Although Lin Qunzhi's Venusaur was undoubtedly weaker than Cynthia's Roserade.
There was still plenty Floragato could learn from it.
How to use Vine Whip, for instance.
Since becoming a Trainer, Xia Chi had placed increasing importance on using things that weren't Pokémon moves, such as the vine inside the flower bud at Floragato's neck.
In a closely fought Pokémon battle, details like those could sometimes decide everything.
Like the battle against Nemona's Skeledirge two nights earlier.
In any case, the morning passed.
Although they hadn't earned a single point of Fear or "experience," Xia Chi and Floragato still felt they had gained a great deal.
That afternoon, a Dragonite delivered a package from the Area Zero Lab in the Paldea Region into Xia Chi's hands.
Xia Chi, who had dismissed Dragonite Express as a sucker's tax two months ago, was now eating his words.
Unless the sender was at the South Pole and the recipient at the North Pole, Dragonite Express could basically deliver anything the next day. It really was convenient.
Especially for urgent packages like this one.
The package had three layers of seals inside and out, and it took Xia Chi quite a while to open it.
Four crystal shards glittering in different colors sat on a goose-down cushion.
Grass green, water blue, fiery red, and stone gray.
These were undoubtedly Tera Shards, which could change a Pokémon's Tera Type to the corresponding type when eaten.
In fact, the game's story had never definitively explained what the crystals on Ogerpon's masks were.
Quite a few players guessed they were the Terastal Stones used to make Tera Orbs.
But Xia Chi leaned toward another theory: the Tera Shards right in front of him.
There was one very straightforward reason. When Terastallization was used on Ogerpon while it wore