Journey Towards Greatness

Everyone else also realized that Julian didn't do any gestures to perform the Z-move, they also wondered how it was possible but hearing Julian's answer just confused them, they wondered if they will ever be able to perform a z-move without the hand rituals but that is a question for another time.

Julian was also very satisfied with the power displayed by Crystal, even though Crystal was holding back a lot, it was still able to execute a very powerful, comparable to a few of its strongest moves which are Giga Impact and Hyper Beam.

Crystal doesn't need a Z-crystal to perform a move of the caliber that it just displayed but Z-crystal clearly is able to boost a move's power, and from what Julian witnessed, a z-moves power can vary depending on the move that was converted into a z-move.

The move that Crystal used to trigger the Breakneck Blitz was Pound and it still had the power similar to a normal Giga Impact so if Crystal triggered a Breakneck Blitz by using a Hyper Beam or Giga Impact, the power displayed will be even greater.

Crystal went back into Julian's pocket and looked at his students who are busy discussing what happened, Julian spent some time with them before saying goodbye.

He still has other things to do, like train his Wimpod, catch some new pokemons and continue his investigation on Cipher.

He went back to his hotel room and he received the video from Jenny right on time, he sat down on his bed and started going through each and every video that was sent to him, he spent hours but he did stumble onto something.

And when he saw it, he took a sigh of relief as he realized that his guess was correct, he saw a few Cipher members appearing on the camera very close to the cavern that Julian visited a few days ago.

Julian saw this as a win because an organization run by humans is a lot easier to deal with than a planet-destroying pokemon.

Now that he has confirmed that it is Cipher's doing, Julian can somehow manage to take care of them, the best thing that can happen is he encounters all of them out of nowhere and it will be one clean sweep, and the worst thing that can happen is they succeed in their plan and Julian will have to hunt down their leader to end it once and for all.

But taking care of Cipher is not the only thing Julian wants, he wants to explore Alola and collect every z-crystal he can get his hands on, being a trainer of his caliber, a gimmick like z-crystal is very appealing to him, and having an item that can double a move's power is an ace card many trainers would love to have.

Julian plans to collect more z-crystals and he is already looking into where he can find more of them, he can get a z-crystal by completing the grand trial here on Melemele Island and other islands, he can also do the other route and visit a trial ground and defeat a totem pokemon.

But first, he plans to catch a few more pokemons, he has some pokemons in mind that he plans to catch.

Though Alola has a very diverse species of pokemons, the ones that he has any interest in are very few, he did encounter a very powerful pokemon yesterday but that pokemon is already at its peak and he cannot teach it new things.

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Julian turned on his PC and started looking through all the trial grounds that have been found here in Alola. After looking through them, he started searching for pokemons that habitat the islands of Alola to see if there is anything else that catches his interest.

After an hour of searching through the internet, he put his PC aside and went to sleep. He will be free tomorrow as he doesn't have to take care of the students. Kukui is in charge of them as he will be taking them to the sea for a fishing trip.

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The next morning, Julian was woken up by a very energetic Crystal who seems very hungry. Julian rubbed his eyes and got up from his bed and fed his pokemons before ordering breakfast for himself as well.

Since today he is free, he plans to at least catch one pokemon that can potentially be a force of nature in the future.

Putting on a pair of new clothes, he walks out of his hotel and heads into the dense forest, from what Julian has gathered from the internet, the pokemon he is looking for likes to hide underground and likes to drink sap from trees trunks.

Julian knows that it will be very hard for him to find the very best pokemon of this species but when has it ever been easy. He knows he just has to be patient and he will encounter one.

He walks through the dense forests and observes his surrounding, he is looking for traces left behind by this particular pokemon, he is also trying to find trees that are strong and have a lot of sap in them.

If he can locate this pokemon's food source, he can easily find the pokemon and he might get lucky on his first try as a food source is usually occupied by the strongest of the group, and the pokemon he first encounters might just be the chosen one.