Chapter 474

Pyrite Town and Beryl City were far apart.

Establishing a subway would help the residents of the two towns communicate with each other, which was beneficial to regional development.

Furthermore, the Orre region wasn't without subway technology; Team Cipher had once buried a train tunnel leading to a base outside Pyrite Town deep in the underground city; although it was later abandoned, the things were still left there.

Therefore, Eagun could completely extend the tunnel and then directly use that subway, which was very convenient.

"Starting to engage in infrastructure..."

All Baimu understood that this was proof that Eagun saw the basic greening was almost done and started to allocate power to develop in other directions.

The development of the Orre region couldn't just rely on environmental transformation; if there was no Pokémon and black technology support, reviving the region would inevitably be a massive project spanning thousands of years.

He understood the logic.

How to do it specifically all depended on Eagun's decision.

All Baimu had the heart to help, but he really wasn't very good at government affairs; becoming a star Champion like Leon was his limit.

At most, when he was out and about, he could chat with various business giants and pull some investors back.

For example, his equipment supplier, Team Magma; their technological power was also outstanding, and the boss Maxie loved the large tracts of land that could be planned at will.

There was no one more suitable than them.

"Let's practice!" All Baimu decided to strive to do his job well.

"Roar~"

Steelix happily swung its thick iron tail that could smash people away, and under the Trainer's guidance, learned Earthquake; the sound of Peng Peng Peng accompanied by the ground trembling seemed extremely noisy.

Although it often practiced independently in Orre, having the Trainer by its side to teach it was ultimately different.

Of course, it didn't feel lonely being separated in two places; being able to do what it wanted to do and often seeing the partners it wanted to see, what's lonely about that?

Instead, it even felt happy! It was so free!

It was indeed very comfortable staying in the Poké Ball, but Steelix had a natural instinct to dig holes, and it felt uncomfortable all over if it didn't dig for a day.

Practiced for a while.

All Baimu was a bit overwhelmed by the shaking, and after giving an instruction, ran to a further place to relax.

The key point of 【Earthquake】 lay in the energy impact rolled up when shaking the ground; it didn't have the terrifying scene of shattering the earth like in the game screen.

Of course, it could be done.

It's just that there was no need to waste elemental energy on the ground; it was better to volatilize it all out.

"A move without blind spots that even shakes the Trainer is too much."

He muttered in a low voice, noticing out of the corner of his eye that Dragapult and Hydreigon were approaching him, as if the civil war had ended.

Judging from the expressions of the two, the Hydreigon with its head held high should be the final winner, but the faintly resentful expressions of Dragapult and the Dreepy siblings proved that the former probably didn't win thoroughly.

A narrow victory by one or half a move.

Idiot!

So proud of winning against a Dragapult!

All Baimu wished he could give it a slap on the head; Dragapult had joined the team for half a month, and only recently participated in training, not much different from half a wild Pokémon.

You Hydreigon have at least been through a hundred battles, right? No ambition!

"Sha—sang?"

The husky dragon, intending to claim credit, saw the Trainer's expression and didn't quite get the taste of it; it had won!

"Looks like I've been caring about you less lately." All Baimu, amidst its confused expression, rubbed its strange hair that looked like a blooming trumpet flower.

In order to make this guy more independent, he had indeed consciously "isolated" the former in the past few days.

Didn't expect...

It seems that rather than isolating it, it's better to strictly discipline it.

"Sha sang..."

Hydreigon looked at All Baimu's loving eyes and shrank its neck inexplicably, as if it had been hit three times.

Clearly the Trainer was smiling quite brightly, why did it feel so wrong?

But before it could confirm, All Baimu had already shifted his gaze to Dragapult; the latter had reached a silent tacit understanding with the Dreepy sister—as if as long as it wasn't exposed, both sides could maintain the relationship of missile and launcher in peace.

Therefore, facing him at this moment, the Dreepy brother raised his chin, the Dreepy sister's eyes drifted but she didn't fly out, and Dragapult was extremely guilty, not knowing what he was thinking.

"... Don't be discouraged, just win it back next time."

He said so, and stroked the heads of these three guys in turn; it was a pity he hadn't learned Heart Swap, otherwise probing their inner thoughts at this moment would definitely be very interesting.

"Ru tuo..."

"Xi ya!" "Xi ya!"

The three Pokémon responded in unison.

—

During the few days Steven was away, All Baimu had been paying attention to Hoenn's news.

Unfortunately, he failed to discover any relevant footage of Mega Rayquaza.

He did catch a glimpse of Winona's personal interview film he had seen in Fortree City earlier; after many days of editing, it was finally broadcast, and the response on the internet was actually not bad.

No way.

Who told the Pokémon world to worship personal heroism more due to the prevalence of Trainers.

And that director really didn't give him any screen time, but there were Mawile and the others; he cut a few segments of the battle process without the results, and paired with background music, it was strangely exciting.

Making Mawile both happy and unhappy; it was hard to get on TV, why was the footage so little.

But what it didn't know was that under normal circumstances, town-level Pokémon Contests would be broadcast simultaneously on local stations, so it had actually been on TV long ago.

All Baimu had almost never watched Pokémon world TV programs, so naturally he didn't know, and comforted it: "Don't worry, the Grand Festival is broadcast across the entire region."

"Qi duo!"

Mawile, whose little thoughts were exposed, punched him with its little fist, glaring at him angrily, with an expression of "Am I very vain?"

All Baimu really wanted to give an affirmative answer, but considering the Huge Power ability, he decided to give up on courting death and went to find Aggron.

In just a few days.

The big monster's gains were not small.

First, it learned Stealth Rock, and secondly, it successfully gained further growth in battle consciousness during the mutual honing with Steven's two Aggron.

Every type of Pokémon has battle methods that every type of Pokémon is good at; for example, Hitmonchan is good at using fists, Hitmonlee is good at kicking; and according to the different personalities of Pokémon, there are further detailed differences.

Aggron learned a battle method extended from instinct from the two seniors—

Explosive Charge.

Of course.

This is different from the brute force charge relying on long-distance sprinting like Tauros; the explosive charge of Aggron and the others is mainly characterized by long-distance leaping.

Simply put, it's using elemental energy to generate a kind of propulsion force under the body, and then hitting the enemy with a move like a rocket launcher.

Aggron demonstrated it and All Baimu understood.

In the animation, Steven's Aggron combined this technique with Heavy Slam, successfully winning in a head-on collision with Ash's Dracovish's Dragon Rush, defeating it in one fell swoop.

It was much better than the jumping charge he had always let Aggron use; the jumping style was almost an arc-shaped attack path, which easily gave the opponent a chance to dodge.

"Earned, earned."

All Baimu smiled and patted its silvery-shining steel shell.

Currently, Aggron's level is seventy-three; in the situation where the level reward helped it walk a long way less, this improvement speed was already terrifyingly slow, and it would be normal if it didn't increase by one level in half a year in the future.

Potential exhausted?

It wasn't that he hadn't thought about it, but the thought dissipated afterward; as long as the ability values were rising, it didn't matter if the level didn't rise.

Moreover, similar to Mawile's situation of learning characters, the situation of a few words and a period of time couldn't so easily determine Aggron's limit.

If the level is slow, it's slow; at worst, feed it entirely on simulation rewards. Pikachu being able to grow to fight Leon's Charizard head-on was definitely not achieved overnight, and the battle failures that were scolded as acting were numerous.

Cultivating Pokémon is a long-distance run that lasts a lifetime!

And the Pokémon ranked after Aggron in level order was still Steelix, who just happened to touch the bottom of level seventy, followed by the sixty-nine-level Mawile and Dragapult, the sixty-seven-level Hydreigon, the sixty-five-level Blissey...

That's right.

Hydreigon, whose level was originally behind Blissey, successfully caught up from behind; it was worthy of being a Pokémon with the word "Excellent."

After that was the fifty-eight-level Porygon2, the fifty-seven-level Galarian Corsola, plus a Shiny Milotic that just happened to reach level fifty relying on level rewards.

These three new team members who were captured after leaving Orre were already quite hardworking, and the level rewards that should have been fed to them hadn't been fed less.

Growing to this point was certainly incomparable to Ash, whose Pokémon cultivation time was only one year before fighting in the World Coronation Series, but it could also be considered a leader among Trainers.

What surprised All Baimu was that Corsola had no signs of evolution at all.

Although he personally thought that not evolving might be better, if Corsola evolved, he wouldn't stop it, only happy that it had grown.

Didn't expect it to be like Ash's Squirtle, without a hint of evolution signs.

Bulbasaur, the lonely traveler, at least withstood a light of evolution once... I guess Corsola itself didn't have the consciousness to evolve; the Pokémon's own thoughts were also very important.

The bottom level of the team.

The two Dreepy who weren't even twenty levels old; if All Baimu didn't go to capture a low-level Pokémon in a short time, then the level rewards would either be saved or fed to them.

But what if one evolved into a Drakloak, wouldn't that mean finding two more Dreepy?

The Dragapult family is really a headache.

All Baimu decided that one day in the future when he went to the Galar region, he must find Leon to learn from his experience and ask him how to deal with this kind of thing.

As for now.

"It's about time to set off!"

He packed his things and looked at the time on his phone.

There was one hour left until the Gym battle started; he should arrive at the examination hall early to ensure the Gym Leader could see him in time.

—

Mossdeep Gym.

At first glance, the exterior looked exactly like an astronomy museum, constructed as a whole with a mesh spherical transparent glass, with a golden eave like an archway built at the very bottom, and a pink heart with a ruby embedded in the middle hanging on the main door.

All Baimu looked carefully twice—

Isn't this the Mind Badge! Fortunately, it's made big enough not to be stolen.

He stepped into the Gym, and just as he looked inside following the open automatic door, a blue-haired, blue-eyed woman wearing glasses greeted him, "Hello, are you the challenger who made an appointment for today?"

"Yes."

"My name is Lete, I am the manager of this Gym, please follow me." The woman named Lete took the initiative to point the way.

Different from the few Gym assistants All Baimu encountered earlier, the Lete in front of him belonged to the main managers of the Gym, because the Gym Leaders of Mossdeep Gym were a pair of underage twins, and there were many things they couldn't handle.

Through the hall and tunnel.

Soon.

A spacious enclosed battle field appeared in front of All Baimu.

Interestingly, several massive spheres symbolizing planets were suspended above the field, revolving around the center point of the field, and they were also slowly rotating themselves.

The twins Tate and Liza, who looked ninety percent alike, stood not far away, looking at him with great interest.

"Good afternoon, challenger!"

"Is the pre-battle preparation ready?"

The two spoke one after another, and both were wearing light blue short jackets and long pants, looking exactly like some cultivators aiming for longevity.

In the game, they possessed the psychic ability of telepathy; in the animation, it didn't seem to be displayed, but... All Baimu couldn't be sure they really didn't have it.

"Always ready, please also give me your guidance."

He nodded in greeting.

"Alright, there are some things that need to be informed to you in advance."

"Mossdeep Gym adopts a double battle system, meaning you must send out two Pokémon to battle with us together. And this field also counts the planets above in it."

Tate and Liza spoke in unison, their speech extremely clear.

All Baimu nodded again.

Seeing this, the twins looked at each other and smiled, then looked at Lete who walked to the referee position, signaling that she could start reading the rules.

And so.

"What is about to take place is a Mossdeep Gym double battle; in the match, the total number of Pokémon each side can use is four, and any side whose Pokémon all lose their battle ability represents a victory. At the same time, neither side is allowed to switch the Pokémon used!"

Mossdeep Gym's double battle looks like a double battle, but actually it doesn't look like a double battle.

After all, where in the world is a double battle against two Trainers on the opposite side, and even the challenger isn't allowed to switch Pokémon at will; this is a bit too characteristic.

Fortunately, All Baimu had done his homework before coming, and had also prepared the Pokémon to play.

"The match begins!"

As the words fell, the three people in the field threw out their Poké Balls in unison.

"I'm counting on you! Lunatone!" "Go! Solrock!"

"Battle preparation!"

Bang bang bang bang!

The explosion of four Poké Balls opening.

All Baimu originally didn't have a voice prompt for releasing Pokémon, but helplessly, the other party shouted there and he didn't, so he always felt something was missing, so he simply plagiarized Paul's catchphrase.

Tate and Liza's first move was their most proficient Pokémon—

Lunatone and Solrock.

Both Pokémon, which in a sense came from outer space, had a composite type of Rock and Psychic, and their abilities were both Levitate; the two even had identical base stats, differing only in ability value distribution and move pools.

All Baimu didn't dare to underestimate these two, so he also chose the "ace combination" for this battle.

"Qi duo~"

"Pa li!"

Porygon2 and Mawile landed, looking at the floating Lunatone and Solrock in the distance, with no trace of nervousness on their faces, only anticipation for what was to come.

The battle was on the verge of breaking out!