After returning home, Serena and Lillie needed to rest, while Dawn and May started preparing lunch for the Pokémon. Misty went to take care of the Pokémon in the backyard.
Ash followed Misty to the backyard. Besides Ash's Pokémon, there were other people's Pokémon there as well. After Serena and Lillie returned, they also left their Pokémon in the backyard.
Misty was instructing the Pokémon in their training. After watching for a while, Ash wanted to check on his Pokémon's current strength and see how much they had improved.
Although strength improvement slowed down after reaching the Hall level, it had been almost a month since he had closely observed his Pokémon.
"System, show me the information..." Ash habitually called out the system interface, wanting to see his Pokémon's current status, but there was no response.
"System... system?" Ash was slightly startled. After calling for the system several times in his mind, he was stunned. The system... what was that?
He didn't seem to have any cheats like the protagonists in those novels, and he didn't have anything like a system.
"Am I sleepy?" Ash frowned slightly, not understanding why he had such a thought. If there had been a system over the past 24 years, it would have appeared by now.
"Do you want to have a battle? Let Misty command Charizard, and I'll command Pikachu..." Ash looked at the training Pokémon, touched his chin, felt a little itch, and wanted to have a battle.
Since becoming the champion, he had spent most of his time dealing with various affairs and much less time battling.
Except for the World Championships, he hadn't participated in any competitions, and the World Championships were only held every four years.
"I wonder how the two of them merged with the inheritance..." Ash walked towards Pikachu, but his footsteps suddenly stopped.
"Inheritance... what inheritance?" Ash thought suspiciously. He felt that he was acting a little strange today. Why did he keep having these odd ideas, first the system, and then the inheritance? Could it be because he had been thinking too much, causing him to have illusions?
"No, that's not right..." Ash calmed down and thought about it. He seemed to have had a dream last night. He dreamed that he had just come to this world not long ago, obtained the system, and then drawn the inheritance.
"The Sky Dragon of Osiris... the Winged Dragon of Ra..." Ash murmured.
These were the names of the two inheritances he got in the dream, and they were also the names of the Three Legendary Dragons in Yu-Gi-Oh! God Cards...
"No... it wasn't a dream..." Ash's confused eyes became clearer and brighter, but the world in his eyes became increasingly blurred. Misty's back in front, Dawn in the house, May, Serena and Lillie, even Iris in the Unova Region, gradually flashed before his eyes.
"I'm in Maiden's Peak, in the dormitory!" Ash suddenly opened his eyes and found that the scene in front of him had changed back to the original dormitory. He sat up and looked around, "Misty and Brock are still asleep."
"Oh ho ho, I didn't expect you to wake up so easily from the Smelling Salts! You truly are the Rainbow Courage chosen by Ho-Oh~!" Just as Ash was slightly relieved, a strange voice sounded from behind him.
"Who?!" Ash looked back abruptly and then showed a look of astonishment because there was only Gastly behind him. From this, it seemed the one who made the sound, or rather, the Pokémon, was this Gastly!
At this time, Gastly looked at Ash with great interest. It was about to touch Pikachu but didn't expect Ash to wake up so suddenly. It had only been five seconds since he had hypnotized Ash!
For Gastly, an entity that had lived for over two thousand years, whose strength had reached the legendary level and was infinitely approaching the realm of gods, the Hypnosis it cast could silently control humans and Pokémon!
Although it didn't use its full power against Ash, the Hypnosis it used wasn't much weaker than the Dark Void used by an ordinary Darkrai.
As for Ash, he broke through the dream Gastly had created in just five seconds and woke up. It seemed he had something special about him; no wonder he was chosen by Ho-Oh.
"Gastly... So, you're the old woman, right?" Ash narrowed his eyes slightly, staring at Gastly, "What's your purpose?"
"Hehehehe... Actually, at first, I just chose you to spread the legend..." Gastly didn't intend to hide anything and answered Ash's question openly.
Every year, during the Maiden's Peak Festival, Gastly would choose a group of people to spread the legend of Maiden's Peak by creating all sorts of strange occurrences. This time, Ash and his friends were the chosen ones, but Gastly didn't expect so many surprises.
"But later, I discovered that you and your Pikachu seem to be hiding some secrets, especially Pikachu. I can actually sense a divine aura from it!" Gastly looked at Pikachu, its eyes filled with curiosity.
Hearing Gastly's words, Ash's pupils contracted slightly. Gastly could actually sense the aura of inheritance within Pikachu.
Since Gastly could sense the aura of inheritance within Pikachu, did that mean Marshadow also knew? No, Marshadow definitely knew even more!
Ash hadn't thought about it before, but now that he did, he realized that when he allowed Charmeleon to accept the inheritance in Rample Tower, Marshadow was very likely present.
"Since Marshadow also knows... how much does it know about the inheritance... about me... about the system?" Ash couldn't help but fall into deep thought. He wanted to know what Marshadow was thinking.
"So I changed my mind. I wanted to test you while checking on Pikachu's situation, but I didn't expect you to wake up just as I was about to make a move!" Gastly mimed surprise, swinging its hands to both sides to express that it hadn't done anything yet.
Gastly's words snapped Ash out of his contemplation, and he looked at Gastly again.
"So... can you tell me why Pikachu has a divine aura?" Gastly asked with a strange smile, looking at Ash.
Ash didn't answer Gastly. If Gastly were his Pokémon, he might have told it, but unfortunately, it wasn't. Besides, he didn't have enough strength to subdue this Gastly.
Ash was still too weak, and the only reason Gastly hadn't directly attacked him and Pikachu was probably because of Marshadow.
"Okay, well, every Pokémon has its own secrets. Since you don't want to tell me, I can't force you..." After a moment of silence, seeing that Ash didn't want to explain, Gastly sighed inwardly. It seemed that this wasn't the opportunity for it to step into the realm of the divine.
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