Chapter 316: The Minions Evolve
A week passed.
The Four Bullies of Wolf Mountain had completely explored the surrounding area.
Both plain forests were neutral zones.
Occasionally, Pokémon from the surrounding mountains would come down to forage or wander, but most of the time, they belonged to those clanless Pokémon.
The atmosphere in these two areas was quite leisurely and peaceful.
It was common for Pokémon of different species to play and sleep together, completely resembling the scenes in future anime.
As for the five mountains, the situation was a bit different.
Two small mountains were the territories of Heracross and Pinsir.
Because a relatively large plain forest separated their territories.
The relationship between the two clans was not bad, with no competition arising.
Of the remaining three.
One was a purely rocky mountain.
A gathering place for Rock, Ground, and Steel-type Pokémon, but no Pokémon clan existed, so it barely counted as a neutral zone.
Moreover, this rocky mountain was surrounded by another plain forest, almost isolated from the world.
So it could be called peaceful.
The other two were formidable.
One was a flower mountain.
Covered with colorful flowers all over the mountains and plains.
Occupied by a Vespiquen clan.
There were also many poisonous flowers on the flower mountain, very suitable for Poison-type Pokémon to survive.
The Drapion clan was driven out of this mountain.
The Vespiquen clan was very special among Pokémon clans.
Although it wasn't difficult for Combee to evolve (females only, Lv. 21), there could only be one Vespiquen in a hive.
Once a Combee evolved into a Vespiquen.
She would either challenge the old queen to usurp the throne or leave to develop separately.
However.
Although there could be at most one Vespiquen in the clan, this didn't mean the Vespiquen clan's combat power was poor.
If their combat power was poor, the Drapion clan wouldn't have been the one driven out.
Although Will hadn't seen the entire Vespiquen clan.
Just by observing the number of Combee going out to collect honey, one could get a glimpse.
The number of members in this Vespiquen clan definitely exceeded two hundred!
And.
This was the number after the war with the Drapion clan.
The original number would only be more exaggerated.
As for Vespiquen's personal strength...
At least not lower than Elite Four level.
A well-deserved Alpha of the Flower Mountain.
The overall strength of the other mountain wasn't as strong as the Flower Mountain.
But the environment was more chaotic, simply like a miniature Mt. Silver.
Over a dozen small clans.
The parts above the mountainside were divided among Lopunny, Skuntank, and Primeape clans. The leaders of the three clans were basically Lv. 50+.
After this tour.
Will was basically reassured.
In the circle around Wolf Mountain, no Pokémon could pose a fatal threat to Wolf Mom.
Even Vespiquen wouldn't be a match for Wolf Mom in a one-on-one fight.
A Pokémon who had stayed in human society for decades and returned was still somewhat overpowered for the wild clans in this outer area of Mt. Silver.
As for the clans...
The only one worth noting was the Vespiquen clan.
The overall strength of the Vespiquen clan was very powerful, posing a slightly higher threat to the wolf clan than the Persian clan did.
Fortunately, the Vespiquen clan wasn't warlike.
And they had no interest in Wolf Mountain, which had few flowers.
So although the two dominant clans were neighbors, there was no reason to start a war.
Will even pondered whether to build a good relationship with the Vespiquen clan and form an alliance.
After all.
The honey collected by Combee was very suitable for raising Pokémon cubs.
Vespiquen used this honey to take care of Combee larvae, and human society also used this honey mixed with water for children.
Will also wanted to strive for this for the future puppies born in the wolf clan.
But what could their wolf clan offer the Vespiquen clan?
This was what Will was worrying about temporarily.
In the blink of an eye.
Another month passed since Will led Croagunk and the others to finish exploring the mountains.
Three significant events happened in this month.
The first one.
Croagunk reached Lv. 37 and evolved into Toxicroak.
Oh my god, huge ugly.
Will couldn't even look at him at first.
When he was a Croagunk, he was actually kinda cute, ugly-cute.
After evolving into Toxicroak, he was just purely ugly.
No change in personality though.
Still that same hedonist.
At most a bit more warlike?
This was a good thing.
Because after evolving, Toxicroak participated in training much more frequently than before, often actively going out to battle other Pokémon.
The second event.
Buizel reached Lv. 26 and evolved into Floatzel. After evolving, Floatzel wasn't as cute as before either.
Especially since his height became about the same as Will's, making it impossible for Will to hold him like a kitten or puppy.
Moreover.
Evolution had a significant impact on Floatzel's personality.
The past Buizel was timid, curious, and playful.
But the evolved Floatzel unexpectedly became brave. Facing battles with other Pokémon, he wouldn't retreat behind Will's butt anymore.
His playful personality also changed a lot.
Although he still didn't like training very much, at least he wouldn't slack off openly or secretly like in the past.
In short.
The evolution of the two minions greatly disappointed Will in terms of appearance.
But overall, the pros outweighed the cons.
However, Cacnea.
Seeing both friends evolve, he was anxious to death and trained even harder.
But his current level was only Lv. 24, still a long way from the Lv. 32 required for evolution.
Even if Cacnea worked hard.
He wouldn't evolve within a month or two.
The last event.
Was also the matter Will prepared to solve today.
In the plain forest north of Wolf Mountain, war frequently broke out between the Heracross and Pinsir clans, who originally had a good relationship.
Reason unknown.
But many weak Pokémon originally living in that plain forest couldn't bear the disturbance and fled to Wolf Mountain one after another.
This suddenly overloaded the Pokémon density on Wolf Mountain.
Walking in the forest, Will could often see Pokémon fighting over a tree.
This was never seen before!
In the past, even a weak Pokémon could occupy three or five trees around it, living quite comfortably.
The survival resources on Wolf Mountain, originally more than enough.
Now became somewhat stretched.
Although.
Such impact currently only affected Pokémon below the mountainside.
It hadn't affected the wolf clan living above the mountainside yet.
But as time passed.
These Pokémon would inevitably have a negative impact on Wolf Mountain's ecology. The natural recovery speed wouldn't be able to make up for the consumption speed of these Pokémon.
Continuing like this, Wolf Mountain would become a barren mountain sooner or later.
Will didn't plan to wait until the fire burned his eyebrows to solve this problem.
So he decided to step forward and solve it, making those Pokémon return to the plain forest.
Mountaintop plateau.
"Gunk?"
Toxicroak stood beside Will.
Now 1.3 meters tall, slightly taller than Will, he was the biggest among the Wolf Mountain Four Bullies.
"It's best if we can peacefully make the two bug clans stop fighting."
"Gunk?"
"Then we can only make those two outermost small mountains ownerless mountains."
Will pursed his lips and turned to look behind him.
Thirty Mightyena with levels between Lv. 30-Lv. 45 were eyeing covetously, ready for battle.
Among them, the leader closest to Will.
Was One-Eye, who followed Will earliest.
His level was Lv. 45, the strongest among this batch of Mightyena, equivalent to a "captain."
"Let's go."
In the plain forest north of Wolf Mountain.
A Pinsir stood blankly on the spot, at a loss.
Looking at the two clans fighting in front of him, he felt very guilty and self-blaming.
Because.
He was the fuse that caused the relationship between the two clans to deteriorate abruptly.
This Pinsir was once the best among the younger generation of the clan, with few rivals in the entire clan and invincible outside.
So he got arrogant.
He challenged the leader.
Finally defeated, his two horns were shattered by the leader, and then he was driven out of the clan.
At least 80% of a Pinsir's combat power lay in his horns.
Most moves were released through the horns (Guillotine, Vice Grip, etc.).
Moreover.
Pinsir's horns were also related to their attractiveness to the opposite sex.
So.
Shattered horns were very fatal for Pinsir.
Being unpopular with the opposite sex was a small matter.
The important thing was that his survival ability in the wild dropped significantly.
Now he basically had a high level but lacked the matching combat power.
While foraging carefully alone in the plain forest, he bumped into his friend in the Heracross clan who learned about this.
Heracross brought Pinsir back to the clan without a word, making him a member of the clan.
However.
The Pinsir clan got angry after knowing this.
As a friendly clan.
Taking in the guy our clan expelled without authorization, what do you want to do?
This was equivalent to the Sand Village suddenly accepting a Leaf Village rogue ninja during a peaceful truce in the Naruto world.
The Pinsir leader was very angry about this.
He demanded Heracross kick that Pinsir out and apologize to them.
But the Heracross leader felt that obeying so obediently would make him lose face.
So both sides started arguing.
Later, they just started fighting.
They were smart too.
Not fighting on their own mountains, but running to the plain forest to fight by coincidence.
The damage caused in the battle was all borne by the Pokémon living in the plain forest.
"Pinsir..."
Pinsir was in pain.
He wanted to stop this battle.
He didn't want the Heracross clan, who took him in, to be forced to fight and suffer casualties because of him.
But.
He no longer had the ability to stop this battle.
The horns on his head could shatter completely at any time.
Just then.
Awooo~
A melodious wolf howl came from afar.
This voice had no intimidation power, but the two warring clans stopped simultaneously, looking in the direction of the sound.
They saw four different Pokémon leading thirty Mightyena with scarlet eyes and bared fangs slowly approaching.
This formation made the two clans, who were originally beating each other bloody, freeze.
They stepped back two steps one after another.
Even huddled together.
As if the hatred from the previous second vanished into thin air, and the next second they would share a common enemy and live or die together.
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