"Volcarona, Quiver Dance!"
Brilliant golden flames transformed into gorgeous butterflies, fluttering their wings as they drifted down.
The last few Cryogonal blocking their way through the tunnel fell beneath these dancing flame butterflies.
Still.
Though the wild Pokémon of the Crown Tundra were powerful, they had also become the perfect "leveling ground" for Volcarona and the others.
If Pokémon strength and levels worked like they did in games, where defeating monsters granted experience that raised their levels and strength, I could max out every Pokémon's level in the Crown Tundra before leaving. Xia Yan could not help inwardly grumble.
The Ice-type Pokémon Volcarona had defeated alone would probably have provided it with an enormous amount of experience.
Unfortunately.
In a real world like this.
These wild Pokémon that obstructed them could at most provide the Pokémon with a decent practical setting to test the results of their training.
"This tunnel is a bit long."
Xia Yan had already been walking through it for quite some time, yet he still had not reached its end.
"I wonder whether that Mr. Rime understood what I meant."
The farther they went, the stronger the wild Pokémon they encountered became.
Among the Cryogonal Volcarona had just defeated was even a Sub-Elite Four-level Cryogonal leader.
Wild Near-Elite Four-level Pokémon had fairly demanding requirements for appearing in natural environments.
But within this tunnel, which clearly no one had entered and which had been subject to no human interference, perhaps even Near-Elite Four-level wild Pokémon were not the limit.
"Volcarona, do you feel like we're actually going upward?" Xia Yan suddenly asked.
Even so.
Other than the wild Pokémon that occasionally appeared, the tunnel's surroundings remained utterly unchanged. Aside from the thick, hard layers of ice covering the entire tunnel, there was no sense of any directional