He knows Pokémon better than me.

Mary took out her Poké Ball and hesitated for a long time before finally deciding not to capture the wild Iron Ant.

Indeed, the Steel/Bug type Iron Ant is very effective against Fairy type opponents.
However, this Iron Ant's level is a bit low. After all, Ash's Pokémon is still a baby, and it can't even withstand one hit.

However, this gave Mary an idea: perhaps she could choose to subdue a powerful iron ant as a trump card to counteract its weakness.

Seeing that Mary wasn't interested, Ash could only shrug and then walk over, take out a small cloth bag, and put a yellow pill into the iron ant's mouth.

Before long, the iron ant woke up and hurriedly fled back into the grass.

"A vitality fragment? No, that's not right."

Mary looked over curiously and noticed that the bag in Xiaozhi's hand was full of these little pills.

"Oh, this is called a Vitality Pill, but you can also call it a Vitality Fragment."

Noticing Mary's gaze, Ash smiled and handed her five, casually explaining:
"The effect is similar to Vitality Fragments, but the effect is milder."

"Vitality pills?"

Mary stared at the pill in her hand, her astonishment deepening—

Currently, all regions of the world use the same item to revive a stunned Pokémon: a Vitality Shard, or even a more advanced Vitality Block.

At most, you can eat raw, unprocessed Resurrection Grass. But that will lower the Pokémon's friendship level.

I've never seen a small yellow pill with the same effect that looks like this before!
Xiao Zhi didn't explain much and quickly changed the subject.

The source of the Vitality Pill is naturally the Xicui region, which has a lot of advanced technology, especially all kinds of strange and unusual drugs.

Before leaving, he bought a lot of things.

They even brought back to the castle the raw material for making the Vitality Pills – Vitality Buds, roots and all.

Once Shaymi successfully cultivates it, Lucario will be able to make these Vitality Pills entirely by hand!
"Then, let's continue the fight!!"

Ash immediately gave the order, and the baby dragon immediately began searching for new prey in the surrounding area.

Mary stared at Ash's retreating figure, thinking to herself:

"It feels like there's been a lot of change."

Is it really only been half a month since we last met? How come you seem to have gotten a lot more tanned all of a sudden?
There are quite a few wild Pokémon on Route 6, and then the Bellatrix went on to defeat several Lizards and Hippowdons.
Where there are iron ants, there will naturally be melting ant beasts.

For example, the wild melting ant beast in front of us is of a very high level.

Whoosh!
The fiery breath it exhaled forcefully overwhelmed the baby dragon's small burst of flames, forcing the latter to hastily dodge.

After all, in the wild, it usually takes ten iron ants to barely contend with one melting ant beast.

The flames it blows out can even transform into a flexible, long whip of fire.

*Sizzle!*

The fiery whip suddenly lashed out, sending the baby dragon flying.

Fortunately, as a noble dragon, Baby Dragon has a strong resistance to fire attacks, so it won't be instantly killed.

However, it cannot gain an advantage with its Evil Wave, Small Flame Burst, or even its close-range Double Slash.

Xiao Zhi decisively chose to switch players:

"Baby Dragon, take a break for now. Little Tengcu, use the Sludge Bomb!"

The young Tengchu was already prepared, juggling a mud ball and launching it with great force!

The sludge bomb that came from the side hit the ant beast squarely in the face, instantly blinding it.

*Sizzle! Sizzle!*
The latter's flaming whip also completely lost its aim, lashing wildly and mostly hitting the ground, making a chilling whipping sound.

Of course, this poses no threat whatsoever to the agile young tumbling general.

As they approached, they even jolted up a rock the size of a head.

After closing the distance, a powerful kick sent the ant-beast flying backward, crashing heavily down the hillside behind it. The effect was outstanding!

Xiao Zhi quickly went up, peered down, and found that it was only three or four meters below, which made him breathe a sigh of relief.

The molten ant was lying in a crevice in the rock wall below, belly up, completely incapacitated, its right leg still twitching.

Mary also came up, thinking that the Antmon seemed like a good choice, as it had extremely strong resistance to Fairy-type moves.

This ant beast is not low in level either.

Unfortunately, fire attribute only resists fairy attribute, it cannot overcome it.
“There are better options.”

Instead of choosing a new Pokémon, Mary couldn't help but look at Ash's Scorbunny.

Despite being a high-level wild Pokémon, it was easily defeated by this starter Pokémon.

In fact, this starter Pokémon hasn't even evolved to its maximum level yet!

She suddenly felt an urge to have a battle with Ash right there in the field and see just how good he really was.

But before Marie could even challenge them to a fight, three Galar-like crying masks flew overhead.

The one in the lead, with a crying mask hanging from a white stone slab, launched mud bombs at the direction of the baby dragon without saying a word.

The other two coalesced into rocks and hurled them at once.

It seems to be the three Crying Masks that were intimidated away by Corviknight yesterday, and now they've come for revenge?

"It's really different from the Unova region."

Ash couldn't help but sigh, "The only thing Unova's Cry Mask can come up with right away is Shadow Ball."

He quickly focused his attention and poured all his bond power into the baby dragon, greatly enhancing its evasion ability.

"Bee!"

The latter dodged frequently, and in the gaps, it would open its mouth wide and unleash a wave of evil energy in response.

Sizzle! Boom! Boom!

Sizzle! Boom! Boom!

The Dark Pulse is incredibly effective against them; even a glancing blow from a basic attack can instantly kill them.

Before long, the two crying masks were shot down and crashed.

The remaining crying mask naturally didn't dare to linger and ran away in a panic once again.

In less than two hours, the wild Pokémon along Route 6 were basically wiped out.

"Aww~!!"

The baby dragon stood on the stone platform with its back straight, roaring like a little tyrant, looking smug.

Mary didn't understand, but Xiao Zhi awkwardly curled his cheek.

He and Baby Dragon are in a bonded connection, allowing him to read Baby Dragon's thoughts. At this moment, the latter is shouting:

"As expected, only we pseudo-legendary Pokémon are the strongest; all other Pokémon are just stray dogs on the roadside!"

That's roughly the idea.

Pikachu next to me was already crackling with electricity; I really wanted to give this arrogant junior a shock first.

Ash quickly pulled Pikachu back and chuckled awkwardly to stop him.

Since it's an evil dragon, there's nothing wrong with it being a little arrogant.

Like Melmeta, electrotherapy for personality correction—let's wait until after evolution! (End of Chapter)