Early the next morning, Ye Lan took Snivy to the school for training.
Just yesterday, Snivy's evolution progress increased by another 3%, reaching 68%.
Under high-intensity training and the intake of adequate nutrition, such progress was within Ye Lan's expectations.
At this rate, in about ten more days, Snivy would face its first evolution.
In Ye Lan's view, although he wanted to pursue perfection, this speed was actually not much slower than that of most Starter Pokémon.
He really couldn't figure out why Wang Siqi would waste the potential of a Starter Pokémon just for first place in an assessment.
The reward for first place in the Mianzhou No. 1 High School assessment was a mere drop in the bucket for a Pokémon family like hers.
She was so consumed with anger after losing that she even transferred away and abandoned her Pokémon.
Perhaps for these aloof core members of prominent families, a Starter Pokémon used for practice wasn't important, and they couldn't develop feelings and bonds with a Pokémon that would never join their own team.
They simply couldn't endure losing to a trainer from a small city; they only wanted to win.
Ye Lan didn't think he and Snivy were already invincible, and they could lose to someone with great strength who erupted with incredible power through a bond with their Pokémon, but they were definitely unwilling to lose to someone who despised a Pokémon's emotions.
Just as Ye Lan was pondering his subsequent training plan, the sound of a glass cup colliding with the table pulled his thoughts back, and his gaze fell on Snivy sitting opposite him.
He saw that Snivy had already finished the food in its bowl and Moomoo Milk, and was using Vine Whip to gracefully hand over a tissue to wipe away the food residue from the corner of its mouth.
"Snivy~ (Belch~)"
Seeing this scene, the corner of Ye Lan's twitching mouth tightened. If not for the final burp, he could somewhat have considered the creature opposite him a lady snake.
After finishing breakfast, human and Pokémon returned to yesterday's training ground to continue their training plan.
Head teacher Liu Yan promised yesterday that she would help him solve the sparring issue today, but there was still no news yet.
With no other choice, they had to proceed step-by-step according to the previous plan, focusing on training Snivy's sense of smell perception first.
Time passed day by day, and soon the assessment for the new week arrived.
Although the rewards weren't as generous as the first week's, in order to Protect their seats in the elite class and compete for the remaining two spots, students from both the elite and regular classes were brimming with Vital Spirit today.
"Charmander, use Ember!"
"Pidgey, use Quick Attack!"
On the battle stage, a Charmander and a Pidgey were engaged in a fierce chase.
Although Pidgey relied on its aerial advantage to dodge Charmander's attacks a few times, it finally revealed an opening due to physical exhaustion and was hit by Flamethrower, losing its ability to battle.
"The winner is Chen Yang!"
As the referee's words fell, applause erupted around the arena one after another, and Chen Yang himself was extremely happy.
This match was the quarter-finals for the regular class, and with this victory, Chen Yang would successfully advance to the top four.
This also meant that as long as Chen Yang won one more match, he would secure his entry into the elite class, and could even launch an attack on higher rankings if he had the energy to spare.
After witnessing the battle between Lin Yan's Charmander and Ye Lan's Snivy, Chen Yang's attitude toward training Pokémon had changed.
He didn't think his Charmander was inferior to Lin Yan's, so the reason for such a huge gap in strength between the two sides must be him, the trainer.
Since he had been assigned to the same zone as Lin Yan in the first assessment, Chen Yang had also battled against Lin Yan.
The loss hadn't made much of an impact at the time, seeing as Lin Yan's hard work and strength were famous throughout the senior year.
But after the battle ended, when he witnessed with his own eyes that the food Lin Yan used to restore Charmander's stamina was just a Berry of inferior quality, he was shocked.
Although he had always known that Lin Yan's family was poor, he hadn't expected it to reach this extent.
Because his father was a senior trainer, Chen Yang came from a wealthy background, and Charmander had expensive supplements in addition to its normal diet every day.
Thus his fighting spirit began to burn, and he finally shed his past attitude, starting to train his Pokémon seriously.
Relying on Charmander's own considerable talent, there was finally hope for him to enter the elite class this time.
As for Ye Lan, he was lying back on a chair far from the arena, dozing off while waiting for head teacher Liu Yan.
Beside his feet, a small green snake was coiled in a circle, taking a nap.
As for why such a situation had occurred, Ye Lan and Snivy both expressed: What could they do? They were also very helpless!
The elite class ranking challenge assessment was held first.
This was both to let the regular class students watch the battles first, understand the elite class's strength and battle habits, and prepare tactics in advance;
And to let them analyze their Pokémon's advantages and Lock-On targets they needed to challenge in advance.
This could also be considered an advantage provided to the regular class students.
According to the rules, elite class students with lower rankings could challenge those with higher rankings, the opponent could not refuse, and each person could be challenged up to three times.
However, nine of the top ten had all been challenged, leaving only Ye Lan, and nobody bothered with them at all!
They had arrived at the training ground early in the morning, and once they sat in the chairs, it had been two hours!
During this time, not a single student called their name, and not even a teacher issued them an assessment tag. It was simply outrageous!
If head teacher Liu Yan hadn't said she had something to find him for and told him to wait a moment at the training ground, Ye Lan would have already taken Snivy and fled!
Say, Ye Lan, are we being isolated?
Snivy yawned upon waking up, and looked at her trainer in confusion.
"Uh... well, the strong are always lonely! As the saying goes, life is impermanent, and big intestines wrap around small ones..."
Just as he was about to impart some grand life lessons to this little snake that was not yet a month old, Liu Yan had already stepped up in front of them.
"Take it, the sparring solution you wanted."
An envelope and a card were tossed into Ye Lan's arms by Liu Yan.
"What is this?" Ye Lan wore a puzzled expression, and just as he wanted to tear open the envelope, Liu Yan raised a hand to stop him.
"This is a membership card for the Jindu Battle Arena. You have to pay an admission fee for every battle there, but with this card, you won't need to."
"The reason for this is because you get points for every win there. Points can be exchanged not only for money, but also for some rare items, making it very suitable for you to accumulate battle experience."
After listening to Liu Yan's explanation, Ye Lan's eyes lit up.
This truly was a place very well-suited for him, as he could not only accumulate battle experience, but also trade for some resources he desired.
Without battles, relying solely on training to accumulate Sunshine Points lately had seen his speed drop by a huge margin.
This was one of Ye Lan's greatest advantages in defeating geniuses, and he had to make good use of it.
"However, Snivy is only at the early-intermediate stage close to the mid-intermediate stage right now. Fighting those seasoned trainers out in society..."
At this thought, Ye Lan also grew worried. While a battle arena with this kind of reward system forbade the intentional killing of a trainer's Pokémon, encountering trainers with ferocious personalities meant that getting beaten to serious injuries was still a common occurrence.
Snivy was on the verge of evolution, and if she ran into opponents with too vast a gap in strength, sustaining too heavy an injury might affect her evolution.
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