Mark gently rubbed his temples, recalling everything from the enhanced Dream World.
The first few years had actually been fine. Although the successive disappearances of more than a dozen Caterpie, followed by Wimpod's disappearance, had interfered with him somewhat and caused some memory loss, he had never forgotten his plan.
Then, Caterpie became stuck on the one-pound stone and could no longer improve.
Gradually, he and Caterpie settled into a mechanical training routine.
Every day, aside from racking his brain and reviewing their progress, they trained mechanically, trying to break through the bottleneck through sheer persistence.
This was also why, after Caterpie finally broke through the bottleneck in one stroke, he and Caterpie had immediately embraced and celebrated together.
Perhaps the satisfaction of breaking through the bottleneck had been too overwhelming. Thus, the enhanced Dream World ended.
If the Dream World could have lasted one more day, or even a few more hours, there was a high chance he would have calmed down, remembered his original plan, and continued training Caterpie to overcome the negative emotional effects of the Run Away Ability.
Unfortunately, there were no ifs.
As he recalled his experience in this enhanced Dream World, Mark sighed softly. Then, his expression returned to normal as he continued flipping through the Trainer Panel's information.
Thinking about it carefully, although this attempt had failed, it had also taught him a lesson in some ways, preventing him from making this kind of mistake again in the future.
It was better to make mistakes early than to commit a grave error at a critical moment later on.
Besides that, this enhancement had actually brought quite a few gains.
First was the Experience Bar.
Possibly related to Caterpie's second growth spurt, after replenishing its food supply this time, his Experience Bar had reached