"What's going on?"
Fang Yuan walked away from the stage all the way to his seat. Throughout this journey, countless gazes fell upon him, making Fang Yuan feel extremely awkward.
He was often watched, but today's stares were particularly intense.
Until he sat down, his peers from Magic University—two seniors and a senior sister—looked at him the same way, making Fang Yuan feel uncomfortable.
"Nothing..."
In response to Fang Yuan's question, Senior Zhang Kaixin chuckled foolishly, while Senior Brother Li You and Senior Sister Zhao Xuenya also forced a smile, saying, "Congratulations, congratulations."
Are you asking us what's wrong?
Your Gengar... was quite terrifying.
Although they were happy that a fellow student had passed the selection by clearing all ten challenges, the three seniors from Magic University might need more time to digest this fact.
"Right."
"Your account permissions should have been activated by now; you can start exchanging resources."
Zhang Kaixin suddenly mentioned.
Whether it was the professional or master difficulty, starting from the fourth challenge, you would receive additional special resource rewards for each challenge you cleared.
These resources could be directly exchanged through a special webpage on the Trainer Association's official website. A massive amount of resources were prepared specifically for the trainers participating in the selection.
After Li You challenged up to the ninth stage and unlocked the exchange permission, Zhang Kaixin and Zhao Xuenya took a glimpse and discovered indeed there were quite a few good items.
Utilized properly, the resources from all nine challenges could potentially boost the overall strength of their team by a notch.
Although they weren't exactly strapped for cash, they weren't extremely wealthy either, having yet reached the point of splurging indiscriminately. Most trainers had to carefully budget and plan every step of the way in nurturing their Pokémon. Truly, students like Fang Yuan who could spend without any pressure were in the minority.
The resources Li You could obtain from clearing eight challenges had already made Zhang Kaixin and Zhao Xuenya jealous for a long time. Now that Fang Yuan could exchange resources from all challenges, how abundant would that be?
From the very start, when the trainers embarked on the Road of Champions, each trainer received a resource quota of ten million, which could be used to purchase resources for nurturing Pokémon.
And now, the resources were additional rewards for excellent performance during the selection process, and surely they wouldn't be any less than the initial amount.
"Let me check." Fang Yuan said, taking out his phone.
By this time, a new challenge had already begun below, with another challenger entering the stage.
However, with the battles of Shang Ren and Fang Yuan happening earlier, the appeal of this challenger's attempts had greatly diminished.
"What to exchange for..."
Fang Yuan had converted his initial ten million resource quota entirely into magnets upon arriving at the Road of Champions.
With a pile of magnets collected from the Spirit World and the magnets from this quota, Fang Yuan was eager for his Self-detonating Magnetic Monster to reach the limits of the Master Domain in its normal state as soon as possible.
Compared to other Pokémon, the resources for nurturing the Self-detonating Magnetic Monster were relatively easy to obtain.
Since the Self-detonating Magnetic Monster's strength issue could be resolved with money, Fang Yuan naturally wouldn't be stingy. After all, the stronger the Self-detonating Magnetic Monster became, the more efficiently it could create Energy Blocks, which in turn, would improve the strength of his other Pokémon...
Already possessing the basis of Electromagnetic Armed Form, and with ample resources, making the Self-detonating Magnetic Monster touch the pinnacle of Top Tier Domain and reach the strength of the Elite Four's main force was very promising!
"There are high-quality Rare types of evolution stones as rewards for just the fourth challenge..." Fang Yuan flipped to the resources page, muttering to himself.
"The Trainer Association really is splurging..."
But it made sense. After all, the current selection process aimed to cultivate the most outstanding trainers in the country; it was akin to investing in military weapons. With this perspective, the expenditure should be comparable to the billions spent on military budgets in his previous life.
"The big rewards are at the end; the high-quality evolution stones are just the appetizers..."
Fang Yuan directly scrolled to the rewards that could be exchanged for the tenth challenge, but when he got there, he found to his surprise that there were no resources available for exchange.
There was only a comment box.
After clicking on the "?" next to it, a line of text appeared, enlightening Fang Yuan.
There were no specific rewards for the tenth challenge; trainers needed to submit their own requests for what breeding resources they required, and the Trainer Association would do everything possible to collect the requested items for the candidates.
Trainers were allowed to submit multiple requests.
"So it means, the level of resources granted for the tenth challenge largely depends on how much weight a candidate carries in the eyes of the Trainer Association?"
Fang Yuan was quite satisfied with this arrangement... after all, he was a nearly-King Level trainer not yet twenty years old with immense potential and a senior researcher. Whatever request he made should be strived to be fulfilled, right?
"I want an egg of Arceus... Nah, just kidding, that would definitely get me blacklisted."
Fang Yuan pulled up the input box, and after some thought, what resources was he lacking?
Even if he requested an egg of Lucario, which was nearly as rare as Legendary Pokémon, it could potentially be fulfilled.
But after considering, Fang Yuan decided to focus on his current Pokémon.
"Whatever, I'll just ask for another piece of the top-notch magnet." After pondering for a moment, Fang Yuan chose an Electric Series resource—a magnet that could enhance electromagnetic force.
With this, short-term cultivation of the Self-detonating Magnetic Monster to a Nearly-Top Level should be steady.
Since he was allowed to submit multiple requests, Fang Yuan naturally wouldn't settle for just magnets.
Fang Yuan felt that with the potential he had shown, it wouldn't be too outrageous to ask for even more resources.