It turned out that the stream could easily accommodate a thousand of the small to medium-sized fish, and honestly, while I was at it, I transferred close to half of the total fish population from the Marine subspace to the main space.
Until now, there had been only a few thousand fish in the main space, and those had only been present in the upper/original square. Their number was barely enough for them to act as an occasional snack for the various water types that called the streams and lakes their home.
Well, now that number had risen to 400k fish, ranging from small fish that were only 15 cm in length to large-sized fish that were 1.2 meters in length. I kept the ones bigger than that inside the marine subspace since they could pose a risk to the weakest Magikarp. As for the ones that did get transferred, each square of the cube planet got 60k fish except for the original/upper square, which got 100k new fish.
Anyway, back to reality, the fishes were pretty much all I could add to the reserve for now since the Pokemon, except for the Weedle and Caterpie lines, were not ready yet, and I was not counting the cows because I was not planning to transfer any of them out of Utopia. As I said, the previously mentioned two lines were the only ones that had the 110 members with at least light green potential ready.
Butterfree and Beedrill made up 22 as well as 24 of them respectively, and they along with the Metapod/Kakuna would ensure that these species could keep multiplying even after their groups were transferred to the reserve since the "future" orphans of my orphanage could only choose from amongst the Caterpie and Weedle.
The same was true for the Spearow, Starly, Bidoof, and Rattata lines. Only the first stage of their line could be chosen as a starter, while the others would stay in the reserve and sustain the number of Pokemon. Frankly, as of now, quite a few of these species/lines were still missing more than half the necessary number for the transfer, but thankfully, there was a rather decently sized batch of eggs that were about to hatch.
Once they did that, the transfer date would be much closer, and I was hopeful that a second batch would hatch before the end of my practical year as well. If that happened I might be able to transfer them before the start of my journey. If it didn't reach the required number by then, the whole thing would probably be delayed by half a year to a full year since I would be in Hoenn and focused on completing my Senior Circuit.
Shaking off these distracting thoughts, I threw a last look at my reserve and went back home. Once there, I made my way to the backyard and lay down on the grass to meditate. I wanted to focus on my ground energy since I had been neglecting it somewhat lately if we discounted my use of it for the clones.
Thankfully that counted as a proper exercise, so I have still been showing some slow but steady progress as an Earth Elementalist. I was not sure when I would advance to Tier 2 Second class, but I was confident that it would be before I participated in the Grand League Circuit.
As for advancing to First Class as a Tier 3 Aura User or Psychic, I was not too sure when I would be able to accomplish that. I really needed more time, and it was moments like these that I hoped for some time manipulation shenanigans to be available to me.
The best possible development would be if Utopia ended up gaining a time zone or something along those lines. If not my best bet would be either Mothra/Butterfree or Tatsumaki/Alakazam somehow learning how to manipulate time. Well, I could also try my luck with a Baltoy/Claydol since there were myths about them and time as well.
Regardless, I was just too busy to properly focus on my aura and psychic training, or any of my other pursuits really. While I kept trying to squeeze an hour or two of meditation in daily or at least every two days, that amounted to two, maybe three months of serious/focused training in a year if I was generous.
My thought streams were unable to take over this aspect of the training since it involved my body. Absorbing and manipulating energy while at work/on duty was not really viable after all. Hopefully, that would not be a problem once I was out and about on my journey, though I would have to see if it attracted any unwanted attention of wild Pokemon or not. I would not want to provoke or irritate any strong Pokemon by simply passing by after all.
*haaaaa*
So much stuff to consider and so many things to do. Sometimes being excellent in so many areas was quite burdensome, but not making use of my genius/talent and knowledge would be a waste as well. Even now, I had so much more that I could do but simply could not because I did not have enough time at hand.
Pushing those distracting thoughts aside, I spent the next hour meditating while lying on the ground. I then sat up for a quick lunch, and once I was full, I went on to the next earth exercise. It was one that I had come up with after looking up the various exercises used by other Earth Elementalists.
I manipulated the ground and created two earth puppets that were around half a meter in height, both looking like Marowak. When I did that, I felt Hades/Gengar come up before I saw him appear by my side. He was rather enthused about the next step, and I did not make him wait. I manipulated the Marowak puppets and had them fight against one another.
I could only let them mimic physical moves since manipulating two earth puppets at once in something like a physical battle was already the most I could manage right now. Any more than that would require me to employ a second thought-stream, but that would go against the purpose of the exercise.
Hades was watching the battles and cheered occasionally when one Marowak puppet nailed the other. Seeing him enjoy the staged fight so much, I streamed the "battle" to Utopia as well, so that those interested could watch it as well. I spent an hour doing this puppet exercise before I stopped and allowed the Marowak puppets to crumble.
Taking stock of the time and seeing how there was still a little less than four hours until 6 p.m., I decided to keep training for a few more hours. However, I chose to switch to another subject. I stopped Hades from going back to the Shadow Realm and asked him to use his Hypnosis on me so that I could try to resist it.
Hades' Hypnosis was at advanced mastery, so it was already pretty strong. The chances that I came across a stronger Hypnosis targeted at me were not high, so resisting his "attack" served as a pretty good exercise. Besides, Hades had to keep his Hypnosis going until I succumbed to sleep, so it served as a somewhat decent exercise to him as well. Even if that was not the case, at least it was not a waste of his time.
Anyway, the first time around I successfully resisted Hades' Hypnosis for close to two minutes, and with each subsequent round I lasted longer since I managed to get an idea of how to best mobilize my energy to resist the effect of Hypnosis. Obviously, this was with me being fully aware of the "attack" and completely focused on resisting the Hypnosis while disregarding everything else.
Otherwise, my time would have been much worse, but as they say "advancing step by step is the right way". We did that exercise until 3 p.m. before I called for a stop since I still wanted to train my body, and after thanking Hades for his help, I pulled out my exercise clothes. It was a weighted set, that totaled up to 120 kg.
That might not seem like much, and that would be right if not for the next bit. Once I had changed into the weighted clothes, I pulled out the gravity bracelets I had fashioned for myself. There were four of them, and after I wore them, I was under the effect of 8 times standard gravity. That translated to me carrying 1696 kg, and I was going to be under that while doing bodyweight exercises.
Due to that amount being a tad above my comfortable lift limit, I had to take a break after each set to regulate my breathing and to give my muscles a few moments to relax before they got stressed once more. I ended up doing four sets of each exercise and went through the whole routine twice before I decided to stop.
At that point, it was already slightly past 5 p.m., so I quickly went inside to take a shower before I entered Utopia. I saw Mothra/Butterfree hanging out at my place along with Horus/Xatu, as well as Enji/Acanine, and they swarmed me as soon as I appeared. I spent the next twenty or so minutes asking how they were doing and what they did while I was out doing my own thing.
Only then did I announce my arrival to the rest of my Pokemon. I also told them that we would be eating in half an hour. The others began making their way over to my place, and as I had announced I began distributing everyone's food at 6 p.m.
While we were eating I asked them how they were and what they had done today. I actually had an idea of what they had done since one of my thought streams was keeping a general eye on Utopia even while I was busy doing other stuff, but their reports were more detailed. Besides, they liked talking about their day with me, which was another reason why I asked them. Well, aside from showing that I cared about them.
Due to their number, only half of them got to tell me about their day by the time we were done eating, so I/we kept listening to the others as well once we cleaned up after dinner. I was gratified to hear that everyone had roughly done close to the same amount of work/training as yesterday, even without me actively supervising them.
Truthfully, it was no surprise since I knew that all of my Pokmeon took their training seriously, but it was still nice to hear about it, especially since I could hear them being proud of it while they were narrating their day.
Anyway, once everyone had told me about their day, we kept talking about other stuff, and I let them steer the conversation to any topic they wanted to talk about. That brought up the topic of the Eevee Squad's evolution. They were talking about how they wanted to evolve already but couldn't because they had yet to reach the (high) silver stage.
I "consoled" them by telling them that they were already close to halfway through with the third round of their limit-breaking, so it should not take them too long to break through to the silver stage. From there to the (high) silver stage was only another small step, so if they did their best, they should be able to evolve shortly after I began my official journey.
I knew that they were actually aware of that, but they wanted to discreetly brag about how close they were to breaking through to their friends. Through my mouth at that, and looking at their happy as well as slightly smug faces, they were satisfied with what I said. Not that their friends were all too far behind, with some of them being actually ahead of them, which I made sure to remind them of. That counter of mine had them pout but made the rest of us chuckle/giggle.
At around 8 p.m. I threw out the question of what they wanted to do tonight and the majority wanted me to do a puppet show similar to the one I performed as a training exercise today, just with them as the model. Oh, and naturally their opponents had to be some superspecies like the pseudo-legendaries or other overlord-level species.
Obviously, I had to let their puppet win while still making the fight seem entertaining, but that was something everyone would want. Putting on so many earth puppet performances took quite a while, and I was quite exhausted by the time I was done at 11 something p.m. Still, seeing everyone's happy and excited faces I was satisfied and content.
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