Caleb used Appraise on Dark Lugia. In the next second, the potential rewards appeared before him in a panel:
[Dark Lugia: The Guardian of the Seas, a Legendary Pokémon that dwells in the ocean. A special variant of Lugia. It uses powerful gales and tsunamis to attack enemies. After defeating it, players have a chance to obtain the following rewards:
- Character Card (Dark Lugia): 1%
- Pokémon Egg (Dark Lugia): 0.01%
- Gacha Draw: 1%
- Psychic-type TM (Choice)
- Flying-type TM (Choice): 10%
- Shiny Stone: 10%
- Twisted Spoon: 15%
- Random SS-grade item: 20%...]
Caleb decided to act without hesitation. He directly commanded Mewtwo to attack the Dark Lugia floating in the air.
A terrifying tide of psychic power surged towards the opposite side like a tidal wave. In just one second, the idle Dark Lugia entered an active state.
It opened a pair of blood-red eyes, flapped its wings, let out a long cry towards the sky, and layers of sonic boom sounds instantly blasted towards Mewtwo.
Fierce storms stirred in the air, and a visible air vortex rapidly condensed within it. That was the Flying-type move, Aeroblast!
Caleb watched this scene calmly and ordered, "Y Form!"
Mewtwo nodded slightly, and his figure immediately shot towards the Dark Lugia at high speed. His body emitted a bright white light during flight, and in the blink of an eye, he evolved from his normal form into Y Form.
Dark Lugia looked coldly at Mewtwo. It raised its head, and a rapidly spinning blue water ball condensed in front of it.
In the next second, that water ball transformed into a thick water column and shot towards the path of Mewtwo's flight.
But just before the attack was about to hit Mewtwo, Mewtwo used Teleport. His body disappeared from his original location, appearing above Lugia's head.
A strike imbued with violent psychic power was suddenly unleashed. The Dark Lugia was hit on the spot, lost its balance, and fell into the ocean.
As the guardian boss fell, the rewards it dropped immediately appeared in Caleb's inventory:
*Ding!*
[Extreme Realm Hell Chapter, Tier 3, cleared! You have successfully defeated your opponent!]
[Time taken: 3 minutes 12 seconds.]
[Rewards:
Caleb didn't get the item he wanted. He pondered for a moment, then looked at the item labeled SL in his inventory.
Just before launching the attack on Lugia, he had used the Save function to save the challenge progress. And now, after the Extreme Realm Instance challenge ended, it still showed 'usable'.
Caleb's heart stirred. With his heart pounding, he pressed the button labeled 'Loading'...
A flash of intense white light passed before him, and the next second, Caleb was rewound to a few minutes earlier...
...
"It worked!" Caleb exclaimed.
Looking at the Dark Lugia floating not far away in mid-air, Mewtwo was stunned, seemingly not reacting for a moment.
Seeing this, Caleb proactively explained the specific situation to Mewtwo, then took him to exit the Extreme Realm first before re-entering...
Rewind could only be used once per Instance; after one use, it couldn't be used again. But if he exited the Instance and re-entered, would it be possible to use it again?
Thinking this, Caleb opened his inventory and saw that the item, which had just shown as unusable, was lit up again. And sure enough, everything was as he had guessed. The Instance reset, and the usage count for Rewind also reset accordingly.
A light shone in Caleb's eyes. The challenge started anew...
The scene that had occurred in this place not long ago played out once more. Soon, the guardian boss fell into the ocean in the same manner:
*Ding!*
[Extreme Realm Hell Chapter Tier 3 cleared! You have successfully defeated your opponent!]
[Time taken: 3 minutes 08 seconds.]
[Rewards:
'Still a dud...'
Although there was a Character Card that could summon Dark Lugia to assist five times, it had usage limitations after all.
Therefore, Caleb chose to start over.
The triple operation of Loading, Exiting, and Save was done smoothly in one go. Everything started anew again...
...
Caleb looked at the Dark Lugia before him and launched his attack on it for the third time.
Soon, Dark Lugia lost its ability to battle. But, among the rewards it dropped, there was still no Dark Lugia Pokémon Egg.
A 0.01% chance was already tiny, not to mention with his notoriously unlucky status. Just thinking about how unlucky he was irritated him to no end.
"No! This time, I have to get this Pokémon Egg!" Caleb took a deep breath and said to Mewtwo, "Come on, let's continue!"
Mewtwo: "..."
Honestly, Mewtwo wanted to ask if that pitch-black creature really that great...
Mewtwo carefully recalled past events. He remembered that Caleb had never proactively mentioned wanting to capture him. He had only casually brought it up during their parting. And now, he seemed dead set on not giving up until he got that creature...
'Could this Lugia be better than I am?' Mewtwo silently pondered.
Years of solitary life had long cultivated a monk-like calmness in him. Even when facing Arceus, his heart remained unmoved.
At this moment, however, he was experiencing a strange feeling. With the addition of this feeling, that Dark Lugia welcomed a sudden torrential thrashing.
Caleb was stunned. By the time Dark Lugia lost its ability to battle, he had forgotten to check the rewards it dropped and instead looked at Mewtwo first.
Mewtwo's actions just now... He somewhat displayed the posture of proving himself stronger than Lugia...
When Mewtwo returned to his side, Caleb finally reacted, asking, "What's wrong?"
Mewthen explained his dilemma.
After listening, Caleb immediately felt somewhat amused and exasperated as he explained, "No, the main reason I want to capture it is because I always used to draw a junk when using gacha before. My former colleagues always said I had an unlucky constitution. So I wanted to see if I could use this opportunity to test just how unlucky I am... Uh, in human terms, this should be called getting into the swing of things, or you could just plainly it's an obsession."
Mewtwo listened silently, thinking that human behavior and thoughts were indeed as difficult to understand as ever.
Caleb then turned his attention to the items dropped by Dark Lugia.
*Ding!*
[Extreme Realm Hell Chapter, Tier 3, cleared! You have successfully defeated your opponent!]
[Time taken: 3 minutes 12 seconds.]
[Rewards: