Yes, it had been 7 days since the king-rank Pokemons had attacked the north zone. Nobody could tell why that was happening. Axel had told the scouts to give him an answer but he had not gotten one till now.
"Axel, since we killed most of the king-rank Pokemons at the early half of the tide, maybe they are hesitating to attack us again. They might be waiting to attack us during the end of the tide.", said Agatha.
"Yes, that might be true. We only have around 50 king-rank Pokemons to face now. That is not a huge number. I think we can do it. There is nothing to worry about.", said Dragon too.
"You might be right but for some reason, I am not feeling all that well about this. Tell all the soldiers to be extra careful. We should start to take our night and day shifts seriously. I feel that we would be facing something very dangerous in a few days.
In fact, I think we should make a thorough plan.", said Axel.
"What kind of plan are you talking about?", asked Clair.
"The plan that we can handle ourselves even if we were attacked by 50 king-rank Pokemons at the same time.", said Axel.
"That is crazy. That would never happen. That had never happened.", said Clair.
"It may never have happened but this this situation had also never happened before.
Hector, prepare extra traps. Let's also think about other battle strategies that we could implement. Also, let's not use our king-rank Pokemons until another king-rank Pokemon appears.", said Axel.
Axel was having a bad feeling about this. First, more than 10 king-rank Pokemons attacked them each day and this went on for 4 days. That was a very heavy assault. Cause normally, only 2-3 king-rank Pokemons would attack in a day.
Then for the past 7 days, no king rank Pokemons emerged. Even the quantity of pseudo-king rank Pokemons had decreased by a lot. Something was really fishy about this situation.
Axel didn't have any good information as to why this was happening but he knew that it was not a good sign.
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5 days went like that. None of them had used their king-rank Pokemons. The quantity of pseudo-king rank Pokemons was also very low. It was like a bridge.
Beedrill and Mamoswine were getting a lot of experience in these battles and they were about to rank up to king rank any day.
On the 5th day,
Beedrill was fighting with flying-type Pokemons. This was not a good match for it as it was weak to flying types. However, Axel didn't have any flying-type Pokemons with him.
Gyarados was a flying type but it didn't have wings. It had to use 'Rain dance' and 'Sky walk' to fly and it could not do it for a long period of time.
Beedrill also could not fly at the long height but it could fly for a long period of time.
It was facing 3 pseudo-king rank Pidgeots. These wild Pidgeots were extremely fast for Beedrill to handle. It had used 'Agility' to maximum and it was only able to keep up with them due to this move.
Beedrill had many minor injuries all over its body. It didn't have any serious injuries but all these minor injuries were piling up and it was getting tired.
Axel was not worried about Beedrill cause it had a high defense. But the battle of these 4 Pokemons had been going on for more than an hour. None of them were using their most powerful moves. This was a war, not a battle.
'Let's see for 5 minutes. If it could not win by that time then I will call it out in the ball. It needs to rest for some time.', thought Axel.
In the 4th minute, he was ready to call Beedrill and then something amazing happened.
Beedrill had been using moves like 'Calm mind', 'Laser Focus' and 'Minimize' during the battle. It knew that needed some power boost or a rank-up if it wanted to win against these 3 Pidgeots.
Beedrill had never thought that it would struggle with a bunch of Pidgeots.
The Pidgeot that it knew was very friendly. It was also weak but hardworking. But these Pidgeots were very fast, deadly, and menacing.
It was using everything that it had to win this 4-way battle and suddenly, it started to shine.
Its whole body was shining in green and purple color.
Pidgeots felt that it was ranking up and waited for it to rank up. During the rank-up process or the evolution process, a Pokemon would never interfere. That was the rule and it had been followed since the time immemorial.
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Ding!
Congratulations! Bedrill's passive move has ranked up to Stage IV.
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This was not the rank-up but rank-up of its passive move to Stage IV. Axel didn't know how powerful Beedrill would become after this but he was hoping that it would be one of the most powerful king-rank Pokemon on his team.
After the glow disappeared, Beedrill gave a loud roar. It seemed to have powered up greatly.
Axel looked into its stats:
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Pokemon's name :- Beedrill (Age- 2 years)
Pokemon Nickname :- None
Pokemon rank: Pseudo-king
Ability :- Swarm (mastered)
Hidden ability :- Sniper (mastered)
Potential :- Purple
Health :- 8000/8000
Attack :- SS Agility :- SS
Defense :- SS Sp. Atk :- SS
Sp. Def :- SS
Moves: Active: Poison Sting (E) (Lvl 42), String Shot (E) (Lvl 52), Bug Bite (E) (Lvl 43), Electroweb (E) (Lvl 43), Harden (U) (Lvl 10 max), Poison jab (E) (Lvl 40), Fell Stinger (E) (Lvl 43), Roost (E) (Lvl 50), Drill Run (E) (Lvl 47), Agility (E) (Lvl 43), Minimize (E) (Lvl 49), Calm mind (E) (Lvl 44), Swords dance (G) (Lvl 39), X-Scissor (E) (Lvl 46), Fury Cutter (E) (Lvl 53), Lunge (E) (Lvl 43), String Armor (E) (Lvl 45), Laser Focus (E) (Lvl 40), String pierce (E) (Lvl 43), Conversion (E) (Lvl 41), Bug life (E) (Lvl 45), Substitute (E) (Lvl 45), Bug domain (C) (Lvl 26)
Passive: Resolve (Stage III)
Core: Bug (mastered)
Hidden Power: Psychic (45%)
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There were a lot of changes in Beedrill's stats. First of all, its health had increased to 8000. It must be remembered it was not a king-rank Pokemon. It was still a pseudo-king rank Pokemon.
All of its stats were in SS rank which was very rare for a pseudo-king rank Pokemon. Some of its moves have also crossed the threshold.
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Roost (Beedrill): (Level 40): It could be in the effect of roost for 10 minutes.
(Level 40): It could be in the effect of roost for 15 minutes.
(Level 50): Beedrill now needs to rest for only 2 hours after using roost
Drill Run (Beedrill): (Level 40): It has higher penetrating power.
(Level 45): The chances of a critical hit have increased to 50%
Poison jab (Beedrill): (Level 40): The jabs are faster and continuous.
String armor (Beedrill): (Level 40): The armor would start to self-repair but it would be slow.
(Level 45): The armor is more solid and sturdier
Bug life (Beedrill): (Level 40): can recover 10% health and 10% stamina 2 times.
(Level 45): can recover 10% health and 10% stamina 2 times.
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'Roost' had a huge change and now Axel could use it actively in battle. Normally, a battle of king-rank Pokemon would be finished in 10-15 minutes. Beedrill could not use this move and be okay for 15 minutes.
'Roost' would recover 50% of its health and it also had 'Bug life' to improve its health and stamina.
These were the improvement brought by 'Resolve Stage IV'. However, the most important change was yet to come and Axel was going to be blown off by it.
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Ding!
After reaching 'Stage IV', Beedrill could now have another core with no side effects.
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"What?
How is that even possible?", shouted Axel out loud. This was very surprising and confusing.
First of all, he never thought that a Pokemon could have 2 cores inside their bodies and be okay with it. Then came Nidoking and Axel got to learn the conditions to have 2 cores.
However, this was completely different. Beedrill didn't fulfill any of those conditions but it would be now able to have 2 cores.
Axel never thought that a passive move like 'Resolve' could do such a thing. It was a blessing and Axel was not going to ignore it.
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Ding!
Beedrill has fulfilled all the conditions for the rank-up.
Ding!
Beedrill is ranking up to king rank now… Be ready
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When the Pidgeots saw that Beedrill was glowing the second time, they were truly scared. When it glowed for the first time they thought that it was ranking up to king rank.
Now, they were not afraid of a new king-rank Pokemons. They were in pseudo-king rank but they were 3 of them and they thought that they could handle Beedrill at king rank.
When the glow disappeared, Beedrill looked very powerful, so they assumed that it had ranked up to king rank.
So, when it glowed again, they were scared. They thought that it was ranking up again which was simply not possible. But they didn't want to fight such a monstrosity.
After 10 minutes of glowing, the glow disappeared instantly and …
BZzzzzzzzzz.
Beedrill roared as it ranked up to king rank.
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Ding!
Congratulations, your Beedrill has ranked up to king rank
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Beedrill would have never imagined himself to be a king-rank Pokemon one day but such a dream had come true. It was very thankful for its trainer. Without him, such a thing would not have been possible.
Axel looked at its stats again.
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Pokemon's name :- Beedrill (Age- 2 years)
Pokemon Nickname :- None
Pokemon rank: King
Ability :- Swarm (mastered)
Hidden ability :- Sniper (mastered)
Potential :- Purple
Health :- 11500/11500
Attack :- F Agility :- F
Defense :- F Sp. Atk :- F
Sp. Def :- F
Moves: Active: Poison Sting (E) (Lvl 42), String Shot (E) (Lvl 52), Bug Bite (E) (Lvl 43), Electroweb (E) (Lvl 43), Harden (U) (Lvl 10 max), Poison jab (E) (Lvl 40), Fell Stinger (E) (Lvl 43), Roost (E) (Lvl 50), Drill Run (E) (Lvl 47), Agility (E) (Lvl 43), Minimize (E) (Lvl 49), Calm mind (E) (Lvl 44), Swords dance (G) (Lvl 39), X-Scissor (E) (Lvl 46), Fury Cutter (E) (Lvl 53), Lunge (E) (Lvl 43), String Armor (E) (Lvl 45), Laser Focus (E) (Lvl 40), String pierce (E) (Lvl 43), Conversion (E) (Lvl 41), Bug life (E) (Lvl 45), Substitute (E) (Lvl 45), Bug domain (C) (Lvl 26)
Passive: Resolve (Stage IV)
Core: Bug (mastered)
Hidden Power: Psychic (50%)
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The changes were not huge but Axel knew that it had become very powerful. Its health had again increased to 11500. That was huge and its hidden power mastery had improved a bit. All of its stats were now in F rank but Axel knew that Beedrill had the highest body stats among all of Axel's Pokemons.
After it ranked up to king rank, it was releasing the king-rank pressure on all of them. Axel told it to calm down and control its aura.
It was able to do it within a few minutes.
"Beedrill, do you need to rest? Or can you fight?", asked Axel.
After it had ranked up, all of its injuries had disappeared and it was healthy. It was ready to fight.
Bzzzzzz….
Beedrill said that it was ready to fight. The rush of power was still affecting it and it had to release it.
Beedrill started to massacre the pseudo-king rank Pokemons. It didn't have a good area effect moves but it was very powerful in a single fight. It was able to kill a pseudo-king rank Pokemon in a few seconds. Its body stats were way higher for a tier 1 king rank Pokemons and it could tank a lot of hits.
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Now only Mamoswine was left to rank up to king rank. Axel knew that it would happen very soon. Beedrill's rank up had come up at the right time. Axel was getting worried about this weird phenomenon and having an additional king-rank Pokemon made him feel secure.