"Um... well, maybe I should take him to have his strength tested first, and then we can talk about it after that."
Bruno suggested hesitantly.
After listening, Agatha nodded in agreement.
Just as Bruno was about to lead the three away, a series of "thump-thump-thump" sounds came from not far away, and at the same time, the ground trembled.
Is Earthquake about to occur?
Suddenly, a Machamp, a head taller than Bruno, charged out.
The Annihilape noticed the charging Machamp and quickly shielded Roy, even though the opponent's aura was clearly beyond its ability to withstand.
At the same time, the two Gengar from Agatha and Roy's shadows appeared. Before the two Gengar Machamp react, Machamp suddenly leaped off the ground and charged towards Bruno, who was at the front of the three.
Bruno stared intently at Machamp, and just as Machamp's fist was about to make contact, he grabbed Machamp's arm and yanked Machamp to the ground.
"Machamp."
"The strength is still insufficient, and the explosiveness is also lacking. Change the number of stones to 5."
This Machamp was the same High-level Elite Four Machamp Roy had seen at the bottom of the waterfall; it was indeed Bruno's Pokémon.
The crucial point is that Bruno's strength is even greater than Machamp's, something Roy never imagined. Does that mean that the seemingly simple-minded Bruno is more Pokémon than a High-level Elite Four?
After teaching the three of their Machamp, Bruno led them to a private room in the dojo. Inside the quaint room were several sandbags he had seen before at Professor Oak's Laboratory, used for testing skill power. They were identical in style, but they bore the Silph Co. logo, unlike the Pokémon League's logo.
The ranking of a Fighting type Pokémon Trainer is very simple. Unlike Breeders, who need to create various Pokéblock and pass knowledge tests, Fighting type ranking is based on two points:
First, consider strength.
Secondly, observe their Fighting type techniques in actual combat.
Roy looked eagerly at the punching bag in front of him, and just as he was about to throw a punch, he noticed that Bruno handed him a white bandage, indicating that he should not hurt his hand.
"Roy, hit the sandbag with all your might in a moment."
"Yes, I understand."
Roy skillfully wrapped the white bandage tightly around his palm, securing it to his fingertips and wrist. After securing the bandage, he clenched his fist twice and then quickly threw two straight punches.
Looking at Roy's boxing style, Bruno could tell from the way he generated power and the speed of his punches that it was exactly what he had been taught in his Fighting type arts.
Looking at the sandbag, which was already somewhat deflated and as tall as a person, Joy Lando said:
"Bruno? Why does this sandbag at your dojo look so Sturdy?"
Bruno turned to Agatha and Joy Lando and explained:
"Don't worry, this is a sandbag specially designed by Silph Co. to test strength. It is suitable for Beginner Martial Artist, and Intermediate Martial Artist can also use it."
The material used inside is black iron sand, the same material used in the power-testing sandbags for Pokémon. The reason it's somewhat deflated is because a lot was used, but it's absolutely impossible...
Bruno had only spoken halfway when he saw Roy take a deep breath, the muscles in his forearm suddenly tensing up, and his arm visibly swelling to twice its previous size.
Roy Stockpile his punch and slammed it into the sandbag in front of him. Sensing Roy's power, the sandbag suddenly expanded and then exploded, scattering the black iron sand inside all over the ground.
Bruno stared blankly at the black iron sand scattered on the ground.
This... it's already blown up?
Joy Lando, standing to the side, was also puzzled. The quality of the punching bags in the Bruno Dojo was really that bad. They seemed even worse than the punching bags in his family Bulk Up.
To an outsider like Joy Lando, the sandbag was of poor quality; but to Bruno, it was simply that Roy was too strong, so strong that he smashed the sandbag used for strength testing.
Bruno had witnessed the entire transformation of Roy's left arm. Wasn't that explosive power in such a short time a manifestation of Shiba's Extreme Fighting Technique, which concentrates all the power of the body into a single point?
How did Roy learn it?
Could it be...? Bruno recalled that he seemed to have mistakenly confused ordinary Fighting type techniques with Extreme Fighting Technique before, and had sent Agatha a book on Extreme Fighting Technique.
At the time, he thought Agatha was for Fighting type Pokémon, so he didn't take it seriously.
It seems that Agatha used it on Roy, but that was just a draft of the Extreme Fighting Technique, with many incomplete parts. How could it have become a significant achievement for Roy?
How exactly did Agatha get Roy trained?
Extreme Fighting Technique is their dojo, or rather, a Fighting type art they created themselves, with the aim of pushing the limits of the human body.
In Bruno's view, the human body itself is the best weapon, and he also believes that human strength is not necessarily weaker than that of Pokémon, but simply has not yet been discovered.
If one can unleash the potential within their body, they can possess power that surpasses that of Pokémon.