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Two days later.
The national competition had concluded.
Fang Yuan's name had been widely discussed.
But... Fang Yuan had never appeared in front of the media again.
He had already been sitting by the hospital bed in the Spirit Center, accompanying Monferno for two days.
Fang Yuan looked at Monferno, lying on the bed wrapped in bandages, and sighed.
"How did you manage to release all your strength in one go..."
"Rotom only pushed you to your limit, not beyond it."
"Whoo..." Monferno turned its head away in frustration, wasn't that just to take down that Huge Gold Monster with a single punch?
When everyone at the scene was shocked, Fang Yuan clearly enjoyed it, and now he's blaming it for trying too hard...
"..." Fang Yuan pursed his lips.
The aftermath of the energy clash could only be healed through rest.
According to the doctor's advice, after today, Fang Yuan would be able to return Monferno to its Poké Ball.
However, for half a month, Monferno still couldn't engage in intense activities.
Yet, Monferno wasn't too worried about delaying its progress in becoming stronger.
After all, it had its good brother Rotom researching the Thunder Flame Mode in sync.
All these sacrifices were worth it.
"Bwoo!"
In the room, meanwhile, Eevee sat on another bed, examining an exquisite gift box holding ten Evolutionary Stones.
These Evolutionary Stones, should they be sold, or should they be sold?
The national competition ended, and Magic City University smoothly took the double crown of the individual and team contests, which could be considered quite successful.
The prize of the competition had now been obtained by Fang Yuan.
Although Monferno was in a pretty bad state, Fang Yuan was still quite happy because the recent gains were not insignificant.
Firstly, perhaps because the accumulation finally paid off, Eevee had awakened a Psychic Type partner skill.
It could now use moves like Confusion and Light Wall, even in its unevolved form.
This should be the benefit fed back from its potential to evolve into the Sun Eevee Form.
With mastery over Superpower, Eevee's strength naturally rose to the next level.
Before, if it wanted to use Superpower, Eevee had to evolve into Sun Eevee, but now, thanks to partner skill, the Eevee form could also use Superpower directly.
"A General Series partner skill can be considered a Payback Technique, and the Psychic Type partner skill has already been understood..."
"Neither of these partner skills have used the Imitation Training Method."
"So next, maybe the Fire Type and Dark Type partner skills can also be smoothly mastered?"
Eevee's Awakened power attribute is Fire, allowing it to use Flame at will, so mastering a Fire Type partner skill shouldn't be difficult.
At the same time, Eevee also mastered the Dark Type Bite Technique, capable of using Evil Sector Energy, and could use Reflect Wall.
The Dark Type partner skill seems very much like a combination of Evil Fluctuation and Reflect Wall...
So, if Eevee continues to develop these two types of energy, mastering the Fire and Dark Type partner skills might be achievable soon.
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"As well as... Fairy types," Fang Yuan reminisced about the call with school sister Xie Qingyi the day before.
The Fairy-type partner skill effect is to create a fragrant and pungent Fairy-type twister that devours the opponent, while also being able to heal the status abnormalities of Pokémon.
Apart from the attack effect, the additional effects are similar to those of Heal Bell and Fresh Moves.
Eevee is also capable of learning Fairy-type moves; compared with the Plant system and Ice Type, Eevee is more apt at Fairy-type moves.
Fang Yuan next planned to have Eevee learn Baby-Doll Eyes, combined with Heal Bell and Refresh so that Eevee could master the Fairy-type partner skill.
The partner skills of the General Series, Psychic Type, Dark Type, Fire Type, and Fairy Type should be relatively easy to master.
As for the partner skills of Ice Type, Plant system, Water Series, and Electric Series, they might require more effort and the use of Imitation Moves.
Fang Yuan had already obtained the method for learning Round Eyed Method.
It was after he became the national champion that he asked school sister Xie Qingyi.
Besides inquiring about the method for learning Baby-Doll Eyes, Fang Yuan also asked about some other matters.
For instance, he wondered what distinctions exist above the Master Domain, in the top-tier levels.
This was very important for Fang Yuan as it concerned the path he would take next.
With the hints provided by school sister Xie Qingyi, Fang Yuan roughly understood the divisions within the top-tier level.
He also gained a clearer understanding of the strength of top-tier trainers, the Four Heavenly Kings, and the Champion.
Currently, within Fang Yuan's team, it should be Sun Eevee that has the strongest power.
The destructive power and reaction speed have reached the limits of this level, resulting in a bottleneck.
With numerous trump card moves, it could be understood as the limit of Master Level.
However, among the current Four Heavenly Kings—the Fighting Type King Xu Haoran, the Dragon King Yun Kui, the Psychic Type King Su Shu, the Fairy Type King Xie Qingyi, and the Champion Jiang Li—there are not a few Pokémon in their teams that have reached this level of ability.
Combining the hints from school sister Xie Qingyi and the videos of the Heavenly King battles, Fang Yuan deduced that they had at least three Pokémon that reached the level of Sun Eevee; if they do not possess nearly-top-level power, they would not qualify as the Heavenly King's main force.
This is just the main force; as for the trump cards, they have even stronger combat power.
According to school sister Xie Qingyi, her strongest Pokémon is not the beginner elf Decidueye, but an Ice and Fairy dual-type Alolan Ninetales, which she tamed from the Snow Mountain Secret Realm, reputed to be the Messenger of the Gods that has lived for hundreds of years.
According to what school sister Xie Qingyi revealed, this Alolan Ninetales has reached another height—that is, the Top Tier Domain.
Regarding the Champion Jiang Li, he too has trump card Pokémon that have reached the level of top-tier combat power.
And the remaining three Heavenly Kings undoubtedly have trump card Pokémon that have reached top-tier combat power as well.
Looking at it this way, these Four Heavenly Kings and Champion are already very close to being Two-Star Professional Trainers; what they might be lacking is perhaps only the accumulation of the main Pokémon in number, group battle strength, rather than the strength of the main and trump card Pokémon.
Besides this, the strength span of the top-tier levels is also vast.
Fang Yuan estimated that the Thousand-year Gengar from the Sun and Moon Forest is among the stronger ones.
According to Sister Xie, the top-tier levels can be roughly divided into four stages.
The first stage is realized when a Pokémon has relatively perfect control over a certain element, the purity of its own energy undergoes a qualitative change, becoming highly concentrated as if it has been compressed.
At this time, it can be said that the Pokémon has initially stepped into the Top Tier Domain.
With this kind of strength, when facing opponents who have not stepped into the top-tier level, they can minimize the disadvantages of having their element counteracted to a certain extent.
Among them, more common Pokémon, relying on moves and energy, undergo a transformation in just one aspect: pure destructive power, physical strength, or speed.
But the more formidable ones might be more versatile, possessing both destructive power and defensive power as well as speed, or they have cultivated two types of elements to the top-tier level.
Sister Xie said her Alolan Ninetales belongs to the first stage.
The second stage, although Sister Xie's description was not very clear, Fang Yuan deduced it probably requires the Pokémon's coordination and control abilities to reach the top-tier level...