Early the next morning.
Sunlight shone through the window, shining on Axel's eyelids.
Axel lazily stretched and lifted Ralts, who was spread-eagled on top of him, off his body.
Yesterday he clearly placed Ralts to the side, even prepared a pillow and small blanket for her.
But at some unknown point, the little one crawled into Axel's bed and used her little feet to attack his vital parts.
If not for Axel's strong endurance, he would've had to wash the sheets today.
'Damn it!'
'When this little one grows up and understands things, she must be properly disciplined.'
It's worth mentioning that Axel appeared in that dream again last night.
At the same time, the system also gave an explanation: it was the system's own 'tag dungeon'.
This time, with the help of Pheromosa and Ralts, he successfully turned the tables.
After defeating Tsareena, he obtained the purple tag from her.
After using that tag to upgrade Pheromosa, her [Martial Arts] tag also successfully upgraded to purple.
Now its effect is:
[Martial Artist(Purple): Power of Fighting-type moves increased by 30%, much stronger than before.]
After defeating Tsareena, Axel walked out of the room and discovered he had entered a game-like world.
Compared to the real world, the Pokémon there were especially dumb.
Even dumber than little Ralts, as if they were preset programs.
Including Pheromosa and Ralts that he brought in were the same, and they didn't even know they had ever entered the game.
But the good news was that Pokémon spawned very quickly there. Just walking in the grass would encounter them, and he could farm tags from them.
After a night, Axel was about to challenge Pewter Gym, and his tag backpack had a dozen low-level tags.
The system also gave another tip.
After clearing a region, Axel could bring out one Pokémon from there.
About this, Axel really wanted to complain a bit.
He already had two Pokémon with Master-level potential, what's the point of bringing out those soulless things?
But if he could bring out a Legendary...
Then just pretend he didn't say that...
A shiny Mega-evolved Fearow couldn't just wipe the field?
After washing up, the little loli knocked on Axel's door right on time.
"Brother Axel, hurry up and open the door, big news!"
"What big news?", Axel opened the door and looked at the little loli in a new outfit.
Today, the little loli wore dopamine-colored clothes, mainly green, matching with Smoliv. At the same time, it made her skin look especially fair and delicate, almost like snow.
The little loli looked at Axel with a strange expression, "You don't know about such big news? Don't tell me you were busy doing weird things to Ralts yesterday?"
"Ahem, no!", Axel answered firmly. Anyway, he was telling the truth.
The weird things were done to him by Ralts.
"Then how come you don't know?", Seeing that Axel didn't look like he was lying, the little loli mysteriously leaned close to him.
"Our class group is already spreading it. Someone blew up the Dragon God Plaza in Dragon Lake Park."
"Officer Jenny and the other security officers barely slept all night, investigating the cause."
"Also, a few mythology PhDs from Petalglen came to Emberpine City early in the morning to see if Lord Rayquaza is showing signs."
"If Lord Rayquaza descends, our Emberpine City will become famous!", By the last part, the little loli's eyes were full of longing.
Axel was dumbfounded.
He didn't expect breaking a statue to cause such a big event.
Even mythology scholars from the provincial capital came.
He originally thought this matter would only spread within Emberpine City, and he'd just repay the restoration cost later.
But now… it didn't seem that simple.
"Why would mythology scholars come? If it's just a statue collapse, it should have nothing to do with them, right?"
This time, the little loli didn't bother explaining. She casually tapped her phone a few times, showed it to Axel, and then went off to play with Smoliv and Ralts.
Axel looked at the bold headline on the phone screen.
[Yesterday Emberpine City's Dragon God Plaza collapsed, and at the same time a mysterious secret realm appeared outside the city. The secret realm is currently unstable. Recruiting Pokémon professors and aspiring trainers to explore it.]
He tapped it open and saw a female reporter in a professional suit doing a live broadcast.
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["Hello everyone, I'm Tracey, a reporter from Petalglen City TV Station. I'm reporting on the situation that occurred at Emberpine City's Dragon Lake Park."]
["As everyone knows, this world contains secret realms, which are divided into 'existing' and 'descended' realms."]
Axel nodded to himself. "Existing" realms were easy to understand, currently known Pokémon gathering areas.
For example, Kanto's Viridian Forest, Aurient's Thousand Island Lake secret realm, and Hethna River secret realm were all of that type.
As for "descended" realms, there were many types.
Some were relic revivals, others were space-time overlaps.
The most representative ones were Hoenn's Meteor Falls and Paldea's Area Zero.
Relic revival realms generally came with opportunities, space-time overlaps were full of both risks and rewards.
Reporter Tracey continued her live broadcast.
["Just last night, Emberpine City's Dragon God Plaza suffered a collapse of unknown cause."]
["After that, personnel discovered a newly descended secret realm entrance in the outer area of Emberpine City."]
["This secret realm entrance is extremely unstable. Ordinary trainers are advised to stay away from Emberpine City's eastern district."]
["Currently, mythology scholars are searching for a way to open the entrance. If there are any powerful trainers, we welcome you to join us!"]
The report ended there, but the livestream didn't shut off.
Looking at the unstable secret realm entrance on the phone screen, Axel had a headache.
He blew up the Dragon God Plaza, and then a secret realm appeared right after.
To say the two events were unrelated, almost impossible.
What was even crazier was, the secret realm entrance couldn't be opened...
That was a dangerous situation.
After a secret realm descends, it usually merges with the real world within a month.
If they didn't understand the Pokémon situation inside in time, once they came out, it might impact Emberpine City's current ecosystem.
If the Pokémon inside were violent, they might even threaten the city's safety.
'This is insane… all I wanted was to buy a candied hawthorn, and now this?'
Axel turned off the phone and returned Ralts to her Pokéball.
"Brother Axel, are you going out?", The little loli blinked at him, confused as to why he suddenly returned Ralts.
She dressed up extra pretty today, planning to hang out with Axel.
Axel nodded, "I'll skip breakfast, I want to go check out the ruins."
No matter what, this ruin appeared because of him.
Also, he had a feeling that golden tag was kind of mysterious. It might be related to the descended ruin.
Of course, if things seemed uncontrollable, he wouldn't recklessly charge in.
Is there any problem that can't be solved once the old couple comes back?
'As long as Rayquaza doesn't actually descend…'
'Cough, better not jinx it. That black dragon had a 1v6 feat in the Hoopa movie.'
"Then I'm going too!", The little loli excitedly grabbed Axel's arm. Her big sparkling eyes blinked and blinked, impossible to refuse.
Axel thought for a moment. The secret realm just appeared, it wouldn't descend all of a sudden.
The only real danger was Officer Jenny possibly finding out the cause and arresting Axel, the original culprit.
But for the little loli, there was no danger.
"Alright, let's go after breakfast."
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