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Lin Xuan generously rented the room for four hours this time. It's eight o'clock now, just in time to have lunch at noon.

"Let's try the energy ball first!"

Lin Xuan had no idea who his opponent would be in the afternoon match, so he still felt that he had to practice the Energy Ball skill. Otherwise, he would have to reduce his current attacks. Without Energy Ball, if he was really unlucky and the opponent came up with a Ground-type Pokémon, he could just call GG.

That's why the Energy Ball move is considered the savior of the Emolga family.

"Dandan!"

Xiao Dian pulled out another tree fruit from somewhere. It has to be said that his skill in hiding tree fruits is getting better and better. Many times, if he doesn't take them out, Lin Xuan won't even notice them.

"Does it really require eating the tree fruit to use it?" Lin Xuan tilted her head, wondering what kind of bizarre setting this was.

Then put the backpack aside; it contained many small tree fruits for him to take.

"Dandan~"

Little Dot swallowed the tree fruit in one gulp, then retorted, roughly meaning that he wasn't quite sure either, but eating a piece of tree fruit before using it would help him better feel "the power of nature".

"The power of nature...?" Lin Xuan's lips twitched. He hadn't read the manual, so he naturally didn't know that such abstract terms existed in it. "But you definitely can't bring tree fruits into the competition!"

In formal tournaments, players are allowed to carry a maximum of one item per Pokémon, because for players at that level, items are more about adding icing on the cake and complementing various tactics.

But this is just a regular intra-school competition. If they could bring items, it wouldn't be about the strength of the Pokémon, but about who has the most money... Although the difference between the two doesn't seem that big, after all, raising Pokémon is a very expensive thing.

The simplest example is the training room that Lin Xuan is currently renting and the tree fruits she usually eats.

"Dandan~" Little Dian said somewhat indistinctly with tree fruit stuffed in his mouth, but the general meaning was that he didn't know what to do either.

"Let's try this first, and then try without relying on tree fruits," Lin Xuan said for the time being.

It nodded, then spread its wings and flew into the air, while a pale green ball of light began to condense in its hand – an energy ball!

The energy ball was finally launched from Xiaodian's hand, hitting the ground and kicking up a cloud of dust. However, since it was a professional training ground, this level of attack was obviously not enough to do anything to it.

“Not bad~”

Lin Xuan stroked his chin and said, "I don't know if it's because I ate a tree fruit, but this energy ball seems to be even more powerful than when Xiao Dian first showed it to me last night."

"Dandan!"

Of course!

The little dot slowly floated down from mid-air to Lin Xuan, hands on hips, chin up.

"However, there are still many areas that need training. For example, the speed at which it is released is still a bit slow, so it can only fight against those slow and clumsy Pokémon."

However, after thinking about it for a moment, I realized that this doesn't seem to be a problem. After all, how many Ground and Rock-type creatures are agile? As for things like Shattered Armor Onix, forget about it. Even if its Attack stat reaches 13,000, it's just one word—"pull"!

But Lin Xuan still felt that he could have higher expectations for Xiaodian, after all... who knows if this guy actually finished it.

As a trainer (temporarily), you still need to have some goals.

We made Little Dot use the energy ball several times in a row to see if it could use up the so-called "power of nature". Then we found that whether the energy ball could be used or not seemed to have nothing to do with the tree fruit!

"You didn't just intend to use this excuse to trick me into bringing tree fruits, did you?"

After looking at the results, Lin Xuan pointed to the backpack on the side, which was half full of tree fruits.

"Dandan!"

【Absolutely not!】∑(口||

Even though he said that, Lin Xuan didn't completely believe him. After all, he didn't trust Xiao Dian's integrity at all, not even a punctuation mark.

However, it's a good thing that you don't have to rely on berries to activate skills. Otherwise, even if the competition allowed it, having to take a bite of a berry before each skill activation would just seem a bit bizarre.

After the energy ball comes the electric-type skill that Lin Xuan is most worried about. The cheek rub can be skipped, since Xiao Dian has almost maxed out his skill points on this skill.

But if it's 100,000 volts...

Can you hear me clearly?

Lin Xuan stood in a corner of the room and called out to Xiao Dian, who was standing right in front of him, forcibly creating some distance between them.

"Dandan!"___*(￣ Pan￣)/#____

Don't you believe me?

"Ahem, this isn't a matter of belief... Little one, you don't want to lose me as your master, right? So it's better to be safe~"

Lin Xuan coughed twice and said, "The main problem is that the smaller ones have terrifying electricity, and there's no way to control them well. Who knows if I'll get shocked?"

Even though Lin Xuan was standing so far away, she was still a little worried, so she picked up her backpack, sat down on the ground, and used the backpack to shield herself.

(〃＞item＜)

"Dandan!"

Xiao Dian pouted in anger, then secretly made up his mind to make Lin Xuan look at him in a new light. Then he started to use 100,000 volts in the direction ahead.

In Lin Xuan's memory, a normal Pokémon using Thunderbolt would produce a straight current in one direction, and then this smaller one... could it be considered a fork?

In short, several electric currents drifted around erratically, and one of them even struck Lin Xuan not far away, startling him so much that he shrank back.

"Stop, stop, stop!"

Lin Xuan quickly called for Xiao Dian to stop. Good heavens, he's using 100,000 volts as if he were discharging electricity!

Lin Xuan sighed, then spoke to the small dot in the distance.

"Come on, I know I'm a little strict with you sometimes, but you didn't have to go and try to murder me, did you?"

Small dot: ? ? ?

After this test, Lin Xuan realized that there was still a long way to go before Xiao Dian could successfully control these skills. It wasn't too far, but it was about the same as the journey to the West.

"I think the most urgent thing right now is to practice how to prevent the branches from splitting?"

After thinking for a moment, Lin Xuan said, "After all, the Thunderbolt used in a small way, even if you ignore the consequences of not having a trainer, will still make the power of the move dispersed, and it will be far less powerful than if it hits you directly."

However, after seeing the forked 100,000 volts of the small dot, Lin Xuan had a new idea, but it was still too difficult for the small dot at the moment. He should master the normal 100,000 volts first.

Or, let's get a normal electric skill first.

Look at how Little Point defeated his opponent in both battles: one was by rubbing his cheek, and the other was by using an electric-type Quick Attack followed by another cheek rub.

In short, I've never used a normal electric-type skill.

However, this incident also reminded Lin Xuan of one of Xiao Dian's skills—the plasma bath. In the previous battle, Xiao Dian used this innovative idea to defeat her opponent's Ponyta.

Moreover, this was done without Lin Xuan giving any instructions.

Plasma Bath is a very magical skill. If a Pokémon uses a Normal-type move while in this state, it will become an Electric-type. In other words, even if a move is used normally, once in Plasma Bath state, it will be imbued with Electric-type energy.

So Lin Xuan had an idea: since normal electric skills couldn't be used, he might as well go all the way and directly cover the energy ball with the electricity from the plasma bath.

Lin Xuan didn't recall anyone having done this before, but theoretically, it seemed entirely feasible.

"Try to reduce the area of ​​the plasma bath as much as possible, ideally to cover only a small area in front of you, so that the energy can be completely covered without any energy loss."

It's important to know that, theoretically, a plasma bath can cover a very large area, affecting not only yourself but also your teammates and even your opponents.

However, doing so is quite physically demanding, and the effect will inevitably be diluted to some extent as the scope expands.

As the saying goes, good things come in small packages. Lin Xuan's idea was to have Xiao Dian concentrate the range of influence that the plasma bath could have.

Little Dot nodded as if she understood, but there was still a hint of confusion in her eyes.

"Did you really understand?"

"Dandan!"

Xiao Dian patted his chest confidently, just about to make a move, when he looked up at Lin Xuan.

"Dandan?"

So, should we use the plasma bath first or the energy ball first?

"Uh... let's follow the normal procedure and use the plasma bath first."

Since she hadn't tested it, Lin Xuan couldn't say for sure which order would be better. In any case, she decided to try it out first and deal with the details later.

She took a deep breath, and then pale blue electrical energy began to appear around Xiaodian's body. It should have radiated outwards at this time, but Xiaodian controlled it to be confined to a small area in front of her.

Lin Xuan breathed a sigh of relief. He had been worried that Xiao Dian might not be able to control the plasma bath properly, but it seemed that he had been overthinking it. After all, it was not an attack skill that was difficult to control; it was just used for additional enchantments.

But the real challenge is the energy ball. Xiao Dian was just distracted and was about to condense the energy ball when he discovered that the plasma bath energy, which he had been controlling and making relatively solid, suddenly dissipated.

The energy from the plasma bath covered Xiaodian's entire body. Although this was the correct way to use a plasma bath, it didn't match Lin Xuan's idea. He wanted to concentrate all the energy onto the energy ball.

But after thinking about it, I realized that this might be too difficult for Xiaodian, so I'll just treat it as a goal for later.

"Stay in this state and use the energy ball."

Lin Xuan reminded Xiao Dian, and then Xiao Dian ignored the outward radiating electrical energy and started to rub energy balls with her hands.

Lin Xuan's idea does seem to be possible, because in the plasma bath state, the surface of the energy ball rubbed by the small dots does carry a little current, but it is too weak, not even enough to electrify the Magikarp.

Chapter 27 is too insidious!

Continue training Xiaodian and name the skill Plasma Energy Ball. Xiaodian complains that it's tasteless. The skill development goes relatively smoothly and eventually reaches a state where it can barely be enchanted.

"Even though it's only a little bit, it can still be considered a success, right?"

Lin Xuan said somewhat uncertainly, but at least just now he did see some surrounding currents on the energy ball that was launched.