A week later.
At Demon Capital University, the Ghost House facility.
Teacher Zhou Youyou was convinced that the threshold for entering into a Shadow Contract was extremely high.
Even Pokémon with talent typically needed at least ten days to half a month to get started.
But now, watching the Glutton easily merge into the shadows of various objects, move freely, and use Shadow Claw to hit a basketball, Zhou Youyou suddenly began to doubt her life choices.
A week's time and the first stage of complete shadow integration and the second stage of Dark Shadow Control had been completed just like that?
By heavens, she had taken two months to learn them!!
She glanced at her own trembling shadow, a ghost that was even more ghostly, enough to anger the dead.
"Teacher Zhou, we should be able to learn the third stage now, right?"
To be precise, with the combined efforts of Fang Yuan, Eevee, and Luo Kuo, the Glutton had successfully completed full shadow integration within a day.
On the second day, it had completed Dark Shadow Control, able to freely use Shadow Fist, Shadow Claw, and Shadow Ball through the shadows.
On the third day, it could even cast Curse and Ghost Fire through the shadows.
At the start of the training, Fang Yuan really didn't expect it to be so easy.
The reason it dragged on until a week later was mainly because Fang Yuan didn't want to shock Teacher Zhou's heart, and also because the beginning of the term was a busy period.
Additionally, training Milotic took up most of his time, leaving no opportunity to come here.
However, even after postponing it to a week later, he still gave Teacher Zhou quite the scare.
Seeing the Glutton so thoroughly shadow-integrated, Teacher Zhou fell silent.
"Fine, I'll teach you the third stage..."
To learn the Shadows Contract third stage, Fang Yuan was just listening and didn't plan to practice it immediately.
Having the Glutton eat his dreams was something neither he nor the Glutton were psychologically prepared for.
Dreaming was too unpredictable.
If he dreamt of some Legendary Pokémon and let the Glutton consume them, that would be fine...
But if he dreamt of something embarrassing, Fang Yuan felt his persona would collapse.
So Fang Yuan was wondering if there was another method to build a Shadow Contract.
Wasn't it just about establishing a psychic link? He was half a Psychic by now; if he was willing to think about it, he could surely find a way.
...
Training the Glutton and training Milotic, time flew by swiftly.
After the semester started, a quick half-month passed.
It had been a while since Fang Yuan published his paper on the Life Orb.
During this time, due to this paper, the final verdict on Fang Yuan's promotion to senior researcher had arrived!
In fact, from the first day Fang Yuan published his paper, it had attracted tremendous attention.
The Life Orb paper had significant impact, overseen by several top doctors of Demon Capital University and the Fairy King, Xie Qingyi.
The recovery work of the Life Orb was also underway.
As for Fang Yuan, Demon Capital University had run out of words; genius, even that term seemed inadequate to describe him.
Not only was he continuously creating miracles in the research field, but his accomplishments in the Trainer Domain were only soaring higher.
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Looking back at the research achievements Fang Yuan has published over the past two years, the majority of senior researchers are no match for him.
Only a sophomore, he had become a senior researcher. It's important to note that even the professors of the Research Department of Magic City University are only senior researchers themselves.
These past few days, Director Mu of the Research Department has been extremely busy dealing with all sorts of leaders, but he has thoroughly enjoyed it.
It's all because Magic City University's Research Department had yet another Xie Qingyi... No… perhaps a student even more outstanding than Xie Qingyi.
"However, this kid... he actually doesn't want to publicize it?" In the office, Director Mu shook his head.
Although he did not know why Fang Yuan, who should be at a competitive age, didn't want to publicize the matter to gain fame for himself and for Magic City University, since Fang Yuan had decided, Magic City University could only offer its support.
At the same time, they would need to help Fang Yuan keep this a secret and maintain confidentiality.
"This is good, too. A prodigy researcher is not yet ready for too much attention. Perhaps his past experiences have made him weary of the limelight," Director Mu muttered to himself.
Fang Yuan indeed did not want to draw too much attention to himself anymore because what he needed to do next was of great importance.
Whether it was the research on Energy Blocks or Mega Evolution, and even the future studies on Z Power, all required a low-key approach.
Most importantly, Fang Yuan believed that being a researcher was only a side job for him, and the intense glow of this role could overshadow his development in the Trainer's Domain.
In the next year, Fang Yuan's goal was to become a Professional Trainer, aiming for the World Sprite Alliance's tournament, which would involve traveling abroad frequently. If he were known as a genius researcher overseas, that would likely bring a lot of trouble.
Therefore, only less than a hundred people were aware of the approval of Fang Yuan's senior researcher qualifications.
School sister Xie Qingyi was naturally one of the informed, and even the gift she promised, the Rotom Phone, had already been delivered.
Magic City University, Research Department Dormitory.
Eevee watched the hovering Rotom Phone in front of it with earnest attention.
Rotom, a being composed of plasma, with Electric and Ghost attributes, had the ability to infiltrate and fuse with various appliances like microwaves, washing machines, refrigerators, electric fans, lawnmowers, and so on, changing attributes in the process.
As the name suggests, the Rotom Phone is a modified phone capable of housing Rotom and is a smart technology product with powerful features like a Pokedex, invented by the Xie Qingyi Research Team.
The Rotom Phone that school sister Xie Qingyi sent looked like a red phone that could fly and what made it most conspicuous was a tuft of hair-like appendage on it.
"Rotom~" The Rotom Phone greeted Fang Yuan and Eevee.
"Bwoo." Eevee's eyes brightened, finding the phone intriguing once it powered on.
"Hello." Fang Yuan replied with a smile, too.
"Language loading complete, identity confirmed as phone owner, researcher Fang Yuan, 100%, good afternoon, user Fang Yuan, please take good care of Rotom~" The Rotom Phone greeted again.
Eevee: (｡◕ˇεˇ◕｡)???
"Ahem, Rotom, could you change the phone owner's name for me, change it to Eevee."
Rotom: o_o ....
"Unable to compute… unable to compute… unable to compute..." said the Rotom Phone.
"Bwoo!!!" Eevee grew angry, swiftly gathering a Shadow Ball and aiming it at Rotom.
Just change it when you're told to, why all the fuss.
"Received, Rotom! Language loading complete, identity confirmed as phone owner, Pokémon... Eevee??? Loading error, identity confirmed as phone owner, Trainer Eevee, 100%, good afternoon, user Eevee, please take good care of me, Bwoo~" Rotom Phone immediately reloaded its system.
Upon hearing this, Eevee blossomed with joy.
Fang Yuan was embarrassed.
Forget it, what belonged to Eevee was his as well, it didn't matter who the phone owner was.
But, could this be considered the first Pokémon Eevee tamed???
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