Fear, despair, helplessness, and other negative emotions spread throughout Dragonlake City.
Riolu continued to sense the power of aura, while its mental strength constantly endured the impact of those negative emotions.
Fortunately, Riolu's ability was Inner Focus, and it also possessed an extremely high spiritual talent, to the point that it could be compared with Psychic-type Pokémon.
Otherwise, under the impact of so many negative emotions, its psychological defenses would probably have collapsed in an instant.
"Riou!"
Riolu clenched its teeth, and its mental strength began to expand endlessly.
Little by little, its perception started to extend outward, capturing more and more negative emotions.
Time passed, though no one knew exactly how long.
Suddenly, Riolu felt that it had entered an extremely mysterious state.
"Aura is a spiritual energy, and spiritual energy can also be transformed into aura..."
Gradually, Riolu began to clearly perceive the figures of humans emitting negative emotions, and along with them, the surrounding environment also became distinct and visible.
Boom!
At that instant, a terrifying pressure emanated from Riolu's body, as if it had broken through some kind of invisible shackle.
Riolu opened its eyes, and they shone with an overwhelming brilliance!
"Riolu, did you succeed?" Ethan asked, joy evident on his face.
Although the aura training method had been carefully thought out by him and formulated based on his own understanding of aura...
Starting from the premise that perceiving aura allowed one to sense the emotional energy of living beings, and then stimulating aura in reverse through emotional energy...
Everything was very logical, but even so, he could not be completely sure it would work. After all, even in the Pokémon world, beings capable of truly mastering the power of aura were very few.
But seeing Riolu's state, it seemed that it had succeeded!
"Riou!"
Riolu let out a joyful cry, confidence written clearly on its face.
It had successfully mastered the power of aura!
"Then... what about the range?"
"How far can you sense it?"
Ethan's eyes shone as he barely restrained the excitement within him.
According to his memory, in the anime, that Lucario could perceive scenes more than a kilometer away through aura. However, Riolu was clearly weaker than that Lucario, so its perception range should not be that large.
"Riou!"
Riolu closed its eyes. Then, the power of aura slowly spread out from its body. Gradually, it felt its aura merge with the negative emotions suspended in the air, continuously extending outward.
At that moment, those negative emotions seemed to have become Riolu's eyes; within the area they covered, it could clearly perceive everything happening around it.
"So far?"
After receiving Riolu's response, Ethan could not help but feel slightly surprised.
Thinking about it carefully, this was probably related to the negative emotions covering the entire city and Riolu's own powerful mental strength.
"Good job. Let's head to the command center right away."
Ethan took a deep breath. At that moment, he had no time to think about why Riolu's perception ability was so powerful. He lifted Riolu onto Charizard and flew toward the command headquarters.
Moreover, in the face of a natural disaster like this, he could no longer worry about concealing Riolu's aura power.
After all, in this world, the concept of aura had not yet appeared. If it were simply regarded as a deeper use of psychic energy, probably no one would notice anything unusual.
"Hello, how can I help you?"
When Ethan flew over the disaster command center, a Pokémon hunter riding a Pidgeot rose into the air and stopped him.
"Hello, my name is Ethan Black. This is my trainer certificate."
"I want to see the president of the Pokémon Hunters' Guild. I have a Pokémon that can release psychic detection with an extremely wide range, and it might be able to help in the search for the injured."
Ethan took a deep breath and briefly explained his identity and Riolu's situation.
"Psychic detection with an extremely wide range?"
The Pokémon hunter took Ethan's Advanced-level trainer certificate and examined it, a serious expression on his face.
Then he asked Ethan to leave all his Pokémon outside, allowing him to enter only with Riolu.
"Alright. Charizard, Meltan, and Shuckle, stay here and wait for me."
Ethan nodded and quickly entered the command room together with Riolu.
At that moment, the president of the Pokémon Hunters' Guild, Arthur Turner, was wearing an official police-style uniform. Three stars could be clearly seen on his epaulettes, symbolizing that he was a three-star Pokémon hunter.
"Is this Riolu the one that possesses an extremely wide-range psychic detection ability?"
President Turner looked Riolu up and down, surprise evident in his eyes.
It was hard to imagine that a Fighting-type Pokémon could master psychic energy, let alone psychic detection of such vast range.
Even his own Alakazam, whose strength had reached the Quasi-Elite level, was incapable of doing such a thing. Could a Riolu really achieve it?
"President Turner, let my Riolu give it a try and you'll know."
Ethan took a deep breath and pointed at the map on the wall. What he needed to do now was have Riolu use the power of aura to detect the injured and mark their locations on the map.
President Turner nodded. There was no harm in trying.
"Riou!"
Riolu immediately positioned itself in front of the map.
It slightly closed its eyes, and its aura expanded, connecting with the negative emotions that covered the entire city, spreading endlessly and projecting the urban scene into its mind.
Then Riolu opened its eyes and began marking on the map the locations where the injured were located.
"Notify all teams. Check these locations."
President Turner took a deep breath and picked up the communicator to issue the orders.
"President, we've found an injured person here!"
"President, we've also located an injured person!"
Very soon, thanks to Riolu's guidance, good news began arriving one after another through the communicator, causing the president's expression to visibly relax.
At the same time, he looked at Riolu in astonishment, unsure what method it had used to master such vast-range psychic detection.
However, now was not the time to think about that. Under President Turner's coordination, Riolu completely became the eyes of the command center, searching for the injured throughout the city.
With Riolu's help, the rescue operations became much easier. With the support of Pokémon, the rubble was quickly cleared away, and one injured person after another was rescued.
Moreover, rescue forces from the League arrived successively, and everything began to develop in an orderly manner.
(End of chapter)