allendalepharm Chapter 317 Silver Mountain
Chapter 317 Silver Mountain
Chapter 317 Silver Mountain
While training, Ash and his friends finally arrived at the Pokémon Center at the foot of Mt. Silver.
This is the main entrance to the Mt. Silver area, attracting a large number of trainers who come to participate in the League Tournament and tourists.
Ash and his friends also have to pass through here if they want to enter the wild Pokémon sanctuary at Mt. Silver.
Ash originally expected that it would take at least two weeks to get here, but thanks to Bea's arrival.
To everyone's surprise, they arrived here in just four days.
"It's simply a miracle, Little Rainbow Bean!"
"That's amazing, Miss Rainbow Bean!"
"Pikachu, Pikachu pikachu!"
Seeing Misty and Ash standing in front of the Pokémon Center's entrance, completely admiring her, Bea's usually cold expression began to soften.
"I was just showing you the way—you don't have to go to all this trouble."
In the complex and dense forest, the little gray hair was able to follow Ash, Misty and the others for many days without getting lost. On the contrary, it was able to accurately lead everyone to their destination.
She had no idea what a terrifying miracle she had accomplished; what an incredible sense of direction she possessed!
Xiao Zhi believed that she would succeed no matter what she did in the future.
[Ding! Congratulations, host, you have triggered a new main quest: "Silver Tournament Preliminary League": Please successfully advance to the final tournament of the Johto League Tournament!]
[Rewards: Alliance Coins +8000; Attack +2; Speed +2; Free Attribute Points +3; Silver Crown + (Number of Alliance Wins in the Preliminary Rounds)]
After completing the conference report with Miss Joey from the center, the long-awaited mission to obtain the Silver Crown was unexpectedly triggered.
Now that Ash is aiming for victory in the Silver Tournament preliminaries, he also contacted Professor Elm to let him know about Larvitar's current situation.
"Doctor, Yukira is recovering quite well now."
In front of the video call, Ash pointed the camera at Larvitar behind him, who was playing with Pikachu and Togepi.
Now, even in a busy Pokémon Center, the little guy no longer experiences the same stiffness.
Previously, under Ash's and his friends' care, Tyranitar had gradually become less prone to stress.
But Xiaoxia also deserves credit for his excellent recovery.
One day, when Xiaoxia was feeling sad because Kira was so afraid of her that he launched a noisy attack, she casually mentioned Mei, who also had psychological problems at Snowdon Manor.
This immediately reminded Ash of the Unknown Totem, which possesses the power to reflect one's inner world.
Ash also happened to have caught an Unknown Totem at that time.
It was only because a single Unknown Totem couldn't exert much power, and the one he had captured had an exceptionally calm personality, that Professor Oak borrowed it to assist in his research.
After specifically asking Professor Hideki how to activate the power of Unown, Ash used Unown to lead everyone into Larvitar's inner world.
This time, everyone saw all of Kira's memories in their entirety, and learned how the vicious poachers injured its mother and took it away from its family.
Having understood its deepest fear, Ash personally broke through numerous thorns to reach Tyranitar's soul, using love and physical power to shatter the ice that sealed Tyranitar's heart.
He also promised the little guy, "No bad people will hurt you again in the future. I swear on my life, Ash."
With everyone protecting it, surrounded by a strong sense of security, Yugira finally began to truly accept everyone.
After that, Yukira opened her heart and would no longer easily fall into a state of stress.
Even Dr. Kuroki couldn't help but smile with relief after seeing Tyranitar's current condition.
"Tyranitar has recovered so well. It was the right decision to leave it in Ash's care."
He quickly sent the three special passes that Ash had asked for over the phone to the Pokémon Center via the transfer machine.
"I have already contacted Protector Muto and explained the situation to you through my authorization. You are now free to move around in the protected area."
"Yes, thank you for your help, Doctor."
Mt. Silver Reserve is the highest-level wild Pokémon reserve in the Johto League, home to many Pokémon rarely seen elsewhere.
You can find many rare and powerful Pokémon here.
Ordinary trainers cannot enter without a sufficiently influential guarantor.
The reason why Cai Dou was able to pass through the protected area was because of the help of her senior brother, A Si, the head of the Azure Dojo, who obtained a visa that allowed her to pass.
Even with a pass, you can only pass through the straight road in the protected area; you cannot travel to other areas without permission.
This time, Ash asked Professor Elm to grant him the permission to move freely within the protected area.
Getting this pass is really not easy; even Ash's request to Blossom, one of the Elite Four, couldn't get it done.
Since Professor Oak isn't from the Johto region, it wouldn't be of any use looking for him either.
In the end, it was only thanks to the intervention of Dr. Kumo, a local scientist from the old city of Tokyo, that the problem was finally solved.
However, the reason the league is so strict is simply because they have no other choice.
The closer you get to the foot of Mt. Silver, the stronger the wild Pokémon will become.
These rare Pokémon attracted a large number of poachers, who flocked to this place one after another.
The league has used every means at its disposal, but there are still some social outcasts with both exceptional ability and character who manage to slip in.
The enormous demand spawned huge profits, and under the machinations of Hayek Hassan, the poachers' counter-surveillance technology became even more advanced than that of the Alliance.
And thanks to Team Rocket, the most conspicuous and leading evil organization, in the Johto region.
This has prevented the Alliance Central Committee from devoting enough attention to dealing with those small poaching gangs.
The Rockets are a giant, venomous snake that eats people, and these poachers are a bunch of damned rats that steal from the barn every day.
They are very secretive in their Pokémon poaching, and the League usually has to rely on its understaffed Pokémon Protectors to deal with them.
It's easy to imagine that the protectors would be overwhelmed.
Therefore, when Ash was about to hang up the phone, Professor Elm stopped him.
"Ash, you're going to the protected area this time. I heard from Professor Oak that you're a Aura user. The League has something we hope you can help us with."
Upon hearing this, Ash stopped in his tracks, and Professor Elm quickly continued.
"The period when the competition is held every year is always the time when poachers are most rampant because everyone's focus is on that area."
"I also tried to get help from other trainers, but after all, we're facing the poachers of Mt. Silver —"
Dr. Kumo looked troubled.
It seems that none of the people the professor had asked to find had agreed.
"If you have the capacity, could you please help the conservation officers catch poachers in the protected area before the conference begins?"
"The Alliance will reward you with 100,000 Alliance Coins as long as you catch a poacher."
Possessions of the Aura Force are extremely rare, and the Johto region has not seen a single person possessing the Aura Force for many years.
So those poachers could never have imagined that they would one day have to guard against being found by a waveguide user.
Upon hearing that there was so much money to be made, Ash agreed without hesitation. He figured he would be staying in the protected area until the tournament started, so why not make some money?
"Please rest assured, Professor. For the sake of Pokémon and the League, I will not let any of those poachers get away with it!"
Ash spoke with an air of righteousness, and a sense of love for the League arose spontaneously. If his eyes hadn't turned into money symbols, he would have been even more credible.
Professor Elm was still very touched to see Ash agree so readily.
"Thank you for your sacrifice this time. I will definitely ask the alliance for a sufficient reward later."
As soon as the call ended, Cai Dou came over, puzzled.
"Shing, with the tournament approaching, those poachers who have managed to enter the protected area must be quite strong."
"Those powerful trainers who have gathered here must have taken this into consideration as well."
"That's why I refused Professor Elmwood's offer to help, in order to prevent my Pokémon from getting seriously injured and missing the next match."
"Why did you agree so readily, Ash? You're not short of money, are you?"
You can tell from the things Ash usually feeds his Pokémon that none of them are cheap.
But Ash immediately interrupted Little Gray.
"Ayaka, someone always has to do these things. If I'm capable, I'll naturally help."
"If I'm always concerned about gains and losses, and I can do something but don't, thus causing more Pokémon to fall into disaster, then I won't forgive myself."
As he said this, the Rainbow Wing inside Ash's body lit up briefly.
Although he has an excess of yang energy, he is not joking when he says he is a partner of justice.
"And I'm injured—humph, those damned criminals, even if they all attacked together, they couldn't hurt me or my Pokémon!"
Despite the odds, Ash exuded a unique, arrogant aura of a strongman as he swaggered out of the Pokémon Center with Pikachu and Larvitar.
Aya stared blankly at Ash's departing figure, lost in thought.
At this moment, Xiaoxia came to her side.
"Ash is still quite charming, isn't he?"
[Ding! Rainbow Bean: Affection +10]