egg, it couldn't possibly remain in the egg stage for so long. If it weren't for being sustained by the waters of Clear Cliff, this Poke Egg would have perished long ago.
Ash could clearly sense the presence of consciousness inside the Poke Egg. When his Aura was transmitted inside, he felt the gratitude and joy, as well as the relief after surviving a disaster, coming from the consciousness within.
With such rich emotions present, the consciousness inside was definitely not newly born. In other words, the consciousness within this Poke Egg became aware after being hatched of its impending death, which is why it sought help externally.
If Ash hadn't come today, perhaps soon it wouldn't even have the energy to call for help.
With Ash's Aura infusion, the weak life inside the Poke Egg was gradually growing stronger. In no time, the life within the Poke Egg became vibrant once again, and Ash's Aura Power continued to flow in!
Aura Power is a person's Source of Life. If too much Aura is lost, then life becomes weak, and might even die!
This is also why Aura can revive this Poke Egg. Besides the fact that this Poke Egg is compatible with Aura, Aura itself is a power that enhances Life Force.
But it is the kind of exchange of life for life!
However, since the one doing this today is Ash, not only did he gain all the Aura from Aura Ash, but his own Aura is also slowly being developed. Infusing Aura into a dying Poke Egg to make its life robust again is barely a burden to Ash.
Let alone a Poke Egg, even if it's a Legendary Beast, a Divine Domain-level Pokemon, except for Ho-Oh and Xerneas, with Ash's current Aura, he could bring them back from the brink without harming his own life.
This is the power of a human Legendary Beast!
Dozens of seconds later, under the tense gaze of Professor Cerise, Misty, and Brock, the Poke Egg suddenly emitted a slight sound.
Before the three could react, the sound rapidly intensified, and the cracks on the Poke Egg widened along with it!
Professor Cerise's expression changed, with worry appearing on his face uncontrollably. The Poke Egg, which originally only had slight cracks, now had cracks all over it. Is this a good or bad thing?
He didn't have any detection instruments on hand and couldn't rely on just the naked eye to know anything.
"Crack crack—boom!!"
When cracks covered the entire Poke Egg, a muffled sound occurred, and countless fragments splashed out from the pool, scattering aside.
Misty and the others instinctively put their hands in front of them to shield against the flying fragments of the eggshell.
"What's happening… Ash didn't fail, did he?" Brock said, feeling the slight pain in his palm, somewhat worried.
If that was the hatching of a Poke Egg earlier… it shouldn't have been such a big commotion.
When Ralts hatched from its shell previously, it was quiet. There's no comparison to now where it seemed like a bomb exploded, with the eggshell shattering everywhere.
"He won't… Ash won't fail!" Misty murmured, her voice gradually becoming firm.
During more than a month of being with Ash, although Ash often did reckless things, and even things she completely couldn't understand, the end results were always good.
Every time he was so unexpected, then achieved a good result. This time… won't be an exception, right Ash?
The three slowly lowered their hands. Professor Cerise and Brock were a bit afraid to look at the situation in the pool, but only Misty, with a heart full of apprehension yet determination, directed her gaze at the pool.
In the next second, a light of surprise shone in Misty's emerald eyes: "Brock, Professor Cerise, Ash succeeded, the Pokemon inside has hatched!"
"Really?! It's possible?!"
"Where is it! Where's the hatched Pokemon!"
Brock and Professor Cerise quickly turned their heads, and then they saw in Ash's arms lay a small blue-black dog-type Pokemon quietly, seemingly asleep.
This is the Pokemon that hatched from that Poke Egg.
"It really hatched…" Professor Cerise muttered somewhat dumbfounded, and then hurriedly ran over to Ash, staring closely at the Pokemon in Ash's arms.
He reached out his somewhat trembling hand, gently placed it on the dog-like Pokemon, and the slightly warm feel assured Professor Cerise that this Pokemon was alive!
Misty and Brock came in front of Ash, their gaze on the Pokemon in Ash's arms was full of curiosity.
The former asked softly, "What kind of Pokemon is this? It doesn't seem to be a Kanto species, right?"
"Riolu, a Pokemon from the Sinnoh Region." Ash suddenly spoke.
Upon hearing this, Misty looked at Ash in surprise.
Compared to battle adaptability, Pokemon cultivation, training, and even cooking, Ash's weakest point should be his knowledge of Pokemon.
At the start of the journey, Ash couldn't even recognize all the Pokemon from the Kanto Region, but now after some time of learning, he almost knows all of Kanto's Pokemon. But he shouldn't recognize Pokemon from the Sinnoh Region, right?
Could this be another Pokemon with special tactics explained by Professor Oak, like Hippopotas and Aron?
"Riolu is an extremely rare Pokemon from the Sinnoh Region, its rarity is said to rival that of a Legendary Beast." At this time, Professor Cerise also came around from Riolu's successful 'revival', and began to educate everyone on the knowledge about Riolu.
"It possesses a peculiar power, the pure-hearted will gain its recognition, while the wicked will be loathed. It can observe the emotions of humans and Pokemon, as well as the natural world in the form of 'Aura', being one of the few Pokemon capable of freely mastering Aura Power."
Aura Power?
Upon hearing this term, Misty and Brock immediately understood why Ash would know about Riolu.
Ash himself also possesses Aura Power, a power they hadn't heard of even with the knowledge of Gym Trainers.
Lately, they had searched for information about Aura Power but found none about humans who possessed Aura Power, only that some Pokemon could master this power.
Those rare Pokemon could use Aura Power to unleash a move that's almost always accurate—the Aura Sphere!
Yes, that's the move Ash used.
But that is the limit that Pokemon capable of mastering Aura Power can achieve.
Even in available online information, they hadn't seen anything about Ash being able to fuse Aura Power into Pokemon, or Pokemon being able to apply Aura Power to humans.
As for using Aura Power to navigate or create barriers, that was even unheard of.
Ash not only possesses Aura Power but also applies it in more versatile ways than many Pokemon could.
Now the Riolu in Ash's arms is also one of the Pokemon capable of using Aura Power, and according to Professor Cerise's description… Riolu seems to use Aura in a similar way to Ash?
It can sense good and evil, and can use Aura to observe the emotions of any Pokemon, isn't this one of Ash's applications of Aura Power?