Chapter 21 The Dog That Devours the Sun

The days of hard training in the mountains are always monotonous and boring. Fortunately, there are elves accompanying you, so you can always find fun in the boring training.

Unlike Dr. Oak's backyard or Nibi City, in the relatively sparsely populated Tsukimiyama, Zhou You can use his special abilities that he has somehow obtained to treat and restore the elves without restraint.

With the help of the Phoenix Flame, Arthur and Leftovers' training progress is as if (?) they have been cheated...

At the same time, his understanding of the newly joined Arthur and Leftovers has also deepened.

Growlithe, a puppy Pokémon, is honest, close to humans, has a keen sense of smell, is brave and reliable, and can fearlessly fight against stronger and bigger opponents to protect its trainer.

As an elf that has been domesticated since ancient times and coexists with humans, Growlithe is more common in cities, and coupled with its reliable nature, it is deeply loved by most people.

There are even people who specially train the tribe of Growlithes, and let the best bloodline among them serve as police dogs cooperating with Miss Junsha and other police officers.

Leftovers is such a Growlithe that was born in the Kanto Police Dog Training Base and received formal training.

Unfortunately, due to its non-intimidating characteristics, its overly naughty personality, and its abnormal closeness to humans and greed.

Leftovers' training eventually stopped at the reserve stage, and it failed to become a police dog like his brothers and sisters.

Windy Dog is charming and reliable, and is a very powerful Pokémon, but Zhou You was a little troubled about how to train Leftovers.

Although the pure fire attribute can resist common output attributes such as fire, grass, ice, steel, and demons (the insect is too rare to be ignored), it is restrained by the three major output systems of ground, rock, and water.

The racial value is as high as 555, but the allocation is too much. The speed of 95 is neither high nor low, and the physical attack and special attack strength of about 105 is also really touching.

Despite this, the intimidating wind speed dog with skills such as loud roar, will-o'-the-wisp, morning light to support durability, or simply melee, fire push, speed and other violent output skills are still the top quality choices.

The problem is that leftovers have the fire-inducing attribute, and the fire stone is also a non-renewable resource that is used up piece by piece.

This is difficult to deal with.

But after all, it is related to his own "legendary Pokémon", and Zhou You finally found the training direction of leftovers in the three-day training for it.

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That afternoon, because Eden and Arthur were both injured and lost their combat ability in the battle, Zhou You had to temporarily put them in the ball and treat them with fire, so the only thing left was leftovers, whose energy seemed to be endless.

"Woof!" He exhaled heavily, and at this time, leftovers were lying on the stone and staring at Zhou You intently as he prepared dinner.

This dog is too greedy.

Occasionally, when Eden or Arthur had some food left, Leftover would always rush over when he called out the first syllable of "leftovers" and eat everything in a flash, even the plates were clean as new after Leftover licked them!

This speed that was enough to leave an afterimage and the faint white light when running...

Zhou You suspected that the dog might have mastered the lightning flash and high-speed movement in order to eat leftovers at the police dog base.

Well, this is very scientific. The fire-inducing characteristic of the Caterpillar can turn the energy in its body into flames and wrap it around its body as a means of increasing physical strength. For this reason, it is necessary to eat more to store energy.

However, after a while, this energetic dog stopped focusing and turned to look at the sunset emitting orange and yellow light in the distance.

As the sun set, looking at the sunset that looked like a pomelo, the deep orange Caterpillar's eyes were full of longing, and drooling could not help but flow down.

Liking the sun, this is the second special thing Zhou You found about Leftovers.

He had asked Eden to use illusion to ask Leftovers why he liked the sun, and Leftovers’ answer was “After basking in the sun, my body feels warm, just like after a meal.”

The little guy seemed to regard the rising sun in the sky as some kind of food, and he seemed to be able to recover his strength after basking in the sun.

Unfinished morning light... But the wind speed dog with non-intimidating characteristics is not very suitable for this trick.

Thinking of this, Zhou You poured all the fried ingredients into the pot and began to cook curry on the bonfire ignited by the tail flame of the little fire dragon.

At the same time, he instructed Leftovers and other elves in the ball who were looking at the sun like a stone lion.

“The basic intensive training is almost over today. You have made great progress in three days. Next, just keep this pace and improve slowly.”

“Woof!” Hearing Zhou You’s praise, Leftovers proudly jumped off the rock and squatted in front of the pot with his tongue sticking out.

"The curry is still cooking, don't worry."

After telling the leftovers not to do anything stupid, he continued to explain: "Next, we should start practicing the special moves."

"Special moves, special moves, special moves come first, and special moves come second. Having special moves but no special moves is like having a treasure mountain but not being able to take it. Having special moves but no special moves can still beat having special moves."

"(Confused) Woof?" A big question mark appeared on the leftovers' head while staring at the curry in the pot.

"Well, then I'll explain it in detail."

In short, it is to play to one's strengths and avoid weaknesses, and gain advantages by maximizing one's own strengths.

In the face of supplementary attacks, the skills of this system must be practiced well!

"For example, Leftovers' strength lies in speed. Because you eat a lot, you have gained a lot of weight and gained good durability. Combined with the characteristics of using fire to improve physical ability, the best way to play your advantage is still the mad dog style... I mean the close combat style."

Looking at the pot full of curry, Leftovers nodded as if he understood.

"Stop staring at the curry, listen to me carefully." Seeing this, Zhou You decisively walked around the campfire and picked up Leftovers and came to the side.

Although he was scolded and taken away from the food, perhaps because of Zhou You's close contact, Leftovers was not only not depressed, but looked more excited.

"Don't move... It's heavy... Just put it here first."

After panting for a few seconds, Zhou You continued to inspire:

"Before the curry can be eaten, let's practice for a while, Leftovers, first actively turn on the fire state."

Like the "fierce fire" characteristic, the "fire" in reality is actually a semi-active and semi-passive characteristic.

Although it is not completely immune to fire damage or even transformation skills like in the game (if the heat storage and heat resistance limit is exceeded, even if it is set on fire, it will still be burned), it can greatly improve the control of fire energy, and store the energy obtained from other means such as food eaten in battle or on weekdays, so as to explosively improve the ability when necessary.

Leftovers, who have been greedy since childhood, have naturally mastered their ability to set on fire. As soon as Zhou You gave the order, the whole body was already burning with flames.

"Very good, the next step is to pounce on me like you did at mealtime, avoid your vital points and hit the stone in front with your body. Don't worry about getting hurt, I will heal you immediately."

Hearing the instructions of his trainer, Leftovers slowly spit out a question mark formed by flames: "Woof?"