The necromancer of the Pokémon world

Chapter 179 The Dojo is Completed

The day Lin Ye returned to Waterside City as the elected museum owner, the weather was so beautiful it seemed as if it had been arranged just for him.

Under a clear blue sky and with a gentle sea breeze, the eastern pier of Ching Ling City was packed with people.

The most eye-catching formation was Jun Sha Ran leading the entire security team in a line by the pier. The moment she saw Lin Ye riding his "Armor Bird" appear from the horizon, she was the first to raise her hand in salute, and the officers behind her followed in unison.

The old mayor, Payne, stood to the side, his wrinkles on his old face creased into chrysanthemum-like folds from laughing so hard. He started waving at Lin Ye from a distance, calling out, "Thank you for your hard work, Master."

Representatives from the city hall stood in several rows behind him, followed by citizens who had come spontaneously to join in the fun. Some held up handwritten welcome banners, while others stood on tiptoe with their children in their arms, peering in.

Lin Ye's gaze swept across the crowd, and as expected, the city defense team was nowhere to be seen. It wasn't that few people came; there wasn't a single one.

Logically speaking, Lin Ye is now the legal head of Shuijing City and can control the city defense team and Miranda.

However, the latter is a representative sent to Shuijing City by the Liuli family, and has been operating in Shuijing City for more than ten years. It cannot be removed with just a letter of appointment.

"Forget it, I can't do anything to him right now anyway. Let's leave it for now and deal with it when we've made it bigger."

Lin Ye has many things to do now, the first of which is to build a dojo.

Former Mayor Payne personally unfurled a comprehensive map of Waterloo City, pointing out every available plot of land in detail.

The most bustling commercial districts in Shuijing City have been mostly occupied by the Liuli family and other powerful clans from other places, but apart from those, there are still quite a few vacant lots available in the city.

Lin Ye's gaze swept across the map, finally settling on a clearing near the edge of the protected area.

The area has a great surrounding environment, and it's spacious enough. Most importantly, it's quiet. Ghost-type gyms aren't really suitable for being built on busy commercial streets.

"This is fine."

Once the location is chosen, the next steps are to build the dojo, recruit staff, and secure resources.

None of these things were easy, but Lin Ye discovered that he had more capable people at his disposal than he had expected.

Using her position at the Pokémon Center in Lilycove City, Qiao Yijing helped Lin Ye connect with several small and medium-sized Pokémon Trainer families in Lilycove City, all of whom had certain businesses, resources, and connections in the area.

Among these people are ranchers from Big Milk Tank Farm, owners of Three Honey Farm, or entrepreneurs who specialize in supplying Slowpoke tails.

These local small families are insignificant compared to top-tier wealthy families like the Liuli family, but they have been operating in Shuijing City for generations, holding real local resources, and have long harbored resentment towards the Liuli family's strong suppression over the years.

Qiao Yijing spoke to them on behalf of Lin Ye, using Lin Ye's current position and her own years of accumulated connections to persuade them to establish production facilities near the Future Water Jing Dojo. In return, Lin Ye's dojo would provide land and security protection in exchange for a share of the profits.

The Big Milk Tank Farm produces several thousand tons of high-quality MooMoo milk annually, and the sweetness of the Three Honeybees Honey Farm is an important raw material for making Energy Cubes. If we can acquire this, it will not only be an important profit-making project, but we will also be able to control a part of the logistics supply chain of the dojo in the future.

Jun Sha Ran helped Lin Ye establish authority within the city hall and the police system. She represented Lin Ye in contacting local banks, the port authority, and mid-to-high-level personnel who had worked in the city hall for most of their lives, building a complete network of relationships that Lin Ye controlled.

Xiao Guang, representing the Belle Rijns branch, provided full cooperation throughout the process. The design drawings for the main building of the dojo were completed overnight by a top architect she hired from United.

The building materials were directly sourced from Bellriz's building materials warehouse in Hoenn at cost price, and an experienced construction team was also provided as a bonus.

Hikari even wanted to pay the headquarters' construction team to rush the work, but was ultimately stopped by the higher-ups at Sinnoh headquarters.

Meanwhile, Xiaoyao was pulled in by Lin Ye to help manage the daily construction progress of the dojo. As the young lady of the Orange Blossom Dojo, she had a lot of experience in the layout and planning of the dojo.

Lin Ye was very satisfied with this and planned to entrust her with part of the management of the dojo in the future.

Lin Ye then assigned Xiao Ju'er to develop the apprentice assessment standards. For her, who already possessed "master-level" strength, testing some apprentices was a piece of cake.

Qiao Yijing and the other two women were not too happy about Xiao Ju'er, a beauty of unparalleled grace, becoming a core staff member of Lin Ye Dojo.

Moreover, the two of them looked very intimate, and something had definitely happened between them.

But after spending some time with her, he found that Xiao Ju'er had a good personality, was very strong, and always thought of Lin Ye. She also had no intention of competing with them, so he turned a blind eye to her behavior.

In addition, since Lin Ye had already recruited a lot of Ghost Pokémon as informants and henchmen, he also selected some as rewards for apprentices who passed the assessment.

He will bestow upon the apprentice a Ghost Pokémon with corresponding potential based on their performance upon completion of the apprenticeship.

After all, how can an apprentice at a Ghost-Specialized Gym not have a Ghost Pokémon by his side?

The Ghost Pokémon bestowed by Lin Ye does not require accumulating merit points; one only needs to pass an assessment.

As soon as the news was released, the crowds of people coming to sign up almost caused the gate of his dojo, which was still under construction, to collapse.

It's important to know that Ghost-type Pokémon are already rare outside. Ordinary trainers would have to spend several days at Mount Sacred to legally capture a Gastly with decent potential, and even then, they might not be able to find one.

Now you can get one just by passing the dojo's exam, and there's a wide variety of breeds to choose from. With this kind of treatment, what more could you ask for?

The number of applicants exceeded four figures within a week. The strict mentor, Xiaoju'er, sat in the assessment room every day wearing sunglasses, screening out batches of applicants until only a little over a hundred remained.

Since Lin Ye was a commoner who owned the dojo and did not have a powerful family behind him, the dojo was not built on a very large scale in its early stages.

To fit his identity as a necromancer, the Water Stillness Dojo was designed as a dark and secluded manor.

The estate covers hundreds of acres and features numerous open-air battlegrounds, as well as apprentice dormitories, training rooms, and other recreational facilities.

The core building is a Western-style castle, which, from the outside, perfectly matches the average person's image of a "Ghost-type Gym".

All the stereotypes about it: gloomy, eerie, and always haunted.

However, the interior of the castle has been renovated into an extremely comfortable modern style, making it very suitable for living.

Because the construction of this world can utilize the power of Pokémon, and Lin Ye himself can summon many Ghost Pokémon, the manor of this scale was completed in just half a month. Qiao Yijing and the other girls also moved over from the villa.

Of course, Lin Ye has been very busy these days. He not only didn't have time to spend time with them, but he also didn't have time to go to the sacred mountain to catch ghosts.

After he became the owner of the first commercial city in Hoenn, a wave of important figures from Lilycove City and other prominent figures from other cities in the Hoenn region came to discuss cooperation, and the number of trade and aviation cooperation agreements signed was no less than three digits.

Without the help of knowledgeable and sophisticated young ladies from prominent families like Qiao Yijing, he would probably be even more overwhelmed.