He knows Pokémon better than me.

"Beep! Got Loto~!"

The Tri-Fold Rotom floated up, then flew outside with a whoosh and began a carpet-style exploration.

Xiaozhi nodded with satisfaction. The Pokémon that performed the gathering work had to be in place first, so that he wouldn't have to go to the small woods behind every day to search for and identify edible fruits one by one.

Then he looked around the watchtower castle and the Pokémon in front of him who had just finished eating.
Except for the giant crab, most of them are not suitable for work.

In addition, his main job is a trainer, so the rancher or castle lord can only take the back seat.

The first priority is to cultivate a strong team of Galar rising stars!
"Everyone should take time out from work every day to practice combat. Remember, you are not here to work, but to become stronger!"

"My idea is that from now on, everyone should spend half a day improving and building the Watchtower Castle, and the other half a day on combat training, so as to achieve good results in the future Galar World Championships!"

Xiaozhi gave a speech with great emotion.

He has not forgotten the original purpose of coming to the Galar region to challenge the World Championship held here!

However, he had already checked and found that the tournament would not be held so soon, and the rules of this tournament were also quite special.

It is not a normal registration or invitation qualification.
But you have to play ranked first!
First, you register for the competition and get a basic ranking, which is probably after 1000.
The system will then continuously match contestants with opponents of the same ranking. Victory will raise the ranking, while defeat will lower it.

When the qualifying round ends, the top contestants will automatically enter the much-anticipated main race.

"Very interesting~"

This was also Xiaozhi's first time participating in this kind of random ranking competition. When he saw the rules at the Pokémon Center in Mecha City yesterday, he was excited for a while.

This seems to be the third season of the World Championships, but it has just begun, so there are promotional advertisements everywhere in the Pokémon Center.

Xiaozhi signed up for the competition on the spot. He is currently ranked at the bottom of the list, outside the top 1000. All he has to do now is wait patiently for the system to match him with an opponent.

"So, everyone should work hard to become stronger from now on!"

Xiaozhi clenched his fists, looking seriously at the Galar team in front of him. They were constantly improving from outside the top 1000, which meant that the opponents they encountered would become stronger and stronger, which was just right for his rising star team!
"Gah!"

The Onion Duck was the first to respond. After a loud cry, it tried to pick up its onion and raised it like a sword.

However, the onion was bigger than its body. After being lifted up by force, Onion Duck staggered from side to side and had difficulty controlling its center of gravity.

"Knock, knock?"

The giant crab waved its claws, wondering if it had heard it wrong.

Let’s not talk about half-day work before the tournament, what does half-day training mean?!

"Chirp!"

Magearna, wearing a brand new maid outfit, made a happy sound and, as Xiaozhi's "number one fan", immediately expressed her support.

She will support whoever buys clothes for her~!

Anyway, her job type is level 3 "Encouragement".

That is, you don’t need to do it yourself, just stand by and encourage your teammates to work hard!
"Ouch."

Lingyou Ma lowered his head, thinking about whether to get involved.

If Xiaozhi wins this World Championship, he should be able to advance from "Five-time Champion" to "Six-time Champion", and it would be more prestigious for him to return to the Crown Snowfield with me.

"Hey, hey, hey! I've already won six championships, and you want me to repeat myself!"

Xiaozhi couldn't help but complain, is Lingyouma's brain also like Gu Yueniao? How many times does he need to remind him? ! As for the unskilled idiot Meltan
Instead of joining Ash's mobilization meeting, it was completely immersed in its own "castle treasure hunt".

When he had nothing to do, he would wander around the watchtower castle, lying on the inner and outer walls searching one by one. From time to time, he would find a rusty iron nail or iron block, and then eat it with surprise.

Having eaten too much rusty metal, Meltan's silver-white liquid metal body is now covered with a layer of rusty red film.
"Uh, should it be okay?"

The corner of Xiaozhi's mouth twitched, but Meltan was still alive and well, so he shouldn't have food poisoning.

Seeing that Triple-Fold Rotom hadn't returned yet, Xiaozhi also took action and divided the Pokémon into two groups.

The first batch was responsible for the construction of the castle, and the number one general, Giant Claw Crab, went outside to cut wood. The lv.2 Claw Iai Slash was still more efficient.

Onion of Farfetch'd also has powerful logging abilities, and follows behind Giant Crab to help.

The second batch conducted combat training.

"Don't eat yet, Meltan. Today we're going to practice the Cannon Light Cannon trick!"

Hearing this, Meltan reluctantly came out from a crack in the wall. The nut on his head accumulated energy, and then a stream of reddish-brown energy suddenly burst out.
After eating too much rusty metal, even the special effects of the cannon have changed.

"Sure enough, the power has indeed become stronger."

Xiaozhi nodded. Even though the tiny Meltan seemed to have no fighting power, it had followed him all the way from the Alola region after all, so its strength was not weak.

Once it evolves, its power will probably become astonishing!
"Well, Meltan's evolution is also on the agenda."

Xiaozhi secretly noted it down and would call the local Master Ma later to see if the latter had any useful information.

"Then there's the Magearna Flower Cannon!!"

Magearna came outside the castle, raised one arm, and retracted the fingertips at the end to form the hole for the cannon, and placed the other hand underneath.

Pink light accumulates in the holes
Boom! !
The next moment, a pink pulse blasted out, directly blasting a long gully on the ground outside the castle, with petals scattered around it. The move was gorgeous and extremely destructive!
"Well, not bad~"

Xiaozhi nodded. Compared to the immature Meltan, Magearna is a complete mythical beast and has enough combat power.

Next is the Spirit Horse
The latter turned his head away proudly, walked alone to the shadow of the castle and closed his eyes to meditate, neither working nor training.

Its practice is to use its own exclusive move "Star Shattering" again, but this move can only be trained at night. Now in the morning, it is better to take a nap facing the wall.

Xiaozhi simply let Lingyouma go and just let him ride.

Seeing that the training of all the Pokémon was on the right track, Xiaozhi nodded with satisfaction.

About two hours later, Triple-Fold Rotom also came back and brought good news to Xiaozhi.

"Beep! I found a Pokémon called Lotor with the ability to gather in a Pokémon nest~!"

"Pokémon nest?"

Xiaozhi was stunned for a moment, then realized that it was the purple light rising into the sky, the special nest where the Gigantamax Pokémon were said to live, right?

Seeing the giant crab carrying several thick logs back, Xiaozhi's eyes lit up and he immediately waved his hand:
"You've come just in time! Giant Claw Crab, come fight with me!"

It’s a good opportunity to see the rumored Gigantamax Pokémon!

Giant Claw Crab: “?” (End of this chapter)