Ash, with his invincible physical body, wants to become a Pokémon Master

"Alright, full speed ahead! The Alliance members here are all incompetent. As soon as we see a dragon, we'll attack immediately!"

The captain let out a strange, grating laugh.

"The buyer has already paid half the deposit. If we just catch these dragons, we'll have achieved our goal for the whole month!"

"We'll make a fortune then, and everyone can go out and have some fun!"

The thought of the money they were about to receive excited everyone on the ship, and they rushed towards the dragon-riding group with great enthusiasm.

Although they may look comical, poachers are still poachers after all.

Several of their companions on the ship immediately released more than twenty Tentacruels from their Poké Balls, surrounding the Lapras.

Some brave dragons in the tribe tried to resist, but they were immediately suppressed by the cannon fire from the bandit gang's bed.

The stinger jellyfish mercilessly pierced the dragons, causing several to collapse helplessly from poisoning.

The dragons could only flee in panic, but unfortunately, they were already surrounded.

Despair filled the face of the Dragon Clan Chief.

"Laser, Freeze Ray!"

The cannons on the pirate ship were instantly frozen by the freezing rays that came from afar, causing several to explode.

"Damn it, who is it?" The captain looked around angrily.

Meanwhile, Ash and his friends rode on Lapras's back, sailing through the waves.

"You bastards dared to make a Water Pokémon do this kind of thing! I won't let you get away with this!"

Misty, who loves Water-type Pokémon the most, is furious to see Tentacruel being used for evil purposes.

Immediately release Staryu, Milotic, and Ash's Lapras to defeat the Tentacruel that have to obey their trainers' orders.

Meanwhile, the mother lamellar and the chieftain watched in surprise as their baby lamellar descended like divine intervention to rescue them.

After hesitating for a while, they still followed Xiao Chenglong and launched an attack on the gang of thieves.

Xiao Zhi certainly wouldn't be polite to these scumbags.

Xia was in charge of dealing with the twenty stinging jellyfish, while he, of course, was responsible for taking care of the guys on the ship.

With Pikachu on its back, it leaps powerfully from the back of Lapras, descends from the sky, and smashes the deck of the pirate ship like a cannonball.

"What is that?!"

"It looks like a person, Captain!"

"Idiot, how could that be? How could a person falling make that kind of noise?"

The poaching gang's captain pointed excitedly at the dust and holes on the deck, shouting as if he were astonished by the stupidity of his men.

At that moment, a pair of strong, powerful hands suddenly sprang out from the smoke and grabbed the captain's index finger, slapping it upwards.

"what--!"

The screams were heart-wrenching; the index finger was cruelly snapped off at a 90-degree angle.

Ash's face, with its playful smile, slowly appeared in the captain's eyes.

"Hey, are you ready for your punishment, baby~"

"Ahhh!"

The intense pain nearly made the captain faint.

"Idiot, attack him now!"

The surrounding sailors, as if waking from a dream, immediately drew their pistols and fired at Ash.

"What a bunch of desperados, they can shoot people so easily..."

Ash burst into a burst of energy, his hair standing on end. His left hand was still gripping the captain's index finger, while his right hand, covered in crystallized energy, scratched at the front of him a few times.

Then, he opened his palm, and the bullets fell out one by one.

Thump, thump, thump—the sound of bullets falling was also the sound of the poaching crew's heartbeats.

"This is a monster!"

Everyone was terrified and didn't dare to breathe.

"Pikachu, Thunderbolt!"

A bright yellow lightning bolt struck, instantly plunging the band of thieves into darkness.

Several of the stronger ones immediately let out strange cries and tried to struggle backward and run away.

Ash kicked the captain away, using his body to knock down all the fleeing ships.

Ash's figure slowly approached, his shadow completely enveloping the bodies of the gang members in front of him.

"Oh~ come out, my little darlings, don't make me do it myself."

The two Poké Balls immediately opened, and two familiar Pokémon emerged from them.

One of them is tall and strong with four arms, while the other is thick, sturdy, and powerful!

To punish these poachers, Ash specially teleported his two old friends from Oak's lab.

"Super strength, super strength!" (Wow, great physique!)

"Oh, oh!" (Oh~, delicious!)

It's our interrogation duo, the Mighty Giant and the Super Iron Tyrannosaurus Rex team.

Ash put his arm around Machamp and the others' shoulders and gave them a charming smile.

XZ Superman is coming to punish criminals!

"Now, break it open yourself!"

……

[Ding! Congratulations on completing the side quest "Sin Buster": Bring all evil to justice, save the protected area, and catch the poachers!]

【获得奖励：联盟币+5000；攻击+1；自由属性点+2；地区好感度+10；地区威望+10】

Ash grabbed the captain, who had already been thoroughly pampered, and extracted the whereabouts of the poaching gang's vault from him.

This time the haul was surprisingly large, a full 100 million!

"Aren't these bastards a little too rich?"

At that moment, Xiaoxia's voice came from below, saying that they had finished dealing with the stinging jellyfish.

Ash hung all the poachers on the bow of the boat as targets, letting the Lapras use Ice Shards on them and giving them a small reward.

This has become a must-do activity for the children in the dragon race to show off their skills and power.

Ash's Lapras's Ice Shards are large, thick, and accurate, and every time they are used, they elicit cheers from his friends.

And the dragon's mother wandered happily beside it.

Thanks to Ash and Misty's help, the old chieftain put aside his prejudice against humans and accepted Lapras back into the family.

Chapter 169 Leaving the Orange Islands

Ash released all the Pokémon that had been imprisoned inside the ship.

All the Pokémon these poachers caught in a month are here.

They originally planned to capture all the Lapras today and send them to their benefactor, but unexpectedly, Ash managed to save them all at once.

Xiao Zhi accepted all the money, including the deposit from the investor and the poacher's savings, without hesitation.

And so they returned to the police station with the pirate ship and the poachers.

"Satoshi... thank you so much for helping us catch these poachers."

"But why did they become like this?"

Miss Officer Jenny looked at the group of people in front of her who trembled and cried out for jail as soon as they saw Mighty and Ironhide Tyrannosaurus Rex approaching.

"Uh, don't worry about the details, they just got a little bit taught a lesson by the Pokémon."

After handing the poaching gang over to Officer Jenny, Ash immediately called Brock.

When Xiao Yong received the call, he was very happy, thinking that Xiao Zhi had changed his mind and was willing to become one of the Elite Four.

Unfortunately, Ash came to talk to him about the Pokémon Reserve.

After learning the whole story, Xiao Yong's expression instantly turned very serious.

He sincerely apologized to Xiaozhi.

"It is my fault as the chief that poachers have been able to operate so rampantly in this region."

"Thanks to Ash for his help this time, I owe you so much. Please don't hesitate to ask if you need any help!"

In the end, Ash only asked for the investment and management rights of the Lapras Reserve, since Lapras wanted to live with its family in the future.

Having its own people involved in the daily operations of the reserve not only allows the group to accumulate knowledge about Pokémon ecosystem building, but also to better care for the Lapras population.

After all, Orange Alliance is in dire need of resources right now.

Furthermore, Ash's Lapras can live with its family in its protected area, so it doesn't count as being released.

Ash can visit Lapras or call it to battle whenever he wants.

In the evening, Ash called Lapras over and, as usual, gently stroked its head.

"If bad guys come again while I'm gone, you must protect your territory and your people."

"Oh, oh~!" Lapras's cries were also filled with reluctance to part with Ash.

As the sun set, Ash looked at the small hill in front of him and was filled with emotion.

"When we first met, it was such a tiny thing, and in just six months it's grown so much..."

Before parting, Ash once again rode Lapras across the sea.

[Ding! Dragon Chaser: Affection +2; Intimacy +2]

[Ding! Dragon: Affection and intimacy have reached maximum!]

[Rewards: Alliance Coins +1200; Special Defense +2; Skill: Song of Annihilation]

After telling Lapras that he would come to see it whenever he had time, Ash and his friends boarded the ship bound for Vermilion City.

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In the ship's cabin, Ash first took out the little black egg from his backpack and washed its surface with a warm towel.

"Lugia said it would hatch soon, but so much time has passed and there's still no sign of it hatching."

Ash only sensed it flashing a few times in his backpack yesterday when he rewarded the poaching group.

At other times, it remains quiet and still.

"It seems like it moved when I was dealing with Gilluta before. Do I have to do more similar things before it can hatch?"

Shaking his head, Xiao Zhi decided to stop thinking about all this nonsense.

"Perhaps Lugia's speed is a little different from that of a normal human."

Ash puts the little black egg away and opens the shop interface.

He had a whole day before leaving the Orange Islands, so he wanted to hurry up and buy all the good things he could find in the shops.

Unfortunately, although he made a small fortune in the end, Ash invested another 50 million to protect Lapras.

Now I only have half of the funds left to go on a shopping spree.

Although we've used up all the highest-grade healing potions, the most basic ones have the advantage of being fast-acting. We bought them all for a total of 200 million.

The dyed fruit is very useful; it can be sold for money later. The total cost of purchasing it was 800 million.

……

After buying three more Master Balls, Ash will have absolutely nothing left.

"I should be able to survive on the rewards from the occasional side quests that I trigger regularly..."

If all else fails, you can always go live off Xiaoxia, it's okay.