Pokemon: This Ash Is Too Versatile-Chapter 696 - 373: Capturing Heracross, Arriving at Violet City, First Meeting Norman!
Regarding Venusaur’s ability to not fear fire, Ash could only explain it roughly like this, as it involved the God of Life, Xerneas. Even though he had a good impression of May and Victor, he wouldn’t casually disclose such matters.
The principle can be explained, but how the principle came about, that’s not to be shared.
May and Victor exchanged glances, both seeing expressions of disbelief in each other’s eyes. Despite Ash’s reasonable explanation, it was still hard to believe.
Using life force to forcefully let a Grass Type Move rely on Growth to not fear a Fire Type Move... What kind of wild idea is this?
It’s not that such an idea can’t be implemented, but how much life force would it require to implement it?
Grass Pokemon indeed have abundant life force as they level up, but that life force is typically for themselves, putting it into a move, what does that mean?
Isn’t this pure waste? Does Venusaur have a mine inside its body to waste life force like this?
However, Ash’s expression didn’t seem fake, and besides, if Ash didn’t want to tell them, he wouldn’t need to use such a reason to brush them off, he could simply say it was a secret.
After all, they had only known each other for less than a day, there’s no need to disclose everything.
So... no matter how unbelievable this reason is, it’s probably the truth.
"Ash, your Pokemon are truly... extraordinary!" After thinking for a long time, May finally came up with this term. Aside from these four words, she didn’t know how else to describe Ash’s Pokemon.
In response, Ash just scratched his head and chuckled, indicating that his Pokemon have been exceptional not just recently. Without some skill, even with Aura Fusion, it wouldn’t be possible to battle across such a vast stage.
Afterward, May and Ash continued discussing and exchanging about some battle details, and roughly an hour later, May’s Blaziken was fully recovered.
The reason it took so long to recover was not only because Blaziken is a Gym Peak level Pokemon, but also because there were too many people in New Bark Town.
You could see by the fact that they had to queue for half an hour for a battle at the training ground, showing how many people were battling here in New Bark Town.
After battling, it’s natural to come to the Pokemon Center to recover. Although the flow of people at the recovery area and registration area is incomparable, the workload of both places is of different levels. One just requires registration, while the other requires medical treatment; the latter is unquestionably more challenging than the former by dozens of times.
So, even though the traffic isn’t on the same level, the recovery area of the Pokemon Center is still very busy, that’s why May’s Blaziken took such a long time to recover.
Once Blaziken was restored to its original state, the group stood up to set off for Violet City.
On the road, Ash curiously asked May about her age. May seemed to be roughly his age, but he couldn’t tell exactly how old she was.
May revealed that she’s now over sixteen years old. They matched their ages and found that May is about half a year older than him, meaning she has about half a year’s more travel time.
Having a Gym Peak level Pokemon within a year and two months is considered a genius level among all Trainers, even including that Trainer from Sinnoh who battled Ash earlier, Paul was at this level.
The key point is, May is a girl who manages to achieve this. Ash didn’t mean to belittle girls, but generally, they don’t like battling much. Although Serena claimed she would challenge the Silver Conference, her interest in battles wasn’t very high.
If not for the fact that aimless traveling wasn’t beneficial to growth and learning, Serena wouldn’t have registered for the Silver Conference. If there were a Pokemon Contest held by the Johto League here...
Therefore, girls like May who actively seek battles are truly rare among rares, because the base number of girls who enjoy battling is small, making strong female Trainers even fewer.
Of course, although the base number is small, the quality isn’t poor. Among the six Champion Trainers currently known, two are women. It is said that in the Unova Region, Champion Trainer Alder has already found his next champion candidate, and it seems to be a girl.
Judging by May’s current talent, it’s undoubtedly a matter of time before she becomes an Elite, perhaps even a Champion isn’t a hard goal to reach. But who can predict the future, right?
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Time flew by, a week passed, Ash and his group of five successfully arrived at Violet City.
Upon arriving in Violet City, both May and Victor felt as if in another world, the happenings in the short seven-day period almost exceeded their lifetime understanding.
Firstly, it’s Ash’s endless training equipment. Although May often used tools sold outside for training, the types and effects of those outside are incomparable to Ash’s.
Each tool Ash produced had better effects than the training tools sold on the market, some even were top-notch market tools, such as the elusive Enigma Berry.
Besides, Ash’s cooking also amazed them!
