This Is What Professionalism Looks Like

"How do you feel, Beedrill?"

In the backyard of a house somewhere in Opelucid City.

Xia Yan looked at Beedrill, whose entire body was enveloped in deep purple mist, and could not help asking.

"Bee!"

Beedrill's resolute voice came from within the mist. The purple haze surrounding it dispersed at a visible rate.

Or rather, it was being absorbed.

Once the purple mist had completely vanished, Beedrill's figure reappeared in Xia Yan's sight.

There was almost no change to its appearance.

If there was anything, perhaps the two dark purple stripes on its abdomen had become more vivid.

"This is the last one. Absorbing it has gone much more smoothly than the first one. It looks like you've nearly fully adapted to it." Xia Yan smiled and patted Beedrill's long stinger.

"Bee."

Beedrill nodded in agreement.

Then, with a swipe of its stinger, a purple streak lingered and flickered in the air.

A faint fishy stench spread through the air.

"The effects of the venom sacs are even better than I expected." Xia Yan could not help sighing as he observed the improvement in Beedrill's poison.

The venom sacs Joanna had arranged for someone to extract last time had all reached Xia Yan a few days ago through the Hunter Guild's connections.

The process of selling and auctioning the Pokémon was relatively slow and would likely take quite some time, but Xia Yan had already fed all the venom sacs to Beedrill over the past few days.

Its toxins and Poison-type energy had risen sharply.

Even its strength had improved considerably to a certain extent.

"The only pity is that Hunter S's Elite Four-level Poison-type Pokémon had unusable venom sacs because of the genetic serum. Otherwise, they would have brought you immeasurable benefits." Xia Yan said regretfully.

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