Chapter 146: Light Stone

"This stone seems to contain endless energy, continuously emitting a soft glow. Its illumination effect is even better than a night-luminescent pearl."

"The collection value is extremely high. Please place your bids!"

As the small hammer fell, it also struck the auctioneer's nervous heart.

Although this stone's illumination effect was better than a night-luminescent pearl, it wasn't as pretty as one!

Women had no interest in it, and men generally chose to buy something good-looking as a gift rather than choosing this stone.

Several times, the auction price hadn't reached the acquisition cost the chamber of commerce paid in the Beautiful Country, so they had to have their own people step in to win the bid.

This time, the chamber of commerce's requirement was low: as long as they didn't lose too much, they just wanted to sell the stone.

"100 Shenzhou coins."

"1,000 Shenzhou coins."

"5,000 Shenzhou coins."

Su Hao suppressed his inner excitement and followed the crowd to place a bid.

To be honest, he didn't expect his luck to be this good today; not only did he encounter a Mega Stone, but he also ran into a Light Stone, the carrier for releasing Z-Moves.

It seemed the Light Stone was currently valued lower than the Mega Stone, so he just needed to follow the plan to secure it.

"6,000 Shenzhou coins."

"10,000 Shenzhou coins!"

Following Su Hao's bid, the Light Stone, with no one else competing, fell into his hands.

"Hehehe, huge profit!"

The following auction items were just some resources and the like, so Su Hao scrolled through his phone, uninterested.

Soon, the auction concluded completely.

As a distinguished guest who had won several items, Su Hao was led by two beautiful female attendants to the backstage, which was decorated with opulent luxury, unlike the auction hall.

A group of people had already gathered here, and Su Hao looked around to find that they were all people he remembered as having won items.

"Mr. Su, these are the items you won. This is the price list; please check it."

A young man with broad shoulders and a narrow waist, wearing an attendant's uniform and looking very handsome, pushed a small cart toward Su Hao.

He presented the handwritten list in his hands to Su Hao with both hands.

Su Hao first glanced at the four items on the cart.

Very good, the ointment, the Charmander egg, the Mega Stone, and the Light Stone were all there.

Scanning them with the system panel also ruled out the possibility of fakes.

The handwriting on the list was bold and vigorous, consistent with the prices he had bid.

"How do I pay?" He nodded in satisfaction.

"Mr. Su, the total is 11.62 million. The small change has been wiped off for you. We support card payments and QR code scanning."

"Which payment method would you like to use?"

"Card payment."

Su Hao put his hand in his pocket and took out his bank card from the system inventory.

"Very well."

As the card swiped through the POS machine, Su Hao's little treasury suddenly dropped to about four million.

After the transaction, the attendant asked if Su Hao needed delivery services. Su Hao shook his head, and the attendant left the cart in front of him and slowly retreated.

He hadn't brought the space backpack Su Hao's mother had given him this time, choosing instead to carry a regular canvas bag.

The space backpack could only store inanimate objects; the Dreepy egg could not be placed inside.

The size of the ointment jar was similar to the incubator provided by the chamber of commerce. After thinking it over, Su Hao pretended to put the Mega Stone and Light Stone into his pocket, but actually stored them in his system inventory, then took the Dreepy egg out of the canvas bag.

When he walked out of the backstage with a Charmander egg in his left hand and a Dreepy egg in his right, striding toward the hotel, a figure blocked his path.

"It really is you!" Bai Zirou stopped Su Hao.

Hearing the voice of the person in seat 1145 who had won the Charmander egg, she had suspected it, and sure enough, it was the boy she had met briefly that afternoon.

"Hello, let me introduce myself. My name is Bai Zirou, currently a junior at Qingbei University, and a Dragon-type specialist trainer."

Bai Zirou smiled and generously extended her hand to introduce herself.

Looking at the girl in front of him who was also holding an incubator containing a Pokémon egg in each hand,

Su Hao's mouth twitched.

Good grief, he hadn't expected the foolish child from the wealthy family to be the girl who had been throwing money around that afternoon!

"Hello, my name is Su Hao, a high school senior from Yangcheng, currently challenging gyms, and I don't have a specialty type."

Su Hao reached out and shook Bai Zirou's hand before quickly letting go.

"May I ask, is there something you need?" Su Hao asked tentatively, his face full of confusion.

In his eyes, he had only met this girl once; why would she specifically stop him?

Even if he had helped her find her sister, she had already paid with a Dragon Fang that exceeded the value; surely she couldn't be regretting it and wanting it back?

"You're already challenging gyms? Would it be convenient to reveal if you've obtained any badges?" Bai Zirou's eyes lit up as she asked curiously, though she felt she had overlooked something.

The Dragon Force she possessed didn't just bring her affinity with and amplification for Dragon-type Pokémon; it also gave her an intuition similar to a sixth sense.

Unfortunately, this ability was hit-or-miss; it hadn't triggered when she was looking for Yueyue that afternoon.

Setting aside the afternoon, they were already square, but her intuition told her that Su Hao was a powerhouse and worth getting to know!

"It's not impossible to say. I just obtained my second Beginner Badge at the Frost Gym the day before yesterday," Su Hao said frankly.

"The second 【Beginner】 Badge!?" Bai Zirou covered her mouth slightly with one hand and exclaimed softly.

Wait, Beginner Badge!?

Bai Zirou suddenly remembered something.

As a direct descendant of the prestigious Dragon Tamer clan, she roughly understood why the Shenzhou Alliance had specifically established the Beginner Gym Challenge.

This level of challenge didn't happen many times a year, and apart from a few geniuses, most novice trainers couldn't cultivate one or even several Elite-level Pokémon within a year.

Even in her senior year of high school, with the blessing of the Dragon Force, and without using any resources to force growth.

Only her starter Pokémon, Dratini, had barely broken through to the late Elite level after evolving into Dragonair.

Now a junior, she and Dragonair, along with the other Dragon-type Pokémon in her team, had spent three years polishing their foundations, all for the sake of breaking through to the Professional level without using specialized techniques.

Only then, as the vice-captain of the Qingbei University team, would she have the capital to participate in the youth group of the National Youth Competition held in the second half of the year.

She had once heard in her clan that a high school senior had cultivated a Pokémon with Elite-level combat power just two or three months after receiving their starter, defeating the Empoleon that Wei Jie had sent out, which had broken through to the Professional level using specialized techniques.

Her alma mater had also received this news.

According to the captain, every university had prepared to send people to reserve Su Hao the moment they heard the news, wanting him to choose their university.

It could be said that as long as Su Hao didn't end up like the prodigy in the story of Zhong Yong, the school he joined would dominate the individual category of the National Youth Competition for the next four years. ===== CHAPTER 147 =====