Events

Events

As a result I ignored the matter of shadow pokemon as well as shady criminal group and familiarized myself with Pyrite town. It looked just as bad as I had been told as the buildings looked like someone had welded scrap metal together and left it to rust. The street was covered in red dirt and grime and besides the few stone buildings everything looked broken down. Even the pokemart looked like a single solid hit would cause it to fall over. Like you would expect from such a place the inhabitants were rather free in how they acted.-

In the open square of the town there was even trainers just hanging out to battle in the middle of the area for fun. Lawless was not exactly accurate to describe the town but it was more along the line of lacking laws instead. That sounded similar but the difference was that these people did follow the rules for the most part but just that the rules themselves were rather lacking. The funny thing was that I got challenged to a battle on the grounds that I felt like a strong trainer.-

The look on the peoples faces when I casually reached into my pocket and tossed Hades keystone onto the ground was hilarious. To them it looked like I had reacted to a battle challenge by tossing a random rock onto the area of the battle. That changed however when Hades smoky form surged out of the keystone menacingly with it's many eyes all staring down the opponents pokemon. Needless to say nobody wanted to challenge me to a battle after Hades chewed through that persons whole team like it was oatmeal. Assuming that everyone here was roughly the same level I couldn't blame them as none of them were even ace trainers and in front of a true blue elite like Hades helplessness was to be expected.-

The highlight of my visit to the town however was watching Wes and Rui following what was obviously a grunt of the shady organization to the building they were operating out of from the colosseum. It was like watching cockroaches scatter as the duo tore through the forces in the building like a force of nature. I would have been blind not to immediately figure out who Miror B was out of all this group. -

'Lets see, I've gotten a contact in Phenac, Pyrite and Gateon and scouted those areas out so that just leaves Agate village and Mt. Battle. Once those are completed I'll have the first part of this chain quest completed.' I thought as we flew above the desert rapidly. It wasn't particularly strange that it was taking me so little time to complete this stage of the chain quest since this was all prep work for the harder shit no doubt coming later. This was all standard entrenchment protocol, set up a base camp, scout the local settlements-

Set up a reliable information network with at least one set of ears in each settlement and obtain a reliable method of communication. This was the rough outline of the steps literally any long term project in another area follows more or less. After these steps came the more specific tasks such as surveying for ancient ruins or getting an accurate read off on the factions in the region. You may be asking why I am not simply just x-raying the ground constantly and the answer is simply that that method was inefficient and time consuming to do.-

Sure at the end I'd have a vastly superior understanding of the underground of the region but you need to understand that I am merely one dude and this was a whole ass region with many kilometers of land to cover fully. If I were to follow that path I'd be here for decades at the minimum. If there was some amazing payday at the end of that I might be okay with that since I have a lifespan of about two hundred or so years thanks to my race as a high human.-

This meant that a decade was no longer an expensive one tenth of my total lifespan but a more acceptable one twentieth. Basically a decade for a normal human was only worth five years to me. This meant that long term projects were not life long projects for me unlike for a normal human. Ironically this meant that I was also better suited to being a researcher as I could conduct research for much longer without age becoming an issue. Anyways the point I was making was that while I could spend so long here combing the region I'd prefer to take the much faster route of hunting for nuggets of information from myths, near forgotten history and rumors.