Azure Star is also a Pokémon Master!

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The next day, they went to the same group of islands where the rumored ugly fish had been found.

A few fishing rods are set up on the beach, and people fish as they please.

Su Yi and Mary then focused intently on their training.

After witnessing Su Yi's battle yesterday, Mary felt that training her current companions was the priority, rather than recruiting new ones.

Therefore, she gave up her obsession with catching ugly fish and started training with her partners.

Mary's companion beast could handle things on its own, while Su Yi began to give his bear apprentice targeted training.

Since the goal is to establish a new school of thought, learning through actual combat is the best approach Su Yi can think of.

Su Yi constantly switched between his companion beasts with different attack styles and his bear apprentice for sparring. While Su Yi explained and guided them, he helped the bear apprentice to learn how to deal with different opponents to the greatest extent possible.

It's like... a hunter clearing a new area.

"Burp..." After a period of training, the bear apprentice began to breathe heavily.

Battles against Palicoes are much more difficult than battles against regular Pokémon.

Seeing that his bear apprentice still wanted to persevere, Su Yi patted it, made it sit down with him, and handed it a bottle of drink.

"Don't rush, calm down, and believe that everything will fall into place naturally."

Although the bear apprentice knew the method of evolution, without any standardized effort, it couldn't see the end in sight.

Seeing the hint of urgency in Xiong's eyes, Su Yi said leisurely, "Let me tell you a story. The story is called 'Kung Fu Panda'."

"There was a panda named Po. He had many quirks, but he also had a great dream: to become the invincible Dragon Warrior, admired by everyone..."

"...An accident gave it the opportunity to inherit the mantle of the Dragon Warrior, but after failing to meet the requirements, others began to doubt it, and it began to doubt itself..."

"...There are never any 'accidents' (preventing evolution). Everything will fall into place naturally. When it finally picks up that scroll of the Dragon Warrior, it will discover..."

"What will you find?"

Su Yi turned his head and saw that Mary had been listening intently for some time and couldn't help but ask a question.

Su Yi kept everyone in suspense: "When you're eager to know the result, your heart is like the waves in front of you, making the surface of the water restless, and you can't see what it's going to show you."

Su Yi smiled and said, "We can't let the flowers bloom early, nor can we let the fruit ripen early."

“Belu…” The bear apprentice’s eyes shone with a thoughtful expression.

Mary pouted, "You were criticizing others before, but now you're talking like a proper scholar..."

Wow…

Suddenly, a fishing rod began to shake violently, clearly indicating that a fish had taken the bait.

Su Yi immediately ran over and forcefully pulled the fish up. An ugly, spotted fish Pokémon was jumping around.

“That’s… Ugly Fish?” Mary exclaimed in surprise.

Su Yi laughed loudly, "This is what they call 'a chance encounter leading to unexpected success'!"

Chapter 239 Training and New Missions

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After a pleasant fishing session, and once the morning training was over, Su Yi contacted the older woman to arrange a Pokémon exchange, just in case things went wrong.

"Huh? You guys actually caught a pufferfish?"

The older sister looked at the Feebas's Poké Ball in surprise.

Su Yi asked, puzzled, "What do you mean?"

The older sister explained, "Several other people wanted to switch with me after that, so they all went fishing in that area."

"But in the end they didn't even see a trace of the ugly fish, so there are rumors that the discovery of the ugly fish was fake."

"Even I'm starting to have my doubts."

Su Yi was immediately taken aback, thinking: Could he have guessed right that day?

This ugly fish was caught by accident.

Regardless, Mary successfully traded for the Froggy Frog.

"From now on, we're partners," Mary greeted the Frog with delight.

"Quack~" Froakie responded happily to Marie, hoping that she would be a trainer who would take good care of her.

Before long, the frog was completely bewildered.

During the afternoon training, it stared in disbelief as Marie commanded the Pokémon, struggling to survive against those huge and "fierce" Pokémon.

Frog: Isn't this a bit...?

Mary turned to look at Froakie, her eyes filled with satisfaction, and said, "It seems Froakie is eager to join the training right away. Adding another Pokémon shouldn't be a problem, right? Raptor?"

"Aww." The ferocious clawed dragon nodded, since it was just a matter of loosening its muscles and bones.

"Croak!?" The croaking frog looked at the ferocious clawed dragon with its eyes shining with a scarlet light, and its legs trembled slightly.

Su Yi said, "You should be able to challenge the gym tomorrow. Your Pokémon have grown quite a bit."

Since both Slickboy and Croagunk are relatively weak Pokémon that have only recently been caught, they have a lot of room for improvement, so it is easy to see progress in the early stages with a certain level of training.

To go further, you'll need consistent training.

Mary nodded and said, "Tomorrow will be the day to see the results."

Later that evening, Su Yi returned to the base; the items he had asked the workshop to make should be ready.

"Oh! You're here. Everything's ready. Now that you're here, we can go to the back mountain to help you install it," the second-phase team leader said cheerfully.

"Thank you for your hard work."

Upon reaching the back of the mountain, Su Yi immediately called upon his companion beasts to come and help, as there were simply too many and too heavy items.

"Oh!! It's a female Rathalos!" The second-generation leader exclaimed in amazement as the female Rathalos grabbed a cartload of goods, lifted it into the air, and transported it to the back mountain.

The guild leader's assistant spotted figures emerging from the woods behind the mountain in the distance and exclaimed in shock, "So many monsters!"

Su Yi shouted, "Everyone, come and help! These are the things you'll need for training!"

"Ow...!"

In response to Su Yi's call, the accompanying beasts came out one after another and easily carried the items to the shed.

"Incredible! In the blink of an eye, you've already tamed so many monsters? You don't know until you see it, and now you're shocked!" the Second Fleet leader exclaimed.

“They are reliable partners.” Su Yi looked at the sheds on the back mountain and felt more and more like home, and a sense of accomplishment welled up inside him.

Su Yi sighed, "Once these devices are set up, it will look more and more like a base."

"Get to work!" the second-phase team leader shouted. His assistant quickly took out the parts and began to install them with a clanging sound.

A group of companion beasts curiously surrounded them, watching them install things, which made the assistants somewhat distracted.

Soon, with the help of the accompanying beasts, all kinds of training equipment were installed.

The accompanying beast looked at these unfamiliar things with great curiosity.

Su Yi looked with satisfaction at the training ground that was beginning to take shape; this abandoned training ground had been put to good use.

Looking at the fruits of their labor, the captain exclaimed, "You really have some ideas! You're actually going to train the monsters and come up with these novel ideas. But will the monsters even be able to use these equipment?"

After carefully inspecting the equipment, Su Yi said, "We'll see once we try it. Xunmiao, you go first."

"Howl?" Xunmiao walked over curiously.

Su Yi pointed to a huge wooden dummy and said, "Try attacking the person on top of the dummy."

"Howl!" Swiftcat swung its wing blades to attack a metal pillar that was protruding from above the wooden dummy.

With a clang, the metal column was subjected to force, causing one section of the pile above to rotate.

As the bearing rotates, a certain mechanism is activated, and the lowest leg quickly rotates towards Xunmiao's leg.

Snapped!

The metal stake struck Xunmiao's leg. Although it wasn't enough to injure him, the sudden impact still annoyed Xunmiao.

Su Yi smiled and said, "Let's try again."

The Swift Cat struck the upper stake's hand again, but having learned from its previous experience, it quickly swung its tail to deflect the stake's leg strike.

At this moment, the downward-spinning hand in the middle section was driven by the repulsion and rotation of the stance leg, and struck the side abdomen of the Swift Cat with a snap.

Su Yi asked, "Have you figured it out?"

"Howl!" Swift Cat, unwilling to admit defeat, attacked the wooden dummy again.

The wing blade slashes at the upper hand of the stake, the tail knocks back the stake's legs, and finally the other wing blade strikes the lower hand of the stake. The series of attacks is completed in one go, three strikes per second.

But that's not all. This rotating wooden dummy is driven by the applied attacks. As long as you keep attacking, the upper, middle and lower sections of the dummy will keep crashing into the trainee.

In an instant, Swift Cat dodged and weaved, attacking relentlessly. The sound of its attacks striking the training ground echoed continuously, almost forming a continuous chorus.

Finally, Xunmiao felt its strength waning slightly, so it immediately jumped back and retreated from the range of the stake man's attack.

"So this is what you were thinking? This is... a bit scary!" the Second Brigade leader said in surprise.

Imagine the scene: a Nargacuga attacks three times in one second, and the attack lasts for ten seconds. Which hunter could withstand that?

This was exactly the effect Su Yi wanted. Since he tamed Swift Cat and started commanding it in battle, he discovered one of its weaknesses: its attack intervals were too long.

Take the [Shadow Blade] move as an example. After Swift Cat rushes over and slashes, it needs to pause for a moment before it can attack again.

In Su Yi's mind, Swiftcat should be like Ferocious Claw Dragon, using a fast-attack and combo-based attack style.

Seize the opening, unleash the full force of the attack in one go, then move away from the target, catching your breath while observing the target's actions, looking for the next opportunity.

He wouldn't expect a fast-attacking Palico to tank damage or engage in a grappling match, but he would insist on fully utilizing the Palico's strengths.

Take the hunt for the Black Diablos as an example. If the Swiftcat had been able to seize the opportunity to land a few more hits, the final situation might not have been so critical.

Su Yi told Xunmiao about these summaries and training plans, and Xunmiao seemed to understand and accepted the training method.

"Next up is the Anjanath. Pick this up."