"I have something to talk to you about."
Gar nodded, and a magic circle lit up beneath his feet:
"Okay."
Whoosh!
He vanished without a trace.
Magnolia Town.
Deep in the West Side Forest, Gengar's training ground.
After being away for several months.
Other than a lot of weeds and fallen leaves on the ground, there wasn't much change here.
Gar pressed his waist, and Gengar emerged from its Poké Ball and landed on the ground.
Upon realizing this was its base, it immediately waved the triangular fork in its hand, and one Dark Void after another appeared. Gastly, Haunter, and the Gengar swarmed out, then flew about joyfully.
Gar clapped his hands and laughed:
"Alright, play later."
"Let's get some work done first."
With that, Gar dumped everything he had collected over the past year, starting from the elimination of Deliora, out of his dimensional space. The main bulk of it was from the Dark Guilds he had eliminated in recent months.
In an instant, a small mountain the size of a football field appeared on the training ground.
This was even after clearing out one warehouse; otherwise, there would have been even more. Looking at these materials, Gastly and Haunter were a bit bewildered.
Gar smacked his lips and said:
"Sort these materials by attribute."
Upon hearing Gar's command, hundreds of Gastly and Haunter, along with a dozen Gengar, swarmed over.
Each used Confusion to pick and choose, constantly throwing out Dark-attributed materials, piling them onto the empty space nearby.
Gar stood before the pile of materials. He absorbed all the useless Dark-attributed materials into the system to refine them into origin energy and repair the system, while the useful ones were placed on the ground, ready to be put away later.
After more than ten minutes, with the efforts of hundreds of Ghost Pokémon.
The Dark-attributed materials being thrown over gradually decreased; most had been sorted.
At this moment, Gar used Confusion to pick up a Dark-attributed stone.
Although the dark aura was dense, using magic to probe its interior revealed no peculiarities.
Gar directly threw it into the system space for refinement.
Suddenly.
Gar felt an anomaly within the system space:
"Hmm?"
His consciousness directly sank into the system space. He saw that the Dark-attributed stone thrown into the system, instead of being directly refined like other materials, began to emit dazzling light. Cracks continuously appeared on its surface, and soon a magic circle emerged.
"This is... a sealing array?"
Completely different from the sealing magic on the Ishgar continent at this stage, Gar could only deduce this from the aura emanating from the array.
In this current scenario, it was clear that the system space had broken the array during the refinement process.
Whatever was inside seemed about to break free.
However, Gar wasn't worried at all. He watched curiously. A few seconds later.
The glowing stone shattered with a crash, and the sealing array completely vanished.
A powerful demonic aura assailed him, accompanied by a rampant shriek:
"Hahahahaha, damn Chronos (God of Time)! I, the Plague God, am back...!"
"Ah ah ah ah ah!!!"
"Damn it! What is this place?!"
"Stop me..." The so-called "Pain God," who had just been shrieking rampantly, was instantly refined into origin energy the moment he appeared in the system space.
Compared to the sealing array, which even Gar hadn't noticed and took a few seconds to be refined, this Pain God, in his soul form, couldn't even put up a fight. He had just cast a few layers of shields when his soul and shields were all refined.
Meanwhile, Gar was deep in thought.
Chronos?
An ancient existence?
No wonder the array bore almost no resemblance to current arrays.
He remembered that Chronos was the God of Time in the Fairy Tail world. Unlike ankhseram, who created the immortal Jellal with just a single Curse, this God of Time's soul could be received by Dimaria Yesta, one of the Holy Shield from the Alvarez Empire, indicating his death.
He could definitely research how to acquire it.
To see what this so-called God of Time's soul truly was.
As the Plague God's soul was refined.
The system's repair progress advanced considerably, and a new section, [Berry Exchange], suddenly opened within the system.
Gar's eyes lit up, and his consciousness sank into it.
He saw hundreds of Berries, densely packed, but most were black Berry statues, like unactivated Pokémon origin statues.
Only about two dozen Berries at the very front were lit up, with names and descriptions below them:
["Plague Berry (Highest-tier Berry): 300,000 points."]
["Virus Berry (High-tier Berry): 200,000 points."]
["Poison Berry (High-tier Berry): 200,000 points."]
["Sickness Berry (Mid-tier Berry): 150,000 points."]
["Flu Berry (Mid-tier Berry): 120,000 points."]
["Fever Berry (Low-tier Berry): 70,000 points."]
["Sensation Berry (Highest-tier Berry): 400,000 points."]
["Pain Berry (High-tier Berry): 200,000 points."]
So expensive... and useless; he wasn't incapable of using pain magic.
There were more than twenty Berries in total. As Gar's thoughts moved, many pieces of knowledge inexplicably flooded his mind, and he understood that these abilities were all decomposed from that Plague God.
To activate other Berries, he needed to collect the demon souls of corresponding abilities, or travel to other worlds to collect the relevant abilities for creation.
Moreover, by collecting a higher-tier Berry, he could unlock lower-tier Berries.
For example, collecting the Age-Age Berry would unlock the Time-Time Berry and the Reverse-Reverse Berry, because the Age-Age Berry is the superior Berry to these two, possessing their abilities to move into the future or reverse time.
So... how does one travel to other worlds?
This thought flashed through Gar's mind.
The next second.
A piece of information flashed through his mind.
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