"Keh!"
Following Kairos's call, the next second, a deep purple figure immediately emerged from the nearby wall, hovering in front of him, flashing its big white teeth with a cheerful expression full of expectation as it looked at Kairos.
"Keh keh keh!!"
[What delicious food is there this time? I'm here!]
Seeing its appearance, Kairos felt somewhat helpless for a moment. It was hard to imagine that the Gengar who had once snuck into his room to eat his soul could never go back after tasting his cooking.
But this was actually good—it proved his cooking skills were indeed quite excellent, and it kept this guy settled here peacefully instead of going out and causing a bunch of commotion.
If the League found out there was suddenly an additional Gengar in the city, and a Gym Leader-level one at that, they'd probably immediately dispatch a large number of Officer Jennys to capture it.
No, Ghost-type Pokémon of this level would require specialists to handle...
With this thought, Kairos shook his head slightly and reached out to tap Gengar's incorporeal head.
"Stop thinking about food all day. I'm not keeping you here to freeload, time to work."
At these words, Gengar's expression immediately drooped, showing a dejected look. However, thinking of Chandelure's powerful combat ability and all that delicious food, it shook its head slightly.
Fine, fine. Living under someone else's roof means having to bow your head...
[Keh!]
It turned to look at Kairos, waiting for instructions. Kairos then pulled it to the computer and opened a text document for Gengar to review.
"To help you better understand game development, I prepared this especially for you. Study all of this first."
Gengar turned toward the screen, and when it saw the dense text, its mouth twitched slightly.
[Core Elements of Map Design and Fundamental Game Logic]
[Game Objectives and Methods for Achieving Player Satisfaction]
[Content to Enhance Experience During Gameplay]
Gengar's head was spinning now.
Honestly, it had never regretted learning human language as much as it did right now.
Is it too late to go back to the Ghost World??
Watching Gengar obediently begin studying at the computer, Kairos was actually contemplating. With the system's existence, he could quickly create content for any game, but it still required time and energy.
After Gengar learned these basics, he'd only need to share his ideas with it, and it could help him create these games, reducing the time needed for game development and improving efficiency.
What pleased him most was that according to his inquiry, the system indicated it could install the game creation modules on Gengar, allowing it to use the modules normally when using the computer to accelerate game development.
Thinking of this, Kairos shook his head slightly again.
Although the creation modules he currently had were all high-level, they weren't enough.
If someday he could just imagine something in his mind and the game modules would automatically generate corresponding game content, then Gengar could retire and go play wherever it wanted...
Just as Kairos was pondering, a system notification suddenly popped up.
[Detecting host's needs, advanced game creation module store has been unlocked early. The module the host requires is, Mental Creation Module (Advanced)]
[Description: With this module, the host can automatically control the system through thoughts in their mind, generating corresponding game content, and can make fine adjustments using mental commands. It also accelerates game creation efficiency by 300%. All games you create with deep strategic content will increase emotion point generation by 200% when played!]
Seeing this notification, Kairos raised an eyebrow and smiled slightly.
Speak of the devil...
This module could perfectly meet his needs, even providing an additional 300% boost to game creation efficiency and 200% increase in emotion point acquisition.
After all, games with the difficulty of Ultra Emerald should already count as having deep strategic content...
But if he wasn't mistaken, this module probably wasn't cheap either.
Sure enough, just as Kairos had expected, when he looked below the notification line, he was shocked to see a cost that was practically astronomical.
[Purchase cost: 100,000 emotion points.]
Kairos couldn't help but click his tongue. Just as he'd predicted, the more powerful game modules required increasingly outrageous amounts of shock points. These 100,000 points were more than all his current modules combined.
However, his emotion point acquisition rate was getting faster and faster. He glanced at his point balance—his account now had as many as 15,000 points.
This was the result of recent continuous sales increases for "Pokémon: Emerald" and gradual accumulation from his streaming.
As before, Kairos wasn't in a hurry to spend these points. Instead, he saved them up properly, waiting until he really needed them to make a big purchase...
With this thought, Kairos glanced at his quest panel.
There was still over a week until the New Game Festival would be completely settled.
As for that 500,000 viewer quest, it seemed to be the most achievable one currently. If those videos spread smoothly, it might even be completed tomorrow.
So I should continue doing what needs to be done now.
He reached out to close the quest panel and sat back down at another computer, opening the game development software and quickly entering his workflow.
The current story progression for "Ultra Emerald" had reached about halfway through the first playthrough.
The upcoming plot would have players go to Mt. Chimney, witness Team Aqua and Team Magma steal the two orbs, then infiltrate their respective bases to obtain key information.
After completing all this and challenging the Psychic Gym, the entire first playthrough would reach its climax—
The epic battle between Groudon and Kyogre. Even with current module capabilities, creating this story segment perfectly and completely would be somewhat challenging.
But thinking about presenting such a battle before all players, Kairos's mouth curved upward slightly.
It was time to give this world's players some real legendary Pokémon shock.
The next morning.
Sunlight fell into a detached villa in the Paldea region, illuminating the silhouette of a girl by the window.
Iono had just woken up, lazily stretching with drowsy eyes as she greeted the nearby Bellibolt.
After simple grooming, she came to her computer screen and eagerly started her stream.
She showed her trademark energetic smile to the screen.
"Hello hello~ It's Iono time! Good morning everyone! Today's goal is clear—take down the Flying Gym!!!"
After a full day of streaming yesterday, she had successfully cleared the Weather Institute content and struggled quite a bit to defeat her rival before falling asleep satisfied despite her exhaustion.
Getting up early today was naturally to continue playing Pokémon Emerald...
As soon as her stream opened, a series of viewers flooded into the stream room, and chat messages began surging more enthusiastically than usual.
[Good morning streamer! Have you forgotten you're still a Gym Leader yourself, haha, streaming Emerald every day.]
[Iono hasn't been to her Gym for three days, right? Won't the League revoke your Gym Leader status at this rate?]
[Shh, keep it down everyone. Being a Gym Leader is work, but streaming is real life, you know?]
Seeing these teasing chat messages, Iono's face turned red with a "puff."
She had indeed been obsessed with "Pokémon: Emerald" lately and hadn't properly managed her Gym in quite a while.
But the good news was that most of the time at her Gym, it wasn't necessary for her as the Gym Leader to battle trainers personally.
Her Levincia Gym's operating model was quite different from other Gyms.
And she was streaming to increase her stream's popularity anyway.
But these chat messages had a point, it wasn't really appropriate for a Gym Leader to be constantly obsessed with games.
In that case, well, she'd go to the Gym tomorrow.
As for today?
Play games first!
Iono made her decision and moved her mouse to the familiar game icon, preparing to open the game. However, just then, she noticed another series of new chat messages flooding her stream.
[Streamer, streamer, go check out the next room! There's someone doing an all-Bug team clear challenge!]
[Yeah yeah, on this same platform, room number a3657. He seems to be streaming now too—I just came from there.]
[This person is super amazing, go check it out quick! You might learn something!]
"Eh? All-Bug challenge?"
Iono tilted her head, immediately showing interested expression.
Honestly, after hearing this news, she was genuinely surprised.
Over the past few days, she had undoubtedly experienced this game's difficulty firsthand.
Even with a pure Electric-type team, she had encountered quite a few problems and difficulties in the game's progression.
Bug-types, in her impression, were undoubtedly the weakest and most unpopular of all types.
Would there really be a streamer who wanted to use this type for a clear challenge?
Was this just for attention?
Despite her doubts, Iono decided to check it out.
She skillfully entered the room number provided by chat in the upper right corner.
The page switched, and a simply styled stream room appeared before her—the streamer wasn't even showing their face, with no other decorations or windows, just the game interface and a concise title.
[Decent Person: Emerald, All-Bug Team Pushing Latest Progress]
Iono couldn't help but frown slightly.
Being experienced with streaming, she naturally knew that even slightly professional streamers would at least decorate their stream rooms to highlight their characteristics—this was essential for every streamer.
But this stream room seemed quite half-hearted... it didn't even have some interactive features enabled.
However, when her gaze swept across the real-time viewer count in the upper right corner, she was instantly stunned by the glaring numbers.
"F-fifty—500,000 online viewers?!"
Iono instinctively exclaimed, her eyes wide as saucers.
Although this number wasn't anything special for a big streamer like her—during popular streaming hours, her stream's viewer count could easily reach 500,000 too.
But the problem was that those who could reach this level of viewership were already considered top-tier streamers on the platform.
And this streamer called "Decent Person"—she had never heard of such a person before...
Had they just suddenly emerged recently?
Her curiosity was completely ignited. She ignored her own game that she'd just opened and focused intently on watching this stream room's content.
In the stream, this streamer seemed to be in the middle of a battle right now. After seeing the opponent's Pokémon, Iono immediately realized—this was the Normal Gym Leader battle!
On the other side of the battlefield was Norman's fearsome Mega Kangaskhan!
"Wow, this streamer's in for a tough time."
Iono couldn't help but exclaim, memories of being dominated by Mega Kangaskhan flooding back.
Sure enough, just as she expected.
In the screen, with Mega Kangaskhan's consecutive fierce attacks, the streamer's team Pokémon began falling one by one, until they were easily swept by Mega Kangaskhan.
[Streamer's done for!]
[Mega Kangaskhan is too strong, no choice.]
[You tried your best.]
Similar regretful messages scrolled through the other stream's chat.
Finally, when "Decent Person's" last Pokémon also fell, Iono unconsciously sighed.
"Phew."
Although they lost, this result seemed quite normal to her, since Mega Kangaskhan's strength was just too overpowered.
But this streamer's team composition was quite interesting—there were even many Pokémon she'd never seen before.
Just as she was about to say something, a calm male voice rang in her ears from the screen:
"Actually, there's a chance to beat Mega Kangaskhan here, but it would probably take many attempts. Since Norman will let us pass anyway after we win, there's no need—just let everyone faint."
"—Also, everyone worked hard this time. We'll come back for revenge next time."
Hearing this, Iono was stunned.
Could beat Mega Kangaskhan?
No way!