Arriving in Orre

Thanks to her evolving she was able to reach level one hundred which rounded out my entire team of active pokemon at elite level. Soon enough the little one would begin training as well as he had stopped growing as much recently which was a sign of him reaching physical maturity. Once he officially reached that point I was going to name him and begin his training. Funnily enough most of the trainers on board seemed to think he was some sort of variant Ekans or Seviper.-

In terms of size he had already reached about the length and thickness of a normal Milotic which left him at about eight feet long and about a foot and a half thick in the middle. The idea that both of the natural stages of a Milotic had fused into a single stage fit very well with what I could see. Despite this however I was hopeful that he could evolve naturally as otherwise I would be forced to use my last evolution token on him. most pokemon had multiple stages for a reason after all and I was worried that him only having the one where there should be two meant he would suffer level lock.-

For most trainers a pokemon not being able to grow because of their inability to evolve meant the end of that pokemons journey. Not to say they just get thrown away as worthless or anything merely that the trainer has to make the hard call of retiring them in order to train another pokemon that has the potential to grow still. I thankfully could use my evolution token instead if my fears did become reality. It may seem wasteful but I value the bonds I have with my pokemon too much to care about something like that.-

The final week of the journey was spent mostly on relaxing for my pokemon while I worked on mastering my aura to type energy conversions. I had only started being able to mold type energy after converting my aura to it and was only another step away from true move emulation. It was pretty clear though that humans weren't designed to use moves though as the energy fought me every step of the way and it took me almost a whole minute just to convert enough to use a move like ember.-

Compared to literally any pokemon that was pathetically slow. Even worse was that converting my aura to type energy was horribly inefficient and burned through even my massive reserves like it was rocket fuel. Just to get the equivalent of a single embers worth of fire type energy I use nearly half my aura at once. Despite this clear uselessness I stubbornly pushed on as I firmly believed that at some point I could work out this inefficiency and be able to use powerful moves on the fly like a pokemon. There was one big issue with converting my aura to type energy though, it tried to stay there afterwards.-

The more I converted my aura into a single type while ignoring the others the more my aura tries to adapt to that type in particular. This meant focusing on only a single type conversion was a bad move unless I only wanted to be able to use that one typing. Sadly it was clear just how hard my chosen route was as the information I received from the aura skill originally covered type conversion but only up to the point of being able to use low leveled moves. This meant that once I reached and mastered that level of aura I was effectively in the dark about how to advance from there.-

[Achievement: Reach Orre! Reward: 2x ability tickets!]

[Chain Quest conditions established!

Description: You have set yourself the goal of finding the secret of Orre and will have much work to do before you can succeed!

Objectives: Find lodging for while you are in Orre, Scout out the local population, Create reliable contacts in each of the major settlements(0/5), Obtain a PDA.

Rewards: 2x item tickets, 1x skill ticket, 1x ability ticket, hub token+(claimable immediately), (complete all objectives to unlock the next chain quest)]

These notifications broke me out of my meditation as it was entirely unexpected. Apparently my system considered me reaching another region as an achievement worth rewarding. It was quite the generous reward too as an extra two abilities would further my aura along regardless of if it were a big leap or small one. The chain quest was also something I was surprised to see since despite having this goal for some time now it had only became a quest after I actually reached Orre. I suppose it made sense though as only by doing so was it pretty much set that it was actually relevant.-

What interested me most about the quest was the Hub token that was offered for me doing it. Expanding the description of the item I was astonished at what it was exactly.

[Item name: Hub token

Grade: System

Description: A system reward that upon use terraforms an area of land into a building bound to the user that has self sustainability and robust defenses.]

'This reminds me of the hidden base feature from the games that I was rather fond of when I played.' I thought as I read the item description. It wasn't lost on me that this reward also satisfied one of the objectives of the quest since I could obtain it the moment I got a PDA. I went up to the deck of the ship right in time to hear "LAND HO!" from the lookout. People began to fill the deck to catch a glimpse of our destination and about fifteen minutes later we did. Tall rocky cliffs rising into mountains came into view which was not very encouraging to be honest but proved we were truly in Orres waters now.-

It took another hour before the mountains leveled out into a long strip of desert beach and another two hours after that for us to see the first hints of green that meant we were starting to get near the north western shore of the region that held our destination, Gateon port. The ship started to slow as we approached the small port town and eased into the dock before anchoring and getting tied off securely. Only then was the stairs lowered onto the dock and we were allowed to disembark. I didn't feel like waiting and simply flexed my legs before rocketing up and over the side of the ship before landing on the hard concrete while reinforcing myself with aura.-

That show drew many of the residents of the town that had come to see the rare large ocean liners attention. I must have cut an impressive figure as none of the rough looking folks around dared to stand in my way as I started walking away from my landing point. The aesthetic of Gateon was that it was an old rundown place with worn streets and modernish metal buildings that had rust all over them. The lighthouse was probably the only building that looked like it got regular maintenance.