After Eevee made use of the Race Regression Cultivation Method, its strength and potential both increased tremendously.
With Fang Yuan creating the Return to Elementary Education Method, Eevee itself thoroughly shed its reliance on the Dream gene's granted solar energy and embarked on the path most suited to its own species.
It combined the strengths of all its evolved forms into one!
Its potential rivaled that of Legendary Pokémon!
Before its species regression, Eevee could create four substitutes, using one mind for five purposes!
After its species regression, Eevee's mental power rose again, allowing it to use one mind for six purposes, controlling five substitutes at the same time.
Under Victini's ultimate enhancement, that is, during the Mewtwo game, it even put forth all its effort to control eight substitutes, using one mind for nine purposes!
Now, a long time has passed since the Mewtwo game.
In the meantime, following a battle with Ho-Oh and becoming The Brave of the Rainbow with Fang Yuan, Eevee received gifted power from Ho-Oh and had another opportunity to enhance its mental power.
Now, Eevee can operate with one mind for seven purposes on its own, creating six substitutes for a total of seven bodies to fight at the same time!
Of course, although the substitute battle method effectively boosted Eevee's combat power, the increase wasn't significant.
Because the substitutes Eevee created also consumed its own energy, and controlling them with a divided mind would scatter its focus.
So the optimal state was actually to use one mind for two purposes, with two bodies fighting simultaneously.
However, after species regression, the use of substitutes became apparent—it was not meant for battle assistance, but for training assistance!
Back on the islands, when Eevee absorbed the species advantage of one of its substitutes, the Lei Yibu evolved form, its own speed quality and mastery of Electric Moves increased significantly.
This increase wasn't fixed; the better Eevee developed its ability over the evolved forms of the substitutes, the greater the enhancements it received upon their regression.
Therefore, Eevee's training method could now be determined—it would create multiple substitutes, evolve them into different Eevee forms, and then Eevee itself would train them, developing their species abilities.
In the end, once the grown substitutes returned to the original body, all comprehension of power usage would be bestowed back to Eevee, and its overall strength would be raised once more.
Similarly, this would also train Eevee's multitasking skills like playing multiple games at once, improving its mental power.
"So, you understand now?"
"Your next task is to train the strength of the Water, Fire, Lei, Moon, Leaf, Ice, and Fairy Eevee substitute evolved forms close to that of the original body, and then inherit their enhanced power!!"
"We don't have any extra Evolutionary Stones for your substitutes to evolve with, so let Victini's infinite energy act as an Evolutionary Stone."
Fang Yuan clapped his hands, revealing a smile, looking at the crying-faced Eevee and Victini.
"Bwoo... Bwooi!"
Train the power of other substitute evolved forms?
"Actually, it's not that difficult, once you create different evolved forms of substitutes, having them fight each other is itself a method of training their power," he mused.
"After all, the foundation is there; once you start the special training, they'll improve quickly."
Eevee: ∑(っ°Д°;)っ Hey, hey, hey.
Even though they are separate substitutes, they are still part of it; forcing itself to fight against itself is hardly different from that masochistic Mane Rock Werewolf!
"It's settled then!"
"I'm going to confiscate your phones now!"
"You get them back once you've trained the other substitute evolved forms' strength close to the original body."
Eevee, Victini: ∑(O_O;)
Ignoring the disheveled Eevee and Victini, Fang Yuan ran into the house to find their phones.
Seeing this, Victini silently patted Eevee on the shoulder, "When shall we start training?"
It certainly didn't want to be without a mobile phone for too long.
"o(╬￣皿￣)=○ Bwoo!! (Now!!)"
......
In fact, this was just the first stage of the special training Fang Yuan had planned for Eevee.
The first stage of the path to legend.
As for the second stage, it was Eevee's state during its battle against Mewtwo's Latias in the game.
Create Substitutes at will, let the Substitutes evolve freely, multi-task and autonomously launch an Offensive Rainbow Rising Gather Top, controlling multiple spiraling Energy Balls of various attributes to combine attacks against the opponent.
The explosive power of coordinating multiple attributes in a combination skill, Fang Yuan witnessed it himself at that time.
Nine spiraling Energy Balls of different colors, intertwining and rotating around each other like a galaxy, beautiful, and the destructive power they contained was like that of exploding stars.
Defeating the Legendary Pokémon Latias in one strike!
Of course, at that time, Eevee was fully charged by Victini, using the miraculous Infinite Energy, which enabled the Substitute to evolve without any items.
Without Victini's help, evolution might require an item, like an Evolutionary Stone.
The third stage was the state during the battle against Mewtwo, which called for the creation of spiraling Energy Balls fused with multiple attributes.
The strike that overwhelmed Mewtwo's perfect Offensive Rainbow Rising Gather Top was made possible by the power of all Pokémon and the Z Pure Crystal.
It wasn't nine spiraling Energy Balls of different attributes existing separately, but one multicolored spiraling Energy Ball, containing even more explosive power.
And Fang Yuan's ultimate goal was, of course, to have Eevee release it purely through its own power.
If Groudon could simply use a Z Pure Crystal to perform a Z-Move without a Trainer's aid, then Eevee, also mastering Light Energy, could certainly achieve the same in the future.
Experiences from Mashaduo autonomously using a Z-Move and Groudon autonomously using a Z-Move were all collected by Fang Yuan and set as Eevee's learning targets for the future.
If these three stages were achieved, in Fang Yuan's plan, Eevee's overall combat power would really be close to Legendary Level.
There could also be added perks, like if Eevee could learn to harness other Natural Energy like Groudon and the Kapu family, it might evolve its Substitute without items, using different types of Natural Energy, undeniably perfect.
Furthermore, if Eevee became highly skilled in controlling various Attribute Energies from the second to third stage, it might manage multiple Energy Balls without the need for Substitute evolution, perhaps even creating multiple spiraling Attribute Energy Balls around itself as weaponry without splitting off an evolved Substitute.
Fang Yuan imagined Eevee surrounded by various Attribute Energy Balls, their multicolored light swirling around, Eevee could manipulate them at will, attacking, defending, combining with the skill of multi-tasking—perhaps the ultimate evolution of making Energy Balls.
Facing Du's Dragonite, directly smash it with a combination or fusion of Ice and Fairy Energy Balls.
Against Da Wu's Huge Gold Monster, go straight for a combination or fusion of Ghost, Fire, and Dark series spiraling Energy Balls.
While the nine-color sublimation has the greatest destructive power, such a state might be more flexible and also conserve more energy.
"Special power is the key to becoming a Legendary Pokémon, and Eevee is currently cultivating many special powers—Soul, Life, Space-time, Nature..."
"Space-time is too difficult to grasp, Life Power also requires accumulation over time, but the power of the Soul which brings multiple Substitutes and the ability to do many things at once, combined with the Return to Elementary Education Method, is the most suitable for Eevee. Exploring Natural Energy could allow it to achieve autonomous Substitute evolution and release Autonomous Z-Moves."
"With that in mind, the next step should be to focus on cultivating the Soul Power, with Nature and Life Power as auxiliary. This is Eevee's path to legend."
Having envisioned Eevee's path, Fang Yuan smiled. Okay...
Now just waiting for Rotom and the others to come back, then we can go find Kyogre.
The Treasure Bead, condensed purely from Natural Energy created by Groudon and Kyogre, is an excellent tool for sensing Natural Energy.
The previous one was used by Ditto for a performance; the next one could be used to train Eevee's autonomous Substitute evolution and Autonomous Z-Move abilities.
In the end, it will be a matter of which of these three main forces will be the first to step into the Legendary Realm.