As the question mark above its head solidified, two upward shining rings flashed across Gholdengo's body in succession.
Its aura surged sharply, and its Special Attack increased by a large margin.
Facing the fact that Gholdengo suddenly had no Trainer commands and did not use any control moves, Litten was completely dumbfounded.
'Didn't the Trainer say the opponent only played control?'
'What the hell is this power up?'
He instinctively threw out a Fake Out, but when the slap landed, aside from making Gholdengo's face tilt slightly, it had no other effect.
As a Ghost type, Gholdengo is immune to Normal type moves.
Of course… that slap might have increased Gholdengo's anger value.
"Litten, hurry and use Ember!", Sun shouted loudly from the side.
He was usually busy working and almost never battled together with Litten.
Seeing Litten lose his composure, Sun immediately started giving commands.
Litten nodded. Tiny sparks gathered in his mouth and shot toward Gholdengo.
And at that very moment, Gholdengo's next move was successfully unleashed.
He lightly raised his head, several strands of pure gold hair swaying. An outrageously wealthy aura surged forth like a tidal wave, almost causing Litten to lose all ability to think.
Litten never dreamed that a Pokémon could be this rich.
A flash of golden light gathered in Gholdengo's hand, forming a massive shower of dazzling gold coins that came crashing down on Litten.
Gholdengo's signature move, Make It Rain.
This move has extremely powerful damage and can throw out a large number of gold coins based on the user's strength.
Generally speaking, the higher the level, the more coins are thrown, and the higher the Special Attack, the stronger the coins.
The only side effect is that after using this move, Special Attack will drop somewhat.
Gholdengo was already a Gym Leader level Pokémon, and after using Nasty Plot just now, its Special Attack had also risen by two stages.
For Litten's small body, these gold coins were completely overwhelming.
"Meow!", Litten completely gave up resisting. His eyes turned into money symbols as he wildly swung his claws.
He was going to lose anyway. Might as well take the chance to make some money.
Catching one coin wasn't a loss. Catching two coins was pure profit!
After one second of monetary bombardment, Litten lay on the ground belly up, his mouth stuffed full of gold coins. Each paw clutched a coin as well, wearing a blissful smile.
Axel and his Pokémon could not help but twitch at the corners of their mouths. This cat was really going all out.
Getting beaten and still smiling this happily was just absurd...
Only Gardevoir chuckled softly beside Axel, as if this scene stirred something in her.
Jingle~ Jingle~
After finishing off Litten, Gholdengo imitated Gyarados's smug manner and beckoned at Tauros.
Tauros's eyes lit up, and he charged forward with his tail whipping behind him.
He wanted to explode gold coins too, so his Trainer could quickly save up money.
"Wait!", Before Gholdengo could move on, Axel suddenly spoke up to stop it.
At the instant Litten fell, he thought he saw a message flash across the system panel.
Sure enough, when he opened the trait inventory, Axel found a newly dropped trait inside.
[Hidden Lucky One: The lazier you are, the luckier you become. You can pick up money just walking down the street. At the current level, you can pick up bills worth ten.]
Seeing this trait drop in one go, Axel nodded in satisfaction.
Even though the stupid system occasionally acted stupid, most of the time it was still pretty good.
Axel equipped the trait onto himself and quickly tapped the upgrade button.
After several flashes of white light, the trait on the panel changed.
[Lucky One (Gold): You become extremely lucky. In theory, any luck that can possibly occur has a small chance of happening to you.]
Seeing the effect after upgrading this trait to gold, Axel's eyes lit up sharply.
This was the kind of trait a man should have.
Simply put, this trait made events with extremely tiny probabilities much more likely to occur.
More importantly, after upgrading to gold, this trait broke free from the limitation of just picking up money and could apply to any aspect.
For example, buying lottery tickets. Other people might never win in their entire lives, but Axel might win after buying just a dozen or so times.
Or chasing a goddess. If one confession fails, confessing a few more times might succeed.
Of course… Axel was just using an analogy. He was too lazy to chase goddesses.
What Axel valued most was this trait's effect in training.
Like the Fragrant Body Pill he tried to make today, he had almost no clue where to start.
But with this trait, perhaps after experimenting a few more times, he could successfully make the Fragrant Body Pill and let Gardevoir's strength climb rapidly once again.
"No more fighting. I want to go rest."
"Moo?", Tauros looked disappointed. He thought that taking a beating could earn his Trainer some money. Why did the fighting suddenly stop?
Sun did not have much of a reaction. He liked making money, but he also did not want to see his Pokémon keep getting beaten.
If Axel did not want to fight anymore, that was for the best.
["Wait…",] Just as Sun was about to recall the disappointed Tauros, a hollow, ethereal voice suddenly rang out.
Gardevoir stepped forward, floating in midair as she looked at Sun's Tauros, as well as Gible and Gholdengo.
["If you want to fight, then fight… Gholdengo and Gible also need to practice real combat anyway…"]
["The four of you stay here and battle. Keep the noise down and don't disturb Master."]
"Jingle Jingle~"
"Roar!"
Hearing Gardevoir speak, Gholdengo and Gible obediently nodded.
Tauros beside them was overjoyed and wagged his tail, thanking Gardevoir.
Seeing Gardevoir like this, Axel knew she was thinking back to when the two of them first met.
Back then, although they did not train much, they often worried about money. Even getting a three million sponsorship made them unbelievably happy.
"Alright then, you stay here and fight. It'll be good to train Gible's combat ability too. I'll head back to get busy."
Axel cared quite a bit about Gible. This guy already had great natural talent, and his traits looked extremely broken as well. If trained properly, he should be able to fight across levels.
As Axel was about to leave, he felt that making money actually did not do much for Sun. Following him to take down the Aether Paradise would probably be faster.
But since Gardevoir had spoken, Axel went along with it.
Tonight's small goal was set. Successfully make the Fragrant Body Pill.
"Thank you, boss!", Only when Axel was about to go inside did Sun react and hurriedly express his thanks.
"Does the boss and boss's wife want any late night snacks? I'll go buy them."
Gardevoir tilted her head slightly, looked at the moon, and thought for a moment.
["Fried skewers!"]
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