Chapter 592: Chaotic Swamp Zone
The fifth month since Kazuya arrived in the Ancient Era.
On the day he reached Lv. 45.
His little brother finally evolved into a Charizard.
The reason Charmeleon evolved so slowly.
Playfulness was certainly one point.
But with an older brother like Kazuya who was slightly strict, no matter how playful he was, it shouldn't have taken until the fifth month to evolve.
The crucial reason lay in Charmeleon's high level requirement for evolution.
Even higher than Kazuya's.
According to Kazuya's personal testing.
Charmeleon might have only evolved at Lv. 40.
Quite exaggerated.
A full 4 levels higher than the estimated level in the Pokédex!
Kazuya's evolution was only delayed by 1 level!
It was also very bizarre.
Kazuya knew very clearly that his little brother's Fire-type talent was exceptionally good, and the Fire-type energy within his body was extremely majestic.
Perhaps when his brother was at Lv. 36, the Fire-type energy in his body was already equivalent to Kazuya's energy at Lv. 38.
Of course.
It was undeniable.
Kazuya's focus in training wasn't on the Fire-type; it could even be said that his Fire-type energy was acquired purely through the body's natural growth, and he had never actively trained it.
Kazuya's time.
In the past was spent on leveling up, and later spent on cultivating other types of attribute energy; he leaned towards all-around development.
Currently, he had a full 12 types of attributes within his body.
Especially because his main focus was cultivating Aura Power, the Fighting-type energy in his body was actually the most abundant.
The moves he had mastered in his past lives.
And the moves Charizard could master in this life.
He had already 'recalled' all of them.
He had even recently made a special effort to try and develop/learn five new moves:
Flame Charge.
Will-O-Wisp.
Fire Pledge.
Fire Blast.
Sandstorm.
These five moves, Kazuya had seen or even personally experienced no less than a hundred times each in the past.
So learning them wasn't too difficult.
Among them, the first three moves were basically learned in less than two days.
The latter two took some effort.
But it only took a little over a week.
However, precisely because he spent all his time on these methods to strengthen his combat power, the Fire-type energy in Kazuya's body couldn't be considered 'massive'; it could only be said that it was sufficient in the vast majority of situations.
But even so.
Kazuya could confidently say that the Fire-type energy in his body definitely exceeded 99% of Charizards at the same level.
After all.
He was an Alpha.
Alphas don't just grow in size; their internal energy also increases proportionally.
Even so.
His little brother's Fire-type energy still exceeded that of Kazuya at the same level.
From this, one could see.
How heaven-defying his little brother was.
And how heaven-defying his evolution requirement was.
By the pasture.
"Rua!"
The 5.5-meter-tall little brother was frightening the voles in Zone Two of the pasture.
After roaring, he held his belly and laughed loudly.
Suddenly.
Bang!
A giant fist hammered down on Charizard's head, raising a bump on his noggin.
"Rua!"
Who dares to be insolent to the Third Young Master of the Dragon Family?!
I see you have chosen the path to death!
Charizard turned around angrily, then looked up, and up, and up again, finally making eye contact with those golden dragon pupils of his older brother.
0.0.
Charizard looked at his older brother with a blank expression.
"If you have nothing better to do, go practice Fire Blast. If you don't master it within a month, I'll beat you up."
Kazuya reached out and flicked the large bump on his brother's head.
Making the latter tremble all over.
A month.
This timeframe was already very lenient.
He himself had learned Fire Blast by feeling his way across the stones, and it only took him about a week.
His brother had him to teach him. If it still took more than a month, then only his brother would know how comfortably he spent this month.
Kazuya would definitely let his brother experience a pain that could rival that comfort.
"Rua!"
His brother protested.
Kazuya raised his fist and pretended to swing it.
"Roar roar!"
Charizard hugged his head and ran away.
His big butt swayed back and forth, and his tail swung left and right like a torch.
He even accidentally swung it onto the butt of a Bastiodon nearby, causing the latter, who was eating grass, to look up shyly at a completely dumbfounded Rampardos standing next to her.
The subsequent scene was too beautiful.
Kazuya couldn't bear to look.
He hurriedly turned his head and walked away, heading towards the nearby farm.
He was looking for Floette.
Nearing the farm.
"Saur~"
Ivysaur's voice came from afar.
Kazuya took a casual glance and found Floette sitting on Ivysaur's flower bud.
He remembered a few days ago.
When Floette saw a flower bud appear on Bulbasaur's back after she evolved, she was so happy she couldn't sleep that night.
The moment Kazuya appeared, Floette and Ivysaur also saw him.
This was also normal.
After all, Kazuya's current height of thirteen meters was too conspicuous.
Even though Ivysaur was also a large creature at three meters tall, she was just a fraction compared to Kazuya.
"Flo-ette?"
Floette was still only 0.6 meters tall, a tiny little thing.
Sitting on Kazuya's mouth would even feel small.
"The commotion over at the swamp is a bit loud. I plan to go over and check the situation; do you want to go together?"
"Flo-ette."
Floette nodded, turned around, and ran to tell Ivysaur to take good care of the plants.
There was nothing much to say about this.
Wherever Kazuya went, he basically had to bring his little sister Floette.
Even if he didn't bring his brother.
He had to bring his sister.
If his brother got angry, he would just sulk by himself.
He'd get over it in a few minutes.
If his sister got angry, that would be terrible.
She could go for weeks without giving a good face, holding a grudge.
However.
These weren't the crucial reasons.
The crucial point was.
Floette was very small.
Kazuya could even hold her in his mouth and run.
If he encountered a Pokémon he couldn't beat.
He could just put Floette in his mouth and use Extreme Speed to escape.
But his brother couldn't.
His brother was a size larger than an ordinary Charizard, but he didn't know Extreme Speed. If they encountered danger, he might not really be able to run away, and Kazuya couldn't possibly leave him behind, so the two of them would likely perish together in the end.
The two didn't need to pack either.
They got ready for a bit and set off.
The purpose of this trip was very simple.
Just to take a stroll over to the swamp and see what happened.
Mainly, life was too boring.
Going over to watch the excitement to relieve fatigue.
With the Dragon Clan's current strength, even if Kazuya wasn't around, they weren't afraid of being crushed by others.
After all, the entire Dragon Clan's population was now over 100+.
A full half of them were above Lv. 30.
The former patriarchs of the three clans were all at Lv. 48, 3 levels higher than Kazuya.
What was particularly worth mentioning was.
The Hakamo-o patriarch had already evolved into a true pseudo-legendary, Kommo-o!
This evolution speed was actually considered relatively late.
Because the Hakamo-o patriarch didn't evolve at Lv. 45, but waited until Lv. 47 to evolve.
But no matter what.
The evolved Kommo-o had leaped to become the number one combatant below Kazuya.
His combat power had improved by more than just a little bit. The Bastiodon patriarch and the Rampardos patriarch, who used to be able to fight him to a draw, were no longer his match.
If a Dragon Clan like this could be beaten to the ground.
Then even if Kazuya and Floette were there, it probably wouldn't affect the outcome much.
Especially since Floette had almost no interest in improving her combat power.
Following Kazuya for 5 months.
Her level had only increased by a dozen or so levels, barely reaching Lv. 40.
Back then, she had at least a 20-level gap with them, but now she had been caught up to by his little brother.
Was it because Floette's talent was poor?
Of course not.
Floette was the Eternal Flower, officially classified as a 'Mythical Pokémon', and even had her own exclusive move; how could her talent possibly be poor?
It was purely Floette's own issue.
"Setting off, hold on tight."
"Flo-ette."
Kazuya flapped his wings and soared into the sky, heading further north past the grassland.
In the blink of an eye, he crossed the border between the grassland and the swamp.
And entered a zone that looked very foreboding.
"This is my first time going deep into here."
Kazuya looked down at the scene below from the sky, unable to help frowning.
Various green mud pools or wetlands could be seen almost everywhere in the swamp, surrounded by various metasequoias and ferns.
Especially on the trunks of some trees.
Grew some purple or red fungi. If a Pokémon touched them, those fungi would spray out spores and poisonous mist of corresponding colors.
"Flo-ette..."
Seeing this, Floette also couldn't help but frown.
When she heard that the swamp had many black flowers back then, she was still curious and expectant about this place.
Now, she had a completely different attitude.
This place was simply not somewhere normal Pokémon could survive.
Probably only Poison-type Pokémon, and some Pokémon with special body structures, could survive in this kind of place.
However.
For those Poison-type Pokémon.
This terrifying terrain precisely became their best natural protective umbrella.
"Flo-ette!"
Floette suddenly pointed in a certain direction.
Kazuya turned his head to look.
And saw two massive Pokémon clans engaged in war.
One side was the Vileplume clan.
The other side was the Ariados clan.
"Carnivorous spiders going to war with herbivorous plants... it seems this swamp is truly chaotic enough."
Kazuya muttered, shaking his head involuntarily.
The living habit of Ariados is to stay in a fixed area and use their webs for hunting.
They don't have the habit of invading or plundering the territories of other Pokémon clans; they don't like unfamiliar environments.
And the Vileplume clan on the other side is the same.
Their clan is not very aggressive.
If no one provokes them.
They definitely wouldn't actively provoke other species; they also belong to clans that like to guard their own little acre of land.
However, right now, these two species, who logically speaking shouldn't interact even if they were neighbors, are engaged in an all-out war at this moment.
This is enough to explain that the order of the swamp has been completely broken.
All Pokémon species have been affected, and life has become utterly chaotic.
Soon.
The battlefield below was enveloped by a mixture of purple and coffee-colored mist.
It was presumably Poison Powder and Stun Spore mixed together.
With that range and concentration.
Even if Kazuya went in, he probably wouldn't last long.
"Flo-ette..."
Floette looked at the thick fog below, her expression becoming somewhat dejected.
Seeing so many Pokémon at war.
Especially since there were many un-grown babies among them.
Her mood truly couldn't be called good.
"This swamp... who knows how many more Pokémon will die."
Kazuya sighed.
Regarding the situation in the swamp, he was also powerless to help.
Although it seemed the area of this swamp wasn't large.
Maybe not even half the size of the grassland.
But there definitely had to be very powerful Pokémon clans here as well.
With the Dragon Clan's current middling level of strength, coming into this environment full of poisonous flowers and weeds to intervene in the swamp's war was purely seeking death.
"Flo-ette?"
Floette looked at Kazuya in confusion.
"I don't know, I hope not."
Kazuya curled his lips.
He also didn't know if this situation in the swamp continuing would affect the northern part of the grassland.
At least for now.
There wasn't any major impact yet.
As for the future, he couldn't say.
If the swamp could quickly birth a new Overlord to end this chaotic situation, then perhaps it wouldn't.
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