Chapter 720: Ten Years, Items, and Plates
Kazuya didn't make Florges wait too long.
After sending Volcanion and Diancie back to the plateau, he said goodbye to everyone there and hurried to the underground world without stopping, like a child eager to go home after school.
Volcanion and Diancie were worried that he might encounter danger and wanted to follow.
But Kazuya dissuaded them.
He knew Volcanion and Diancie didn't want to go to the underground world; they preferred staying on the Nebel Plateau where everyone was.
Kazuya didn't want to force them.
Moreover.
It wasn't like he was going down and never coming up again.
Every three to five days, he would still come up for a breath of fresh air.
And bring some local specialties from the underground world that had survived since the ancient era for his plateau companions to taste.
Consequently.
After staying on the plateau for a while.
Kazuya immediately set off on the path back to the underground world.
As it happened.
The underground world was an excellent place for training.
There was no lack of survival resources or sparring partners, enough for him to stay there for many, many years.
When he returned to the underground world again.
Kazuya immediately went back under the giant tree.
Exactly the same as in his previous life.
The Bastiodon clan of this era still chose to accept Kazuya and agreed to let him stay in their clan.
This way, when sleeping at night.
He didn't have to worry about being attacked by other Pokémon.
Time passed day by day.
While accompanying Florges in the underground world, Kazuya also focused on his own training.
Many interesting things happened during these days.
He also knew they were all inextricably linked to Florges.
Although he couldn't see Florges's figure when he was training outside on a daily basis, the various inconspicuous little things happening around him made Kazuya clearly aware that she was right beside him.
For example.
When he was using Confusion to pick berries in the wild, the bushes nearby would suddenly shake.
Five seconds later.
A Pokémon that treated Kazuya as prey would rush out from there.
Clearly, that shaking bush was Florges reminding Kazuya that there was an enemy there.
This feeling.
Made Kazuya involuntarily think of the World Tree on the surface during his first four lives.
Wherever there were Time Flowers distributed, there were the eyes of the World Tree, and it could also use the Time Flowers to convey messages to Kazuya.
The World Tree in this life was different from the one in his previous lives.
It was unknown what the World Tree in his previous lives originally was; perhaps it could have been the incarnation of a certain Pokémon, or perhaps related to Mew.
The World Tree in this life was merely a fragment of a comet that had fallen tens of millions of years ago.
It had no thoughts of its own and couldn't communicate with other creatures, much less help Kazuya.
And now.
Florges had become the World Tree of this underground world.
Wherever there were plants underground in Kalos, her eyes were distributed, and she could also control those plants to convey messages to Kazuya.
The Tree of Beginning.
And.
The World's Eternal Tree.
Those who didn't know would think the two were siblings or something.
But they would absolutely never imagine.
According to the actual history of this life, the two World Trees were originally in a hostile state.
One was the world-destroying comet.
The other was the world-saving Dragon Clan.
Regardless.
As long as Kazuya was in this underground world.
It was basically unlikely for any life-threatening danger to appear.
After all, Florges was equivalent to half of the "Will of Heaven" in the Kalos underground world.
Besides training in the underground world.
Kazuya would also go to the surface every few days to learn about AZ's scientific research progress from Floette.
Or bring Volcanion and the others down to stroll around and explain the uses of various flowers, grasses, and vegetation in the underground world to them.
In the blink of an eye.
Ten years passed in a hurry.
Under Florges's deliberate guidance.
Kazuya had almost traveled all over the twenty-something large and small underground worlds beneath Kalos.
He had also met the descendants of the vast majority of the Dragon Clan from back then.
This point made him very gratified.
Counting the Dragon Clan descendants that survived in the underground worlds of other regions.
It could be said that basically all the tribes of the Dragon Clan had preserved their lineage, which was a cause for celebration.
In addition.
Kazuya also found some useful items in these underground worlds.
Such as...
Quick Claw, King's Rock, Metal Coat, Soft Sand, and Twisted Spoon, these five items.
Their effects were slightly different from those in the games, with some aspects weakened and some enhanced.
Respectively, they were:
Increasing the speed of making a move, simply put, accelerating casting speed.
Enhancing one's own deterrence and pressure, which was relatively illusory and ethereal.
Improving the effect of Steel-type moves.
Improving the effect of Ground-type moves.
Improving the effect of Psychic-type moves.
These five were somewhat useful, especially the last three items; the enhancement to combat power was visible to the naked eye.
For an existence like Kazuya who had already reincarnated for seven lives, such an improvement was already considered quite rare.
As for the specific changes in these items.
At least in Kazuya's view, they were more practical than in the games.
For example, the Quick Claw's increase in casting speed was a constant effect.
But the effect in the game was [has a 20% chance to activate, allowing the user to move before the opponent], a probability-based effect.
For Kazuya, who possessed Extreme Speed and Teleport.
The former effect was definitely the preferred choice.
The latter probability-based effect that relies on luck wasn't reliable, and it would also make people involuntarily develop a fluke mentality, which was not what he wanted.
The most worth mentioning were still the three items that enhanced the effects of single-type moves.
This was the most important part.
Previously, Kazuya already had Mystic Water, Dragon Fang, Miracle Seed, Sharp Beak, Charcoal, Black Belt, and Silk Scarf, these seven single-type enhancement items.
Corresponding to the seven major types: Water, Dragon, Grass, Flying, Fire, Fighting, and Normal.
Except for Normal.
The first six were all STAB (Same Type Attack Bonus) types that Kazuya had personally experienced.
And the Normal type is something all Pokémon dabble in to some extent.
So he knew very well what the actual effects of these single-type enhancement items were in reality and what changes they had.
The effect of this type of item in the game was nothing more than [increasing the power of moves of the same type by 20%].
But in reality.
Regarding the increase in move power.
It might not necessarily be as exaggerated as 20%.
But its effect was [increasing the effect of moves of the same type by 20%].
Power ≠ Effect.
The items in the game wouldn't work on moves like Double Team, Agility, Heal Pulse, Sunny Day, etc.
But in reality, they would.
For example, the newly acquired Psychic-type item "Twisted Spoon".
With this thing.
Kazuya's Hypnosis, Agility, Light Screen, Reflect, Psychic Terrain, Trick Room, Future Sight... and so on.
Any move belonging to the Psychic-type domain would all receive an enhancement in effect.
To say it was definitely stronger than its function in the game...
Might be somewhat biased.
After all, in the turn-based battles of the game.
As long as the power and speed were high enough to one-shot the opponent, that was fine. Other aspects of the effects didn't need much attention, especially in PvE battles when grinding maps and clearing the story, so increasing the power of a move by 20% was perhaps more important.
But in reality.
In Kazuya's view, the modified items were indeed more universally applicable and suited for more application scenarios.
Not only these single-type items.
The Plates, which also had the same function in the game.
Their application in reality had also been modified to the same template.
It was just that the enhancement effect was stronger, and they had an additional attribute of [immunity to damage of the corresponding type].
Up to this point.
The previous seven type items.
Plus the three newly acquired ones, and the four Plates Kazuya already possessed.
Had covered a total of 12 types.
One must know that there are only 18 Pokémon types in total.
Among them, 6 types.
Had already evolved into a PLUS version on Kazuya's body.
And the four major types possessing Plate bonuses—Water, Dark, Ground, and Electric—as well as Fighting and Psychic, which he had specifically trained in for more than a year or two, were even more of an Ultra version!
The current Kazuya could be said to be presentable in the living room, capable in the kitchen, able to behead enemies up close, and able to heal comrades when retreating.
"The stat panel is getting longer and longer..."
Kazuya glanced at the panel and muttered.
This panel was more exaggerated with each life.
Just this panel alone had nearly five hundred words; it was simply the favorite of those web novel authors.
Putting a panel in the text would complete twenty to thirty percent of a chapter.
Rustle, rustle~
Right at this moment.
The large tree nearby suddenly shook, and many green leaves rained down from the canopy.
Kazuya casually put away the panel and turned his head to look in that direction.
Nowadays, the length of the panel was no longer important to him.
After all, half of the moves and items in this panel might not even be used once or twice by Kazuya in this life.
What mattered was the actual strength.
A few seconds later.
"Roar——!!"
A massive Rampardos smashed headfirst through the large tree in front of it, charging relentlessly towards Kazuya's direction without stopping its footsteps.
Kazuya's figure flickered and instantly disappeared.
Rampardos immediately braked hard to a halt, looking around warily.
The next moment.
Bang!
A neon-colored sphere of light smashed into the back of Rampardos's neck.
Moonblast!
Kazuya, floating in mid-air using Confusion, withdrew his arm, watching as that Rampardos was one-shot and fell straight to the ground.
Kazuya floated down lightly to the ground.
He picked a small black flower from the bushes nearby, placed it on the unconscious Rampardos, and then turned to leave.
However.
The direction he was heading wasn't the direction where Florges was.
It was the direction to leave the underground world and head to the surface.
"A couple of days ago, Floette told me that AZ guy was almost finished building the Ultimate Weapon."
"I reckon it's pretty much done by now. I have to go take a look."
"I'll be back later."
Kazuya said as he walked.
He seemed to be talking to the thin air around him, but he was actually telling the surrounding plants, letting Florges know about this matter.
Only to see the small tree nearby gently shrug a few times, and then fall silent.
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