Pokémon: Gabite (Dragon/Ground)

  Level: 25

  Potential: Blue

  Ability: Rough Skin

  Held Item: None

  Gender: Male

  Moves: Sand Tomb, Tackle, Sand Attack, Dragoh, Stomp, Bulldoze

  TMs: None

  Egg Moves: Draeteor, Twister, Dig, Dragon Cw

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  The newly evolved Gabite curiously examis new body, moving its arms and legs experimentally. Then, with a spsh, it leapt bato the Dragon Pool.

  Evolution, for Pokémon, rofound transformation. Each stage of evolution marked a deeper level of life.

  Pokémon with two evolutionary stages often had greater potential than those with only ohough this wasn't always absolute—just a general trend.

  Gabite's physical abilities had naturally improved signifitly after its evolution. With its rger and stronger body, it could now absorb even more of the Dragon energy from the pool.

  Feeling reinvigorated, Gabite approached Dragonite again, brimming with fidence.

  Seeing how much stros little brother had bee, Dragonite grinned widely.

  At the same time, the Champion-level Dragonite, nearby, also smiled proudly at its son's progress.

  Their goofy smiles were identical—so simir it would be impossible to deny their retion.

  The Championite looked curiously at Julian.

  It had noticed that after Gabite ed the potion Julian provided, its potential had undergone a remarkable transformation, which had then triggered its evolution.

  Such a transformation was moal for Pokémon, and the Championite could sense just how signifit this ge was.

  It g its son again. Its earlier suspis were firmed: the rapid grorogress its child had achieved in just a year and a half were rgely thanks to this human.

  Three hours ter, Gabite emerged from the Dragon Pool again, clearly uo absorb any more energy. Despite its reluce, its level had risen from 25 to 30.

  Even its Blue-grade potential now showed traces of Purple, about ohird of the way there.

  Given enough time soaking in the Dragon Pool, it seemed iable that Gabite's potential would eventually reach the Purple grade.

  The Dragon Pool's ability to enhahe potential on-type Pokémon made it a true treasure of the Dragon's De Realm.

  After all, it could even improve Blue-grade potential—a feat beyond the current capabilities of humanity.

  At most, humans could manufacture potions capable of upgrading Green to -grade potential, and even then, each dose was exorbitantly expensive and not guarao work.

  For humans to acquire Blue-grade Pokémon, they typically had to capture them in the wild, discover them i realms, or rely on rare treasures to enhaheir potential.

  "Alright, that's enough for now. You e baother time," Julian said.

  He reached out to pat Gabite, but theated, recalling its Rough Skin ability, and quickly withdrew his hand.

  The Dragon's Den's stro Dragohe boss of the Den, was an ally. With this e, as long as Julian had opportuo ehe Dragon's Den, the Dragon Pool ractically his for unlimited use.

  Gabite leas head toward Julian, prompting him to reach out.

  Feeling the smooth surface of its head, Julian excimed with delight, "You trol your ability now!"

  Gabite nodded. After evolving, it had gained trol over its Rough Skin ability.

  This was simir to how Tyranitar's Sand Stream worked.

  A Tyranitar that wasn't skilled at managing its ability would automatically activate Sand Stream upon appearing, whether in battle or not.

  Imagine being in a backyard and suddenly creating a sandstorm—it would turn the area into a desert in no time.

  However, a Tyranitar profit in managing its ability could trol when to activate or deactivate it.

  Gabite let out a soft cry, signaling to Julian that it was hungry.

  Though it had just absorbed so much Dragon energy, this wasn't hu was clearly a craving.

  Julian didn't call it out. Despite Gabite being older than Dragonite by quite a bit, its mi was still very simple.

  Unlike Dragonite, who had traveled with Julian ahe outside world, Gabite had spent its life in the Dragon's Den us parents' prote, free of external influences or plex thoughts.

  Julian pulled out a high-quality Dragon-type pokeblocks from the system iory and gave it to Gabite. He also handed oonite's father.

  After all, even if he didn't offer, the Champion-level Dragonite would certainly ask for one.

  No Pokémon could resist the system's pokeblocks. None!

  The M;

  Dragonite had been soaking in the Dragon Pool for nearly 16 hours.

  At first, it had looked rexed, but as time passed, its expression grew increasingly strained.

  Now, its face clearly showed signs of pain as its body became engulfed by the Dragon energy within the pool.

  Championite: "Hang in there. The longer you ehe greater the bes."

  In those 16 hours, Dragonite's level had risen from 67 to 69, just one level short of reag peak pseudo-Elite tier.

  While it might seem like a mere two-level increase, for a pseudo-Legendary Pokémon like Dragohe experience required to level up was expoially greater due to its strong foundation and i potential.

  The liquid Dragon energy in the pool had visibly decreased, and Julian couldn't help but feel that Dragonite's body seemed slightly rger than before.

  "Just endure another 24 hours to make it a full 40. I like round numbers," Julian casually remarked.

  The Champion-level Dragonite gave him a shocked look.

  'So, my son became this powerful not just because of resources, huh?'

  Then, after a moment of refle, it nodded in approval. 'This is how it should be'

  Resources + Effort + Talent = Power

  Dragonite's father initially thought that if his son could endure aen hours in the Dragon Pool, it would already be a great feat.

  But now, seeing Julian's casual suggestion to make it an even 40 hours, the Champion-level Dragonite realized its own mi had been too small.

  Championite: "Let's aim for 44 hours then, make it a nice 60 hours."

  Julian: 'You've got to be kidding me! I just thought 24 more hours ushing it. You, as the father, want to push for 44 hours? Are y to send your son off to the afterlife?'

  Dragonite: "Why not just make it 100 hours then?"

  Championite: "If possible, 100 hours would be perfect."

  Time passed sed by sed.

  There was no i in the secret realm, so Julian couldn't use his phoo kill time. Instead, he eained himself by pying on his handheld gaming sole.

  The Champion-level Dragoched curiously, and Julian ha a spare sole and taught it how to py.

  Before long, the two of them were sitting together, engrossed in their games. For them, time flew by quickly.

  But for the Dragonite soaking in the Dragon Pool, it felt like ay.

  The relentless waves on energy were already a challenge, but hearing the cheerful or frustrated noises ing from his trainer and father pying games nearby made it even harder to focus.

  A Day and a Night Later;

  Finally, Dragonite burst out of the Dragon Pool. The surge of violent energy it emitted swept across the snow-covered peak on Mountain, scattering it into the air.

  It had sted 25 hours in the pool—an hour more than Julian's iimate of 24.

  After s freely in the sky for several ps to release its pent-up energy, Dragonite nded gracefully on the ground.

  Julian immediately activated his Probing Eyes.

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