Chapter 51: Get To Know The Lord Of Shadow Stream
After the meal, Li Wei fished out the Magikarp with Riolu’s help, had Eevee use Psychic Power to control the water in the pool, drained the pool, and then had Dragonair inject today’s portion of “new water” rich in abundant Water Attribute Energy.
This was the happiest time of the day for Magikarp.
Yesterday was the same; upon entering the freshly changed water in the pool, it thrashed around, accompanied by its fiendish “Karoo Karoo Karoo!”.
【Ah hahahaha! Feels good!】
Roughly translated, that’s the meaning.
Li Wei was quite helpless too, but seeing that Magikarp was thrilled yet still measured, without splashing the pool water onto the ground, he had no chance to nitpick and could only tacitly allow it to be happy in the pool.
After tidying up the tableware, he stored the folding dining table and small stool in the storage cabinet, then Li Wei picked up the data sent by Yu Yixian and went to the desk to begin the dull and boring study session.
The rain outside the window was still heavy, with gusts of wind occasionally blowing, big raindrops smashing hard against the glass with “Knock Knock Knock” sounds.
“Eevee.”
Li Wei, feeling inexplicably cold in his short sleeves, poked Eevee who was sleeping in the left corner of the desk.
“Bu Yi?”
【What’s up?】
Somewhat displeased, Eevee flicked her ears.
“Transform into one.”
Li Wei said.
??????
After reading the little manga “Repayment of the Cat” in Li Wei’s drawer, Eevee could no longer face the phrase “transform for me” straight on; now hearing Li Wei suddenly tell her to “transform,” she was a bit stunned.
No, it wasn’t just stunned anymore; she even felt a bit scared and horrified.
This emotion was so intense that as Eevee’s mind blanked, the fur on her tail even puffed up.
“Transform into a Flareon.”
Unaware of what Eevee was thinking, Li Wei continued.
Through Aura, he could only sense Eevee suddenly panicking in her heart, but he didn’t know why.
Li Wei just thought she was afraid he’d assign her extra training tasks, but how could he Li Wei be such a devil?
“Bu Yi······”
Slightly awkward, Eevee muttered once and didn’t resist stubbornly like usual this time; she directly obeyed and began to “transform.”
After a flash of light, what appeared before Li Wei was none other than a Flareon.
Flareon’s body was slightly larger than Eevee’s before, entirely reddish, with no major changes in appearance.
There was an extra tuft of fluff on top of her head, the fluff around her neck was thicker, and her tail became fluffier and softer.
Seeing Eevee transform into the form he wanted, Li Wei didn’t hesitate at all; he reached out directly, grabbed Eevee, picked her up, and pressed her into his arms.
“Wow, nice.”
Flareon’s body temperature was very high; hugging something comparable to a hand warmer on this humid and chilly day due to the thunderstorm was simply too comfortable.
The goosebumps on his arms vanished instantly, and the chill on his body was alleviated by the constant heat from the hand warmer in his arms.
Nice.
“Alright, you can keep sleeping. You have no training tasks today; just maintain this form. If you accidentally transform back, charge up for a bit and transform back.”
Li Wei hummed a satisfied little tune as he said this to Eevee.
“Bu Yi?”
【That’s it?】
Somewhat suspicious, Eevee lifted her head and asked Li Wei.
That suspicious look seemed to say, “Are you really this nice, letting me sleep and slack off in broad daylight?”
“Yeah, it’s raining today, so our training camp has no classes. How could I make you train? Rest today; just transform into this form and sleep. No other requirements.”
“Bu Yi~”
【Okay~】
At this moment, Eevee’s mind was full of the linear equation she’d learned not long ago.
Question.
At full strength, if she does nothing else, she can maintain this form for about 50 minutes now.
So, every 50 minutes she wakes up, charges for 10 minutes, and transforms back into Flareon, she can sleep another 50 minutes.
This way, in one morning, from 9 a.m. to noon before nap time at 12 p.m., how long can she sleep in total???
Using her little brain for a quick calculation, Eevee felt this was a huge profit.
And if she could extend her Flareon form a bit longer, wouldn’t that mean she could sleep even more??
This is way too comfortable, right?
Thinking this, Eevee happily spun a little circle in Li Wei’s arms, found the most comfortable position, lay down, and went to sleep.
What could be more comfortable than a slacker day, eating and then sleeping?
At the same time, Riolu pushed a small chair over and sat next to Li Wei, jumped onto the desk, took two books from the bookshelf, and started flipping through them.
One was the seventh volume of Li Wei’s Pokémon League textbook, the other was《New Flower Dictionary》.
Riolu still wasn’t very smooth at reading yet; sometimes he needed the dictionary with pinyin to know how a word was pronounced and what it meant, but even so, nothing could stop Riolu’s eager heart for learning.
“Li Wei said that only with sufficient knowledge can one strategize without oversight and win every battle, to become an excellent Pokémon!”
At this moment, glancing at Riolu checking the dictionary with his peripheral vision, a sense of déjà vu arose.
“I was once a kid flipping through dictionaries to read books too~”
Then he turned his head and began earnestly memorizing his tasks.
During this, he suddenly felt a chill on his body.
It was Dragonair, who had played enough with Magikarp in the pool and rolled dry on the bath towel, coming over.
“Snake-like” animals are absolute blessings in summer, but in early spring with thunderstorms, they were clearly a nightmare.
But seeing Dragonair’s aggrieved expression, and thinking he had a hand warmer Eevee in his arms, Li Wei once again couldn’t bear to grab Dragonair by the head and toss him off.
He’s still a kid, after all.
Yeah.
Still a kid.
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With the rain ending, their training courses returned to normal the next day.
No accidents occurred.
Li Wei’s life returned to a regular routine, getting up early every day for the most basic morning exercise.
Magikarp swam frantically in the lake for the physical training prescribed by Li Wei. The purpose of making him exercise was to build stronger physical fitness—not only to give him a solid foundation for the upcoming evolution, but also to promote absorption of the mixed energy ingested through Pokémon Food in his body.
Riolu continued with Lingbo Weibu and Water Walking as usual; Li Wei shifted his training focus from pure speed and Aura control to coordination training. A martial arts master must be a well-rounded warrior; with speed maxed out, next was coordination, then emphasis on attack and defense.
Blind defense or attack would inevitably falter; only with precise mastery of every inch of oneself could one use every bit of strength finely and intricately.
Use the smallest force for the highest damage.
That was Li Wei’s exact words; Riolu nodded, saying he remembered them, but as for specific operation steps, Li Wei admitted he was clueless.
These were all “philosophy” and “practical tips” from novels; his son Riolu, with Great Emperor potential, should be able to self-teach mastery from just these few words.
Compared to Magikarp and Riolu’s fancy routines, Eevee’s tasks—morning or evening, winter or summer—were always completing Li Wei’s long list of skill training, comparable to Parker’s grudge list.
She had no other choice.
With abundant energy and multi-attribute evolution already trained, aside from increasing energy and expanding her skill pool, she had nothing else to do.
Energy growth training was too simple and brutal—meditating in place without sleeping was overly harsh—so Eevee could only cry while completing her chosen training tasks.
Morning culture class had fewer people, the classroom slightly rearranged; afternoon battles had regrouped trainees—everyone except them divided into three major groups, integrated for unified basic training.
According to the Instructor, based on practical training class performance, he would gradually select excellent trainees from the battle group for individual guidance.
Li Wei had no thoughts on this; regardless, he wouldn’t change much about his training ideas for class.
Before training ended, his ultimate purpose was to make that meat shield Rhyperior flip once; as for how, when, that could wait until training succeeded.
After winning the last battle in a subtle way, Li Wei’s tactics were restricted.
Since then, their Pokémon hadn’t beaten the prepared Rhyperior again.
The only silver lining was this Rhyperior’s exquisite control of moves and power; even unleashing Rock Blast at them without warning never actually injured their Pokémon once.
Saving treatment time meant after battle setbacks, he could just wipe the dust off his Pokémon’s faces and “squeeze” them into more training（lol）.
After dinner in the evening, it was still self-directed training.
From 7 p.m. until 9:30 p.m. back to dormitory, rest and wash up, then sleep at 10:30 p.m.—a very regular and healthy life.
Evening training for Eevee and Magikarp was unchanged from morning; his main focus was Riolu.
Because Riolu was his first League-registered Pokémon, he would definitely participate in the provincial competition.
Riolu currently knew too few skills; even though Force Palm and Aura Sphere were on the verge, they still lacked for true Skill Release.
Additionally, to perfect his combat style and type matchup system, Li Wei planned more new skill learning for him.
After analyzing Riolu’s current state, Li Wei concluded.
His energy use was already very proficient; skill comprehension just needed guidance.
That made the problem easy.
Li Wei didn’t need to spend a fortune seeking paths like those pitiful male leads in novels he read, or use tricky routines relying on Pokémon’s premium talent to self-learn skills.
His dad was a Top Gym Leader, direct type Fighting-type.
Why not use this free resource and go self-reliant?
He Li Wei wasn’t an idiot.
He directly edited a text message, asking dad to record a dozen teaching videos.
With this resource, what couldn’t his brilliant, diligent Riolu learn?
Riolu currently knew Quick Attack and Aura Sphere, was about to master Force Palm and Aura Sphere with practice; for all-around development, Li Wei felt he needed Low Kick, Iron Tail, Double Team.
All basic skills.
Given Riolu’s Aura Ability and Fighting Attribute Energy control, learning them would take just a few short days, not worth worrying over.
Besides, considering Riolu’s weaknesses to Flying, Fairy, Psychic, Li Wei planned specialized counter skills against those types.
Referencing Riolu’s learnable skill pool, Li Wei had the following plans.
Simply put, with multi-attribute master Eevee, Ice Punch and Thunder Punch were definitely viable.
Li Wei even planned the learning process for Riolu.
At first, unfamiliar with Electric and Ice energy, have Eevee attach corresponding Attribute Energy to Riolu’s hands, starting from “feeling.”
Later, if Riolu couldn’t quickly gather corresponding Attribute Energy from natural air, he could even have multi-function Eevee inject massive Electric or Ice energy nearby.
Just like Yu Yixian’s Ponyta couldn’t use Fairy Wind, but with Mime Jr.’s Misty Terrain assist, it could—same principle.
After assigning the tasks to Riolu, he thought it might trouble him, but unexpectedly, his Riolu’s diligence far exceeded imagination.
“Rio!”
【No problem, I’ll work hard!】
Saying this, he grabbed his little notebook and pencil, ran aside, fiddled for a bit, then ran back with the notebook to submit a schedule to Li Wei.
“My god, as expected of my good son.”
Honestly, seeing Riolu write his training plan in crooked handwriting, Li Wei felt teary-eyed.
(^)
So this is the sense of achievement from an excellent son?
I’m done for.
Morning Exercise: Mainly practice Fighting-type skills, Double Team, Lingbo Weibu, three sets of Tai Chi.
Morning: Attend class to learn knowledge
Noon: Nap only half hour, then consolidate morning training
Afternoon: Train Aura, use Rhyperior sandbag to hone skill power
Evening: Play with Older Brother Dragonair, Sister Eevee, and nagging Magikarp for one hour, then diligently train new skills.
“Wow, Rio, I’m so touched.”
If he could, Li Wei really wanted to hug Riolu and bawl.
This Pokémon, he raised! Must have inherited his good habits! Waaah!
Thanks to Riolu’s diligence, his evening gained over an hour of “free time”; conscientious Li Wei didn’t plan to let Riolu waste it.
Looking at Eevee evolving under moonlight nearby, training Dark-type skills, and the swaying tree shadow, Li Wei had a bolder plan.
—Have Riolu master Shadow Claw.
Just countering Psychic alone was comforting, and Double Team plus Shadow Claw combo was really nice.
With Riolu’s proficient Aura use and high agility trait, wouldn’t this let the Shadow Style Master get a taste???
Timo’s Flop Diary
July 23
【July 22, 736 votes, no extra chapter】
【Today is the 9th day of completing daily 3k+ task, the AI still hasn’t recognized it, I don’t know why, but I’ll keep recording until it defaults to completed, hehe.】
Rained all day.
Rained again.
So damn annoying.
Keeps raining, keeps wanting to sleep, then oversleeps.
Um…..
But skin turned out really nice, hehe, waiting for round two.
┓(`)┏
That’s it.
Nothing much to nag about.
Mainly been hungry lately, craving all sorts of food.
Want that tender juicy chicken leg, crispy outside tender inside with meat juices.
Or plain roasted meat is fine.
Roasted fish too.
Like salt-grilled saury, and my homemade seasoning opium fish.
Super delicious made in microwave.
If chance, share the steps in the novel.
Absolute killer move, okay.
Really.
Honestly, Timo cooking god.
Of course, I don’t eat spicy.
Tongue’s sensitive, afraid of spice and heat.
Yes.
Exactly.
I’m the legendary type who can’t even snatch hot shit!!!
Sigh.
Too miserable.
Seriously.
Drinking boiled water does nothing for me, at most warm water, hot water’s no go.
orz
What kinda tongue.
Oh right, grandma used to say this is a beggar’s mouth.
Why?
‘Cause can’t eat hot meals.
Thinking about it, not wrong.
Sob.
I’m hungry now.
Going to find food.
End
