Pokémon: Starting with a Pokémon Ranch.

Chapter 29 Tropical Dragon Training Plan

"Good heavens, you're trying to become the Zerg Emperor..."

After listening to the caterpillar's story, Su Yu couldn't help but mentally complain.

However, this is not without precedent. Since the arrival of Pokémon, many powerful Pokémon have established themselves as kings of mountains and protected their people.

Those Pokémon were almost a replica of human lords, hence they were also called Pokémon Lords.

After talking for so long, Su Yu finally understood what the green caterpillar was thinking and silently made a mental note of it.

Caterpie, because of its weakness, longs to become Rayquaza and wants a forest to protect its kind.

As a rancher, Su Yu believes it is his duty to help his Pokémon achieve their dreams.

Tropius's dream is to rescue its people; Alcremie's dream is to make more friends on the ranch and live a peaceful life. And Growlithe, Growlithe's dream…

Perhaps they wanted to defeat Wooloo and the others without using Fire-type moves?

As for the Woolstice sheep, their dream is simple: to eat more delicious food every day. That's easy to say.

Woolstice sheep are born on pastures and live a comfortable and carefree life. As a result, their dreams are quite ordinary.

In this way, Su Yu gained some understanding of the ideals of the Pokémon on the ranch.

Looking at the time, it seemed there was still enough time to go back and take another nap, so Su Yu called the green caterpillar back to the room and took a nap.

……

The next morning, Su Yu woke up in bed as usual. He went out of the room, and by then, the tropical dragon was already awake.

Normally at this time, the tropical dragon would take Su Yu fishing. However, this time, Su Yu said:

"We won't be going fishing today; the restaurant is closed for the day."

"By the way, I also told them that fishing has been temporarily changed from once a day to once every two days. From now on, you should focus on your training!"

Although this will have some impact on the freshness of fish caught from the lake, the restaurant recently built a new cold storage facility, so the impact doesn't seem to be significant.

The only difference is that the demand for fishing nets has increased. In the past, Su Yu would drag the net directly to the restaurant after catching fish. The nets he is using now are all borrowed from Uncle Yang without ever returning them.

"Let's have the caterpillar help us spin a web later, it shouldn't be a big problem."

Su Yu thought to himself.

The tropical dragon was quite surprised by Su Yu's sudden arrangement. Seeing this, Su Yu explained:

"We should also prepare for the subsequent operation to rescue your companions."

"Although finding that poaching gang was mainly thanks to Officer Jenny and her team, I have also asked Officer Jenny to let us join them if we discover any poaching gangs."

"So to avoid being underpowered by then, we need to start a special training program now. As you know, that poaching organization is very powerful. Just that guy in sunglasses we encountered the other day was someone we couldn't handle right now."

With that, Su Yu, carrying a table, led the tropical dragon toward the distant grasslands. After all, it was training; he couldn't train near his own home, lest he accidentally destroy it again.

The tropical dragon trotted to catch up with Su Yu. It took the table from Su Yu's hands with a leaf on its back and asked how to train him next.

Su Yu had already thought about this last night. Tropius is now very proficient in Grass-type moves such as Magical Leaf.

Even the photosynthesis they had just learned was rapidly improving thanks to the grass cake.

Therefore, Su Yu focused his special training on learning new moves, such as powerful moves like Leaf Blade, Solar Beam, and Leaf Storm.

As for other factors such as physique, strength, resilience, and the amount of energy in the body, these will gradually increase as basic training continuously consumes the body's energy.

It's not that we're not in a hurry, after all, the tropical dragon had already laid a pretty good foundation when it was in the wild.

The fact that Tropius could withstand a group attack from the sunglasses-wearing man's numerous Pokémon is enough to prove how tough it is.

After glancing at the four enormous leaves behind the tropical dragon, Su Yu decided to focus his next move on the Leaf Blade technique.

After all, Tropius has a unique advantage over other Pokémon when it comes to learning this move. Other Pokémon can usually only use one Leaf Blade.

However, when it comes to Tropius, it can use four leaf blades at once. Under such a barrage of attacks, probably not many Pokémon can withstand it.

Speaking of Leaf Blade, it also reminded Su Yu of a legendary grass-type Pokémon, who was also a member of the Swordsman class and was skilled at using grass-type blades to fight enemies. That is, the Fighting and Grass-type Virizion.

"I wonder if Tropical Dragon will be able to go toe-to-toe with Virizion after it has mastered all four of its leaf blades."

Su Yu thought to himself.

However, for now, the priority is to teach the tropical dragon how to use its first leaf blade. After leading the tropical dragon a sufficient distance, Su Yu had it put down the table and placed an apple on it.

Then, Su Yu said:

"Try to gather your grass-type energy in the leaf behind you and use a slash on this apple."

"By the time you can use the leaves on your back to cut this apple, you'll probably be almost there. You keep practicing, I'll come and keep you company when I'm done with my work."

"Hooray~!"

Upon hearing this, the tropical dragon responded.

Since it was training to save its people, it was full of enthusiasm and would never slack off.

After arranging the tropical dragon's training, Su Yu returned to the cabin and asked the caterpillar to weave a fishing net for it.

"It should look something like this, right?"

As he spoke, Su Yu spread out the fishing net he had borrowed from Uncle Yang.

After all, the shape of fishing nets is quite complex. Not to mention the size of the holes in the net, some places also have special structures.

As the fishing net was laid out, the green caterpillar carefully examined it. Then, it nodded and said:

"Hissing~!" There shouldn't be any problem.

This type of net may require relatively high-quality insect silk, specifically a more durable type of insect silk.

And coincidentally, Caterpie had specifically trained its silk in the forest to deal with those bird Pokémon, so making this kind of net was no problem for it.

Upon hearing this, Su Yu smiled and said:

"Then I'll leave it to you. I might need this net tomorrow, so please do it as soon as possible."

"I'll go water the crops in the field first."

With that, Su Yu turned and left.

Not long after Su Yu left...

Frost Milk Fairy, who had just returned from a trip to the back mountain with the Woolstaff, happened to see Caterpillar racking his brains over how to weave a web.

Seeing this, Frost Fairy quietly stepped forward and took out a large bag of leaves she had just picked from the mountain from behind her back, seemingly wanting to give Caterpillar a surprise.

The leaf that Alcremie suddenly pulled out from behind her startled Caterpie. It looked at Alcremie in surprise, and Alcremie explained:

"Mama~!" These are leaves that my sheep and I just picked. Su Yu told us to keep an eye on you so you won't be all alone.

We didn't know what to do, so we picked a bag of leaves for you. I hope you like it.

Alcremie blurted out everything she knew, much to Caterpie's surprise.

"Mwah meow~!"

The woolly sheep standing nearby chimed in, after all, it was also one of its "protected" little brothers, and they also got a share when picking leaves.

This surprised the caterpillar for a moment.

Are you afraid I'll be all alone?

So that's what Su Yu was worried about...

The caterpillar looked at Su Yu's departing figure and felt a surge of emotion welling up inside it, a feeling called being moved.

It seems like no one has treated it this well since it left the group.

So long that the caterpillar almost forgot what it meant to be moved.

"Hiss..." The trainer is such a good person...

Caterpillar's sudden, seemingly random statement left Alcremie and Woolpis quite puzzled.

"Hiss." Of course, so do you.

At this moment, besides his fellow creatures, the caterpillar felt a new desire to protect something else.

That's the ranch.

It likes it here.