Chapter 27

Takumi skillfully clicked to skip the animation and went straight to the reward list.

"Hmm?" Takumi narrowed his eyes slightly.

The two "Golden Legends" were different from the last time. They weren't Legendary Pokémon captured in Poké Balls but rather... two cards?

Takumi unfolded the information to check, and his brows relaxed.

"Secret Time and Space Gate - Hisui Region" (Golden Legend).

"Pokémon Ecological Zone - Covering 1/4 of the Liyue Area" (Golden Legend).

Takumi didn't even need to look at the detailed information about the Secret Time and Space Gate to know how to use this card.

Well, this secret realm still leads to the Hisui region across time and space.

From what Takumi knows, the Hisui region is the ancient version of the Sinnoh region, which is vast and likely larger than any of the Seven Nations in Teyvat.

"Goodness, building this space-time gate is like establishing an eighth nation on Teyvat, isn't it?" Takumi mused. "Will Celestia react by trying to take me down directly?"

The destruction of Khaenri'ah was still fresh in his memory.

Takumi didn't get a chance to finish the game Genshin Impact before transmigrating here, and it happened before the release of the 3.0 Sumeru version. Zhongli and Venti, who knew the inside story of Khaenri'ah's destruction, were both enigmatic and gave only vague hints. All in all, the heavenly principle was led by Celestia—right, summoning the Seven Archons.

"It seems that before I draw a 'Level 1 God,' I should be careful using this Secret Time and Space card."

Cresselia was at level 119, seemingly only one level away from reaching level 120 and advancing to the realm of a Level 1 God.

However, Takumi knew that breaking through this bottleneck wasn't easy. Cresselia would need super-god-level resources to increase her divine power. All he could do was hope for more luck in his next draws.

Compared to the space-time card, the "Pokémon Ecological Zone - Covering 1/4 of the Liyue Area" had more room for operational maneuvering.

"The ecological zone includes a complete biological chain. It features a wide variety of Pokémon, as well as berries and other Pokémon food, which is abundant. There are even fossils and treasures in the zone, and wild Legendary Pokémon are born there..."

After studying the information, Takumi was pleased. This card could greatly accelerate his progress in spreading Pokémon across Teyvat.

Moreover, compared to Celestia, Zhongli, the Geo Archon, was much easier to deal with.

Though Zhongli had lived a long life, he wasn't a rigid person.

"Liyue has vast lands with many desolate areas..." Takumi snickered. Hu Tao, the head of the Wangsheng Funeral Parlor, was his first customer, and Zhongli's guest should be notified soon. Takumi could just wait patiently, like Jiang Ziya fishing by the river.

...

After lunch, Takumi took advantage of the lack of customer activity to move a large LED advertising screen, about several dozen inches in size. He used wall nails and a hammer, quickly setting up the screen on the wall outside the store.

After successfully connecting it to the power and local network, Takumi uploaded the edited and fixed cute Pokémon pictures and battle videos and set them to play on a loop.

At that moment, news of Ningguang spending one billion Mora on a pet had already drawn a large crowd of onlookers.

Outside the store, heads crowded together, curious and chatting.

The crowd was initially puzzled by this thin, flat screen and were busy discussing it.

But when images of Larvesta, Gible, and Growlithe appeared, the store's entrance suddenly burst with reactions.

"Is this... this...?"

"Why are the images appearing? Is this some new invention from Fontaine?"

"Don't be silly! How can Fontaine's 'photo machines' be this amazing? Besides, this is much bigger than a photo machine!"

"Yeah, exactly..."

"Haven't you noticed? These pictures are moving! They're so lifelike!"

"See that little shark? That's the Gible—Hu Tao spent fifty million Mora on that one!"

"So, the bug is called 'Larvesta,' and the dog is called 'Growlithe'..."

"Wow! Watching this battle makes my blood boil!"

"I just got here; which one of these is the billion-Mora pet owned by Lady Ningguang?"

Takumi stood by the store entrance, watching the excited crowd. He curled his lips. Ningguang probably misjudged; the news of her spending one billion Mora had gone viral, but those truly interested in purchasing Pokémon were still rare.

Shaking his head, Takumi wasn't in a rush. He planned to head back inside to continue tallying his gains from the ten consecutive draws, apart from the two Golden Legends.

At that moment, at the edge of the crowd, there was the Eleventh Harbinger of the Fatui, Tartaglia, also known as Childe, accompanied by Andre, the manager of Northland Bank.

The two arrived quietly, listening to the chatter around them.

Andre wiped his forehead with a handkerchief and whispered, "Sir, this shop has only been open for three days..."

Ningguang had her ear to the ground in Liyue.

But the Fatui's "eyes and ears" in Liyue were also well-informed.

In fact, there was already a detailed intelligence report—with pictures and text—about Hu Tao's "fifty million Mora Pokémon," which had been submitted to Childe by his agents.

Originally, Childe planned to observe the situation a bit longer.

But when he heard Ningguang had visited the shop and spent one billion Mora on a pet before leaving, Childe couldn't sit still.

"Let's go in!" he commanded.

The Hydro element condensed around Childe, rippling like water, clearing a path through the crowd before him.

When he reached the front, Childe stopped in front of the large advertising screen, carefully watching the footage several times. During the duel between Hu Tao and Xiangling, he still wore a bright smile, but internally he was already in turmoil over the bond and sweat-filled battle between Pokémon and their trainers.

Even though the footage on the screen couldn't hide the fact that it was a fight between novice trainers, Childe—being a martial arts fanatic—saw through the Pokémon's combat potential and power.

He was about to step into the store when suddenly the crowd erupted with cheers:

"Make way! Make way!"

"Lady Keqing is here..."