Elf: I Am a Farmer

Chapter 71 Targeted Training

It was 2 PM, and after only a short rest, Chiba Kaede felt she couldn't waste the remaining time; she needed to prepare properly for her upcoming dojo challenge. 🍧☠ 🐊♥

Chiba Kaede doesn't plan to use Swellow for this gym challenge, since the type disadvantage is too great. Given the choice, there's no need to force yourself to be a master of type reversal.

According to the information about the Mauville Gym on the phone, the Gym Leader, Iron Whirl, most often uses Magnemite, Voltorb, and Magneton for gym challenges.

Chiba Kaede plans to send Machop, Sandslash, and Heracross as his team for this gym challenge.

Machop and Heracross are both Fighting-type Pokémon, perfect for dealing with Steel-type Magnemite and Magneton, while Sandslash is a Ground-type Pokémon that is naturally immune to Electric-type energy.

The only problem now is whether Sandslash is willing to fight for him. After all, judging from Sandslash's performance recently, it doesn't seem to care much about its own strength, so Chiba Maple hasn't trained it much.

"Sandslash, I'm planning to have you participate in this gym challenge. Would you be willing?"

Chiba Kaede tapped the Sandslash King, which was curled up into a ball, to wake it from its sleep mode, and then asked.

Awakened by its trainer, Sandslash rubbed its somewhat bewildered eyes before pondering its trainer's words. After a brief moment of thought, it resolutely nodded, indicating its willingness to fight.

Sandslash doesn't particularly enjoy battling, but it will fight for its trainer if requested by him.

Although it doesn't usually show it, it highly respects the trainer who brings it a happy life and is willing to obey his commands and fight for him.

"Then I'll leave it to you, Sandslash!"

Chiba Kaede was initially worried that Pangolin would refuse to fight, but to his surprise, it agreed, which was somewhat unexpected.

If Sandslash doesn't want to fight, then he won't force it; that's the bottom line for a Pokémon trainer.

Afterwards, Chiba Kaede led a group of Pokémon to a stream outside Mauville City, intending to train there. The reason for choosing this place was that it was sparsely populated and had a nice environment, making it an ideal training ground.

"So, Heracross, you'll continue your previous training with Arm Wrestler, is that alright?"

Chiba Kaede addressed the eager Armwyn and Heracross.

"Hera!"

"wrist!"

Hercules, of course, had no objections. Since being allowed to retaliate, it felt that this kind of sparring was quite good and suitable for training its little brother. As the senior, it would reluctantly work a little harder to help improve its arm strength, otherwise it would be embarrassing to take it out.

Although Machop was badly slammed by Heracross, it could clearly feel its own strength rapidly improving. Occasionally, a sudden burst of power could even make its senior, Heracross, suffer for a long time, so there was nothing to hesitate about.

"Alright, then you can practice on your own. If you can't hold on, go find a shuttlecock flower to heal you. Don't push yourself too hard."

Seeing their high spirits, Chiba Kaede couldn't help but offer a word of advice.

"As for you, King Swan, you can help train Mosquito Coil and the others!"

Chiba Kaede turned to the Great Queen Yan, who was about to squat down to sleep, and said... ♡👽 ➅➈𝐒Ħ𝔲Ⓧ.ᑕ𝓸ᗰ 🍬🍬

After giving him a knowing look, Da Wang Yan looked at Mosquito Coil and the others. It was better to play with these little brothers than to sleep in.

Feeling a bit uneasy under the gaze of the Great Swallow, Mosquito Coil felt somewhat innocent. Being at the bottom of the power chain was really tough for it; anyone could teach it a lesson.

However, this time it wasn't facing Swellow alone, but rather alongside the two cunning old foxes, Glitter and Gastly. Suddenly, it felt like it could do it again.

Mosquito Coil Guy has personally experienced how disgusting these two's skills are; you can say that once you get hit, you can easily be controlled indefinitely.

So, after exchanging glances with them, Mosquito Coil suddenly felt that perhaps today he could give the King Swallow a good beating to vent his frustrations over the past few days.

At this moment, the Great King Swallow was immersed in his fantasy of teaching his three little brothers how to be human, completely unaware that his little brothers were also plotting to teach him a harsh lesson and show him how to love the young.

"Chamo, Chamo!"

Seeing that its companions had all been assigned tasks, Torchic, unsure of what to do, quickly went to its trainer to make its presence known.

"Um, Torchick, you're still too young. Here's a bottle of Moo Moo Milk. Take it and drink it first. After you're done, you can play around here, but remember not to run off!"

Seeing the eager little chick in front of him, Chiba Kaede quickly took out a bottle of Moo Moo Milk from his backpack, handed it to it, and said...

It will still be some time before the turkeys are out of their juvenile stage, and training them now will affect their future development. So for now, the main focus is on supplementing their nutrition. Simply put, they can only eat and sleep, and sleep and eat.

"Chamo!"

Although it felt that it had been looked down upon by its trainer, it decided to forgive the trainer for the sake of the delicious Moo Moo Milk. At this moment, the Torchic was moved by its own understanding.

"Could you please keep an eye on the tinder chicks during this time, and make sure they don't run around!"

Watching the turkeys happily drinking their moo milk, Chiba Kaede turned to the shuttlecock floating in the air and said something.

The gentle-natured Jumpluffs readily accepted Chiba Maple's offer to babysit Torchic. Since no Pokémon needed their healing, they could help look after their little brother.

"Thank you so much, Shuttlecock Flower!"

Chiba Kaede smiled and nodded at them.

"Let's go, Sandslash, let's go to that hillside over there for training."

After arranging the training for the other Pokémon, Chiba Kaede took Sandslash to a hillside where there was no vegetation, making it ideal for Sandslash to use its moves.

After arriving at the hillside, Chiba Kaede first had the Sandslash King unleash all the skills it possessed, and discovered that it actually had quite a few skills, which was somewhat unexpected.

Stomp, dig a hole, round out, roll, poison needle, quicksand abyss.

It has a very rich skill pool, but Sandslash's most proficient skills are Spherical, Dig, and Stomp.

The ability to stomp was developed when helping Chiba Farm dig an artificial lake, while the ability to round out and dig holes was developed during survival in the wild.

After all, back then it was a sandpiper and didn't have good burrowing skills, so it was eliminated by the harsh environment of nature long ago.

The round shape is to maintain a relatively high level of defense while sleeping, preventing other Pokémon from attacking you while you're asleep.

Even now, Sandslash maintains a rounded posture while sleeping; this skill has almost become its instinct.

As for its other skills, it can only be said that it knows how to use them, but they are rather rigid and the skill activation speed is not fast, which shows that it has not used them much in its daily life.

Due to time constraints, Chiba Kaede plans to focus on training Sandslash's rolling skill today.

By becoming round and rolling, as long as the rolling state can be maintained, the speed will increase over time, and the power will naturally increase as well.

"Pangolin, use Circle once, then use Roll."

Chiba Kaede gave the order to the already prepared Pangolin.

The Sandslash didn't hesitate either. It curled up into a ball and rolled down the slope. With the help of the slope's angle, it rolled faster and faster, crashing into the boulder that Chiba Maple had set as its target.

"boom!"

The boulder designated as the target was shattered into pieces by Sandslash's rolling attack, and Sandslash was also stopped because of the boulder's obstruction.

"Pangolin, are you alright?!"

Chiba Kaede quickly ran over to ask, already prepared to activate his ability at any time.

Pangolin shook off the dizziness from rolling, then waved to Chiba Kaede to indicate that he was fine.

Chiba Kaede was finally relieved. He had witnessed the power of Sandslash's transformation into a round shape and its rolling motion, so he planned to focus on training Sandslash's tracking ability during the rolling process. After all, no matter how powerful it was, it was useless if it couldn't hit its opponent.

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