Pokémon: Chronicles of Freedom (200 - 398)

Chapter 258: Bottomless Black Hole

Nameless Island.

Underground River Tunnel.

Cain, holding a torch, advanced with his Pokémon.

However, his thoughts didn't stop.

After defeating the Dustox leader, Cain captured it in a Pokéball and then treated its wounds lightly to ensure it wouldn't die.

He also instructed the system to constantly monitor any changes in Dustox.

He found that the Leadership skill Dustox originally had as a leader was slowly fading.

Even inside the Pokéball, this ability couldn't help but fade away.

This showed that once a Pokémon with Leadership was captured, it was no longer considered the leader of its group, so that ability would gradually disappear.

When Dustox's Leadership ability completely vanished, its quality would likely revert to light green.

Then, aside from its level, its utility value wouldn't be as high.

In these past two days, Cain had eliminated so many Dustox that his four Grimer could hardly contain any more.

The two Grimer captured in Dugtrio's cave now had a dark yellow quality and a light green quality, both having improved once.

Not only had their quality changed, but their levels had also increased.

Originally, both Pokémon were between levels 10-15, but after devouring and absorbing so many bodies, both Grimer had reached level 23.

There was still much energy left in the larger Dustox bodies to absorb. If they absorbed it completely, their levels might increase even more, and they could even improve their quality.

The most important thing is that Dustox is also a Poison-type Pokémon, giving Grimer a greater benefit than other types of Pokémon.

As for the two Grimer purchased in Vermilion City, their bodies were also filled with Dustox remains.

The feeling of satisfaction was so intense that they barely wanted to move inside their Pokéballs; they only wanted to focus on breaking down the energy from those remains.

Even though Cain had extracted the energy crystals from the bodies, the original energy they contained hadn't diminished at all.

Moreover, under the system's constant supervision, Cain discovered that the higher the initial quality of a Pokémon, the faster it decomposed and absorbed the bodies.

While quality improvement still took longer for high-quality Pokémon compared to low-quality ones, the rapid energy breakdown meant their leveling speed would also increase.

The system predicted that if these Grimer fully decomposed and absorbed the Dustox bodies, their levels might also surpass 20.

The higher the quality of a Grimer, the greater its efficiency in using dispersed energy.

Once all these Grimer have grown, whether to assign them to his subordinates or to sell them, both would be good uses.

At the very least, after Grimer evolves into Muk, its combat capacity won't be weak.

Furthermore, if he formed a team with a line of Muk of such high quality, their combat power would be quite impressive.

Cain set those thoughts aside and focused on the present. After all, the wild Pokémon bodies didn't have much use for him, so he preferred to leave them as nutrients for his Grimer.