Chapter 45: Exam
Their ‘group under special care from the Instructor’ battle also drew the attention of the other trainees in the Training Ground.
Some Trainers even hastily assigned training tasks to their Pokémon and hurriedly gathered together to watch this ‘battle of the century’.
“Wow, no way, is Li Wei this strong??”
“Terrifying, terrifying.”
“What’s the point of me even competing in the Provincial Competition!!”
For a moment, the onlookers were filled with Emotion, munching on melons, but without exception, Li Wei became their Objective to strive for.
Everyone was a spirited teenager in their mid-to-late teens, and now their gazes toward their Instructor grew increasingly fierce like wolves and tigers.
Everyone has goals, right?
But the trainees didn’t get to munch on melons for long; after the other Instructors had eaten their fill, they were ruthlessly driven back to Training.
Meanwhile, the Instructor, who had been watched and treated like a melon, was truly in a very un-beautiful mood.
With a grim face, he walked to Li Wei’s side with the Rhyperior behind him and patted his Shoulder.
“Li Wei.”
“Here!!!”
Instinctively, Li Wei sensed something was off.
“I see you’ve got a solid build. How about we practice some foundational Fighting Skills? For Trainers, Physical Fitness has to pass muster too.”
“No no, I can’t accept, I can’t accept, no need, no need.”
Li Wei shook his head frantically, even flinging the Eevee on top of his head to the ground.
“Next time in Training, if you fight like that again, how about we add a Trainer Fighting Skill class?”
With a threatening tone, the Instructor smiled and asked Li Wei.
“Got it, got it! Understood, understood! I’ll definitely discipline them well!!”
Li Wei’s survival instinct was off the charts in this moment; after nodding frantically, he pressed down on Riolu’s head to bow in apology to the Instructor.
No choice, he felt these two Pokémon of his had gone too far this time.
Though it felt great.
But.
He got it; the Instructor needed to save face, so some superficial effort was necessary.
That said, for him to win like this, the Instructor’s skill level wasn’t up to par~
Of course, Li Wei could only trash-talk that in his mind.
If that Rhyperior went all out with its real Strength, it truly wouldn’t be something Riolu and Eevee could solve with just a Sliding Kick.
It all still depended on timing, location, and harmony.
Only when his Pokémon could effortlessly take down this Rhyperior in a fit of anger would showing off still feel fresh, hot, and capable of irking people.
In the end, under the Instructor’s ‘coercion’, dirty Routines were strictly prohibited from winning.
Their daily Training Plan became group Battles every other day, with the rest of the time for self-practice, accompanied by their respective Guardian Pokémon; if needed, they could also apply for the Instructor’s two Pokémon to act as Coaches.
Hearing this, Li Wei was delighted.
He was just worrying about lacking a Skill practice target for Riolu!
Li Wei thought that Rhyperior’s Rock Shield earlier was pretty good.
Perfect timing—his Riolu had been practicing Aura Sphere, Force Palm, and other Skills lately; this morning he was still fretting over where to aim to test their Power, and now a target had delivered itself.
This was truly someone handing over a Pillow just as he dozed off—thoughtful, Instructor.
As for Eevee, Li Wei didn’t want to reveal too much of her Attribute Talent yet, so her afternoon Training remained speed and support-type Skills.
Most importantly, Double Team and Substitute, these two Moves.
Imagine mastering both perfectly—using them in Battle would leave the opponent’s Trainer with how much psychological trauma?
With bonuses from Leafeon, Flareon, and other Types, opening Sunny Day and then using Synthesis—wouldn’t that make her a perpetual motion machine?
Fantasizing about an Eevee in the future slaughtering a bunch of League elite Trainers, Li Wei grinned uncontrollably.
Of course, to outsiders, it just looked like this Trainer had lost his mind—not worth…
Meanwhile, like Li Wei, the others in the squad had their own Training Plans.
Yu Yixian called over the Indeedee cleaning the Dormitory and had her train Psychic Type with Ponyta.
Psychic Type Skills were like that—hard to master, high demands on Strength, but once learned, they could disgust opponents to death.
On a large scale, Trick Room alone, with its heavy-yet-light, seemingly slow-but-fast nature, could disgust a whole bunch of people.
Good thing the mastery threshold was high; even many Trainers specializing in Psychic Type couldn’t get their Pokémon to learn it—a real stroke of luck.
Zhou Fengjue applied for the Instructor’s Onix, planning to let Treecko practice close-quarters combat.
He thought it’d be a breeze, but soon after starting, he realized that while Onix had been beaten badly by Li Wei’s Riolu, abusing his Treecko was effortless.
Just the wind and sand from its Tail slamming the ground was already a huge hurdle for Treecko’s close-range fights.
“This…”
Watching Zhou Fengjue struggle even to approach this colossal Pokémon, he hit a Training bottleneck—if he couldn’t figure out how to counter such massive Pokémon, what about his Provincial Competition?
Edge ob?
He couldn’t seriously raise a magic nuke Treecko, right?
That’d be way too un-Happiness!
With Li Wei’s example ahead, Zhou Fengjue felt he needed to Train even harder.
Tian Bai, meanwhile, was a bit lost; she felt the early-game healer role was truly tough.
Insufficient Healing Amount, poor self-preservation—now she was pondering the most effective Breakthrough.
Tu Xiaomi stuck to her all-out offense idea.
Even though Florges’s strengths lay in Defense, especially Skill Defense, as an early-game player aiming to win the Provincial Competition, she couldn’t pin her hopes on ‘prolonging’.
In her Whimsicott phase, recoverable Skills were way too few, and full-recovery ones were just a drop in the bucket.
Tu Xiaomi, prepared in advance, set her current Training goal on ‘Terrain Skills’.
As long as she learned Grassy Terrain, her Provincial Competition wouldn’t stop at the top 128.
As for Mo Jiu.
She was thinking how to save her Morpeko.
Morpeko had many weaknesses, but after seeing Li Wei’s Riolu Training method, she had lots of ideas.
Fist of the King dark-type Morpeko—interested?
No need to pin all Strength on Skills; mastering Energy externalization and use was another Battle style.
Very novel, like an epiphany, giving her immense inspiration.
‘Should I thank him later? He gave me the inspiration—copying his Training method outright feels off… Eh… but sending a gift out of the blue might make him overthink… Hmm, not overthinking, but would it be awkward??’
After setting Morpeko to foundational Training, Mo Jiu squatted in place, chin in hand, staring at Li Wei nearby, her Brain full of such weird thoughts.
The diligent Training continued until dinnertime.
Everyone went back to their own, begging food from their Guardian Pokémon.
The next two days, Li Wei’s life became equally regular and simple.
Early morning diligent Training, morning coasting through class, noon solid nap, afternoon using the Instructor’s Pokémon for Riolu’s evasion Training, Eevee practicing Skills, evening back to the Kitchen to cook, happy dinner, then rushing to Zone 12 for fun late-night activities.
Zone 12’s terrain was truly more durable than Zone 1’s, and sparsely populated—his three Pokémon and one human played so happily.
Oh, of course, the pair of small Eyes in the lake watched joyfully too, though Li Wei still hadn’t given it a proper glance.
Days passed quickly, leisurely and joyful.
But.
Time reached the third day of Training; from the moment he woke up, Li Wei’s face was full of gloom, like someone owed him hundreds of thousands.
Because today was the Training camp Written Exam class placement Exam day.
Psyching himself up with a tragic expression, Li Wei entered the Exam Venue.
Exam regulations forbade Pokémon companions; the venue was the second-floor auditorium.
One person per small desk, a stack of Exam Papers on each, the venue filled with dozens of masked Invigilator Pokémon, and beside the chief Invigilator—their Instructor—two more Psychic Type Pokémon.
Rumor had it the real Trainee Trainer Qualification written test was far more Exaggerated, with higher Qualification Tests having even more and stronger Invigilator Pokémon.
To prevent cheating, even on Blue Star, the top department went to great lengths.
Exam Paper full score 200 points, final score converted to percentage for ranking—at least 80%+ for excellent.
But Li Wei had no confidence; fate decides life and wealth, nothing more to say.
After the Instructor finished explaining Exam Venue rules, waiting for the big clock’s second hand to hit 12, with the Instructor’s whistle, the Exam began.
Li Wei picked up his pen and wrote the two most important things on the Exam Paper.
Name and student number.
Question:
Due to the swimming posture of Wishiwashi wagging its Tail fin, it is sometimes likened to _____.
The heaviest Pokémon is _____.
The only pure Water Type Legendary is _____.
The Pokémon Type called “Heavy Rain” by Trainers is ______.
Two Pokémon in the same Evolution chain may have completely different prey. For example, Pidgeotto preys on _____, while Corviknight preys on ______. Of course, some share prey, like Pidgeotto and Pidgeot both ______.
Name four Pokémon related to ‘rat’: ________.
Observe the Pokémon sequence below; what goes in spot A:
Groudon – Donphan – Bronzong – Indeedee – A – Absol
Guess the Pokémon based on clues: Tyranitar, can Gigantamax, skyscraper, arch-rival _______.
For Li Wei, who could recite the 52poke.com Pokédex from Memory, these fill-in-the-blanks were no trouble.
Over thirty fill-in-the-blanks total; after reviewing, Li Wei felt his rotten score was locked in.
True or false; correct any errors:
Fake Combee has a fake mark on the bottom.
Crabominable’s two claws can be the same size.
“Oh ho, error correction—something to it.”
Twirling his pen, Li Wei began answering.
Li Wei hadn’t done actual mock tests from （30 Textbook volumes; he’d only memorized up to the 18th ）—this Exam had him panicking, but also a bit excited.
After all, first time—excitement is natural; everyone gets it, no need to explain to those who don’t. Stakes too high, no benefit in saying—act ignorant. Water’s deep, lots of big dealings—not detailing.
Over a dozen error corrections; Teacher knew how to spice it up, but at least within foundational Pokémon knowledge.
Li Wei’s strong suit; what he feared most was League Constitution—that was truly maddening to memorize.
Sure enough, what he feared came—the later League Constitution fill-in-the-blanks had him read and give up thinking, leaving blank.
“Sigh, I’m suffering.”
Flipping ahead, indefinite choice questions—maybe single, maybe multiple, quite fun—like dreaming back to high school physics Exam Papers.
Same two points per question, same zero for missing multiples or wrong picks.
“Ah this… Routines are all the same~”
1. Ally Pokémon uses Electric Type Skill, but foe takes no damage, reason （）.
A. Foe short-circuited
B. Electrostatic shielding
C. Electric field intensity vector sum zero
D. Ground Type, inherently insulated
2. Three identical Pokémon a, b, c affected by Fire Spin, Thunder Wave, Toxic respectively—their majority enzyme activity will （）.
A. Increase
B. Decrease
C. Increase then decrease
D. Decrease then increase
3. Wynaut’s Explosion Skill has immense Power; if based on simple inorganic reaction, most likely which （）.
A. Potassium X. B. Hydrofluoric acid. C. Hydrogen + oxygen D. Hydrogen + fluorine
4. On Butterfree and Venomoth relation, correct statement （）.
A. They might be identical twins
B. If Butterfree female, they are fraternal twins
C. They are not twins
D. They might be fraternal twins
5. A Pokémon uses Seed Machine Gun; assume Pokémon mass 100x seed bullet, bullet ground speed v, fires n per second, slide friction μ, ignore remaining seed mass, short burst, stops quickly. Then t seconds later, retreat distance （）.
A. vvnt/50μg B. vvnt/20000μg C. vv/100g D. 0
(ΩДΩ)？？？？？？
Anyway, Li Wei doing choices was frantically scratching his head.
This Pokémon World was so realistic it made his scalp tingle.
Now he understood why this World didn’t let ten-year-olds grab Pokémon and tour like in anime—instead, eleven years compulsory education, then choose paths before high school junior Graduation Exam.
Could ten-year-olds really learn Trainee Trainer content?
Answer: undoubtedly no.
So setting Trainer Qualification apps at high school sophomore year was surprisingly scientific??
Truth be told, answering this section had Li Wei ‘gasping cold air’ nonstop—if not for Pokémon balancing ecology, he’d contribute to ‘global warming’.
Without high school Memories and his once all-knowing genius Brain dulled by recent fantastical Daily Life, he’d have failed this paper today.
At comprehensive questions, Li Wei snapped his fragile Ballpoint Pen from shock.
Drawing Invigilator attention, he just grinned sheepishly, pulled another from his Pencil Case, and resumed.
He never imagined ‘comprehensive questions’ looked like this.
Question:
Teacher Wang’s Caterpie is evolving—must stock enough Energy first, find good spot to evolve into Metapod, finally into Butterfree. Help him!
Caterpie from tree point P, moves west 20cm to Q eating leaves clean, east 90cm to trunk R, up 240cm to pupation hole S, total 50 minutes:
1. Displacement P to S: _____cm.
2. Path length P to S: ______cm.
3. Average speed P to S: ______cm/min.
“Junior high level, phew.”
Exhaling, relieved the Teachers here weren’t that ruthless.
But…
Too many gripes with this question?
From the prefix, he thought it tested Caterpie Evolution key points and prep; he’d even prepped Nurturing arguments—pants down, and it’s this??
What the heck?
Of course, with such flippant attitude, Li Wei got smashed by the next.
Question:
Type A Pokémon takes super-effective from two Types; B and C Types ineffective vs A. Of A’s two counters, one resisted by C, super vs B. C weak to D and E; F ineffective vs D, counters E. B-C-E form Type triangle.
1) Can E/F super A? Why?
2) Another triangle Type Advantage in ABCDE? If yes, what?
3) Find two Types in ABCDE for dual-Type Pokémon taking super only from one Type.
…
Three+ hours once seemed endless, but now eyeing short answers and essay, Li Wei feared running out of time.
Short answer:
Modern human over-interference in Pokémon ecology caused Caterpie, Wishiwashi overbreeding, wrecking environment—what’s your view? Causes? League policy suggestions?
…
Caterpie: protein-rich, Nutrition 10x+ Beef.
Wishiwashi canned: better taste than sardines.
Li Wei’s first thought, but obviously not for the paper.
Sighing quietly, eyeing scant time, Li Wei gritted teeth and wrote.
Seemed open-ended, but had ‘scoring points’—recall Textbook, align with ‘definitions’ and laws for those two points, not waste effort.
He wanted face!
Already blanked ~10 points on Trainer code—keep this up, his Written Exam score might dip below Yu Yixian’s!!!
Can’t be!
Finally, the joyful whistle blew.
Never had Li Wei craved ‘Exam end’ more.
Handing in to collection Teacher, Li Wei collapsed lifelessly on the desk.
Exams were truly too hard.
This moment, he felt suited to being a brute—no culture needed, just raw Strength.
“Why don’t others Transmigrate and just Pokémon-bash without studying, while I Transmigrate and might fail Qualification, flunk Written Exam?? Waaah!! Reality? Too real?”
Li Wei felt Wronged—no cute Pokémon girl to hug, he’d crawl out of the Exam Venue today.
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July 18
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*Disclaimer: This chapter rejects any ‘padded’ claims—even sans interactive questions, ~4000 words, pure fun; skip if dislike, just watch Li total Collapse in Exam.
ε=(ο｀*))) Sigh
Today.
Today… what to say?
Lately, suddenly at a loss for words.
Big thing happened today, bit helpless, no clue what to say.
Hope everyone’s tempers mellow.
Self-esteem’s delicate; tempers small and kind benefits all, right?
ε=(ο｀*))) Sigh
Pretty sad.
Knowers get it, no more said.
Mm.
Besides.
Feels like I’m cooling off.
Peers at ~150k words, 14-15; I blinked and hit 200k.
But peers all hit Three Rivers, full Recs to shelves by 8.1; me, another month?
Whatever, just 300k+ to shelves—feels OK?
Mm.
Just burst updates delayed further.
Kinda bummed.
Lately folks gripe my New Book Period’s short—I’m pissed!!
Listen! I noted your IDs! Don’t beg off Subscribe later saying can’t afford!!!
I I I I I I!!
I’ll Cry on the Ground for you!!!
orz
Utterly humble, just a punching bag.
I cried.
