CH10 (33), Pokemon Training And 2nd Area Cleared

During the next 5 days, he did not find anything new during his search.

Besides combing through the area Mikail did not forget to train himself as well as Natu and to give the Pokemon their supplements.

Natu had gone through 4 crest feathers in total until now, 2 of which were absorbed after his first status check.

This meant Natu took on average 4 days to absorb a single feather, which was much less than it took him before and he seemed to be getting faster.

Unfortunately, each successive feather seemed to increase his potential by 0.3% less than the one before.

The third feather increased Natu's potential from 47.3% to 51.3% and the fourth one from 51.3% to 55%.

It was both better and worse for his female Caterpie simply because her high potential seemed to allow her to consume the supplement much faster but materials of the low quality seemed to be overall less effective on her.

Caterpie managed to finish absorbing her silver powder in 2 days meaning she had absorbed 4 portions since he checked her status bringing the total amount of consumed portions to 7.

The fourth one had increased her potential by 2%.

The fifth by 1.8%, the sixth by 1.6%, and the seventh by 1.4%.

The degree of the lessening in the effectiveness of the supplement was smaller than the one of the feathers showing that the silver powder he got from his parents Butterfrees was better despite both being low-quality materials.

This should be because they were stronger than the Pidgeotto the feather came from.

The reason Mikail believed that supplements of certain qualities lose their effectiveness when consumed by Pokemon with higher potential was that the increase in potential caused by the silver powder was different for both Caterpie.

While the female Caterpie only had an increase of 2% after her fourth portion, the male one had an increase of 7% after his first, meaning it was nearly thrice as effective on the male.

On the other hand, it took him a whole 5 days to consume a single portion.

Mikail attributed this to the difference in their potential.

It was easier to increase green potential than it was to increase blue potential and it was easier for someone with blue potential to absorb the supplement than someone with green potential.

He had to wait for the Caterpie to reach the (low) iron stage before he could train their bodies but he still went over their techniques with them.

Since he had no bond with the male Caterpie yet and couldn't check his full status, Mikail simply asked him to demonstrate the moves he knew which were Tackle and String Shot.

Mikail told both Caterpie to focus on their String Shot for now.

The female Caterpie had reduced the time it took to aim and fire the move to 2 seconds thanks to her previous training.

How often she hit her target was a topic for another time.

The male Caterpie needed 5 seconds to do the same.

His short-term goal for them was to reduce the time it took them to prepare the move to 1 second, before focusing on other aspects of the move like length, hardness, stickiness, elasticity, sharpness, and so on.

Training like this together with nutritious food and the supplements they consumed should hasten their progress to the (low) iron stage, at least it did so according to the status he saw of the female Caterpie.

She had progressed to Stageless (94%) during these 5 days.

As for Natu, he was training both his parameters as well as moves.

Since Mikail felt that training his moves would help increase his energy capacity and density, he focused on the other parameters while training them.

Natu would have to rotate between flying for as long as he could, flying as fast as he could, hopping/running for as long as he could, and hopping/running as fast as he could.

This was to train his vitality, endurance, and agility.

For his strength training, he had to lift weights.

After Natu got used to this Mikail planned to make him fly and hop/run around while carrying weights.

Training all physical parameters at once.

To make sure that Natu did not injure himself because it became too much, Mikail accessed the knowledge of Pokemon Groomers to look up massage techniques and used them to help Natu relax his muscles, reducing the stress of his body.

Mikail used the knowledge he had from the Potioneer occupation to make lotions that were useful for Natu according to the Groomer knowledge.

Fortunately, the starting knowledge he had on both professions was enough to help his Natu or he would have increased his access rank first, which would have taken some time.

He used some of the materials he had to make a lotion that he used during the massages he gave Natu.

Fearow's Beak and Float Stone for their air energy.

Azure Kelp for its water energy to help to spread and to soothe all the energy contained in the lotion.

Sitrus-, Leppa- and Lum Berries were added to rejuvenate the body and restore his energy.

Thanks to its ingredients the lotion helped increase Natu's potential.

The berries Natu ate as food made sure he received enough nutrition and that he had enough energy for his training.

While according to his status screen neither Natu's parameter nor his potential had improved yet, Mikail did not think that it would take much longer to do so, especially his potential.

Until now Mikail had given Natu 8 massages and they had helped increase his potential by around 15%.

While the effectiveness of the lotion was decreasing as well the rate was lower than directly absorbing the unprocessed material and it took less time as well.

Natu's potential had currently reached light green (70%) and he believed that he could upgrade it within 10 days if they kept their pace.

Mikail made Natu alternate his focus between 2 of his moves, Gust and Stored Power when training his techniques.

For Gust he had Natu try to reduce the time needed to perform the move and 2 different breadths that he aimed for, one with a narrow range that focused the move into a small area and another with a wider range to target the whole area in front of him.

The goal for Stored Power was to reduce the time needed to perform the move and in the future when he had stat-boosting moves increase the amount of energy stored and released by the move.

2 more days passed before he finally found something new.

It was getting harder to find things he did not already have while being limited by where he could go, but he already knew that there would be limitations like this when he decided to start at such a young age.

He did not regret his decision one bit and to be truthful he had more independence than he had expected to have.

Who knew what he would be allowed to do after he finished his second maturity when he was 8.

Anyway, the material he had found was something that should not exist anywhere near the area.

Mikail was mentally rambling because he could not believe he had found something like this.

'Name: Dragon Lily

Type: Dragon

Quality: Lowest

Faults: None

Uses: It's a lily that has absorbed a drop of dragon blood and mutated.

Generally grows in areas where dragon-type Pokemon live or used to live.

Absorbs draconic energy from its surroundings when available, otherwise absorbs energy and slowly converts it to draconic energy.

Contains a small amount of dragon-type energy.

Can be used as a supplement to help dragon-type Pokemon.'

Wow.

Just wow.

How the heck did something like this turn up around here.

The only Pokemon around here that somewhat qualifies as a dragon would be his father's Seadra and Mikail doubted he could cause a lily to mutate into this unless he evolves to Kingdra and even then it would be uncertain.

Had some pretty strong wounded dragon-type flown over the area causing some of its blood to fall on a field of lilies?

Seeing that there was only a single Dragon Lily among the field of lilies, all other lilies that the blood dropped on probably died and only this one managed to survive, mutating in the process.

To think he managed to gain his first dragon-type material like this felt unreal.

Even if it was just a low-quality material that stored small amounts of dragon-type energy, which he questioned the pureness and concentration of, something like this was supposed to be rare.

Was it his luck making itself known or was he benefiting from his parent's luck somehow?

Mikail had reached a point where he thought his father's luck could be responsible for anything.

He put the Dragon Lily into his space and observed how its quality was increased from lowest to low.

Afterward, he continued his search eager to discover another hidden gem that he would not have found if he didn't comb through everywhere.

Unfortunately, he did not find another useful material even after he had checked the whole northwestern area, which took him another 5 days.

He had luckily managed to find a Pidgey with green potential during the third day, and tried to pokenap it but it had the gall to resist.

From its status, the Pidgey was at the (mid) iron stage and seemed to approach the (high) iron stage because it managed to resist my pokenapping efforts.

It used its energy to shake off his stopping him from abducting it, then it had the nerve to fly away from the area escaping his grasp.

He may be a bit salty right now but he liked Pidgeot and that was a prime candidate that he let slip from his hands.

Anyway, except for the bird that flew away, he found no other Pokemon that he wanted to invite into his exclusive club.

While his exploration ended a bit lackluster his Pokemon displayed the opposite.

His female Caterpie reached the (low) iron stage on the fourth day which allowed him to finally see her parameters.

'Species: Caterpie

Gender: Female

Type: Bug

Potential: Blue (10.4%)

Parameters:

Stage: Iron Stage (low)

Vitality: H

Strength: H

Endurance: H

Agility: H

Energy Capacity: I

Energy Density: I

Resistance: Grass (Minor), Fighting (Minor), Ground (Minor)

Weaknesses: Fire (Minor), Air (Minor), Rock (Minor)

Condition: Healthy, Content

Masteries: Neutral Energy Manipulation (Initial), Bug E. Manipulation (Novice)

Techniques: Tackle (Novice), String Shot (Proficient), Bug Bite (Novice), Electroweb (Initial), Confusion (None)

I hid most of the upper part because except for the potential everything stayed the same.

The parameters are visible now and they are as low as I expected them to be, at least not all of them are 'I's.

I managed to find a weakness section under the resistance category and made that visible.

The resistances and weaknesses are the same as those in the game.

Minor is 2 times or half as effective and Major is 4 times or one-fourth as effective.

As for her moves, I made her focus on String Shot and it upgraded to proficient.

Caterpie managed to reduce the time it takes her to execute the move to 1.5 seconds, which is probably the reason for the upgrade.'

Mikail was happy with what he saw that day and now that he had combed through the northwestern area as well he decided to temporarily stop the combing of the other parts.

The Pokemon in the north and northwestern area had gotten accustomed to his presence, he believed that he could persuade/bribe some Pokemon to listen to him and perform some mock fights.

He wanted to use Natu and his female Caterpie during a few mock battles as well as some of the wild Pokemon.

This way the two would gain some form of fighting experience and he would feel what it is like to preside over a Pokemon battle, as well as gain experience with many different Pokemon.

The plan was to go over the do's and do not's during a fight for a few days before starting but he would have to see how long it took for him to feel ready.

Not only that, he was thinking about starting a second Magikarp experiment, now that he had a few more materials, and believed that doing those two things together with his own training as well as the time he had to reserve for his family left him with no time for any further exploration at the moment.

He would think about resuming his combing efforts in a few weeks at the earliest.

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