For the moment, he left Aggron and Lucario to one side.
And shifted his focus to the combined training of the other Pokémon.
By this point, all of his Pokémon, both those at the level of Darkrai and Tyranitar and those at the level of Gardevoir and Venusaur, already possessed their own complete and independent training systems.
This was something Cain had deliberately cultivated ever since entering the Space-Time Continent.
When both the trainer and the Pokémon possess their own battle philosophy, and both philosophies have been refined until they fully align, then they can reach an extreme level of coordination in which wherever the trainer's mind points, the blade of the Pokémon follows.
In the entire Pokémon world, there are not many trainers capable of reaching that level.
It was a form of command even superior to the telepathic direction used by psychics, and it placed extremely high demands on both the trainer and the Pokémon.
Cain did not need to worry too much about those Pokémon. However, there were several others in which he now needed to invest a bit more energy.
For example, Miltank, whom he had just summoned from the breeding island, and Slaking, who lay down on the ground to sleep the moment it appeared.
Miltank was relatively easy to handle. After all, with the resources Cain currently possessed, as long as it was not required to participate in battle, it was enough to improve her as much as possible. There were not too many rigid conditions to meet.
But Slaking was different.
No matter what, Slaking was a Pokémon from which Cain had very high expectations.
It was a Pokémon that could truly participate in real combat.
Moreover, Cain's Slaking had been raised using a special method. As long as it was given enough time, the explosive power it could release might become the greatest among all of Cain's Pokémon.
From the time it evolved into Slaking until now, it had not participated in a single battle. All that time had been spent sleeping. Even the strength it currently possessed had been accumulated by Cain through gradually stacking resources little by little. Inside its body, there was probably an amount of energy impossible to calculate. And once it erupted, it would undoubtedly dazzle everyone.
However, now there was a problem before Cain.
How could he continue increasing its strength efficiently?
Or, more directly, its level.
Pokémon: Slaking (Light Purple)
Gender: Male
Level: 85
Type: Normal
Ability: Truant
Held Item: Choice Band
Egg Moves: Crush Claw, Hammer Arm, Night Slash, Tickle
Basic Moves: Reversal, Scratch, Focus Energy, Encore, Uproar, Fury Swipes, Endure, Slash, Chip Away, Counter, Focus Punch, Swagger, Punishment, Fling, Amnesia, Covet, Flail, Swagger
Learned Moves: Low Kick, After You, Thunder Punch, Gunk Shot, Ice Punch, Water Pulse, Icy Wind, Fire Punch, Shock Wave, Snore
TM Moves: Protect, Work Up, Bulk Up, Earthquake, Return, Brick Break, Aerial Ace, Low Sweep, Shadow Claw, Bulldoze, Rock Slide
It was also because Cain truly had resources to spare; otherwise, even another person would not have been able to forcibly stack resources to raise Slaking to this level, nor would they have been willing to spend such a large amount of resources on such a lazy Pokémon.
But now, after raising Slaking until it crossed the first threshold of the Champion level, the speed at which its strength increased had suddenly slowed down.
For any other person, the so-called "slow growth" that Cain spoke of would still be a nearly soaring growth speed.
But was Cain an ordinary person?
Who exactly were the opponents he had to face?
What monstrous level were the enemies he had to defeat?
Not even Cain could estimate how far Slaking's strength could truly explode. Or rather, no one in the entire Pokémon world could calculate it.
But the more impossible it was to estimate, the less he could allow its training to stop.
Perhaps in a single battle, it could truly unleash a power capable of making anyone's blood run cold.
At that moment, Cain completely transformed into a diligent trainer, with his mind filled only with how to increase the strength of his Pokémon.
In the blink of an eye, although he had just woken up, the sun was already setting.
And throughout all that time, Aggron and Lucario remained almost motionless in the same place, silently enduring the forging that those two doses were subjecting them to.
If one stayed beside them the entire time observing, perhaps one would not notice too great or obvious an effect. But if the Aggron of the morning were compared with the Aggron of the night, placing them side by side, the difference was enormous.
The first and most superficial difference was the color of Aggron's outer metallic armor.
Although both were still the typical silver of Steel-type Pokémon, the metal in the morning seemed somewhat duller and more grayish. That is to say, by nightfall, once the entire effect of the dose had dissipated, the metal of Aggron's body had clearly gained a new level of luster.
Of course, that was only the most superficial change. Through the system's meticulous scanning, Cain discovered that a large amount of impurities from the metal in Aggron's body had been expelled outward.
The effect was extremely evident!
The clearest proof was that Aggron's quality, which had originally been Purple, had suddenly risen to Dark Purple.
And not only that, but even within the Dark Purple range, it belonged to the relatively high tier.
As for Lucario, after using that special dose, the effect it obtained was not as outstanding as Aggron's.
Although its quality had also improved to a certain extent, it still remained within the Dark Purple quality range. Only that, if one observed carefully, a few strands of black color could be seen floating within the Dark Purple color.
In other words, the current Lucario had already brushed against the Black quality. If it continued to strive and received several more improvements, it still had a high probability of truly reaching the Light Black quality.
Only, the process would not be easy at all.
But Cain was very satisfied with this result. Both Aggron and Lucario already started with quality within the Purple color range, so raising their quality further was already, in itself, a very difficult task.
And even more so when Aggron had managed to go from Purple to Dark Purple in a single step.
(End of Chapter)