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After bidding farewell to Sebastian and Rock in embarrassment, Roy walked back to his room to pack his luggage.
"Sorry, Roy, I was too shocked just now and didn't answer," Lucario communicated telepathically, feeling guilty. Being connected with Roy, it could sense the strong impulse of "social death" he had just experienced.
"Lucario, I think you don't understand at all..." Roy sighed. "It's over, don't mention it again, just pretend it never happened, understand?"
"My question..." the earnest Lucario continued to apologize.
"Don't mention it..."
When Roy opened the door, he saw the little Cosmog rushing toward him. He skillfully picked it up and placed it on his shoulder.
The interior was spotlessly clean, with all clothes and sundries neatly packed in the suitcase.
"That's right, Little Cosmog, you're very talented at housekeeping."
"Co!" Little Cosmog proudly put its hands on its hips.
In reality, it had taken a month to learn how to pack things and fold quilts... What a silly but endearing Pokémon.
Roy inspected the house himself, and after making sure nothing was left behind, he looked around the room where he had stayed for nearly two months, feeling a momentary sadness.
He wished he could stay here a while longer.
"Let's count our achievements," Roy said to himself.
Roy opened the system panel and examined his Pokémon information. Excluding his housekeeping Little Cosmog, among his four Pokémon, the most powerful was still Lucario.
Under normal circumstances, Lucario now held an A level comprehensive evaluation, just one step away from the [Species Maximum Level] belonging to the Lucario group.
At his current level, Roy's self-created "Lightning Forged Body + Agility" technique provided no qualitative increase to Lucario's strength, functioning essentially as an advanced transformation move.
But "Aura Boxing" was different.
Once entering the Condition, Lucario's speed, reaction time, and combat awareness improved greatly, elevating him to the upper reaches of A+ level.
The further up the ratings you went, the bigger the gap between them, and the boost from "Aura Boxing" was remarkably high. This was indeed the strongest combat advantage for a Trainer.
As for aura fusion, which belonged to the power of the Trainer, Roy hadn't included it for the time being.
Roy initially thought Elekid was second in strength.
However, recently, Wartortle had given him a big surprise.
Even now, thinking of the move that Wartortle had created itself, Roy was still somewhat amazed.
"Its unconventional thinking has really produced something impressive..."
"This isn't just a water blast, call it whatever you want," he muttered.
Overall, Wartortle's comprehensive rating was A-.
Its potential had been nearly fully tapped, and it was only one step away from evolving to its final form, Blastoise.
Ranked third was Elekid.
Elekid's comprehensive evaluation had reached B+ level under normal conditions.
After activating Lightning Armor, it rose to A-level.
As for "Sleep Combat," Elekid still hadn't mastered the technique.
Elekid had completed the first and second steps.
With its incredibly tenacious willpower, even professional-level Hypnosis from a Clefable couldn't affect it, and it already possessed an astonishing resistance to the Status Condition of "sleep."
Only the third step—how to enter the unusual state of "sleeping body, conscious mind"—remained confusing.
Roy also discovered that Elekid possessed extremely strong vitality and willpower, which were its strengths.
However, its comprehension was somewhat poor.
Whether it was Lightning Forged Body or Cleep Combat, they all came from pure determination, having nothing to do with understanding.
This Pokémon was tough and reckless with tenacious vitality and unwavering will.
Elekid might never learn the "Sleep Combat" that required so much comprehension... Roy thought a little regretfully.
Ranked fourth was the little Vulpix.
The little one's progress could also be described as Extreme Speed—its comprehensive evaluation had reached B+ level.
Creatures with cute appearances like Vulpix, Eevee, and Pikachu were strictly Pokémon that were "not suited for battle" before evolution.
With minimal training to reach B+ level in this form, Vulpix's talent was exceptional.
Normally, the reckless Elekid was often outmaneuvered by her.
Unfortunately, Vulpix lacked a move like Elekid's "explosive seed." Once Elekid activated its Lightning Armor, it could overpower her directly.
Thus, Vulpix could only rank fourth.
"Perhaps it's time to exchange Vulpix's Ice Stone," Roy thought.
The idea made Roy feel a little sad.
If the little one grew up, he could no longer let it rest on his belly or play around on his shoulder.
People had double standards. After experiencing this conflict himself, Roy somewhat understood the feelings of Trainers who were reluctant to let their Pokémon evolve.
"However, there's no rush."
Roy clicked on the mall interface and found the Ice Stone category.
These evolutionary stones were actually crystals of elemental energy.
In the game, evolution stones were treated equally, all having the same price without any difference.
But in reality, unless artificially produced, the purity of each evolutionary stone varied.
For evolutionary stones, there were quality classifications.
Low-quality evolutionary stones could be purchased through Capital's channel for 500,000 Pokédollars.
Slightly better ones started at three million.
The highest quality evolutionary stones started at 20 million.
But... this was just the quality grading of Trainers.
In the system interface, quality was divided into low, medium, high, and perfect.
The best quality evolutionary stone available outside was only the second grade in the system mall—medium-quality.
The truly top-grade, perfect evolutionary stone, no one had discovered yet... Or perhaps someone had discovered it but hadn't announced it publicly.
Since it was for Vulpix, Roy naturally wanted the best resources.
An Ice Stone of perfect quality was his goal.
Evolution stones of different purities contained different energy levels. Although they could all trigger evolution, they impacted the Pokémon's talent after evolution.
"Perfect Ice Stone, 10 million points..."
Roy looked helplessly at his balance.
Three hundred thousand...
With these few points, continuous high-intensity training wouldn't last long.
"Back in Capital, Lucario and the others might have to suffer eating plain food for a few days," Roy thought.
If those eyeing the position of chief recommendation student knew Roy's thoughts, they would certainly be angry.
Imagine calling the top-tier food resources of Capital University "plain food"!
What did he usually feed them? Energy cubes?
Picking up his backpack, Roy walked out of the room and saw the disciples of Promise Gym waiting. Many of them were his acquaintances.
They were all smiling and saying goodbye to Roy.
"We'll watch the National College League. Don't embarrass our Gym!"
"Weren't you chatting and laughing with Hermes of the Illuminati? Winning a small national championship should be no problem!"
"Where are Lucario and Wartortle? Let me give them a hug before you go."
"Can I cuddle Vulpix? I've been wanting to for so long!"
The previous comments were fine, and Roy agreed with a smile, but the last request was too outrageous.
Roy said unhappily, "Sister, I think your target isn't Vulpix, but me."
"Oops, busted!" The senior sister pretended to be cute.
After chatting for a while, Roy bid farewell to them with only one sentence:
"—See you later."