The Gym battle was still very easy. Traveling with a well-planned route for a change made the pace much faster.
If we are only talking about collecting badges, the whole process could be called a speedrun. It’s not that Chen Ming and the others weren't stopping or moving forward without a break just for the sake of badges; it was simply that having seen so much, anything on the road that wasn't particularly novel held no appeal for them.
Until the time came to collect the final badge—also the last stop on their planned route—they finally arrived somewhere that actually interested Chen Ming.
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