After the exchange battle, Fang Yuan returned to his previous school life.
The only difference was that the school's management of him had become much more lenient; for example, during training class time, Fang Yuan could freely arrange his training content.
This might have been because he had performed excellently in the group battle assessment organized by the school a while ago, or perhaps because Teacher Wu Pingqiu was pleased with Fang Yuan's impressive performance in the recent inter-school exchange battle...
Anyway, geniuses always have special privileges.
"From today on, you can train alone during class, and you may use any of the school's training equipment as you wish."
"If there's anything you don't understand, you can come ask me; even if you want to test your training results through actual combat, you can find me anytime for guidance battles."
After Teacher Bai Ning from Class Twelve told Fang Yuan these things, he felt that school life had gained some more interest.
It should have been like this long ago.
If it weren't for the school canteen providing nutritional meals for the seniors' Pokemon once a week and the plethora of training equipment available for free use at the school, Fang Yuan already had the idea of stopping classes.
Going home to review on his own and training his Pokemon unrestrained— how free that would be.
"Guidance battles... That sounds good." Fang Yuan also noticed the last point; finding a Senior Trainer to conduct guidance battles and teach every day was not easy.
You see, going to a place like the Starlight Club for a single guidance battle lesson would cost a four-digit sum, only affordable to the very wealthy.
...
With the freedom to engage in school activities and having obtained the resources for Shadow Ball and Reflect Wall, Fang Yuan began to get Eevee started on training for these moves.
Training for basic qualities was temporarily put on hold due to not keeping up with mastery of the Payback Technique.
Shadow Ball, Reflect Wall, Payback... these were the current focus of Eevee's training.
Little Magnetic Monster's training content remained unchanged.
Continuing like this for half a month, Fang Yuan's submission was finally published in this edition of "Home of Elves" magazine.
This issue, with the paper on Eevee's new trait, occupied a very noticeable section of the magazine.
As the most academically valuable content of this issue, the Dangerous Premonition trait received widespread discussion.
Not only did it make this issue of "Home of Elves" magazine the highest selling of the month, but subscriptions for the electronic version of the magazine on the official website also broke the monthly limit for daily subscriptions.
Su province, Jinling.
At the Qingmu Research Institute, Researcher Xu Qingmu had long been aware of the specific publication date of the paper. As a new trait he had personally validated, he naturally wanted to see the reactions of the academic community.
"It's a pity; the response from the other party was ambiguous. Apparently, he has other priorities."
Xu Qingmu shook his head. He had his student convey a message to Fang Yuan: if Fang Yuan was willing to apply to Nanjiang University, he could directly become Fang Yuan's mentor, a guide for him in the academic world.
He was quite optimistic about Fang Yuan, but Fang Yuan hadn't provided a direct answer, which was somewhat disappointing to him.
However, Wen Siyu, who had received Fang Yuan's reply at the time, could understand.
Because no matter who it was, they would still hope to attend world-class prestigious universities like Demon Capital University and Emperor Capital University.
Although Nanjiang University ranked first in the province and also made the top ten nationally, there was still a significant gap between it and the others...
Apart from those involved, many regular readers also saw the paper.
Wang Xin, the psychology teacher from Pingcheng No.1 Middle School, was a loyal reader of "Home of Elves," purchasing and reading every issue. She subscribed to the electronic version of "Home of Elves" as soon as possible and soon discovered the most prominent "Performance and Analysis of Eevee's Unknown Trait"...
"Oh?" Teacher Wang Xin's eyes lit up; she had followed the previous issues of the magazine, where Eevee was the most discussed Pokemon, and this time... someone had actually unearthed Eevee's unknown trait?
"The quality of 'Home of Elves' is getting better and better," Teacher Wang Xin affirmed, but she didn't care much about this as she was more interested in articles related to lifestyle.
After briefly going through the article, she was about to close it, but at that moment, her mouse paused.
Before exiting, she subconsciously glanced at the author's name…
"Fang Yuan?"
"Why does that sound so familiar?"
"Fang Yuan, Fang Yuan, that seems to be the name of the president of the psychology club led by Teacher Li. It's a coincidence that they have the same name, interesting," Teacher Wang Xin said with a laugh.
Of course, she did not think this article was submitted by Fang Yuan…
However, just as she was about to exit again, the content of the paper "biu~" flashed across her mind.
"Looking at the content, the author of this article has an Eevee, and that student Fang Yuan, his beginner Pokemon is also an Eevee. This is too much of a coincidence." Teacher Wang Xin felt something was off, so she stood up and went to Teacher Li's private office…
"Teacher Li, take a look at the latest issue of 'Home of Elves'…" Teacher Wang Xin walked up to Teacher Li and said.
"It contains new information about Eevee. Isn't the beginner Pokemon of the student you're mentoring an Eevee? It might be useful for him in training his Pokemon…"
"Oh? Let me take a look," Teacher Li nodded in agreement.
Then… before he started reading the main content, he noticed the author's name.
"Hehe… The name is the same as Fang Yuan's." Teacher Li chuckled, not noticing the strange expression on Teacher Wang Xin's face.
"Huh… This trait has really great practical value, but such an Eevee with this trait must be rare. It's unknown whether an Eevee will retain this special ability after evolving, but I think new papers related to it will surface soon."
"Uh…" After reading the content at the end of the article, Teacher Li was continuously surprised, then started to frown, realizing something was amiss.
The author of the paper was not a professional researcher but a Trainer who had accidentally discovered a new trait, and had an Eevee as a Pokemon.
And then, the author's name was Fang Yuan…
"I'm stepping out for a bit." Teacher Li stood up. It was time for training class, and if Fang Yuan wasn't in the club classroom, he would be in the gym or on the sports field. He planned to go find Fang Yuan and ask him about it, as it was just too much of a coincidence.
…
Beyond those close to Fang Yuan, others who had interacted with him began to let their imagination run wild after seeing the article.
For instance, Xiao Shuang, the intern reporter who interviewed Fang Yuan during the Little Phoenix King Cup, happened by chance to see this issue of the magazine and the article.
"Dangerous Premonition trait could give Eevee outstanding reactive abilities… Hmm, this feels so familiar, wait a second! Didn't I interview a Trainer with an Eevee..."
"Wow!! The author of this article is also named Fang Yuan?"
Xiao Shuang, who was doing an outdoor internship as a reporter for Dawn Group's streaming platform, had a sudden realization and her eyes lit up. That interview was the highest-viewed one she had ever handled, and Fang Yuan's unconventional answers had left a deep impression on her.
"It seems I've discovered a piece of news that isn't quite news, a high school student, a New Trainer, has actually found a new trait…"
"Whether it's news or not, I'm going to make it big news!"
…
Others, many Trainers who owned Eevees, also saw the paper thanks to recommendations from friends and family.
Although not every Eevee has the Dangerous Premonition trait, given the large population base of Hua Nation, after reading the article, quite a few Trainers had their moments of realization.
And then, they remembered the name Fang Yuan.