16 Aura & Ken?

The rays of sunshine sneaked their way onto Rex's face as he awoke. The warm weather and the fresh air rejuvenated Rex and allowed him to swiftly get up and start his day. Rex had a busy day today, he planned to battle with a bug type pokemon master and gain information from him. But before that, he needed to make breakfast for his pokemon and begin morning training. Machop used a 1-meter wide tree as a punching bag as he trained his technique and footwork as per the system. Gyarados began to use his moves on a massive sturdy rock near the shore which the system scanned and showed was more than strong enough to withstand his attacks, he began with hydro pump, trying to increase the power, then with rain dance trying to increase the downpour whilst also trying to increase the purity of the water which the system confirmed was possible with a lot of practice and refinement. It would also depend on Gyarados's energy efficiency and potency. Rex began a new set of training apart from his physical one which involved something called Aura. Apparently, while Rex was in the pokemon centre, the system did a quick hack of their database in order to see if there was any beneficial information. Rex was surprised by the level of autonomy the system showed, but he didn't really mind as it saved him the time of having to think of everything, although he would try to make a more conscious effort to do so.

According to the system, there is a rare profession called Aura Guardian which harnesses the power of Aura which has been described as the essence of all living things. The system mentioned that by training in Aura he would gain telepathy, the ability to read minds and actions of another being, the ability to "sense" other Auras and view surroundings even with a blindfold, also allows users to view through some objects and the projection of one's Aura; such as to create barriers or attacks. This stunned Rex thoroughly as he didn't expect the system to find something as important and beneficial as this. As far as his memory of Aura guardians took him he only thought about Ash who in the anime showed the ability to use Aura although he didn't pursue it and Riley who along with his Lucario were training to be able to use Aura. Rex thought that maybe a Lucario was needed but he was proven wrong when the system informed him that it had already made the calculations necessary in order to bypass that rule.

The system mentioned that there were steps to it and that in order to use aura one must first be able to sense it in their body's. That was step one, step two involved moving the aura within his own body to wherever he wanted. step three was to sense aura in the surroundings, and the final step was to collect and absorb aura from the surroundings. The final two steps were the hardest but the system once again had a way to assist Rex in sensing aura through the use of specially made foods and lotions. (think of it like Naruto at Mount Myōboku trying to sense natural energy via the toad oil) These lotions and foods would also help in boosting the chances of absorbing aura from the surroundings essentially completing the steps much faster. The system said that doing this with Machop would also be beneficial as it would have the chance not only to use aura but to also use aura sphere a move only Lucario should be able to do. Rex was astounded by this as he was very surprised by the system's capabilities. The system did tell him that it was still in development and that he and Machop should start to implement the new additional training on top of the old one.

Rex was beginning to feel bad for the poor Machop who by now had to do hours upon hours of training. shaking his head of such thoughts he looked up at the sky to realise that it was already midday. after having lunch and feeding his pokemon Rex and machop began to do their new aura training. Gyarados looked on for a while before getting bored and began to swim around the lake terrorizing the other pokemon.

Soon night-time arrived and Rex woke up from his meditation feeling exhausted mentally. he didn't get anywhere today but he didn't expect anything more since there were limits to the systems upgrades. The only thing it did say was that Rex's talent should be one of the tops in this world when it came to the potential to learn aura since his body was made by god. Same with Machop, the only reason the system said that it could learn aura was because of its disgustingly high talent courtesy of god as well. Rex didn't think anymore and began to make dinner before going off to bed. Tomorrow he had another busy day.

The next morning Rex repeated the cycle of training and cooking before setting off to find the trainer he was looking for. It didn't take long before a man wearing a samurai costume came rushing towards Rex. Rex didn't seem very surprised as with was the man he was looking for.

Samurai man "you wait there, I'm Ken the bug type master, I have been scouring this forest looking for worthy challengers, so I challenge you to a pokemon battle." Rex was flabbergasted at the idiot in front of him. after all, Veridian forest is just full of weak pokemon new trainers catch. The only good ones are maybe scyther and bellsprout, sure some might slap him for thinking bellsprout was good but weepinbell is great and victreebell was very strong. That's right the pokemon Rex was here for were these two, scyther was incredibly strong when it evolved into scizor, and mega scizor was just busted. As for victreebell, Rex would try to find a mega stone and if not see if the research by the system on genes was able to unleash some hidden power within it. Anyway back to the situation, Rex found it hard to keep a straight face but he needed the information rather than randomly walking around the forest, and since Ken knew most if not all of Verdian forest it was smart of him to ask.

Rex tried to keep a straight face and responded as calmly as possible

Rex "sure I don't see why not Ken let's do it," he said before pulling out machop's Pokeball.