The people who received the message immediately mobilized all the forces they could move, not daring to delay even in the slightest.
For a time, the underground forces of Hoenn and Kalos were all set into motion. Suddenly, the people of both regions became nervous and alert, fearing that after the chaos caused by the Sacred Church, they might once again take action.
But what surprised the people of those two regions quite a bit was that both Team Heaven and Team Flare plunged directly into all the black markets of both regions, appearing in every possible trading channel.
From this alone, one could see just how enormous the benefits were for a trainer who possessed such power.
Even Giovanni, leader of Team Rocket, when mobilizing all his men, could only set the two major regions of Kanto and Johto into motion. Now, with a single order from Cain, he could make the majority of the resources of Hoenn and Kalos available to him.
In that regard, he was in no way inferior to Giovanni.
It might be that Giovanni's Team Rocket had deeper foundations and greater accumulation, and that Team Heaven and Team Flare were somewhat weaker in that aspect, but if one looked only at the regional level, they were actually quite similar.
After resting for a night, the next morning, on the table where Cain had breakfast, all the materials he needed had already been gathered, arranged impeccably. That even improved the mood in which he ate breakfast quite a bit.
It was at that moment that Cain suddenly clearly felt the benefits that power brought.
With just a single word from him, he could make tens of thousands of people run back and forth for him, and also have sums of money easily exceeding hundreds of millions spent with only one order.
After putting the materials away, he entered a room alone.
As long as the materials were complete, there was no problem with the preparation. It practically succeeded on the first attempt.
With three doses already prepared in his hand, Cain returned to the garden and summoned Aggron, Lucario, and Magearna before him.
He handed each of them the three special doses separately.
Since it was the first time he was going to use them, Cain had made some special adjustments according to the specific situation of his Pokémon.
As recorded in the records of the Stone family, the first time was the most special and the one with the most evident effect, which was why the first dose was the most particular. After that, the preparation could gradually become standardized.
Aggron did not hesitate in the slightest and drank the entire dose in one gulp.
Cain immediately placed his hand on its body and, through the microcurrents of the system, began to completely perceive Aggron's physical changes.
Because, in Cain's view, whether metal or flesh, both contained impurities. The difference was that, when dealing with metal, the margin for error was much greater. After all, metal had superior resistance, did not easily affect the Pokémon, and even if a small deviation appeared, it would not cause overly serious problems.
But with flesh it was different. A minimal deviation could cause a great impact on a Pokémon, so one had to act with extreme caution.
He wanted the system to record all of Aggron's physical changes at that moment. Perhaps in the future, a corresponding method for flesh-and-blood bodies could be analyzed.
After drinking the dose, Aggron closed its eyes. At the side, under Cain's instruction, Lucario also brought the dose to his mouth and drank it in one gulp.
Lucario and Aggron were very different. In Lucario's body, the proportion of metal was not very high, and the part made of flesh and bone accounted for a much greater percentage.
Cain placed his other hand on Lucario and also began collecting the changes in his body, since that could be of much greater help to him.
Since those doses contained a large number of trace elements extracted from minerals, specially oriented toward Steel-type Pokémon, as soon as they entered the stomach they began to spread toward all the limbs and organs. Then, as if they possessed their own awareness, they entered the metallic parts of the body.
With his hand resting on Aggron, Cain could clearly feel how Aggron's originally cold metallic armor gradually became scorching hot, that heat spreading throughout the metal that covered its body.
Lucario, on the other hand, although his body temperature also rose to a certain extent, it was not as obvious.
Cain narrowed his eyes and also expanded his psychic power to envelop both Pokémon.
Magearna was quite a special case, so Cain instructed her not to use it for the moment and to first wait and see the results in Aggron and Lucario.
From what the current situation showed, there did not seem to be too many problems for now. As long as both Pokémon could endure such bodily forging, it would certainly bring them some help.
Cain observed attentively for half an hour. After confirming that neither of them showed any problems, he finally withdrew his hands.
The data he needed to collect had already been practically gathered. Next, all that remained was to see whether the system could analyze it and calculate a suitable method for other Pokémon.
But there was one particularly important point that needed to be noted: even for Steel-type Pokémon, this kind of refinement was not something easy to endure.
This could be clearly seen from the bulging veins on Aggron and Lucario's foreheads and from the trembling of their bodies.
Moreover, since the level of both Pokémon was already relatively high, the amount of dose used was also large, making it even more difficult for them to withstand.
Most of Steven's Pokémon, for example, had begun using this method when they were still at relatively low levels. It was just that Cain still did not know whether it was better to use it when the level was already high or whether it was more reasonable to do so when the Pokémon was still at a lower stage.
(End of Chapter)