"Mewtwo!" Roi's eyes widened even more.
A name instantly surfaced in his mind, 'Caleb! He's here! Where is he? No! Wait! Why is he attacking me?!'
His face was full of disbelief.
Suddenly, the sound of human footsteps came from one side.
Roi turned his head sharply and saw a red-haired woman and a handsome young man swaggering in through the village entrance.
Mewtwo slowly descended to land beside the handsome young man.
Looking at Lorelei who was glaring at him, Roi gulped nervously. He knew why Caleb was attacking him now...
...
Looking at the man standing there in a daze, Caleb said, "You attacked my gathering team, so I have to send you off."
His tone was very calm, sounding less like a threat and more like a friendly discussion with the other party. But the tone of speech had nothing to do with the meaning of the sentence itself.
Roi looked like he was about to cry, "Please man, I didn't know that was your gathering team!"
'And I didn't even manage to steal anything either!'
Hearing this, Caleb was just about to speak, but was interrupted by Lorelei beside him.
She narrowed her eyes, her voice cold, "Scared now?"
Caleb gave her a surprised look.
Roi cried out exaggeratedly, "Sis, I was wrong, I really didn't mean to say you have small breasts! I thought you were like those Pokémon NPCs in the territory, a brainless robot! So I just..."
Caleb: "..."
Lorelei gritted her silver teeth, saying, "Caleb, I want to raze this place to the ground this very moment!"
"Do it." Caleb nodded.
As soon as his words fell, the swarm of Pidgeys hovering in mid-air and the Rattatas on the ground immediately sprang into action, 'devouring' the last resident housing in the village like locusts.
[Beep! You have successfully breached territory 'Supreme Ruler'!]
A pleasant notification sounded, but since the other party hadn't built a Lord's Hall yet, this territory automatically became a wasteland, and he couldn't obtain any resources as spoils...
At the same time, Roi's figure turned into a beam of white light and disappeared from this land. He had been eliminated.
Caleb ordered the Rattatas to pack up the five Pokémon NPCs from this territory and take them home, then turned to look at Lorelei and said, "Shall we go?"
Lorelei frowned, looked down at her own chest, her face full of worry, and looked up at Caleb.
The two looked at each other in silence for a moment before Lorelei asked with a grave expression, "Is it really that small?"
Hearing this question, Caleb instinctively glanced down, then quickly looked up, coughing lightly to remind her, "Don't forget I'm a man. It's not appropriate for me to answer this question."
'Although Lorelei's is actually quite sizable, compared to Cynthia's, it's still slightly inferior...'
'Huh? Why am I thinking of Cynthia at a time like this?' Caleb was somewhat puzzled.
Cynthia treated him like a younger brother. As a younger brother, he shouldn't compare his sister to other women. That was plain rude.
Caleb reflected on this silently in his heart.
But Lorelei was relentless, "What if I insist on you answering?"
Caleb muttered in resignation, "Not small. I think it's quite big."
Hearing this, Lorelei finally seemed satisfied. She put away her Pokémon, said contentedly, "Let's go!"
Then the two headed back...
...
After returning to the territory, the two Pokémon squads responsible for digging stones at the mines also returned successfully, bringing back a large batch of high-quality stones for the territory.
Caleb stood in front of the warehouse, taking stock of the day's harvest...
Wood: 1600 units
Stones: 3200 units
Food: 750? units
No, to be accurate, the amount of food units wasn't 750... With the Flower Planter title, Caleb could theoretically farm food indefinitely in the farm plots.
A single Level 1 farm plot could yield 100 units of food. Five plots would be 500 units.
Without the title, its maturation time would be about once every 2 hours. But with the title, Caleb only needed 30 seconds to harvest a large batch of food resources.
The title didn't consume the bearer's own stamina or energy. Discounting those thirty seconds, it was practically equivalent to unlimited.
What did unlimited food mean? It meant he could recruit an endless number of Pokémon soldiers from the barracks! It meant he could save the time it took for gathering teams to go out and collect food, and instead focus his efforts on wood and stone units!
'Hehe, I've suddenly become rich.' Caleb suppressed the joy in his heart, then opened the territory interface and chose to build the Lord's Hall.
The level of the Lord's Hall determined the level of the territory. Only by upgrading it could other buildings and facilities within the territory unlock higher levels.
The construction time for the Lord's Hall was slightly longer. Even if all Pokémon residents worked together, it would take a full 10 hours.
It was already dusk in this world, and before he knew it, a veil of darkness had enveloped the sky.
Seeing this, Caleb didn't continue to send Dragonite and the others to lead teams out to gather wood and stones. Instead, he kept them within the territory, guarding the farm plots to farm food.
Lorelei also released her Pokémon and, using the cooking utensils and ingredients Caleb took out from his inventory, started preparing dinner for everyone.
She looked at the sky, then at the surroundings, and suddenly said with emotion, "Suddenly, I feel like this kind of life is quite interesting."
Caleb glanced at her and asked, "What, are you tired?"
Lorelei stared blankly at the sky for a long moment before laughing softly, "Of course I'm tired! There's a huge pile of things waiting for me to handle in the Kanto League. That guy Lance is usually absent. Bruno only knows how to train in the deep mountains. Elder Agatha is also getting old... what a bunch of unreliable folks!"
She paused for a moment, then said meaningfully, "If only someone could come and help me."
Hearing this, Caleb didn't think of himself. He thought of the new generation in the Kanto region; Ash, Gary, and others.
"By the way, who won the last Kanto League Conference?" Caleb suddenly asked an unrelated question.
Lorelei answered with a sigh, "Why the sudden interest in the League Conference?"
"I'm just curious." He just wanted to know if Ash's storyline had been changed.
Lorelei chuckled lightly, "If you're curious, then go see for yourself! With your strength, collecting eight Gym Badges shouldn't be a problem, right?"
Hearing this, some unpleasant memories surfaced in Caleb's mind. He shook his head and said, "Forget it. Many of those participating in the League Conference are just kids who just turned ten. Me going there would be just bullying them."
He didn't want the Infinite World awarding him some title like 'Youth Slayer' or something.
'But... if I get the chance in future, I'd like to spar with Ash's Greninja, Incineroar, and other Pokémon...' Caleb thought.