After Aarav dragged Sprigatito over and made it press its little cat paw onto the "Three Rules Agreement," leaving a plum-blossom-shaped paw print—
its injuries fully healed and stamina completely restored, Sprigatito once again stared eagerly out the window, its intention obvious.
It wanted to get stronger.
Aarav smiled and nodded.
"Go on. Just remember to come back before dinner."
"Meow!"
After replying cheerfully, Sprigatito leapt onto the windowsill in two quick bounds and vanished from Aarav's sight.
There's a door right there, yet you insist on using the window. What kind of habit is that?
After silently complaining in his heart, Aarav turned on his computer and began editing videos.
Not last night's livestream recording.
To put it bluntly, if Aarav were to cut livestream highlights now, he'd be too late to catch the heat.
Last night's match with Raihan had already exploded across the entire internet. Open any video app's trending section and you'd find it everywhere.
The commentary from marketing accounts was even more outrageous, one more dramatic than the last.
"Internet meltdown: The strongest Trainer below the Champion tier is forced to surrender in a hyper-realistic Pokémon battle! Let's take a look at the shocking match that stunned the world last night!"
"Galar citizens woke up to disaster—Raihan, their strongest Gym Leader, was driven into rage by an unknown small streamer using an unevolved Pokémon!"
Paired with identical cheesy background music, AI narration, and giant headline fonts designed for elderly audiences, the result was unbearably cringe.
Aarav felt they should compensate him for emotional damage just for watching their videos.
Anyway, back to the point.
As mentioned before, before his streaming career took off, Aarav had been a small creator in the Pokémon history niche.
He chose this niche for two reasons.
First, to bring traffic to his livestreams.
Second—before the system arrived—his dream had been to become the Cynthia of Pokémon mythology.
Wait, that doesn't sound right.
The Cynthia of Pokémon mythology… is still Cynthia.
Anyway, he wanted to carve out a place for himself in that field, and making related videos during his student years was the perfect starting point.
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The Pokémon mythology of this world had many missing pieces.
After three years in this world, Aarav realized that this was the lowest-cost way for him to "start an account"—
specifically, the account called life, which you only get once.
His idea was simple: borrow the creative style of top historical creators from his previous world.
Use humorous, exaggerated storytelling to narrate regional history anecdotes and legendary Pokémon tales, blending fact and fiction.
Become the "Tongliao Khan" of the Pokémon world!
Although Pokémon itself was a family-friendly franchise, its mythological system was full of religious symbolism and tragic epic undertones.
You could pick any region and talk about it for ages.
For example—
the tragic fate of AZ, the last king of ancient Kalos, and his bond with Floette; the ultimate weapon and the Eternal Flower; or Yveltal's world-ending legend.
Or the Unova Kingdom's creation myth involving Kyurem, and the collapse caused by the clash between ideals and truth.
And so on.
Some of these stories were already known in this world; others were secrets buried in history.
Aarav selectively packaged them with artistic flair and presented them in a novel-like narrative style.
These legendary stories—half true, half fabricated, impossible to distinguish—naturally attracted massive attention.
Some people treated them as entertaining "digital side dishes," while others, driven by academic rigor, criticized and nitpicked.
Aarav didn't care.
Conflict meant traffic.
Add a disclaimer—"This video is artistically adapted; any resemblance is purely coincidental"—and everything was solved.
As for how much of it was historical fact and how much was adaptation, only Aarav himself knew.
So far, the first episode of this series—
Secrets of the Burned Tower in Kanto: The Truth Behind the Mysterious Fire and the Revival of the Legendary Beasts—
had already surpassed three million views.
That was an impressive number on P-station.
After all, the event had happened less than two hundred years ago, and the destruction of the Burned Tower was a well-known legend in this world.
Fortunately, the truth behind the mysterious fire lacked solid records, giving Aarav enormous creative freedom.
So he chose the most conspiratorial possibility he knew—
a villainous organization's plan to create legendary Pokémon.
Adaptation wasn't fabrication; this idea had appeared in certain Pokémon spin-off titles.
After that, Aarav produced videos about Lugia and the Legendary Birds, based on his memories from his previous life.
Even now, despite updating only once a month, he still had many loyal fans urging him to continue the series in his livestreams.
Aarav had no intention of abandoning this project.
His original career plan was solid. As long as he had the time and energy, there was no reason to drop it.
Besides, he wasn't the type to forget his roots the moment he got a system.
So after dealing with the system reboot and capturing Sprigatito over the past two days, he finally began preparing this month's update—
the beginning of a new series.
The creation myth of the Sinnoh region.
From a philosophical or real-world metaphor perspective, Sinnoh's mythology might not be as profound as Unova, Kalos, or even Galar.
But Arceus's creation myth?
That epic scale was simply unbeatable.
The real world had related myths, but none formed a coherent system, nor did any reliable documents survive.
As a result, the mainstream academic view still treated Arceus as a totemic legendary Pokémon—similar to how dragons were viewed in Aarav's previous world—rather than a true creator deity.
The reason was simple:
Since the invention of photographic technology, no one had ever recorded real footage of Arceus.
Aarav, with his god's-eye perspective from another world, knew Arceus was real.
But people in this world only saw it as an idol fabricated by ancient humans.
For this video, Aarav didn't plan to add much artistic embellishment.
The legend itself was already shocking enough.
Arceus created the material trio with the Thousand Arms to govern time, space, and antimatter.
It created the consciousness trio to spread wisdom, emotion, and will among living beings.
It forged sixteen Plates to grant diversity to the world.
Then came the clash between the gods of time and space, nearly shattering the Sinnoh region.
Arceus descended at the Spear Pillar to end the war, banishing the violent Giratina to the Distortion World.
During the conflict, it also created Heatran, the god of magma, and the remnants of the Spear Pillar formed the majestic Coronet Range.
Polish it with a religious, biblical-style epic narrative—
and it was easy to predict that once this video was released, it would become another massive hit on Aarav's channel.
And not just that.
From a deeper perspective—
if Arceus's creation history were ever proven in the future, the value of this video would skyrocket infinitely.
And Aarav himself would become a mysterious prophet-like figure wrapped in legendary aura.
So—
to restore Sinnoh's supreme glory,
it is our duty!
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