Chapter 338: Return To Safari Zone

Chapter 338: Chapter 338: Return To Safari Zone

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Looking at the lavish feast, Kai’s eyes widened.

"Master, are we not planning to live past tomorrow?"

Julian placed a piece of pork into his bowl.

"Eat more. Tomorrow, I’ll need you to work hard screening challengers."

"One-on-one is enough. Don’t make it too hard on yourself or the challenger’s Pokémon."

Kai clenched his fist and shouted his guarantee.

"Don’t worry, Master. I’ll guard the gate properly!"

Julian nodded.

"I believe you can do it, Kai. I’ll be training Pokémon in the back garden. The indoor battlefield is yours. If someone passes, send them to the back garden to find me."

Kai nodded.

"I’ll definitely screen out the most outstanding challengers for Master!"

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Since he only needed to handle one challenger in the morning, Julian immediately felt much more relaxed.

Over the past few days, he had needed to receive five challengers in a single morning. Not only had Julian been busy, the Pokémon had also been somewhat tired.

Although it had not affected their training results, it had affected everyone’s mood.

Unlike today.

After one round of training, everyone could sit down to eat some snacks and drink honey milk or juice.

Or they could swim two laps in the pool.

No challengers at all.

What a comfortable day.

Wait...

No challengers at all?

Julian looked at the time.

It was already eleven-thirty!

The Gym closed at noon, which meant there would be no challenger in the morning!

What was Kai doing?

How had he not let a single person through?

Julian immediately went to the indoor battlefield to understand the situation.

He happened to see Kai’s Machoke knock down a Beautifly with Cross Chop.

This Trainer was the last person who had come to challenge the Gym that morning.

Kai excitedly hugged Machoke to celebrate. After Julian nodded and smiled while sending the challenger away, he immediately went to Kai’s side.

"Kai, what happened? Where are my challengers?"

Kai scratched his hair.

"Master, I don’t know why, but today’s challengers all seemed much weaker."

Julian slapped his forehead.

"Don’t worry about whether they’re all weak. Next time, remember to pick the best of the group and send them to the back for the Gym battle."

If every challenger was screened out, then were challengers coming to receive guidance from the Gym Leader, or from the Gym Leader’s apprentice?

The League gave subsidies to Gyms so that Gym Leaders could properly guide challengers and produce more outstanding Trainers for the Sinnoh League.

Kai suddenly understood.

"I understand. I’ll definitely let someone through this afternoon."

Actually, it was not entirely Kai’s fault.

Yesterday on the Trainer forum, many Trainers who had originally planned to challenge Veilstone Gym had read the posts from SwinubStoleTheCabbage and SinnohInsider, then decided to improve themselves for a while before challenging.

Why did everyone want to trigger the golden touch?

To become stronger.

Now, they could become stronger first, and then increase the chance of triggering the golden touch afterwards.

Wasn’t that basically letting them win twice?

Many reasonably capable Trainers simply lacked accumulation.

But if their strength was sufficient, Gym Leader Julian would directly hand them a Badge.

From then on, everything related to the golden touch would have nothing to do with them.

So capable Trainers were even less likely to challenge Veilstone Gym right now.

Only those Trainers who wanted to take shortcuts would continue challenging the Gym at this point.

In the past, Veilstone Gym’s recommended Badge order had been one Badge.

In other words, Trainers could choose Veilstone Gym as their first Badge.

But after the golden touch became popular, the public recommendation shot up rapidly. At present, it had already become the sixth Badge.

And there was even a trend towards the seventh.

There were even quite a few Trainers on the forum advising everyone to challenge it for their eighth Badge, so the gains would be maximised.

Because before yesterday’s golden touch activation guide appeared, challenging for the eighth Badge had seemed to give the highest chance of triggering the golden touch.

That afternoon, Kai sent Julian a Trainer who was barely acceptable.

After thinking it over, Julian still did not give him his sixth Badge.

His ability was still a little lacking.

"Improve your Pokémon, then come challenge Veilstone Gym again."

After leaving, the long-haired man discovered that it was indeed just as the forum had said.

Since he had not improved his Pokémon, there was no sign of the golden touch triggering at all.

He could only honestly go back and train his Pokémon.

This kind of life, receiving only two challengers a day, really was comfortable.

In the blink of an eye, it was the next holiday.

Julian and Kai packed their luggage and brought all the equipment needed for their Pokémon.

Then they rented an off-road vehicle.

"Let’s go. We’re heading to the Safari Zone!"

On the road, Julian said to Kai, who was extremely excited about travelling far from home for the first time, "You’ve trained Graveler and Machoke well. This time, at the Safari Zone..."

"See if there are any Pokémon you want to catch. Master can pull a few strings for you. Of course, you can only choose one."

"And you can’t rely on your Pokémon. You have to catch it yourself."

Kai looked at his arm, where the outline of his muscles had become clear, and misunderstood Julian’s words.

"I understand, Master. I’ll complete the trial you’ve given me!"

Julian was driving.

What trial had he given Kai?

The vehicle jolted over a stone on the dirt road, and he focused on driving, throwing the question to the back of his mind.

When they arrived at the Safari Zone, Octavius showed great enthusiasm towards their arrival.

"I told you to come visit the Safari Zone when you had time, but it took you this long to come back!"

Octavius patted Kai.

"But I’m very satisfied that you brought your apprentice with you this time. This kid is pretty strong."

Octavius raised an eyebrow.

"Since you’re here this time, do you want to catch another couple of Pokémon?"

Julian smiled and said, "That still depends on fate between me and the Pokémon. Has Salamence caused any trouble in the Safari Zone recently?"

At the mention of Salamence, Octavius’s head hurt just as much as before.

"After Goodra left, Salamence very quickly set her sights on Milotic. Milotic isn’t like Goodra, who wouldn’t fight back or talk back."

"She directly started fighting Salamence. At first, she wasn’t Salamence’s opponent, but Milotic improved very quickly."

Octavius lowered his voice.

"The Safari Zone’s medical staff secretly helped Milotic. Her Recover and Ice Beam improved rapidly after receiving training."

"Now she can already fight Salamence back and forth. Although there’s a big commotion, they only need to deal with one area at a time, so the medical staff’s workload has decreased a lot."

"If you want to catch Milotic now, they probably won’t let you take her away so easily. See? I told you to act earlier."

"You just wouldn’t listen."

Julian did not argue.

"Where is Salamence? I’ll take Bagon to meet his mother."

Octavius thought for a moment.

"Right now, Salamence should be eating in the Berry grove to the east. If you go there, you should be able to find her."

Julian released all his Pokémon and let them wear Safari Zone patrol Pokémon markers so they could move freely around the Safari Zone.

He only kept Bewear, Combusken, Bagon, and Eevee by his side.

Bewear and Combusken had both heard they were going to the Berry grove and decided to follow Julian.

Bewear liked Honey the most, but she also liked sweet Berries.

As for Combusken...?

No need to explain.

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