Tetsuya thought for a while and decided to put the Fire Stone away first.
After all, he wasn't in a hurry to make a final decision right now.
Whether he kept the Fire Stone to accelerate the growth of his future main Pokemon, choosing to slowly save money to buy a Pokemon Egg.
Or he sold the Fire Stone to choose a good enough Pokemon, and then slowly saved money to train it and realize its potential.
The difference wasn't particularly significant.
Right now, Tetsuya's primary goal was to do his best to improve Pidgeotto's strength, at least evolving it into Pidgeot first.
Since he had extra income today, he could invest it in Pidgeotto's training.
After Pidgeotto evolved into Pidgeot, Tetsuya would have enough confidence to complete more difficult C-rank Missions, and he could even challenge B-rank Missions.
Training the next Pokemon wouldn't be so tight, and then he could think about how to handle this Fire Stone. Anyway, he wouldn't have trouble selling it.
Tetsuya carefully packed the Fire Stone and put it in the inner pocket of his clothes, close to his body.
Tetsuya wouldn't dare to put such a valuable item in the safe at home. Who knew if a thief would come to steal things?
Not to mention Wild Pokemon. Pokemon like Meowth were excellent at stealing things.
Then, Tetsuya opened his Pokemon Computer, preparing to use the time before going to bed to surf... no, to learn from the experience shared by Trainers on the forum.
After all, some excellent Trainers would post their battle videos on the forum for young Trainers to learn from. Of course, there was a fee system, with different prices depending on the Trainer's level.
However, the minimum requirement was to reach the Quasi-Elite Four level, which meant having three or more Quasi-Elite Four Pokemon. Only then would the forum open such services to them.
He'd put the videos aside for now and watch them later.
Tetsuya clicked on the forum, and a prominent post was pinned at the top by the administrator—"Rare Item Auction House, Requirements Self-Defined."
Here, Trainers were selling their gains, mostly Held Items.
Only a very small portion were selling Evolution Stones, and upon clicking to view the pictures, the quality didn't seem as good as Tetsuya's Fire Stone.
Tetsuya habitually checked if there were any new items for sale. Soon, Tetsuya's eyes lit up.
"Sharp Beak for Sale, No Trades, DM with Price, Clowns Get Lost." This was a post link selling a Flying-type item.
Tetsuya clearly remembered that this post wasn't there a few days ago. He checked the posting time; it was posted yesterday, and it seemed it hadn't been sold yet.
He also looked at the amplification effect, 6%. Tetsuya frowned slightly. No wonder.
Generally, items that amplify the power of attribute moves, such as Charcoal or Miracle Seed, have an amplification effect ranging from 5% to 20%, with prices varying greatly depending on the effect.
According to research, most items can amplify skill power by 10% or more, which are called Normal Items. Only a very small portion are below 10%, which are called Defective Items.
For a Defective Item like this Sharp Beak, with a 6% amplification, it can't be said to be non-existent, but it's extremely rare. In a sense, it's also an oddity. Anyway, Tetsuya had only seen this one in his sixteen years.
But being an oddity was good. Tetsuya relaxed his brow. Anyway, this kind of item wouldn't depreciate. At most, it would be harder to sell after buying and reselling it.
With this item, Pidgeotto's strength could be a little bit stronger. Every bit of strength counts. He could sell it later.
If the effect were better, the price would be completely different, and he would only be able to treat it the same way he treated other items in this post—view from afar but not touch.
After all, Tetsuya didn't have that much money set aside to buy this kind of item.
Looking at the bids below, they were all around 1.8 million. Tetsuya nodded slightly.
This was very much in line with Tetsuya's expectations, because although other items with the same effect hadn't appeared, items with an 8% effect had been sold, basically for less than 3 million.
Don't think it's exaggerated. You should know that the normal price for items with a 10% effect is usually above 8 million, and when the quantity is small, you might not even be able to buy it for 10 million.
Items with powerful attributes like Dragon Fang and Twisted Spoon would have to double their price for the same effect.
As for why there is such a big difference in price between Normal Items and Defective Items with only a one or two percentage point difference in effect, it's still because of research.
Research data shows that Normal Items can effectively increase skill power by one level, while Defective Items can only simply increase power.
What does this mean? Simply put, comparing with numbers, originally two items of the same type, one amplifying by 8% and the other by 10%, assuming the skill power is 60, the former's amplified power should be 64.8, and the latter's should be 66. The difference seems small.
However, during actual testing, although the data on the target (dummy) was correct, problems arose during actual combat exercises.
Taking the move nullification experiment as an example, with guaranteed data accuracy, control experiments were conducted: no Held Item vs. no Held Item, no Held Item vs. 8% amplification Held Item, no Held Item vs. 10% amplification Held Item, and 8% amplification Held Item vs. 10% amplification Held Item.
The results were complete nullification, complete nullification, the 10% amplification Held Item caused a small amount of damage to the opponent, and the 10% amplification Held Item caused a small amount of damage to the opponent.
Changing to an item with a 12% amplification effect against no Held Item and an 8% amplification Held Item, the result was also that the 12% item's move caused damage.
And the result of the move nullification experiment between an item with a 12% amplification effect and a 10% amplification Held Item was that the former had a little energy left with basically no damage.
This was very perplexing.
Finally, through the analysis of energy by research scholars, it was found that Normal Items not only strengthened the damaging power but also increased the skill level power.
In layman's terms, Normal Items changed energy on another level, causing the amplification of Normal Items to not show a difference in data compared to the amplification of Defective Items, but in actual combat, they could "destroy" the opponent's moves.
While there were differences between Normal Items, they were not significant unless the amplification effects also differed greatly.
The above content comes from a paper by a researcher at the Pallet Town Oak Laboratory—"On the Different Effects of Normal Items and Defective Items on Move Amplification."
There were also a series of other studies, which Tetsuya knew the results of but not the reasons why.
Anyway, his rough understanding was that the effect of Normal Items was more than double the effect of Defective Items, far exceeding the data shown, so naturally the price was also more than double.
After all, Tetsuya didn't study energy science and didn't understand it very well.
Getting back to the main topic, Tetsuya sent a message to the seller with a price quote.
Tetsuya was prepared to spend 2 million and keep 400,000 on hand to buy the Sharp Beak. Although its effect was negligible in battles against other Trainers,
when Pidgeotto held it while battling Wild Pokemon, it would make things much easier. This would help him complete missions and accumulate funds.
However, a message the seller quickly sent back immediately made Tetsuya's face darken.
"Get lost~"
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