AN:Hi, this is more of an interlude because Max is only going to dig his cave and think of all the dangers and opportunities he has. But anyway, I only wanted to answer a review from Don Orbit. First of all, I want to thank you for your review, and that goes for all who have supported me with their reviews, secondly, well I can spoil this much but Max won't be {Amphibious} anytime soon, because it would be like {Gills} a perk and not a skill. The difference, at least the way I understod it, is that a skill is an action which you can always train more and which you have to learn, while a perk is a condition, which is constant and doesn't change suddenly. Well after this unnecessary and basically useless explication, I simply want to say that Max absorbs Skills when he eats the brain or the muscle-memory of the muscles and he can absorb this knowledge and these instincts and can incorporate them in his own body, he doesn't however have the ability, at least not yet, to change his body fundamentally, so he won't be able to gain {Brain of a supercomputer} after he eats enough Alakazam. That's why Max has to stay in the sea, until he evolves or otherwise gains the ability to float and survive above water, which Gyarados can do due to their Flying element.

So on it goes with the chapter

DISCLAIMER: I neither own Pokemon nor RE:Monster, that honor belongs to their respective owners.

Chapter 6: Digging, thinking and worrying

Day 12

I wake up with an unexpected vigor and want to start training immediately. So I use my Spawn Magikarp twice and suddenly feel exhausted! That means that I am going to feel exhaustion and already I feel the enthusiasm drain away with the knowledge. Well at least I am not hungry thanks to the magikarp I ate yesterday. The new magikarps I can spawn ensure that I won't ever go hungry again. However, I won't eat the makigarp immediately, because it would be a loss of resources. If I somehow manage to get the magikarp to train their swimming or mabe even get them to ram their heads continously in stone, I could level my skills when eating and maybe they could even learn Tackle thanks to ramming their head continously in stone. Well I hope that the magikarp can survive ramming their head in stone, I don't really know if they are even weaker than normal magikarp because I spawned them and my spawning skill of the magikarp is still really low level. I open a small hole in the seafloor and begn to dig myself a cave, while I dig I think about my further training.

The problem isn't training my skills or moves, these I simply have to use but the problem will be augmaunting my stats. Because the point will be rapidly reached where I don't gain anything anymore simply by swimming around and I can't use stones as weights due to my lack of arms, hands and opposable thumbs, for god's sake I don't even possess a neck! Well I could possibly dig a boulder in my cave, which I still have to expand, and push this boulder around. Well I would basically eat everything except this part of the cave and when I would be finished there would be a boulder, but I think I should relocate my cave because I'm going to have to create an opening, so that new water can flow in the cave, after I eat other parts of the stone because otherwise there would be a void, which would cause a cave-in because the void would have to be filled and the stone isn't robust enough to resist the suction and thus allow a void to exist. And because the cave is directly under an algae field there will be a food-source, which I could exploit with my Spawn Magikarp. Which would in turn also attract predators, which I can't kill at the moment because I'm still too weak.

It's a devil's circle! I am too weak to train freely without fear of being eaten and I can't grow stronger because I'm too weak to kill strong pokemon, which would further my combat ability and allow myself to train. So I'm going to have to risk my life, so that I can grow stronger, to kill stronger adversaries to grow once again stronger to kill once again stronger prey. Problem is that, at the moment, I'm too weak to do anything!

Well I'll simply deepen my cave and dig multiple escape tunnels, so that should I be found I could simply spawn some magikarp to distract the predator while I use one of the tunnels and hopefully my skill will be levelled up enough by then, to spawn some magikarp who can use other tunnels. Simply said two magikarp simply won't cut it, but then there would be more than two because I don't actually plan to eat them immediately and so there would always be some magikarp stock there even without me spawning them. Hmm, I wonder if they can procreate themselves? If the magikarp are actually self-sustaining and lay eggs even tough they are spawned by me, there would always be a surplus of magikarp to feed myself and distract, but also attract, predators.

I miraculously managed to dig myself an impressive cave even, while spending nearly no thought to the digging and instead used my limited brain-capacity to think of possible precautions and consequences of my training and powers I would need to prepare for. The cave is impressively big. It is about ten meters under the seafloor and is connected to it thanks to multiple tunnels ranging fromm 10 meters to nearls 2 kilometers long. The cave is round and has a diameter of ten meter with numerous smaller caves and alcoves connected to it. I kept the roof relatively deep at 2 meters, so that bigger predators can't as easily follow me and the numerous carvahnas present in a swarm would have problems following me in the small tunnels. Not because I'm that much faster or stronger than them but because they would probably fight over the entrance of the tunnel, if they are in a blood-frenzy they would probably even attack other members of the swarm. As you see, I tried to dig the cave as stratigcally sound as possible.

Well seeing that it's getting dark, I swim to a smaller cave and collapse the tunnel connecting it to the main-cave, without tought to the magikarp which I spawned this morning and during the day. There should be twenty magikarp swimming in the algae-fileds. Before falling asleep, I check the notices that I got during the day but ignored:

{Acolyte}Rock Resistance levelled up x9

{Acolyte}Rock Resistance(lvl:19)

{Amateur}Spawn Magikarp levelled up x6

{Amateur}Spawn Magikarp(lvl:8)

{Amateur}Spawn Pokemon levelled up x1

{Amateur}Spawn Pokemon(lvl:2)

+4 STR, +1 DEX, +6 VIT due to continous hard work that is swimming against stone

And the level in Spawn Pokemon didn't bring me anything! Well I can at least use my Spawn Magikarp five times in a row! Well I got nothing more to do now but sleep, and I definetely am tired from the non-stop working and thinking of this day.