Kite Town

The forty-first day of traveling to the Johto Region, Xiao Yu.

He had been awakened by the rain that morning. He had not set up a tent last night, simply taking out his sleeping bag and lying beneath a tree. A little after six in the morning, the rain had soaked him awake.

After getting up that morning, he prepared to leave Crystal Lake. Zapdos had already completed its transformation, and the results were even better than expected. He had thought Zapdos would need at least a year before it could stop relying on Crystal Lake, but who would have thought it would take only a little over twenty days?

Especially over the previous two nights, they had consecutively encountered things beneficial to Zapdos. With help from an elder Zapdos of its own type and Raikou's assistance as well, Zapdos had completely finished its transformation.

Zapdos only needed to grow steadily from here on out. The accuracy training, move training, and Ability training it had fallen behind on also needed to be put back on the schedule and made up as soon as possible.

After Ash finished the Orange Islands, he still had the Johto Region and Hoenn Region before reaching the Sinnoh Region. That was only a year or two away, so his time was still tight.

Once Ash finished the Hoenn Region, his core Pokémon would basically all need to reach Elite-class before he could head to the Sinnoh Region and clash with those freaks. There were more than a dozen Pokémon to train, so the task was still immense.

On top of that, his Alt Pokémon also needed to break through to Elite-class to face the increasingly dangerous future. The pressure on him immediately doubled. Reaching the Elite Four level had not let him take it easy;