A Ju’s Furfrou wasn’t only high level, but its potential was also extraordinary. A King level potential, it was certain that this Furfrou was a new Pokémon A Ju had recently cultivated.
“Alakazam, it’s decided, you’re the one!”
Xiao Mao threw out his Poké Ball. This time, the Pokémon he had traded for from Professor Oak wasn’t just a Scyther. After all, the Vermilion Gym was a Poison-type gym, so he had to prepare in advance.
“It’s actually an Alakazam.” A Ju could tell that Xiao Mao had prepared for the gym challenge.
“Alakazam, use Psychic!”
“We’ll use Psychic too!”
Both sides issued the same command simultaneously.
“啾!”
Furfrou’s scarlet eyes shot out a Psychic beam.
Alakazam also used Psychic without exception.
Two pink beams collided in mid-air, locked in a stalemate. After a few seconds, Alakazam’s Psychic overwhelmed Furfrou’s, shattering it and striking Furfrou’s hand.
Furfrou, possessing the Poison-type, naturally inflicted double damage with its Psychic, making it a super-effective move.
A Ju pursed his lips.
It was a bit of a stretch to have a Poison-type Pokémon clash with a Psychic-type Pokémon using Psychic moves.
“Furfrou, use Bug Buzz!” A Ju, of course, had a counter strategy.
“啾!!”
Furfrou immediately let out a piercing cry, and its bug energy turned into sound waves that spread outwards.
“Psychic!”
Alakazam used Psychic, unleashing a powerful wave of psychic energy. Furfrou attacked, both sides exchanged blows.
Boom!!
The ground beneath Furfrou shattered, its eyes lost their light, and it collapsed.
Alakazam carried a top-grade Spoon. Even though A Ju’s Furfrou had high potential, it couldn’t withstand Alakazam’s psychic energy.
However, if this Furfrou had evolved into a Mothim, Alakazam wouldn’t have been able to defeat it so easily.
“Brother’s Furfrou also lost.” A Ya thought to herself.
A Ya and A Ju had raised their Furfrou around the same time, and A Ya had never defeated A Ju’s Furfrou before.
A Ju remained calm, returned Furfrou to its Poké Ball, and then sent out his second Pokémon.
Bang!
A Golbat took the field.
【LV30 Golbat ♂/King】
Xiao Mao could tell that A Ju wasn’t seriously battling him. The Pokémon he sent out were all newly cultivated.
Poison-type Pokémon had one drawback, which was that they had a shorter lifespan, so once A Ju’s main team was formed, he immediately had to cultivate his reserve team.
This Furfrou and Golbat were probably also Pokémon that A Ju had personally raised.
Xiao Mao felt that A Ju really didn’t have much challenge value. He had Pokémon with good levels, but their strength was too ordinary. These two Pokémon were probably still under A Ju’s testing.
“Alakazam, use Psychic.” Xiao Mao commanded.
“Double Team.”
Golbat immediately used Double Team, confusing Alakazam’s vision.
“Use Confuse Ray.”
Alakazam immediately used Confuse Ray, sealing energy spreading outwards. Any Golbat clone that touched it dissipated.
“Wing Attack!” A Ju, seeing this, changed his command.
Golbat rushed towards Alakazam. Just as it was about to flap its wings and attack, its body froze in mid-air.
Alakazam swung its spoon, Golbat’s body flew backwards, crashing into the wall outside the field. Golbat was hit so hard that its eyes turned white.
“Psychic!” Xiao Mao didn’t give it a chance, Alakazam unleashed a powerful psychic energy, striking Golbat, defeating it.
With that, both of A Ju’s Pokémon had lost their ability to battle.
“I lost. This Pink Badge is yours.” After the battle ended, A Ju promptly handed his gym badge to Xiao Mao.
“Thank you!”
Xiao Mao thanked him and took the badge.
【Ding! Quest completed, reward has been delivered to your space backpack.】
This trip to challenge the Vermilion Gym was very profitable.
He got the badge, and he also got a skill book for free.
…!
Back in Vermilion City.
Xiao Mao gathered his Pokémon, looking at the skill book in his hand.
The Pokémon were all looking at the skill book in Xiao Mao’s hand. They all knew the function of a skill book: to learn new skills through the skill book.
“Don’t you guys think about it, this Venoshock is for Infernape. It has a Fighting-type, so it will be hard to deal with Fairy-type Pokémon later on. With Venoshock, it has a way to counter them.” Xiao Mao said.
“Mi-lo!”
Infernape was very happy and immediately jumped to Xiao Mao’s side.
The other Pokémon all had an expression of “you got lucky” on their faces.
“Don’t be so happy, can you even use the skill book?” Xiao Mao asked.
“Mi-lo.”
Infernape confidently shook its head, indicating that it couldn’t.
“Then why are you so confident.”
Xiao Mao was a little dumbfounded. After evolving into Infernape, Infernape’s personality had become a bit confident. Everything it did was done with confidence. Before, it had a fiery temper, but now it had a kind of carefree attitude of not caring about life or death, and just fighting if it didn’t agree.
“Take out the skill book, open it, and use your mind to sense the skill on the book.” Xiao Mao introduced.
“Mi-lo.”
Infernape nodded.
“Here you go.”
He handed the skill book to Infernape. Infernape immediately opened it, holding the skill book with both hands, and began to sense the skill on the book.
3…2…1!!
Three seconds later, Infernape opened its eyes, put the skill book down, and then immediately wanted to use the newly acquired skill. Its right fist was covered in a layer of liquid energy; this was the Venoshock skill.
The other Pokémon were all envious.
“Golbat, come here.” Xiao Mao waved to Golbat.
“Da?” Could he be going to increase my strength?
With doubts, Golbat flew to Xiao Mao’s side. Xiao Mao placed his hand on Golbat’s head and taught it the skill Mud-Slap.
“Da!” Golbat was startled, it sensed that it had learned a new skill and was immediately overjoyed.
“How is it, did you master the new skill?” Xiao Mao said.
“Da! Da!”
Golbat was very grateful. Its body suddenly burst with a white glow.
“Oh… it evolved!”
Xiao Mao was surprised, but it was also expected. Golbat’s friendship had already met the evolution requirements, it just hadn’t evolved yet.
He hadn’t expected that after teaching Golbat Mud-Slap, it would successfully evolve.
The evolution light dissipated, a Crobat with purple all over its body took the field.
Crobat had two pairs of wings, one large pair and one small pair. After evolving, its ears became longer, like rabbit ears, allowing it to hear sounds from further away.
Crobat’s flight speed also increased significantly. When it flew, you couldn’t hear the sound of its wings flapping.
“Mi-lo!”
Infernape was startled. It hadn’t expected Golbat to evolve after learning a new skill. After all, in terms of attributes, Infernape was countered by Crobat. When they sparred in the future, Crobat would become its main enemy.