"Charizard, how do you feel?"
Seeing Charizard, which was gradually gathering back the golden flames on its body, Ethan smiled.
"Charrzz!"
Charizard nodded with excitement. Then it turned its gaze toward Lucario, which was standing to one side, and its eyes filled with fighting spirit.
The two Pokémon had entered the Elite level relying on their own strength, and moreover, both possessed Mega Evolution. Naturally, the desire to compare themselves arose between them.
"Luucaarr!"
Facing Charizard's challenge, Lucario gladly accepted.
"An Elite-level battle. Let's go watch."
Seeing the two Pokémon quickly leave the institute, Ethan smiled at Naira, who was beside him.
"Oh, oh, alright."
Naira came back to herself and nodded.
When the two arrived at the battlefield behind the institute, both Pokémon had already adopted attacking stances.
In the first instant, Charizard activated Solar Fire. Golden flames began to burn over its body, and a terrifying energy fluctuation spread out.
Facing Charizard, which had activated Solar Fire, Lucario also mobilized the power of Aura. A faint blue halo enveloped its entire body.
One golden and one blue. The two Pokémon quickly collided with each other.
"How powerful that Solar Fire is."
Seeing Charizard continuously spit golden flames from its mouth, both of them were a little surprised.
Although during the battle, Lucario still had the advantage thanks to the power of Aura.
The two who were watching knew that this was entirely because Charizard had just mastered Solar Fire.
If Charizard completely mastered Solar Fire and also acquired the corresponding form of the Solar Dragon, in terms of power, it would not be inferior to the power of Aura.
Boom!
Accompanied by a rumble.
Charizard's figure fell from the air.
In the end, this battle ended with Lucario's victory.
"Charrzz!"
Charizard got up from the ground. Seeing how the golden flames on its body gradually went out, it felt somewhat frustrated.
In front of it, Lucario shook its hand to extinguish the golden flames remaining on it, and looked at Charizard with a strange expression.
Evidently, the power of those golden solar flames had also surprised Lucario.
"It is undoubtedly Elite-level strength. Congratulations, Charizard."
Ethan arrived beside Charizard and congratulated it, making Charizard's somewhat depressed mood improve.
After Charizard entered the Elite level, he already had three combat forces of that level, getting a little closer to his goal of having six Elite-level Pokémon.
...
Three days later, Ethan left Solaria Town.
This time, he only brought four Pokémon with him: Melmetal, Lucario, Flygon, and Slowking.
And the objective of his trip was precisely the Slowpoke farm.
After successfully digesting that mutated Fire Stone and helping Charizard ascend to the Elite level, he planned to start helping Slowking increase its strength.
"Is another typhoon approaching?"
"Shellder, do you remember the scene of our first meeting?"
Riding on Flygon, Ethan had Slowking floating beside him.
At that moment, the Shellder on Slowking's head was right in front of him.
Hearing Ethan's words, Shellder narrowed its eyes happily.
Back then, as a Shellder with a broken shell, its life had not been easy.
Fortunately, it met Ethan and Slowpoke, and managed to recover its shell, no longer suffering the pain of having it broken.
Now, after becoming Slowking's shell, its daily life was very peaceful.
As Slowking's strength increased, it felt that the toxins it absorbed were becoming more and more delicious.
Originally, it thought it would continue living like this, comfortably. But not long ago, a new breeding plan presented by Ethan once again awakened its determination to become stronger.
Mega Slowbro.
Ethan told it about Mega Slowbro's path of strengthening.
It turned out that it and Slowpoke could also carry out a Mega Evolution, as long as it became stronger.
Although that happened in the form of Slowbro, it believed that, with the help of its Trainer, it and Slowking could also achieve it.
"Slowking's Mega Evolution."
Ethan stroked Shellder's head and also thought about that problem.
Although Slowbro and Slowking were evolved forms of Shellder and Slowpoke.
Using Slowbro's Mega Stone to make Slowking megaevolve was completely unrealistic.
Therefore, what he could do was investigate Slowbro's Mega Evolution process and then apply that force onto Slowking.
After reflecting during this time, he really found a viable method.
After megaevolving, Slowbro delivered all the energy to Shellder, making Shellder transform into a resistant armor that wrapped around Slowpoke.
Therefore, Slowbro's Mega Evolution was, in reality, Shellder's evolutionary process.
Based on this point, Ethan planned to start from the energy that Mega Evolution produced to make Shellder evolve, in order to increase Shellder's power.
In that aspect, he had two plans.
The first plan was to make the Shellder on Slowking's head undergo a change similar to the Shellder on Slowbro's tail.
However, Ethan felt that this would be very difficult. After all, the Shellder on Slowbro's tail and the Shellder on Slowking's head could no longer be considered the same kind of Pokémon.
The second plan consisted of making Shellder absorb only the energy generated after Mega Evolution, and transform it in some way into Shellder's mental power.
Now, the most special point of Ethan's Slowking was the enormous mental power that Shellder possessed. That made Slowking like two Pokémon at the same time: Slowpoke and Shellder could each display great strength separately.
Therefore, if he wanted to increase Shellder's strength, the best thing was to start from mental power. At the same time, that was also the best way to improve Slowking's strength as a Psychic-type Pokémon.
Of course, all of this was nothing more than an idea from Ethan. To achieve it, he still needed to carry out a series of research.
And the most important point was to first obtain a Slowbro, make it complete Mega Evolution, and thus obtain that Mega Evolution energy.
This time, he had come to the Slowpoke breeding farm precisely to capture a Slowbro with outstanding talent and make it complete Mega Evolution.
Fiu, fiu, fiu~
Flygon's figure flew through the air.
It was not known whether it was because the typhoon was about to arrive, but the air currents in the sky were extremely chaotic.
If it were not because Flygon's Levitate ability was excellently developed, and because its mastery over air currents was also very strong, it truly would be very difficult to fly in that weather.
Beep, beep, beep.
At that moment, Ethan suddenly heard a ringtone.
"Hello, who is this?"
"Huh? The Pokémon Hunters Guild?"
"You say there are Pokémon attacking a city?"
"Alright, understood. I'll go immediately."
After answering the call, Ethan directly ordered Flygon to fly toward the coast.
Just now, he had received a call from the Pokémon Hunters Guild. On the coast of the East Sea, a large number of Water-type Pokémon had come ashore.
(End of chapter)