"The air here is better than on Earth, no matter which side."
The young man stood at the edge of the forest. He lowered his head and looked at the little one beside him. "How does the new world feel, Ogerpon?"
"Poniii?"
Ogerpon is a legendary Pokémon from the Pokémon Scarlet and Violet game.
She has a green body adorned with white flowers and yellow circular patterns, with black outer legs, white inner legs, and two green leaves between her toes.
From her appearance, Ogerpon seems to be wearing a green cloak, with large black thorny vines growing on the upper part of the cloak, and the two topmost thorns resembling horns.
At this moment, hearing Rin's question, her small mandarin orange-colored face, with two starry eyes, happily narrowed into slits. "Poniii~ Poniii yo! (New world, Ogerpon likes it)"
"Good that you like it."
Rin looked at the little one jumping and making joyful sounds, and couldn't help but smile.
He gently patted Ogerpon's head, then opened her attribute panel.
[Ogerpon]
Contractor: Itoshi Rin
Race: Pokémon
Existence Value (magicules): 6500
Magic: Grass-type Pokémon Magic (Grass-type moves)
Inherent Abilities: Element Absorption, Ability Enhancement
Unique Skills: Destroyer (possesses the power to destroy any substance), Growth (can continuously grow by defeating opponents)
"Destroyer and Growth, huh?"
What appeared before Rin was not a Pokémon's attribute panel, but a status bar unique to this world.
A month ago, Rin awakened his memories from his previous life.
In this life, he was a farm boy from a village on the outskirts of the Falmuth Kingdom.
The Falmuth Kingdom is located northwest of the Jura Great Forest, with a population of thirty million citizens, plus ten million Free Guild members, totaling forty million people, making it one of the largest nations among the Western nations.
However, the lives of ordinary commoners in this country were not good.
Falmuth is a feudal country ruled by nobles, and commoners can only ensure they don't starve to death. Their purpose is to be exploited and bled dry by those high and mighty rulers.
From the initial confusion and helplessness to the excitement under the world's voice.
In just a few tens of minutes, Rin learned what kind of world he had transmigrated into.
Falmuth Kingdom, Jura Great Forest, aren't these place names from That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime?
The young man looked exactly like Rin in his previous life, just younger, about fifteen or sixteen years old.
As for the reason for transmigration...
Rin's last memory stopped at a dirt truck flashing white light.
"So, did I soul-transmigrate, or reincarnate into another world and only now awakened my past life's memories?"
If it were the former, Rin did not detect another soul.
His former self's memories from childhood felt as if Rin had experienced them firsthand, with no sense of incongruity whatsoever.
"No matter which one, being able to live again is a gain anyway."
Rin, with a 'when in Rome' mindset, began to accept his new identity.
Soon, Rin discovered that his identity in this world was very delicate.
Although he was a half-demon, his former self did not inherit much of the demon's power. Instead, he suffered discrimination from normal humans and was very unwelcome in the village.
Fortunately, Rin was not without anything.
As a transmigrator, he regretted not awakening a system, but Rin did have a unique golden finger.
Returning to the present, Rin closed Ogerpon's attribute panel.
"Open panel."
Then, Rin's thought moved slightly, and a new panel appeared in his mind.
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[Itoshi Rin]
Race: Half-Demon (Human and Demon Hybrid)
Existence Value: 3500
Magic: Energy Cube Creation, Spirit Space, Appraisal
Inherent Ability: Adaptability (Your body can adapt to the power of any system)
Unique Skills: Traveler [Exceptional] (You can open a door to an unknown world and traverse it), Leader (By recruiting followers, you can increase your own Existence Value), Capturer (Sign contracts with other creatures and convert them into dependents)
Dependents: Ogerpon
Marked World: Pokémon World
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In the world of Tensura, there exists a peculiar power called the world's voice, which provides feedback from the 'world's voice' when an individual changes, gains skills, or evolves skills.
In short, the world's voice can be understood as the rules and system of this world.
Whenever you acquire a new skill or undergo a new change, as long as its impact can pluck the string of the world and leave a mark on it, you will receive a gift from the world.
Rin has three Unique Abilities: Traveler, Leader, and Capturer.
The first one, Traveler, perhaps due to Rin's identity as a transmigrator, received the 'Exceptional' suffix.
[Unique Skill: Traveler]
Possesses the ability to allow an individual to leave the Cardinal World and traverse between planes and planets within the Tensura worldview.
Rin's Unique Skill goes a step further, capable of breaking through worldviews and traveling to other worlds.
The worldview of Tensura is not small. It can primarily be divided into three parts.
"A material world without magicules."
"A spiritual world of pure magicules."
"A chaotic world with both matter and energy."
While examining his own attributes, Rin also explained the common knowledge of the new world to Ogerpon. "The chaotic world, depending on the abundance of magicules, also has distinctions of high concentration, medium concentration, and low concentration."
For example, Rimuru's Earth before his reincarnation in the original work was a material world without magic.
And the world Rin is currently in, where Demon Lords and the world's voice exist, is the top one among the chaotic worlds.
It is also known as the Cardinal World, the cornerstone and hub of the three major world systems: material, spiritual, and chaotic.
Furthermore, because the Cardinal World has always been bathed in high concentrations of magicules, its essence has undergone tremendous changes.
"Po?"
Ogerpon bent down, she poked at the dirt and stones on the ground with her small hands, then tilted her small head. ("Poniii feels that the things here are no different from the original world?")
"That's because you've also become stronger, Ogerpon."
Rin said, "Every blade of grass, every tree, even a grain of sand here, possesses a solidity and density incomparable to other worlds."
To make a simple analogy, although humans in the Cardinal World and humans on Earth look and function physiologically the same, there is a dimensional gap in their physical capabilities.
What could destroy an area with a radius of several kilometers on Earth might only create a hundred-meter-wide pit in the Cardinal World.
This is also Rin's confidence in daring to travel between worlds without fear of sudden death.
Although he is just an ordinary E-rank human boy in the Cardinal World.
But put him in the Pokémon World he just traversed, he's definitely a super-super true newcomer.
"Ponooo!"
Ogerpon suddenly understood. She stood up and looked at Rin with admiration. ("That's why Rin is so amazing, he helped Pon! Popon defeat those bad guys in a flash)
What Ogerpon was referring to was Rin's first journey.
(To be continued.)