Chapter 1037: Dragon Evolution

Casseroya Lake.

Vast and boundless, blue waves surging.

Thin mist hung down like silk gauze on the lake, glowing with cold blue light. Where the warm wind swept, ripples spread layer by layer from the center of the lake, crushing the inverted frost-covered Glaseado Mountain shadows.

The silver waterfall falling on the northeast side roared, which is one of the "Ten Views of Paldea", the Casseroya Falls.

Click.

The beautiful scenery froze on the screen.

"If the Moon-Watching Lake could be like this, it would be great." All Baimu put down his phone and talked to himself, then leaned down and asked: "You're right?"

"Sha-sang!"

Hydreigon's three heads responded in unison.

Undoubtedly, Miraidon's mount work was temporarily held by the Husky Dragon. The timid lizard didn't dare to have an opinion, just felt lost that it didn't combine with All Baimu after recovering its flight ability.

Arven flipped through the map and said: "The Titan seems to be hiding in the islands in the lake, All Baimu, can you swim?"

"Fly directly over! Why swim!"

All Baimu raised his hand to release Steelix. Although Miraidon also has water-wading ability, Arven always dislikes it.

Given this, there is no need to make things difficult for people.

And Arven looked up at the giant Steelix, which was as towering as a mountain, and his heart trembled inexplicably. The thrilling encounter of being pulled off when riding last time was still fresh in his memory.

"Should, should I..."

"Hoon!"

Steelix roared muffledly, suddenly dropping its giant head, the bang caused the ground to tremble, making him swallow the second half of the sentence quickly.

That pair of fiery red pupils, which were bigger than his head, were indeed full of oppression.

"..."

Arven climbed up silently and sat down with his knees hugged.

All Baimu laughed. "Relax, Steelix won't throw you down."

"I, I am very relaxed!"

Arven said stiffly, changing from hugging his knees to sitting cross-legged, but his hands couldn't help but go to support the protrusion on Steelix's head.

All Baimu shook his head and greeted the two Pokémon to set off.

Halfway there.

White mist grew on the lake, and low and high strange calls didn't know where they came from.

Arven's expression was nervous, his hands holding Steelix's skull. "All Baimu..."

"Shh."

He reached out to signal Arven to be quiet, and the two Poké Balls at his waist were wobbling slightly. After being enlarged and unlocked, the Dreepy siblings jumped out.

Outside of battle, they usually live separately from Dragapult.

"Hee-ya~"

"Meh-hee-ya!"

They looked at the mist-shrouded lake, and suddenly shouted at a certain place.

A few seconds later.

In the eyes of everyone who didn't know why, groups of black shadows broke through the mist at extremely fast speeds.

Arven exclaimed, "What a huge Dreepy clan!"

It was seen that on the lake with surging waves, a small-scale clan led by three Drakloak and followed by more than a dozen Dreepy appeared, looking at them with alert and hostile eyes.

"Hee-ya~"

The Dreepy brother greeted them with a grin.

It didn't have any bad intentions toward its own kind, otherwise it wouldn't have been abducted by the socially anxious dragon.

The funny thing is.

The leading Drakloak in this clan seemed to have the same plan.

When the Dreepy brother approached, it hugged it and shouted, then turned and flew away.

Arven: "Ah! It! All Baimu, chase!"

The other two Drakloak didn't idle either, immediately running to catch the Dreepy sister, but the latter, although not evolved, reacted faster than them, swooshing up and avoiding the pounce of the two.

"Hee-ya——"

It circled and turned back to dive, raised its claws surrounded by dark light, and hit the heads of the two Drakloak with two bangs!

Sucker Punch!

"Chee!"

The two Drakloak screamed and fell straight into the lake, scaring the other Dreepy into turning and running.

All Baimu let Hydreigon bite the two Drakloak, looked at the direction the one left, and couldn't help but ask Porygon2.

"Does this Pokémon have the habit of abducting small Dreepy?"

"... No relevant data."

Porygon2 couldn't answer.

Too abstract.

First there was a thousand-year-old ghost abducting a little boy, then there was a wild strong man snatching a teenager.

This is Dreepy? It's clearly Tang Monk meat!

"Hee-ya!!"

The Dreepy sister was full of anger. The snatching of the Drakloak reminded it of the experience of crossing the ocean and looking for its brother all over the world.

Too painful, that was simply not a life a dragon should live!

It absolutely didn't want to come again!

Fortunately, the Dreepy brother wasn't stupid enough to really go far away with the Drakloak.

Being abducted by Dragapult at the beginning was partly because it was inexperienced, and partly because it was tired of staying in the nest.

A good dragon aims at the four directions!

Now that it can follow the Trainer to run around, living a happy and enjoyable life every day, how could it abandon a good life and return to the wild?

So.

The Drakloak that abducted the dragon soon discovered that the little Dreepy it was holding suddenly opened its mouth, sprayed a purple meteor dragon flame bomb with a grin!

Boom!

In an instant, the dragon flame bomb burst, burning its whole body!

The Dreepy surrounding it were also unfortunately affected, one or two like mosquitoes hit by an electric mosquito swatter by the pond, screaming and falling into the lake.

"Hee-ya~"

The Dreepy brother smiled happily, looking at the opponents sinking in the lake, a strong desire emerged in its heart for no reason.

Brilliant blue light suddenly lit up from its body.

When the Dreepy sister led All Baimu and the others to chase over, what they saw was this scene.

"Hee-ya!"

"Going to evolve!"

Arven turned his head to look at All Baimu, whose expression was a bit strange.

Only because what he understood was that the Dreepy paired with Dragapult would only evolve when they wanted to.

Before, he also often asked the Dreepy siblings if they had any intention of evolving.

If they wanted to.

No need to care about whether Dragapult's combat power would drop, just follow their heart to evolve.

Although the socially anxious dragon was a bit aggrieved after hearing it, evolution or not is the power of the little Dreepy themselves, and it has to hold it back even if it is unhappy.

And the answers obtained were all without exception—

Don't evolve.

Or there is no such idea in the short term.

All Baimu let it go, not expecting that after encountering the wild Dreepy clan in Casseroya Lake, it would stimulate the Dreepy brother to produce the desire to evolve.

He put his hand on Dragapult's Poké Ball, but there was no response from the latter.

Don't know if it's sleeping, or if its heart is dead and it doesn't respond.

However.

An unexpected situation occurred, the Dreepy brother's evolution failed.

After the light faded, it was still the original appearance.

Looking at its state, it didn't look like Dawn's Piplup, who was holding back and not evolving, its expression was exceptionally relaxed.

"Hee-ya!"

The Dreepy brother flew back to their side with a grin.

What is the situation?

Arven was slightly confused, All Baimu also frowned, he had already prepared to find two more little Dreepy.

The Dreepy sister gave it a claw without politeness. "Hee-ya!"

When it was caught by that guy, it could have dodged it!

It stared at its brother.

"Ah~"

The Dreepy brother felt pain, but still grinned, pouncing on the Trainer's face, twisting and asking for forgiveness.

It's not stupid, naturally knowing it made everyone worry.

"Since you want to evolve, why didn't you evolve in the end?"

All Baimu cared about another thing.

The Dreepy brother blinked, turned his head to look at his sister. "Hee-ya~ Meh-hee-ya~"

Language barrier.

But he could roughly understand the meaning.

The Dreepy brother said that the evolution was sudden, but he hoped his sister would evolve more than himself, so he could be taken care of for a lifetime!

"You kid..."

All Baimu's mouth trembled.

As expected of the most mischievous and lively Pokémon in the team, the brain circuit is so unique.

Hydreigon and Steelix were speechless. The two who pursued power couldn't understand at all that the reason for resisting evolution was to "gnaw on the old"!

Only the Dreepy sister was moved.

The gold content of the only sister-loving demon in the team continues to rise.

Arven: "???"

He didn't understand anything, and didn't understand what happened.

On the lake.

The wild Drakloak and many Dreepy floated up, and they were like corpses.

Hydreigon spat out the wild Drakloak it was holding in its left and right mouths.

Poof poof!

A group of Dreepy lay dead in Casseroya Lake, the "surviving" wild Dreepy didn't dare to approach in the distance, screaming repeatedly in a panic.

Suddenly.

The light of evolution lit up on several of them.

Arven was shocked, "Why are they all evolving?"

"Chain reaction of evolution?"

All Baimu suddenly understood why the Dreepy brother didn't intend to evolve, why it suddenly evolved.

When Pokémon of the same clan are at a certain stage, they will produce a chain evolution reaction. Even if outsiders are not synchronized with their growth, they will be stimulated and evolve together.

For example, Ash's Bulbasaur, once almost evolved together with a group of Bulbasaur.

Thanks to the lonely traveler who can endure... don't know what it is enduring.

Ash's starter Pokémon often can't reach the final evolution, which has always been a thorn in All Baimu's heart.

"I understand why they want to snatch small Dreepy."

All Baimu said to Arven: "Because after this group of Dreepy evolves into Drakloak, the number of small Dreepy is not enough."

"... Ah?"

"Drakloak, this kind of Pokémon, if there is no Dreepy living on its head, it will be panicked and uneasy, so you understand."

All Baimu shrugged.

Arven had an expression of increasing knowledge.

On the lake.

The three Drakloak woke up, and after seeing the messy scene and the fierce All Baimu and others above, they were extremely angry.

Then they also started to evolve.

The miracle of life was staged like a rotten street at this moment.

"Oh! The quantity is even less!" All Baimu was not panicked at all, even a bit gloating.

The Dreepy sister was stimulated and eager to move, blue light appeared on its body, and then quickly converged.

"Hee-ya!"

It shouted at All Baimu.

Arven: "What is it saying?"

"It said it would evolve after I become the strongest in the world. This is the sister among the small Dreepy, a more sensible one."

All Baimu's gaze was soft.

He understood that the Dreepy sister didn't want to add trouble to him.

After capturing new Pokémon, those with naturally powerful strength are fine. If they are relatively weak, it is easy to fail to keep up with their pace.

Even if the little Dreepy only needs to be responsible for flying out to hit people, how to hit, when to return without affecting the main body, are all things that little Dreepy need to consider in high-end games.

Low-end games don't matter, just play casually and it's hard to lose, little Dreepy can win.

Arven saw this and couldn't help but envy All Baimu for having a group of Pokémon willing to share his worries. Of course, he also had Mabosstiff and them.

A trace of comfort arose in his heart.

The three Drakloak evolved into Dragapult and roared to find All Baimu for "revenge", but the Dreepy siblings were not vegetarians.

Defeating a final evolution while in the initial stage!

The three Dragapult, already low on health, collapsed once more, and the Drakloak in the distance, who had been preparing to fly over after evolving, also silently stopped in their tracks.

"Let's go, take them, find a small island to chat."

All Baimu waved.

Hydreigon bit three and flew to the nearest small island.

Casseroya Lake is much larger than expected, and there is mist covering the line of sight.

Even if he brought the answer to find the problem, it was very difficult to accurately find the one where Tatsugiri lived from so many small islands.

Instead of rushing around like a headless fly.

It is better to ask the locals... dragon directly.

Ran over to abduct

Arven was speechless.

It wasn't the first or second time All Baimu had taken an unconventional path; he was gradually getting used to it, and even slowly started to develop a "All Baimu-style" way of thinking.

The only problem was that while he had the ideas, his body couldn't keep up.

On the small island.

Under the healing of the Blissey, the three Dragapult soon regained consciousness; they looked around blankly, then their expressions changed wildly, and they took flight.

All Baimu thought he would have to fight another round, but after a roar from the Hydreigon, they immediately became very obedient.

They didn't even try to turn invisible and escape.

"What a pity, I lost the excuse to beat you all up again." He put on a disappointed look.

The Hydreigon bared its teeth in response, dragon flames crackling in its mouths.

The Dragapult siblings were rolling up their sleeves, ready for another fight, and the Steelix also lowered its head with an oppressive aura; Arven panicked for a second, then immediately put on a fierce expression.

The atmosphere had been built up to this point; it would feel strange not to do something.

He turned around.

He then realized he was a human, not one of All Baimu's Pokémon, and his expression became incredibly awkward.

"..."

The Dragapult didn't understand, but they could see that the human and dragons before them were all ill-intentioned, so they huddled down and lay flat, trembling.

All Baimu was very satisfied as he used Porygon2 to extract information.

Just as he had guessed, the reason the Dragapult were snatching Dreepy was that they, along with some other small Dreepy in the tribe, were about to evolve.

There weren't enough Dreepy that weren't evolving, which forced them to start taking in wild Dreepy scattered nearby.

But Dreepy usually move in tribes; where would there be so many scattered ones?

After tossing and turning for a long time, they had only managed to take in one.

They had no choice but to rely on sound at Casseroya Lake to lure them out, seeing if there were any stragglers, or ones from other tribes—

And just snatch them!

If a dragon isn't ruthless, it can't stand firm!

Who knew they would run into two tough nuts from All Baimu's family, who beat them down on the spot.

"Tsk tsk tsk, your family has a big deficit."

All Baimu counted the hiding Dreepy, then counted the number of Drakloak.

Three Dragapult and five Drakloak needed eleven Dreepy, but there were only seven on the scene.

Who gets one? Who doesn't?

The shortage of small Dreepy in the Dragapult tribe has now become a problem of the century!

The three Dragapult heard Porygon2's translation and each showed a sorrowful expression.

"..."

Seeing him chatting so enthusiastically with wild Dragapult, Arven remained silent, not knowing whether he should remind him to ask about the Titan Pokémon.

It felt like All Baimu had turned into one of those elderly people in the village who pay attention to whose child has a partner or who has had a baby.

(End of chapter)