Fang Yuan estimated that, in addition to skill refinement, Monferno's physical strength also needed to be at least close to top-level to withstand opening the second gate without any harm after the Thunder Flame Mode was activated.
While analyzing, Fang Yuan was selecting the resources they needed. The dazzling array of scarce resources that were hard to come by in the outside world made him internally acknowledge that his trip was not in vain.
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While Fang Yuan was being selective, the selection battles below were in full swing.
Today was the first day of selections, and also the last day that Fang Yuan would be observing the battles.
Because the opponents truly worthy of Fang Yuan's attention had almost all finished their challenges on the first day, just like the Reigning King.
Soon after, Mu Fan, the Daoist Successor of Evergreen Dojo, sent out a nearly top-level Mind Puppet. Like Shang Ren, with the use of strengthening moves, it passed all ten stages.
Following that, Tang Xinlan from Dawn Group, with a nearly top-level Empoleon and after an ultimate enhancement, similarly swept through all ten stages directly.
Right after, another three trainers managed to pass the tenth stage. However, like Fang Yuan, they all used three Pokemon to achieve this.
Beyond that, several other trainers passed the first nine stages but failed at the tenth.
"Is someone hiding their true strength?" Fang Yuan looked towards the field from the players' seats and pondered.
At that time, facing the tenth stage, Fang Yuan could have also sent out Self-detonating Magnetic Monster to battle. Although the chance of victory was small, it would have been an opportunity to train the Self-detonating Magnetic Monster.
Even if he lost, Fang Yuan wasn't too worried, because each person had three chances to challenge.
Therefore, using the master difficulty to train Pokemon was entirely a viable option.
If indeed a trainer did so, then among the selection candidates present, there might not be just seven people who could get through the tenth stage. The number of trainers passing through the first phase of selections, which is to get through nine battles, might be even greater.
Additionally, for someone like Senior Brother Li You, who narrowly lost at the ninth stage, the following attempts might not be entirely without hope.
After digesting the resources from the first nine stages and the initial endowment of ten million, a breakthrough might be on the horizon. Then they could make a comeback and pass the selection in one go.
As dusk approached, Fang Yuan had spent almost a full day at the venue, including lunchtime. With the selection process of the day coming to an end, Fang Yuan stood up.
"Senior Brother, Senior Sister, I won't be coming tomorrow," Fang Yuan said as he got up.
"Not coming?" Li You was surprised.
"Yeah, best of luck, Senior Brother, Senior Sister," Fang Yuan said. Aside from Li You, Senior Sister Zhao Xuenya and Senior Zhang Kaixin had a tough challenge process—this time, probably only Senior Brother Li You had the chance to pass the first phase of selections.
However, the other two would also surely gain significant improvement through the process of selection.
Besides, the World Championship was still a while away, and the selection for the Road of Champions had just begun. The reserve selection would continue up till before the World Championship, and maybe a stroke of luck would allow some to leapfrog in strength.
The so-called selection process was an opportunity given to these trainers with potential by the Trainer Association. Resources, environment, and competitive pressure could all enable trainers to make rapid progress.
Of course, during the half-a-month period of the Road of Champions, the first five second-team spots would be determined. These five would receive the most resource support, while others would get much less.
In such a case, if the strength of the initially chosen five was overtaken by too much before the World Championship, the Trainer Association would not mind leaving the opportunity to more suitable candidates.
"Right, you've already passed all the stages. The most important thing now is to strive to enhance your power before the Second Stage of selection," Senior Zhang Kaixin said with a smile.
The first phase of selection will continue for seven days, then enter the Second Stage of selection. Although the Trainer Association hasn't announced the rules for the Second Stage, many trainers speculate that it should be a team battle.
That is, a trainer simultaneously sends out three Pokemon for battle, testing the selectors' team battle strength.
In the World Championship, a 3vs3 team battle is also an extremely important part. Its level of interest is not less than regular battles.
The World Championship team battles emphasize a single trainer's team battle capability, meaning it's the Pokemon under a trainer that form a team, not a group composed of three or five trainers.
Trainers who can participate in the World Championship have team systems that are several levels above high school or college students and no longer need other trainers to complement them, because only they truly understand themselves.
"Yeah, then we'll meet again during the Second Stage of selection," Fang Yuan said.
If the Second Stage is indeed a 3v3 team battle, Fang Yuan was really looking forward to it, as he had Sun Eevee, Self-detonating Magnetic Monster, and Gengar's Death Trio Strategy, and Dragonite, Self-detonating Magnetic Monster, and Milotic's Thunder and Lightning Strategy—these were all conventional tactics. Apart from these, his Electromagnetic Armament Tactics and Thunderflame Turbine Tactics were also extremely formidable.
Normal trainers let three Pokemon cooperate in team battles.
But the extraordinary Fang Yuan let a bunch of Pokemon fuse for team battles...