Pokémon: Simultaneous time travel, this Ash is too versatile

Chapter 462 Everyone's progress, arriving in Yanmo City!

At lunchtime, Ash, Pikachu, Froakie, and other Pokémon picked up their bowls and chopsticks and began to eat heartily.

Having received Ash's true teachings, Brock's cooking skills have improved to a whole new level. Although he hasn't reached the point where Ash's dishes shine like light, the taste is far superior to before.

However, the effect of the dish is definitely far inferior to that of Ash. It is the special effect of the dish that comes from the perfect combination of all the ingredients. It is precisely because of this that the dish shines.

As for Xiaogang, all I can say is that he needs to train for another ten years.

After eating and drinking his fill, the training temporarily came to an end. Frog's training today had fully met the standards, and even exceeded them somewhat. However, looking at the group of older brothers and sisters in the team, his desire to become stronger was surging even more.

He wanted to continue training, but Xiaozhi stopped him. As the saying goes, too much of a good thing is bad. Diligence is a good thing, but being too diligent can put a burden on the body.

The frog has only recently advanced to the intermediate elite level. Its main focus should be on consolidating its current physical condition rather than striving for further improvement. With its aptitude, becoming a god-level being in the future is not a problem. It shouldn't waste its potential in this area.

Besides Froakie, Ash currently has Chikorita, Cyndaquil, and Totodile as his starter Pokémon from the Johto League.

Add Gardevoir and Pikachu, and that makes Ash's current six regular Pokémon.

As for the three Pokémon that are not included in the list, they are basically fixed: Mewtwo, Lugia, and Giratina.

Ash has been guiding the three starter Pokémon in Johto for a while now, and their levels are all on the verge of evolution. They could evolve at any moment, even with a sneeze; they just need a trigger.

Gardevoir's level has risen to the Champion Intermediate level. Even at the Champion level, she maintains an unparalleled rate of improvement. Who else at the Champion level can advance a small level in less than a month?

Strictly speaking, Gardevoir only took half a month to advance to the Champion Intermediate level. After the Crystal Tower incident, she broke through her own level and has now stabilized at the Champion Intermediate level.

According to her estimate, she will be able to advance to the next level within half a month!

Other Pokémon become more difficult to level up as their level increases, but Gardevoir is different. The higher its level, the faster it levels up, which is quite unusual!

However, Ash doesn't only have one quirky Pokémon; in fact, every single one of his Pokémon is quite unusual.

Aside from Gardevoir, Pikachu should be the one that improves the fastest. It's at the peak of the Elite Four and only one step away from becoming a Champion. Once Pikachu advances to Champion level, with the stat boost from its third evolution, it can even rival a high-level Champion in its normal state. That's what makes Reincarnated Pikachu so monstrous.

Everyone is steadily improving, and dealing with the upcoming Dragon Gym shouldn't be a problem.

Besides Ash and his Pokémon making progress, Serena has also improved significantly in the past two weeks. Her biggest improvement is her success...

They captured six spirits.

Mareep evolved into Fluffy Sheep, reaching the advanced level. Longtail Fire Fox evolved into Fiery Fox, which is also the final evolutionary form of Fire Fox.

As Serena's initial Pokémon, the Flame Fox is also the strongest Pokémon she has, having reached the mid-elite level, far surpassing other Pokémon.

After all, it is the final evolution of the starter Pokémon.

At first, the little fox was unwilling to even train. It was only because of the temptation of delicious food, Serena's persuasive words and reasoning, and her desire to be in the spotlight that she trained with Ash's Pokémon.

Even so, her training level was not on the same level as Ash's Pokémon.

Take Cyndaquil, which is currently only at the beginner level, as an example. It spews out hundreds of Flamethrower attacks every day. Even the current level of skill usage is only just reached by the Longtail Fox.

It's not that Fennekin can't do more training; it's just that she doesn't want to. Plus, she's a girl and Serena's Pokémon, so Ash naturally can't be as strict with his own Pokémon.

Even so, the Long-tailed Fire Fox is still Serena's number one fighter right now!

Ash also discovered that the Pokémon he trained, despite receiving the same amount of training, showed greater improvement than those trained by others.

This might be one of his special abilities, allowing him to unlock the potential of Pokémon more thoroughly than others.

However, even Ash himself doesn't know how he uses this special ability.

Besides the long-tailed fire fox and the fluffy sheep, Serena's original Pokémon also included a Sneasel and a rhinoceros.

Niu La's level steadily increased to advanced stage, while the Unicorn Rhinoceros evolved into the Drill Horn Rhinoceros, whose strength was at the elite level, making it the strongest after the Long-tailed Fire Fox.

The two newly captured Pokémon are a Water/Rock type Corsola and a Normal type Teddiursa.

These two Pokémon were at the initial advanced stage when they were captured. Their levels haven't increased yet, but they have developed some synergy with Serena, enough to form a normal combat force.

At this point, Serena's six Pokémon are fully formed. The seven types of Pokémon—Fire, Water, Rock, Ground, Dark, Normal, and Electric—have an extremely wide range of coverage, enough to support Serena in dealing with Pokémon of various types.

The only downside is that Serena's Pokémon are generally of a lower level, and even after watching so many of Ash's matches and learning from him for a long time, Serena's command skills are still not up to par.

Therefore, commanding these multi-attribute spirits is quite difficult for Serena, and all Little Smart can do is teach Serena step by step in his spare time.

In addition, Misty also caught a new Pokémon, Corsola, which is her sister Pokémon Serena.

Misty captured a huge colony of Corsolas along with her Pokémon. How could she not be tempted by a Water-type Pokémon?

So they captured another new Pokémon.

However, Misty didn't have many Pokémon to begin with, so catching one more Corsola wouldn't be a problem. In addition, as Misty sent powerful Pokémon back to her own gym, the Tauland Gym was thriving!

Even the Cerulean sisters, who have little battle experience, can easily challenge the Gym Leader with a Gym Leader-level Pokémon that even their grandmothers would use in a wheelchair!

Today, the Cerulean Gym is not only not the weakest gym, but it is even one of the top gyms in Kanto!

Because this gym has no difficulty level to choose from, you'll be facing the highest difficulty!

The difficulty in the gyms comes entirely from the gym-level Pokémon. Many trainers who seek a challenge have tried to challenge the Cerulean Gym, but all have suffered crushing defeats.

Hua Lan Dojo is not what it used to be!

Along with the Cerulean Gym, the Pewter Gym also took off.

Although there haven't been any groundbreaking advancements, Xiao Gang's Pokémon have actually been steadily improving.

Onix has evolved into Steelix through MetalGen, Zubat, which was initially caught, has evolved into Crobat, and Geodude has evolved into Golem.

These Pokémon that Brock raised from scratch have all become capable of standing on their own. Although they haven't reached the true Gym Leader level, they are all at the peak of their professional level.

Brock teleported them back to Pewter City Gym, giving his father more Pokémon to choose from. All he has left are the evolved Rhyhorn and the Pokémon he recently caught in Azalea Town.

"At our current pace, it will probably take us more than half a month to reach Yanmo City. This city is really far away." Xiao Gang opened his phone and searched for the distance between them and Yanmo City. After comparing it with the distance they had traveled recently, he concluded that it would take at least half a month to reach the city.

Ash put down his clean bowl and chopsticks and said matter-of-factly, "Of course! We stayed in two cities for four or five days in between. Serena got two Gym Badges and caught two Pokémon. The harvest was quite substantial."

The destination is not the most important part of the journey; the scenery along the way is more meaningful. Although their journey was slower than expected, they did a lot along the way. In the two cities they passed through, Serena challenged the local gyms.

One is Azure City, and the other is Asahi City, which they just left not long ago. The gym leaders of these two cities are not ordinary people either, and their strength is a genuine gym level.

However, since it was Serena who came to challenge them, they chose to send their student to the arena. In the end, Serena narrowly won both gym battles, and her Flareon evolved into Feraligatr during this time.

"Where is Miss Cynthia now? Did she contact you today?" Xiaoxia asked curiously.

This morning, she vaguely saw Ash making a phone call. She wasn't fully awake yet, so she didn't pay attention to what Ash said, only hearing Cynthia's name.

"She's in Kaji Town now with her apprentice; she said she's going to visit Uncle Liu."

"Liu Bo—wasn't he the strongest trainer in the Johto League before? It's said that his strength reached the champion level. No one has ever forced Liu Bo to use his true strength. But recently, Liu Bo suddenly stopped accepting challenges. The reason has not been announced. We don't know if there is something wrong with his health."

As Xiao Gang cleared away the dishes, he talked about the information he had learned online.

Originally, their trip to Johto included Kaji Town as part of their challenge, but Kaji Gym Leader Plumb had recently refused to accept any challenges for some unknown reason.

Unfortunately, Ash had no choice but to skip Cajon Town and make Smokescreen City, which has two powerful gyms, his final destination.

If you can defeat both gyms in Smokescreen City, you'll have enough badges for eight.

"Professor Oak and Plum are friends, right? When we talked on the phone yesterday, Professor Oak also mentioned that he was going to Kaji Town."

"Should we go to Kaji Town? If we go through Kaji Town and then to Smokescreen City, it will only take about a week longer." Xia tapped her phone, planning the famous route.

"How long will it take us to get to Kaji Town?" Ash stretched, clearly also somewhat tempted; he was the most...

They like to join in the fun.

"It will take about ten days."

"Um... let's not go then. By the time we get to Kaji Town, Professor Oak and Cynthia will probably already be gone." Hearing the number ten days, Ash also gave up the idea of ​​going through Kaji Town.

After all, Professor Oak didn't go to Kaji Town step by step like they did; he went by car.

Professor Oak can get to Kaji Town in a day at most. By the time they get there, Professor Oak will have already left, and Cynthia probably won't stay there for long either. They might as well go directly to Smokescreen City.

Once we get there, we'll be able to learn from Cynthia what happened to Lyube.

"Alright, let's pack up and continue on our way." Xiaoxia put away her phone and started packing with Xiaogang and Serena. Xiaozhi also put the camping gear into his backpack one by one.

Twenty days passed in the blink of an eye.

When Ash and his friends finally traversed the winding mountain road and stood at the entrance to Smoky City, a tranquil mountain landscape slowly unfolded before their eyes.

Inkstone City is located in the northeastern corner of the Johto region, surrounded by verdant mountains, making the entire city appear as if it were meticulously inlaid.

A dark gem in the valley.

The city isn't very big; it's more like a quiet town hidden in the mountains, but it's still quite large.

Neat rows of dark stone buildings lined both sides of the street, their roofs covered with bluish-gray tiles that gleamed faintly in the afternoon sun.

Because of the existence of the Dragon's Lair, most of the trainers who come from this place are skilled at using Dragon-type Pokémon, and even the air seems to be filled with the aura of dragons.

You can see quite a few Dragon-type Pokémon on the street, such as Charizard, Seadra, Ampharos, and Altaria—goodness, the only Dragon-type Pokémon that doesn't have the word "dragon" in its name is really a bit of a problem.

However, it is undeniable that Smoky City is a holy land for Dragon-type trainers, because Lance, the champion of the Johto League and the Dragon Elite Four member of Kanto, is a Dragon-type trainer from Smoky City.

Within the city of Yanmo, there is also a Dragon's Lair, which the Dragon Clan provides with Dragon-type Pokémon for its members. This place should be considered the Dragon Clan's main base.

"This is Blacksmith City! It feels completely different from the cities I've been to before!" Ash looked around, his eyes shining.

"It seems like the air is filled with the scent of Dragon-type Pokémon. No wonder that guy from Hammerlocke City chose to settle here." Brock crossed his arms, squinted at the distance, seemingly sensing the Dragon-type Pokémon or searching for a beautiful young lady.

"Let's go to the Pokémon Center first. Ash and everyone's Pokémon need to recover." Serena pointed in a direction that led to the Pokémon Center.

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