Chapter 7 - Pokemon Master Of Tactics: 7
The strength of Team Rocket is so great because of its big business. In many cities, they have many of their industries, and most of the staff in these industries are naturally Team Rocket's people.
The actual number of powerful trainers in Team Rocket is not very large. Most Team Rocket members are responsible for logistics work. Besides, raising powerful trainers costs a large number of resources. If there is not enough logistical power to support, the people of Team Rocket can only go broke.
Many people think that the way the dark organization obtains resources is by plundering, but that can not be more wrong. Plundering is the lowest and slowest resource collection method.
They are very good at creating and cultivating resources. For example, Silph Co. is controlled by Team Rocket behind the scenes. Not to forget that Team Rocket owns the largest casino in Kanto.
These are all huge cash cows created and cultivated by Team Rocket.
That's why the strength of Team Rocket is so powerful that even Alliance does not dare to move against them simply. After all, Team Rocket has successfully integrated into the Alliance's body. If Alliance wants to pull out the Team Rocket by the roots, it will suffer the damage itself too.
Alex opened his TRH device and found that there were 500 TR points on his account. He found 5 departments in the Exchange system
1: Pokémon 2: TM 3: Pokémon items 4: Pokémon training method 5: Pokémon food
Alex first looked at the Pokémon items, where he found many useful things. Like Low-Quality Fire Stones, Potions, Antidote, Pokéballs, Great balls, Freshwater, Soda Pop, Lemonade.
In this world, healing objects like lemonade or potions don't only heal injuries but also give back the original physical strength to the tired Pokémon.
Of course, cheap healing items like lemonade are several times worse than the top healing items like Max Potions.
This is why rich trainers have a strong advantage over regular trainers. For example, a rich trainer can train his Pokémon 2 times effectively in the same training time. That's because a Pokémon only takes a certain number of healing items per day. And the better the healing items are, the more efficient the training is.
"Ok. I've now ordered everything I need to conquer Zubat. I hope it arrives soon."
About 1 hour later, someone knocked on Alex's door. He opened the room and saw a middle-aged man in a Lackey uniform standing outside the door carrying a package.
As mentioned before, in Team Rocket, the people who are lower than the recruits are the Lackeys. These people are the people who have not passed the recruit test. They are at the bottom of Team Rocket. Their role is similar to the handyman. Yes, they do all the dirty work.
Of course, these miscellaneous personnel has not totally lost the opportunity to continue to be promoted, but their promotion path is several times more difficult than when they were recruits.
After all, they have been in the most severely exploited position without any source of TR Points. The Lackey work can only guarantee their 3 meals a day and accommodation.
Without any communication, Alex took the package from the Lackey and closed the door again.
Alex thought, "You can't blame anyone but yourself. After all, Team Rocket is a dark organization. Those who fail to pass the trial of recruits are destined to receive serious exploitation by Team Rocket."
In the package were an iron cage, earplugs, a strong flashlight, and 10-liter blood plasma.
All of this cost Alex 290 TR points.
He now only had 210 TR points left.
Alex thought, "Fuk! I hardly have any money left. How can I train my Pokémon effectively without enough money? The most efficient way to get money is to collect Mega Stones and Keystones and then sell them. The problem the world doesn't know yet about Mega Stones. and if I try to sell this information with my strength, I die in 99 out of 100 cases."
"No, I have to keep the information about Mega Stones secret for now. Later I can take advantage of it."
"There is also the possibility of catching Pokémons with good potential and then selling them for a high price."
"Although in this world, no device can determine the potential exactly. But as soon as the Pokémon is caught, we can roughly estimate how good the potential of the Pokémon is."
"The problem I have is that I don't want to harm Pokémon. Although I am ready to kill Pokémon and people if necessary but killing innocent Pokémon and people is too much."
"Ok, I'll do it like this. If a Pokémon attacks me without provocation, then I'll see it as an enemy who tried to kill me. After all, Pokémon attacks are no joke."
"I think I can live with this rule. I am no batman after all."
"But first, I need a strong Pokémon to catch and sell Pokémon.
Ok, let's start with conquering Zubat."