Chapter 22: Restoring the Glory of the Almighty Sinnoh is Our Bounden Duty!

After Xia Chi had guided Sprigatito to press its little paw pad onto the "Three Rules of Conduct" paper, the newly recovered and fully energized Sprigatito gazed longingly out the window, its intentions clear.

It was desperate to make progress!

Xia Chi smiled and nodded, saying, "Go ahead, just remember to be back before dinner."

"Meow-fee!"

With a joyful cry, Sprigatito leaped off the windowsill in a few quick bounds and vanished from Xia Chi’s sight.

*Leaving by the window when there’s a perfectly good door—what’s wrong with this kid...*

Silently grumbling to himself, Xia Chi opened his computer to start editing a video. It wasn't a recording of last night's stream. To be blunt, if Xia Chi were to edit a highlight reel of that match now, he’d be way too late to the party.

Last night’s battle against Raihan was already trending all over the internet. If you opened any app with video capabilities, it was guaranteed to be in the trending section. The commentary from the clickbait channels was even more ridiculous.

"The Internet in Shambles: The 'Best Below Champion' level trainer loses to a random passerby in a realistic Pokémon battle! Let's see what happened in that world-shaking match last night..."

"Galar wakes up to a collapsing sky: Their strongest Gym Leader, Raihan, was actually pushed to a red-faced breakdown by an unknown small-time streamer using an unevolved Pokémon..."

Paired with the same old tacky background music, AI-generated voiceovers, and oversized captions—the kind usually reserved for news for the elderly—it was profoundly cringe-worthy. Xia Chi felt they should be paying him emotional damages for making him watch their content.

But I digress. Back to the point.

As mentioned earlier, before his streaming career took off, Xia Chi was just a small content creator in the Pokémon history niche. At the time, he chose this obscure field for two reasons: first, to drive traffic to his streams; and second, back before the System arrived, Xia Chi’s dream was to become the Cynthia of the Pokémon mythology world. Wait, no—the Cynthia of the Pokémon mythology world is still just Cynthia... In any case, he wanted to make a name for himself in this field, and creating such videos while he was still a student was the perfect starting point.

The Pokémon mythology of this world had quite a few gaps. This was the best low-cost way for Xia Chi to build his profile—specifically, the profile of his life, which he’d be playing for a long time—three years after transmigrating here.

Xia Chi’s idea back then was simple: adopt the content creation style of a top history-niche creator from his original world. He used humorous and exaggerated methods to tell anecdotes about regional history and legendary Pokémon, mixing fact with folklore. He wanted to be the "Khan of Tongliao" for the Pokémon world!

In truth, while Pokémon as a game is an all-ages franchise, its mythological system is filled with religious metaphors and dark, tragic epic cores. You could pick anything from any region and talk about it for ages. For example, the tragic entanglement between AZ, the last king of the Kalos region, and Floette, the Ultimate Weapon and the Eternal Flower, or the apocalyptic legend of Yveltal. The creation myth of Kyurem in the Unova region, and the collapse caused by the conflict between the ideals and truth ideologies. And so on.

Some of these were things the people of this world already knew, while others were secrets buried deep in history. Xia Chi would selectively package them with artistic flair, presenting them to his audience in a narrative style similar to a novel.

These legends of legendary Pokémon, where truth and fiction were hard to distinguish, inevitably captured a lot of attention. Some treated it as "electronic side dishes" for entertainment, while others approached it with rigorous academic scrutiny, eager to nitpick. Xia Chi didn't care; conflict meant traffic. By adding a disclaimer—"This video has been artistically adapted; any resemblance is purely coincidental"—he was fully covered. As for how much was historical fact and how much was adaptation, only Xia Chi knew.

In any case, as of now, the first video of this series, "Secrets of the Burned Tower in Johto—The Truth Behind the Mysterious Fire and the Resurrection of the Legendary Beasts," had already reached over three million views. This was quite an achievement on the B-site. Since the event happened only about two hundred years ago, the burning of the Burned Tower was a well-known legend in this world. Fortunately, the lack of records regarding the truth of the fire gave Xia Chi plenty of room to improvise. He chose the most conspiracy-heavy theory he knew: the evil organization’s project to create legendary Pokémon. Adaptation isn't just making things up; this matter was actually recorded in a certain spin-off Pokémon game.

Later, relying on memories from his past life, Xia Chi produced videos on Lugia and the Legendary Birds. Even now, with his current schedule of roughly one video per month, there were still many loyal fans in his stream nagging him to update.

Xia Chi had no intention of abandoning this series. His original career plan was quite sound, and as long as he had the time and energy, there was no need to give it up. Besides, Xia Chi wasn't the type to forget his roots just because he’d received a System.

After spending the last two days handling the System reboot and capturing Sprigatito, he began preparing this month’s update, which would also mark the start of a new series: The Creation Myth of the Sinnoh Region.

Although from the perspective of philosophy and real-world reflection, the mythological background of this generation wasn't as deep as Unova, Kalos, or even Galar, the grand epic setting of Arceus creating the world was truly classic.

The real world certainly had related myths and legends, but they lacked any systematic structure, and there were no surviving written documents. This led the academic mainstream to still regard Arceus as a totem-like legendary Pokémon, similar to the "Dragons" of Xia Chi’s previous life, rather than a truly existing creator god. The reason was simple: since the invention of photography, no one had ever recorded a genuine image of Arceus.

As a transmigrator with the god's-eye view of another world, Xia Chi knew the authenticity of Arceus. Yet, the people of this world only viewed it as an idol created and worshipped by ancient humans.

Xia Chi didn't plan to add much artistic embellishment to this video, because the legend itself was already stunning enough. Using the Thousand Arms to create the creation trio to control time, space, and antimatter; creating the spirit trio to spread wisdom, emotion, and willpower to living beings; and creating sixteen elemental plates to grant diversity to the world. Then, the battle between the deities of time and space nearly destroyed the Sinnoh region, Arceus descending to the Spear Pillar to quell the war, and banishing the tyrannical Giratina to the Distortion World. During the struggle, it also casually created the lava deity Heatran, and the remains of the Spear Pillar formed the most majestic mountain range in the world, Mt. Coronet...

He would polish it with a religious, epic narrative style, much like the Bible. It was foreseeable that once this video dropped, it would become another massive "electronic side dish" on his channel.

And not only that—looking at the long-term impact, once the history of Arceus's creation was proven in the future, the value of this video would skyrocket infinitely. And he, the author, would become a prophet shrouded in the colors of mysterious legend.

Therefore.

Restoring the glory of the Sinnoh Great Deity is a duty we cannot shirk!