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Chapter 18: An Electric World

As Satoshi called out, Mew flew down, encompassing the ground occupied by Grey, the Jenny clan people, and the civilians in an enormous purple barrier of psychic energy.

The roaring voices of the various Syndicate leaders rang out with attack names and attacks of every type covered the sky in chaotic flows of energy. Each of these flows focusing towards Satoshi, whose Pokemon floated in the air next to him.

"Raikou, Pikachu, Zeraora, Hold them Off!"

"Lugia, Ho-oh. Combination technique, Yin-yang cyclone."

Lugia and Ho-oh eyes gleamed and they flew about together, cycling about one another in unison.

They cycled one another in rhythmic, minute pulses. Emanating streams of psychic and fire energy, off of which, condensed small traces of intense energy which appeared the colors of silver and gold. This energy lingered in the air, swirling about slowly, gaining gradually in volume and momentum.

Giovanni's eyes turned red, he knew not what this move was, but he could tell such a move which required two legendaries to slowly gather energy would not be simple.

"Quickly, launch all of your strongest attacks! We cannot let this technique reach completion!"

Each of the attacks from any Syandicate leader's pokemon, whose numbers which blotted the sky, individually held strength which could easily annihilate the group gathered below.

Yet, for every attack which came close, intense barrages of lightning and the loud claps from the pressure of thunder would meet and nullify them. The electric attacks moved as though they had eyes, not a single attack breaking through.

In the area around the yin-yang cyclone, it was as though there were a perfect electical barrier, with which every attack in contact would meet a perfectly equal and opposite force.

The Syndicate leaders continued to attack in a frenzy, but could only helplessly watch as the energy cyclne grew larger and larger.

From lugia, emanated an extremely pure psychic energy. It eminated emotion, a feeling of being cold and as heartless as the sea, unattached to all worldly things. An embodiment of yin energy was held within.

From Ho-oh, emanated an unyielding and everlasting fire. The energy emitted a feeling of passion and a yearning for the sky. It was akin to a legendary Pheonix, it's yang energy could allow it to be reborn from the sacred flames.

Their tempermants reflected the ideological yin and yang, and their energies engendering would form a lesser strain of yin-yang energy. When joined together in a combination attack, they could bring forth power far greater than they could apart.

As the two cycled about each other a cyclone of gold flames and silver energy, each carrying a trace of true yin-yang energy, took place. It quickly developed into an enormous cyclone of energy, the gold-silver arcs swallowed all the attacks effortlessly as though they were but a drop of water slipping into an endless sea.

In the eye of this storm of energy stood Satoshi and his three electric pokemon.

As the cyclone gained critical mass, small, barely visible, streams of black and chaotic energy began to flow in towards the center of the eye of the cyclone.

In the center of the cyclone, the black and chaotic energy flowed into his hand, guided by his aura and forming into a small sphere. Heart-trembling power was held in the small arcs of energy, like each arc were the flaring energy of an ancient and terrifying chaotic star.

'This attack will be far weaker than it should be without the help of mew to control it.. but, you will help me a bit, won't you Pikachu? Everyone?'

'''Of course'''

'It can't be helped, without mew those down below wouldn't be able to withstand the aftershocks.'

"Alright, it's time. Electric World, energy convergence!"

As he yelled, electric energy began to flow from the electric pokemon trio, flowing about Satoshi's body. The dark and chaotic energy seemed to suddenly following the back-flow of his aura, quickly occupying his entire body, unifying him together with the haptic energy, which would then in turn reach out and unify with the lighting surrounding him.

'Our wills as one, inception of the electric world'

An intense electric field occupied the entire space in the eye of the cyclone. The bodies of the Raikou and Zeraora discharging enormous amounts of energy, before turning even themselves into a mass of electrical energy, joining and becoming part of the storm themselves.

The chaos energy fed into the storm of electricity, adding to it a trace of chaos lightning, further feeding the intensity of the storm as even more energy fed in from the cyclone of gold and silver. As the chaos lightning collided with Pikachu, he too merged together with the chaotic lightning energy.

As the chaos and electrical energy engendered, Satoshi's body grew, as though he were swallowing the electrical storm to engorge himself.

His body beginning to look like that of a giant, made only of chaos and lightning. The very embodiment of chaotic lightning.

Outside the gold-silver cyclone, none of this could be seen. Only the ever-increasing cyclone was visible, and not a hint of electric energy would seem to have been leaked on the outside.

Yet, although this cyclone no longer seemed to grow as fast, the Leaders facing it could tell that the silver and gold energy had begun to condense even further. Causing the presence of this enormous cyclone to grow even more intimidating.

The Syndicate Leaders all sighed in admiration at this technique.

"Even among Pokemon Masters, among the many Pokemon Worlds, this would be considered a pinnacle technique."

"Indeed. It is a shame, this youth could develop such a powerful technique with his pokemon. Yet, he must have wasted all his time developing this powerful defensive technique. Had he focused on training his attack powers, perhaps he may have stood a chance, all he can do is hold off our attacks. Yet, the fact he can hold out against ten Pokemon Masters by himself is in itself astounding."

"He was one born chosen by the world, his destiny will always be to oppose the will of humanity. The will of our organizations to shape the worlds to our whims. We cannot allow his strength to continue to grow. He is too strong, even for a chosen one. This Satoshi must die here, today."

"..attack mew and the survivors down below, we cannot muster enough power to break down this defensive technique. So, we must at least do what we can. This is one of the longest lasting defensive techniques I've ever seen, but let us see him continue staying inside his shell while we slaughter the people he came to protect."

The Syndicate leaders shifted the focus of their attacks, and they rained down on mew's psychic barrier.

One could see mew in the center of the barrier, it's arms and hands outstretched. The small unassuming pink pokemon seemed to be under extreme duress as it stood in the air, as though it were exerting all its effort in holding up the very sky above it.

Those beneath mew similarly felt it was doing just that. Were it not for mew, that very sky filled with with every kind of death imaginable would come crashing down on them. Even through the protection of the barrier, they still felt an intense pressure which many could barely withstand. If those attacks were to actually reach them, not even ashes would be left.

Inside the silver-gold cyclone, Satoshi absorbed the last strain of electric energy.

His eyes snapped open, a blinding shining out from them. His enormous body now wreathed in chaos lightning, he appeared like an ancient God of lightning.

He uttered just a few words, and from the undertones in those words rung out countless unknown meanings.

"Electric World, Rupture."

His enormous body disappeared.

The yin-yang cyclone began to slow.

'Has his defensive technique run out of time already?'

Then, the flow of the cyclone reversed.

It's speed countless times faster than before. Chaos lightning which made the Pokemon Master's heart shudder rippled through the merging silver-gold energy as it all moved inwards to one point. They converged into a single, bright, blinding light.

Then, that light erupted outwards.

Chaos lightning covered the skies over the Kanto Region, the Syndicate leaders looking at the pulsating energy shook in fear at that instant.

'This is a power no man, not even a Pokemon Master, should possess.'

Then lightning rained down from the skies on each one of them at that instant.

The lightning was no longer chaos lightning, each bolt of lightning seemed to carry the profound power of it's own world.

A world made purely of thunder and lightning, a world which, if completed, would be no less than their own in terms of complexity. It was a world made purely of electrical energy, yet it contained a trace of every form of energy together with it. An electric type energy which defied all logic in the Pokemon world, and seemed to encompass all of creation within itself.

The Syndicate leaders and their pokemon did not even have a chance to cry out once this technique reached it's completion. They, their pokemon, and their attacks, all were directly erased from this world without a trace by this lightning. Much of the land in the surroundings were also directly annihilated.

Immediately after this astounding attack, there was only an intense silence, as the people present took a moment to process what happened.

A cheer erupted from the crowd below as they looked up at the figure of Satoshi and his pokemon as they emerged from the settling storm clouds up above. As many women (and some men) seemed to cheer out Satoshi's name from the crowd.

...

Nearby, having escaped the notice of Mew and Satoshi, Giovanni had tunneled his way back up towards the surface. His face and the red R on his shirt covered in dirt.

Glancing back at the desolate landscape which he had narrowly escaped becoming a smear on, his eyes were filled with grief and anger.

"Damn you Satoshi, damn that kid, damn this world. I will have my revenge someday, I will ravage the other worlds and hone my skills, wash your neck and await my return, Satoshi."

...

As Grey gazed up at this scene, he could not help but think to himself.

'So, is this what the pinnacle of power looks like.' he imagined in wonder, trying to imagine himself reaching such heights in the future. Finding, he could not even see himself being that strong, could not imagine how one could even train to be so strong.

[No. This is not the pinnacle, there is no such thing. This is only peak-Low Ranked strength.]

'?!?, The System? I thought you weren't the question answering type? And, how can something so strong still be considered Low Ranking?!'

[Only after completing the laws for a single world would one reach Low Rank Culmination, and have a chance to ascend to become a Middle Ranked being.]

'That.. doesn't make much sense. If you know everything, enough to make an entire world, that is already all-powerful isn't it? Why say all this? Just to show off how superior the system is?'

[The system is a tool, it would answer questions to keep subject from straying to the wrong path. For growth, it is best not to tell too many things. Learning through experience, necessary. When appropriate to give answers, closely regulated. In regards to the question, it should be obvious: There are many ways to make coherent worlds. Understanding just one, still very weak.]

'..personally, I think being able to create a complete world in itself is difficult enough. Though being strong is good and all, it is not as if one should dedicate everything to strength and forget to live, if being Low-Rank is enough to protect the people on the Origin World, that would probably be enough for me.'

[Anything that is ranked, easily replicated. Beneath notice. It is best not to grow attached to such beings. With your inborn ability, must conceive growth to such a scale. Otherwise, unworthy of investment.]

'And if I were proven unworthy of investment, what would happen then?'

[Nothing. If you do not prove worthy of investment, the system will stop helping you, the world you refer to as the 'Origin World' will most definitely give you an end worse than death.]

'Wha-? How is that possible, I haven't even seen anything as strong as a Pokemon Master on Origin World! That doesn't make any sense!'

[...]

'Hello?'

[...]

'Fucking System and it's stupid question-answer regulations.'

...

In the clamor afterwards, Kirsten Jenny worked her way through the crowds. Finally spotting Grey among the group of survivors from the Hospital, she quickly approached him.

"Grey!!"

Grey's unfocused eyes, still staring into the sky at that moment, seemed to snap back into reality as she grabbed onto his arm.

He looked at her for a moment, "Kirsten?"

She shook her head, looking extremely happy. 'He can tell me apart even with all my family here, he seems like a good catch, even if he's a bit younger. And he even fought a Gyarados with his fists... hehe~'

'...wasn't he a bit taller than me before though? Why does he seem so much shorter now?' But she shook her head, remembering the techniques he mentioned before. 'It must be related to that technique.'

Aunt Connie appeared, seemingly from nowhere, and put a hand on his other shoulder.

"We defeated the biggest threat that has plagued the Kanto region for decades today. Giovanni was too impatient, if you hadn't helped to buy time, he may well have decided we were unnecessary and just eliminated us. We owe you."

Grey scratched his head, clasped his hands and answered, "I am nowhere near the strength of Miss yet. It is somewhat awkward to have to put on a show of a fight in front of those stronger than you. I hope I did not embarrass myself in front of Miss Connie."

Aunt Connie chortled, "To even call me Miss, ah, such a good boy. I wonder, do such techniques really exist though? Your performance calls the question. To offer up such techniques to the likes of Team Rocket, even in exchange for the safety of others, is not okay. If such techniques did exist, they would need to remain well protected, handed down only to those who would use them for good and justice."

Her eyes shifted from him to Kirsten. She let out a beautiful smile, which was not a smile. "My beautiful niece seems to have taken a liking to you. You are clearly a man of justice and high values, so no one in our clan would object to you.."

"Aunt Connie!!"

Her face grew beat red.

Grey looked at Kirsten, 'I barely met this girl, she likes me already? She must be what, 17? No wonder she is so impressionable.. even if my body is younger than her now, my mind is still an adult... I couldn't take advantage of an underage girl.'

Aunt Connie teased her niece for a moment and left soon after.

"So, Grey~ Um, my Aunt was just joking about all that. But, it's not like, I don't think your an interesting person. More like, I do think your kind of interesting. So, like, maybe, we could hang out, if your sticking around the area."

"Um, Kirsten, I'm sorry, but I can't stick around. I have people I have to take care of, so I'll be gone really frequently, and have to travel a lot."

"Oh, okay.. I see.."

'Brock would probably be crying tears of blood if he saw me rejecting a Jenny like this.'

"Then, maybe, could I have your number? That way, we could talk over poke-gear, you know, as friends~"

Um.. it seems a bit too harsh to turn down even that.. but, I really don't have a phone that does cross-dimensional service.

"I'm sorry, I really don't have poke-gear, and I still really need to complete my party as soon as possible so I don't really have the time to get one. I still need to catch a ghost-type and a Pokemon I can use as a ground mount too."

"Oh, well.. that's great! It is good to go all out, pursuing strength at full throttle.. how about this. I used to travel abroad to visit my sister in the Alolan Isles, and I got this from her."

She took a pokeball and shoved it into my hands, backing away quickly. "It's an owner-less Rotom with a custom poke-gear shell, it's range will still work even if you go to the other side of the planet. Consider it as thanks for saving my life from those two agents earlier."

She stuck out her tongue a little.

"Rotom can also be considered a ghost-type, as 'the plasma pokemon' his ghost attacks would be no worse than any other ghost-type if you train him with that as the focus, so you have no reason not to add him to your six! I know your number, so I'll make sure to call you. Byebye!"

And she skipped away.

Still mildly stunned, Grey watched her skip away. But then, looking down at this Rotom pokeball he felt it might not be that bad. 'I've already got a mish-mash party I didn't plan for, since I got this Rotom, it won't be weak so long as I'm the one training it.'

Putting my energy into the Rotom pokeball I got a small notification.

[Detected pokemon with abilities outside given parameters.. suppressing electric type powers.. strengthening ghost type powers.. successful. Modification results acceptable, binding successful]

'..um, all is well that ends well?'

This event took a long time, but, I also gained a lot from it. Despite not getting the Tauros I originally came for.

I worked my way through the crowd and into a secluded area, 'logging out'.


Chapter 19: Ravings of a Newbie

When I woke up in Origin World it was already mid-day.

'I had stayed inside the Pokemon World for too long again, ugh.'

I quickly got up, startling Meditite and my followers with the sudden movement.

'Did you all start to think I am a Statue that doesn't move?'

This time there had been a long and prolonged battle, and I had even managed to witness a fight far beyond my current 'cultivation', it was a very worthwhile trip.

But still, as could be seen from the reactions of these fellows, leaving one's body is just too unnatural.

Maybe in time they would view me in a negative light due to my actions, thinking I'm lazy, or maybe they will just think I am cultivating.

When I'm gone, the state my body remains in is so rigid it could hardly be seen as human. An unnatural and unhealthy method of moving between worlds and realms indeed.

I decided to do some exercise with Seran, Horus, and Gina. Teach them a bit on how exactly this Statue can move, in a way they will not soon forget.

They should be spending most of their time cultivating Mental Energy, but beating some Combatives into them to keep their bodies in shape won't hurt either. So, I helped them with learning some throws, submission moves and counters with sparring.

Exercising a bit and showing off my strength, I felt much better.

Using Body Strengthening, I found I had to hold back a lot so as not to harm them. The difference between my old Basic Mental Energy and my new Lowest Grade Mental Energy was rather large and hard to grow accustomed to.

Or rather, I was not even fully familiar with the Basic Mental Energy, and now that my energy was stronger, my control was only that much worse.

They have strong bodies though, they will be fine even if my control fluctuates a little.

Having finally become a qualified Pokemon Trainer, I should have technically just moved up from a Basic being up to the Lowest Grade.

Many of those I had been fighting, from the Minotaur to the Agents, were all already Lowest Grade though. I had obviously been able to defeat them. So, it would seem the difference in strength is not huge, at least between the slowest two.

Though there may be little difference between Basic and Lowest, that is probably because it is the difference between Last and Second to Last.

From what I could tell from the system, cultivation & strength was roughly categorized like this:

Normal People & Animals -> Basic

Hero-like People & Monsters -> Lowest Grade

Heavenly Cultivators & Demi-Gods -> Low Grade

Law Cultivators & World Gods -> Mid Grade

Stronger than that? -> High Grade & Above?

Then, for my own sake, I decided to divide each section further into five more divisions based on the cultivation novels I used to read:

Initial, Minor Achievement, Intermediate, Major Achievement, Culmination.

My current 'Status', some based on stuff I got out of the system, should be roughly like this:

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System Operations

[Mental Space Operations]

- Establishment

- Stabilization

- Energy Regulation

[Fusion Energy Embodiment]

- Body Creation

- Node Linking

- Energy Regulation

[Node Establishment]

- Spatial Manipulation

- Psuedo-space Establishment

- Resonance Point Establishment

- Energy Regulation

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Body Cultivation

[ Intermediate Basic Grade ]

Cultivation Methods [None]

Techniques [None]

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Mental Cultivation

[ Initial Lowest Grade ]

Cultivation Methods

[Mental Star Meditations]

- Utilizes Self-hypnosis

- Stimulates Energy Production

[Nerve-Flooding Method]

- Forcefully floods the nervous system with Mental Energy, baptizing the mind and nerves in the body so that it becomes more in-tuned to Mental Energy.

- Stimulates the Mental Space to produce more Mental Energy.

Techniques

[Mental Space Access]

- Allows one to access the Mental Space

[Mental Symbol Cultivation] Uninitiated

- 1st Symbol[True Self: Endless Bodies]

[Body Strengthening]

- Uses Mental Energy to move and strengthen the Body

[PsyBlade]

- Condenses a Blade made of Mental Energy that shoots forwards

[Psychic Sensing]

- Can use Mental Energy to 'see' the surroundings.

[Payday Attack], Initiated

- Can use Mental Energy to temporarily condense some gold charms (Requires Mental Energy Consolidation or Mentality of Origin to operate)

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Fusion Energy (Spiritual/Mental Energy)

Innate Abilities

[Infinite Relay]

- Can allow the individual to instantly move fusion energy across an effectively infinite distance. However, it is limited by the user's ability to comprehend and utilize it.

- Current utilization method: Establishing spatial relay nodes, using them to establish connection with the user's fusion energy. After node establishment, the connection can allow the user to utilize a fusion energy body on the other side instantaneously, regardless of distance.

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...this is the way I worked it out in my head at least. Apparently my System, or maybe it's creators, think it is bad for me to have the System constantly telling me my own status.

Something like 'Learn to know your body for your damn self!' Or 'Shit, why would you need a System to tell you what you know? If you need the system to tell you, obviously, you don't really know it!' -> I imagine the System's creators saying something like this.

Though, they did give percentages for the Law Comprehension part? I suppose it would be a bit too much to ask a person to comprehend a Law efficiently without at least helping to know your on the right track.

...or, they were just too lazy to make the cultivation and techniques portions.

...but really, if they can monitor the afterlife for special souls, pluck them, and send them to a new world with a System, obviously they can't be too lazy. There is probably a legitimate reason not to.

Probably, but, you never know... and the System says nothing on the subject, so...

Well, forget it.

We got our things together and got on the move again, after moving through what little daylight time we had left we settled in again.

Instead of going back to the Pokemon World or setting up a Node on a new one, I decided to take the night and familiarize myself with my new Mental Cultivation level and train together with my Pokemon and the others.

After everyone else went to sleep, I decided to take a look at my World Options. I did manage to unlock a new Node option after all.

Settling myself in again, I shift my consciousness into my Mental Space and find the System within.

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Please select a world to begin your development. You can now solidify a new spatial coordinate on a secondary world for dimensional travel.

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Current Spatial Node Locations

Note: Lowest Grade Mental Cultivation has been reached, some missions will now become available upon Node Establishment.

(Pokemon World)

[Missions Available:

Create a true material world within the Pokemon Multiverse.

Reward: Magic Energy Creation Technique]

- World Resources: Basic and (Incomplete) Low grade Mental Cultivation Techniques, Basic and Low-Grade Mental Energy Beasts, Natural Mental Energy Formations, Basic Mental Energy formations and Technology, Basic Natural Technology

- Unique Natural Laws: Mental Energy Consolidation, Mental Energy Technique Enlightenment, Mental Cultivation Enlightenment

- Modular Laws: Mentality of Origin (New hidden law)

- Current Projected Progression for World Law Comprehension: 0.001%

- Mentality of Origin Laws: 0.5%

[The Pokemon World contains a partial form of these mysterious methods, which allows one to transform Human Mental Energy into the native Origin Energy of Pokemon World. The complete form of these laws is modular and can thus be used in any world to condense origin energy from mental energy.]

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Potential Node Locations

All worlds chosen have a time progression rate equivalent to the current world. Current suitable worlds related to memories are displayed:

[Spatial-Dimensional Shift has occurred. The Hub-world simulataneously shifts through space and phase material properties to interact with many realities, allowing you to draw close enough to desired Worlds to detect and establish Nodes upon them. This Hub-world follows a complex-fixed orbit, with many replica-worlds in it's path. World opportunities will re-appear in the future, so user can freely choose based on immediate needs.]

[Spatial-Dimensional Shift: 2 World Connections Lost, 2 New Worlds in Range]

1) (Mass Effect) [New World]

- World Resources: Basic to Low(Incomplete) Grade Natural Technology, Basic Origin Energy Generators, Basic Mental Energy Generators, Basic Origin Energy Techniques, Basic Mental Energy Techniques, Mid-Rank 'Lost' Natural Technology

2) (D.N. Angel) [New World]

- World Resources: Basic Natural Technology, Basic and Lowest grade Emotion-based Mental Energy, Emotion-based Magic Energy, Empathic Energy

- Unique Natural Laws: Mental Energy Seperation (Psychic-Empathic Energies Isolated), Empathic Energy Retainment

3) (Fable)

- World Resources: Atmospheric Mental Energy Stimulants, Basic Mental Energy Techniques, Low-Grade Mental Energy Formations

- Unique Natural Laws: Sorcerer Physique Refinement Laws, Sorcerer Mental Technique Enlightenment, Fate Laws, Alternate Reality Binding

4) (Avatar: The Last Airbender)

- World Resources: Basic Spiritual Meditation Techniques, Innate Spiritual Element Stimulants

- Unique Natural Laws: Spiritual Technique Enlightenment, Spiritual-Physical Dimension Binding

5) (Dragon Ball Universe)

- World Resources: Basic Qi Cultivation Techniques, Basic to High Grade Qi Genetics, Basic to Mid Grade Martial Arts Techniques, Basic to Low Grade Natural Technology Development

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[Connections Lost, node options will reappear when Origin World is back in synchronous space with these worlds]

(Crash Bandicoot)

- World Resources: Basic to Low-Grade Mystic Tribal Arts, Basic Natural Genetic Modifications, Basic Tribal Energy Type Genetic Modifications, Basic and Low grade Tribal Energy Technology

- Unique Natural Laws: Tribal Art Enlightenment, Space-Time Tribal Energy Laws

(Sonic The Hedgehog)

- World Resources: Basic Chaos Energy Body Techniques, Basic Chaos Energy Type Genetic Modifications, Basic Natural Technology, Basic and Semi-Low-Grade Chaos Energy Technology

- Unique Natural Laws: Chaos Energy Condensation

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...too much information, as usual.

I was mildly embarrassed D.N.Angel showed up. I used to read the manga back in High School. It was more of a typical school-kid drama than anything, but it also had some interesting world mechanics. Still, that it would show up as a world option... sigh~

Honestly, so much information, it took me a while to process. I think it is necessary to think through it to see which world would be the best choice for progressing forwards.

There seemed to be many kinds of Energies, really, too many of them. At this point, I can't much understand what the major differences between any of them are. Yet, these differences were something the system could distinguish between easily.

In the Pokemon world, the man who appeared to save everyone, Satoshi, seemed to be an older version of the main character from the Pokemon Anime. He bore the same name as he did in the original Japanese version.

I saw that the Mental Energy he used in the attack 'Electric World' could be used to emulate and form almost anything. His lightning strikes he used at the end to finish his enemies, unlike Meowth, were still entirely composed of Mental Energy.

So, I had some dull sense of the energy within, which resembled each of the varying Pokemon types.

Satoshi's 'Electric World' lighting more or less acted like normal lightning within the realm of the pokemon world. Ridiculously strong lightning, but still, just lightning. However, from what the system had said, that lightning should have been a technique that could create a complete world.

This means that world should be a world of 'another dimension', but, since all of the Mental Energy he used came from the Pokemon World, it could likely be considered as creating a Pokemon 'sub-world'. Just the fact he was able to do this with one type means the same should apply to each of the other types.

This implies the Mental Energy of the Pokemon world alone is both complex and powerful enough to sustain many types of sub-worlds of varying types.

This means that any 'energy type' the system considers could/should be equally capable in terms of omnipotence.

Yet, obviously there should be some differences between these types of energy.

Mental Energy comes from the Brain and the nervous system, and the Mental Space acts as an expansion of the Mind, which is why it can also produce Mental Energy.

Whereas, from what I know, Qi can be gathered from the world around you or cultivated in the body.

Qi acts similarly to Mental Energy, but rather than the entire body it primarily focuses around where we use the most energy in our body, in muscles and organs. Then, in novels, it often circulates in the blood rather than the nervous system. That applies only in certain worlds though.

The general setting for Qi is 'ancient worlds', another key word together with Qi cultivation is 'origin energy', which is generally implying one uses energy from the origin of existence. High energy bodies contain more Origin Energy which begets more Qi.

There were those who believed Qi once existed on earth, but then disappeared at some point.

If Qi had ever existed in our world, it should have been very long ago, unless our Solar System coincidentally passed out of a concentration pocket of Qi not long ago historically, humans of Earth should never have touched upon it.

If it were true, one could jest that dinosaurs and mass extinction occurred because we passed outside of the Qi pocket. Only life-forms that could exist and adapt to the lack of Qi would survive.

Our Solar system continually moves further and further away from the origin of the Universe, if Qi and Origin energy existed anywhere, it would be thickest the closer you are to there.

Alternatively, perhaps it would also exist very near to Black Holes, or similar extreme high-energy bodies.

In essence, Qi should just be extreme high-energy particles, with minute size and mass specifically, particles which can both interact with normal materials, and remain inert to them, under very discrete conditions, without destroying and melting them in the process.

The three main energy types in cultivation novels were Mental/Magical, Origin/Qi, Spiritual/Soul, and then, separate from them, was the simple physical body which served a different purpose in every case.

The system clearly gave me the restrictions it did because it wants me to first focus on the three energies, often called 'the three flows' and my simple material body which serves as the foundation for them.

In pokemon, the correspondence would most likely be Mental/Magical -> Psychic types, Origin/Qi -> Fighting, Spiritual/Soul -> Ghost, and then likely, Normal -> the fundamental material body?

Although each of these energies are capable of anything, they all have their own specializations and origins. Each energy will be stronger and weaker in certain area when you consider two cultivators with different energy types but equal quantities and qualities of it.

Every type of cultivation in novels would generally use the body as the foundation.

Traditional cultivation methods would slowly replace the original material body, with a body made of pure energy. Whereas Body cultivators would utilize their chosen energy-type, to transform their material body over time into something more akin to a material weapon.

The Body Cultivator would use their energy of choice to re-enforce and/or hyper-compress all of the materials that compose their body. Generally, the end result would be a hybridization of the energy used and the regular base materials.

However, in theory, with enough resources and effort they could simply make their body into a weapon so dense and powerful they could slap a star out of existence.

One such example would be the main character of Stellar Transformations.

The Stellar Transformations cultivation method diverged from it's original path after entering MC's hands, one originally centered on Natural Sciences.

He reached the pinnacle of that reality by means of using a hybridization of Origin energy and materials science.

It should be possible to use Natural Science to create a pinnacle pure material body, and it should also be possible to create one using any of the other energies if one were knowledgable in both fields, however, either approach would be many times more difficult than the hybridization method... if novels are something you can use to actually gauge reality, that is.

...did my mind wander onto strange things?

Well, it is relevant Information, I think.

Based on all of this, the system seems to want me to build a foundation for my body and the three flows before all else.

Probably, I need to raise them all to Lowest grade to forge a solid cultivator foundation... at least, that is the typical pattern in those novels on cultivation.

However, without strength, I may not survive in the Origin World. So, it may also be better to just focus on one energy type, then use that as the foundation to raise up the rest of them. At this point, if any, it would make the most sense to raise my Mental energy higher first, since it is already at Lowest grade.

Then, there is also the issue of the immediate threats of Origin World.

The issue of the Minotaurs is rather straight forward, from what I can tell they fit the pattern of an innate Qi-based Body Constitution. They can use a bit of Qi, but most of it goes into maintaining their enormous and powerful bodies, so at best their Qi techniques are cheap tricks. Not much to be done against them unless I get strong enough to deal with their whole Horde.

The issue of the Shadow-like 'demons' seems more tricky though. These are tedious energy-type beings. Their methods can be far more flexible than the Minotaur, and they cannot even be touched by your typical material body.

Though they could likely be harmed somehow through Mental Energy, there is no particular guarantee that just any Mental Energy attack would be effective. If I could find a way to gather information on how to combat them in another world before confronting them en-mass, it would be ideal.

In some cases, energy combinations between the three flows result in huge combat boosts as well. So that is another matter to take into account...

Essentially, the only world available that I could really rule out for this time was Mass Effect. Though I would love access to the futuristic tech and knowledge, it did not seem likely I could use anything from that world to help in improving cultivation at the Lowest Grade.

All of the other worlds have various pros and cons. To decide between them arbitrarily when I've no idea when my next opportunity will come just isn't a good idea.

I decided to not be too quick to decide on the matter for now though, I could barely control my current cultivation. Any more right now would be too much, I need to improve my control over my body and mental energy, I need to look into and cultivate my mental symbol, and I've been spending too much time separated from my body recently.

So, my pokemon and followers and me moved together and practiced together as we moved towards the nearest village. I did my best to instruct them on fighting and cultivation, building a rapport with the three as best as I could.

When I tried to do the 'mental symbol cultivation' the first step required me to control my mental energy to mimic the mental symbol.. which was far harder than one might imagine.

Three short days of travel later, we finally arrived in the area of the village.


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Hey everyone! So, this was sort of a filler chapter, but was also sort of a (blatantly obvious) way to show some of the background for the story mechanics. Spent a decently long time trying to make them fit together to seem sensible, but it has kind of a lot squeezed in. Hopefully it will kinda help people to keep up with some of the things later in the story by having that background all in one reference though.

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