Tetsuya kept scrolling through the schedule, and after repeatedly confirming there were no issues, he began to enjoy his lunch.
So, I'll go shopping this afternoon then, Tetsuya quickly made his decision.
After quickly finishing lunch, Tetsuya put the Torchic Egg into his backpack.
After recalling Pidgeot, who was sunbathing in the backyard, he headed directly towards the Alliance Mall.
As dusk fell.
Viridian City and Viridian Forest were gradually gilded with a layer of golden yellow by the setting sun.
Tetsuya, who had spent the entire afternoon shopping spree at the Alliance Mall and Trade Center, returned home with a full harvest and a tired body.
Of course, his wallet had also shrunk considerably.
Even though Tetsuya had prepared for the expense, when he actually bought so many things at once and swiped his card frantically, his heart still ached immensely.
Tetsuya collapsed onto the sofa at home, feeling even more exhausted than adventuring.
Struggling to prepare dinner for Pidgeot and himself, Tetsuya began to tally the items he had purchased this time.
First, he bought six Luxury Balls produced by Silph Co., which were considered a good environment for Pidgeot and Torchic, and also prepared for future main forces.
In addition to simple features like fire resistance, drop resistance, water resistance, electrical resistance, and never peeling paint.
Compared to ordinary Poke Balls, the Luxury Balls produced by Silph Co. were basically the difference between a mansion and a wooden house in terms of internal space, with the function of automatically simulating an environment suitable for Pokemon life.
Moreover, the Luxury Balls produced by Silph Co. could also be bound to the Trainer's own Pokemon Watch, monitoring the Pokemon's physical condition inside in real-time.
As for the issue of data leakage, Tetsuya said that there was no way to avoid it anyway, and this kind of detection was also relatively low-level and very prone to fluctuations, so there was no need to worry.
Besides, Silph Co. had never hidden this point, and Trainers were also aware of it, but the things produced by Silph Co. were all high-quality goods and were simply too appealing.
Compared to leaking a little data, it was nothing at all, and Silph Co. also promised not to leak it with its reputation, so people were relatively trusting.
Tetsuya also bought other things produced by Silph Co., simply upgrading his equipment.
For example, matching Pokemon Watches, Spatial Backpacks, and tents, the effects and so on were much higher than before.
For example, the Spatial Backpack increased directly from the original 10 cubic meters to 50 cubic meters.
There were also simple linkage functions between various pieces of equipment, such as the watch being able to control the settings inside the tent.
Just for these things, Tetsuya spent 1.5 million Alliance Coins at Silph Co., which was also thanks to his previous equipment also being from Silph Co., allowing him to trade in old for new and save a little Alliance Coin.
Secondly, Tetsuya went to the Devon Corporation store, spending 500,000 Alliance Coins on a latest model Navigator and Drone, and another 1 million Alliance Coins on two sets of the most complete Wilderness Exploration Suits, which came with a series of black technology functions such as constant temperature, environment detection, positioning, and transformation.
He also bought a complete set of training equipment for Torchic, spending another 1.5 million Alliance Coins, and incidentally traded in Pidgeot's old weight equipment for a new one, costing 300,000 Alliance Coins.
Adding these up, Tetsuya had already spent 4.8 million Alliance Coins, and this was only a part of the equipment.
The following items were the real major expenses.
Tetsuya first bought the Nutrient Potions that Torchic would need, which were from Saffron City, and their function was to improve the physical fitness and other attributes of Young Pokemon to a limited extent.
Basically, if you continuously feed Nutrient Potions until they are out of the Young stage, your Pokemon will be slightly stronger in all aspects than Pokemon that don't take Nutrient Potions.
A set of Nutrient Potions includes seven types: physical fitness, energy, special attack, special defense, physical attack, physical defense, and speed. Each bottle is 10 milliliters, and three sets are needed per day.
The Young stage of a Pokemon lasts about 20 days, which means 60 sets are needed.
As for the price, hehe, Tetsuya could only say it was incredible.
A set of Nutrient Potions costs 50,000 Alliance Coins, so 60 sets cost 3 million Alliance Coins, with no discounts or bargaining.
Young Pokemon also need to supplement various vitamins, and the store clerk said they had prepared them for him.
Scientifically formulated, Compound Vitamin Tablets, two tablets per day, 40 tablets to be taken directly until out of the Young stage, not expensive, just 200,000 Alliance Coins.
Tetsuya paid with tears in his eyes.
Not only that, Tetsuya also had the cultivation plan given by Zero.
Medicinal herbs cost a total of 600,000 Alliance Coins, various types of Berries cost a total of 1.4 million Alliance Coins, and Pokemon materials purchased at the Trade Center cost 1 million Alliance Coins.
Hmm, another 6.2 million Alliance Coins spent on Torchic. Fortunately, these were not just materials for the Young stage. Tetsuya estimated that adding another 1.8 million Alliance Coins worth of resources would be enough for Torchic to quickly break through to the Elite Level.
Otherwise, if the Young stage alone cost this much, Tetsuya would directly collapse.
There was also the Pokemon food for the two Pokemon, which was not too bad, only costing 600,000 Alliance Coins.
After all, he was considered wealthy now, and Tetsuya didn't want Pidgeot and Torchic to eat poorly, so he replaced the original solid granular Pokemon food with Energy Cubes, buying a little over a month's supply.
It was expensive, but the nutrition was also better.
If only Tetsuya knew how to make Energy Cubes, synthesizing them with Berries would also be good.
Then there was Pidgeot's cultivation. Tetsuya estimated that he wouldn't take on any more tasks before Torchic reached the Elite Level, and Pidgeot would still focus on training, so he spent another 1.7 million Alliance Coins on cultivation materials for Pidgeot.
Tetsuya calculated everything. This shopping trip cost a total of over 13 million Alliance Coins.
Tetsuya looked at the balance on his card and gave a wry smile.
This morning he had assets of over 49 million Alliance Coins, close to 50 million Alliance Coins. By evening, after a little over 12 hours, it had become only about 6 million Alliance Coins.
His assets had directly shrunk by nine-tenths.
But these were necessary investments.
While it's not impossible for Torchic to get stronger without these things, its progress would definitely be much slower. Pidgeot is the most obvious example.
If Tetsuya had provided Pidgeot, back when it was a Pidgey, with this kind of training, it would have reached its current strength in at most half a year.
But Tetsuya also clearly knew that his current progress was already incredibly dreamlike compared to other ordinary trainers.
After all, he was a transmigrator with a cheat, lucky enough to encounter two high-potential Pokemon Eggs and a high-quality Fire Stone, plus he had an eidetic memory and learned exceptionally fast.
If this wasn't considered outstanding, then he could only seek out the monstrous talents of this world.
Tetsuya originally planned to become an Elite Four member around the age of 30, and then rely on accumulation and Zero's help to gradually become stronger, becoming a Champion in his 40s, considering himself successful as a high-ranking Alliance official.
The class solidification in this world was too severe.
Even though Tetsuya considered himself to have the protagonist's treatment, he felt it would be difficult to quickly attain a high position, as he was ultimately just an orphan with no family faction support.
However, looking at the current situation, Tetsuya felt his goal might be achieved several years earlier.
There were pros and cons.
According to Tetsuya's original estimation, while his progress speed was outstanding, it couldn't be called monstrous.
After all, there were too many geniuses in this world, such as Professor Oak, Lance, Sinnoh Champion Cynthia, and the current Alliance Chairman, Mr. Alder.
Even Bruno had Quasi-Champion strength before the age of thirty.
Tetsuya's performance would only draw attention. As long as he found a backer, climbing the ranks within the Alliance system step by step would be fine.
However, once he displayed overly monstrous talent, even with a bit of luck in the eyes of others, it would be difficult for Tetsuya to casually find a backer; he would need to choose carefully.
After all, most families hoped for such exceptionally talented monsters to join their side. If that wasn't possible, then they could only be stifled in the cradle.
This meant Tetsuya had to find a sufficiently powerful backer who was also protective, so he could be relatively safer.
This was also something Tetsuya had always feared, which was why he hadn't extensively used Zero's Potential Detection function to make money.
Tetsuya could relatively easily find high-potential Pokemon Eggs. Detecting the talent of hatched Young Pokemon was much simpler than detecting Pokemon Eggs.
Moreover, the price difference between the two was at least double. For example, a Pokemon Egg whose potential could only be determined to be between Elite and Quasi-Elite Four might only sell for 12 million.
After hatching, if detected as Elite Potential, the price might drop to 10 million. If it was Quasi-Elite Four, it would immediately become 20 million.
This was also why Tetsuya chose to buy Pokemon Eggs. Besides the issue of Affection, price was also a reason. After all, with Zero, he didn't need to spend a large sum to buy Young Pokemon with high Potential.
And it was unlikely to find a huge steal like a Torchic with Champion Potential.
Originally, by buying and selling like this, Tetsuya could have quickly accumulated initial funds.
If he had done that, Tetsuya estimated he would already have six main Pokemon, and at least all of them would be Elite Level.
However, Tetsuya had never used this method in his sixteen years.
It wasn't that he was afraid of the Alliance discovering him; after all, once or twice would be fine.
But unfortunately, Tetsuya grew up in Viridian City.
This was very troublesome.
Although Tetsuya didn't know much in his previous life, he at least knew that the leader of the Viridian City Gym, Giovanni of the Earth, was the head of Team Rocket, the largest organization in Kanto.
Moreover, there was only one Black Market in each region, and the Black Market in the Kanto region just happened to be located near Viridian City.
If you said there was no trickery involved, Tetsuya wouldn't believe it even if he died; he'd even cut off his head for you.
What if Team Rocket thought Tetsuya was suspicious and kidnapped him midway to dissect and research him? That would be even more terrifying than death.
Tetsuya certainly didn't dare to gamble with his life and had been steadily controlling his progress all these years.
But with a Torchic of Champion Potential before him, not choosing to take a gamble would be even more listless than a salted fish.
Moreover, as long as he didn't directly reveal Torchic's progress speed all at once, others wouldn't notice the potential issue too much.
After all, Tetsuya was outwardly a genius, so it was relatively easy for a well-trained Torchic to progress quickly.
Coupled with various encounters during adventures, this wasn't excessive at all.
Once Tetsuya secretly developed and had enough strength to protect himself, at least enough to escape, he could confidently and boldly improve himself.
Before that, Tetsuya felt it was better to be a bit more cautious.
The protagonists who acted recklessly already had grass on their graves that could almost wield swords.
I'll add some settings. If you still find any bugs, you can mention them in the pinned post I made in the discussion area, and I'll see what they are specifically.
Then I suddenly felt that a 3000-word chapter on the weekend was awkward. It's very inconvenient if I want to add more chapters or something. This time it's like this.
So, from now on, unless there are unforeseen circumstances, each chapter will be around 2000+ words, with two updates every weekday and three updates every weekend.
And this Saturday and Sunday's 3000 words will be moved to Friday and Saturday. So starting from tomorrow, it will be the usual two updates daily. Tomorrow counts as a weekday (doge).
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