Gourmet master of the Pokemon world

With a "poof" sound, Zeraora was successfully captured.

It was already exhausted from the battle with Metagross, and naturally had no strength left to break free from the Poké Ball.

Seeing that Zeraora was successfully captured, Metagross exited its Mega Evolution state and floated to Ange's side.

Ange smiled and asked Metagross, "How was your first official battle using Mega Evolution?"

"Meta ~" Not bad!

Metagross's voice carried a hint of laughter.

It had been buried in the laboratory for a long time and hadn't had a proper battle in ages, so it felt very refreshed to move its muscles a bit.

"That's good."

Ange teased it, "You still need to exercise more, or what will happen if you get rusty?"

Metagross didn't catch Ange's teasing and said seriously, "That won't happen, I'm very careful about maintenance!"

Ange never mistreated his Pokémon, and he bought all the materials needed to maintain a Steel-type Pokémon's body, choosing only the most expensive and best ones.

Metagross was indeed maintained to a sparkling shine.

Hearing Metagross's words, Ange chuckled, leaving Metagross confused.

Then Ange released Zeraora again, only to see it slumped on the ground, panting heavily, its fur soaked with sweat.

Ange looked at it and asked, "How is it, are you convinced?

If you're not convinced, I can continue to fight you!"

Zeraora glared at Ange without saying a word.

Ange smiled and said, "You're making it sound like we're in the wrong."

Zeraora lowered its head upon hearing this.

Ange asked suspiciously, "Where did you come from to Azoth?

Our Azoth shouldn't have a Pokémon like Zeraora."

We'll provide electricity for you to absorb, and once you've worked off your debt, we'll let you leave."

Zeraora raised its head in surprise upon hearing this.

It was such a rare Pokémon, and someone who captured it was actually willing to let it go?

It wasn't that it hadn't been in contact with humans before, but everyone who had seen it in the past had looked as if they had discovered a new continent, and couldn't wait to capture it!

Unfortunately, none of those people were its match and had no right to capture it!

Ange looked at Factory Director Finn and said, "Factory Director, is that okay?"

Factory Director Finn said, "Since Your Highness has said so, then okay."

The factory was established with royal funding, so of course he would listen to the royal family.

Ange looked at Zeraora again, waiting for its reply.

After a long while, Zeraora nodded slightly.

Ange smiled and asked, "Now can you tell us where you came from?"

Zeraora hesitated for a moment, and finally revealed its origins.

It turned out that it wasn't even a Pokémon from this world!

Speaking of the Pokémon world, one must mention the Mythical Pokémon standing at the top of all Pokémon, the being known as the Creator God—Arceus.

Legend has it that Arceus's main body is hidden in an unknown place in slumber, while its countless avatars manage all the Pokémon worlds.

Because countless parallel worlds are derived in the process of the Pokémon world's development, every parallel world has the figure of an Arceus avatar.

In other words, all the Arceus that people have seen from ancient times to the present are only its avatars, not the main body.

Zeraora came from one of these parallel worlds.

Its home was in the Alola region of a parallel world, but it was destroyed by a special Pokémon.

That Pokémon was the Ultra Beast, Guzzlord.

Guzzlord, the Junkivore Pokémon, with the Dark and Dragon typing, is one of the Ultra Beasts, an unknown life form among the Ultra Beasts.

Ultra Beasts are Pokémon from other worlds.

In the world where they originally lived, they could only be considered ordinary Pokémon, but after crossing the Ultra Wormhole to the Pokémon world, they would be affected by unknown forces and become extremely dangerous anomalies, possessing the desire to devour everything.

Zeraora's home was devoured by a Guzzlord that crossed over from another world.

(Only its home was devoured, not the world.)

During the process of Zeraora fighting Guzzlord, it accidentally fell into a spatial rift because it was no match for it, and coincidentally came to this world.

Because it couldn't return to its own world, Zeraora began to travel around this world.

And because its hometown was gone, Zeraora didn't have much attachment to returning to its original world.

Its only regret was probably not knowing what happened to that Guzzlord in the end, and whether someone defeated it.

During its travels, Zeraora passed through Azoth.

Because its electricity was being depleted, it thought about stopping its journey to replenish its power.

It just didn't expect that Azoth hadn't had any thunderstorms for some time.

A lack of electricity would cause Zeraora to feel pain, so it thought about stealing some electricity from humans to replenish itself.

But its demand was too great, and ordinary electricity couldn't satisfy it at all, often causing large-scale power outages in the surrounding area when it stole electricity.

By chance, it discovered the existence of the energy factory, and sensed a large amount of pure electricity from inside, so it secretly sneaked in.

Sure enough, the electricity in the energy factory was completely different from the electricity outside.

After absorbing it, it felt refreshed all over.

So, seizing the opportunity, it absorbed it like crazy, eventually attracting the attention of the factory staff.

After listening to Zeraora's story, Ange sighed, "It seems you've had it rough too."

Its hometown was destroyed, and it was stranded in an unfamiliar world, what a miserable situation.

After learning about Zeraora's experience from Ange, Factory Director Finn and Kimia also felt sympathy for it.

Factory Director Finn patted Zeraora on the shoulder and said, "Although you're pitiful, the matter of damaging the factory equipment can't be forgotten, but I'll take care of you more in the future, so just stay here with peace of mind!"

Zeraora: . . .

After Ange treated Zeraora's injuries, he returned the Poké Ball to Zeraora.

"I'm returning the Poké Ball to you.

You decide for yourself whether you have repaid enough for the energy factory's losses, and you also decide when to leave."

Zeraora looked at the Poké Ball in its hand, a little unable to believe that this human in front of it actually trusted itself so much.

Wasn't he afraid that I would run away now?

After being silent for a while, Zeraora suddenly asked Ange, "Human, what's your name?"

Ange was stunned, then smiled and replied, "My name is Ange, Ange Azoth!"

After saying that, Ange looked at Factory Director Finn and said, "Now it's a mess here, I think Factory Director Finn still has a lot to be busy with, so we won't disturb you.

We'll come to see you when we have time."

Factory Director Finn quickly said, "I'll be waiting for Your Highness to come at any time."

Then Ange waved to Zeraora and said, "Then Zeraora, work hard, goodbye!"

With that, Ange and Kimia left the energy factory.

Zeraora watched Ange's back, silently reciting his name until Ange completely disappeared from its sight.

When Ange returned home, Munchlax and Gengar were making lunch, while Diancie and Inteleon were drying herbs on the fence with Araquanid, Musharna, and Lucario.

Herbs need to be dried before they are stir-fried into tea leaves.

Because of Solrock, the time required for this drying process was greatly reduced.

Ange walked over and grabbed a handful of herbs, squeezing them, "They're almost dry, let's start the next step this afternoon."

Diancie agreed: "Okay, what's the next step?"

At this time, Munchlax stood at the door, waving frantically at Ange and the others. Seeing this, Ange smiled and said, "Lunch is ready, let's eat lunch first, and then we'll talk about it after lunch."

So he led several Pokémon into the house.

After lunch, Ange, along with Diancie, Magearna, Munchlax, Gengar, Inteleon, Passimian, and Sandygast, sat around a large bamboo sieve filled with the dried herbs.

Ange took out a small pair of scissors and said, "Our job now is to cut the herbs into shreds."

He then demonstrated, "See, just like this!"

With each snip of Ange's scissors, the herbs in his hand immediately turned into evenly thick strands.

As a chef, he was undoubtedly skilled in this area.

Herb leaves are very wide, about the size of Ange's palm. If they are not cut into shreds, they cannot be stir-fried into tea leaves at all.

"Sandy ~ Sandy ~"

After watching Ange's demonstration, Sandygast immediately expressed that it was simple and it could do it easily.

Saying that, it stretched out its hand towards Ange.

"Be careful, I won't spare you if you ruin them!" Ange took out another pair of scissors and placed it in its palm.

"Sandy ~ Sandy ~" Sandygast confidently puffed out its chest, and then grabbed the scissors and started cutting.

But after only two snips, it immediately received a punch on the head from Diancie.

"What are you cutting? Did a dog chew on it?"

Sandygast looked at the herbs in its hand, only to see that a piece of herb had already been cut to pieces.

"San—dy—gast!" Ange glared at Sandygast through gritted teeth.

Sandygast was so frightened that it shivered all over, and resentfully stuffed the scissors into Munchlax's hand.

"Munch ~ Munch ~" Munchlax recalled Ange's technique just now, picked up a leaf and started cutting.

After cutting it, it excitedly held up the result for Ange to see.

"Munch ~ Munch ~" Master, look how I cut?

Ange gave a thumbs up and praised: "Good cutting, as expected of Munchlax!"

"Munch ~" Munchlax was immediately overjoyed and started cutting again. It was indeed much better than Sandygast.

Sandygast moved closer to Munchlax, put its head on Munchlax's shoulder, and muttered softly unconvinced:

"It's not that much better than me!"

Passimian, who heard its muttering next to it, couldn't help but think: It's really lying through its teeth.

"Sandy ~ Sandy ~"

The clumsy Sandygast was forbidden by Ange to touch the scissors again. It couldn't help but constantly give pointers to Munchlax from the side.

Anyone who didn't know would have thought it was the skilled one!

Fortunately, Munchlax didn't listen to it, otherwise who knows what the result would be.

Everyone received scissors from Ange and started cutting like Ange, each one better than Sandygast.

"Sandy ~" Watching everyone busy, Sandygast puffed out its cheeks with an unconvinced look.

At this time, Ange slapped his forehead, "That's right, the afternoon's competition is about to begin, I almost forgot!"

Saying that, Ange turned on the TV. Just at this time, the live broadcast of the League Competition had just begun.

In this way, Ange and the others watched the live broadcast of the League Competition while cutting the herbs.

Soon, Ash appeared to applause from the audience.

Because it was still the preliminary round, Ash won very easily, winning the match with just one Talonflame.

After Ash, Ange also saw Shauna appear. She had indeed also participated in the League Competition.

The Pokémon Shauna used was Aegislash. Her Doublade, like Ange's, had evolved into Aegislash.

Shauna's Aegislash was very strong. Similarly, relying on this one Pokémon alone, she defeated the opponent's three Pokémon in a row and won the match.

After Shauna, Ange also saw Alain appear.

This trainer, who had fought with Ange, was also overly strong, winning the preliminary round with one Tyranitar.

After Alain's match ended, Ange and the others had almost finished cutting the herbs.

Because there were many helpers, although the number of herbs was not small, Ange and the others only spent a little time to complete it.

After the herbs are cut, the next step is kneading.

Ange said: "Let's start the next step!"

"Du ~ ki ~ du ~" What to do?

Magearna asked suspiciously.

Ange thought for a while and said, "Watch, I'll demonstrate first."

The Pokémon nodded and gathered around Ange.

Ange grabbed the bamboo sieve with one hand, and rolled the other hand back and forth on the herb shreds, while also using his Aura to act on the herb shreds.

The kneading process requires attention to strength, too much or too little is not good.

This was also Ange's first time. Although he was demonstrating to everyone, he was actually quite nervous in his heart.

Under Ange's kneading, the herb shreds began to slowly deform, changing from the original filamentous shape to small spring-like curved shapes.

The reason for this step is actually to reduce the volume of the tea leaves, prepare for the subsequent stir-frying, and also to slightly damage the internal structure of the herbs, so that it is easier to brew tea juice after it is made into tea leaves.

After kneading, Ange wiped the sweat from his forehead and said to the Pokémon: "That's roughly it, everyone try it."

So everyone took a sieve of herb shreds and started kneading.

But no one expected that the one who did the best in this step was actually Sandygast.

Sandygast's fleshy ball stores electric current. During the kneading process, a subtle electric current flows into the herb shreds with its movements, appropriately destroying its internal structure.

Moreover, because it had cultivated Aura, Sandygast had very precise control over its own electric current, and did not cause adverse effects on the herb shreds. Instead, it thoroughly stimulated the aroma of the herbs.

Ange walked up to Sandygast, grabbed a handful of kneaded herb shreds, smelled the fragrance they emitted, and couldn't help but praise Sandygast:

"Sandygast, you're simply a genius."

"Sandy ~ Sandy ~" Humph ~ Now you know how great I am!

Sandygast proudly wanted to puff out its chest, but what puffed out was its round belly.