That night.
Asuka and the other two could only watch enviously as Tetsuya slept inside the finished wooden house. Even though there was nothing in it and he was still sleeping on the ground in a sleeping bag, at least he would not wake up with a face full of dew.
Gabite snored loudly at night.
It had been the main force behind the tree-cutting these past few days. If its daily stamina consumption were converted into data, the number would be astonishing.
However.
The results earned through all that hard work were quite good.
Gabite could now precisely control the strength and angle used to cut down each tree, without needing a second strike.
It might have sounded somewhat ridiculous.
After all, a pseudo-legendary cutting down trees was already absurd enough.
Adding the condition that it could fell one with a single strike only made it even more absurd.
But improvements in strength did not lie.
Its precise control over its power allowed Gabite to handle emergencies with ease when using moves.
The saying that one should always hold back thirty percent of their strength in a fight applied to Pokémon battles as well.
If one exhausted all their strength to the point of losing control over their own body, it would be easy to lose the rhythm when faced with an opponent's counterattack, then get suppressed all the way until they lost their combat capability.
There was another reason as well.
Perhaps the grueling tree-cutting life of the past few days had stimulated the energy contained within Gabite's body.
So its level had risen by one too.
That would not have been much to talk about with other Pokémon.
At the Elite Level, high-potential Pokémon naturally did not level up particularly slowly.
But Gabite was a pseudo-legendary.
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