After a short nap in the Golden Laboratory, the Caterpie lazily raised its head. Its bright red, forked antenna quivered, and it slowly crawled back into the Underground Forest connected to the laboratory.
Dian watched the Caterpie disappear from sight. "What a shame."
Unremarkable as this Caterpie looked, its compatibility with the Gigantamax Rare Candy developed by Professor Gordon was actually excellent.
It could stay enlarged for thirty minutes and suppress the surge of energy within its body without evolving, among other things. These were all signs of excellent quality.
Some Caterpie rapidly evolved into Butterfree soon after eating the Rare Candy, then struggled to maintain their enlarged bodies and finally returned to normal.
And in the experiments, even the best Butterfree seemed able to remain enlarged for only five or six minutes.
This seemed unrelated to the number of Rare Candies eaten, though it was hard to say for certain.
After all, the research had only just begun.
"Setting the duration aside for now, its energy system doesn't undergo a corresponding qualitative change after enlargement, and the power of its special moves doesn't increase noticeably either."
"The biggest boosts are only to physical strength and stamina... the one advantage is that its mind doesn't seem to change."
The fact that its mind remained unchanged was quite remarkable.
After all, generally speaking, an enlarged body should have caused some degree of mental distortion.
If an ordinary Caterpie posed no threat, then an enlarged Caterpie was essentially a green Onix, its threat level skyrocketing.
But that was all there was to it.
Hypnosis, Sleep Powder, Confuse Ray, and other such methods could easily deal with an enlarged Caterpie.
After all, only its body had grown. More crucial factors, such as its resistances and energy system, had undergone no qualitative change.
Sure