Chapter 157

The thing about Pokemarts was that they were utterly massive. The add on of mart, undersold the kind of establishment they really were.

This was my second time at the Viridian City Pokemart, and it was utterly massive. Bigger even than the likes of the Morrisons super markets back home.

That was what they were to be honest, super markets geared towards the general trainer or owner of pokemon, no matter what type of trainer they were, be that gym challenger, coordinator or just plain traveller.

Most I'd seen, were massive like this. Granted, there were a few small ones here and there I'd seen on my way to Vermillion City from Cerulean City, but those were mostly pit stop pokemarts and didn't see as much traffic as the main ones in the large cities.

They had practically everything a trainer could need. From weights for training pokemon, food for pokemon, food specifically designed for trainers on a journey, tents with storage technology that made them bigger on the inside, actual storage items with storage technology like backpacks, weapons for self defence, tools for traversing different types of areas and the kind of hazards and difficulties those areas would have from desert areas to thick jungles.

Berries of all types, and of course who could forget the TM's and pokeballs.

"Oh, what's this?" I stopped in front of one of the many, many glass display cases showing off the bright shiny gleam of TM discs. Of course, it wasn't just any old glass that could be smashed willy nilly, this shit was so tempered even my fists would probably just bounce off.

Not to mention at each end of every isle, were security guards with pokeballs displayed boldly and proudly on their belts.

Ace Trainers according to Surge. Pokemarts as a whole, were pretty much owned by Silph Co. Who was in partnership with the Pokemon League Association.

So for big places like this, League employed Ace Trainers were deployed. I didn't actually know much about Ace Trainers or the process of becoming one. I only know that to even be approached for the position one had to have gathered eight badges in a region and competed in a pokemon league.

Which meant every single one of them were cream of the crop when it came to trainers. And one of the better paying options for them. A trainer could only challenge and defeat a gym once per season, so they couldn't exactly be farmed for a windfall of cash.

And beyond entering tournaments and such, there wasn't that many options for a pure trainer to make money outside of becoming employed trainers by the likes of gyms or the league or any other place.

Or well, challenging other trainers but that wasn't the most reliable out of battle clubs and such.

Which granted, even just a standard gym run wasn't bad for money if you had the skill for it. Depending on the gyms challenged, one could make a hundred thousand during the season alone with just eight gyms and that wasn't taking into account being a try hard like Gary and challenging more than the needed eight gyms.

Either way, Specifically my gaze one sitting at the top of one display case right in the middle of the TM aisle. A greyish silver disc, meaning it was a normal type attack.

Tera Blast.

"Oh, dat? Tera Blast?" Surge noted where I was looking and shrugged, "A pokemon ain't really gonna learn that outside a' the Paldea Region. I don't really understand it much myself, not paid a visit there yet to see what it's all about, but apparently dey' discovered some special thing about pokemon over there a while back. Terrastalizin' or somethin' it's called, basically apparently all pokemon are born with some hidden type potential or somethin' and by terrastalizin' they become that type over their original type for a while and get this funky crystal armour stuff for a bit. You can even get stuff like a fire type like an Arcanine becoming a water type, weird stuff."

The huge man cupped his chin and eyed the TM himself, "Dis' Tera Blast is some move pokemon that went through it learned and it changes type to whatever type yer' pokemon becomes through it," he explained, before shrugging again and standing back, "From what I've heard though most pokemon can learn it, only the likes of Magikarp and shit can't."

…What?

A new gimmick that I'd never heard about? Was that what came after Dynamixing and Gigantamaxing then? In the long line from Mega Evolution to Z-Moves to the Galar Dynamixing to now this?

So this time it was a type changing gimmick? With a special bred move that seemed to be like Return in that all pokemon could learn it beyond the usual suspects like Magikarp and probably Caterpie, Weedle and such that could never learn any TM's. Which changed type to match whatever type the pokemon because through whatever this Terrastilizing thing was?

That was kind of broken.

Like imagine using a Charizard and someone sent out a Golem or Rypherior or something for that four times rock weakness.

Only, haha no Terrastalizing go and suddenly Water-Type Charizard with Water-type Tera Blast and boom the tables were now reversed with the four times weakness.

That was amazing.

What wasn't amazing, was the price.

I winced as I looked at the price tag. Eight thousand pokedollars per one singular TM. And unlike the games and such, there was no such thing as unlimited use TM's.

Which made sense because of how TM's were made after all. They did after all, contain a small part of strength or energy, or rather my guess of aura, from the pokemon the attack was taken from.

I could afford a ton of them right now regardless.

But parting ways with so much money for TM's? Especially when I'm going going to buy Luxury Balls in bulk.

Which cost two thousand five hundred pokedollars per one…

Well, it's a lot to spend, even if I can afford it.

I just got this surplus of money today. I always told myself if I ever won the lottery back home I'd never be one of those idiots that just spent a ton of money willy nilly.