Chapter 670: Ice Vulpix’s Changes
Cyllage City’s Pokémon Center.
Terrance received a Poké Ball and came to a public area in Cyllage City.
“Come out, Vulpix.”
The Ice Vulpix emerged from the Poké Ball and leapt directly onto Terrance.
It had been over half a year since Ice Vulpix was born. During this period, with Terrance’s massive resource investment, Ice Vulpix’s development could be described as perfect.
Its fur was smooth and glossy, its elegant body concealed powerful explosive strength, and its bright eyes were a sign of its intelligence.
“Have you learned any new moves?”
It had been two months since Ice Vulpix last saw Terrance, and it missed him a lot. Faced with the little one’s affectionate behavior, Terrance smiled.
“Rotom Pokédex, check Vulpix’s current status.”
“Roger, Roto~~ Currently mastered moves are: Powder Snow, Tail Whip, Ice Shard, Confuse Ray, Icy Wind, Mist, Aurora Beam, Extrasensory, Safeguard, Ice Beam, Blizzard, Baby-Doll Eyes, Hail.”Terrance pondered for a moment. “Still haven’t mastered Sheer Cold?”
“Vulpix~” Little Vulpix cried out in disappointment.
“Haha, alright, I got it. You’re already amazing,” Terrance said with a smile.
Although Ice Vulpix had learned many moves, due to its limited energy, Terrance had it focus on training only a few of them.
Ice Beam, Extrasensory, Blizzard, Hail, Mist…
Based on Vulpix’s development over the past six months, Terrance already had a complete grasp of its condition.
Little Vulpix’s Ability was Snow Warning, and this discovery made Terrance ecstatic.
With Little Vulpix’s Ability, combined with Terrance’s summarized “Top-tier Snowy Weather secret technique,” it will have an even more powerful effect, pushing the power of Snowy Weather up a notch.
Terrance was still holding onto a top-quality Ice Stone for Vulpix. Although Little Vulpix was already very strong now, having surpassed Misdreavus and Growlithe Terrance had trained for nearly two years in just half a year, the resources invested were also far greater.
The cost of just the top-tier food over the past six months alone was comparable to the total resources Terrance had spent on training Growlithe and the others.
Terrance hadn’t yet taught Vulpix the Snowy Weather secret technique, planning instead to further solidify its foundation before introducing it to more advanced concepts. Early exposure to sophisticated secret techniques may not necessarily be a good thing.
In addition, Alolan Ninetales was Ice and Fairy type, which Terrance greatly cared about.
So far, the only Fairy-type move Vulpix had mastered was Baby-Doll Eyes, a move that lowers the opponent’s offensive stats by staring at them.
Terrance wanted to conduct an experiment with Vulpix, which was also why he had it transferred over.
Next, Terrance planned to go find Altaria.
If his guess was correct, under the guidance of Xerneas, Altaria might already be able to preliminarily utilize Fairy Aura.
As a Legendary Pokémon, Xerneas had naturally reached a terrifying level in developing and utilizing its Ability. If Altaria could learn even a fraction from it, the benefits would already be considerable. 𝖗ΑℕÖΒÊ𝒮
Fairy Aura had the effect of developing the potential of Fairy-type Pokémon and enhancing their strength. This was the conclusion Terrance came to after hearing about Ash’s experiences, so in order to verify this conclusion, Terrance planned to take Vulpix to give it a try.
“Now, let me check your recent training results. Did you slack off while training with Larvitar?”
“Vulpix” Little Vulpix pouted.
“It says… it says…” Rotom Pokédex translated, “that dumb, clumsy, heavy guy couldn’t keep up with its training intensity.”
“Heh, you little rascal.” Terrance rubbed Ice Vulpix’s head vigorously.
It was true that Larvitar couldn’t keep up with Ice Vulpix’s training intensity. Having only been revived from a fossil a month ago, Larvitar had just begun to move properly, barely fixing its habit of doing everything sluggishly.
As for how to train this Larvitar, Terrance had consulted Steven at the time.
Its size wasn’t much different from a normal Larvitar, but its weight was three to four times heavier. Clearly, its body had undergone a mutation during the long fossilization process.
Larvitar’s condition reminded Terrance of a certain Pokémon – Onix.
Onix grows by tempering its body under the pressure of deep underground. It’s said that as Onix grows, the composition of its rock body changes and becomes like black diamond.
Steelix, which evolves from Onix, possesses a body harder than any metal, forged through compression, pressure, and high heat deep underground.
Terrance considered whether Larvitar might have undergone a similar mutation.
After all, as a fellow Rock-type Pokémon, Larvitar’s body structure could no longer be defined by human standards.
Mysterious creatures… Terrance still remembered that description of Pokémon.
Regarding this unique Larvitar, Steven had given a suggestion about its food, which is some kind of special stone…
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One day later.
The ruins where the statue of the maiden was located.
Terrance climbed the mountain on foot. As he wanted to learn more about Little Vulpix along the way, he didn’t use Gallade to take a shortcut.
When Terrance reached the mountaintop, he was nearly blown off by a strong gust of wind.
Standing outside the ruins, Terrance looked at the fierce wind blowing out from the cave and his mouth twitched.
“Rotom Pokédex, protect yourself.”
“Little Vulpix, if another strong gust comes out, blow it right back.”
After giving instructions to the two Pokémon beside him, Terrance mustered his courage, paused for a moment to confirm there was no gust, and then walked directly into the cave.
Terrance’s progress went smoothly. Perhaps Xerneas had sensed that Terrance was arriving and stopped Altaria’s training.
When Terrance, Ice Vulpix, and Rotom Pokédex entered the cave, they saw Altaria in an area struggling to flap its wings, trying to muster strength in an attempt to fly.
“Gravity move.” Terrance’s pupils contracted. The gravity was so strong that even Altaria couldn’t fly. Terrance had never seen it before. Even the Gravity Room in Crown Academy and the Pokémon that used Gravity there weren’t at this level. Yet now, in this gravity field, Altaria seemed completely helpless.
As Terrance arrived, the gravity effect on Altaria suddenly vanished. Immediately afterward, under the influence of a strange power, a tree nearby rapidly bore a fruit that Terrance had never seen before.
As the fruit was flung toward Altaria, it swallowed it without hesitation.
Moments later, Altaria, who was covered in wounds and looked physically exhausted with depleted energy, suddenly became spirited and full of energy.
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