The Imperial Capital Uy's Library was one of the most frequented pces by students, renowned for its extensive colle.

  With over 50 million books c literature, sce, engineering, art, medie, and more, nearly ohird of the colle was dedicated to Pokémon.

  Here, you even find aexts and rare editions. However, borrowing these special books requires a signifit amount of credits.

  The entire library had ten floors, each housing a vast array of books.

  Currently, Julian was on the fifth floor, where the cost of access was 100 credits per hour. After defeating ten members of the Shu exge team, Julian had accumuted a total of 3,000 credits.

  Books on the floors below the fifth could be accessed without spending any points, while those above the fifth floor required credits due to their focus on Pokémon.

  Many of these books were not released to the publid you couldn't buy them in bookstores outside.

  Instead, they could only be found iigious uies or the Trainer Association, with some books limited to very few locations.

  You might wonder why these books weren't made public so that trainers who didn't attend Uies could also improve.

  The strength of trainers directly correted to the overall power of Drakoria, potentially leading to the emergence of es.

  While Drakoria's Trainer executives reized this, they still restricted the access to these valuable resources.

  The reasoning was very simple: if these books were avaible to the public, trainers from other tries could also purchase them.

  sequently, an increase irength of Drakoria's trainers would be mirrored by those in other nations, leading to gain in strength.

  While an experience written by ae Trainer might be released to the public to potentially add Elites to Drakoria, it could also empower trainers abroad.

  Other tries had also restricted access to their valuable books, keeping them fio major uies.

  Thus, Drakoria would not adopt a policy that appears to be a "win-win" sario, allowing trainers in other tries to be equally.

  sequently, all precious books were also avaible irainer associations, where trainers not belonging to any of these institutions could do tributions to access the materials they needed.

  With 3,000 credits, Julian was well-equipped to spend time in the library, though entering the tenth floor would cost him 1,000 credits per hour.

  In the Imperial Uy, credits were crucial. They were o purchase valuable items, Pokémon, treasures, and more.

  While credits could be exged for mohe reverse was not always true.

  Currently, Julian was engrossed in a copy of "No. 25 Advanced Secret Realm Detailed Expnation."

  In addition to the op secret realms, including unique advanced ones like the Oreburgh Great Wall, Blue Lake, and Dragon's Den.

  Other advanced secret realms, were indicated using numbers instead.

  The No. 25 advanced secret realm was one of two managed by Imperial College, highlighting the institution's prestigious reputation.

  This was also a key reason why Imperial Uy was often regarded as the top institution. It oversaw two high-level secret realms, while the other four leading uies were responsible for only one.

  However, the sed high-level secret realm under Imperial College's care was reguted through the annual uy league, a test in which Imperial Uy had excelled for five secutive years.

  Juliao ehe fixed high-level secret realm, No. 25, soon.

  With Metagross havily triumphed over a legendary Pokémon and being a pseudo-Elite, along with his pseudo-Elite Steelix, he was now qualified to explore the advanced secret realms.

  There were many people in the library on fifth floor, and most of them reized Julian.

  The exge petitioweewo schools just three days ago was still fresh in their minds, with videos of his remarkable battles readily avaible online.

  The most talked-about moment remaihe fierce showdowweeagross and Artio, elevating Julian's status to that of a celebrity at Imperial College.

  His ret aplishments had ignited a sense of admiration and envy among the senior students.

  Typically, graduates from Imperial Capital Uy possessed pseudo-Elite strength, If they were not a pseudo-Elite by the time they graduated, they would be too ashamed to even tell people they want to Imperial Uy.

  Yet Julian, having just ehe Uy less than a month ago, had already demonstrated bat power akin to that of a graduate, leaving many uppercssmen feeling overshadowed.

  "Hello, King Julian!"

  A melodic voiterrupted his thoughts, apanied by a delightful fragrance. Julian looked up to see who it was.

  Sitting across from him was a girl whose beauty surpassed y points, her bright eyes curiously studying him.

  "What?"

  Julian had bee aced to being called "King Julian" now. Luis had been shouting it in his ear every day with a hint of envy and jealousy.

  With Metagross's victory over Artio, he became a legend among people, and Julian was ed the title "King" among his peers.

  Seeing Julian's indifferent attitude, Hannah blinked, momentarily taken aback. She touched her cheek, almost in disbelief. 'Did I fet to fix my makeup or something?'.

  It wasn't often—if ever—that someone spoke to her with such little i.

  "I just wao introduce myself, if I have the honor. My name is Hannah," She said.

  Seeing the soft, fair haeoward him, Julian gave it a light shake.

  "Just call me Julian."

  Although he was a Iroed guy, but the other party was being so active, he would naturally not refuse, and she was indeed very beautiful.

  "You're Hannah?"

  "Don't tell me, Julian, you've actually heard of me—what an honor," Hannah replied, c a soft ugh with her hand.

  He did reize her, thanks to Luis, who had once shared pictures and names of the top ten college beauties of Imperial Uy.

  Hannah, with her strikiures, had certainly left an impression.

  She was undeniably beautiful—perhaps the most beautiful woman he had entered.

  Being the sole heir of the Walker family, one might assume he'd meet tless remarkable wome, iy, his circle was quite limited. In a way, he really felt sorry for his Identity.

  "Julian, I'm also a Steel-type Trainer," Hannah said, leaning forward slightly.

  "Um."

  Julian gave a brief nod, his focus still on his book.

  Her smile faltered for a moment at his indifference, and for the first time, she found herself questioning her charm.

  But she was quick to read his disi, so she fell silent, gng at the title of the book he was reading.

  Taking out her own book, 'Mawile Breeder Route', she began to read.

  However, while Julian seemed entirely absorbed in his book, her attention was scattered, her gaze drifting bad forth between her reading and the young man across from her.