Pokémon: Master System.

Chapter 209 Daily Training in the Wilderness

After a brisk journey, Xia Yu and his two companions finally returned to the patrol team before nightfall. Although the process was difficult, they managed to complete their first patrol.

After dismounting from the fire-breathing dragon's back, Zhao Ruohan's face was flushed, whether from the cold or shyness, she didn't know. She looked up, trying to act nonchalant, and whispered her thanks to Xia Yu: "Thank you."

"Go and rest first, you've been flying for so long." Xia Yu noticed Zhao Ruohan's flushed face and assumed she still had a fever. "Remember to take your medicine."

"Mmm," Zhao Ruohan replied softly.

Xia Yu was also very tired. The continuous flights and taking care of Zhao Ruohan all night had left him severely sleep-deprived, making him look very haggard. He simply washed up and went straight to sleep, sleeping from seven or eight o'clock in the evening until ten o'clock the next morning.

After getting up, Xia Yu regained his energy and felt refreshed. He immediately took his Pokémon and went up the mountain to train by himself.

Besides the rare Pokémon, the biggest advantage of the Tian Du Highland Wild Area is the physical training provided by the high-altitude environment, which can enhance physical fitness and improve cold and frost resistance.

Because Xia Yu had too many Pokémon, including many rare ones, he specifically found a secluded and deserted area to release his Pokémon.

The Lizard King appeared first, its massive size standing out against the snow, like the overlord of this mountain forest.

The cold weather made the Lizard King a little uncomfortable, but it didn't have a big impact, since its size meant it was quite cold-resistant.

Secondly, there's the Nobbat, which is a Flying/Dragon type. It's four times weaker to Ice, so special attention should be paid to training it to resist Ice.

However, as soon as Nombat came out of the Poké Ball, it looked very unwilling. It was quite uncomfortable with the cold and harsh weather and kept burrowing into Xia Yu's arms, rubbing against Xia Yu's arm affectionately.

“Buzzing Bat.” Xia Yu looked at the buzzing bat, his tone filled with helplessness: “You have to learn to adapt to this cold environment and not be afraid of difficulties.”

The buzzing bat tilted its head and looked at Xia Yu with a puzzled expression, then began to communicate with Xia Yu using telepathy.

"I...don't want...training. It's cold."

Looking at the adorable and silly appearance of the Noibat, Xia Yu couldn't help but sigh. He was worried that the Noibat would look like this after evolving into a Noivern.

"No, go train now!" Xia Yu said sternly to Nombat, "Look, Charizard and Sceptile have already evolved into their final forms, and you haven't evolved yet. Nombat, you need to feel a sense of urgency. Learning is like rowing against the current; if you don't advance, you fall behind."

Xia Yu began to brainwash Nova with a serious tone: "The reason you haven't evolved for so long is because you haven't trained hard enough. If you continue like this, you'll only fall further and further behind Sceptile and Charizard."

"Buzzing Bat, I'm doing this for your own good."

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After Xia Yu's constant coaxing and cajoling, the buzzing bat finally felt a sense of crisis and began to train hard.

After arranging the Nombat, Xia Yu turned his attention to Charizard and found that Charizard had already started training diligently.

Although Xia Yu was pleased with its efforts, he couldn't help but feel uneasy. The fact that Charizard was now acting covertly instead of openly causing trouble made Xia Yu even more worried.

He discovered that Charizard was now full of wicked schemes and had a lot of tricks up his sleeve.

"Charizard." Xia Yu decided to have a serious talk with Charizard: "We humans... we dragons have to be upright and honest. We can't rely on crooked methods. You have to be a gentleman like me, open and aboveboard, great and righteous, understand?"

Charizard lowered its head and looked at Xia Yu with a puzzled expression, its eyes filled with surprise and disdain, as if to say, "What the hell are you spouting? How dare you say such a thing?"

Longlong, I'm still not up to par. I need to learn from my master's shameless spirit.

"Hey, what kind of look is that? Hey, don't look at me like that. I'm talking to you, Charizard." Charizard's disdainful gaze made Xia Yu feel extremely humiliated.

What does this mean? What does this mean?

"Roar!" the fire-breathing dragon retorted.

"Master said that you and she are equally bad." The newly trained Buzzbat acted as the translator, slowly sending the message and translating it using its telepathic abilities.

"How dare you talk back?! You've changed, Charizard."

"Hoohoo!"

“Master, she said…”

"Nombat, go train first!" Xia Yu shouted at Nombat, urging it to hurry up and train. Then he turned to Charizard and said, "Charizard, you need to pay attention to your image in the future. You represent my image when you're out in public, so you must be a sunny and cheerful Charizard and set a positive example for all trainers!"

"Roar!" Charizard seemed a little unconvinced and turned its head away, not wanting to pay attention to Xia Yu.

Xia Yu lowered his voice, quietly walked to Charizard's side, patted Charizard's shoulder, and whispered, "When there are people around, you have to put on a great and righteous image. When no one's around, you can do whatever you want. Charizard, you have to package your image, establish a persona... establish a dragon persona, understand?"

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After teaching Charizard, Xia Yu turned his attention to Axew and Baby Dragon.

These two little guys joined the team around the same time. Yaya is about to break through to the Lord level, and Baby Dragon is also about to evolve.

As their strength increased, Xia Yu also began to increase the amount of training they received.

Axew's final evolution, Haxorus, and Bane's final evolution, Salamence, are both typical physical attackers and weak to ice, making them excellent for training in the Wild Area.

It's excellent for both improving physical fitness and training cold resistance. Xia Yu had the two Pokémon do physical weight training while also having them battle against each other.

As for the last one, Doronmecia, Xia Yu began to train it in combat.

Since Dragapult has already broken through to the Overlord level for some time, it is estimated that it will evolve soon. Xia Yu is already preparing for Dragapult Messia's evolution.

Compared to other Pokémon, Dragapult's evolution is very difficult because Xia Yu plans to have Dragapult evolve through split evolution, which requires more energy accumulation and demands higher levels of strength and talent.

Xia Yu's current idea is that he still has an A-grade dragon scale in his hand. He plans to use this A-grade dragon scale to provide dragon-type energy, and combine it with the ghost-type core energy of the Punishment Pot to help Dragapult Messia split and evolve.

"Doromecia, from now on we will begin combat training. You need to increase the amount of training, improve your speed and strength, and at the same time, start training your energy control."

"We will train speed and strength in the morning and energy in the afternoon. The energy training will start with Dragon-type and Ghost-type energy."

"Sceptile, you can guide Dragapult's training." Of all Xia Yu's Pokémon, Sceptile is undoubtedly the most suitable to guide Dragapult's training.

Because both the Lizard King and Draco Messiah follow a dual-wielding, all-around build.

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Chapter 210 The Speedster Gengar and Cinderace

After arranging the Pokémon for the first team, Xia Yu turned his attention to the second team.

Among the Pokémon in the second team, Indeedee is undoubtedly the Pokémon with the highest potential. With its Psychic ability and extremely high aptitude, it will definitely become the core of the team in the future.

Xia Yu's favorite Pokémon is about 1.5 meters tall, much taller than other favorite Pokémon. It looks like a little girl, obedient and clingy. As soon as it came out of the Poké Ball, it jumped into Xia Yu's arms.

"Alright, alright, Ai Guan Shi."

Xia Yu rubbed Ai Guanshi's head, looking at Ai Guanshi as if she were her own daughter.

“Elvis, you also need to train more. Train your superpowers more, and you will be stronger so that you can better protect your companions and me.”

“Ai-yi~” Ai-guan-shi nodded in response, making a clear, crisp sound.

Xia Yu's Assassin has extremely high aptitude and exceptional talent. It possessed immense spiritual power from birth, allowing it to easily move objects using its psychic abilities. As its strength increased, its psychic abilities also grew more powerful. In terms of psychic abilities alone, despite being only a rare-level Pokémon, it possessed psychic powers comparable to elite-level Psychic-type Pokémon.

With the addition of Psychic Terrain, Indeedee's psychic power is comparable to that of a Lord-level Psychic-type Pokémon. More importantly, Xia Yu's Indeedee has Master-level potential, and its strength will only continue to grow stronger in the future.

The Pokémon Absolut is gentle and loves to take care of people and do housework, just like a butler.

The price of Indeedee is extremely high on the black market because owning an Indeedee is not only like having a Pokémon with outstanding battle power, but also like having a butler. In addition, its cute appearance makes it the dream pet of single otaku.

The only problem is that the female servants are affectionate, averse to fighting and strife, and gentle in nature.

"Essentialist, you need to take good care of Gastly and Scorbunny," Xia Yu said to Essentialist. Because Xia Yu's energy was limited, Essentialist also took on the role of taking care of Gastly and Scorbunny.

"Ai-yi~" Taking care of Pokémon is practically Ai's favorite job.

"Gastly." Xia Yu waved to Gastly.

Hearing Xia Yu's call, Gastly, which had been hiding in the shadows, floated out, revealing its pale purple body.

Gastly, being a gas-type Pokémon, is extremely lightweight, dislikes sunlight, and has a faint, sweet scent.

Gastly snuggled close to Indeedee. It's quite rare for a Ghost-type Pokémon and a Psychic-type Pokémon to be so affectionate. The reason for this is that Indeedee absorbed Crescent Wing.

Gastly stayed in the Dreamland during its egg stage, so it became extremely familiar with the Dream God's energy and developed a sense of dependence on it. This also resulted in the hatched Gastly being extremely dependent on Abbot.

"Gastly, you need to start learning to manipulate energy and control the energy around you. Begin with Ghost and Poison type energy."

Gastly is undoubtedly a standard high-speed special attacker Pokémon. It is fragile, extremely weak in physical attack, but has high speed and extremely high special attack.

Therefore, Gengar's tactical training should primarily focus on Special Attack, with Support as a secondary focus.

Gengar's strengths lie in three main aspects. First, the eeriness of Ghost-type Pokémons. Gengar can hide in shadows and store items in its belly, making it an essential Pokémon for home travel, murder, and robbery.

Secondly, Gengar has an extremely rich move pool. In terms of special attack alone, Gengar can learn two STAB moves: Shadow Ball and Sludge Wave. In addition, for coverage, it can learn a series of powerful special attack moves such as Dark Pulse, Energy Ball, Giga Drain, Psychic, Thunderbolt, Hyper Beam, Thunder, Focus Blast, and Dazzling Gleam.

On the support side, you can learn skills such as Trick Room, Trick Room, Purge Smoke, Protect, and Substitute.

They can also learn hypnosis, dream eating, strange light, poison, provocation, phosphorescence, and Xia Yu's two favorite skills, sharing pain and fate.

Gengar's extensive skill set allows it to be an all-rounder in a team.

The third and most important point is that Gengar's Shadow Tag ability after Mega Evolution, combined with Perish Song, makes for a very powerful move combination.

In conclusion, a Gengar's strength depends entirely on the trainer's wealth. If a Gengar can learn all these moves and possess both an Evolution Key Stone and a Mega Evolution Stone, it will be virtually invincible among its peers, and a one-for-one trade is guaranteed.

Of course, Gengar also has another tactic in actual battles, which is to look for opportunities to capture and kill it at a fixed point.

Gengar's holding item is the Specs. When the opponent's Pokémon uses a Normal-type move, switch in Gengar and take advantage of the Ghost type's immunity to Normal-type moves to enter the battle unscathed.

Next, use the Trick move to exchange items between the two Pokémon. The effect of the Trick is to enhance the Pokémon's Special Attack, but the side effect is that you can only use one move at a time.

This means the opponent can only use the Normal-type moves they just used, but Normal-type moves are ineffective against Gengar, so the enemy cannot inflict any real damage on Gengar.

This forces the opponent to switch characters, giving Gengar the opportunity to use trickery or release a substitute.

As a high-speed special attacker, the upgraded Gengar is fully capable of sweeping the enemy team.