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[Ascend Ash: As for a harem... I think having Misty is enough.]
[Harem King: NO NO NO, that's just your current way of thinking. With my—I mean your charm, you will inevitably meet more girls who fall for you during your future travels. At that time, you'll realize how hard it is to say the word 'no'. I'll teach you the method of managing multiple wings in advance.]
[Ascender Ash: ————]
Can I choose not to listen? Of course not.
While the Harem King was teaching Ash his so-called emotional techniques, the other big shots didn't come out to disturb him. Perhaps even they felt that this was a path Ash must take in his emotional life.
Although not many versions of Ash in other parallel worlds had built a harem, it wasn't unheard of. Since this latest Ash was destined to become the All-Powerful King, his progress in emotional matters shouldn't fall behind either.
After the Harem King rambled for nearly half an hour, Ash didn't know how much he had actually remembered. He only felt that knowledge regarding emotions was far, far more difficult than knowledge about Pokémon.
After the Harem King finished his lecture, the other versions of Ash finally appeared up.
[Champion Ash: Although that harem guy is a bit shameless, the techniques he teaches are still very useful. Whether or not you want to start a harem, newbie, at least those conversation skills can be used on Misty. It will be very beneficial for your emotional harmony.]
Even though Ash had changed his name, the others were still used to calling him 'newbie'. After all, besides the newly joined Ash, there were no other newcomers in their group.
[Ascend Ash: Okay, I understand!]
[Harem King Ash: Hey, hey, hey, what do you mean by shameless? Careful, I'll sue you for slander! Mutual affection between men and women is only natural; how is that shameless? Besides, I'm not like you guys who make girls sad. I'm a man who wants to make all women happy! Newbie, you should strive to become a man like me, you hear!]
[Breeder Ash: Give it a rest. Don't listen to him, newbie—actually, don't completely ignore him. Let's just say you only need to listen to half of what he says. Also, you should have accumulated quite a few gacha pulls by now, right? Since you're about to face a Tier 1 Legendary, you should try the gacha and see if you can strengthen yourself a bit.]
[Ash, the friend of legendary Pokémon: Yeah, Breeder is right. A Tier 1 Legendary with a divine position is not easy to deal with. Even with your current strength plus Mewtwo who can undergo MEGA Evolution, I'm afraid you wouldn't last five minutes.]
No one understood better than Legendary Beast Ash just how powerful a Legendary Pokémon with a divine position was.
Even when he had become his complete self back then, he had barely survived a brush with death against a Legendary with a divine position. Although the current Ash was strong in terms of high-end combat power, he was even weaker than Ash was back then. In this situation, if he faced a Legendary with a divine position, there was only one thing Ash could do: Run!
[Ascender Ash: Uh—facing a divine position Legendary... it shouldn't come to that, right? I'm just going there to find Little Lugia's parents. They surely won't think I'm the one who turned Little Lugia into its current pacified state, right? Even if there's a misunderstanding, Little Lugia should be able to explain things clearly.]
[Scientist Ash: You're too naive, newbie. There are plenty of sticklers for rules among Legendaries. Although from what I know, Lugia shouldn't be that kind of Pokémon—it's one of the gentlest among Legendaries—it doesn't rule out the possibility that those Team Galactic guys have found a way to control Lugia.]
[Scientist Ash: Among humans, I can say for certain that in your parallel world, you are the only one who possesses such power. But that doesn't mean humans can't contend with Legendaries. Humans excel in wisdom rather than brute force. As long as they have the corresponding items, a human genius scientist can use the power of science to control a Legendary, even one at the God Domain Level.]
This was Scientist Ash's first time speaking in the group, but he had clearly already fully understood the sequence of events, and he uttered some unbelievable words that shocked everyone.
Humans could rely on technology to control God Domain Level Legendaries? Even God Domain Level Legendaries with a divine position? How was that possible!
The power of the God Domain Level was terrifying, to say the least—it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say it could destroy heaven and earth. And for a God Domain Level Legendary with a divine position, a simple gesture might make an entire island vanish. Was this terrifying power something humans could control?
Even the top scientists in Team Rockets could only create devices to suppress a Mewtwo that hadn't yet reached the God Domain Level.
Ash couldn't imagine who would have the ability to create a device that could control even a Legendary with a divine position.
[Ash, the friend of legendary Pokémon: Newbie, you might think Scientist's words are a bit exaggerated, but it's the truth. As long as there's a corresponding medium, even for a peak God Domain Level Legendary carrying a divine position, those top scientists can create devices to control them. This world is just that crazy.]
[Ash, the friend of legendary Pokémon: I don't know about your world, but at least in mine—in our worlds, the scientists of villainous organizations have all relied on media related to Legendaries to create devices capable of controlling them. Kyogre, the god who controls the sea; Groudon, the god who controls the earth; Dialga, the god who controls time—all these Legendaries have been controlled before.]
If Scientist Ash's words could be attributed to his reverence for science and thus a slightly exaggerated perspective, then the words of Legendary Beast Friend confirmed Scientist Ash's words as fact.
Because currently, except for this newbie's world, all other worlds had precedents of Legendaries being controlled by scientists—and these weren't ordinary Legendaries, but Legendaries with divine positions!
What did that mean? Legendaries with a divine position were basically at high God Domain Level to peak God Domain Level, and with the stacking effect of their divine position, their strength was at least at the peak God Domain Level.
In other words, a high God Domain Level could exert peak God Domain Level power, and a peak God Domain Level could even burst with power exceeding the peak God Domain Level.
For instance, the Dialga mentioned by Legendary Beast Friend was a top-tier Legendary; not only was it unique, but its strength was 100% at the peak God Domain Level.
Because it was a Legendary that had existed since the beginning of creation, in charge of time!
Could such an existence actually be controlled by technology? Had human technological development reached such a level? Surely not!
The legends regarding Dialga and the others were told to him by the big shots in the group. Kyogre and Groudon were ancient Legendaries with extraordinary strength, but they weren't unique; they belonged to a species, and only the strongest held the Divine Authority to control the earth and sea.
But Dialga and Palkia were different; they were Legendaries that had existed since the dawn of creation. According to the big shots in the group, the creator god Arceus created the world and split off the two great gods of Time and Space to maintain the order of space-time.
In addition to the two great gods, Arceus also created the third god who rules the Distortion World—Giratina.
These three gods could be said to be the highest combat powers below the Creator God. If even they could be captured by technology, then wouldn't other Legendaries be——————
[Champion Ash: There are indeed precedents of Legendaries being controlled, but wanting to control a Legendary is not that easy. If you think human technology can just casually control a Legendary, you're being too naive.]
[Champion Ash: To control a Legendary, the primary condition is to find a relevant medium for that Legendary. For example, to control Palkia and Dialga, you need the Lustrous Orb and the Adamant Orb. To put it bluntly, the reason humans can control Legendaries is still by starting from the Legendary's origin.]
The Adamant Orb and the Lustrous Orb were exclusive items for the Twin Gods of Time and Space. When the Twin Gods held these two items, their strength would receive a significant boost. Theoretically, these two things should always be bound to them. Ash didn't know of any other way to obtain these two items besides defeating these two Pokémon head-on.
But those villainous organizations used unknown methods to get their hands on those items closely related to the Legendaries.
The creation of Mewtwo was the same. Although Mewtwo was said to be created by human technology, it also relied on the power of the Mythical Pokémon Mew; Mew's genes played a massive role in it.
If humans could create a Pokémon out of thin air that had Champion-level strength at birth and could naturally reach the God Domain Level as time passed, then the whole world would have been in chaos long ago.
Moreover, the appearance of Mewtwo was unrepeatable. Whether in terms of technology or the laws of the world, there was only one Mewtwo in the world—the one in Ash's hands.
So, don't view human technology as something too terrifying. While human technology is indeed powerful, it requires the core of a Legendary as a catalyst to achieve something like controlling a Legendary.
Only a god can contend with a god.
[Ascender Ash: I understand. In short, I'll be extra careful. Well then, big shots, I'm going to do my gacha pulls now.]
[Non-Chief Ash: Go ahead, go ahead. Let me see what else you can pull.]
[Aura Hero Ash: What's this, Unlucky? Have you given up on treatment? In the past, whenever you saw the newbie doing gacha pulls, didn't you just go invisible and refuse to come out?]
[Non-Chief Ash: I've just faced reality. I can only say I was born with bad luck. Now I just want to see how far the luck of the me in another world can go, and if all my luck was sucked dry by that guy.]
[Breeder Ash: Now you're just being bitter. You weren't lucky before he even joined the group, so how can you say your luck was sucked dry by the newbie?]
The group started to get lively again with the appearance of Unlucky Ash. Every time Ash did a gacha pull, Unlucky Ash's appearance would seem very comical.
Meanwhile, Ash had arrived at the gacha interface. Since the last time he pulled the 'Limit Break', he hadn't pulled again, and he didn't know how many gacha pulls he had accumulated.
Up until now, Ash didn't know exactly how gacha pulls were earned; it felt like the criteria were too metaphysical. But one thing was certain: many 'first-time' events would grant gacha pulls.
Theoretically, the first time his Pokémon broke through to the Elite Four Class or something similar should also grant gacha pull rewards, including defeating Champion-level Pokémon, God Domain Level Pokémon...
As Ash calculated, he clicked on the notification bar, and as a result, he was blinded by the row of notifications. This—how many gacha pulls were there?!
One, two, three... thirteen, a full thirteen gacha pulls!
Counting them up, it was almost the same as the total number of pulls he had done from the start of his journey until his previous pull. Didn't the big shots in the group say that gacha pulls would become harder and harder to obtain later on? This isn't hard at all!
Let's see what gave the gacha pulls. First was the battle with Giovanni, defeating Mewtwo while it was still in the pseudo-God Domain stage, and winning within the rules and order of the Creator God—that was two pulls in total.
Later, there was defeating the true God Domain Level Mewtwo, as well as crushing the ghosts of two ancient Pokémon, plus participating in the Indigo Plateau Conference and reaching the top 8, top 4, and winning the Championship for the first time... What the heck, kissing Misty counts too?!
All sorts of things added up to a total of thirteen gacha pulls. With his luck, perhaps these thirteen pulls could directly bring about a qualitative change!
"Then... let's begin!" Ash took a deep breath and then went all-in with all his gacha pulls at once!
Pulling one by one, praying, getting a blessing, or whatever other metaphysical nonsense—Ash didn't need any of it. He just needed to go all-in! All-in! All-in!!
[Ascender Ash: Big shots, I'm back!]
[Champion Ash: What did you pull this time? How many pulls? Any S-rank?]
In the past, S-rank rewards were basically very rare. But ever since the newbie Ash joined the group, S-rank rewards seemed to have become commonplace, appearing almost every once in a while. This led to Champion Ash directly asking if there were any S-ranks as soon as Ash did a gacha pull. In the past, an S-rank was something one wouldn't even dare to dream of!
[Ascender Ash: Yes, there are three.]
[Non-Chief Ash: !!!! No, how many pulls did you do, a hundred-pull streak? How could you pull three S-ranks?!]
Unlucky Ash had tried his best to overestimate Ash's luck, but he found that the existence of a 'King of Luck' was simply beyond his comprehension!
What the hell is this? How can someone pull three S-rank abilities at once? Did he pull them by sacrificing his lifespan?
[Ascender Ash: Uh—I only had thirteen gacha pulls. I also feel like my luck was pretty good today.]
[Non-Chief Ash: ————Is this just 'pretty good luck'? You've sucked dry the gacha luck of the entire group!]
In the entire group, besides the new Ash, the others only had two S-rank pulls combined. All their gacha pulls added up to at least a thousand, maybe even several thousand, and that only resulted in two S-ranks. Needless to say, the probability was incredibly low.
And Ash this time—with only thirteen pulls, he got three S-rank rewards. It wasn't even known what rank the others were yet. How insanely lucky can one be!