Pokémon: Shadow of the Dawn

"Sigh~"

Gastly squinted his eyes, and as he was gently pressed and stroked by ten fingers, he seemed to have opened up a new world. All the purple gas in his body was absorbed into his body, and he opened his mouth to reveal two small fangs and exhaled.

"Chirp..." The young titmouse pecked the feathers on Wang Jin's shoulder and cast an eagle look of contempt at the younger brother's appearance.

It wouldn't be so embarrassing.

Thinking of this, the young titmouse couldn't help but lie on Wang Jin's shoulder, curled up into a blue-haired ball.

Wang Jin was also constantly thinking about the worries about money.

He now needs to buy a lot of materials. It is almost impossible to bargain for prices in the black market in Lodz, but the quality and safety of the materials are also guaranteed there.

If there is really no other way, I can only sell the dragon scales given by Kabali. It should get a good price.

Anyway, his current Pokémon can't use high-end materials like dragon scales.

Wang Jin was thinking about this in his mind and couldn't help but sigh at the difficulty of raising these Pokémon.

These were just two Pokémon, and Gastly was basically free-range. If there was one more, it would be the end of his life, and he would have to do some dangerous things to raise Pokémon.

In the evening, after get off work.

Wang Jin packed up his things immediately and went to the black market.

After walking skillfully to the Alliance convenience store and giving the fat store owner a deposit of one thousand Alliance coins, Wang Jin went to the black market for the second time.

It was still the familiar small dark room and the familiar snap of fingers. The surrounding space suddenly became brighter and its direction also changed.

Under the huge floor-to-ceiling window beside Wang Jin was the bright red afterglow of the setting sun and the shadows of the green trees in the garden of the Marrokomon Group.

"Oh? Nice to meet you again, Mr. Wang Jin. What may I do for you?" The man in black robe asked cheerfully, his elbows resting on the table and his hands crossed.

"You again?" Wang Jin couldn't help but feel confused.

Normally, there should be many black market middlemen like the Marrokomon Group who possess superpowers, and they should be different every time they come.

"Hehe... That's not important. What's important is, what do you want..." The black-robed man raised his face hidden under the wide hood, but in Wang Jin's eyes he was an unclear black shadow.

"Metal film and steel-attribute energy blocks." Wang Jin did not dwell on the issue and spoke directly.

"Okay." The black-robed man opened his hands, and a light pink superpower floated in front of him. "Metal film for 50,000 Alliance coins. What grade of steel attribute energy cube do you want?"

Hearing this, Wang Jin frowned and was a little hesitant about the level of the steel attribute energy block.

The level of the energy cube represents the purity of the cube. The higher the level of the energy cube, the less impurities it contains. The impurities here refer to the remaining fiber and some pulp clots of the fruit. There is nothing wrong with eating low-level energy cubes, but the overall energy content is relatively low.

Moreover, it is said that some high-level energy blocks will be made with other rare materials to promote energy blending and increase the effect.

Now Chickadee and Gastly have been eating intermediate energy cubes for a while. But if Chickadee continues to eat intermediate steel energy cubes, it is very likely that it will face evolution before it finishes eating them.

If the time is dragged on too long and the energy block fails to work, then the gain will be counterproductive.

"What is the price of a perfect quality energy cube?" Wang Jin asked tentatively.

"Hmm..." The black-robed man paused. "One hundred coins, ten thousand Alliance coins."

"Ten thousand!" Wang Jin was surprised, but it was still within his expectations.

It is even a question whether one hundred coins can be consumed for three meals. If one calculates it at one hundred and fifty coins a day, the amount for a month would be four hundred and fifty thousand Alliance coins.

This is simply burning money.

"It will take five days..." Wang Jin counted the money and said.

He still had about 200,000 Alliance Coins left. After buying the metal film and steel energy cube, he could still have 50,000 Alliance Coins left to buy some ghost-attribute resources for Gastly. Finally, he had 50,000 Alliance Coins left for backup.

"Okay... Please wait a moment..." The black-robed man waved his hands, and with the fluctuation of his superpowers, a pure black metal film and an ancient mahogany box were simultaneously transmitted to the table. "Inside the box is the steel energy cube."

The man in black robe pushed the thing to Wang Jin and put the alliance coins that Wang Jin handed over into his pocket in the other dimension.

"Okay, is there anything else you need?" The man in black robe returned to the posture of resting his elbows on the table, leaning forward and asking Wang Jin.

"Is there any treasure that contains ghost energy?" Wang Jin asked tentatively.

"Of course. May I ask if you need berries or jade? The berries are a special variety carefully cultivated by our Marokomon Group, and the jade is for long-term wearing..." The man in black robe explained with all his might.

Wang Jin frowned and asked first:

"What's the price of the fruit?"

"That depends on how much money you have..." The man in black robe seemed to be laughing.

"About fifty or sixty thousand..."

"Then I sincerely recommend you the Purple Ghost Fruit, which is a variety that our group has just replicated and cultivated. One fruit costs 65,000 Alliance Coins."

"..."

About ten minutes later.

No. 307, Union Convenience Store, Quanguan City.

With a heavy heart, Wang Jin took the deposit of one thousand Alliance coins handed over by the fat store owner and walked out of the convenience store.

After buying things, he only had about 40,000 Alliance Coins left. He counted them carefully and found that there were 41,062 Alliance Coins.

I don't know if the black market is really bad or if he is too poor. To raise two Pokémon, Wang Jin has spent millions of Alliance coins.

But the Pokémon's power increase is also very significant.

When Wang Jin returned home, he immediately released Chickadee and Gastly from the Poké Ball and gave them the corresponding resources he had just bought.

"This is a metal film, which is coated on the bird's beak layer by layer... It will take about seven or eight days. This is a steel-attribute energy block, and then it will be mixed with the flying-attribute ones and eaten." As soon as Wang Jing finished speaking, the young tit couldn't wait to pick up an iron-gray and almost transparent energy block.

"Chiu?" The young tit swallowed the energy cube naturally without chewing it.

It opened its eyes wide, and could almost clearly feel the energy being transmitted along with the cube it swallowed. The young tit felt that what it had just swallowed was not food, but a core of some kind of energy.

"Nahi!" Gastly was more cheerful. It didn't have any hands, but it used its head to hold the purple-black purple fruit and jumped back and forth in front of Wang Jin.

"Okay, okay, I know you're happy." Wang Jin caught Gastly and rubbed its head. "Put it away quickly. We still have training tomorrow. We'll eat it tomorrow."

"Na-hi!" Gastly nodded excitedly. He had seen the Chickadee eat a very powerful fruit a long time ago, and now it was finally his turn.

"Chirp!" The young tit also felt full of strength and was looking forward to tomorrow's training even more.

Wang Jin could only pat his forehead helplessly and advised:

"Hurry up and get ready. We'll go to bed soon, or you won't have enough energy tomorrow."

"Nah!"

"Chirp!"

Both Pokémon responded at the same time.