[Species: Charmander]
[Type: Fire]
[Ability: Blaze (when HP falls, the power of Fire-type moves increases)]
[Level: Beginner Tier (Lv. 1, 0/100 EXP)]
[Status: Good, Pending Hatching]
[Potential: Gym-class (roughly Lv. 40–50)]
[Base Stats: HP 39 (39), Attack 52 (52), Defense 43 (43), Special Attack 60 (60), Special Defense 50 (50), Speed 65 (65), Total 309 (309). Note: the numbers in parentheses are the standard base stats of an ordinary Charmander.]
[Moves: Scratch, Growl]
[Description: An utterly ordinary Charmander, average potential, slacker-type personality, unlikely to amount to much.]
Shiko read through his stat panel line by line.
His expression grew uglier with every line.
Good grief.
He really was a Charmander that couldn't be more mediocre if it tried.
The limit of this life…
At best, he might just barely evolve into a Charizard.
Was this really the standard transmigrator template?
That was way too shabby.
Just as he finished lamenting, the electronic voice in his mind rang out once more.
Starter Gift Pack has been issued; please check your rewards!
Congratulations to the Host for obtaining: Telepathy, special evolution route, blank base stat points ×20, and a random new Ability: Magic Bounce.
"What the—?!"
Hearing that, Shiko instantly became fired up.
Twenty blank base stat points?!
Didn't that mean he could assign those points however he wanted?
More importantly—
With the system around, there would definitely be more base stat points as rewards in the future!
At this rate, it might even boost him all the way up to the level of a first-tier Legendary!
A first-tier Legendary!
That was a ruler-of-the-world existence!
The absolute king of this planet!
A being whose every casual gesture carried the power to move mountains and fill seas!
It was impossible not to yearn for that.
Moreover.
From the memories Shiko had inherited.
Most first-tier Legendaries.
Could transform into human form.
Just thinking about it made the path in front of him feel bright and open.
This little Charmander body of his…
Didn't seem so bad anymore!
Which brought up a new question.
Where should he put these base stat points?
After thinking it over briefly, he had his answer.
Without hesitation, he dumped all of them into Special Attack!
His reasoning was very clear.
He was going to be a high-offense artillery piece!
He would use searing flames to purify everything!
He would become a deity of fire!
Once he decided, he acted.
The twenty base stat points were all dumped in at once.
In an instant, Shiko felt a strange power pour into his body.
It was like everything inside him was being reforged.
An indescribable, surging sense of power began to well up.
His belly burned.
A powerful Fire-type energy circulated and surged within him, constantly gathering, filling to the brim.
Even the shell of his Pokémon Egg.
Began to glow with a red light.
The flame-like wave patterns on the surface wavered and rippled as if they had come alive.
A scorching heat.
Baked the air around him until it warped.
The Pokémon Eggs that were resting near him.
Rolled away one after another with a series of rumbling sounds.
Leaving a clear circle of empty space around him.
The changes within his body went on for several minutes before they finally subsided.
Shiko could clearly feel it.
He had become stronger!
And this strength did not come from leveling up through training.
It came from a fundamental improvement in his innate talent.
He checked his stat panel again.
Sure enough.
The new data displayed there showed that—
Not only had his Special Attack in the base stats column gone up by twenty points.
Even his potential.
Had risen from Gym-class.
To quasi–Elite Four–class!
On top of that—
The moves column.
Had a new move added to it: Flamethrower!
Flamethrower!
That was a powerful Fire-type move that a Charmander would normally only learn.
After fully evolving into Charizard!
Dense Fire-type energy compressed into a pillar of flame.
Carrying terrifyingly high heat and destructive power!
Yet he, a Charmander that hadn't even hatched yet, had already mastered it!
If anyone found out.
Their jaws would absolutely drop, and they'd drag him off to dissect him on a lab table!
After he finished savoring the ample Fire-type energy in his body.
Shiko began to look over the rest of his rewards.
Telepathy went without saying.
That was absolutely a good thing!
It was a Legendary-exclusive ability, allowing him to communicate with humans.
The new Ability, Magic Bounce, was excellent as well.
He could ignore moves from opposing Pokémon that altered his stats and reflect those effects back at them.
On top of that, it also prevented machines and special abilities from probing his status information.
That way, no one would be able to see what made him special.
And he could avoid being dragged off for dissection.
Lastly.
The system reward: a special evolution route.
Was the part Shiko was most interested in.
He had assumed that this so-called special evolution route.
Meant that he would be able to Mega Evolve himself.
But when he carefully examined that entry.
His face froze in sheer shock and disbelief.
(End of Chapter)
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