After about 20 minutes I decided that I had seen enough of the area and chose to swim a bit further out. While I was moving forwards I was also observing my surroundings, which ant I saw a lot of grass fields consisting either of one of the three species I found or a mix of them.
Thankfully those were not the only things I saw or it would have gotten boring pretty fast. No, I also saw small regions of seaweeds, as well as various corals, and areas where all of them grew. These regions/fields served as places that fish, krill, and Pokemon congregated either to live around or for food.
It was while I was observing the colorful sea floor that I decided to grow the regular versions of the sea plants I had collected until now inside both the pond in the main space, as well as inside the marine subspace. They would serve as a food source and grew much faster than their special counterparts.
There was also no maximum limit I had to worry about, so I imdiately planted them in both places. Shielding them until they had grown enough, which shouldn't take too long since they got optimized as well. The improvent included nutrition value as well as growth speed. It also allowed them to survive in all water environnts.
The sa was true for the fish I imported into my space I had settled on 4 species, and while they would never beco like Pokemon, the optimization by my space made them healthier, more nutritious, and tastier as well. It also accelerated their growth/maturity speed and allowed them to live in any water environnt.
By now I had relocated hundreds of Sardines, Herrings, Mackerels, and Seabreams. I kept them in separate areas, for now, to allow them to multiply so more. I also saw firsthand the effect the optimization had on them.
I had chosen these 4 species because they were dium-sized, and all of them grew by 10 cm after the optimization. Sardines went from an average length of 30 cm to 40 cm. Herrings had an average length of 40 cm, which beca 50 cm. Mackerel went from 35 cm to 45 cm, and
Seabreams grew from about 35 cm to 45 cm.
My space turned them into the perfect food source for my Pokemon and I would have no scruples selling them for money as well since they had no other use besides as food.
I occasionally swam down to check the fields when I saw a new type of plant or coral or so Pokemon besides Magikarp. I had gotten a new type of seaweed that way called Brown Kelp, which was kinda like the cousin of the Azure Kelp.
'Na: Brown Kelp
Type: Water
Class: F
Uses: It's a piece of kelp that has absorbed water as well as so ground energy until it mutated. Contains a bit of grass energy, so ground energy, as well as concentrated water-type energy, increasing its purity.
Can slightly aid acclimate ground types to water energy. Can also be used as a supplent to help water-type Pokemon.'
As for the types of corals, I had seen until now; well, there had been quite a few of them. They were nad after things they resembled, so far I had seen so Tree Corals, Horn Corals, Table Corals, Vase Corals, Brain Corals, and Whip Corals.
All of them could be found in different colors, the most common being brown, green, blue, red, and orange, which made coral fields look like colorful and beautiful places.
But that was enough about the basis that was sustaining the ecosystem in the sea, let's focus on the reason I ca here in the first place Pokemon and precious materials. On the precious material front, I had unfortunately not found anything yet, except for the Brown Kelp.
However, the Pokemon front was much more promising. Well, not because of their potential, since I had not found one with satisfactory potential yet, but because of their diversity.
While I was swimming forward in a loose S-shaped movent checking the various field I saw, I also ca across various Pokemon species. The most abundant were naturally the Magikarp, but I also saw quite a few Remoraid.
I ca across 2 Chinchou while checking my first small coral field. They had created a house that was slightly concealed among the corals. When I discovered them they were about to shock , but thankfully I managed to use my Jedi powers, ..., I ant my aura abilities to calm them down.
After I persuaded them of my harmlessness towards them and that I had no plan to expose their place, they turned out pretty cool. They allowed to watch them for a bit and I got to see them "hunt" so fish using their electricity.
At the sa coral field, I also found a Shellder that was just chilling between so of the corals.
I saw a few Goldeen and Tentacool among the areas with long grasses and/or seaweeds. Not in the sa areas mind you, because they did not seem to like each other that much. I knew or at least assud this because I saw a Goldeen fighting against a Tentacool in one of those places, despite there being just about enough space for both of them.
My guess was that they did not want to share their prey/bounty. Furthermore, I also found a few Barboach and from my encounters, I inferred that they preferred areas with short grass/seaweed and/or corals.
Among the other coral fields I checked, I found two more Shellder and surprisingly 2 Clamperl as well. Those species seed to prefer to live in areas with corals, but that did not an they could not be found outside of it, since I knew that Shellder also liked to hide under the sand.
However, these were not the only species that like corals. I ca across Staryu on multiple occasions while checking the areas with corals and I even encountered a Horsea. After the Chinchou it was the most aggressive of the Pokemon I t during this dive.
I was pretty sure, if not for the 4 Magikarp that were accompanying it would have attacked , but when it saw them moving towards it once it showed signs of aggression it ran/swam away.
Still, I believed that Horsea to be the exception, because I t 3 more Horsea, yet none of them reacted as aggressively as the first one. While only one of them was really relaxed, the other two were peaceful as well.
Since I encountered all 4 Horsea in areas with corals, I began to theorize that they preferred such environnts. Obviously, this did not an that they stayed exclusively in such places, but it was most likely their most preferred choice.
Anyway, it had been a few hours since I had entered the water, and a quick look at my watch confird that it had been 4 hours already, so I had about 1 to 2 hours until it was ti for and my Pokemon to eat lunch. By now I was more than 3 km away from the beach despite spending so much ti checking many things and moving in an S-shape.
I was not planning to swim back, since that would cost more than 20 minutes; I think? I was not sure since I had no idea how fast I could swim, but the important point was that it would take too much ti. I was going to swim up and call out Xatu so that he could Teleport to the beach.
Knowing this, I could continue to spend the ti until lunch on swimming further out, and I did just that. Until now the coral fields I ca across could have been categorized as small, but right in front of , I was seeing one that definitely could be called large.
I stopped for a mont and used telepathy to tell my Magikarp to stay alert and cautious. We were pretty far out right now and I had no idea what I could co across in a field this large, so being careful was important.
I began swimming around the field checking between the corals and generally keeping an eye on the whole place and I got to see a multitude of Pokemon species. It looked like the large size of the field ant that they were willing to share the place without fighting among themselves for the territory, even if they seed to have divided the area into districts/zones.
I saw a lot of Magikarp, and they were the only ones that were everywhere, but that was kinda the norm so far. I saw more than 30 Remoraid and even two Octillery as well. The two seed like the leaders of part of the southern zone belonging to the Remoraid. One of them was at the (mid) bronze stage, while the other was at the (high) bronze stage. None of their potentials was better than deep orange.
The zone to their left seed to belong to a group of Krabby led by a single Kingler. I saw like 15 Krabby but had no idea how many more were in places I couldn't see. I got curious about Kingler's strength since he had to be stronger than the Octillery, being the sole leader and all that.
Since I knew that Kingler was at least at the (high) bronze stage if not higher, I acted pretty cautiously while approaching it. I had been much more carefree about approaching the Octillery since the strength of my Magikarp and my own gave so confidence for us to stay mostly unhard.
Against Kingler I was not so sure if my Magikarp could stay unhard or not, so I behaved much more prudent. I moved towards the direction its back was facing before I moved closer. Even then I made sure to stop as soon as Kingler was inside the range of my telekinesis.
After that, I acted in the softest manner possible while brushing past its body to check its status.
'Species: Kingler
Gender: Male
Type: Water
Potential: Yellow
Stage: Silver-stage (low)
Genetic variation: None
Abilities: Hyper Cutter
Talents: None
Affinities: Water'
It turned out I was right. At the (low) silver stage, Kingler officially beca the strongest wild Pokemon I had seen at sea, at least up to this point. After I was done with my check I carefully moved away. Afterward, I returned to the Octillery zone and from there to the right to check which species had settled there.
It turned out that a large part of the right/east side of the coral field belonged to the Goldeen. I was sure that I saw nearly a hundred Goldeen swimming around but there could have been more than that as well.
Nonetheless, the size of their zone alone told that their leaders were pretty strong. The bosses of the Goldeen zone were two Seaking, and they were not the only Seaking in there, just the strongest ones.
Besides the bosses, I saw 2 more Seaking both being at the (mid) bronze stage. I had to launch another ninja-style operation to get close enough to the leaders to check their status through my telekinesis. For this one, I even took back my Magikarp for maximum stealth.
After I slowly made my way over swimming as close to the floor as possible, I successfully checked them both. They were both at the (low) silver stage, which together with the (mid) bronze ones explained the size of their territory.
Before I explored the rest of the coral field, I called out the Magikarp once more, who proceeded to swim towards . They complained about staying behind on my own telling that they had to protect . Their behavior and their feelings made happy, so I stroked their sides for a while.
A few minutes later I resud my exploration. I learned that the rest of the coral field, which was most of the northern and northwestern side, belonged to the Horsea-line. Now despite their territory being as large as that of the Goldeen, I saw way less Horsea than I did Goldeen. I only managed to see 40 or so Horsea, but I did spot 5 Seadra.
The behavior of the 5 made it obvious (to ) that one of them was the leader, while the other 4 were its direct underlings. When at one point I saw the leader call over the other 4 to tell them sothing before sending them away, I followed one of the underlings to check its status.
I noticed that it was doing a patrol and after checking up on the other 3 confird that they did the sa. All 4 of them were at the (high) bronze stage, which was impressive and told that the leader was at least at the (low) silver stage.
After doing yet another ninja-worthy operation this ti with my Ninkarps I got close enough to check its status as well. As soon as I did it turned in my direction and we, my Magikarp and I, imdiately stopped moving. Apparently, it decided to ignore us after sensing no danger or ill-intent, because I saw it turn away once more after a few monts.
We relaxed once that happened but still moved away as soon as possible. Once we were at the border between the Horsea and Goldeen zone I finally checked the status screen that showed up.
'Species: Seadra
Gender: Female
Type: Water
Potential: Deep Yellow
Stage: Silver-stage (mid)
Genetic variation: None
Abilities: Poison Point
Talents: None
Affinities: Water'
Seeing her strength being at the (mid) silver stage I start thanking all legendaries that she decided to ignore us after detecting sothing, because if she hadn't I would have had no other choice than to hide inside my space.
Who knew for how long I would have had to stay there if that happened. Fortunately, nothing like that happened. Still, it was monts like these that made appreciate my ergency exit, aka my space, even more. Anyway, once I cald down after that little surprise I took a look at my watch.
I saw that it was ti for lunch, so I decided to start swimming upwards. While I was moving towards the surface, I took a peek in the northern direction since that was where I was moving after lunch. That's when I noticed a large swarm of Tentacool led by 3 Tentacruel moving towards the coral field I had just explored.
There were hundreds of Tentacool and their movent towards the coral field ant that I was about to witness a territory war.
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