What should I do if my pet loves watching anime?

The Scyther was training against the Fluffy Sheep. It spread its wings, drawing silver trails in the air, each leap accompanied by a sharp whistling sound.

However, in Gu Beiri's eyes, these actions, though swift, always lacked something decisive.

"Stop and rest for a while," Gu Beiri said.

The two sprites stopped in response. The fluffy sheep lay down at Gu Beiri's feet, panting, while the scythe landed on a nearby branch and gently wiped its sickle-shaped forelegs.

Gu Beiri's mind replayed the scene of the battle he had just witnessed.

Scyther's movements are swift and sharp, and its Master Technician trait allows its low-power moves to achieve extraordinary results. Its Demon Slash, as a self-created move, is also quite well-developed.

However, its overall tactical framework still relies too heavily on speed and skill.

There's nothing wrong with that, it's just that it lacks variety.

"What if you encounter an opponent who excels at controlling the game and limiting speed?"

Gu Beiri muttered to himself, "Or what if we encounter a spirit with extremely high defense and recovery abilities, making it impossible for us to kill it in one hit? How do we fight the rest of the battle then?"

The flying praying mantis leaped down from the branch and landed in front of Gu Beiri, its sickle-like forelegs crossed in front of its chest—a posture it adopted when listening attentively.

Gu Beiri kept looking through the body data of the Scyther on his phone, his gaze also shifting back and forth between the skills "Shadow Clone", "Steel Wing", "Gathering Energy" and "High Speed ​​Movement" on the panel.

Suddenly, a thought flashed through my mind.

"Invisibility..."

In Akame ga Kill!, the protagonist Tatsumi's Teigu possesses an enviable ability: invisibility.

More precisely, it is adaptive force.

Although there are no true invisibility skills in the Pokémon world, the color-changing camouflage ability of Pokémon like Kecleon and the ability of Gastly to blend into the shadows demonstrate that concealment has great potential for development in combat.

After all, the Gastly race's Shadow Combat does indeed have a complete system.

If that's the case...

"Scyther, how long can your Shadow Clone Techies last?" Gu Beiri asked.

The flying mantis tilted its head, seemingly calculating.

It raised its right forelimb and swung it rapidly in the air, instantly creating three identical clones that appeared on the training field.

The clones were doing different things: some were tidying their wings, some were sharpening their scythes, and some were standing quietly.

After about fifteen seconds, the clone began to blur, and after twenty seconds it completely disappeared.

"A duration of fifteen to twenty seconds..." Gu Beiri mused, "What if it's not just creating illusions, but rather a way of confusing oneself with one's clone?"

Obviously, shadow clones cannot do this.

Gu Beiri then thought of the effects of the Steel Wing skill.

If the metallic effect of the steel wings covers the entire body, it will inevitably lose its original offensive and defensive capabilities, but in return, it will gain a real ability to reflect light.

"Refraction and reflection of light, visual illusion..."

Gu Beiri stood up and walked to the whiteboard at the edge of the training field. This was set up by the school to facilitate students' tactical simulations.

"Let's take it one step at a time." He picked up a pen and began drawing on the whiteboard.

"First, there's the fundamental principle of visual cloaking."

Gu Beiri drew a simple light path diagram.

When light shines on the surface of an object, some of it is absorbed and some is reflected. We can see objects because reflected light enters our eyes or sensory organs.

The fluffy sheep curiously approached, while the flying mantis stared intently at the whiteboard.

"Theoretically, there are several ways to make an object disappear."

First, make it completely non-reflective, turning it pure black; second, make its reflected light perfectly match the background, blending it into the environment; third, use special optical structures to allow light to bypass the object, or use water flow to make the stone appear different from what is visually perceived.

Gu Beiri wrote three keywords on the whiteboard: absorption, simulation, and refraction.

"The Scyther's body color is green, making it very conspicuous in most battle environments except for jungles."

However, the Steel Wing technique can create a metallic sheen, using a metallic surface that highly reflects light.

He turned to Scyther: "Try the steel wings, cover part of the body, but control the angle of reflection, don't make it too dazzling."

The flying mantis nodded, its forelegs gleaming with a silvery-white metallic sheen.

At first, the light was a bit dazzling, but as it was adjusted, the luster became soft and even.

"Very good." Gu Beiri observed carefully. "Now, slowly move your forelimbs and try to match the reflected light with the background behind you."

This is an extremely precise control process.

The flying praying mantis carefully adjusted the angle of its wings and forelimbs, the metallic surface reflecting the training ground, distant trees, and clouds in the sky...

"Stop!" Gu Beiri suddenly shouted.

In a split second, it seemed that part of the mantis's right forelimb had disappeared.

The reflected light blends almost perfectly with the background, making the boundary difficult to discern with the naked eye.

Although it was only for a brief moment and limited to a small area of ​​the forelimbs, it proved the feasibility of the idea.

"Success!" Gu Beiri clenched his fist excitedly. "Although it's only partial, it shows that by precisely controlling the reflection of the steel wings, it's theoretically possible to achieve partial visual stealth!"

The fluffy sheep also bleated, seemingly happy for its companion's progress.

The mantis looked at its forelimbs, which had disappeared and then reappeared, its scythes trembling slightly, clearly also feeling curious about this discovery.

"But that's not enough." Gu Beiri calmed down.

"Enemies in battle won't stand still and wait for you to adjust your angle."

Moreover, even if you visually conceal yourself, your aura, the sound of your movement, energy fluctuations, and so on can still reveal your location.

After all, there are quite a few Pokémon similar to Zubat.

He recalled the Qi Gathering skill—focusing the mind to increase the accuracy of vital point strikes. The essence of this skill was a high degree of control over one's own energy and aura.

"What if we could use the energy gathering and enhancement to improve our spirit and composure? What if we combined it with the optical camouflage of the steel wings?" Gu Beiri pondered. "It's not just about concealing our form, but also about concealing our presence."

For the next three days, Gu Beiri immersed himself in the research and development of new skills.

Every morning, he would bring two Pokémon to the training ground and start with basic optical experiments.

They prepared backdrops of different colors to test the adaptability of the flying mantis's steel wings to reflect light.

They used their phones to record slow-motion videos, analyzed the changes in reflected light, and even borrowed a spectrometer for research to measure the spectral characteristics of the metal coating.

"It's not just about passive reflection," Gu Beiri wrote in his notes. "It's about actively weaving light. By rapidly fine-tuning the angles of the wings and forelimbs, we can create dynamic camouflage effects."

This requires Scyther to have perfect control over the Steel Wing ability.

It's not simply about covering a metal coating; it's about precisely controlling the coating's thickness, gloss, and reflection angle.

At the same time, the focus of Qi gathering training has shifted from concentration to introspection.

"Imagine you are a stone," Gu Beiri instructed. "Not that you have no energy, but that your energy is completely locked inside your body, without leaking out even a trace."

This is a challenge for the Scyther, which is used to high-speed movement and fierce attacks.

It must remain vigilant in combat while containing energy fluctuations from all potentially exposed locations.