Chapter 432: Garganacl, the Pokémon Known as Lord Salt King!

He hurriedly rushed to the front of the Salt House.

At this moment, the rock salt that had piled up inside the house had already been collected in advance, while three big fellows inside the Salt House stared at the door, which was several sizes smaller than themselves, looking completely at a loss.

Compared to their Naclstack and Naclstack phases, the changes in Garganacl were enormous.

Their estimated height of at least three meters exuded an overwhelming sense of pressure; most of their bodies were composed of special salt, and the surrounding air carried a faint salty scent that made one feel as if they were in the middle of the ocean.

This was Garganacl, known as the Rock Salt Pokémon; it was said that by sprinkling salt rich in abundant minerals and possessing strange powers, an injured Pokémon could instantly heal its wounds.

Leaving aside why Garganacl had evolved to be so tall, the immediate priority was still to figure out how to get them out of the Salt House.

Fortunately, after Luo Mu heard Oranguru explain the situation, he directly took out the Poké Balls belonging to the three Pokémon; with the red light of the Poké Balls flashing, it took only a moment before the three Garganacl were successfully transferred out.

This made Luo Mu breathe a sigh of relief, and he whispered in his heart, "The power of science is truly great!"

If not for the Poké Balls, getting Garganacl and the others out today would have required either steeeling oneself to destroy the Salt House or finding a Psychic-type Pokémon like Lei Guan Wang to use Teleport to retrieve Garganacl and the others.

Luo Mu pressed the buttons on the Poké Balls one by one, releasing Garganacl and the others.

The morning sunlight spilled onto the three tall Garganacl, who looked like door gods; the pure white salt seemed to be enveloped in a golden halo, appearing exceptionally sacred and clean.

The older sister Eevee, who had run over with Luo Mu, lit up with excitement; unafraid of strangers, she ran to the eldest Garganacl in the center, crying "Vui, vui!" as if asking Garganacl if she could climb up to take a look.

Garganacl squinted his eyes and nodded honestly.

The older sister Eevee cheered; though her body was small, her agility was quite strong; with just a few running starts and her paw pads scrambling a few times against Garganacl's body, she hopped back and forth until she landed on Garganacl's shoulder.

The view from the three-meter level was indeed different; looking at the farm under the early morning sky, the older sister Eevee nearly lost herself in the moment.

Fortunately, she truly was a good older sister and hadn't forgotten her younger sister; standing on the eldest Garganacl's shoulder, she called out to her younger sister, who was hiding behind Luo Mu due to Garganacl's massive size, inviting her to come play.

The younger sister Eevee had been staying on the farm for some time now, and her personality had become much more cheerful compared to when they first met; she was no longer the timid type who acted like a startled bird at the slightest disturbance.

Even so, coming into contact with "giants" like Garganacl without any psychological preparation still made her somewhat afraid.

Because of her older sister's constant urging and Luo Mu's encouraging push, after hesitating for a few seconds, the younger sister Eevee still walked forward, arriving in front of the eldest Garganacl.

Garganacl recognized the younger sister Eevee and knew her body was very weak, so she certainly couldn't jump onto his shoulder directly like her older sister.

After thinking briefly, he placed his palm in front of the younger sister Eevee, signaling her to sit directly on it.

The younger sister Eevee walked up; then, her field of vision began to rise, and within just a few breaths, she was at the same height as her older sister.

Staring at the dazzling morning sun on the horizon and the farm bathed in its glow, for a moment, the younger sister Eevee was stunned by such a beautiful scene.

She stared unblinkingly at the morning sun, which was not yet too dazzling, until a few white particles landed on the tip of her nose; only then did the younger sister Eevee's consciousness return, and she instinctively stuck out her small pink tongue to lick them.

The taste in her mouth—was a salty flavor.

Unexpectedly, beyond the salty taste, the younger sister Eevee discovered that her originally weak body seemed to have improved just a little bit more.

She stared blankly in that direction and discovered that the second Garganacl had rubbed some crystal-clear fine salt from his fingertips.

Seeing this.

The older sister Eevee also clamored to give it a try; under the direction of the Garganacl leader, the third one on the other side also rubbed off a bit of salt for her to try.

Luo Mu walked over, pinched a small pinch of salt, put it in his mouth to taste, and his eyes lit up slightly.

The first intuitive feeling was that the quality had improved significantly compared to before!

It was just a pity that he himself was not injured, so he could not make a reasonable judgment regarding Garganacl's salt-based healing abilities.

However, their timing for evolution was truly just right.

It just so happened that he was going to attend class at the Grape Academy today.

Thinking of this, Luo Mu waited for the Eevee sisters to play with Garganacl and the others for a while, then instructed the Oranguru beside him, "In a little while, contact the Machoke Construction Team to remodel the door of the Salt House to make it even larger."

Oranguru nodded gently, firmly committing this matter to memory.

He then asked, "Does the space inside the house need to be expanded? If it needs expansion, we can only tear it down and rebuild it."

Luo Mu shook his head, "The internal space seems sufficient for now, so there's no need to tear it down and rebuild."

"It's just..."

Luo Mu stared at the three unusually tall Garganacl, hesitating to speak.

This height differed far too much from that of ordinary Garganacl! As if he had perceived Mu De Xiang Fa, Oranguru voiced a guess of his own.

"Could it be related to those soils that Young Master you stole and dug up from Mount Silver?"

"Logically speaking, given Naclstack and their strength, they should have been able to evolve long ago; they themselves had no intention of resisting evolution, and were even very eager to evolve to increase rock salt production and contribute to the farm."

"Yet evolution still waited several months before arriving..."

Luo Mu was also aware of the doubts Oranguru mentioned.

Originally, his initial purpose was to improve the diet for Naclstack and the others, and along the way see if the soil from Mount Silver could make them stronger after evolution; after all, this was soil carefully selected by the Desert Tyrant Tyranitar for raising its young.

Now it seemed the effect was a bit too good... the children were just short of mutating directly into the form of Garganacl·Tyranitar.

No, wait, even if Tyranitar came personally, he wouldn't be this tall, after all, their Pokédex height is exactly 2 meters (lol).

With thoughts flying chaotically in his mind, it didn't stop Luo Mu from handing the Eevee sisters over to Oranguru, instructing Oranguru to remember to give the younger sister her medicine when the time came; afterward, he recalled the three Garganacl into their Poké Balls, called on Dragonite, and flew toward the direction of Zhuotai City.

As for what changes would appear in Garganacl and the others after evolution, coincidentally, there was an event at the Grape Academy today where he could test it out.

Grape Academy, Battle Hall.

Besides Shinji and Shizuka, Mudan had also temporarily returned to the academy for classes.

According to what she said—it was time to let Flareon put the results of this period's special training into practice.

At this moment.

Mudan sat beside Luo Mu, rarely showing some initiative.

She tugged at the corner of Luo Mu's clothes, begging, "Please, Teacher, send me a copy of their photos!"

Luo Mu was rendered speechless.

"You have so many Eevees at your home, why do you keep staring at mine?"

"And last time, when the special training ran late and I called you to the farm for dinner, didn't you see them too?" "The flowers at home aren't as fragrant as the wild ones... Teacher, you just don't understand this." Mudan acted as if Luo Mu had never seen the world, wagging her fingertip, "Moreover, the setting of sisters struggling to survive together in the wild really hits my spot!"

"If conditions weren't limited, I would even want to raise every kind of Eevee, including the shiny ones! Teacher, your good luck makes me so jealous I'm undergoing plasmolysis!"

"As for Peony, I often wonder why it wasn't me who encountered them, but rather Teacher; this is more crushing than missing out on ten billion!"

Luo Mu said softly, "Do you dare say these words where Sylveon can hear them?"

Peony: ". I have properly temporarily sealed the Pokémon's external perception abilities inside the Poké Ball."

"It shouldn't be able to hear, right."

Joy Jingxiang, who was checking the conditions of Chansey and Porygon, pricked up her ears, listening to the conversation between Luo Mu and Peony, her expression strange.

After thinking for a moment, she looked at Paul, who was leaning against the wall nearby, and asked curiously, "Classmate Paul, do you know why Classmate Peony likes Eevee so much?"

While asking the question, Joy Jingxiang's fair face was still slightly flushed.

It wasn't anything related to hormones; it was simply shame that someone in her twenties still had to ask a child just over ten years old like Paul a question.

Paul lifted his eyelids to glance over there, then closed his eyes again, answering very honestly, "It might be some kind of fetish."

"However, if it were me, given the chance, I might even raise an Eevee."

"Although before evolution, Eevee's combat power isn't outstanding, judging from its characteristic of being able to choose to evolve into multiple attributes, as well as its respectable body stats after evolution, this investment is still quite good."

"As for raising a whole team of Eeveelutions and the like, forget it; having one to cover the team's blind spots is enough."

Paul's analysis was extremely rational.

So rational, in fact, that Joy Jingxiang began to deeply doubt her own intelligence.

Are kids these days all so calm and mature? Worn down by Peony, Luo Mu could only hand over the photos of the Eevee sisters and Garganacl that he had just developed, taken this morning, planning to re-develop a copy from the negatives when he returned.

Upon receiving the photos, Peony was extremely happy.

But when she began to admire the photos, she discovered something incongruous.

Staring at the three Garganacl on the photo, she blinked her eyes, pointed at them, and asked, "Teacher, where did these Garganacl come from?"

"Ahem... coincidentally, I was going to introduce them to you today."

Luo Mu simply stood up, clapped his hands, attracting the attention of Joy Jingxiang and Paul over there as well.

"I announce that Naclstack and the others have successfully evolved into Garganacl this morning!"

Having said that, Luo Mu took out a Poké Ball and directly released three Garganacl.

Staring blankly at the Garganacl, which were at least three meters tall, Joy Jingxiang, as the person with the deepest understanding of basic Pokémon common knowledge among everyone present except Luo Mu, felt her heart beating wildly.

These three Garganacl... they are too tall!

Looking closely, the Garganacl on the left and right had already exceeded three meters, while the one in the middle was strikingly about three point one or two meters tall!

If they grew any taller, they would be almost as tall as the God of the Earth! Peony widened her eyes, instantly feeling chills run through her entire body.

She vaguely remembered that Teacher Luo Mu had also said that Naclstack was not the final form at all, and that only after they evolved into Garganacl, plus Terastallization, would they be the true final form? Paul could no longer maintain his calm expression either, because his Turtwig's first defeat at Grape Academy was at the hands of Naclstack, so he had also researched a lot of data on Naclstack and its evolved form, Garganacl.

But those rigid pieces of data, at this moment... were completely shattered by the Garganacl raised by Luo Mu! Intuition told Paul that the Garganacl after evolution... their disgusting level was not even in the same dimension as before!

The three of them all sucked in a cold breath.

Over here.

Lifted up by the leader Garganacl, Luo Mu sat directly on its shoulder, stroking its strangely textured body, his smile quite proud.

Perhaps, his Garganacl could already contend for the title of "World's Largest Garganacl in the Pokémon World" right now!

However, Luo Mu also didn't forget his purpose in bringing the three Garganacl to the academy; his gaze fell upon the three students, making them inexplicably feel chills down their spines.

Luo Mu spoke: "Ever since Principal Clavell took office, our academy has been undergoing reform; I believe everyone has more or less heard this news."

"Starting from this afternoon, a battle tournament will be held on the academy's sports field; any student confident in their own strength can sign up to participate."

The three nodded in unison; they had indeed heard about this matter.

Luo Mu continued: "Now that Nemona, Hearing Hearing Nimo, and Pipahe Sect have all gone out for extracurricular Treasure Hunt activities, and quite a few stronger students in the academy have also chosen to leave the academy to train outside, your strength already counts among the stronger batches."

"But—"

Drawing out his tone slightly, Luo Mu gazed at the three.

"Many students are keeping an eye on you, wanting to defeat you to prove themselves; do you know why?"

Paul raised his hand and answered calmly: "Because we do not need to attend the general Battle Studies course, and are taught directly by you, Teacher."

"Paul is correct." Luo Mu nodded; it wasn't to make the students compete against each other or engage in some wolf-cub education, but simply stating the facts, "Among your opponents, there are also students who were once taught by me, but due to my promotion, in order to streamline the number of students, I selected Nemona and the other two, as well as Peony who joined later."

"Among them, there are quite a few students whose strength has recently improved, some even not much weaker than Hearing Hearing Nimo and Pipahe Sect; to be frank, you are under great pressure."

"Therefore, I will also give you an opportunity; as long as you study diligently usually, applying it won't be difficult."

"—Aside from internal battles among yourselves, familiarize yourselves with using tactics and send out Garganacl and the others to battle against classmates."

Luo Mu had already thought this through.

This way, not only could he display the results of his teaching, but he could also see through battles what differences existed in Garganacl and the others after evolution besides their increased size, and he could even simultaneously scout for new students with suitable talent by observing the battles.

It was simply killing three birds with one stone! Furthermore, the strength of the Garganacl wouldn't exceed the students' ability to cope, so it wouldn't turn into Luo Mu handing out cheats for Paul and the other two to go to the school competition and unleash unrivaled dominance.

Rather, it was a restriction Luo Mu was imposing on the three.

When Luo Mu finished speaking.

Upon hearing that they had to command Garganacl to battle against classmates, the three all revealed expressions of disbelief.

It wasn't that they felt this matter was difficult; having often been nauseated by various tactics used by Luo Mu, even when taking beatings, they had gained experience from being beaten.

What they truly feared was—

If they used Garganacl to fight in competitions, wouldn't they really be ostracized by the entire school!?

(End of Chapter)