Pokémon: The Climb

As soon as Yang Yan walked outside the door of the principal's office, he saw Jiang Ye, Youshu and several other people who had passed the midterm test standing at the door.

He turned out to be the last one to arrive.

As soon as they saw Yang Yan arriving, the two roommates came up to say hello enthusiastically.

But before they could say a few words, someone from the principal's office came over and sent a message, asking them to hurry in.

As soon as he entered the door, in addition to the principal sitting on his desk, there was also a man in an alliance uniform sitting on the chair to the right of the principal.

Taking a closer look, it was Ishimura!

Seeing Yang Yan and others coming in, the principal and Ishimura stood up and walked over with smiles.

The principal is an old man with gray hair. No one calls him by his name anymore. Students and teachers call him Principal Gutian. Furuta was promoted to the position of principal after working at the college for almost 40 years. It can be said that he has rich experience.

Yang Yan and the others stood below without speaking.

After the principal came over, he simply praised everyone. Although they were all superficial words, it was obvious that he had a thorough understanding of everyone's basic situation.

"Okay, Principal Furuta, that's it for now, it's time to get down to business!"

After Ishimura finished praising everyone, Ishimura made the right speech to get things back on track.

"That's what Captain Ishimura said." Furuta walked slowly behind Ishimura and left the field to Ishimura.

Ishimura didn't waste any time and went straight to the point: "To make a long story short, I informed you this time because the trial time has been advanced..."

In the next ten minutes or so, Ishimura briefly talked about things related to the final trial.

It turned out that after the mid-term trial, the alliance thought it was a bit redundant to put people selected from various cities together for another trial after the end of the term.

What a waste of time and energy.

So after thinking about it, we simply decided to merge the two trials together and extend the time as the final selection.

The specific time will be from October 10th to December 16th, a full two months.

Today is the 11th, which means it will officially start in 5 days!

Since this is the final selection for all those who have passed the mid-term trial in the entire Hoenn region, naturally they cannot be allowed to start the trial in this city.

But because it would be difficult to find a suitable trial method if people from so many cities were gathered together for trials, so after some consideration, the alliance actually planned to use the entire Fengyuan region as a trial venue!

The specific method is to first disperse the people in each city, first to eliminate grouping behavior during the trial, and then let them draw lots to decide where to go for the trial.

As for the requirements for the trial and how to pass it, Ishimura didn't say anything. He just said that someone would tell them when they got to the location.

Then he made a lottery box in front of them and wrote the name of a city in the Hoenn region on each piece of paper.

There is only one for each city.

Except for Chenghua City.

People like them cannot participate in the selection in the city where they were born!

This was something they had not expected, especially the three of them, Yang Yan and Isamu Kawana, who were already acquainted with each other. They had always thought that through joint efforts, they could eliminate the others first and then decide the winner internally.

Now it's all in vain.

It seems that the alliance has made up its mind to make everyone try their best.

Yang Yan himself doesn't care which city he goes to. What he cares more about is what the rules are and how to win.

Because this is related to whether he can eventually become the first in the ranger academy and get that Pokémon with excellent qualifications.

As for whether he will be the chosen one in the end, Yang Yan thinks that it will be good if he does his best.

With Qianli's teachings, he believed that his gains might not be less than what he would gain after passing the trial.

In order, Yang Yan and others stepped forward one by one to select the city they needed to go to.

Takuma, the cunning tengu trainer from before, was the first to step forward.

He looked a little ugly after opening the note. After Yang Yan and others inquired, they found out that the city he had chosen was very far away from Chenghua City, and it could only be said that he was reluctant to get there in 5 days.

What should I do if I can't make it? Simple, just count it as a waiver!

Ishimura told them simply and crudely.

Then came Shaoshu, Yang Yan, Jiang Ye...

In the end, the 6 of them drew better cities than Takuma, and at least 5 days was enough to get there.

The city Yang Yan drew was called Jinlang City.

This is a city that has never appeared in anime.

And just from the name, you can tell that this is a seaside city.

It is said that the sea in this city turns golden every autumn. However, in order to avoid having the same name as the Golden City in Kanto, it was named Jinlang City.

Yang Yan checked the distance and found that he could get there in about two days from Chenghua City. It was the closest city among the seven of them.

Ishimura looked at the city name that everyone had drawn, then took out a notebook and took a look at it, and told them which phone number to call to contact the person in charge of the trial when they arrived.

From there they will get the specific details of the trial.

After Ishimura finished speaking, Takuma came out directly and expressed that he wanted to leave because his time was tight.

Principal Gu Tian also knew, so he didn't say much and waved his hand as he agreed.

Then Yang Yan and others also said goodbye to Ishimura and Principal Furuta and left.

Yang Yan did not return to Chenghua Gym. Not to mention that Qianli was still not here today. The three of them had not seen each other for a while, so of course they should get together.

There were no classes at the college today, so they went back to the dormitory to call Chengta, and the four of them went to the restaurant to have a good meal together.

During this period, Yang Yan learned that Shoya had gone home to follow his father to the Gray Feather Mountains for training, which was equivalent to getting over the addiction of being a ranger in advance.

Young Shu also told him some things after the midterm trial.

For example, some people who were not selected dropped out of school immediately after they came back.

But the biggest news has to be the feud between Yamazaki and the team that finally intercepted Haruhiko.

Yamazaki, who owns Gyarados, has always believed that the strongest person in his academy would be so arrogant in the trial. Although he was taught a lesson by Yang Yan later, he still did not think that he would fail.

Therefore, he hated the 10-man team that stole his ball to his core. Even if Yamazaki and Haruhiko later stopped them together and prevented them from passing, he would not be relieved.

However, Liangzi and Liangzi are completely settled.

After returning to the academy, Yamazaki often made trouble for those people, and finally the boss of that team couldn't bear it and told his origins.

It turns out that he comes from one of the best families in a small town under the jurisdiction of Chenghua City. He came here hiding his identity this time, hoping to avoid the fierce competition in the Trainer Academy and get a spot from the Ranger Academy.

The other nine people who were with him in the end were all helpers found for him by his family.

Yamazaki was just an ordinary person, and he did not dare to mess with such a prestigious family. Since then, he rarely came to the academy. I heard that he was taught a lesson by that person, but the young tree told them that it was the teacher who asked him to go to another place. He has gone to the academy and will let him come back after things calm down.

As for the guy who hid his identity, he was naturally expelled from the academy afterwards. It happened that the guy didn't want to stay, so he had no choice but to go home when he couldn't find Yamazaki.

Yang Yan sighed after hearing this. He didn't expect that so many things happened in the college. He was busy all day long and really didn't pay attention.

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The 4th update, thank you all for the gifts! This is the first time I have received gifts from more than 20 people. I am very happy! This is the first time that I can’t even include enough words of thanks when the author has something to say, haha!

The next plot will be more exciting, and more foreshadowing will be revealed in the final trial, so stay tuned!