"Reward settlement complete."
"Evaluation B-rank. Attribute reward: Dragon-type affinity increased by 0.1, one small Dragon Essence."
"Item rewards: Duraludon's metal fragments, Steelix's tail, five Oran Berries."
"Evaluation B-rank. Cannot specify next simulation attribute."
"Time remaining until next simulation: 6 days, 23 hours, 59 minutes, 21 seconds."
"Do you wish to extract rewards?"
Li Shuwen first glanced at the clock on the wall and found that only ten minutes had passed.
Yet, he had lived for almost four days while simulating Duraludon.
Li Shuwen discovered there was also a scoring breakdown and immediately opened it.
His score improved to B-rank due to factors including conquering Steelix's territory, escaping Meltan's pursuit, forming an alliance with Mawile, and escaping Aggron's pursuit.
The increase in level, survival time, and skill improvement were too minor, accounting for less than twenty percent of the score.
From the scoring, the simulator seemed to encourage him to venture out.
While venturing out yielded high rewards, it also made death more likely.
High risk brings high reward.
Upon careful reflection, Li Shuwen realized his decision to venture out was a mistake.
How could the places arranged by the simulator be good ones?
There were only pits, and even bigger pits.
For example, in this surface world, there was not only Tinkaton hunting Duraludon, but also a lack of resources needed for Duraludon's development.
He had already largely figured out the information for the first and second underground levels, so he should have just stayed in the underground world, even if it meant eating rocks; that would have been more filling than those few Oran Berries.
For the next simulation, as long as he could find enough development resources, he would not change locations.
"System, extract Dragon Essence."
A blue-purple prismatic crystal appeared before Li Shuwen's eyes, then directly merged into his chest, entered his heart, and surged through his blood to his entire body.
Power! Endless power!
Li Shuwen had never experienced such a feeling of physical strength.
His originally somewhat scrawny physique rapidly filled with muscle, transforming into the coveted lean, muscular build.
Just one small Dragon Essence made him feel ten times stronger.
Because Li Shuwen felt that he could truly take on ten of his former selves before using the Dragon Essence.
This Dragon Essence should be the special reward the system mentioned, a characteristic of the attribute gained after granting the host a simulated attribute.
The powerful vitality of the Dragon-type.
Looking at the Dragon-type affinity displayed by the system, it was a full 0.85!
Before the simulation began, Li Shuwen's Dragon-type affinity was only 0.59. The B-rank evaluation added 0.1, and after using the Dragon Essence, it actually increased to 0.85.
A single small Dragon Essence actually boosted his Dragon-type affinity by 0.16, which was even higher than the B-rank evaluation reward.
This could only mean one thing: his physical foundation was simply too poor.
Otherwise, the small Dragon Essence wouldn't have increased it so much.
Not only Dragon-type affinity, but after using the Dragon Essence, Li Shuwen's affinity for all attributes received some improvement.
Although the increase was not as high as for the Dragon-type, as it was Dragon Essence after all, Li Shuwen was so moved he almost shed tears.
Of course, the affinity values for other attributes remained very low.
Now that he had the Pokémon Simulator, Li Shuwen was even less anxious.
He had endured with such poor aptitude before; if his mindset wasn't good, Li Shuwen would have switched to other work long ago.
Now that there was hope, Li Shuwen naturally became more composed.
From 0.59 to 0.85, the effectiveness of training Jangmo-o could increase by nearly half.
It was a pity he couldn't choose the Dragon-type next time, otherwise Jangmo-o's evolution would be almost guaranteed.
Oh right, there were also two item rewards. Li Shuwen planned to take them out and look at them.
As for the Oran Berries, Li Shuwen simply ignored them splendidly.
Oran Berries, what could Oran Berries do? Come back when you evolve into a treasure of heaven and earth.
A Pokémon with a slightly larger appetite could eat hundreds of tree fruits in one meal.
Five Oran Berries wouldn't even fill Li Shuwen's stomach before he used the Dragon Essence.
Li Shuwen got up and went to the Veilstone Gym's storage room.
"System, extract Duraludon's metal fragments and Steelix's tail."
Duraludon's metal fragments appeared on the storage room floor. Li Shuwen casually picked up a piece of metal fragment and couldn't help but frown and shake his head.
This was not metal fragments; it was clearly a flattened soda can.
Looking at these metal fragments, he could almost imagine what happened to Duraludon after it was caught by Tinkaton.
These Duraludon metal fragments were clearly the defective scraps left over after Tinkaton used Duraludon's metal to reinforce her hammer.
That scene was truly unbearable; Li Shuwen shivered empathetically.
For a moment, Li Shuwen couldn't think of what his own remains could be used for.
The Steelix's tail next to it was clearly not in proportion to Steelix's body size.
It was entirely black and no more than twenty centimeters long.
Li Shuwen reached out to pick it up and found that even with his strengthened body, he couldn't lift Steelix's tail with just one hand.
Using both hands, Li Shuwen finally managed to pick up Steelix's tail.
Coincidentally, there was a scale in the storage room, so he could weigh how heavy this pitch-black Steelix's tail was.
Li Shuwen walked towards the scale, holding Steelix's tail, and noticed a sluggish feeling in his body.
This wasn't Steelix's tail; this was clearly a Later Attack Tail!
He hadn't expected that the raw material for Later Attack Tail was Steelix's tail. For every Later Attack Tail sold, an innocent Steelix died.
No killing, no selling.
Steelix is safe.
Just kidding, Later Attack Tail shouldn't be made from Steelix's tail.
Steelix's tail, unlike Slowpoke's tail, cannot regenerate.
The Alliance would never permit such a business.
When placed on the scale, this Steelix's tail weighed a full one hundred kilograms.
As for the effect of reducing attack speed, he would need to test it with Jangmo-o first thing tomorrow morning.
Cradling the Later Attack Tail, Li Shuwen walked a circle around the storage room.
Putting the Later Attack Tail down, Li Shuwen surprisingly didn't feel tired.
Before, forget walking a circle around the storage room with the Later Attack Tail; he couldn't even pick up the one-hundred-kilogram Later Attack Tail.
Li Shuwen was already looking forward to the second simulation seven days later.
"Brother, why are you in the storage room so late at night instead of sleeping?"
His younger sister, rubbing her eyes, appeared at the storage room door.
"I couldn't sleep, so I'm tidying up things in the storage room."
Li Meining's senses were sharp. She walked in front of Li Shuwen, tilted her head, and asked:
"Brother, why do I feel like you've gotten stronger?"
Li Shuwen ruffled her hair, "Maybe my recent training is showing results. Go back to sleep."
Li Meining's eyes instantly lit up, "Then can your Jangmo-o also evolve?"
Li Shuwen smiled, "Probably."