The Path of a Genius to Becoming a Pokémon Champion

This year's transfer period was exceptionally lively, with one bombshell dropping after another.

First, the Blaze Team, continuing their "happy-go-lucky" competitive style, took an unconventional route after a veteran's retirement and directly recruited an outsider to be their new main singles player! It stunned everyone.

Then, the Otter Team's captain kicked four players from his own team! The entire team was practically restructured.

The competitive circuit media was in a frenzy, with one hot news story after another.

In this chaotic atmosphere, a sudden announcement from the Starlight and Frost team didn't seem quite so eye-catching.

It wasn't that the news wasn't explosive; it was just that the other teams had been too wild, and they couldn't even grab the headlines…

But even without the headlines, the news still sparked a heated discussion among netizens.

Of course, most of them were laughing at Starlight and Frost for being rich fools, thinking they had gotten a terrible deal.

The Starlight and Frost club had just made a huge trade with the Sea Carp Team!

They had traded a main singles player and two starting doubles players to the Sea Carp Team, and even thrown in a small transfer fee, in exchange for Arthur and a rookie from the youth camp, in addition to signing the soon-to-be free agent, Bella.

First, the youth camp rookie named Justin was immediately dismissed by the netizens. A mere rookie was, at most, a throw-in in this deal.

Second, Bella's contract was expiring. Although she hadn't officially declared herself a free agent yet, her destination was no longer something the Sea Carp Team could control. If Starlight and Frost had wanted to save money, they could have simply waited for her official announcement before contacting her.

So, in the end, the only major piece they had actually traded for was Arthur.

The netizens didn't deny the value of Arthur's Best Rookie title this year, and they acknowledged his skill, potential, and soaring popularity.

But the problem was, the price Starlight and Frost had paid to get Arthur was a bit too high!

A main singles player!

Plus two starting doubles players who had played the entire season!

Although the players they traded away didn't have particularly outstanding records, the problem was, where would Starlight and Frost find replacements for them?

Trading away the doubles players wasn't a big deal. Dreamy fans were already fantasizing about Arthur and Bella teaming up next season to aim for an undefeated regular season!

But how would they fill the gap for the main singles player?

Unlike doubles players, who have a steady stream of fresh blood from the youth camps every year, the recruitment market for main singles players was always a seller's market. Good ones were incredibly hard to find.

Many people speculated that Starlight and Frost would have to spend another huge sum of money to sign a main player from the free agent market.

Not only would that be a huge financial bleed, but the replacement they got might not even be as reliable as the one they traded away.

If that happened, it would be truly embarrassing!

The various online spectators, transforming into armchair GMs, debated fervently online, offering their unsolicited advice while waiting to watch Starlight and Frost make a fool of themselves.

However, to their surprise, after that, the Starlight and Frost team went quiet for over a month. They made no other major moves in the transfer market. The "money power" everyone had been expecting seemed to have been sealed away.

Little did they know, the sisters' money power hadn't been sealed; it had just been borrowed for other purposes…

"You're out of money again?"

Looking at the young man who was now in front of her for the third time this month, even a rich woman like Ivy felt a headache coming on.

The cash flow was running low. Would she have to sell another villa? Or mortgage some shares? The paperwork was so troublesome!

Yes, Ivy's frustration wasn't about a lack of villas, but simply that the paperwork, which required her personal signature, was too much of a hassle…

This was a realm of problems Arthur clearly couldn't comprehend.

But he didn't need to.

When the money ran out, he just had to ask. This person was his boss now. There was no need for any psychological burden.

Seeing his frank and shameless expression, Ivy felt an inexplicable urge to grind her teeth.

But Arthur couldn't help it.

Old Flame's mate was now receiving daily injections, infusions, all sorts of expensive supplements, energy transfusions, and various high-tech muscle stimulation therapies to forcibly raise her energy reserves and physical condition. All of this was costing money like water!

No wonder the Sea Carp club had been so vehemently opposed to this.

The cost-effectiveness of this approach was indeed too low.

If the cost of force-maturing a normal Pokémon to a professional level was one, then the cost of force-maturing a professional-level Pokémon to a captain-level was at least one hundred thousand!

The higher you go, the cost of every single point of improvement grows exponentially!

Thankfully, Old Flame's mate had a certain foundation of strength and had been trained before going to the valley. Otherwise, the cost would have been truly astronomical!

Even so, for the first time, Arthur felt what it was like to spend money like it was nothing.

This made him once again feel the importance of a rich woman… ahem, of strength!

Luckily, he had now entered the main singles tier. Otherwise, he really wouldn't be able to pay back this debt.

The days passed one by one.

With a huge investment of funds, the on-paper stats of Old Flame's mate improved at a rapid pace!

Regardless of her actual combat power, her stats alone were a luxurious sight!

Brimming with energy! Physically robust!

The flame on her tail, when she used her full power, could burn over three meters high, even more impressive than Old Flame's!

All the preparatory work was complete. Arthur then spent three full days just talking with Old Flame's mate, opening their hearts to each other to build a foundation of trust.

Finally, Old Flame gave his wife the Charizardite he had treasured for two hundred years. And Arthur, as a bonus, had his boss reimburse him for another Mega Stone, ensuring she had two options.

Now, it was time to witness a miracle!

For this moment, Arthur did not make a big fuss. Besides the creditors, Ivy and Bianca, the only other person present was the consultant who had been in charge of the entire force-maturing process. There was no one else.

He hadn't even notified Justin and Bella, who had already been traded to the Starlight and Frost team.

On this day, in this unknown experimental site, Arthur took a deep breath and solemnly called out.

"Come on! Let me see your true limits! Evolve!"

"ROAR!!"

A roar, suppressed to its absolute limit, finally exploded.

Old Flame's mate threw her head back towards the sky and let out a mighty bellow.

She too had once served in the police and the military. How could she have been content to be cooped up in the depths of a cave?

And what Charizard doesn't yearn for the sky?

But she had never demanded anything. Even in her most difficult and desperate times, she had always restrained her daughter, preventing her from resenting humans, from resenting the world.

If not for her gentle persuasion, with her daughter's rebellious teenage personality, how could she have only held a grudge against the Aerodactyl and not the border defense force?

It was because she had always heard Old Flame say that his former master was a hero of the league, a guardian of the Kubfu Alliance, a Champion, that she had never wanted her daughter to be on bad terms with the league, with humans.

She was a beautiful, kind, and gentle Pokémon.

Her flames were not as fierce and powerful as Old Flame's, but they could always warm a cave in the dead of winter.

And today, her gentleness was finally rewarded.

She was right to tell her daughter not to resent humans, because today, she had finally received a human's salvation, at any cost.

Nearly one hundred million had been invested!

Over a month of non-stop daily injections, supplements, and infusions!

At this moment, today, it finally transformed into the most dazzling miracle!

The white light, in the next moment, successfully shone!

And in the silhouette covered by the light, the half-missing wing was rapidly and resolutely being made whole.

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