I, Xiao Mao, want to become a Pokémon Master!

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Bang! Bang! Bang...!

"Tap tap!!"

Even the fake king couldn't withstand the continuous attacks. With a resentful roar, his massive body crashed to the ground.

"Slaking is unable to fight, Forest Lizard wins!"

"The three Pokémon with the potential to become Gym Leaders have all been defeated. The winner of this Gym Challenge is the challenger, Gary."

Xiao Mao let out a breath.

What a thrilling battle! Indeed, it's the evenly matched battles that make a fight interesting.

"Forest Lizard, well done... What's wrong with you?" Xiao Mao had just finished praising it when he noticed that something was wrong with the Forest Lizard.

The next moment, the forest lizard's body glowed with a white light, which gradually covered the entire forest lizard, becoming dazzling.

"evolution...!"

The forest lizard's body begins to grow, quickly reaching the standard height of an adult male, 1.7 meters. It grows a long tail with barbed leaves, and its legs become more robust, giving it excellent jumping ability.

As the light faded, the forest lizard was replaced by the lizard king.

"It actually evolved..." Qianli was also surprised, never expecting that his Pokémon would become the nourishment for the evolution of the Forest Lizard.

Shigeru also walked over to the Lizard King and looked at its current stats.

【Elf: Lizard King♂】

[Attribute: grass]

【Level: 36】

[Potential: King]

【Characteristic: Overgrow (When HP is down to 1/3, Grass-type moves are increased by 1.5 times)】

[Skills: Slap, Gaze, Leaf, Lightning Flash, See Through, Combo Slash, Leaf Blade, Malicious Pursuit, Slam, Shadow Clone, Energy Ball.]

[Skills taught: Solar Beam, Dig, Iron Tail, Rest, Explosive Punch, Hyper Beam, Body Slam, Rock Slide, Power-Up Punch, Thunder Punch.]

【Intimacy Level: 255 (Maximum 255)】

After evolving, the Lizard King awakened the Energy Ball skill.

Energy Ball is a Grass-type Special Attack move with a power of 80. Considering that Sceptile itself has a high Special Attack, it's not bad.

"Xiao Mao, congratulations! Not only did you defeat me, but your Forest Lizard also evolved into the Lizard King." At this moment, Qianli also came over to congratulate him.

"Not at all, Mr. Qianli is very strong. If I hadn't found a weakness, I would have had a hard time winning," Xiaomao replied modestly.

The Lizard King won this match with great difficulty. If it weren't for Senri having Slacker use Sloth to recover his stamina, the Lizard King wouldn't have had a chance to win.

"This is the Libra Badge, proof of defeating the Petalburg Gym. Here you go." Senri took out his own gym badge and handed it to Gary.

"Thank you."

Xiao Shigeru accepted the badge.

[Ding! Mission complete. Rewards have been sent to your inventory.]

"Mr. Senri, may I ask why your 'Slacker King' and 'Lazy Otter' can ignore the negative effects of laziness?" Shigeru asked.

"This... is a personal secret, and I can't tell you," Qianli declined.

Xiao Mao didn't expect Qianli to be unwilling to tell him, but then he thought that it was someone else's secret and there was no reason for her to reveal it to him.

Xiao Mao said, "I understand. Then I'll take my leave."

"Walk slowly without sending."

Leave the Petalburg Gym.

Xiao Mao couldn't wait to check his inventory.

[Premium Boxing Gloves (Increases the power of punching moves by 20%, and they will not be considered contact attacks.)]

Xiaomao: (⊙o⊙)…!

Upon seeing the reward item, Xiao Mao fell silent.

These boxing gloves are pretty useless. They're only really useful against Pokémon with Spore or Rough Skin abilities. Most punching moves are Fighting-type moves, so you might as well use a top-tier Black Belt.

This just goes to show that the random reward items were terrible.

No worries, the best reward this time is a Normal-type skill learning tool.

Why, you ask?

Naturally, Normal-type transformation skills are very strong.

For example, brute force can make the opponent's HP the same as yours. This move can be used for healing. Pokémon with full HP can be used on Pokémon with low HP to restore their HP.

He also has very useful skills like protecting and sharing pain, but right now, Shigeru will definitely choose to act recklessly.

Since there are quite a few Pokémon that can master brute force, many of the Pokémon that Gary has can learn it.

"System, exchange for the brute force skill."

[Ding! Skill exchange successful.]

After the brute-force exchange, Gary quickly went to the Pokémon Center and handed the defeated Breloom and Agartha to Nurse Joy for treatment.

Afterwards, we went to the public area outside and, except for Latios, we let each Pokémon try out Brute Force.

While many Pokémon can learn brute force, it's impossible for Gary to remember them all after so much time has passed.

After a series of tests, Shigeru only mastered three of his Pokémon: Sceptile, Majestic Fang, and Mega Tyranitar.

Xiao Mao hadn't expected that Xiongweiya could learn to do 113, but this also increased Xiongweiya's practicality.

"Next, we'll be heading to Yinyu City."

Xiao Mao looked in the east direction and suddenly felt a chill run down his spine.

Because Lilycove City is located at the easternmost edge of the Hoenn inland region, to get there on foot you have to go to Mauville City first, and then keep going east, crossing Route 118 and Route 119 to reach Lilycove City, which is a very long distance.

Along the way, they also need to train the Pokémon. If nothing goes wrong, it will take almost a month just to ride a mountain bike there, which is a very long journey.

Xiao Mao doesn't plan to go through the Kalu Tunnel either. This time, he'll go directly to Kaina City and take the highway there to Violet City, which will take less time.

"Shigeru, did you succeed in the gym challenge?"

At noon, Higana returned from having lunch outside and was preparing to train her Pokémon when she saw Gary. She came over to ask him about challenging the gym.

"Of course I got the badge. But you, you went out so early this morning, why are you only coming back now?" Xiao Mao asked.

Higanbana usually trains her Pokémon in the common area during the mornings.

After completing the Petalburg Gym challenge today, Gary wondered why Higanbana hadn't returned, but he wasn't too worried.

"I went to the outskirts to see if I could find any Swablu, and then I encountered a Pokémon that wasn't in my Pokédex, so I caught it on the spot," said Higanbana.

387: Higana Tames the Buzzbat

"Oh? What kind of Pokémon did you capture?"

Gary was surprised to find that the Pokédex provided by Professor Oak already contained information on Pokémon from three regions.

If Higanbana encounters a Pokémon that isn't listed in the Pokédex, it must be a Pokémon unique to other regions.

"look."

Higana took a red and white ball out of her pouch and opened it.

Baton!

A purple bat, only the size of a soccer ball, appeared.

【LV22 Buzzing Bat♂/King】

"Buzzing bat!!"

Xiao Mao was shocked.

Nompton is a Pokémon unique to the Kalos region, so how could it appear in the Hoenn region?

But considering that the Majestic Fang has appeared, it's not surprising that the Nodding Bat has appeared, since smuggling by elves is common.

Although the alliance has explicitly prohibited it, there are still a lot of people who are willing to take the risk for money to engage in smuggling.

Since Higanbana was able to capture the Nombat, it means that the Nombat most likely escaped from smugglers, spent some time in the wild, and was captured because it was no longer protected by the Pokémon.

"You know him!"

Higana exclaimed with delight, "Tell me quickly, what kind of spirit is the Buzz Bat? I can smell a dragon on it!"

Xiaomao: →_→!

Shigeru didn't know what special abilities Higanbana possessed, or why they were specifically designed to target dragons, but her sense of smell seemed to be very keen.

“Yes, Noctua is indeed a Dragon-type Pokémon, and it can evolve into Noivern, which is a very strong Dragon-type Pokémon,” said Gary.

Although Noivern is not a pseudo-legendary Pokémon, it is Hydreigon's natural enemy, especially at night. If Hydreigon encounters Noivern at night, it will run away immediately.

"That's awesome! I always thought you were a dragon!" Higana gave the buzzing bat a warm hug.

The buzzing bat didn't reject Higana at all, and looked very happy.

Judging from the way the Nobbat is acting, it's possible that Higana didn't physically subdue it; rather, the Nobbat willingly allowed itself to be subdued by Higana.

Although Higanbana's current Pokémon are all quite good and have high potential, they are all late bloomers.

Baby Tyrannosaurus needs to be level 39 to evolve into Monsterjaw.

It takes level 50 for a Shellder to evolve into a Salamence.

Noctua needs to be level 49 to evolve into Noivern.

The required evolutionary level is very high.

"By the way, have you bought your supplies yet?" Xiao Mao asked.

Xiao Mao gave Xijiana some money this morning so that she could buy supplies herself and develop her independent living skills.

"Haha, I went to the countryside this morning to tame the Buzzbat and forgot to buy anything," Higana said with an embarrassed laugh.