Chapter 26: I want your slaves
Goomy, the pre-evolution of Goodra, is a representative pseudo-legendary of the Kalos Region. Although Goodra is not as famous as some of its pseudo-legendary peers, it still can't change the fact that Goodra is a pseudo-legendary Pokémon with 600 stats.
The most surprising thing was that it was Hisuian. Its following evolutions, Sligoo and Goodra, have this corresponding type, which is Dragon/Steel Type. You know the primary nemesis of all Dragons is the Fairy type, followed by the Ice type. While Ice Type Pokémon can deal super-effective damage to Dragon Type, Dragon Type can also deal normal damage to Ice type, which is enough for Dragons to counterattack. However, Dragons can't actually deal damage to Fairy type – it's not just resistance but no damage, and Fairy can even deal super-effective damage to Dragon Type.
But now, with the additional Steel type for Dragons, not only can Goodra receive normal damage from Fairy Type and Ice Type but also deal super-effective damage to them using Steel moves. Additionally, although Fire-type Moves revert from being resistant to dealing normal damage to Dragons, Goodra still gets the Steel buff, which has much resistance to most types, except for Fighting and Ground which deal super-effective damage to them, and some few types that can deal normal damage.
And now he saw many Goomy being trained by someone here using Water Gun and Bubbles to create a beautiful fountain. Were pre-pseudo-legendary Pokémon actually being used for a show? If Pokémon fans knew this, they might kick this guy and steal these five.
Actually, he felt an urge to kick this guy, but he restrained and forced himself to calm down. And one thing he was doubting: were pseudo-legendary Pokémon as common as cabbages now?
In the whole eight months since he appeared in this world, except for Axew, he hadn't seen any other Pokémon with Dragon Type; he had even rarely seen non-Dragon Type Pokémon belonging to the Dragon Egg group, maybe Swablu, which becomes a dragon when evolved, but aside from it, he had only seen Ekans, Arbok, Seadra, Horsea, Magikarp, and Gyarados. And now he had Dratini and even an unconscious Dragonite in his Pokéball, which he got six days ago, and surprisingly, he saw another pre-pseudo-legendary, Goomy? And it's actually Hisuian.
This was even rarer to see than normal Dragon types. Where was the dignity and rarity of being pseudo-legendary? He hoped he wouldn't later see a large pack of legendary Pokémon doing circus acts like this. Well, if the hypothesis that Caterpie could evolve into Rayquaza was true, then he had seen a lot.
Or maybe it was because pseudo-legendary Pokémon took too long to evolve, so humans could defeat them, as the baby stage and middle stage of pseudo-legendary Pokémon weren't actually that strong compared to the final form? But even if that's the case, it's still shocking.
Floyd shook his head; the most important thing for now was how to acquire these five. He hurriedly approached the man, suppressing his emotion, while Axew quickly followed behind him. He entered the tent and said, "Mister!"
Hearing the voice behind, the man took a look and seemed a bit surprised by Floyd's Austronesian features—a foreigner. Then he started questioning him.
Floyd couldn't understand Chinese, so he looked to Axew at his side.
"Axew," Axew nodded and explained to him what the man said. Pokémon have the ability to understand what humans say, no matter what language it is, and since Floyd had Dragon Power, he could understand what they were saying, but only exclusively to Dragons, Dragon Egg Group, and other Pokémon associated with Dragons.
(AN: What I mean for the last is a non-Dragon Egg Group but can learn Dragon Move)
"Who are you?" The man asked.
"I'm Floyd from the country Maharlika in the southeast, can you understand?" Floyd replied and asked him back.
"I can understand… a bit, but I can't speak. But what are you doing here? I'm busy, I can't entertain you," The man felt hesitant at first and started to speak non-fluent English, then he reverted to speaking his native language, as if he didn't care whether Floyd understood or not.
"I can understand you, and there's a business transaction I want to discuss with you," Floyd felt glad that he could understand him, so there would be no conflict and misunderstanding in communicating with each other.
"You can understand me?" The man was surprised and spoke in his native language to test him.
Floyd looked at Axew, and the latter started to translate for him. Then Floyd nodded and said, "Yes, I can understand you."
The man looked at the small beastly creature with an iron ring on its neck and thought, 'Can this man understand beasts?'
Then that thought diminished when he saw a blue fruit in Floyd's hand; his mouth opened wide, his eyes stretched in shock.
"Is this… Is this…" How could the man not know?
Six months ago, a wealthy middle-aged man with an incurable illness accidentally ate this berry from the market. A few weeks later, he was surprised to find his body steadily improving. After a medical check-up, he found that although the illness was still there, it had lessened. That's when he started to suspect something; he remembered eating that delicious berry before.
To confirm his suspicion, he searched for the same variety of fruit, but it was actually rare; he couldn't find one. He also found some unique berries, but most of them had no effect. Then he took a yellow-red colored berry and ate it. A few days later, he checked again—his illness was gone.
At that time, many people were suspicious of him and saw him gathering a few berries. Later, they found out that there was a berry that could cure illnesses. People went crazy and even started gathering around the middle-aged man's house. Feeling pressured by the people around, he confessed that it was true.
Then it started to spread throughout the whole city of Xin Shijie, and even their self-proclaimed officials took this matter seriously. They found out that this fruit was abundant in a forest where many beasts hovered around.
So, people here started to approach the forest, but it resulted in many casualties because, although they were a self-proclaimed country, their weapons weren't comparable to those in the official city, Taipei.
Even with grenade launchers and tanks, they couldn't subdue all the beasts. To fight them, you would need a jet, rocket launcher, nuclear weapons, or any strong destructive weapons to contend with them. They couldn't manufacture something like that, and even if they managed to have one, it wasn't enough to fight the beasts.
So, they started to get wary about it. The berry's price inflated to 1 million TWD but soon dropped to 900,000, to 700,000, then down to 500,000 and even below.
Because they learned that they could plant this seed in their territory, and although it was risky to venture outside, hunters still took the risk. Despite the casualties, the reward was sufficient, and this berry was not actually rare in the forest, but it was not easy to obtain under the watchful eyes of the beasts.
The greed in the man started to show as he looked at the fruit held by the foreigner.
"This… fruit… do you want to make a transaction? Then, what do you want in exchange?" The man suppressed his inner thoughts and asked what this foreigner needed in exchange.
"I want your slaves behind you, all of them!" Floyd pointed at the five Goomys.
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