Pokémon: The Journey Begins with a Cowherd

Chapter 30: Making Energy Cubes!

After purchasing the ball-launching machine, Scorpion and his team's training progressed much more smoothly.

Qingyuan also had a great time shooting at live targets on the training field with a ball-serving machine in hand.

Perhaps because the power of the ball launcher is greater than Qingyuan's hand strength, Scorpion and Scyther feel pain after being hit.

It's also possible that Qingyuan's punishment of them in the morning had an effect.

During the afternoon's evasion training, the Scorpion and the Scyther clearly stopped trying to fight back and started to learn how to evade.

After the evasion training ended, Qingyuan did not let Scorpion and Scyther continue their sparring training.

The main reason was that Qingyuan was frightened by the brutal fight between the two guys this morning. He was really afraid that fighting twice in one day would cause them to develop a grudge again.

Therefore, in order to avoid creating rifts between the elves due to civil war.

During lunch break, Qingyuan quickly revised the training plans for Scorpion and Mantis.

The original combat training was changed to skill proficiency training.

Scorpio is practicing the Guard skill he just learned from the skill disc, which is a god-tier skill.

Once used, unless it's a Pokémon whose level is significantly higher than Scorpio's, Scorpio can generally withstand their attacks by using Protect.

In critical moments, holding onto this skill can be considered a second life for Scorpios.

This is why Qingyuan spent a huge sum of three million Alliance Coins to buy this skill disc.

If it weren't for the lack of funds, Qingyuan would have even considered giving each of his three Pokémon a card.

However, perhaps because they have just learned it, Scorpios are not very proficient in using the Guard skill.

Not only is it slow to use, but it sometimes even fails to work.

If he can't use his skills successfully, then all those three million Alliance coins he spent will have been wasted.

So, taking advantage of the absence of combat training, Scorpio can use this opportunity to hone their defensive skills.

As for Scyther, Qingyuan has to say, it's a good kid too.

When Qingyuan analyzed its information at noon today, he discovered that it had actually learned the skill of gathering Qi.

According to Qingyuan's guess, he must have learned this skill this morning during the match against Scorpio.

Although the reason for learning it was rather absurd, knowing that Qingyuan was worried about its training, it learned a new skill in the blink of an eye.

What else could a flying scythe be but a good kid?

Therefore, Scyther's afternoon training plan is to practice the Charge skill.

As for Charmander, there's no need to mention him; he should continue practicing his skills.

Although this guy has mastered many skills, he is not very proficient in any of them, so Qingyuan thinks it's better to let him master his skills first.

Spark had almost mastered the skills by morning, so Qingyuan decided to have him train in Dragon Dance in the afternoon.

This skill is a powerful amplification skill, and many dragon-type Pokémon cannot even master it.

Charmander knows this skill, but he's not very skilled at using it.

According to Qingyuan's thinking, this skill has great potential to be developed in future battles.

However, the prerequisite is that Charmander must first master it.

Only after mastering its use can Qingyuan proceed with further development.

Although Charmander successfully used it several times when ambushing Scorpio last time.

However, after that, no matter how hard it tried, it was unable to use it successfully.

Qingyuan has reason to suspect that it was Charmander's anger at wanting to beat up Scorpio that enabled Charmander to successfully use Dragon Dance.

So during training, Qingyuan tried his best to make Charmander recall the feeling from that time before using Dragon Dance.

Ultimately, it was proven that Dragon Dance might indeed require a bit of anger, as Charmander did after trying ten times.

I finally found that state of mind and successfully used Dragon Dance.

Upon seeing this, Qingyuan was overjoyed and immediately told the little fire dragon to remember this feeling and practice more.

After Charmander successfully used Dragon Dance twice more based on this feeling, Qingyuan felt relieved and let it practice on its own.

Seeing that the training of the three Pokémon was on track, Qingyuan felt relieved and let them train on their own.

He returned to his room alone.

Of course, he didn't go back to his room to be lazy. When he went to the berry shop last time, Qingyuan bought a lot of berries to make energy cubes.

He plans to try making his own energy cube.

The cultivation manual he bought from the black market last time, which showed how to make energy cubes, was still gathering dust in his backpack.

It's time to take it out and learn how to use it. If you learn it, everyone will be happy, and you can save the cost of buying energy blocks.

It might even increase your income.

It's okay if he can't learn it, after all, his main job is to be a trainer.

Making power cubes is something that professional breeders must learn.

He only needs to learn how to cultivate knowledge; whether he can make energy cubes is not that important to him.

Using the energy cube maker from the Pokémon Center, Qingyuan spent an hour making seventeen cubes.

Finally, on the eighteenth attempt, Qingyuan successfully created the energy cube recorded in the cultivation manual.

"It looks pretty good!"

Qingyuan picked up a pink energy cube and examined it carefully in his hand.

The translucent pink energy cube looked exceptionally alluring under the light.

This is an energy cube used to increase beauty, allowing some ugly elves to become confident in their appearance.

However, in Qingyuan's view, it should be a kind of energy cube that increases self-confidence.

Through self-suggestion, the elf gains confidence in his weaknesses and becomes less fearful.

Then, through a change in temperament from the inside out, the elf looked much more beautiful.

"But how do we determine how much of an improvement there is?"

Qingyuan looked at the energy cube in his hand and muttered to himself.

After all, he wasn't a professional breeder and couldn't judge the increase in power of the energy cube with the naked eye.

In his opinion, this energy cube was about the same quality as the one he had bought.

"Should we give it to the Scorpions?"

The moment the thought popped into his head, Qingyuan slapped himself across the face with lightning speed.

"Don't think about Qingyuan, they are your source of confidence and your partners!"

"What if something goes wrong, you idiot!"

Putting aside the fact that this energy cube recipe was bought from the black market, it has no safety to speak of.

What's more, the three of them, Scorpio, are all incredibly arrogant. If this thing really works, they'll turn the world upside down!

After clearing his mind of those thoughts, Qingyuan looked at the energy cube in front of him, perplexed.

Ultimately, Qingyuan couldn't think of a suitable guinea pig to test the energy cubes, so he had no choice but to put them away.

I plan to have a breeder check it out at the store next time.

If there are really no problems, then he will have a new way to make money.

After all, energy cubes that increase beauty are quite rare in the Kanto region.

Because there are no grand competitions in the Kanto region, most trainers focus more on the strength of their Pokémon.

To better serve their customers, most breeders in the Kanto region specialize in making energy cubes related to Pokémon development and strength growth.

As for the energy cubes that increase beauty, not many breeders make them.

Although the Kanto region doesn't have the Grand Contest, it does have plenty of rich young ladies.

To make their sprites even more beautiful, they spare no expense, which makes beauty-enhancing energy cubes a hot commodity in the Kanto region.

Once it's made, it'll definitely sell.

After packing his things, Qingyuan glanced at the time and realized that an hour had passed.

He then decided to go and see how Scorpion and the others were doing in their training.

While you're at it, give them some energy cubes to replenish their nutrition.

Having learned how to make energy cubes, Qingyuan was in a good mood and walked briskly towards the training ground.

Little did he know that Scorpios had already prepared a little trouble for him.