"It seems I'll be quite busy from now on."
Ethan closed the notebook and took a deep breath.
During the following period, he planned to draw up new training plans for his Pokémon.
And this time, naturally, his goal was the Elite level.
"Legendary resources, and also the research on life energy."
"These two points may become the key for them to enter the Elite level."
Ethan reflected in his mind. To draw up these training plans this time, he had to think carefully.
Among all this, besides the Pokémon's own effort and their high-level techniques, a certain opportunity was also needed.
Like the Totem aura for Sandslash, Rayquaza's scale for Flygon, and Mega Evolution for Charizard, Lucario, and Garchomp.
Speaking of the Totem aura, there was precisely a Totem Kommo-o in Dragon Valley.
This time, because Flygon had managed to open the Ruins of the Sky, its contribution to Dragon Valley was enormous.
Relying on that point, he still had a lot of hope of being able to borrow Totem Kommo-o.
Of course, the prerequisite was that Totem Kommo-o itself was willing. Otherwise, Ethan could not force it either.
That point still had to be studied carefully. As long as Totem Kommo-o was willing, the Pokémon Researchers Guild could extract Kommo-o's Totem serum, allowing his Dark Kommo-o to become a Totem Pokémon.
By then, relying on the terrifying size of a Totem Pokémon and the enhancement of the Totem aura, combined with the already terrifying physical constitution and combat techniques of his Dark Kommo-o, it would undoubtedly have a good chance of attempting to reach the Elite level.
What was regrettable was that, among the Pokémon Ethan currently possessed, only Sandslash and Kommo-o had discovered Totem Pokémon forms. Therefore, only Sandslash and Kommo-o could become Totem Pokémon.
If the other Pokémon wanted to become Totem Pokémon, they could only wait until the Pokémon Researchers Guild truly completed its research on Totem Pokémon. Only then, perhaps, could he make all his Pokémon become Totem Pokémon.
Compared with the Totem aura, gathering Mega Stones was relatively easier.
Right now, Ethan already had the Mega Stones of Charizard, Lucario, and Garchomp in his hands.
There was also Tyranitar, which could also megaevolve.
Regarding this, Ethan had already asked Alex a long time ago to gather them all over the world.
So far, they had really managed to obtain several Mega Stones, as well as a Key Stone.
Ethan had already seen those Mega Stones. Among them was one that Ethan was very sure belonged precisely to Pidgeot.
Because of that Mega Stone, Ethan had already had Alex begin consciously raising some Pidgeot.
The Pidgey clan, as a species of Pokémon with a very gentle nature, was also an indispensable part of the Pokémon ecosystem.
In the future, in Solaria Town, in the Solar Farm, besides a large number of Grass-type Pokémon, Bug-type Pokémon and birds would also be very necessary.
Returning to the subject of Pidgeot, when those Pidgeot grew up and the life energy research entered the Mega Evolution phase, Pidgeot's Mega Evolution would be a very good research topic.
"The collection of Mega Stones still has to be accelerated."
Ethan thought to himself that when Mega Evolution came to light, it would then be difficult to gather them.
Especially Tyranitar's Mega Evolution. As a pseudo-legendary Pokémon, Tyranitar was too strong after megaevolving!
In addition to that, Ethan was also consciously gathering Slowbro's Mega Stone.
Although Slowking itself did not have a Mega Evolution form, its other form, Slowbro, did.
Although the two Pokémon were not the same, there were still countless links between them.
In addition, the greatest change of Mega Slowbro was that the Shellder on its tail became even larger and completely wrapped around Slowpoke's body.
For that reason, Pokémon researchers considered that after Slowbro megaevolved, all the energy of Mega Evolution was injected into the Shellder on its tail, and then Slowpoke was completely swallowed, thus completing the Mega Evolution.
After understanding Slowbro's Mega Evolution form, Ethan wondered whether he could start from that point to help Shellder become stronger.
After all, Shellder and Slowpoke were now a single unit. As long as he could increase Shellder's strength, he could increase Slowking's strength!
In addition, Ethan's Slowking was a little special.
The Shellder on its head had complete autonomy and could freely use various moves.
Based on that, Ethan felt that he could fully develop Shellder and make it stronger.
Perhaps through this method, he could also allow Slowking to complete an alternative transformation similar to Mega Evolution.
Therefore, Ethan planned to first find a Slowbro Mega Stone. If possible, he also wanted to try raising a Slowbro and then have Slowbro complete Mega Evolution.
"Phew, I really will be quite busy from now on."
Ethan stood up and dusted off his backside.
After calling Flygon and Garchomp, Ethan walked toward the Life Transition Research Institute.
Upon returning to the institute.
At that moment, Lucario and Cacturne could be seen cooperating with the research.
Among them, Lucario's research on the Life Orb had already reached the second phase, while Cacturne mastered the move Energy Ball, capable of condensing life energy from nature.
Now, Professor Harris was researching precisely these two aspects, and at the same time helping Lucario and Cacturne better develop the new abilities they had mastered.
"Littwwiikk!"
"Shuck!"
On the other side, Shuckle and Litwick, who had already been cooperating with the research in the institute since before, also saw Ethan and immediately rushed happily toward him.
From the appearance of the two Pokémon, it could be seen that both were developing better and better.
It was easy to imagine that, during the process of cooperating with the life energy research, the two Pokémon had obtained enormous benefits.
Now, within the Life Energy Research Institute, Shuckle was practically about to become a Pokémon chef.
After this period of training, its ability to make Pokéblocks was truly impeccable, both in the quality of the Pokéblocks and in production speed.
Although Ethan no longer always carried Shuckle with him now, before every trip he would go collect a large amount of Pokéblocks to store in his spatial ring.
On the other hand, Litwick had become the institute's specialized bodyguard.
Its ability of infinite clones made it so its figure could be spread throughout the entire institute.
Added to Litwick's abilities of invisibility and passing through walls, as well as its sharp perception of life energy, there was simply no existence capable of entering the institute silently.
In addition, as the research on life energy continued to progress, it could be said that Litwick was the Pokémon that benefited the most. Every day, it could absorb all kinds of life energy, and at the same time its control over life energy also became stronger.
(End of chapter)