chapter 40 : Criticising once ambition

Jamie confidently appeared in front of Alex ready to make himself super famous among the Corps. He was confident in his skills and felt he was Arceus gift to Kanto and only those super genius trainer brats who are often mentioned in the magazine and newspapers were stronger than him.

He had a habit of looking through the paper and keep records of the powerful trainers mentioned on it. He felt because of lack of opportunities he was weaker than them. Over time he will get the support of the military and then he would grow stronger at a faster rate and may even surpass them and become the strongest trainer.

He has very lofty ideals and he was smart enough to use whatever chance he could to show off his poweress in the military and gain support from his superiors. This was another one if his attempt for more power and position.

He wanted to use Alex as a stepping stone thinking that Alex was a greenhouse trainer and couldn't face him with the weak looking Ivysaur, Nidorino and Slowking ( according to Jamie, they are all weak and even the difference in physical features with their most found species Pokemon was a sign of weakness or illness to him. )

And his view wasn't wring per see. Most of the discoloured Pokemon or shiny ones whichever one you want to pick are not well liked by other pokemons of similar species.

They are often starved since birth hence their growth is stunted and lot of resources is spent on them bring out the innate potential in them and prevent siqolia in the future.

The lack of food makes them weaker physically which us too disastrous in a fight. They are weaker than their counterpart and a ridiculous rumour spread far and wide that shiny pokemons are weaker than the original non shiny ones.

Of course only common people believe it, while the ones with power knows it is wrong. These shiny ones are way to stronger than their similar counterparts and can demolish them easily.

But Jamie who originated from civilian background don't know this and followed the crowd without finding some acute deductions to check whether it is true or false.

Alex saw the look of disdain on his face when he glanced at him and his pokemons on the stage. He just didn't bother with it, considering that he was really a pretty useless guy with his work efficiency wasn t upto par.

When Jamie walked near Alex and saluted him, Alex returned back the salute.

Alex just kept looking at Jamie. He knew that he was the source of unwarranted and deadly boost of overconfidence in his corp so something must be done to quench the flames.

Nothing too excessive but he needs to put this idiot in place or else his majesty will be reduced and they would start to ignore his orders and cause unnecessary changes affecting the whole layout.

To destroy something nothing humongous is needed even a small spark is enough to reduce everything to dust.

" So you are the youngest prodigy of the 65th infantry corp, Jamie." He said without any emotion.

But Jamie wasn't affected and he stood there confident, he drawled at Alex," Yes I am the prodigy , Jamie. I got this position through my effort and hard work, and not through some backdoor dealings. "

Jamie words once again ignited the buzzing of the crowds. Jamie was making sure not to target Alex directly and become a target for military tribunal so he just make sure that something could be said without entering the treacherous boundaries.

Jamie insulted Alex in front of everyone but he wasn't angry. He isn't so emotional incompetent that the insult of one person may burn him in rage. Last time, it was multiple people accussing and insulting his skills.

He continued without being affected by his words,. " The report stated that you are confident and prideful but I didn't think you would appear in front of your top boss and say something like this to his face.

You should be happy that I am not a moody person who can't take the words of others or else you will be taught manners. Don't think that you are a genius of military that you are safe.

You are one of the thousand geniuses in Kanto. Nothing to be prideful about. "

This made Jamie angry. A young boy probably fifteen years old was insulting him and even regarded his talent as trash. He was angry and almost lunged at Alex .

Alex wasn't done and continued to demolish the pride if Jamie," Second Lieutenant Gold, how many active armed force personnels do Kanto army have?"

Gold was puzzled as to why Alex was asking this question but he still answered," We have about 10 million active personnel in the Kanto army. This is the main force constituting all the registered troops.

Then there are about a few thousand task force, field forces and other special units. There are also some researchers, healers and other professionals who help us do things.

So in total the total people under the armed forces are about 15 million people at all levels. "

" And how many troops does the 65th infantry corp?"

" If we take into account all the personnels at all levels then we have about 35,000 people who will follow your orders."

" So in these 35000 you are one of the geniuses. Even if we regard you as the top genius of the 65th infantry corp then you are only one in every 35000.

And there are 15 million troops in total in army. So what was your position in this , Jamie?

Let me see , there about 4500 geniuses like you. And the number of general cannot exceed 10. One in every direction and two in headquarter.

The lieutenant generals will not exceed 50 and then the Brigadier general are around in total 500.

So the total number of general candidate is only about 600 at most. And the total number of genius are about 4500 in your generation.

People of multiple generations compete for the post of general of headquarters. I am sure that these two second lieutenants and even captain Bolt himself are trying for it.

So let's add a couple more generations and we have about about 15000 people contesting for about 600 position.

So Jamie what odd do you have to compete for the general post?" Alex condensed at Jamie