Elf: Re-employment of retired champion of Padiya

Chapter 763 Final Assignment - The Treasure for Suppressing Disasters!
April 23, 799 of the League Calendar.

Even though it was only yesterday that Zhu Lan and the other two left, Luo Mu felt that today was a rare moment of peace.

—This assumes we ignore Nemo, who came early in the morning to block the door and have a great time.

Luo Mu directly chose to send out the "ultimate weapon," the Rare Crown King, allowing Nemo to experience the fighting intensity that the Roentgenus and its companions usually displayed.

I thought this would at least calm Nemo down for a while, but to my surprise, the girl became even more excited.

Luo Mu's eyelids twitched as he watched, and a sense of foreboding suddenly rose in his heart.

not good!

If I continue to let Rachel deal with Nemo like this, will the girl become even more powerful than she was originally in the game?

In the original storyline of the game, Nemo grew to the point where, despite having almost no one in her social and academic circles who could rival her, she was stronger than Ye Ci described.

Putting aside whether Ye Ci is just spouting nonsense again, it's as if she's going all out for the Crystal Flower event and for the first team.

But what is certain is that, given Nemo's potential in winning the championship in just one year, her future ceiling is at least at the level of Orchid.

It's not entirely hopeless to reach the level of Aoki and Akame, who have become "battle legends" in their youth.

Some people might think this is a bit of an exaggeration.

But isn't it normal for Luo Mu, as a teacher and mentor, to have such expectations of his students and apprentices?
At least in this world, a yearly championship is almost a standard ticket to becoming a "battle legend".

Whether it's oneself, or crimson and green, or Nemo.

Of course, there are also examples like Zhulan and Dandi, who accumulated knowledge and experience before achieving great success.

We can't condemn them all at once.

But in any case, this is only something for the "future".

No one can explain growth, and Luo Mu only intends to do his job well.

After all, he's more focused on something else right now—

Someone please take Nemo back, who's been resting for a while and is now bouncing around like a baby again!
If this continues, he really will have to put up a sign at the farm gate saying "Nemo and XX are not allowed to enter!"

Otherwise, it would be good to find something for Nemo to do to distract her, so that she doesn't bother her all day long.

"Didn't Ye Ci need to see you? Why are you still here with me?"

Seeing Nemo eager to try again, Luo Mu felt a throbbing pain in his temples.

However, Nemo, whose defining characteristic is "going her own way," completely failed to grasp the subtext in Luo Mu's words.

Instead, she asked with a strange look, "How did you know about this, teacher?"

"Children shouldn't pry into adults' affairs."

Although he didn't really want to say something that only middle-aged parents would say, Luo Mu had no other choice.

How did he know that Ye Ci was looking for Nimo?

Because he cheated!

But Luo Mu couldn't very well tell Nemo that in order to find a way to stop her from dragging him into a second round, he had lowered himself to ask the hint system to activate it, could he?

"Anyway, she probably has work to assign you. Is it really okay if you don't go to the Alliance headquarters now?"

Luo Mu deliberately changed the subject.

Nemo, completely unaware, picked up on his new topic.

"Well, although I'd like to rest before playing another round, you're right, teacher, I still need to go to the League headquarters—"

Nemo's voice carried a hint of resentment, while Luo Mu kept nodding in agreement.

Connemo's next words immediately froze Luo Mu in mid-air.

"Then I'll hurry back and try to get back tonight to have another match with the teacher!"

Nemo was clearly a woman of action. As soon as she finished speaking, she waved goodbye to Luo Mu and the Crowned King, tossed her ponytail, and ran towards the farm gate.

The butler, Sebastian, was always there waiting for her.

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Luo Mu, who had been silent, watched her retreating figure and suddenly wanted to retract the thought in his mind that Ye Ci was doing nothing all day and was even exploiting the child.

— We should squeeze Nemo dry, keep her busy with work, and not have the energy to think about these messy things!
Not only did Ci want to exploit others, but Luo Mu himself also wanted to exploit others.

If Nemo becomes free again in a few days, I'll immediately arrange for her to work at the dojo!

It's better to have Nemo keep watch over things than to have Pipa and Peony take turns, so she won't be idle and cause trouble.

Given her fascination with Pokémon battles, she might even thank Luo Mu!
Not long after Nemo left, Luo Mu, as usual, checked on his apprentice Xiong's daily training progress.

"Yes, I've mastered quite a few new moves recently."

"Swallow Return," "Headbutt," "Terrible Face," "Tile Splitting."

"Brick Breaking is now your trump card in battle; you need to practice it more."

"You also need to practice the 'Swallow Return' more. In my experience, once you've mastered the 'Swallow Return' to a level of proficiency, you can try to understand 'acrobatic' moves."

Luo Mu squatted down, looking directly at his bear apprentice who was at the same height as him, and carefully formulated a training plan for it.

There's no such thing as an easy way to get stronger; it's all about daily training and real-world experience before you can reap the rewards.

Unlike Moltres, who spends his days eating, sleeping, and listening to gossip, at most serving as a sparring partner for Arcanine and the others, he can get stronger even while lying down.

In comparison, Xiong's apprentice had a much harder life.

Even though it is the juvenile form of a legendary elf, for their species, only a very few individuals who have honed their skills to the extreme can complete the final evolution and reach the pinnacle of their race.

The bear apprentice listened attentively to the detailed training plan that Luo Mu had devised for it, its little face full of determination.

It is fully aware of the extent of its changes during this period.

Not only has the chance of winning increased over time when helping out in battles at the dojo, but opponents that were once unbeatable can now be easily defeated.

More importantly, Xiong's apprentice could feel himself slowly becoming stronger.

Just like with human fitness training, you see your loose, flabby body gradually become firmer and more toned through a combination of anaerobic strength and aerobic exercise, your body fat percentage decreases, and clear muscle definition appears.

This feeling is really addictive for bears.

The positive feedback mechanism motivated Xiong's apprentice to persevere through the arduous daily training.

After Luo Mu finished explaining Xiong's training plan for the next period of time, he looked at Xiong, who was still staring at him, hesitant to speak, as if he wanted to say something.

Luo Mu smiled, his words hitting the nail on the head regarding Xiong's little scheme.

"Are you asking me how to do the same thing as Cynthia's Lucario?"

"Bea."

The bear apprentice stared wide-eyed, astonished that Luo Mu had so easily seen through his thoughts.

But it couldn't help but nod.

Fighting-type Pokémon are very rare on the farm. To be precise, besides Kubrick himself, there are only the Line-of-Arms who serve as cooks.

There aren't many people whose experiences you can learn from or pass on to.

Swampert, for example, although it also attacks with its fists, relies more on pure strength and doesn't need to consider too much technique.

Azure Flame Blade Demon is very skilled, but it is a swordsman, so at most it can only teach the bear apprentice some footwork experience in combat.

Although Luo Mu often takes his apprentice, Xiong, to spar with Bipa's group of Fighting-type Pokémon during class.

But when the bear apprentice saw Lucario's amazing fighting skills...

It then realized that its previous perspective had been somewhat narrow.

It was among the Pokémon watching at the time, and it witnessed firsthand the opponent's elegant move of first injecting the so-called "hidden energy" and then detonating it with a precise "Aura Sphere".

From that moment on, Xiong's apprentice had the thought that he wished he could learn this skill himself.

And once this idea was born, it quickly took root and sprouted in the bear's apprentice's mind, growing into a towering tree.

Yesterday, before Cynthia left, the bear apprentice should have stepped forward and asked Lucario for his question.

—But it still made the same old mistake.

I hesitated, I was shy.

Before the bear apprentice could mentally prepare himself and muster the courage to take a step, Cynthia had already left with Lucario.

So today it was hesitating whether to tell Luo Mu about this, but little did it know that Luo Mu had already seen through everything.

Looking at Xiong's somewhat evasive gaze, Luo Mu could roughly guess the cause and effect.

Originally, the idea was to use this incident to give the bear apprentice a "profound lesson," letting it know that hesitation leads to defeat, a choice many people would make.

But Luo Mu is different.

Again.

Rather than receiving this kind of education, Luo Mu prefers to take concrete action when he has the ability to solve the problem himself!

Holding his somewhat bewildered apprentice's small hand, Luo Mu asked earnestly, "I just have one question—"

"Do you want to learn?"

After understanding Luo Mu's meaning, the confusion in Xiong's eyes turned into anticipation, and then into determination.

"Bea! Bea!"

The apprentice nodded emphatically.

It wanted to learn this, and not just this; it truly wanted to hone its skills to the extreme, and then return to the island to astonish its people!
"Very good, I understand your determination."

Luo Mu patted his bear apprentice's head and smiled.

"Just keep up your training pace during this time. Leave this to me."

That's what he said, but Luo Mu already had a clear idea in his mind.

The so-called "hidden strength" technique that Xiong's apprentice wanted to learn was actually not difficult to learn.

There are many martial arts dojos in this world, and some of them are truly skilled.

Not to mention there are some well-known Fighting-type specialist trainers who have mastered related skills to varying degrees.

For example, the Fighting-type Elite Four from the Kanto region, the Fighting-type Elite Four from the Unova region, and Bea from the Galar region.

Even Master Mash, the master of the Mash Martial Arts School on the Isle of Armor, is not just a martial arts school owner. He was also the fighting school owner of the Galar region and a former "Undefeated" champion.

At the same time, he is also the only person Luo Mu knows who has mastered the evolved form of Kubfu, the Martial Urshifu, a Pokémon habitat.

The main ace is also Martial Arts Master Xiong.

I am suspected to be a "Legendary Player" or a player close to that level.

In fact, Ma Shide is the most suitable person for Luo Mu to consult, after all, he should be the person in the world who understands Xiong's apprentice the most.

Even Luo Mu suspected that the bear disciple who refused to reveal his origins was from Armor Island, rather than a wild martial arts bear master clan.

But since Xiong's apprentice wanted to keep it a secret, Luo Mu also tacitly chose not to reveal it.

This is why, after failing to pursue his studies elsewhere, Ma Shide chose to contact and visit Luo Mu for "guarantee".

However, this relationship is probably unnecessary.

After all, in a while, in order to participate in the dessert competition, this unfortunate child will have to deliver the goods to the door and go to the troublesome town of Ashford in the Sinnoh region.

Zhu Lan will also be there as a guest, and we've already exchanged contact information and become friends.

After the competition ends, it won't be a problem to take my apprentice Xiong to study openly and honestly.

In this situation, Luo Mu naturally chose to directly satisfy Xiong's apprentice rather than use the incident to "teach him a lesson" or anything like that.

After settling the bear apprentice in, and having Dragonite carry it to the Barrage Falls for training as usual.

Luo Mu rushed home, quickly washed up, and changed his clothes.

Immediately afterwards, he sat on the back of the Dragonite leader, who was taking him to work in place of Dragonite, and arrived at Orange Academy just before he was late.

When he entered the battle arena, Piper and the others were already waiting there.

As expected, Nemo wasn't there.

She's probably still at the alliance headquarters, being given tasks by Ye Ci.

The students, who were already used to Luo Mu's frequent arrivals, quickly got into the swing of things and immersed themselves in the lessons that Luo Mu had carefully prepared for them.

Time flies, and it's time for get out of class to end.

Unlike before, Luo Mu did not run away as soon as get out of class ended, unwilling to stay for even a second longer.

Instead, he unusually kept several students after class.

Seeing the students' astonished looks, Luo Mu calmly tapped the corner of the table with his knuckles.

"I have something to announce, so everyone should listen carefully."

"It's almost the end of April now, and the spring semester is about to end. Your teachers should have assigned you all your final assignments by now, right?"

As Luo Mu finished speaking, a few scattered responses rang out from below the stage.

Judging from Pipa and the others' expressions, it seems there's quite a lot of homework this time.

But Luo Mu did not give up his plans because of this.

After a moment's hesitation, Luo Mu spoke up: "Although I'd like to introduce someone to you, let me first explain the 'final assignment' I'm going to give you."

"Just like my usual teaching style, the final assignments I will give will also be more practical."

"Without further ado, let me get straight to the point—"

"Go and suppress the treasure that brings disaster."

(End of this chapter)