The Starter Pokemon are mainly of the Water, Fire, and Grass types. The types vary by region; in Kanto, they are Charmander, Squirtle, and Bulbasaur. These three Pokemon all have three stages of evolution and extremely high potential.
Furthermore, the Alliance has dedicated personnel to identify their general aptitude. The Starter Pokemon that end up with direct-lineage novice trainers are all excellent in aptitude and gentle in nature. With proper training, reaching the Quasi-Elite Four level is not a big problem.
In the Black Market, the price of Starter Pokemon is not as expensive as Pseudo-Legendary eggs. After all, not every talent is outstanding. But even so, the market price for a Starter Pokemon egg is over 20 million Alliance Coins.
This price is simply staggering.
One must know that as of yesterday, including the money spent, Tetsuya had only earned a little over 4.5 million Alliance Coins in the past four years.
Buying this villa only cost 800,000 Alliance Coins. Most of the remaining money was invested in training Pidgeotto.
Even so, the Pidgeotto that Tetsuya had trained for over a year had only recently entered the Elite stage, although this was related to Tetsuya's lack of funds which slowed down the foundation building for Pidgeotto.
Tetsuya fell into a memory.
Tetsuya's first Pokemon was not the current Pidgeotto, but a Rattata.
After all, Tetsuya, who had just entered society, only had the scholarship from the Alliance – 10,000 Alliance Coins.
Although it was enough for him to live for a while and find a job with his own abilities, if he wanted to become a trainer, to be blunt, this amount of money was practically nothing.
Even the cheapest Pokemon egg in the Black Market, even a Caterpie's, required a high price of 50,000 Alliance Coins. Even if most of the Caterpie that hatched couldn't evolve, their combat power was close to zero.
Wild Caterpie caught and put into a Poke Ball only cost 10,000 Alliance Coins, but such Caterpie didn't even have a chance to gamble with their lives and simply couldn't evolve.
If they could evolve into Metapod, they wouldn't be this cheap. After all, if they could evolve, they would have already evolved given the growth cycle of Bug-type Pokemon.
Tetsuya was unwilling. In this world, only by becoming a trainer was there a sliver of a chance to change his fate, not to mention he had a Cheat.
So Tetsuya risked his life and entered Viridian Forest alone, wanting to take a gamble.
As long as he found a Pokemon egg, no matter what its aptitude, Tetsuya was confident he could overcome the initial difficulties.
Fortunately, after experiencing the tragic events of being chased by Weedle and being driven away by Caterpie's silk, Tetsuya actually found an egg left behind by a Raticate. Although its aptitude was only ordinary and it couldn't evolve into a Raticate.
After returning to Viridian City and hatching the Rattata, although Tetsuya didn't have the ability to train the Rattata according to the plan given by Zero, he still took care of it with all his heart.
After the Rattata passed its infancy, Tetsuya registered as a Bounty Hunter and began his journey to earn money. Naming himself "Mercenary" was also a way to keep a memory of his previous world.
Although the income was not much and it was very difficult, during two years of adventure, Tetsuya and Rattata gradually accumulated some money together.
However, unexpected events happen. During an adventure, Tetsuya and Rattata encountered a flock of Spearow.
In that battle, although Tetsuya survived, the level 18 Rattata still couldn't escape the clutches of the large group of Spearow.
Tetsuya was very sad.
But Pokemon that have died cannot be resurrected, unless Ho-Oh is found, which is impossible.
So Tetsuya had no choice but to go to the Black Market, preparing to rely on his knowledge and Zero's ability to select a Pokemon with excellent aptitude and start training again.
The Black Market, as the name suggests, is a market in the darkness, not officially recognized by the Alliance.
After all, Alliance regulations clearly prohibit the trading and selling of Pokemon, including Pokemon eggs.
But in this world, as long as the profit is large enough, many people are willing to take risks to do it, so the Black Market came into being.
Gradually, Black Markets became more numerous and their scale gradually increased, becoming an unwritten dark zone. Although the Alliance did not support it, it tacitly allowed its existence, because only in this way could the people at the bottom have a glimmer of hope.
Tetsuya walked through the Black Market, covering his figure with a black robe. Everyone around him had the same appearance.
Walking to a stall selling eggs of common Pokemon like Caterpie, Weedle, and Pidgey, looking at the stall owner in a matching black robe, Tetsuya asked, "How much is a Pidgey egg?"
The stall owner heard Tetsuya's slightly young voice and was not surprised. After all, there were too many people like this. He said indifferently, "Black Market unified price, 250,000."
Tetsuya was not surprised, nor did he feel that the stall owner was trying to rip him off.
As he said, the pricing for this type of ordinary Pokemon egg was unified throughout the Black Market. He was just confirming the price again.
Although Pidgey is not strong and its gentle nature is not suitable for intense battles, it has the same number of evolutions as the Starter Pokemon. Its final evolution, Pidgeot, is not only handsome in appearance but also powerful in strength.
If it weren't for the fact that most Pidgey have low aptitude, and evolving into Pidgeotto is one in a thousand, and the final evolution into Pidgeot is even rarer, the price of Pidgey eggs would have been much higher than this.
Tetsuya seemingly casually picked a Pokemon egg and put it into his bag. He took out a pre-prepared unregistered savings card and gave it to the stall owner, completing the transaction.
Tetsuya turned and left.
The stall owner didn't mind. After confirming that the money in the card was accurate, he continued to wait for the next customer.
Although he saw that Tetsuya seemed very casual, he actually carefully looked at all his Pidgey eggs before choosing. But he didn't think that an egg produced from a flock led by a Pidgeotto that he had exterminated could contain any good Pokemon.
Furthermore, there was no instrument in this world that could determine the aptitude of the Pokemon inside an egg. The most skilled aptitude appraisers could only make a simple judgment of aptitude based on the development, fur, and bloodline of young Pokemon.
Not to mention this was clearly a child from a commoner family.
How could the stall owner have known that Tetsuya possessed Zero, something that didn't belong to this world?
Tetsuya's heart was beating wildly, but he was still in the Black Market, so he could only forcefully suppress his excited emotions and walk back to his rented room with a pace slightly faster than normal.
Back in his rented room, Tetsuya could no longer hide his excitement. He took out the Pokemon egg and shouted wildly in his mind.
"Zero, open the panel for this Pokemon egg in front of me."
A blue panel immediately opened. Tetsuya's attention was fixed on the line for potential.
What was displayed there were two words: Elite Four.
This was Elite Four! Tetsuya almost couldn't help but shout out.
You know, in the two years of adventure before, the highest potential of wild Pokemon Tetsuya had seen was only Elite, not even a Quasi-Elite Four.
Tetsuya never expected that going to the Black Market out of desperation would give him such a big surprise.
Originally, Tetsuya had planned to spend a large portion of his savings to buy a better Pokemon egg, like a Sandshrew or something. Choosing one with Elite potential could evolve into a Sandslash, which would be a pretty good Pokemon.
Then, he would save some money for training. Tetsuya was confident he could raise it well.
But who knew that as soon as he entered the Black Market, Tetsuya discovered that this Pidgey egg actually had Elite Four level potential!
Tetsuya couldn't believe his eyes at the time, and even thought that maybe Zero had a problem.
I usually choose Pokemon names that I think sound good rather than the official ones. I personally feel that the name Pidgeot (大比鸟) is much lower than Pidgeot (比雕).
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