Chapter 578: The Era of Giant Beasts
A week passed.
The northern part of the grassland.
"There's a lone Frogadier ahead, I'll go beat him up."
A majestic, upright dinosaur waved its hand.
With Floette's help.
Will and his younger brother successively reached Lv. 16 and evolved into Charmeleon.
Compared to Charmander, who looked just like a baby.
Charmeleon's body finally had some muscles and sharp edges, and even its claws had become lethal.
The tail behind it was as conspicuous and bright as a torch.
Of course.
The most important thing was the change in appearance.
During the Charmander period, anyone who saw them would dare to come up and bully them a bit.
Looking like a weak little target that was easy to pick on.
But Charmeleon was different.
The eyes that began to possess power and the height of over three meters made Will and Charmeleon look somewhat oppressive.
Now, even if they encountered three or five Sneasels on the grassland.
They wouldn't dare to step forward and fight.
Flame.
For Charmander.
Was just like a locator in the dark night.
But for Charmeleon.
This was a weapon used to deter other Pokémon.
Just last night.
An Ekans, probably from the northern swamp, saw the firelight and thought it had found prey, intending to secretly ambush Will and Charmeleon.
As a result, after getting closer.
It made eye contact with Will's golden pupils and was scared half to death.
Will simply took it down and gave his little brother a late-night spicy strip meal.
"Flo-ette."
Floette nodded and landed on Charmeleon's head.
Ever since Will evolved.
Will handled the vast majority of battles himself.
Floette was mainly responsible for holding the line from the side to prevent any accidents.
But so far.
Will hadn't lost a fight.
After all, he wouldn't challenge opponents he couldn't beat.
Like Water-type, Dark-type, and Ground-type.
Pokémon of these three attributes were Will's primary targets for challenging.
The reason naturally lay in the Plates.
Next were the five types: Bug, Steel, Grass, Ice, and Fairy.
"Roar."
Charmeleon watched his older brother leave alone, his tail swayed, and with sparkling eyes, he secretly followed.
After evolving.
His voice became a bit rougher, and his appetite increased.
But following his older brother, he wasn't afraid of going hungry.
Moreover.
His older brother was super amazing!
On the other side.
Will had already appeared in front of the Frogadier.
It had been half a month since he arrived in this era.
He had roughly figured out the height standards for Pokémon in this Era of Giant Beasts.
The Pokémon of this era.
Their height after reaching adulthood was basically around 3 times the value in the future League Pokédex.
By seeing whether their height was below or above three times.
One could roughly judge the strength of a Pokémon.
Like this Frogadier in front of him with a height of 1.5 meters, it was either malnourished or had poor talent. Regardless of the situation, its strength would definitely be somewhat weak.
Plus Will possessed the Splash Plate.
Even if the Frogadier's level was higher than his, he had a huge certainty of winning.
And a larger physique.
Also meant stronger physical qualities and more abundant attribute energy.
Just like Will right now.
Over the past half month.
He hadn't had the time and energy to cultivate the energy of other attributes.
Besides the Fighting-type energy that came with cultivating Aura Power.
His body was entirely filled with the Normal-type, Fire-type, and Dragon-type energy naturally produced by his body.
Regarding the matter of 'Charmeleon automatically producing Dragon-type energy'.
Will understood it after a little thought.
Charmeleon itself had Dragon-type and Flying-type genes in its body.
There was no doubt about this.
Just looking at the attributes of Mega Charizard X and Y, one would know.
Plus Charmeleon could learn the Dragon-type move Dragon Breath at Lv. 12.
This explained that their bodies would naturally produce Dragon-type energy.
If it weren't for the fact that his panel didn't show he had an extra Dragon attribute.
Will would have suspected that the Charmeleon of this era had a 'Fire and Dragon' attribute combination.
As for.
Why no Flying-type energy was produced in his body.
Judging from the fact that Charmeleon completely couldn't learn Flying-type moves.
He probably had to evolve into Charizard before the hidden Flying-type genes in his body would be activated, thereby allowing his body to automatically produce Flying-type energy.
At this time.
The benefits of a massive physique came into play.
On one hand.
Will's current physical quality was already tough enough for him to barely use Extreme Speed.
On the other hand.
The Charmeleon of the League Era.
Even if these three types of energy were generated in the body.
Because the energy was not abundant enough, it would result in a large number of advanced Fire-type and Dragon-type moves being unable to be released.
But the Charmeleon of this era completely didn't have this concern.
In his previous life.
Will couldn't 'remember' the moves he originally knew due to insufficient energy.
But this life was different.
The three types of moves Will knew in his previous lives and those Charmeleon could learn in this life, he recalled all of them without spending much time.
This allowed Will, at a low level like Lv. 18, to possess a full 26 moves on his panel.
Among them.
Hydro Pump and Ice Punch couldn't be released because he didn't have the corresponding attribute energy.
Leaving 24 usable moves.
"Froga..."
Frogadier narrowed its eyes, sizing up Will.
It also swept a glance at Charmeleon and Floette standing not far behind Will.
It took half a step back.
Clearly not intending to start a fight with Will, this seemingly powerful guy.
However, Will didn't intend to give Frogadier a chance to run.
He knew his own situation clearly.
His level was low.
His panel stats naturally couldn't be high.
At the same level, a Charmeleon's speed without special training basically couldn't rival a Frogadier, not to mention Will's level was highly likely lower than the other party's.
Moreover.
Charmeleon still couldn't learn the two moves Quick Attack and Agility.
Leading to the inability to compensate for speed through skills.
Fortunately, Will was a cheater.
Not only did he inherit Extreme Speed from Dragonite, but he could also barely release it now.
Bang!
Will pushed hard with his feet.
The over-three-meter-tall dragon shot out like a cannonball, slamming a brutal shoulder tackle into Frogadier.
Will rarely used Extreme Speed to deal damage directly.
He usually interspersed other moves while using Extreme Speed to enhance power and execute combo skills.
But now he didn't have those conditions.
Just using Extreme Speed was already a struggle for him, let alone interspersing other moves.
So he could only use Extreme Speed to ram directly.
"Froga!"
Frogadier cried out in pain.
It hurriedly turned its head and used Lick on Will.
Will only felt a burst of chill, and his body actually fell into a paralyzed state.
Frogadier took the opportunity to bind Will with its tongue and swung him to the side.
Flying in mid-air, Will looked up.
And spewed a surging Dragon Breath at the Frogadier attempting to turn and flee!
"Froga!"
The Dragon Breath hit Frogadier squarely on the back, causing it to pitch forward and fall to the ground.
Immediately after, Will landed.
He rolled on the ground and quickly got up.
Tossed out a deep blue Aura Sphere.
Frogadier immediately lost its ability to battle and gained swirly eyes.
"Roar!!"
The spectating Charmeleon let out an excited roar, spewing some sparks from his mouth.
Because of the excited emotion.
The flame on his tail burned fiercely.
After evolving, the little brother.
Became more energetic and more combative.
He walked to Will's side, pointed at the Frogadier on the ground, and then pointed at his own big mouth.
"Can't eat."
Will shook his head, raising his hand to suppress his little brother.
He didn't really want his little brother to eat other Pokémon.
Especially since.
This Frogadier was very innocent.
It was forcefully beaten down by Will.
Unless it was the kind of Pokémon like Ekans that carried malice and actively delivered themselves to their deaths, otherwise Will would limit Charmeleon's dietary targets.
He was more willing to let Charmeleon eat some small animals.
"Roar..."
Charmeleon sighed somewhat disappointedly.
The fire on his tail weakened slightly.
Will reached out and patted his head to comfort him.
Glanced at the panel.
Leveled up.
Lv. 19.
Leveling up is fast when the level is low.
Especially after evolving into Charmeleon, his potential had also increased, and the leveling speed was exceptionally obvious in these first few levels after evolving.
Besides this.
What was worth mentioning was the new move.
Fire Fang.
An absolutely brand new move!
A move Will had never mastered in his previous five lives.
He opened his mouth and gave it a try.
Swish!
The fangs in his mouth instantly ignited with raging flames.
"Roar!!"
Charmeleon was incredibly excited seeing this, bouncing around in place and dancing with joy.
His older brother is so cool!
He also wanted to learn this move!
"You don't need to learn this move; you'll naturally know it once you get a bit stronger. I'll teach you other moves."
Will smiled at him.
"Flo-ette."
Floette circled around.
Only when the flames in Will's mouth extinguished did she land on his head.
She didn't like fire.
But she quite liked Will and Charmeleon.
They were already friends!
"We should be at the northernmost edge of the grassland, right? Going further ahead should be the swamp area?"
Will looked up at Floette on his head.
"Flo-ette."
Floette nodded, some anticipation appearing in her gaze.
In the past.
She had never left places too far from her clan's territory.
The so-called swamps, lakes, volcanoes, forests...
Those were all places she had only heard of from the clan elders, but had never seen.
Of course, she wanted to take a look.
"No wonder we've been encountering more Poison-type Pokémon recently," Will said.
The three little ones continued moving forward.
Actually, this zone was already relatively suitable for survival.
It was located at the northern edge of the grassland.
The solitary Pokémon living nearby weren't very strong.
For them, the survival difficulty was lower, suitable for quietly developing.
It was just that.
For the three little ones.
The grassland at night made it hard to sleep peacefully.
They constantly had to face observation or even attacks from some Pokémon.
Will often had to wake up in the middle of the night to observe the surrounding environment before he could enter light sleep.
These kinds of days were truly too unbearable.
They had to find a place where they could sleep peacefully before they could stop.
Such places weren't easy to find on the grassland.
Perhaps they would be much easier to find in the swamp.
"Flo-ette!"
Floette's exclamation came from overhead.
They seemed to have strayed into some clan's territory!
Will and Charmeleon craned their necks to look into the distance and saw some large guys nearly four meters tall.
Bastiodon!
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