Chapter 017

When the reinforcements finally arrived, Arthur had already fled. Broken branches, signs of battle and the dead body of Kakunas and Weedle was all that could be seen.

The sight was enough to infuriate the whole Beedrill ethnic group.

"Bzzz! Bzzzz! Bzzzz!"

The Beedrills cried with anger and pain at losing their companions. A fury rose in their heart and all they wanted to do was to kill Arthur and his Pokemon.

At that moment, a significantly larger Beedrill came to the front. It's conical stingers were larger than the others, resembling lances and the winds were larger, making her look more imposing than any other Beedrill.

Her red eyes were shining with a murderous glint as she looked at her clansman.

She was the leader of the whole community — The one with the title of a 'Queen'.

"Bzzzzz!!"

Facing her clansman, she roared with anger and a volcanic fury. Everyone of the Beedrills went silent on hearing her roar and they quietly started to listen to her words.

"Bzzzz!! Bzzzz!"

As the words of the queen continued, the eyes of all the Beedrills became sharper. It was like they were waiting for her orders all their lives. This was due to the aura of the queen of the entire community.

Beedrills was a united group from the start and being the boss of this group means that the queen was the strongest and the deadliest Beedrill around.

Her aptitude and level wasn't something that Arthur could go against at his current level.

"Bzzzz!"

As soon as the words of the queen ended, all the Beedrills left to find the traces of Arthur with a neat lineup. It was like they were soldiers and the queen was their sergeant.

Their goal was only one — To find Arthur and take revenge!

At the same time, Arthur was already on the borders of the Beedrill territory. He was not able to know that his actions have angered the queen to this level.

But he already had a guess that he was being chased by Beedrills.

That's why, he purposely hid his trails and ran to the Gloom territory. If he went there, then he would be able to take some rest and Beedrill can't infiltrate their territory without thinking anyway.

After all, they still needed to be careful of the Glooms.

Although they weren't much stronger, they still have attacks like stun spore and poison powder that are really fatal. At the same time, the whole territory was protected by some strong Vileplumes.

Arthur was easily able to escape to their territory because of that. He just needed to be careful of not instigating a Gloom and he would be fine.

After walking for a while, he saw that no Beedrill was following him and became relaxed. He took a sigh of relief and called out both of his Pokemon that had taken part in the annihilation in the Beedrill territory.

The first thing he did after calling them out was to check for any major injuries.

In the wild forest area, you always need to look out for major injuries and keep maintaining your combat power for unexpected situations. This was a part of Arthur's careful maintenance of his Pokemon.

Thankfully, there were no major injuries to both Charmander or Mankey. Although they were really exhausted, they didn't have much injuries aside from some scratches.

Arthur smiled seeing that and took out some berries and specially made Pokemon food for them. Berries would help them to recover their strength and his specially prepared food would help in the growth of his Pokemon.

Both Charmander and Mankey understood this well and they both have seen the effects of Arthur's food themselves.

Normally, it would take a lot longer for a Pokemon to recover after battle, but they were able to restore their strength more efficiently thanks to the food.

It was more surprising to Mankey as he had lived in the wild for a long time. He was clearly able to notice the peculiarity of Arthur's food as his strength was increasing everyday and he can also feel the control of his moves getting better.

"We will come back to attack again tomorrow. Till then, you two should rest and practice your moves!" Author touched the heads of both of his Pokemon and said gently.

"Charrr!"

"Mankk!"

His Pokemon nodded and showed their fist, indicating that there was no problem at all. After that, all of them began to move again through the forest.

It took them a while to get out of the Groom territory, especially because Arthur was being careful not to bump into any Gloom.

After that, it was an easy road and by evening, they had again reached their hiding spot. Although he needed to take a detour, Arthur was quite happy about the results of the training.

Kakunas and Weedles were weak Pokemon, but killing many of them had given them a lot of experience and as Mankey and Charmander were still low leveled, their levels were able to increase by a lot.

'Charmander has already reached level 13 and Mankey is at 14. It would be harder to level up with just Kakunas and Weedles, but they can still reach at least level 17 before the training ends!'

Author thought as he made plans in his mind.

The only thing that he was thinking of wasn't just levels. Although they were important, skills, moveset, experience and aptitude of a Pokemon was as much important.

Experience will come with time and more battles, so he can't do much about it, but skills, moveset and aptitude was still in his hands.

Although it was really hard, aptitude can be improved slowly by proper training or evolution and Arthur was slowly working towards it.

The result was evident with Murkrow.

When he had first seen Murkrow, his aptitude was already fading away due to injuries but after two days of rest and proper medication, it had become a little brighter.

Arthur was sure that if he kept it up, then Murkrow would soon recover his original aptitude and he would finally be able to use it in battles.

That's why, aptitude wasn't a problem for him. He already had a cheat for it and it makes things really easy.

'The problem is moveset!'

Arthur thought about the real problem that was plaguing his mind currently.

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