Chapter 10: Sandgem Town

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"It's actually a card!"

After Gary Oak conquered the King-level Elekid, he immediately opened the gift bag awarded by the system, only to find a card inside.

"Is it another skill card?"

Seeing this, Gary was immediately curious and focused his attention on the introduction of the card.

After Gary finished reading the introduction of the card, he was dumbfounded.

"It's really worthy of the system, even this kind of card!"

According to the system's introduction, the item Gary had obtained was not the skill card he had imagined, but a qualification improvement card.

The so-called qualification improvement card is a card provided by the system that can improve the qualifications of Pokémon. As long as the Pokémon are below the champion qualifications, after using this card, their qualifications will be improved by one level.

You have to know that in today's world, the qualifications of Pokémon are very important, often representing the potential of a Pokémon.

For example, if a Pokémon has the quasi-king qualification, then after hard training, its strength will also reach the quasi-king level. However, after the quasi-king level, if it wants to continue to become stronger, the resources it spends are also huge, and there is not much room for improvement.

However, for Pokémon with champion qualifications, their progress is much faster than that of quasi-king level Pokémon.

Under the same conditions, they are often several steps ahead of Pokémon with lower qualifications than themselves.

Therefore, the qualifications of Pokémon often represent their future, so it is enough to witness how precious this qualification improvement card is.

However, this kind of qualification card is also limited. Each Pokémon can only be used once, which also limits the unlimited stacking of a Pokémon's qualifications.

In addition, it also cannot work on Pokémon with champion qualifications and above.

But even so, this qualification improvement card is precious.

"But why can I get a qualification upgrade card by taming a King-level Elekid?"

Gary was puzzled about his luck today. How could he be so lucky when he always got a guaranteed card in his previous life?

Just when Gary was puzzled, the system's operating mechanism gave an answer, and this answer also surprised Gary.

"So that's it!"

After seeing the explanation given by the system, Gary immediately understood.

"This is still a meeting of fate!"

Even Gary had to admit that although fate sometimes changes, what is supposed to come will still come.

It turned out that this Elekid was the one that Gary tamed in the [Sinnoh region](https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Sinnoh_region) in the original work, and successfully evolved into an Electivire, and defeated Ash's Pikachu before Ash went to the Sinnoh region.

After learning this news, Gary also said directly: This is all arranged by fate!

"Since Elekid and I are both fateful encounters, I'll give this qualification upgrade card to it."

Gary was still struggling whether to use it on Arcanine. When he learned about Elekid, he directly determined the target of the qualification upgrade card, which was the Elekid he had just captured today.

As Gary silently said "use" in his heart, the qualification upgrade card in the system space disappeared instantly.

And the moment the qualification upgrade card was used, the qualification on the attribute panel of Elekid changed from the original king to the current champion.

After looking at Elekid whose qualification had become the champion, Gary also showed a full of joy.

"However, the improvement of Arcanine's qualification can only wait for the next qualification upgrade card."

After capturing Elekid, Gary had no reason to stay in this forest, but immediately got up and left, returning to the Pokémon Center in Jubilife City.

On the way back, Gary met two boys in shorts and a Bug Catcher, followed by an elite trainer in a purple jacket.

At this time, the three people ignored Gary and hurriedly ran towards the forest.

Seeing their hurried appearance, Gary immediately knew their purpose, which was the Elekid that Gary had just captured.

Sure enough, before Gary took a few steps, a shrill cry came from the forest: "Where is my Elekid?"

This shrill cry also scared away a flock of birds.

"It's a pity that you are a step late, I have taken the Elekid!"

Hearing this, Gary also showed a smile on his face, and then walked back to the direction of the Pokémon Center with a relaxed pace.

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After a short rest in Jubilife City, Gary checked out of the room at the Pokémon Center early the next morning, then got up and left Jubilife City, and walked towards the town of Sandgem in the south.

After spending some time, Gary finally arrived at a small town, which was the destination of this trip, at the entrance of Sandgem Town.

"I didn't expect to see the sea here, it's really a bit unforgettable!"

Looking at the blue sea not far from the town, Gary also took a deep breath of the sea breeze blowing from the sea, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

Sandgem Town is like Pallet Town. Although it is not as prosperous as those big cities in Jubilife City, these quiet and far-reaching environments also make many people fascinated here.

Similarly, the research institute of Professor Rowan, who is very famous in the Sinnoh region, is also located in such an ordinary town.

It must be said that Professor Rowan is worthy of being the senior of his grandfather. The two world-famous Pokémon professors, their research institutes are not built in prosperous cities, but in such quiet and remote towns.

This is probably the common hobby of most Pokémon professors.

After sighing a little, Gary did not stay at the entrance of the town, but after asking the residents of the town about Professor Rowan's research institute, he continued to move forward.

Following the guidance of the people, Gary hurried to the final destination of the Sinnoh region, which is Professor Rowan's research institute.

Like his own Oak Research Institute, Professor Rowan's research institute is built on the outskirts of the town, and also includes the entire back mountain. This also shows that these Pokémon professors are really rich!

In this way, Gary sighed and came to the door of the research institute, ready to knock.

However, just when Gary was about to knock on the door, a strange voice behind him stopped his action.

"Excuse me, who are you..."

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