Axel didn't know that such a thing existed where royal families would battle. But he was also skeptical about how good the training manual would be.
Yet, he didn't have time to think about such things. This tournament would not be held right now. Right now, he needed to help his Pokemons and his team get the most benefit from their training.
And one of them was Staraptor. It was quite happy when it was the first to evolve and rank up to an uncommon rank. Then Blastoise also evolved and then Magneton.
The funny thing was, that Magneton typing was superior to Staraptor and Blastoise. But that was not all. Since 3 Magnemite merged to become Magneton, its mastery over its moves and also its stats were far higher than Blastoise and Staraptor.
After Blastoise completed its evolution, Staraptor lost to it but was a close battle. Blastoise was quite defensive but its offensive moves were not as deadly as Staraptor. The battle was mostly stamina-related.
But the battle between Staraptor and Magneton was not even close. It was finished within a minute.
Magneton had very strong electric type moves which were supper effective against Staraptor. Last month, Staraptor trained on only its ground type move. It had learned the move 'Mud slap' but the move was not so effective and its power was not so high.
So, it had recently learned the move 'Mud bomb'. This was the result of its extreme training. Normally, Staraptor were not supposed to learn this move.
This showed how overpowered Axel's system was. Even his other Pokemons would not been able to learn a new move that they didn't have the typing for and that they normally don't learn. But Staraptor was special.
Due to its passive move, it would rise up, the move it trained and the harshly it trained.
After learning the move, Staraptor challenged Magneton but it still lost the battle. The battle was quite close this time. Staraptor was really fast but due to Magneton's 'Thunder wave' and 'Electric terrain', it was able to control the speed of Staraptor.
"Gandiva, you know that I cannot be favorable to you and not to Magneton and Blastoise. But since you have come to me for help, I will definitely help you.
But if Magneton and Blastoise also come for the help, I will help them too."
Staraptor nodded its head. It wanted to keep this a secret and it would reveal its hidden potential in the compeititon directly to them.
"You only have a month left before the competition. If you want to win against Blastoise and Magneton, you need first create a new move, train in some new moves, and then upgrade your existing moves.
That is just a part of things that you will have to do.
Even though you are fast for your rank, you are still incredibly slow and also you cannot manipulate the directions while you are at high speed. This needs to change.
I don't know if you will be able to achieve all of this in a month. But I do know that you give it your all, you can do anything."
Staraptor was visibly excited after hearing from Axel.
It was ready to train.
After some thinking, Axel said, "The 'Electric terrain' of Magneton is a terrain move. Something that changes the surroundings. Now, you can increase your resistance to that terrain so that it would not affect you or be so fast that it would not catch you.
But as of right now, both of them are not possible.
So, the only thing that you could do for yourself is to create your own terrain-type move and clash it with Magneton.
Now, I know how hard it is to create a terrain move and upgrade it to a desired level, but I have a way to make it happen.
You will also learn multiple moves like 'Hurricane', 'Flamethrower' and 'Sunny day'. You also need to upgrade your 'Mud bomb' to level 40 if you think that you want a chance to defeat Magneton.
For Blastoise you need a higher penetrating attack move. I don't know if you will be able to do it or not."
Axel gave it multiple suggestions and told it that he would personally look after its training.
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Days started to pass like that. Everyone was working harder and harder. They didn't want to die in the tide battle and they also didn't want to embarrass Axel.
The biggest challenge that Axel believed that the team was facing was co-ordination. They had individually trained themselves and their Pokemons most of the time and there was no proper coordination between them.
Of course, there were teams of Mary who had very good coordination but most of them didn't.
"Ok, everyone. Listen up. For the last month, we will only focus on team attacks and team strategies. The commanders will come up with multiple strategies for your team and you will implement them."
Axel also told the commanders to come up with at least 5 team strategies that the team could use in multiple situations.
"I at least want an attack strategy, defense strategy, run away strategy, and helping other team strategy. The last one is a special strategy of your own that you can create for yourself.", said Axel.
He knew that only 5 strategies were not going to be enough but they only had a month and it would take a lot of time to train in these strategies.
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While other commanders were training and commanding their teams for the tide battle, Tory had been working really hard to keep his team intact.
Because none of them respected him.
Why?
He didn't even have a psychic-type Pokemon 2 months ago and he was the commander of the teleportation team.
So, Serena, Latias in disguise helped him. She started to train all of his team members including him.
There was a bet going on too. If even one of the Ralts was able to reach elemental rank in these 3 months, none of them could question Tory's command.
Now, only a month was left and both of his Ralts were now in rare rank.
Even Tory could not understand why they were growing so fast. He suspected that Serena had something to do with this but he checked their bodies and they were healthy as ever.
Tory was overflowing with confidence but he knew that reaching elemental rank in a month was no joke.
"How is Tory holding up?", asked Axel to Serena.
"He is doing the best he can. Gardevoir and Gallade are also getting stronger. He doesn't know that those 2 are special in their own way.", replied Serena.
"Well, if he is doing well, then it is good news. I cannot thank you enough for what you are doing."
"Don't mention it. After you get stronger, you will take revenge for me.", said Serena with a smile.
Staraptor was now fully focused on its training. It had a road map on how to get stronger and how to beat its friends but that road was very long. Yet, it still didn't give up. Its pride would not let it give up.
Slowly, time started to pass. Axel's Pokemons along with his team members started to get stronger. Everyone was giving their all and maybe that was why they were getting a lot stronger than Axel had ever hoped for.
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A week before the start of the tide battle.
"Sir, we got a letter from the king and the royal family. It is about the tide battle that we are going to face.", said Ashmita.
"Seriously? I was fighting for my life a while ago and they are not even going easy on me? I thought that they would issue this after a couple of weeks."
"Sir, the royal family is very strict when it comes to their knights and you are the first knight. They believe that if the knight could not even save his life, how is he going to save the life of the whole region?"
"Sigh, Ok, give me the document and also call the meeting of the commanders.", said Axel.
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"Wow, they really think that we are so capable, huh?", said Krishna as he began to read the letter.
"Why, is that place really dangerous?", asked Axel.
"Sir, we were said to protect a city called 'Ironforge'. This is one of the fortress cities near Cerulean city. This was basically made so that Cerulean city could be protected from the south side.
The soldiers out there are very experienced and very strong. They are also a lot in numbers. They had been protecting that city for hundreds of years."
"So, isn't that a good thing? I mean, we will get the support of these people."
"No sir, it might not be so good. There are 2 reasons for this.
First, if they are calling us for help, then they must be facing something far more dangerous than something we are not even able to comprehend. There might also be facing a huge number of Pokemons.
The second reason is due to the soldiers of the 'Iron forge'."
"What about them?"
"Since they are so strong and experienced, they are quite arrogant and a show-off. It is very hard for an outsider to work together with the soldiers of Ironforge."
"The letter didn't mention the grade of the tide and also the leader of the tide battle among the wild Pokemons. It is estimated that the tide battle will start after a month from now on. So, we do have some time to get ready."
"Yes, this is the final week. You will train your team members while I wil get ready for the Blaze family Pokemon competition."
The family competition which would be held once a year was going to be held very soon. His family, especially Agnes was very busy with promoting the competition for a while now and they had also been preparing for the competition.
Axel also had to do his part. He called some of his friends to participate and some of them agreed including Lance.
This time, his commanders were also interested in this competition and they also wanted to participate.
The final participant which kind of surprised Axel was actually Cynthia.
Yes, Cynthia. Actually, Axel had not even asked her to come. They were not friends, just acquaintances who met each other a few times. Cynthia had saved Shedinja's life and possibly his but it was not done knowingly and he had already paid for it.
Cynthia agreed to come here when Lorelai, one of her friends who was also coming for the competition talked about it. Cynthia loved this sort of competition because she wanted to crush all of them. So, she also accepted and Axel could not just say no.
"It is time for me to call all of my Pokemons."
Axel believed that since he was going to the tide battle, it was necessary to get the help of all of his Pokemons. Most of them were training for the tide battle. So, except for Shedinja, he called all of his Pokemons to him. Charizard, Pidgeot, Lucario, and even Tauros and others.
It took some time to reach Axel. Axel realized that they had grown and now they were exceptionally powerful than before. Pokemons like Charizard had ranked up to pseudo-champion rank.
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Ding!
Alakazam has fulfilled all the conditions for the rank up.
Ding!
Alakazam is ranking up….
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