Vikavolt's Bug Buzz skill lasted for about two and a half minutes, its incessant buzzing echoing continuously throughout this vast dense forest.
This Bug Buzz was no ordinary sound, but an incredibly powerful AOE group attack skill with a formidable base power of 90, which, combined with Vikavolt's extremely high Special Attack stat of 145, resulted in destructive power that could only be described as terrifying.
Facing such a fierce offensive, the Shiftry clan instantly plunged into chaos and despair. Many Nuzleafs that had been baring their fangs and claws now had no power to retaliate; they painfully covered their ears, but the sharp, piercing Bug Buzz was like an omnipresent devil, directly penetrating their eardrums.
With a series of dull thuds, many Nuzleafs began to bleed from all seven orifices, the crimson liquid flowing down their cheeks.
Ultimately, these poor Nuzleafs and Seedots collapsed to the ground, lifeless, evidently having been shaken to death by the Bug Buzz skill.
Zhang Heng and Qi Shu, seeing that Vikavolt had stopped using its skill, lowered their hands from their ears and rubbed their throbbing heads.
Although the living forces of the Shiftry clan had been eliminated, there were still many stragglers in their lair. However, Qi Shu had no intention of letting them go; as a Gym Leader of Guangdong Province, she was not one to be soft-hearted.
She patted the Araquanid beside her and said, “Araquanid, go harvest.”
Araquanid, hearing this, was quite excited. It first directly stole Vikavolt's kill, using a single X-Scissor to decapitate a heavily injured Shiftry, then cut off its two arms and threw them to Qi Shu. Afterward, it sprayed silk onto a tree branch and climbed up into the Shiftry's lair.
Its movements were fluid, as if it had been doing this kind of cleanup work for years.
Qi Shu picked up the Shiftry's arms and put them into her backpack. Turning around, she saw Zhang Heng's scrutinizing gaze and said uncomfortably, “This is for Yi Shu. The leaves on a Quasi-Champion Shiftry's arms are excellent raw materials for making powerful herbs and mental herbs. The trunk can also be made into charcoal.”
Then Qi Shu turned back and pointed to a pile of fallen leaves next to the stone lake, where a human leg wearing official military boots was exposed, not fully covered, and a faint smell of decay wafted from it.
“Originally, I wanted to let them go, but the Shiftry clan has already crossed the Alliance's bottom line. Those leaves probably contain the forest rangers sent by the Alliance to investigate Lake Heart Island. They were ambushed by the Shiftry upon arriving at Lake Heart Island.”
Zhang Heng nodded slightly, raised a Heavy Ball, and said, “The remains of martyrs who died in the line of duty cannot be so insulted. Bastiodon! Fissure!”
As his words fell, the Heavy Ball instantly opened, and a dazzling light shot out from it. The massive Bastiodon, whose body was as hard as steel, reappeared.
It raised its heavy forelimbs and stomped down on the ground. Accompanied by a dull thud, a deep crack appeared in the ground beneath the pile of leaves, as if the earth had opened a ferocious giant maw, subsequently burying the remains of the heroes.
Finally, Zhang Heng walked forward, took out a clean white handkerchief from his embrace, tied it to a tree branch, and inserted it into the spot where the heroes' remains were buried, serving as a prominent marker.
After doing all this, he spoke to Qi Shu, “Remember to report to the Alliance to bring the heroes home.”
Qi Shu nodded slightly in agreement, and then the two closely followed the spider silk trails left by Araquanid, swiftly moving through the dense jungle, unknowingly having penetrated about 50 meters into it.
Just then, the area ahead suddenly opened up, and a majestic, ancient tree, towering and lush, appeared before their eyes. This ancient tree stood like an old and mysterious castle in this dense forest, exuding an awe-inspiring aura.
Upon closer inspection of this ancient tree, one could see that its thick trunk had an astonishing circumference, requiring about five adult men holding hands to barely encircle it. Looking up, the crown soared into the clouds, roughly estimated to be at least 25 meters tall. The ancient tree's branches crisscrossed and intertwined, forming a dense green canopy. Sunlight filtered through the gaps in the leaves, casting mottled light and shadow on the ground, like a beautiful natural painting.
“It seems this is the Shiftry clan's gathering place.” Zhang Heng had just finished speaking when he noticed a blue figure at the foot of the tree. His mouth twitched, and he asked Qi Shu beside him, “Is your Araquanid always this brave?”
The blue figure was indeed Araquanid; it effortlessly climbed up to a tree hollow ten meters up the trunk, taking out the remaining few Nuzleafs and Seedots one by one.
Qi Shu said, “Araquanid's nature is to scavenge for treasures and to protect precious companions with water bubbles. It's instinct.”
Zhang Heng also nodded. This was a vibrant Pokémon world, no longer just the single numerical values that existed in handheld games in his original dimension.
The two arrived at the foot of the tree, and with the help of Vikavolt and Araquanid's silk, they entered the tree hollow ten meters up.
The inside of the hollow was not large but had a chilly aura. This tree hollow was likely a clan's incubation chamber. Besides the recently dealt-with Nuzleaf and Seedot corpses, there were also some scattered Berries and 12 Seedot Pokémon Eggs.
Qi Shu asked Zhang Heng, “Xiao Heng, how should we deal with these Pokémon Eggs? Should we shake their yolks?”
Zhang Heng was speechless, then pondered for a moment and communicated with the system, “System, can you enable the function to identify other types of Pokémon Eggs for me?”
“Ding, given the host's current capture progress, team building has only reached 33%, so the function to identify other type eggs cannot be enabled yet.”
“No, I can only capture Water-type and Dragon-type Pokémon. I can't capture others, so what's the harm in looking? Are other type eggs not definable? Not directly viewable?”
“Ding, identification function permission has been enabled for the host.”
Zhang Heng immediately shut up and stopped pestering the system. He used the system's ability to scan around and check the status of the Pokémon Eggs, to see if they had been affected by the Evil-type legendary Pokémon.
Pokémon: Seedot * 12 (Healthy, Unhatched)
Type: Grass
Potential: Lord level, Gym level
Special Ability Bonus: None
Zhang Heng breathed a sigh of relief; there was no influence from an Evil-type legendary Pokémon yet. It seemed that at the initial stage, they were only Grass-type and not sensitive to Dark Pulse, so they were not affected.
Subsequently, as Zhang Heng continued to use the system's ability to probe other eggs, his gaze fell upon a corner, and the system immediately gave a prompt.
Item Name: Dark Z
Quality: Super S-class
Effect: In battle, Evil-type skills can evolve into Evil-type Z-Moves