Greatest Pokémon Trainer

Your shadow, it harbors a ghost.

As Fang Yuan's words fell, ChenHao felt a sudden chill, as if a cold wind had blown past him.

Instinctively, his face showed terror.

At this moment, his shadow suddenly lengthened and moved in front of him, a terrifying ghost face with white eyes emerged, letting out a "kekekekeke" laugh before a hint of red light flashed across its eyes.

"Damn it." The sudden change made ChenHao retreat quickly, nervously pressing against the wall as he yelled:

"Confusion, Confusion, Confusion!!!"

Important moves must be repeated thrice.

Next to him, Beautifly, upon hearing the command, quickly used Confusion to strike the shadow on the ground, but the shadow moved swiftly, evading the attack in the blink of an eye and appearing several meters away from ChenHao.

"Hehehehehe." Another eerie laugh came, and Ghost Face turned its head and ran, while ChenHao's shadow slowly returned to normal.

"Crap."

Watching the ghost escape, ChenHao was dumbfounded. He had no idea a Ghost-type Pokemon had been following him all along.

Not only had he failed to notice, but Beautifly hadn't either?

When did it happen... It must have been after we split up, right??

"Bwoooyyy~" At this moment, Beautifly, who hadn't managed to hit the ghost, flew back to its Trainer with a guilty expression, apologizing.

"Bwoo!!"

Seeing how this Trainer and Pokemon were so easily outmaneuvered by an Elite Level Gengar, the Eevee on Fang Yuan's shoulder shook its head—it was utterly disgraceful.

Gengar had escaped, but Fang Yuan was unconcerned, for a chunk of shadow quickly separated from his own and followed suit. What Gengar didn't know was that it was about to be hunted by a top-tier Shiny Gengar...

At the moment... What Fang Yuan needed to care for was the person in front of him.

"Hey...!" Fang Yuan waved his hand in front of ChenHao, saying, "Seriously? It's just a Gengar, and all it did was tail you and release some Hypnosis poison gas."

Seeing ChenHao's petrified look, Fang Yuan thought to himself, are college students these days really so fragile?

Well, it was understandable, after all, not every university was like Magic University, building Ghost Houses to give students and Pokemon experience in combating Ghost-type Pokemon.

For a regular Trainer encountering a Ghost-type Pokemon, if they couldn't overpower it, they indeed faced a tough situation.

No, that's still not right. He and Eevee seemed to have gotten along with the Ghost House's Ghost-type Pokemon even before they entered university, even managing to scare the Ghost House's spirits. Indeed, it must be because they were just that exemplary.

Fang Yuan began to revel in his own excellence.

"I just... just." ChenHao gasped for air, still shaken, and looked at Fang Yuan, saying, "It's only a ghost, surely no one thinks I didn't notice it."

Fang Yuan and Eevee stared blankly at him.

"Forget it, I can't fake it anymore, thank you, big brother. I've got to tell my advisor right away, we can't let that Gengar get away," ChenHao said, his expression changing.

"Don't worry, my Pokemon is already on its tail. Can you tell me what's happened to this village?"

Fang Yuan smiled at him.

He was actually planning to go directly to find King Ye Hui, but as he was passing by, Glutton suddenly became sensitive to fluctuations from the Spirit World!

However, after entering the village and searching, they found absolutely nothing, which was quite strange.

Clearly, there was something odd about this village.

So, Fang Yuan paused his steps, deciding to get to the bottom of it before proceeding. Even in broad daylight, there were quite a few Ghost-type Pokemon auras in this village. If a Spiritual Realm Fracture really did exist, come nighttime, more ghosts would emerge, making this village far more dangerous than the situation in Shanming County.

"Ah, I forgot to introduce myself. I'm a Trainer from Magic City University, just passing by. Oh, and my name is Quartz."

"It's the 'shi' from stone and the 'ying' from handsome."

......

Soon, Fang Yuan also learned the name of the university trainer before him with poor psychological quality.

ChenHao, a very plain name, was an elite trainer from Qindao who had received a request for help from Jade Stone Village.

While he was calling his tutor, he shared the information he had obtained from the village chief with Fang Yuan.

"It couldn't have been that Gengar we just saw, could it??" ChenHao said hesitantly after finishing.

"A child? Sharp objects?"

"Then it probably wasn't Gengar."

After hearing ChenHao's description, Fang Yuan fell into thought, having a rough idea of which ghost-type Pokemon was the culprit.

It seemed unlikely to be Dream Demon or any of the Gengar clan.

Dream Demon scare people to eat their fear emotion, and sometimes, they also consume dreams.

When wild Gengar harm people, they directly eat life energy, and some of the Gengar clan like to eat dreams too.

But hypnotizing children to harm themselves wasn't the style of either of these two Pokemon.

"Banette, said to be a ghost-type Pokemon transformed from an abandoned doll, harboring an undissipating grudge, ceaselessly seeking the child who abandoned it—wholly born from a massive accumulation of grudge..."

"This kind of Pokemon has a special ability where stabbing itself with needles generates a powerful curse energy, unleashing even greater combat strength."

"Do you think there's a connection between Banette and these bizarre incidents?" Fang Yuan asked.

He speculated that the strange incidents were mostly likely the result of a curse from a Banette.

"Banette??"

Upon Fang Yuan's conclusion, ChenHao was stunned because he had never learned any of this information before.

Was Banette a ghost-type Pokemon that transformed from a doll discarded by a child??? He was never taught this; besides, weren't the incidents supposed to involve Pokemon from the spirit world? How could a child possibly discard a doll into the spirit world...

"Where did you get this information...?" ChenHao asked in astonishment.

"I told you, I'm a student at Magic University. This is all common knowledge." Fang Yuan said with a learned look, although, it seemed like no one at Magic University actually taught these things either.

This was all information from the game encyclopedias in his mind. Why a discarded doll turned up in the spirit world was beyond him, but either way, it was none of his business.

When in doubt, the will of the world.

"Magic University's amazing, and a study tyrant is truly impressive."

A moment later, ChenHao's eyes lit up as he said, "Since you're from Magic University, do you know Fang Yuan? By the looks of it, you must be an avid fan trying to imitate him, right?"

"You wouldn't believe it, but our school has a few trainers who also carry around Eevee and imitate Fang Yuan—both men and women—even their clothes are nearly identical. But I think you resemble him the most."

Fang Yuan: "..."

Of course, he resembled him, even though he was disguised, he was the genuine article. However, the notion of so many people imitating him was unexpected, and there were girls, too?

"I know him, but he probably doesn't know me. It's not easy to meet someone as outstanding as Doctor Fang Yuan..." Fang Yuan sighed.

"Yeah, at Doctor Fang Yuan's level, the school probably doesn't have much left to teach him." ChenHao agreed completely.

Now, Doctor Fang Yuan, who had just won the world championship, was almost the idol of every university trainer... with the only exception being Eevee, who wore an expression of disdain.

"Stop the nonsense and take me to your tutor," Fang Yuan said. Now was not the time for self-praise. It was crucial to quickly resolve the strange incidents in Jade Stone Village. With the situation involving Pokemon injuring people, Fang Yuan couldn't just sit idly by.