Viridian Forest

"However, that is not where it ends. It is also an advanced version of counter. The move allows Gyarados to take hits, accumulate the damage, and hit the enemy with three times the accumulated damage. After hitting, it would also recover a percentage of its HP."

"Why did you name it 'Endure'?" asked Axel.

"I am not good at naming things, haha. I just named it that because that was what came to my mind at that time," said Kent laughingly.

Kent didn't know that he might have lost if he had named the move correctly. Axel also face palmed himself at his stupidity. How could he be so foolish to assume the move's effect based solely on its name?

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Ding!

Host has gathered some clues. Identify has leveled up to 13

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'Hmm, I need to level up Identify even more until it can show the description of the enemy's moves,' thought Axel.

"By the way, why are you telling me all these things? You know that I would challenge you later," said Axel.

"Axel, the duty of a gym leader is not just to win but to teach young trainers how to battle. I am just teaching you. Besides, it would not be interesting if you were to lose again. So, when are you going to challenge me?" asked Kent.

"After a month."

"That is a good time frame. I hope that you would win against me after a month. Good luck, Axel. Don't disappoint me," said Kent as he shook Axel's hand and left the room.

Axel also went outside. He had not planned what to do right now. He knew that he needed to seriously consider training his Pokemons. He thought about going home to train them, but he discarded that thought. He didn't want to go home after losing a gym battle. Then he thought about going to the wilderness to train himself.

After much thought, he decided to go to Viridian Forest.

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Viridian Forest was considered a beginner forest with level 5 Pokemons in the game. However, it was completely different in reality. It was the biggest forest in the Kanto region after the Venu family's forest. It was also one of the most dangerous forests with many high-level Pokemons.

Routes and forests were properly guided and maintained by the league. If a trainer wanted to cross, they would have to follow a proper road, and they would not be affected by wild encounters. The league had made a deal with the leader Pokemon of the routes and forests not to harm the trainers on that proper road.

However, outside of that proper road was the area of wild Pokemons where anything could happen.

The thing that made Viridian Forest dangerous was the absence of that proper road. There were no proper roads where trainers could travel. Axel would have been intimidated by Viridian Forest in the past, but not right now. He had 8 pseudo-king rank Pokemons. There were specific areas mentioned on the maps of the forest. If he were to avoid these areas, he would not be in trouble.

It was still early in the morning, so he decided to take a flight to the entrance of Viridian Forest. The ticket was expensive as he booked it just hours before the flight time. Axel didn't have to worry about money right now, but since he came from a middle-class family, his heart still pained at paying the extra amount. However, time was not on his side right now.

He would have to join the league competition in 10 months. He needed to train his Pokemons to king rank by that time. He spent 3 million dollars on expensive Pokemon food, recipe ingredients, potions, antidotes, awakening, and other miscellaneous items. His heart was aching even more.

After 18 hours, he finally reached Pewter City and booked a room. It was already night. He had decided to start his journey the next day. He gave all his Pokemon to the care of the nurse, wanting to make sure they were all okay. They were going to suffer a lot in this coming month, but they had to get used to it if they wanted to win against Kent in 1 month.

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The next morning,

"Hmm, I think I should go there first. There is a lake right beside it. It is a safe place, and the only Pokemon that could disturb me are elemental rank Pokemons and pseudo-king rank Pokemons."

Axel was having coffee and a toast with Blissey's egg. The egg was very nutritious and tasty. The nurse had returned all of his Pokemons, saying that they were in good health.

After having a heavy breakfast, he went near the entrance of the forest and called out Charizard. He sat on it and told it the direction they were going.

After 4 hours of continuous flying, they finally reached the destination. A large lake was right beside them. There were green grass and flowers all around them.

Charizard cut down some trees to make a room for them. Axel set up a tent and cleared some grassy field to make a place for a training ground. After that, he started making those delicious foods that he had bought and also made some foods according to the recipe.

The process took 2 hours, and now there were a lot of foods around him. All of them looked tasty.

He then called out all of his Pokemons.

All of them gave their cries and roars after coming out. Steelix was new to the team, but it was not shy.

"Hello everyone. Welcome to the feast. There are all the delicious foods that I have made for you all. Eat as much as you want and can."

ROARR

Piiii

Sheddd… …

All of them were happy with the arrangement. Axel had never done such a thing before.

"Now, now, I want you to enjoy the feast as much as you like. But can anyone tell me the reason for this feast?" asked Axel.

Suddenly the crowd got quiet. Charizard was trying to say something, but Axel knew that it had not guessed the reason.

"Let me tell you the reason. We have lost badly against Kent, and we are going to challenge him after a month. I have chosen this place for training.

You are getting this feast because there will be no feast until the end of the month. There will only be training. Harsh training. This training will be the most intense training of your lives.

Three Pokemons will be chosen after the training to battle Kent. Some of you are in rare rank and even common rank. You must already know that you won't be participating in this event.

But fear not. Even though you cannot participate, any of you who have shown great progress will be rewarded by myself.

Now, let's enjoy the feast."

ROARRRR

All of them roared out and celebrated the feast. They had become depressed after losing against Kent. The most depressed was Gyarados. It was there when it saw Gyarados take down Alakazam and Beedrill. It knew the power of those two.

Alakazam was the strongest Pokemon in Axel's team. It had won Axel's Pokemon competition under the pseudo-king rank category. However, it could not defeat one of its own species.

On one hand, it was surprised and happy that a Gyarados could get so much stronger. On the other hand, it was depressed. It could not even see the gap between them. When was it going to be so strong? It didn't know, but it still believed in Axel.

Others were feeling the same. Beedrill was bummed out. It was almost knocked out by a single attack. After just one 'Aqua Tail,' it was not able to battle anymore.

All of them could feel their incompetence, and Axel could see it all. In a way, he thought that it might be a blessing. They had been getting arrogant at their rise in power for some time now. His Pokemons needed to learn that there were skies above the sky. They needed to know that there was nothing called 'perfect'. There was just evolution and improvement.

Axel and his team enjoyed the food. A group of wild Beedrill and Poliwrath also came near them from the smell of food. Axel offered them the food, and they were happily eating it.

They were surprisingly not hostile with Axel and the team. He made a deal with the group to be part of their training. They had to fight against water-type Pokemons after a month, so training against Poliwrath would be helpful.

Axel's Beedrill could also learn a lot from the group of Beedrill. Each of the group had 2 pseudo-king rank Pokemon. Viridian forest was quite a mystery to have just powerful Pokemons.

The feast went on for 2 hours, and it was already afternoon now.

"Now, Let's start the hell training."

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