Chapter 76 - Reality of Everstone (1/2)
The group and Ramon charged to the Pokemon center. Axel was feeling horrified while watching Nidorina's wound. He didn't expect that 'horn drill' would be so devastating. Axel apologized to A multiple times but it seemed like A didn't take it to heart.
A also knew that Axel didn't do it intentionally. The nurse was checking Nidorina's condition and the group was waiting for the result. After 30 minutes the nurse came out and said, ”There is no need to worry. Nidorina is an uncommon ranked Pokemon so its defense is high. But it would need 4 days of complete rest to recover fully.”
Axel and A sighed in relief when they heard it. The crazies were just dining and drinking at their usual place. Axel had felt he would be left out in the conversation after the incident but the 3 brothers were very chill.
”Damn! How is your Nidorino so powerful? It just evolved. What did you do? Did you feed it some energy drinks?” said B after taking a big gulp of beer.
”Axel, I already told you that you don't have to feel sorry for this. It was an accident, happens to the best of us. And Nidorina is fine. She would be up and running after 4 days.” Said A. A felt that Axel was still feeling bad about it.
”But seriously, what did you exactly do to Nidorino? Why is it so powerful?” asked K this time. He also wanted to know this as Nidorino is almost a rare rank Pokemon now.
”You have seen me training Nidoran in the past. I know as much as you do. I just trained it to its maximum potential” said Axel.
Axel knew what made Nidorino so powerful. All of its stats were S ranked and he had also let it bathe in the liquid to strengthen its bones. Plus he added 'poison barb' in the mix when it was evolving. The group knew about the bath but A, B, and K had not cared about it. Now they were rethinking their decision on it.
Axel could not tell them about his system and getting all the ranks to S. It was his secret and he thought that there would be some major repercussion if he revealed it. MEW also had slightly warned it with its tone before.
But he did say this, ”I don't know why, but my Pokemons seem to evolve at a much slower rate. Kakuna still has not evolved and I feel Nidoran also took its sweet time. So, since the evolution time is longer, they could strengthen their body stats more and the increment of their powers after evolution is massive”
”Maybe we could get an 'everstone' and test this theory.” Said B. ”We could do that, but we need a higher quality 'everstone' for it. Lower quality has many impurities and could stop Pokemons growth too” said A after thinking for some time.
”You are forgetting something. 'Everstone' is a one-time use item. It automatically dissolves then it touches Pokemon's head. A Pokemon could never evolve after that. Besides 'everstones' are costly. We could not afford them”
”Really? Damn! Nobody uses 'everstone' nowadays, so I didn't know” said A.
This was also a piece of new information for Axel. Most of the items in the games are held items, 'everstone' being one of them.
Axel may have studied a lot when he came to this world, but he had left out basic things thinking that he already knew about it. But he was now realizing that it was wrong. He planned to study the basics again from now.
'System, can I see other trainer's Pokemon stats?' Axel asked in his mind.
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