“More or less as I had guessed,” Logan murmured.
Immediately afterward, he began checking the locations of the gyms in the Arcadia region, where he was located.
The Arcadia region had 14 cities and 14 gyms.
Without exception, all those gyms were built near each city’s most famous tourist attractions.
Regional gyms were different from Pokémon Centers.
The former valued culture and tourism; the latter, the economy.
If both were combined and the opportunity was seized, they could almost make all of a city’s indicators rise by one step.
But when almost every city was doing the same thing, the difficulty of standing out was not exactly low.
“As expected, the Seloria Gym is at the city’s most famous attraction, Crystal Bay.” Logan pondered for a moment and browsed the forum.
Crystal Bay was a very high-level training area.
The wild Pokémon there were generally above Level 30.
There were even many evolved Pokémon, including Poliwhirl.
Current players had already discovered part of Poliwag’s evolution, and because of that, Poliwag could sell for a good price.
“The Imperial Gym Opens Strongly.
Leader Cynthia Came Out at a Key Moment, and Her Apprentice Defeated First-Rate Players in One Blow!” “Aurora Gym, a Champion-Level Gym?
An Untrained Magneton Defends the Position, and No One Can Break Through!
Will Anyone Really Be Able to Get the Badge?” “The Seloria Gym Opens Strongly!
Beautiful Leader, with a Panda, a Fox, and an Eevee Evolution.
Leaves Professional Players Unable to Respond!
So Far, No One Has Obtained the Seloria Badge!” The first two posts were something Logan could foresee, and they were very shocking.
Surely the Imperial Gym and the Aurora Gym were national-level and even world-level gyms, without a doubt.
Who was Cynthia?
A true regional champion!
If she acted personally, it would be a massacre against beginners.
Moreover, current players were not even worthy of making her move; it would only be a waste of time.
As for the Aurora Gym of Duskwell City, Logan could not guess who its leader was.
Magneton was a fairly common Electric + Steel-type Pokémon, but even so, it could defend the gym against opponents of the same level without anyone being able to surpass it.
That strength was terrifying.
Of course, none of that had anything to do with the current Logan.
In order to come into contact with gyms of that level, at the very least, he would have to obtain the qualification to participate in the national tournament.
What surprised Logan the most was that the Seloria Gym of Arcaia City could occupy third place among the forum’s gym posts.
Looking at the title, Logan felt a certain familiarity.
A panda, a fox, an Eevee evolution, and a beautiful girl?
Among the many characters of the original work, he could only think of one person.
Opening the post, Logan nodded.
Indeed, it was her.
Serena, the female protagonist of Pokémon XY, was considered by many fans to be the most popular among all the female protagonists of the different generations.
And according to the situation at the end of the series, Serena’s three Pokémon should be between Level 30 and Level 40.
That kind of level was not something current players could compete against.
Moreover, Serena’s Pokémon would surely have quite good aptitude.
Thinking of that, Logan stopped being in a hurry.
Winning at a gym in the early stages would undoubtedly be a privilege of a small minority.
Driving the motorcycle, Logan sent out all his Pokémon.
Riding the motorcycle to Crystal Bay would take quite some time, and Logan did not want to waste it.
Hawlucha watched from the sky.
Growlithe ran beside the motorcycle.
Heracross spread its cicada wings and also followed him at considerable speed.
Rotom, for its part, always floated beside Logan.
Sometimes, when they encountered wild Pokémon, Logan also stopped to defeat them.
Unfortunately, he never encountered a Pokémon with high base stats and good aptitude.
He could only put them in the auction post that belonged exclusively to Logan on the forum.
This also made his little personal fund become quite a bit fuller.
What pleasantly surprised Logan was that the post he had published before to buy Magikarp finally received a reply.
“I have 3 Magikarp here: one high quality, one intermediate quality, and one low quality.
Do you really want to buy them?” “Of course,” Logan replied, holding back his joy and pretending to be cold.
A high-quality Magikarp, after evolving, would be a high-quality Gyarados.
Of course, training Magikarp was extremely difficult, but the later reward was also very abundant.
“Then let’s make the exchange now.
High-quality Magikarp at 100,000 each.
You won’t regret it, right?” The other person evidently was also in a hurry to get money.
“Of course.
But I only want the high-quality Magikarp,” Logan replied.
Although an intermediate-quality Magikarp had quite a bit of value, what did he want it for?
If a Supreme-quality Magikarp, when leveled up, had guaranteed evolution into Gyarados, then the probability of a high-quality Magikarp evolving into Gyarados was three quarters.
And an intermediate-quality one?
With luck, it would have one fourth.
It was completely dispensable.
“Fine.” The exchange with that anonymous player was very fast.
This was the first time Logan bought a Pokémon on the forum.
Although he paid one hundred thousand, Logan did not feel the slightest pain.
Even if he left that high-quality Magikarp untrained, when players recognized Gyarados’s strength, Magikarp’s value would rapidly rise.
Buying Magikarp at this stage would grow faster than investing in real estate.
What Logan did not expect was that, after trading with that anonymous player, more Magikarp trainers came to his post saying they wanted to sell high-quality Magikarp!
On the first day of launch, a high-quality Magikarp still had the high price of one hundred thousand.
But by the second day, there were no longer many people who still held hope in Magikarp.
Magikarp’s price had collapsed by half!
150 Pokédollars for a low-quality Magikarp, while a Poké Ball cost 500 Pokédollars.
This could no longer be described simply as a commodity that made people lose money…
Even those “fools” who bought Magikarp on the first day were in a hurry to get rid of them.
Who knew if tomorrow Magikarp would devalue again?
The Magikarp trainers who urgently wanted to sell them gradually gathered into a group, discussing ways to get rid of their Magikarp.
And Logan, who at this stage was still offering one hundred thousand to buy Magikarp, was undoubtedly another fool in the eyes of those trainers.
When a fool meets another fool, how could they not take the chance to scam him a little?
Logan did not care about any of that.
On the contrary, he was receiving surprise after surprise.
Currently, he had around 2 million in savings, all earned by capturing Pokémon with his own strength and trading them with national players.
He could roughly buy 20 high-quality Magikarp or 2 Supreme-quality Magikarp.
Supreme-quality Magikarp, one in a million, surely were not few with such a huge player base in the country.
Because Magikarp occupied third place among the second Pokémon captured by players, with a base of tens of millions.
Especially those players whose starter Pokémon was Caterpie, who even to defeat a Rattata had to leave it with low HP.
They had no choice but to turn their gaze toward the extremely weak Magikarp.
Looking at it this way, Logan, who had Hawlucha from the beginning and could challenge Beedrill alone, was truly very lucky.
Facing those fools who wanted to sell Magikarp, Logan expressed: calmly, no hurry.
One for one hundred thousand, fair price for everyone.
“Do you really buy high-quality Magikarp at one hundred thousand each?” “Of course.” “Could Magikarp be hiding some secret and not just be for new players to level up?” “No comment.” “If you don’t tell me, I won’t sell.” “If you don’t sell, get lost.” “Wait, I’ll sell.
Happy?” After realizing how desperate those players were to sell, Logan immediately transformed into a great lord.
Sell it if you want, I’m not forcing you!
In other shops that bought Pokémon, everyone spoke with kindness and courtesy.
Only in his, it seemed like they did not treat the customer as a god!
When he arrived at Crystal Bay, Logan looked at the 16 high-quality Magikarp in his backpack.
His heart beat strongly.
He believed that, at most within one month, high-quality Magikarp would become the most sought-after Pokémon.
And Logan, because of that, would earn until his pockets were full!
(End of Chapter) PKGO-En