Pokémon: Trainers Start as Bounty Hunters.

Then came the training of Pidgeot. Tetsuya estimated that he wouldn't take on any more missions until Torchic reached Elite status, so he would focus on training Pidgeot. Therefore, he spent another 170 million to buy training materials for Pidgeot.

After calculating everything, Tetsuya realized that this shopping trip had cost him over 1300 million yen.

Tetsuya looked at the balance on his card and gave a wry smile.

This morning I had assets of over 4900 million, close to 5000 million, but by evening, just over 12 hours later, they had dwindled to only about 600 million.

The assets shrank by nine-tenths.

But these are all necessary investments.

While it's not to say that you can't get stronger without these Torchic chickens, the speed of progress will definitely be much slower, with Pidgeot being the most obvious example.

If Tetsuya had given Polnareff the same training he did back then, Polnareff would probably have reached his current strength in just six months.

However, Tetsuya also knew clearly that his current progress was already incredibly impressive compared to other ordinary trainers.

After all, he was a transmigrator with a cheat system, and he was so lucky that he encountered two high-quality Pokémon eggs and a high-quality Fire Stone. In addition, he had a photographic memory and an exceptionally fast learning speed.

If this isn't considered outstanding, then we'll have to go find those prodigies of this world.

Tetsuya originally only planned to become a king when he was around 30 years old, and then gradually become stronger with the help of Zero, and become a champion in his 40s, and become a high-ranking member of the league, which would be considered a success.

The social stratification in this world is far too severe.

Even though Tetsuya considered himself to be treated like a protagonist, he felt it would be difficult to quickly attain a high position, since he was ultimately just an orphan without the support of any family faction.

However, judging from the current situation, Tetsuya feels that his goal may be achieved several years ahead of schedule.

There are advantages and disadvantages.

According to Tetsuya's original estimate, although his progress was excellent, it could not be called monstrous.

After all, there are too many geniuses in this world, such as Professor Oak, Lance the Dragon Knight, Cynthia the Sinnoh Champion, and Mr. Damaranchi, the current League President.

Even Shiba had the strength of a near-champion before he was even thirty years old.

Tetsuya's performance will only bring him attention. As long as he finds a backer, he can climb the ranks step by step within the league system without any problem.

However, once he displays an exceptionally extraordinary talent, even if there is a bit of luck involved (as others might think), Zhe will find it difficult to easily find a powerful backer and will need to choose carefully.

After all, most families still hope that such a gifted prodigy will join their side; if not, they can only nip it in the bud.

This forces Tetsuya to find a powerful backer who will protect him, so that he can be a little safer.

This is something Tetsuya has always been afraid of, which is why he hasn't made extensive use of Zero's potential detection function to make money.

Zhe can also easily find high-quality Pokémon eggs, and testing the talent of hatched Pokémon is much simpler than testing the Pokémon eggs.

Moreover, the price difference between the two is at least double. For example, a Pokémon egg whose potential can only be determined to be between Elite and Quasi-Elite might only sell for 1200 million.

After hatching, if the test shows that the candidate has elite potential, the value might drop to 1000 million. But if the candidate is a near-superstar, the value immediately becomes 2000 million.

This is why Tetsuya chose to buy a Pokémon egg. Apart from the issue of friendship level, price is also a reason. After all, having Zero, he doesn't need to spend a lot of money to buy a high-potential baby Pokémon.

Moreover, it's unlikely that they'll find a big bargain like a turkey with championship potential.

By buying and selling in this way, Tetsuya could have quickly accumulated initial capital.

If he had done that, Tetsuya estimated that he would already have six main Pokémon, and they would all be at least elite level.

However, Tetsuya has never used this method in the past sixteen years.

It's not that I'm afraid the league will find out, after all, once or twice is not a problem.

However, Tetsuya grew up in Tokiwa City.

That's really dangerous.

Although Tetsuya didn't know much about his past life, he did know that the leader of the Viridian Gym, Giovanni of Daichi, was the head of Team Rocket, the largest organization in Kanto.

Moreover, there is only one black market in each region, and the black market in the Kanto region happens to be located near Tokiwa City.

If you say there's nothing fishy going on, Tetsuya will never believe it, he'd rather cut off his head and give it to you.

If the Rockets suspect Tetsuya is acting strangely and decide to kidnap him for dissection and research, it would be worse than death.

Tetsuya, in any case, wouldn't dare gamble with his life, and has been steadily controlling his progress over the years.

But with a champion-caliber turkey right in front of us, wouldn't it be even more foolish than a salted fish not to take a gamble?

Moreover, as long as the Torchic's progress speed is not revealed all at once, others will not notice the talent issue too much.

After all, Tetsuya is a genius on the surface, so it should be relatively easy for him to train an excellent Torchic to improve quickly.

Add to that the various serendipitous encounters during the adventure, and that's not an exaggeration.

Once Tetsuya has secretly developed enough strength to protect himself, or at least escape, he can then confidently and boldly improve himself.

Before this, Tetsuya felt it was better to play it safe.

Those protagonists of those wild adventures are so bad they're practically swordsmen by now.

Chapter 15 The Birth of Torchic and the Panel of High-Potential Pokémon

Tetsuya carried the incubator and the fire-egg inside upstairs to his room.

He carefully secured it to the table, then lay on the bed and turned on the projection mode of his newly bought watch to start paying to watch the papers published by the alliance researchers.

As night deepened, all around fell into silence.

Tetsuya gradually fell into a deep sleep as well.

Only the incubator on the table and the tadpoles inside occasionally flashed a faint red light.

.......

Two days later at noon, the sun was shining brightly.

Tetsuya and Pidgeot had just finished their morning training and returned home to have lunch.

Suddenly, the eggs in the incubator next to it started to emit white light.

Tetsuya was delighted; this was the beginning of the hatching process, just like Bobo had back then.

Based on the time calculation, the Torchic's Pokémon egg has been in the incubator for more than 50 hours, which is in line with the incubation time of similar eggs, indicating that it was not premature.

In Tetsuya's mind, it seemed like a long time had passed before the white light gradually dissipated.

"Chamo!"

A childish voice rang out, and a spirit with a predominantly orange body and two very small wings appeared before Tetsuya.

The turkey stared wide-eyed at the handsome, enormous creature before it.

Most baby Pokémon consider the first creature they see after birth as their family, and Torchic is no exception.

"Hey little guy, hello there!" Tetsuya greeted Torchic with a smile.

"Cheep!" The turkey squawked happily, its eyes narrowing into slits.

Tetsuya gently reached out and cradled the newly hatched turkey in his hands, smoothing its slightly disheveled feathers as it emerged from its shell.

The turkey lay lazily, its whole body covered in fluffy feathers, warm and cozy in the palm of your hand.

Newborn Pokémon are quite fragile, and Torchic quickly fell asleep under Tetsuya's careful care.

Tetsuya carefully placed the sleeping Torchic into the small bed that had been specially made for baby Pokémon.

He silently chanted, "Zero, open the Torchic's panel after the analysis."

Soon, a blue panel that only Zhe could see appeared in his field of vision.

Turkey

Category: Chick Pokémon

Attribute: Fire

Height: 0.18m (average is 0.4m)

Weight: 1kg (average weight 2.5kg)

Special ability: Blaze (When HP is low and in a critical situation, the power of Fire-type moves is increased)

Hidden Ability: Speed ​​Boost (The speed of a Pokémon with this ability will increase over time during battle, up to its limit).

Skills: Claw, Peck, Cry, Double Up (inherited), Burnout (inherited), Agility (inherited)

Level: 1 (Infant stage, unable to fight)

Potential: Champion

Nursing method: The juvenile stage mainly focuses on development. Materials include: nutritional supplements, sheep milk, vitamin tablets...

After the infancy stage, it is recommended to prioritize training the Pokémon's leg muscles. Their development rate at birth is 1.44 times that of other Pokémon of the same species, and further growth after training is possible. (The diet after weight training is as follows: Chansey's egg..........)

Secondly, it is recommended to mix Spicy Cherry Berry and Chocolate Berry to enhance the fire-type energy intensity in the Pokémon's body, and then gradually increase the proportion of Chocolate Berry.

注：检测到该精灵体内火系能量强度比之同类高出0.5倍，具有极高的火系天赋，辣樱果和巧可果混合比例由原来的5：1修正为3：1。

Meanwhile, based on the Pokémon's performance, even without specific data, its reaction time is at least twice that of other Pokémon of the same species, indicating extremely high fighting talent. Further investigation requires a detailed report.

Additionally, further development of the acceleration characteristic is needed—for details, please refer to Dr. Birch's dissertation, "Research on Turkey's Hidden Ability Acceleration Characteristic".

Tetsuya gasped as he read Zero's analysis.

Putting aside the talents that follow, what the heck are these three inherited skills?

Double the damage, burn to ashes, high-speed movement—these are either extremely powerful moves or moves with extremely high tactical value.

Moreover, they are Fighting, Fire, and Psychic type skills respectively.

What are its father or mother? How can it have such a mess of inherited skills?

It's important to know that a normal Blaziken doesn't have Double Payback or High Speed.

This completely overturns the knowledge framework that Tetsuya has learned in this world over the years.

Furthermore, the three inherited skills clearly explain why this Torchic has such good Fighting and Fire-type talents.

The inheritance of a Fire-type ultimate move basically determines that the Fire-type energy and quality within this Pokémon are very high, or in other words, those with slightly lower aptitude are unlikely to inherit a move like Burnout.

Double Payback and High Speed ​​can further enhance its physical attributes and reaction abilities.

It can be said that inherited skills and aptitude complement each other. Poor aptitude is unlikely to inherit any good skills, while good inherited skills will also lead to changes in the aptitude of the Pokémon.

When Tetsuya saw this panel, he immediately felt confident. He wouldn't believe you if you told him that someone with this level of talent couldn't win a championship.

Even Pidgeot, with its Elite Four aptitude, only inherited the Tornado attack, which isn't exactly a powerful move.

But look at Torchic's inherited moves; it's as if the entire stat sheet is blatantly labeled: "I'm a second-generation powerhouse."

Not to mention, the data provided by Zero clearly shows that Torchic has extraordinary talent compared to its kind.

It's important to know that these fractions of a percent, when converted to percentages, range from as low as 30 or 40, to as high as 80 or 90, which is quite outrageous.

In high-level battles, if you are 10% stronger than your opponent, you can basically dominate them, let alone Torchic's overall superior talent.

To put it simply, Tetsuya estimates that, at the same level (before reaching the Champion rank), as long as the opponent's Pokémon isn't some kind of godlike Pokémon with incredible potential, Torchic could easily take on three opponents at once.

If we're talking about attribute counters, there are only two, so let's be modest.

At least Zhe doesn't think there are that many Pokémon in the world that have both champion potential and inherited these powerful skills.

Even if there is a chance, the worst outcome is still a 50/50 split, isn't it?

Furthermore, Tetsuya is confident that his command skills are among the best of his peers and he will not hold Torchic back.

After all, I do have talent.

Tetsuya started daydreaming about the future again.

If it evolves into Blaziken, wouldn't it be a one-way kill in battle?

But Zhe quickly regained his composure because he suddenly realized a problem.

"The ratio of spicy cherry and chocolate has been revised from 5:1 to 3:1."

Zero's simple sentence contains a message that instills despair.

Tetsuya's brain was working at lightning speed. The proportion of chocolate fruit had increased from 16% to 25%, which meant that the cultivation cost had increased by 60%.

Subtracting the cost of the spicy cherry fruit, the total cost increased by approximately fifty percent.

If the training of fighters is increased at the same rate as other aspects, the original plan of 800 million to train them to the elite level would need to increase by nearly 400 million?!