Two and a half months later.
The cold wind howled.
Fang Yuan crunched through the snow as he entered the school gates.
On his shoulder, Eevee, wrapped in a Scarf, yawned. With the arrival of winter, Eevee had become much lazier.
Besides that, Fang Yuan had a Poké Ball hanging from his waist.
A month ago, Fang Yuan's request to Yang Han finally received a response.
After layers of approval, Fang Yuan obtained the qualification to capture a second Pokémon. Trainers who obtained the qualification to capture a second Pokémon in their rookie year were generally direct relatives of Professional Trainers, and had to have achieved outstanding results in some official competitions to be eligible.
Fang Yuan didn't meet any of these criteria, but after the strong recommendation of the Peaceful City Trainer, he finally got this opportunity.
However, if he wanted to obtain the qualification to capture a third Pokémon, it was unlikely he would have the chance within his rookie year.
The transfer of Magnemite's Raising rights went very smoothly.
After the Electric-type Pokémon Raised at the Power Plant where Father Fang worked grew to a certain extent, they would be transferred to other positions within the company to participate in work. Among them, some Pokémon with good Growth, if employees of the company had children who were college Trainer and had a need for Electric-type Pokémon, the Power Plant would be happy to gift them as an investment.
Because of the special nature of Father Fang's company, which was a state-owned enterprise and also under the jurisdiction of the Trainer Association, Father Fang simply applied and successfully completed the Pokémon Raising rights transfer procedure.
Originally, this Magnemite was going to be released anyway, so even if some changes had occurred now, Father Fang's superiors didn't plan to investigate further. After all, the Peaceful City Trainer Association's emphasis on Fang Yuan was obvious to all, and Father Fang's superiors simply did him a Favor.
Thus, Fang Yuan captured his second Pokémon, Magnemite.
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Approaching the Spring Festival, the final exams had also ended. Now, most of the local high schools in Peaceful City had already started their Winter Vacation, except for Senior Year students.
"This is the Winter Vacation tutoring agreement. Tutoring is entirely voluntary, and no extra fees will be charged for either academic or training classes."
"So I advise everyone to participate. Once learning and training are delayed, it's difficult to catch up. You need to discuss this with your parents within this week."
Today, Teacher Zhang, the homeroom teacher, took out a stack of agreements and, under the students' pained expressions, had the Class Monitor distribute them.
The students deeply resented this tutoring agreement that wasn't mandatory. Although it was said to be voluntary, in the end, you would find that it was basically a disguised form of coercion...
So most students could only silently sign their names, sacrificing their holidays in exchange for better grades.
"I won't participate..."
Fang Yuan didn't need to discuss it with his parents. He directly threw the agreement aside. It wouldn't make much difference whether he participated in the school's training classes or not. As for academic classes, it was nothing more than doing test papers, which he could do at home himself.
He planned to arrange some other training with the extra free time.
More importantly, the New Star Plan training had kicked him out this Winter Vacation. That is to say, this Winter Vacation, Fang Yuan could arrange his own training. Zhuang Xin was preparing to give Lin Jing and Liu Le targeted tutoring.
Whether in school or in the New Star Plan, Fang Yuan had gained great autonomy.
Fang Yuan's deskmate was green with envy when he saw him so freely discarding the agreement. Only privileged people like Fang Yuan and Lin Jing were qualified to refuse the school's tutoring so easily without their parents being called...
A few more days passed, and the school made a double arrangement. Ordinary students continued to attend classes as usual, and would have their vacation closer to the Spring Festival. After the Spring Festival, they would continue tutoring.
The school team member candidates, who had already been reduced from twenty-five to twelve, would undergo the final Selection during this vacation, eventually being reduced to ten.
Among them, seven would be regular members and three would be substitutes.
The three from the New Star Plan are definitely already on the main team. In April, high schools in various cities within the province will begin their matches, so time is becoming increasingly tight.
After returning from the holiday, Fang Yuan estimates he will also participate in the school team's group battle training, starting to fully prepare for the Provincial High School Pokémon Battle League.
On the night before the holiday, Fang Yuan privately messaged Zhuang Xin, saying: "Sister Zhuang, do I really not need to participate in the New Star Plan's training this winter vacation?" Zhuang Xin replied: "With two months left, having Eevee learn Shadow Ball is the real deal. It hasn't grasped it yet, right?" Fang Yuan: "…Yeah, I understand. I'll make the most of my time."
Since obtaining the training resources for Reflect and Shadow Ball, Eevee has been learning the moves through various resources, but as Zhuang Xin said, the difficulty of training Shadow Ball and Reflect is too high. Eevee has not successfully learned either Reflect or Shadow Ball in these two months.
This is still… the result achieved by Eevee sacrificing its basic training time to fully learn Reflect and Shadow Ball.
"During the winter vacation, I have to get Eevee to learn these two moves. At least before the competition, it must be very proficient in using Shadow Ball."
"This… is not without hope!" Fang Yuan is somewhat confident.
In the past two months, besides learning Shadow Ball, Eevee has also been consolidating its previous moves and practicing Psychic Power. Apart from some improvement in Psychic Power, there have been no other major gains.
As for Magnemite, it has been practicing Awakening Power, Thunder Wave, and Thunder Shock. Its overall progress is greater than Eevee's.
After the 149,000 yuan Manuscript Fee for the thesis arrived, Fang Yuan became wealthy. At the same time, the school's scholarship and the Peaceful City Trainer Association's rewards also gave Fang Yuan the temporary ability to nurture Magnemite.
The 300,000 yuan that Father Fang and Mother Fang prepared for Fang Yuan to raise Pokémon was also handed over to Fang Yuan. With so much money in his pocket, it would be difficult for Magnemite, whose foundation is much worse than Eevee's, not to improve.
The combat power brought about by the increased proficiency of Magnemite's moves is secondary… The main thing is that in the past two months, as its proficiency in moves has increased, Fang Yuan finally created the first Energy Cube with relatively good quality, taste, and nutritional value a few days ago.
This light blue Energy Cube, made using Moomoo Berry, Cheri Berry, and Oran Berry, is the first Energy Cube for which Fang Yuan and Magnemite have mastered the specific formula and production techniques.
In the game, blue Energy Cubes correspond to increasing Beauty, which can be used to nurture Feebas to evolve into Milotic. After Eevee and Magnemite consumed it, Eevee's fur and Magnemite's body luster became much more beautiful.
This is obviously not Fang Yuan's focus.
The focus is…
Their Psychic Power had a very good boost after eating this light blue Energy Cube, which is Fang Yuan's confidence.
The improvement effect is definitely not comparable to the Psychic Power supplements given by Yang Han. It is equivalent to the result that the two Pokémon can achieve through a long period of training using the current method of training Psychic Power, while the cost of a light blue Energy Cube is only three types of Berry that can be easily bought on the market…
Fang Yuan knows exactly what this represents.
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