Chapter 45

Most importantly, both of his Pokémon have developed perfectly!

The Combusken's entire body displayed symmetrical lines, perfect muscles, and brimming vitality, clearly the result of careful breeding and training.

The Shinx also had soft, fine fur and looked spirited.

The fact that the Pokémon possessed such a fine demeanor already proved how much heart their Trainer put into them.

King King Hongwu had seen too many Trainers who, while not exactly abusing their Pokémon, did not care much for them either.

They were raised merely like pets.

"Both of your Pokémon look excellent; you must have trained them quite a bit usually."

At this moment, a smile had spread across King King Hongwu's face.

His manner of speaking had also become gentle and affectionate.

If anyone familiar with him were to see this, they would absolutely be stunned.

Because it had been a long time since King King Hongwu last showed such an expression.

"That's right; I usually have Combusken train its speed, and Shinx practices the power of its moves. They are very diligent themselves and have done extremely well."

As he spoke, Su Yu also patted the heads of Shinx and Torchic.

Both Pokémon displayed expressions of enjoyment.

059: Training the Pokémon!

"Good! Good! Good!"

At this moment, King King Hongwu used three "goods" to express his satisfaction with Su Yu.

He could now confirm that the young man before him was the successor he had dreamed of! The one who could realize his dream!

"By the way, child, I forgot to ask you earlier; what is your name?"

"My name is Su Yu," Su Yu replied neither humbly nor arrogantly.

King King Hongwu also introduced himself, saying, "My name is King King Hongwu, and I am the Leader of the King King Hongwu Gym."

Su Yu nodded.

Seeing this, King King Hongwu asked curiously, "Aren't you surprised?"

"Of course not," Su Yu answered. "Just now, the young lady at the front desk said she needed to consult the Gym Leader, and then she brought you over; that already indicates you are the Gym Leader."

"Excellent!" Hearing Su Yu's answer, King King Hongwu's smile grew even wider.

He had not expected that Su Yu not only possessed good talent but was also very smart.

This made him even more satisfied.

However, although he very much wanted to accept Su Yu as a disciple immediately, King King Hongwu restrained his excited feelings.

He decided to get to know Su Yu better before bringing it up.

"Since you want to train your Pokémon here, I can arrange some training plans for them."

"Your Shelgon does not need training; just letting it wait slowly for evolution is enough."

"The main focus will be training Combusken and Shinx."

Su Yu also nodded; he had originally only planned to train Combusken and Shinx.

Bringing out Shelgon was merely to attract King King Hongwu's attention.

So far, it was evident that King King Hongwu was very satisfied with his performance.

King King Hongwu asked, "Then how do you plan to train your Pokémon?"

Su Yu thought for a moment and said, "I plan to train Combusken's speed and agility because Combusken has high speed talent, so I want it to leverage that advantage."

"As for Shinx, we can train its stamina, since after evolution it relies on physical attack, making stamina very important."

Su Yu outlined the general direction of his training.

Thus, King King Hongwu led Su Yu to a machine equipped with a long cannon barrel.

"This is the area for training evasion ability; the machine in the distance can launch rubber balls to attack, and the Pokémon's job is to constantly dodge the rubber balls' assaults to avoid being hit."

"Through this training, not only can the Pokémon's reaction ability be trained, but their stamina can also be improved."

"It can be said to kill two birds with one stone."

King King Hongwu explained while pointing at the surrounding machines.

Seeing this, Su Yu also nodded.

This machine was indeed excellent, far superior to the crude training equipment downstairs in his apartment building.

As he spoke, King King Hongwu also demonstrated the machine's operation to Su Yu.

"Look here; you can adjust the ball speed. For Pokémon of novice strength, set it to one; for those of ordinary level, set it to two, and so on from there."

"Which Pokémon do you want to train first? You can let it try."

King King Hongwu asked with a smile.

Su Yu pondered for a moment, then said, "Hmm, let Shinx go try first. I'm counting on you, Shinx."

"Meow," Shinx cried happily upon hearing that Su Yu had chosen it.

Both of its star-shaped eyes squinted up.

Afterwards, Shinx hopped over to the preparation area.

Su Yu walked up to the machine's screen, manipulated the controls, and quickly set it to level one, then turned his head and asked, "Shinx, are you ready?"

"Meow," Shinx nodded, its expression becoming serious.

"Then let's begin!" After speaking, Su Yu pressed the start button.

From the cannon-like machine opposite, "boom, boom, boom," rubber balls flew out one after another.

Like frisbees.

Every single rubber ball headed straight for Shinx in the preparation area.

Its speed was hardly inferior to the lightning-fast strikes released by ordinary Pokémon.

In the blink of an eye, the first rubber ball arrived before Shinx.

Seeing the rubber ball, Shinx remained unhurried, exerted strength in its four limbs, and leaped up from the spot.

It swiftly dodged the first rubber ball.

And while Shinx was still in mid-air, the other two rubber balls arrived one after another.

Shinx stretched its four limbs, shifting its posture like a slippery loach.

One by one, the rubber balls were perfectly dodged by Shinx.

It was evident that Shinx was still very relaxed.

It had not exerted its full strength at all.

"Not bad," Hong Wu nodded from afar.

Although the Level One dodgeball training was specifically designed for novice Pokémon, an untrained Pokémon might still fail even if it possessed ordinary strength.

It was like some people entering training mode while playing a game.

Without specialized training, even someone extremely powerful in actual combat might still fail in training mode.

The fact that Shinx could so easily dodge all the rubber balls...

...had already proven that its talent was quite excellent.

Hong Wu had assumed that a trainer from an ordinary family like Su Yu would obtain a Pokémon with only average talent.

But judging solely by Shinx, its talent was already quite impressive.

After passing the Level One training, Su Yu did not rush to have Shinx undergo Level Two training.

It had just exercised and now needed to recover its stamina.

Therefore, Su Yu had Combusken come to the training grounds, allowing the two to train in turns.

060: Consecutive Successes, Hong Wu Shocked!

Su Yu adjusted the equipment once again, turned around, and said, "Combusken, I'll be counting on you this time."

"Cha-mo!" Combusken nodded, raising its arms with force, clearly very confident in itself.

"Begin!"

As Su Yu pressed the button, the machine started operating once more.

And this time, Combusken's performance surprised Hong Wu even more.