Chapter 133: A Small Goal

"Thank you very much, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to find Yueyue right now."

Looking at the beautiful girl in front of him bowing slightly, Su Hao waved his hand and said: "It's nothing, just a small favor."

Su Hao genuinely felt this was a small matter; after all, before the auction started, he had nothing to do but train or wander aimlessly in the mall.

Just as Su Hao was about to say goodbye, the girl seemed to remember something and took out a jade box from her crossbody bag.

"As a token of thanks, please accept this Dragon Fang. Whether you take it to sell or use it yourself, it's fine."

Bai Zirou had observed Su Hao; his appearance suggested he was a high school or college student, and he was likely a Trainer as well.

This Dragon Fang was a snack for her Dragonair. If taken to an official store for recycling, it would be worth about 100,000 Shenzhou coins.

Whether Su Hao took it for recycling or if he had a Dragon-type Pokémon that could absorb the energy within, it would be useful.

What the heck, is there someone just throwing money around directly?

Su Hao was shocked to see this girl throwing money around without a second thought.

"This is so valuable... is it really okay?" Su Hao asked weakly.

"No, this is just a small token of my appreciation, please accept it." Bai Zirou said firmly.

"Big brother, just accept it. My sister is very rich."

For her, born into a top-tier family of the Shenzhou Alliance, this Dragon Fang was indeed just a small token.

After several refusals, Su Hao, facing the two sisters who were determined to give this gift, had no choice but to accept it.

Facing the Bai sisters who left satisfied, Su Hao was somewhat speechless.

He had only helped with a small matter.

What kind of family are these two sisters from? A Dragon Fang worth over 100,000 Shenzhou coins given away just like that? Are people this wealthy nowadays?

Now the money spent on the incubator and nutrient solution for the little Dreepy had been earned back.

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With a few hours left before the auction started, Su Hao ran to the second floor to eat and drink his fill, then didn't stay in the mall.

He went to a private club outside the mall, preparing to rent a training room.

Today's daily training had already been done in the morning; he was now preparing to take stock of the current training progress and limit combat power of his three Pokémon.

Su Hao didn't intend to follow the standard path of the college entrance examination.

As long as he collected four badges, he could report to the Alliance and choose any university for admission without an exam.

He might not even need to choose for himself; his father had told him that some universities were already paying attention to his itinerary, just waiting for him to collect four Junior Badges.

Su Hao's Pokémon had the experience cheat provided by the system, so their level breakthroughs in the early stages were smooth sailing.

But that was only stress-free before the Professional level.

If one could say that Pokémon below the Professional level could improve their strength by accumulating energy, even with slow, grinding effort, they could slowly increase their levels.

But this rule no longer worked after reaching the Elite level to the Professional level.

If the battle between Elite-level Pokémon was like small-scale thermal weapons bombarding each other, the Professional level was the sublimation of the overall life level and the specialization of a certain skill.

Professional-level Pokémon were incomparable to Elite-level Pokémon in terms of basic quality and move power.

A more "fantasy" way of putting it is that before a Pokémon promotes to the Professional level, it must specialize in the aspect it is best at and most excellent in; only then can this Pokémon hold the key to becoming a Gym-level or Champion-level Pokémon.

Although the experience cheat provided by the system allowed Carbink and the others to not need any accumulation, as long as they kept fighting, they could improve their rank.

But if it was just a simple level increase, while the inside was like a castle in the air, the combat power would not be comparable to those Pokémon that had clearly defined their own paths.

For example, his father's ace—the Champion-level Charizard.

Charizard was his father's starter Pokémon, which evolved after being promoted from Normal level to Elite level during his father's freshman year of college.

His father was adopted by an orphanage when he was a child, but after luckily choosing Charmander in his senior year of high school, he didn't have enough resources to cultivate it, so progress was very slow before college.

Looking at the entire Shenzhou Alliance, those who could

cultivate a Pokémon to the Elite level during high school were actually very few.

This was also the reason why his father said, "My son has the bearing of a Great Emperor."

Before his sophomore year, even with a starter Pokémon with great potential like Charizard, his father couldn't compete with those from wealthy families and geniuses.

Until one time, his father met an old man.

The old man was the former Fire-type Elite Four of the Shenzhou Alliance. Seeing that his father had cultivated such a solid foundation for Charizard despite the lack of resources, he decided to take him as an apprentice.

After being taken as an apprentice, with the support of his teacher and resources, his father was like a line of poetry: once he met the wind and clouds, he turned into a dragon.

He soared all the way up until he became the Fire-type Gym Leader, whose strength ranked among the best of the eighteen-attribute Gym Leaders today.

After reaching the Elite level, his father's Charizard, under the guidance of his master, changed from comprehensive development to specialization in move energy.

Except for the three Pokémon Su Hao had with system support, the strength improvement of Pokémon in this world had bottlenecks.

Every breakthrough of a bottleneck would filter out a large number of Pokémon.

Because after an Elite-level Pokémon breaks through to the Professional level, the Pokémon's all-around quality can be significantly improved.

Even if you are a Kricketune, after breaking through from Elite level to Professional level, you can crush Elite-level Dragon-type Pokémon through sheer hard power.

Corresponding to the huge benefits was the extremely high difficulty of breaking through.

Scholars once compared it, and the difficulty of breaking through from Elite level to Professional level is even harder than breaking through from Professional level to Gym level.

The reason is that not every Pokémon can complete the sublimation of the overall life level.

Until a genius Breeder completed the breakthrough method of 【Specialization】.

Specialization, simply put, is using the different strengths of different Pokémon to break through to the Professional level.

For example, his father's Charizard specifically trained the intensity of the Fire-type energy in its body when it was at the Elite level, achieving a breakthrough to the Professional level only in its 【Fire-type energy】, with a small increase in physical quality.

Pokémon that break through to the Professional level via specialization are much weaker than those very few that truly break through to the Professional level based on all-around quality.

However, what is the point of such a flawed breakthrough?

When Su Hao asked his father this, his father's answer was:

Although Pokémon that break through to the Professional level via specialization will be inferior to those very few Pokémon at this stage, this flaw can be compensated for.

As long as you are willing to consume a certain amount of resources at the Professional level stage, flaws in other aspects can be compensated for after breaking through to the Gym level. ===== CHAPTER 134 =====