Chapter 135: Raising Pokémon is So Expensive

Su Hao rented a private training room at the club for a few hours just to let them out and check the results of this period to make a summary.

Pokémon: 【Carbink】 【Mutation 60%】

Type: 【Rock, Fairy】

Gender: 【♀】

Ability: 【Clear Body】

Level: 【36】

Held Item: 【Diancie Mega Stone】

Moves: 【Omitted】

Since promoting to the Elite level, Carbink's level improvement had slowed down a lot; there was no longer the situation of skyrocketing to the Elite level in a month and a half.

Carbink's surface level had now reached the mid-Elite level. Although her level improvement had slowed down quite a bit, her mutation progress hadn't stopped.

The pink diamonds had long been completely consumed before Carbink's mutation progress reached 50%.

There were pink diamonds available for purchase in the system mall, but the price was too expensive, so Su Hao decided to save money first.

According to the current progress, in about two months, Carbink's mutation progress bar should reach the end. Better save money to buy a Key Stone first.

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Pokémon: 【Milotic】

Type: 【Water】

Gender: 【♀】

Ability: 【Cute Charm】

Level: 【31】

Held Item: 【Mystic Water】

Moves: 【Luster Purge, Mist Ball...】

System Annotation: Sent by my good friends, the red and blue planes. You care if I'm legitimate?

Milotic evolved based on the ritual completed by Latios and Latias through the Soul Dew, uniting most of the Pokémon living in the Infinite Secret Realm.

Also influenced by this miraculous ritual, Milotic not only had excellent Water-type energy affinity, but she could also command Dragon-type and Psychic-type energy as easily as her own arm.

At the same time, Milotic also learned the two exclusive moves of the red and blue planes: 【Luster Purge】 and 【Mist Ball】.

Whether it was Carbink's Mythical Pokémon form or Milotic's potential that surpassed pseudo-legendaries by relying on her big brother and sister, Su Hao could believe that they had no pressure to break through to the Professional level based on their own physical quality.

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Pokémon: 【Incineroar (Wearing a blue scarf)】

Type: 【Fire + Dark】

Gender: 【♂】

Ability: 【Intimidate】

Held Item: 【Charcoal】

Level: 【35】

Moves: 【Omitted】

To be honest, the seemingly honest and simple-minded Incineroar actually had the most schemes; after all, Dark-type Pokémon always have a little bit of a hidden agenda.

Su Hao also knew about Incineroar's hidden agenda all along.

He understood that Incineroar had always been thinking about surpassing Carbink and becoming the leader of the team.

Under Incineroar's continuous internal competition, his level was indeed about to surpass Carbink's.

But combat power isn't everything that level can represent.

How was Carbink able to cross an entire rank at the beginning of the Elite level and defeat Xie Wei's Empoleon, which had broken through to the Professional level via specialization?

It was based on Carbink's physical quality, total energy, and precision of control that ordinary Pokémon couldn't catch up to.

If Carbink's total energy and caliber were like a washbasin, Milotic's total energy and caliber were like a large washbasin.

Compared to the two Mythical Pokémon and the "second-generation god" above, only Incineroar, relying on himself, had an output as large as a big water jug.

Right now, Tiger couldn't beat Carbink at all, and he couldn't beat Milotic because of the attribute compatibility issue, plus the protection given by Latios and Latias made Milotic immune to status conditions and Fake Out. How could he fight that?

And recently, a pseudo-legendary Dreepy, suspected to be the illegitimate child of Giratina, had joined the team.

Su Hao was afraid that Incineroar would lose to Carbink and Milotic in the future, and then who else could he lose to?

Incineroar's dream, who knows when it will be achieved...

Carbink and Milotic just need to grow step by step to break through to the Professional level without any pressure.

Su Hao

didn't want Incineroar to break through to the Professional level by specializing in emotional energy to ignite flames; after all, this would cause Incineroar to fall completely behind Milotic and Carbink, which was something he didn't want to see.

No matter what, Tiger is also a Pokémon similar to a tiger, a proud King of the Forest who never falls behind others, even with daily internal competition.

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"Hmm, Carbink's overall output peak is already about to reach the mid-Professional level."

This club's private training room was still quite something; the baffles used to withstand attacks were cast from iron filings scraped off by high-level Steelix over many years, making them very sturdy.

Even though Carbink's output power had reached the Professional level, it only blasted a small dent on the surface.

Su Hao turned his gaze to the two baffles on the other side.

The damage caused by Incineroar was higher, leaving some scratch marks on the baffle, which could barely reach the output intensity of the late-Elite level.

Milotic's output wasn't as high as Incineroar's, which Su Hao could have predicted.

After all, she herself was a Pokémon that leaned more toward being tanky; having an output that could cross ranks to reach the mid-Elite level was already enough.

This kind of output, combined with her strong status immunity trait and self-recovery ability, was enough to reverse-slay late-Elite level Pokémon.

At the same time, in double battles, Milotic could also moonlight as a healer to heal teammates.

But if dealing with Professional-level Pokémon, it would become a situation where the opponent couldn't move Milotic, and Milotic couldn't move the opponent.

Incineroar could at least burst out and fight for a bit.

Currently, most of the special techniques Su Hao could access to improve combat power were used by his father's Fire-type specialization team, which didn't suit him.

Only the technique his father's Charizard used, relying on emotional energy as fuel to increase the flames on its tail and the power of its fire moves, had been copied by him.

Incineroar was already able to gather part of its emotional energy in its body to provide as fuel for the flame sac at its waist.

Thanks to this, Incineroar had no problem clashing with late-Elite level Pokémon, and the probability of winning was high, but it hadn't reached the point of being invincible at the same rank.

Next step, Su Hao wanted to find a method suitable for Incineroar to cultivate physical strength.

Whether it was his father or Grandpa Xia, the former Fire-type Elite Four, they both followed the "Special Attack" route and didn't have the knack for Incineroar's physical training.

Jiang Chengcheng's side had some connection to the secondary Legendary Pokémon from the Isle of Armor in Sword and Shield that Su Hao remembered.

But the Rapid Strike Style didn't fit Incineroar either, unless he encountered the Single Strike Style one.

He didn't know about other things; after all, these were other people's secrets.

Since there would be one more mouth to feed at home in a while, and this mouth was a money-guzzling Dragon-type pseudo-legendary Pokémon.

Even if there were cultivation manuals in the Alliance Mall, based on Su Hao's net worth, buying them would mean he couldn't afford to feed the four mouths at home in the future.

After all, many cultivation manuals were the secret techniques of various schools; people like Qin Gang who rushed to give him Aura insights were ultimately in the minority.

Therefore, the places where one could learn various technique manuals for free or at a low price were undoubtedly the various universities with Pokémon Battle majors.

In about another month, he should be able to get the fourth badge and rush back to participate in the youth group competition of the National Youth Championship.

Among the prizes, the first place in the individual competition and the first place in the school team award included reading rights to some paid manuals or, besides pseudo-legendary Pokémon, selection rewards including starter Pokémon and some rare Pokémon.

No matter which one, Su Hao felt it wasn't a loss.

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