Chapter 247: Unexpected Call

A week had passed since Su Hao returned to Yangcheng.

This week, Su Hao sent Incineroar to Old Man Wang's house every morning to train the Thunder Punch move, and then took Diancie and Milotic to the training gym of the Rising Sun Gym to continue training.

He and his mother, Su Qing, had agreed on a date to go to the Pokémon Evolution Research Institute located in the Magic City to collect some of Diancie's data, preparing for the future public reveal of Diancie's existence.

The departure date was approaching, and tomorrow Su Hao would board the direct train to Magic City.

Therefore, today was the time for him to inspect the training results of the four Pokémon over the past week.

On the spacious training field, Incineroar had given up walking upright; those arms, which were like those of a gibbon, supported Incineroar as it charged and dodged within the field.

After switching to running on all fours, Incineroar's mobility had been greatly improved.

Floating in the middle of the field were a dozen irregularly shaped rocks; these were created by Diancie using Ancient Power, with the goal of letting Incineroar show the results of its week of special training.

On the path where Incineroar was sprinting at high speed, a few rocks would always pop up at just the right moment to block it.

Incineroar, when blocked, would often exert force with its lower limbs, leaping high into the air, its right palm flashing with golden-yellow electric arcs before quickly condensing into the Thunder Punch move.

Incineroar's method of using the Thunder Punch move was less like a "punch" and more like a "palm strike."

One of Incineroar's physical characteristics is those large palms like palm-leaf fans; combined with Incineroar's arm strength, every "Thunder Palm" could shatter a rock blocking its path.

On the other side, Milotic was continuously using its most proficient physical attack moves, Dragon Tail and Aqua Tail, alternating to strike and offset the Power Gems that were attacking it in waves, maintaining its rhythm.

The intensity of the attacks was just enough to keep Incineroar and Milotic able to catch their breath.

This was a training plan proposed by Su Hao after he knew Diancie was practicing shaping other forms of diamonds.

Diancie needed to maintain a fixed attack rhythm, multitasking to counter Incineroar and Milotic.

This could more finely train its control over its own moves; it could be said to be the strength of a Coordinator.

An excellent Coordinator not only needs to pay attention to the flashiness of the moves, but the Pokémon's own strength will not be left behind; it can be said to be another style of Trainer.

Su Hao borrowed the concept created by Coordinators—coordination—to try to help Diancie go further on the path of shaping.

Diancie did not lack the power of its moves; what it needed now was to completely control everything about itself so that it could find a path to go further.

In order to stimulate the enthusiasm of the three Pokémon, Su Hao specifically set up punishments and rewards.

Commonly known as "drawing a big pie."

If Diancie could keep its defense from being broken through by Incineroar and Milotic during a month of training, Su Hao would buy Diancie a mobile phone that belonged exclusively to it, so that it could watch anime whenever it wanted.

What tempted Diancie was the mobile phone, but this thing didn't work on Milotic and Incineroar.

Su Hao knew Milotic and Incineroar's preferences clearly.

Incineroar had always wanted a custom gym that belonged to it; after all, the equipment used by humans wasn't very suitable for it.

Besides training, what Milotic thought about most was eating; Su Hao drew a "big pie" of Milotic being able to order whatever it wanted within a month.

Hearing the benefits, both Pokémon's eyes turned red, and at this very moment, they were still continuously trying to break through.

Diancie floated in the center of the field, its hands directed towards Incineroar and Milotic respectively.

Its pink pupils looked left and right seriously; every time Incineroar and Milotic broke through a part of the Ancient Power and Power Gems, it would immediately fill the gap.

Su Hao required Diancie to limit its output to the Elite level, which was considered giving Incineroar and Milotic a chance.

Otherwise, the huge gap in strength would make them unable to even cope with Diancie's moves.

The three Pokémon were locked in a stalemate on the field, neither giving way to the other; Su Hao, stroking the Dreepy on his head, was somewhat distressed.

This was a system task triggered after that person who called himself Miao Yin of the Twelve Earthly Branches talked to him before he returned to Yangcheng.

's system mission.

【Task: Seed Project】

【Task Goal: Win a top-eight spot in the Seed Project selection and obtain the qualification to enter the Nirvana Secret Realm】

【Task Reward: 1. The higher the ranking, the more system currency reward; the first-place champion can be rewarded with 1 million system currency. 2. Evolution Key Stone.】

【Accept/Reject】

This was the only time since Su Hao activated the system that a task was issued before he had even thought about it.

According to what Miao Yin said, the Seed Project would be a battle between the most talented batch of young people in the Shenzhou Alliance; the currently confirmed candidates were basically all seniors and juniors in college.

Miao Yin and the others didn't have fixed indicators for selecting seeds; it belonged to the category of reporting if they encountered good seedlings, and it wouldn't be a problem if they didn't.

The Shenzhou Alliance didn't have any material, fame, or position rewards for recommenders.

Even so, most people with recommendation qualifications scrambled to select suitable juniors to report for review.

Most veteran Trainers chose to recommend the geniuses or disciples of their own families; although Miao Yin had the qualification to recommend, he had neither a family nor a disciple.

There were even wealthy people who came to spend huge sums of money wanting to buy the recommendation qualification, but they were rejected by Miao Yin.

He felt that with Su Hao's talent, plus the fact that he could temporarily take Su Hao as a named disciple to help him grow, it wasn't impossible for him to stand out in the selection competition a year later.

It was said that Su Hao would become his named disciple, but in reality, Miao Yin was helping Su Hao become stronger for free, and Su Hao didn't need to fulfill any disciple obligations.

It was just that Miao Yin felt Su Hao had great talent and could be cultivated.

Su Hao felt it was very strange; not to mention Diancie, according to his current growth rate, a year later, at the very worst, he would have a full team of Professional-level Pokémon.

As far as he knew, even genius seniors in college mostly had to wait a year or two after graduation to have a full team of Professional-level Pokémon.

If he went to participate a year later, it wouldn't be "cutting melons and vegetables," it would be "fishing in a fish pond."

Such a simple task, yet the system's rewards were so rich; it was impossible to refuse, it was too strange!

Just as he was struggling with whether to accept the task, a phone call came into his mobile phone, and Miao Yin's voice rang out.

"Student Su Hao, have you considered it?"

His voice was slightly impatient because—

"The Seed Project is about to be held in advance, and the registration time is about to close."

"The reason is that a new secret realm is about to descend on the high seas, and after discussions by various alliances, it was decided to send young Trainers under the age of 23 to battle each other to decide the distribution of resources in the secret realm!"

"In other words, the top-ranked Trainers in the Seed Project will represent the Shenzhou Alliance to set off and face the geniuses of other alliances!"

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Lillie, Cosmog.