Becoming the King of Charicific Valley has three benefits. The first is the ability to enjoy the resources within Charicific Valley. Besides Purgatory Valley, other resources can also be used, essentially combining all the resources of Charicific Valley into one.
The second is the ability to command all the Charizards in the valley. Although a single Charizard defeated all the Charizards in the valley, this power, even viewed globally, is not just ordinary strength.
Moreover, these Charizards have not yet reached their full potential. In the future, they will become even stronger, and their numbers will increase.
In addition, the former King of Charicific Valley also listens to commands, which is equivalent to Ash gaining an extremely formidable force all at once.
This is one of the reasons why Charicific Valley has set such rigorous rules to prevent other Charizards from becoming the King of the Valley.
If one could easily become the King of Charicific Valley, then people from all over the world would probably come to challenge this position. Whether they succeed or not, they would try just to find out.
However, the current rules of Charicific Valley leave people with no desire to try, and as a result, Charicific Valley encounters fewer troubles.
If Charicific Valley were controlled by a villainous organization, it would be a terrible thing. Although Charicific Valley's power is not comparable to the Alliance, it still should not be underestimated, especially since it possesses the force of a Champion Peak.
So the purpose of such rigorous conditions is to prevent iterations from emerging as the King of Charicific Valley. Once an iteration occurs, a new King of Charizard can be selected from within the valley, leaving almost no chance for outsiders.
You can't expect them to just wait around for an unexpected accident to occur to the King of Charizard or wait for him to grow old and step down, right?
However, now, this impossible condition has been fulfilled by someone. Fortunately, this person is not from a villainous organization, nor is he someone with bad character, but a kind person, so it doesn't matter if he can command all the Charizards in Charicific Valley.
After all, he won't use the Charizards in Charicific Valley to do anything.
The above two benefits are already enough to match those rigorous trial conditions. But becoming the King of Charicarific Valley has a third benefit: obtaining an ancestral artifact from Charicific Valley!
"Compared to the first two benefits, this third benefit isn't as significant, because the valley's ancestral artifact… is a useless thing." Liza said helplessly while leading the group deeper into the Charicific Valley.
"A useless thing?*N" The place of Charicific Valley has been around for who knows how long, but it certainly has a history of over a hundred years.
An artifact with over a hundred years of history is a useless thing? How unrealistic does that sound?
But Liza has no reason to deceive them, especially since she is about to give this artifact to Ash. She's not the type to intentionally deceive Ash just to keep the artifact from getting out. So is it really like Liza said — is this centuries-old artifact just a useless thing?
As the group chatted, they reached the innermost part of Charicific Valley, where there was a temple-like building. When the group visited before, this place was glossed over, only mentioned as a place where many Charizards in Charicific Valley come to worship.
At that time, everyone was puzzled. Do Charizards actually have an object of faith? If there is faith, it should be in great power, right? Worshiping a temple doesn't make much sense!
It turned out this temple was not only for worship but also for storing things.
As they stood before the temple, Ash felt something in his mind, a light he had intentionally ignored, beginning to stir restlessly.
Before coming to Charicific Valley, the light in his mind had already started to flicker. The feeling was similar to the previous two guidances. Every time it flickered, it meant he was about to obtain what the guidance intended to give him.
'It seems that the Sky Dragon Jewel is kept here. Obtaining it this time is far more difficult than the previous two times!' Ash thought to himself.
Indeed, the flickering light in his mind was his S-rank ability, the Sky Dragon Jewel·Guide, which he had drawn.
A good amount of time had passed since he drew this opportunity, and he was about to forget about it when, unexpectedly, he encountered it in Charicific Valley!
However, even though he encountered it, Ash still wanted to complain that this thing seemed to have served no purpose at all!
Even without it, he would still have come to Charicific Valley and undergone the trials. If he failed, with or without the guide, he wouldn't be able to obtain the valley's heritage item, the Sky Dragon Jewel.
If he succeeded, he would have obtained the Green Treasure Pearl even without the guide, although he might not immediately know what it was. But as long as he asked the experts in his chat group, the problem would be easily resolved.
In summary… this thing really seems to be of no use at all!
This time, the S-rank ability seems to have been wasted!
Just as Ash was lost in thought, Liza had already opened the small temple and taken out a square box about twenty centimeters long.