Arriving at the training field, Evan Lane looked around.
The training facilities here were complete, and it was obvious the school had invested quite a lot of money into them.
After fixing something that looked like a steel plate onto a target, Evan began directing Snivy to try attacking the target with Iron Tail.
This was the Steel Tempering Stone Evan had bought from the official website.
Although it looked like a steel plate, it was actually a special stone containing Steel-type energy.
When a Pokémon attacked it, the Steel-type energy inside would drift out, increasing the Pokémon’s sensitivity toward Steel-type energy.
A Steel Tempering Stone about the size of a laptop had cost Evan more than $700.
On top of that, the stone would wear down as a Pokémon trained with it.
It was a consumable item.
“Sni, Sni!” Hearing Evan’s command, Snivy began gathering Steel-type energy into her tail.
Immediately afterward, she leaped high into the air, turned, and swung her tail toward the target.
Although Iron Tail was an Egg Move and Snivy had known it from birth, it was obvious that because she had no real proficiency yet, the Steel-type energy covering her tail was thin and uneven.
It could not be considered a successful use of the move.
With a bang, Snivy landed on the ground.
Cracks appeared on the scales of her tail, and tears welled up in her little eyes.
But with her stubborn personality, she still did not make a sound from the pain.
“Can you keep going?
Why don’t we try another training method?” Seeing this, Evan’s heart ached terribly.
“Sni.” Snivy shook her head.
She could also clearly feel the effects of this training method.
The moment she had struck the Steel Tempering Stone with her tail, she had noticeably felt her sensitivity toward Steel-type energy increase quite a bit.
Seeing Snivy shake her head, Evan no longer tried to persuade her.
He began commanding Snivy to use Iron Tail again and again, while reminding her of the flaws in the release process.
If a Pokémon trusted her Trainer, then the Trainer also had to answer that Pokémon’s resolve.
Before long, Lucas Ember also arrived at the training field.
Looking at the Trainer and Pokémon in the middle of training, Lucas’s eyes seemed to flicker with firelight.
“Charmander, we have to work hard too!” “Char, Char!” The Charmander beside him was also fired up.
The flame on its tail began burning brightly, becoming much more vivid.
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Day after day passed, and now only one day remained before the battle assessment.
Inside the infirmary, a middle-aged woman in a white coat was checking the injuries on Snivy’s tail.
Beside her, an Audino was using a move to treat Snivy.
“You injured it this badly again.
You and Lucas always train far too hard.” Ms.
Lawson shook her head.
Because their usual training intensity was too high, these two boys’ Pokémon were always injured quite badly.
They also came to the infirmary more often than any other students.
Hearing this, Evan could only smile helplessly.
Through the past few days of training, Snivy had already mastered Iron Tail.
During one training session, she had even split the Steel Tempering Stone in half with a single Iron Tail, making Evan’s heart ache when he saw it.
After that, in battles against Charmander, Snivy had lost more often than she won in the early stages because of type disadvantage.
This had only stimulated the prideful Snivy even more.
Later, after she learned Wrap during battle, and then built on Leer to master Glare, her overall strength had already surpassed Charmander’s.
Looking at the Charmander nearby, who had fallen asleep from exhaustion after receiving treatment, Lucas also felt extremely helpless.
Once Lucas and Evan started battling, both of them became highly focused and had no intention of holding back.
The two little Pokémon were even worse.
Once a battle began, they fought with no concern for anything else.
Every time a battle ended, Evan and Lucas had to come to the infirmary together to seek Audino’s treatment.
Because of that, they had become rather familiar with Ms.
Lawson.
“With Snivy and Charmander’s current strength, the two of you entering the elite class is already practically guaranteed.
Still, you should control the training intensity a little.
It would be bad if you damaged their foundation.” Seeing that the two of them had already started reviewing the battle from just now, Ms.
Lawson’s expression darkened with exasperation.
More than half of her workload came from Evan and Lucas.
Fortunately, the two of them still had some conscience.
Every time they came over, they remembered to bring her lunch or dinner.
“Don’t worry, Ms.
Lawson.
We’ll be careful,” Evan replied with a smile.
During this period of training, not only had Snivy’s strength improved significantly, Evan had also accumulated 39 Sunlight Points.
At first, Evan had planned to use them on the Lucky Wheel, but after hesitating for a long time, he finally decided to unlock a new function instead.
Evan had reason to suspect that when he unlocked his third function, the dog system would probably double the Sunlight Points needed to unlock other functions again.
Once that happened, he would finally have time to upgrade his existing functions and spin the Lucky Wheel.
“Evan, in this assessment, aside from the Squirtle Trainer from Class C, I really can’t think of anyone who could be your opponent.” Lucas smiled and teased Evan.
After spending time together, Lucas and Evan had already become familiar with each other.
Although Lucas still did not speak much normally, he was already much better than before.
“I heard that girl’s family is extremely wealthy.
They come from a Trainer family.
Her Squirtle has been fed a lot of Water-type resources.
It might already be close to evolving.” Ms.
Lawson frowned.
She had seen that Squirtle before.
The energy inside its body was very unstable.
It was obvious that its strength had been forced up in a short period of time by feeding it a large amount of resources.
Doing that would not only make its foundation unstable, but if it chose to evolve before reaching the limit of that stage, it would basically be overdrawing the Pokémon’s potential in exchange for temporary strength.
“As a member of a big family, shouldn’t she have some connection to Breeders?
How could they just let her raise it like that?” Evan asked, somewhat confused.
“I heard her family is currently looking for a Pokémon with better potential for her.
That Squirtle isn’t being taken seriously at all.
It’s only being used to let her test the waters.” “Even so, Evan, don’t be careless,” Ms.
Lawson answered after thinking for a moment.
“It’s fine.
Snivy and I will just do our best.” Evan did not care too much about this matter.
If someone wanted him to sacrifice Snivy’s potential just for first place in one assessment, he definitely would not do something that short-sighted.
By now, evening had arrived.
After saying goodbye to the two of them, Evan recalled Snivy into her Poké Ball and headed home.
Before the first week’s battle assessment, students were still attending school as day students.
Only after the assessment ended would dorms be assigned according to the rankings.
It was said that the elite class apartments not only had only two students per room, but each floor was also equipped with a small training field and battle court.
As for the regular dorms, each room housed eight students, and there were no special facilities on each floor.
Management was also much stricter, unlike the elite class students, who could freely decide their own rest time each day.
This difference in treatment was meant to motivate students to keep improving and constantly challenge for a spot in the elite class.
After simply preparing dinner for Snivy, Evan looked at the remaining Moomoo Milk and fell into thought.
Because Snivy’s training intensity had been quite high recently, the consumption speed of Moomoo Milk was clearly much faster than he had expected.
Every time Snivy completely exhausted her stamina, she needed timely nutritional replenishment.
During this period, Moomoo Milk had practically been drunk like water.
The amount that was originally supposed to last a month now looked like it would not last much longer.
However, the benefits were also obvious.
High-intensity training combined with timely energy supplementation had made Snivy’s tail far stronger than when she had just been born.
Her physical strength had also improved noticeably, and using Wrap had become much smoother.
Snivy was gradually developing from a proud little lady into the kind of princess who could rip a tree out by the roots.