Julian hadn't expected that the degree of cellular aging could be used to diagnose his remaining lifespan.
After having five hundred years of his lifespan extracted by Xerneas, his cells had already aged severely—resembling the cells of an elderly person.
"Love, let's go."
Under the doctor's trembling gaze, Julian turned and left.
Love hesitated for a moment before following him. It very much wanted to hear what the doctor had been about to say, but clearly its cub didn't want it to know.
So it just decided to pretend it didn't know anything.
Not long after they left, the doctor wanted to continue studying Julian's report. After all, if he hadn't misread it just now, Champion Walker's cellular aging was truly severe.
But when he went back to his computer, he discovered that Julian's report was no longer there.
And that very night, the doctor suddenly lost all his memories on his way home.
The hospital concluded that excessive work fatigue had triggered the sudden condition, so they awarded workplace injury compensation and paid the doctor's family a large sum of money.
Regarding the matter of his lifespan, Julian didn't want anyone to know.
So he had no choice but to do the doctor a grave injustice.
It seemed he couldn't even go to the hospital for check-ups in the future, or it would certainly be exposed.
Since his body had already recovered, Julian could finally eat normal food again. At last, he no longer had to eat those blood-nourishing medicinal dishes.
No matter how well-prepared a medicinal dish was, it would always carry a hint of herbal taste.
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[Ding!]
[Main Mission Issued: Metagross's Path to Godhood]
[Mission Requirements:
- Defeat fifty peak Champion-level opponents. Reward: Rare Candy X6 (usable at Champion level).
- Defeat three Pseudo-First-class Legendary opponents. Reward: Unown Guidance Charm X5.
- Obtain the marks of six First-class Legendaries. Reward: Mythical Origin X1.]
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As Julian was scrolling through short videos at home, the System's voice suddenly resounded in his mind.
The System had finally issued a Main Mission.
After the previous one of defeating the five King Form Pokémon had been completed, the System hadn't issued any new Main Missions.
Only now, more than half a month later, had a new one finally been issued.
And this one was directly tied to whether Metagross could become a First-class Legendary.
Metagross was already a peak Champion. And to be honest, neither Julian nor Metagross itself had any idea how to further improve its strength from here.
Forget about becoming a First-class Legendary—even reaching the Pseudo-First-class Legendary tier was something Metagross had no idea how to achieve.
It felt as if Champion Peak was already the absolute limit of its strength.
The same was true for Aggron. At the time, Julian had fed it four Rare Candies in one go, instantly pushing its strength up to the peak of the Champion tier.
Aggron felt exactly the same as Metagross.
They couldn't find any way of breaking through.
In the past, whenever they reached a certain limit, they could vaguely sense the existence of a bottleneck.
For example, from pseudo-Elite to Elite, or from Pseudo-Champion to Champion—they could distinctly feel the barrier standing in front of them.
But from peak Champion to First-class Legendary, they couldn't sense any barrier at all. It was as if they had already reached the ultimate limit of their strength.
This naturally made Julian somewhat anxious.
After all, they were now only one step away from becoming First-class Legendaries, yet they had no idea how to take that step.
It was like being one step away from ascending to immortality, only to discover there was no path forward.
Fortunately, the system had already provided a hint.
The mission was divided into three stages.
And the very first stage alone gave Julian a headache—defeat fifty peak Champion opponents.
The greatest difficulty of this mission lay in where to find those fifty peak Champion Pokémon.
Across all the Secret Realms, Ruins, and Wilderness areas in the world, there were certainly peak Champion Pokémon, and there were definitely more than just fifty.
Julian himself knew the locations of several peak Champion Pokémon.
Among the Secret Realms currently controlled by Drakoria, there should be twelve peak Champion Pokémon.
As for the rest, they would have to be found in Secret Realms abroad.
With that thought, Julian dialed Ella's number.
"Commander!"
The phone had barely rung once before Ella's voice came through, and there was obvious excitement in her tone.
This was the first time Julian had contacted her since the incident. Before this, he had only sent her a message letting her know he was fine.
"Investigate which secret realms around the world contain peak Champion Pokémon. Also, how is the collection of the Ancient Stone Tablets going?"
Julian had previously tasked Ella with collecting Ancient Stone Tablets, from which he had obtained a number of Unown. Currently, there were seventeen Unown inside his body.
And if not for these Unown back then, he would have died under the gaze of Hoopa.
Julian had a premonition that the battle against Hoopa might come sooner rather than later, and when it did, it would be a war between gods.
And the number of Unown was directly tied to his two major passive abilities. So Julian felt that if he could gather all the Unown, it would not only enhance those two passive abilities but might even grant him new ones.
[Unown's Protection: Makes it easier to gain the favor of First-class Legendaries. Allows the user to command a First-class Legendary for 60 minutes without any side effects. During this time, the commanded First-class Legendary's strength increases by 40%. (Number of First-class Legendaries enhanced x2)]
[Unown's Evolution: Can designate one First-class Legendary that has an alternate form to undergo transformation, without needing the required item.]
These were his two current passive abilities.
Since a war between gods was about to begin, the importance of these two abilities went without saying.
So if the number of Unown increased and the two passive abilities grew stronger, or if new ones were added, it would certainly be a tremendous help in the coming war.
"Commander, over a thousand stone tablets have already been collected."
"However, since we've already conducted two rounds of collection, the number of tablets we can gather has become very small, and some countries are unwilling to give their tablets to us."
All the stone tablets within Drakoria had already been given to Julian. Although there were still some that hadn't been handed over, but most of those belonged to private collectors.
But generally speaking, the majority of the tablets were in the possession of the governments, with relatively few in the hands of private collectors.
"I'll have Grand-uncle handle the overseas side. You can release a statement: if anyone provides a stone tablet that I need, they can receive assistance from the Walker Group or even the Walker family."
The only stone tablets that truly mattered were those containing Unown. Not just any stone tablet was useful to him.
And to encourage more people and nations to hand over their tablets, Julian didn't mind offering some benefits.
After all, what the tablets recorded was merely text. As long as a copy was made, whether one possessed the original wasn't really that important anymore.
Besides, the vast majority of the tablets were useless to Julian, and those useless ones would simply be returned to wherever they came from.
"Understood. If that's the case, there will certainly be many countries willing to trade."
Ella nodded. The chance to receive help from the Walker family—even Celestria would find that hard to refuse.
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