Today though was different then usual as today we weren't going expl but rather I wao see if I could get Gaia to make some new moves using the old ones as a base. I shook her awake at our usual early wake up time. She got up with a yawn while I went to work reviving the fire again. I was getting pretty good at it too as I was starting to figure out the best way to blow as well as what the best embers to use for it were.-

  I also had the out the heavy ash of the nearly stant burning fire which wasn't that hard since I just made a temporary torch using resin which burned while I put out the other fire and swept the ashes out of the cave with a handful of pine needles. After that I just set the torch as the base of the burning fire and all was good. "Alright so today I want to see if we mess with your moves or the energy you use to make new ones." I said in my now journeyman level on.-

  Apparently the rank of skills and moves was based on how familiar with them we were with novice being not at all , journeyman beihan optimal and adept being fluent or near instant to use. Acc to the system there was expert , mastered and transded after that. With most of Gaia's moves being at at least journeyman I believed we had a det shot maniputing some new moves out of the old ones. I had also noticed that Gaia made almost nress with move proficy after reag adept. This training may help with this or at the very least I hoped it did.-

  Ohe fire was set we walked out of the cave into the slightly cloudy weather and over te boulder nearby. "Ok so lets start with something easy. Punch this boulder as hard as you without any moves." I said and Gaia looked a little fused but did as I asked. I would like to emphasize that pokemon are fug terrifying in terms of paia cocked back her right cw after getting right o the boulder since she has short arms before swinging her full body at an angle as her closed cws shot forward.-

  "CRASH!" stone fkes and pebbles flew off the boulder from the impact site and a bunall cracks covered the area she struck. She pulled bad I examihe damage carefully befiving her step. "Good now try to use iron defe see if you 't focus it on only your cw." I said and she furrowed her brows in fusion but attempted to do what I asked. Her carapace glowed silver grey for a moment before she pouted and shook her head. "Lar!" she said pining that it was too hard.-

  "Don't give me that on the first try! This is good training right here!" I scolded her for being zy. She snorted in irritation but tried again but besides the silver grey glow being a bit brighter on her cw there was no real differe it had me excited si roof that it ossible. "Keep at it it was w!" I enced and she did with very little ge for the rest of the day minus a tiny drop in the amount of glowing the rest of her body was doing. "Alright we'll call it here for today sihe sun is going down." I said and she just nodded iween panting.-

  stantly using a move for hours on end was exhausting faia and likely any other pokemon as well but it was also probably very good training for them as well. My theory was that the type energy that pokemon used in moves was directly tied to both an internal reservoir of ral energy and stamina. training such as this likely works both of those heavily which much like a muscle should if I am correct bee stronger. Until I went back to civilization though I wouldn't know if only I was aware of this or if others had also found it.-

  It seems strahat in a world such as this one I would have the gall to think that I knew something no-one else did. But keep in mind even ba earth there had to be a first person to discover literally everything and until someone else figured it out that person alone k iire world. As we as a society learned more and more we started to take things franted as a given and I very much doubted it was any different in this world either.-

  The okemon moves worked for example may simply not be something ahinks about and only I as a person not native to this world or it's norms would try and shake up the uanding of basic things like this. Still I couldn't help but marvel at how amazing Gaia was as a creature as she quickly began to recover from her exhaustion just by taking it easy. I myself as a human might not recover from an intense workout for the entire day and she was basically good to go merely mier , insane.-

  I wasn't a slouch myself either as I also worked out everyday to maintain my body now that I was in shape. I admit it wasn't the most inal idea but I basically followed the full body trainihod of the aura skill that was supposed to make my body better at cirg the energy. It was unfortable to say the least as I was both very hungry and sore after each workout. 'No wo said that this skill was not for the weak willed , it's a lot of work for very little payoff at the start.' I thought after Gaia returned from her hunt with five Wingull and an annoyed expression.-

  "Quick guess says they all hit you with water gun and it hurt like a bitch." I teased her and she snorted and tossed the corpses at me to be defeathered. "Right on the money huh? I told you to leave the things alo nooo you just had to go and see what the big fuss was about didn't you?" I tieasing her but she looked away embarrassed at being figured out so easily. I ughed at her pouting expression as I got tetting the feathers off the dead birds.-

  Wingul as it turned out were incredibly greasy birds that had a whole bunch of fat rendered out when subjected to heat. I suppose it made sense given their aquatic habitat that they usually lived by. The oil likely lets them float near effortlessly at the surface of the water much like regur sea gulls oh did with their hollow bones. Wingull however did not have hollow bones which I found iing sidering how they were still able to fly despite this being the case.