Alex woke up at the crack of dawn. His movements also woke up Eevee who slept beside him. To show her anger at being woken so early she growled at Alex then once again rested herself on the bed and slept.Seeing her act like this was funny for Alex. Before she was still a bit resistant to him now she opened herself enough to even act spoiled in front of him.
Leaving her he went to the bathroom to finish his daily routine after a nice warm bath he started to wake up Eevee.
After some effort she woke up and only on the condition that she be washed with her favorite shampoo.
Alex took her in the pokeball and went out. It was early morning and very few people were present in the streets.
Now he went to a dark shady corner and wore a mask with a skull on it and changed his clothes so no one would identify him.
The reason for his disguise is that he is going to visit the Black Market today.
It has been a few days since Alex revealed A bit about his past. He didn"t come earlier because his pokemons were wounded and it would only put him in danger if he goes there without some of his most powerful pokemons.
He had traced down the black market which roaming around the city.
Like all black market this one too was situated underground but what sets it apart was in addition to disguise most wore team rocket uniform.
This made it clear that now Viridian city underground world is completely understand the control of Giovanni. Or they wouldn"t reveal themselves in such a large number in a place.
The reason for him visiting here was primarily to sell the confiscated pokeb.a.l.l.s and then to find a milktank.
Milktank is a best Pokemon one need to raise an infant Pokemon along with the Chansey line.
But the difficulty to find a Chansey is much higher than finding a Milktank. Chansey are most exclusive Pokemon of the Joys. They are very strict about them. If one has a Chansey they will even search where he get it and if there is any abuse on it that trainer will spend years in jail.
This is the power the joys mastered. Of course they also reward them to people who help them.
If it was in Johto the Goldenrod gym might look at you for owning a Milktank because They own the biggest milk supply company in Johto. Their Milktank milk is even imported to other regions.
So there are many cases of Milktank being kidnapped. These are much appreciated in the black market. Some are sold as high as a few million.
Their milk is helpful for all pokemons as it strength their bones, had enough nutrition and with a good diet plan for pokemons it can make them more stronger.
This was not a common knowledge though. This was told to him by his grandpa. He also told him some big families had secret recipes to raise the Pokemons. This is why most only raise one type because of that their raised pokemons are stronger than the other wild Pokemons.
He too wanted a secret recipe but they are mostly very expensive. According to his grandpa the thing which inhibited the growth of his s.h.i.+ny Pidgeot was that it was malnutritioned since birth. After Alex raised it it came to ordinary growth otherwise its growth would have stunted.
Another was lack of specific recipe for him. Not only is it difficult to find but it is very expensive. And it is mostly sold in big cities. Even then it would only be an incomplete record.
He needed a recipe secret so he could use it as a reference to make his own for his Pokemons.
In the Pewter city he didn"t have enough money but now he would after selling the pokeb.a.l.l.s.
He first went to the trade center. This time he had 50+ pokeb.a.l.l.s and most were in either their secondary evolved form or final form. This will fetch him a good price along with the shadow grunts raising them good, there is no congenital defects in them.
The Pokemons he wanted to sold mostly had a racial value between 400-450. And only a couple had more than 450.
After evaluation they were priced as:
12*23000 = 516000
43*45000 =1935000
5*87000 = 435000
He was paid a total of 29 million pokecoins.
Adding to his previous balance he had about 33 million in total ( including the cash reward for shadows base operation).
After that he went to the washroom and once again changed his clothes. Who knows how many people know he had this much money.
The only one who might come after him will be ordinary shortime grunts. Although not afraid he didn"t want to find himself unnecessary problem.
Now he wore a clown mask and just changed the shoes and cloak he wore.
After that he wandered around the market to see if he could anything worthwhile or a Milktank.
He saw variety of Pokemons chained or caged ready to be sold. They were mostly ordinary Pokemons easy to catch or some strong but we"re malnourished.
Yet many were there to buy them. They were the type who believes number is strength.
There are some Pokemons which caught his attention such as Aron, skorupi , magby , etc. If raised well could be a core Pokemon of the team but he left because he didn"t know how the recipe will be priced.
After some windowshopping he came to a stall. The owner was a rocket and probably a higher ranked if his presence was taken notice of.
There were some old texts. three of them attracted his attention. He talked," how much are the old books?"
" 5 million"
" What ? why don"t you just rob me? They are hardly any value with how faded some pages are. How can they be worth do much. Since there are a dozen so I will pay 5000 each"
This affected the seller. He didn"t know what they were but since they were old he thought it was precious. But there are high chance it may be worthless. This was nothing new.
Many times some old items are sky high precious but most are just garbage. The words of Alex brought out this fear in him.
" How about I will add some other things along with it. A baltoy. You don"t know how precious they are. They are the cursed toy which are very rare. They are found in the Hoenn region. they are..." He tried to boast about Baltoy but Alex stopped him,
" I know about them . They are ground and psychic type and they aren"t that rare. They will only be slightly expensive . At most 40000 in Kanto. It only amounts 1 million. That"s how much I will pay. Will you sell them or not?" He said with a hint of finality.
He added some other pokemon props such as
soothing bell, blackgla.s.ses and a few old items.
He now priced them as 4million.
Now the only use of soothing bell circulating around is it helps calm down the Pokemon. The other use of increasing friendliness for evolution is not prominent now.
After final negotiations the deal was done in 2.5 million.
After paying and taking his property he left. Both of them happy at fooling the other and earning profits.
This is the case of lack of knowledge and information. If he knew about soothing bells other property, it"s price would have soared . It helps evolve riolu, Togepi, Golbat etc. And it can be used in repet.i.tion.
This will make it as expensive as 50 to even 100 million.
The one that caught his attention in that antique stall was a book with a Gengar pics and the attraction it brought to haunter in the shadow.
He was very excited about it. He felt there might be a connection between them so he bought it. There are some books on different pokemon types too among them.
It can be left for later, now he had to find a milktank. Not finding anything worthwhile he left the roadside stall area and headed for shops.
Seeing him spend 2.5 million in a go, it attracted the attention of some unsavory people who tailed him.
Will he find a suitable recipe and a Milktank. What will happen to Alex now?
to be continued....