Among Beedrill's "base stats", the most outstanding were Speed and physical Attack, so Beedrill's basic training still focused on them.
Now that Golett was not here, there was no way to use Gravity, so only the most primitive method could be used.
Fortunately, Tetsuya had exchanged for four wights, otherwise in this wilderness, he really would not have known what to use for physical training.
The four weights were tied by Tetsuya to Beedrill's two legs and two arms. With additional weight added suddenly, Beedrill found it difficult to adapt when it started flying, and had to flap its wings at a higher frequency to maintain flight.
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Maintaining such flight for an entire day, at night Beedrill collapsed directly onto the ground, and Tetsuya took out nectar for it to eat. Beedrill took one bite and revealed a very reluctant expression.
"What, it doesn't taste good?" Tetsuya asked.
Beedrill nodded.
This was not surprising. This nectar was already the lowest quality, and this Beedrill had once eaten the nectar inside Victreebel. Its deliciousness and nutritional value were completely incomparable.
"…This taste is far worse than the nectar inside Victreebel, right?"
After Tetsuya spoke, Beedrill kept nodding and even showed a longing expression.
"You saw the Grass-types in the flower field ahead, right? They all have such delicious nectar inside their bodies. Aw, but with so much delicious food there… do you dare to eat it?"
There were at least thirty to forty Grass-type Pokémon in the flower field ahead. Although they were not from the same species, each had its own small group. With Beedrill's strength alone, it had no ability to challenge them, so it could only fantasize.
If it was lucky, it might be able to catch one acting alone, but after all, that depended on ambush and luck.
"…If you want to eat that nectar, you can only train hard. Only when you are strong enough to beat those Grass-types will you be able to enjoy endless delicious nectar~"
As a true "Foodie-type", there was nothing more tempting to Beedrill than this. During its Weedle stage, its taste had already been refined, so now its longing for delicious food was even stronger.
Beedrill closed its eyes and finished all the nectar, becoming even more determined in its resolve for training!
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Before resting, Beedrill was still practicing swinging its twin stingers, while also relaxing its whole body muscles.
After maintaining such training for an entire week, Beedrill was already able to maintain normal high-speed flight under weighted conditions, and the four dumbbells on its body felt as if they were part of its body.
On this day, Tetsuya removed the four weights, and Beedrill immediately felt light. It shot straight into the sky, its flight altitude being twice as high as usual, and its flight speed had already reached the level of "I heard the sound of something coming, but I didn't see its shape!".
"Mm, good. With such speed as a baseline, you can train Double Team."
Tetsuya said. The move Double Team was built on the base of high speed. By rapidly changing positions at high frequency, as long as the speed of position change exceeded the duration of visual persistence, the phenomenon of "Double Team" would appear in the opponent's eyes.
Double Team could make battles more diverse. It could be used for offense, defense, and evasion. It was indeed a very effective auxiliary move.
Tetsuya designated an area for Beedrill, making it fly rapidly between different positions. With speed as the base, practicing Double Team naturally became much easier.
After two days of practice, Beedrill had already completely learned Double Team.
The Speed training had finally shown results!
Next was "physical strength" training, but there had to be a transition process, and it had to be integrated through actual combat.
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Three Gloom were drinking water by the river.
"Beedrill, you can have an extra meal today, as long as you defeat those three Gloom."
After Tetsuya spoke, Beedrill flew out, blocking the Gloom that had finished drinking and were preparing to return to the flower field.
"Beedrill, [Twin Fury]." Tetsuya commanded. Beedrill thrust out its twin stingers and stabbed toward the three Gloom.
With such high-frequency stabs, even the three Gloom were forced to retreat step by step, and were about to fall into the water.
Realizing the danger, the Gloom released a stench.
The nauseating odor quickly spread, and even the nearby Pidgey could not resist it and flew away.
Beedrill felt a moment of dizziness, quickly flew away, and kept flapping its wings to disperse the foul smell.
Taking advantage of Beedrill's retreat, the three Gloom had already regained their footing and sprayed out Acid.
"Use Double Team to dodge!"
The three Gloom continuously sprayed Acid. The corrosive liquid shot toward Beedrill like bullets, and each time it was fired in a burst of three.
Beedrill rapidly vibrated its wings, and in an instant more than a dozen Beedrill appeared!
The Gloom were immediately confused and could only spray Acid wildly.
"Pay attention to the direction of the opponent's attacks. If your Double Team is broken, you'll be in danger."
Tetsuya reminded Beedrill. Double Team could not withstand such multiple attacks. Each time an illusion was destroyed, Beedrill's Double Team would quickly be broken.
At this moment, it became a contest of speed.
Was the Gloom faster at destroying the illusions/clones, or was Beedrill faster at using Double Team again?
It could be seen that as each illusion was destroyed, new ones appeared in the gaps between the Acid shots, maintaining a stalemate.
The three Gloom could not keep up with Beedrill's speed!
However, Acid was limited after all. The Gloom gradually sprayed less and less, and the frequency became slower. Beedrill found it increasingly easy to handle.
Finally, the Gloom reached their limit and could no longer spray Acid.
Looking at the Beedrill flickering in front of them, they no longer had any thoughts left.
'''Run!''''
The three Gloom turned and ran toward the flower field.
"Pursuit."
Beedrill spun as it flew, its twin stingers wrapped in black Dark-type energy, and shot forward. However, at the moment Beedrill attacked, the Double Team disappeared. It pierced into the rear of one Gloom, lifting it up before slamming it to the ground!
Immediately after, [Twin Fury] dealt with the other two Gloom.
"Beedrill, hurry and eat. After eating, we'll begin intensified Double Team training!"
After Tetsuya spoke, Beedrill gave him a surprised look, as it believed its Double Team was already perfect.
…However, it still could not resist the temptation of food.
Although Gloom could release a foul stench, there was a significant amount of nectar inside their bodies. Even the saliva that flowed out was nectar.
Moreover, Gloom's nectar could heal Paralysis. Eating more of it would greatly improve resistance to Paralysis.
Beedrill used its twin stingers to pierce the petals on Gloom's head and sucked the nectar inside.