When he heard Professor Oak's words, Axel couldn't help blinking.
Before this, he had never felt that this kind of training method was in any way abnormal.
Essentially speaking, Axel was doing the same thing as any other breeder, doing his best to draw out a Pokémon's potential.
Even though the potential he drew out was a bit too outrageous, in the end it still followed the same underlying logic as the rules of the Pokémon world.
But after Professor Oak reminded him like this, Axel suddenly snapped awake. What he was doing really did have a bit of that researcher vibe.
Professor Elm devoted himself to pursuing the power of eggs, hatching all sorts of strange Pokémon together with Gold.
Even Tyranitar could somehow produce a Gible, and a seriously ridiculous one at that.
Professor Orin studied Terastalization and Paradox Pokémon, and even ended up creating Koraidon and Miraidon, gods without divine offices.
Everything Axel had done was essentially the same kind of thing those professors were doing.
It was just that he had pushed the power of training to its absolute extreme.
Uh… plus a small bit of cheating.
"So Professor Oak, what do you think? Is it better to send this video out or not?"
Axel wasn't sure what would happen after posting the video, so he decided to ask Professor Oak's opinion.
If there were no benefits and only drawbacks, then forget it.
At his core, Axel was still a practical person, with the ultimate goal of never freeloading off anyone.
Hearing Axel's question, Professor Oak couldn't help pulling at the corner of his mouth.
What downside could there possibly be?
In the Pokémon world's system, professors were absolutely among the world's top figures.
Their status was comparable to that of League Champions, and they didn't even have to run around handling things every day.
Just look at Professor Rowan. Even the patriarch of the Beir Lici family willingly worked under him as a researcher, striving to become a professor.
If there was one real downside, it was that professors were easy targets for villain organizations, who might kidnap them to do shady research.
But… Professor Oak glanced at the Pokémon beside Axel: the black Rayquaza, Ho-Oh, Glastrier, the Sinnoh trio, and a bunch he had never even seen before.
And Professor Oak had even heard from Dragonair that Axel casually wiped out a budding villain organization in Unova and snatched the two Unova dragons from Kyurem.
With Axel's terrifying combat power, those villain groups would be lucky not to run away from him.
Which villain would be stupid enough to rush at Axel looking for trouble?
Thinking of this, Professor Oak spoke with absolute certainty.
["No downside, only benefits."]
["If your research results can be applied to other Pokémon across the board, Aurient might spend a fortune to support your research."]
["Once it succeeds, your status in Aurient will be unshakable."
Axel laughed, "Then I'll post it."
He didn't care about status. He mainly wanted some funds to move around with.
Also, after Eva researched for so long, if he ended up becoming a professor before her, would she get jealous enough to cry?
Thinking about it carefully, he hadn't seen Eva cry in years.
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Even after Axel and Professor Oak finished chatting, many of the Pokémon present still hadn't recovered from Gyarados's defeat.
Especially Giratina, Dialga, and Palkia, the three brothers, who were all blankly staring at the Dragonair stepping on them, feeling that the whole thing was absurd.
Gyarados had already mastered Palkia's spatial power, and Palkia had personally taught him for so long. How could he still lose to a Dragonair who could change its typing and form?
Palkia frowned, feeling that something was seriously off.
He blurted out reflexively, ["Is this thing really something a Dragonite can give birth to?"]
["Hm?"], Inside the Rotom Dex, Professor Oak's pupils suddenly shrank. He hurriedly rolled to the side, clearing space beside the hospital bed.
The next moment, Dragonite's huge head filled the whole Rotom screen.
["What the hell are you, to dare question my daughter?"]
["She wasn't born from me, so was she born from you instead?"]
Palkia blinked, his eyes lighting up, feeling that this really could be Arceus's bloodline.
["You know, that might actually be possible, bro. Even though I didn't give birth to him, but…"]
["But your mother!"], Dragonite didn't even let Palkia finish. His huge claw slapped the transfer button on the Dex.
A white flash swept across Axel's Rotom, and a blue progress bar lit up.
[10%… 30%… 100%]
The instant it completed, Dragonite's body appeared in front of Axel's Rotom Dex.
BANG!
Before anyone could react, Dragonite had already used Extreme Speed, slamming straight into Palkia and ramming him into the sky.
Palkia: "???"
Stunned, completely stunned.
He had clearly become a high-level instructor by now. How was he suddenly getting rag-dolled again?
It made sense when Rayquaza, Mewtwo, and Gardevoir bullied him, but even a Dragonite was bullying him now?
Palkia felt he couldn't take it. The power of Spacial Rend burst out on the spot, blasting point-blank into Dragonite.
But the next moment, Palkia froze.
Why was this guy totally fine?
"Uh…", Axel looked at the fight in the sky and couldn't help tugging the corner of his mouth.
"Palkia, Dragonair's dad is already 89, wait no… already level 90."
Palkia: "!!!"
'Damn it, if I had known I wouldn't have mouthed off!"
You had to remember, in addition to being the Kanto region's professor, Professor Oak had another identity.
He was the very first Champion after the Pokémon World Alliance was founded.
Decades ago, Dragonite was already a solid Champion-level fighter.
Gods might be powerful, but besides ones like Kyurem, most were slumbering.
In terms of level, not many Pokémon could surpass Dragonite.
The huge level gap was enough to erase a chunk of the advantage granted by divinity.
So what if your moves never missed?
Dragonite was tanky.
Beside him, Giratina's mouth twitched, feeling once again that "the world has changed."
Dialga also looked terrified, feeling that everyone around Axel was kind of insane. For the first time, he achieved both spiritual and physical obedience.
He swore to the heavens that he absolutely wouldn't mess with anything when he sent Axel to the Three Kingdoms period!
["Ahem!"], Professor Oak climbed up from the now-completely-destroyed hospital bed and finally let out a breath of relief.
["By the way, Axel, you're planning to travel to the ancient Three Kingdoms era through Dialga, right?"]
["I think once you get there, you should keep an eye out for Diao Chan."]
["According to fragments I've seen in historical records, she owned a Gardevoir during the Three Kingdoms period."]
["Based on the records, her Gardevoir also seemed capable of fighting gods."]
["If you can find that Gardevoir's secret, your own Gardevoir might be able to go even further."]
["Even without Glastrier, it could still have divine power!"]
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