Hearing Julian say he used special means to temporarily boost Metagross from a pseudo-Elite to ae level, the group was stunned.

  Everyone here was from an aristocratic family and knew a few ways to temporarily boost a Pokémon's strength.

  But to increase a Pokémon's power by aire tier was unheard of. Most methods could only bump strength up by two or three levels and often came with serious side effects.

  Some methods left Pokémon weak for days, while others could reduce a Pokémon's lifespan or even harm its potential.

  "Brother Walker, is Metagross really okay?"

  Luis asked anxiously, Julian was the thigh he was holding, and nothing should g with this thigh.

  "Don't worry. He's fine."

  Julian patted Luis on the shoulder.

  Dalton gave Luis a smirk. "How could you doubt Brother Walker? There's no way he'd risk Metagross. If you don't get it, don't try to pete as Brother Walker's number one brother."

  Luis shot Dalton a gre. This guy really wao take his spot as Julian's closest ally.

  "Alright, let's focus on rounding up the remaining Pokémon in Yuan ty," Julian said, bringing them back to the task at hand.

  The main threat of the riot was over, and the lingering issue was rounding up the scattered Flying-type Pokémon.

  But Julian couldn't shake a nagging feeling that something was off.

  Everything had resolved a bit too quickly—this was the Z anization they were dealing with. Could it be they had no backup pn?

  "Boom!!"

  Suddenly, a loud explosion tore through the air, jolting him from his thoughts.

  Thick smoke rose just a few hundred meters away, and Julian's unease grew stronger.

  "Jiggly..." his phoarted buzzing.

  "Teacher Frank!"

  Seeing that the head teacher was calling, and the explosion just now, Julian hurriedly pressed the answer button.

  "Julian, it's bad. I just used Gengar to interrogate a member of the Z anization. They've hidden a rge number of Voltorb arode all over Yuan ty."

  "If the pn fails, they're set to Self-Destruct."

  "Boom!! Boom!!"

  Explosi out tinuously in the background.

  "It's too te…"

  Frank's voice held a tone ret.

  Julian didn't waste time responding. He hung up and turo the other special css recruits. "Rescue as many as you , but watch out for your own safety."

  As he looked out at the spreading bck smoke, fmes, and the cries of people caught in the chaos, his expression remained calm, but his hands ched tightly.

  "Z anization…" he muttered under his breath.

  From above, he could see that more than a dozen explosions had rocked Yuan ty, eae targeting critical areas—residential districts, shoppiers, even gover buildings.

  'Fortunately, most people in the residential areas had already been evacuated.'

  'Evacuated!!?'

  Luis, who was just about to rush into the a, was grabbed by Julian.

  "Luis, where were the residents moved to?"

  Julian asked suddenly, his tone urgent.

  "They were taken to the granary in the south of Yuan ty..."

  Realizing what this could mean, he asked, panicked, "Brother Walker, you don't think they hid Voltorb arode there too, do you? There are hundreds of thousands of people there!"

  One of the national-level granaries in Yuan ty had beeied out for the evacuation. Its thick, reinforced walls made it an ideal shelter.

  That's where the ty officials had initially directed most of the residents, while others had been moved to the neighb ty.

  "Dragonite!"

  Without answering to Luis's question, Julian leaped ontonite's back.

  Sensing the gravity of the situation, Dragonite immediately surged forward, accelerating in an instant as they sped toward the southern granary.

  Watg Julian s ahead on his Dragonite, Dalton couldn't help but marvel.

  "Boss Walker's body must be insanely strong to hahat speed," he muttered enviously.

  For most people, the sheer wind pressure and the sudden, intense acceleration would be unbearable. Ordinary humans would either be crushed uhe force or risk snapping their necks from the iia alone.

  Luis crossed his arms and huffed proudly. "Of course, my Brother Walker's body is strong! How else do you think he beat yhting css so badly that time?"

  His io rile Dalton up fell ft as he simply nodded, grinning.

  "I'd bet Boss Walker could go toe-to-toe with Elite Bruce himself, who petes with a Machamp"

  Elite Bruce, the current Fighting-type Elite, was renowned for his monstrous physique and mastery of various martial arts.

  While he could indeed match a Machamp in power, that was only effective against Pokémon below the pseudo-Elite level.

  As Julian approached the southern granary, he felt a wave of relief wash over him—no explosion had occurred here.

  But that relief was tinged with fusion.

  The explosions had already started elsewhere, so why was the granary untouched? Could the Z anization have overlooked such a prime evacuation point? It seemed unlikely.

  Julian's questions found their answers soon enough.

  In front of the open granary doors, a group of students ihird Military Academy uniforms stood guard, holding three restrained individuals to the ground.

  "I khere was something off about you three. Lucky the young master noticed."

  "Do you even know who I am? You saw that Metagrht?, the ohat single-handedly stopped the Pokémon riot? That's my Brother Julian's Pokémon!"

  "Julian's my brother, you know?"

  Will bragged as he kicked one of them.

  "Alright, alright, enough bragging"

  Said Han, who was also a student of the Third Military Academy, looking at Will speechlessly.

  Siagross's impressive victainst Artio, Will had made a habit of telling everyohat Julian was his "brother". By now, everyo the Third Military Academy had heard it multiple times over.

  "Han, I know you're just jealous that I have a brother like Julian." Will grinned, uerred.

  "On the Imperial Uy forum, there's a guy named Luis who said Julian was his 'brother'"

  "Aly, there's anuy Dalton who started calling him 'Boss.'"

  Han sighed, shaking his head. He couldn't fathom how students from the top-tier Imperial Uy could rival Will in his shamelessness.

  "Both of them may be younger siblings to Julian, but I'm his brother," Will tinued, proudly. "So, by extension, they're all my juniors too!"

  Just then, one of the students spotted something in the sky.

  "There's a Dragonite ing down!"

  As Dragonite nded nearby, Julian dismounted and approached Will and Han, clearly surprised to see them here.

  Will practically leaped rinnio-ear.

  "Brother Julian!" he shouted, pulling Julian into a fierce hug.

  Julian was obviously not used to sutimacy, and immediately broke free.

  "Julian, what brings you here?" Will asked, he was aware of Julian's character and didn't mind.

  "Came here to apprehend a few people, though it looks like you all ha already." Julian poioward the three captives.

  "Hahaha, Of course! With you leading the charge, I 't be left behind. The moment I saw these three sneaking around in the crowd, I khey were up to no good!" Will boasted.

  "Yeah, sure. More like a blind cat stumbling onto a dead mouse." Han scoffed.

  "Admit it, Han. You're just jealous of me"