Julian's overwhelming strength soon became a hot topic across Imperial Uy, with word quickly spreading about how he single-handedly domihe entire Fighting css.

  It wasn't long before sophomores and juniors, intrigued by his abilities, came forward to challenge him. Oer ahey all fell to Julian's incredible skill.

  Even the president of the Fighting Club took up the challenge. Uhe others, this oppo mao st five rounds before Juliaually overpowered him.

  The oute further solidified Julian's reputation as not only a talented Pokémon Trainer but also a formidable fighter in his ht.

  Julian's sheer physical prowess—his strength, speed, rea time, and endurance—made it clear that he could easily overwhelm most martial artists, even without mastering a specific martial art like Bajiquan.

  This led to him being reized as the new leader of Imperial Uy's military force, with everyone amazed by his strength in both Pokémon battles and personal bat.

  Finally, the intense military training for the freshmen came to an end, and they transitioned intur period.

  The teag of the special css was different from the ordinary css.

  Ordinary csses were assigned based on the respective Type of the students. For example, Fire Type Trainers ehe Fire Type css, and Water Type Trainers ehe Water Type css.

  This meant that students in each css of the ordinary stream share the same Type, which makes teag easier and allows for smoother unicatioween students of the same Type.

  Although, the special recruit css only had 30 students, but they had all 18 different Types, making the teag much more difficult.

  There's no way a Water Type specialist could teach effectively when most of the students weren't Water Types, leaving many of them without relevant information.

  To address this problem, students in the special css had the freedom to attend any css iire school—any css, at any grade level.

  If they thought they could uand what a freshman teacher was teag, they could even choose to attend sophomore csses.

  From Monday to Friday, the students in the special css selected the courses they wao attend.

  On Saturdays, the head teacher Frank holds one-oches, with himself as the Rival. Having ae Trainer as their Rival—something only avaible to the special css.

  High school students get two days off each week, even in their final year. However, in uy, they only got one day off. At the time, Julian silently grumbled about it.

  The special css didn't require students to attend daily, so even if they didn't go to css at all, there's y—as long as they pass the final exam.

  Aside from the Saturday special recruit css, which was mandatory, the rest of the courses were entirely up to the students, giving them a lot of freedom.

  For example, Julian had only attended one css this week.

  And it wasn't even a Steel-Type course—it was a Fire-Type css, he attended specifically frowlithe .

  Julian sat i row of the freshman Fire-Type css, while many students kept gng back at him curiously. After all, he was the freshman representative—and the guy who beat up the Fighting css.

  Julian couldn't shake the feeling that the temperature ihe was much higher than outside.

  Among all the Trainers, Fire, Water, and Grass Types were the most on. Out of ten Trainers, at least five teo focus ohree Types.

  There were 50 students in a normal css, only 20 more than in the special css.

  But while this was an ordinary css, it's still an ordinary perial Uy, where every student pced iop 50 in their respective provinces on the college entrance exam.

  With such a high entry score, everyone who passed was at a schor-level.

  The lecturer rofessor in his 60s, His Trainer rank was only Advanced, but he had a lot of knowledge about fire-types. He was a well-known fire-type researcher.

  Julian was born into a Steel family, so he's very familiar with Steel-Types. Dragons came , but he cked deeper knowledge about the rest of the Types.

  Growlithe, havien the Fire crystal—a Fire Type treasure—had the potential for incredible achievements, so Julian was very focused on its training.

  "Besides using items to enhahe power of Fire Type moves, what other methods are there?" asked the old professor from the front of the room.

  "Use Sunny Day," oudent responded.

  "Hmm, that's one."

  "Having a battlefield advantageous for Fire-Types," audent added.

  "That works."

  "Are these the only two methods you all know?" the old professor asked.

  The students of the css were deep in thought, trying to e up with a third method, but it seemed that only these two ways were well-known for boosting the power of Fire-Type moves.

  "Whether it's Sunny Day or Having a battlefield advantage for Fire-Types, the increase in move power is only temporary."

  "And while items enhance Fire-Type moves, your Rival also have items, which meaher side gains an advantage."

  The professor's tone was slow and calm, and he didn't even open his book as he tinued, "Do you know which of the Fire-Type Pokémon known so far spits out fmes of the highest temperature?"

  "Charizard!"

  A student shouted excitedly.

  "Wrong"

  The old professor said, looking at the student bnkly.

  Another hot-headed fool.

  "The correswer is Magmortar, Magcargo, Camerupt, and Torkoal after eating coal. These four Pokémon Spit Up the hottest fmes."

  "Do you know why?" he asked.

  "I know! Torkoal eats coal to raise its fme temperature," the same Trainer who guessed Charizard earlier chimed in again.

  "Well, you're quite smart," the professor said dryly. The smartest person in this css might just be him.

  After being "praised," the student sat down, grinning.

  "Now, why are the fmes of the other three Pokémon so hot? Do any of you know?"

  No one answered, and several students started flipping through their books in search of the answer.

  "Julian, do you know?" the professor asked.

  "Magmortar and Magcargo live in the mouths of voloes, where Magmortar even survive in deeper magma. As for Camerupt, the volo on its back erupts once every ten years, reag temperatures of over 10,000 degrees. Its high fme temperature should be due to the volo on its back"

  Julian said after thinking for a moment.

  The professor nodded in satisfa. "It's very accurate. Magmortar and Magcargo live in voloes, which raises their fme temperatures. Camerupt has a volo on its back."

  "The first two are due to living in an enviro ri Fire elements, while the tter relies on the body structure, one is aernal factor, the other is an internal factor"

  "Professor, would making my Charizard live near a volo increase its fme temperature too?" the earlier student asked.

  "It would take time—at least ten years or more. Staying for just a short while wouldn't be enough to enhahe Fire element at its core," the professor expined.

  "Ten years? That's way too long! I 't even maen days"

  The professor's face twitched. "What's your name, young man?"

  "Uh, my name's A.J, Professor."

  "A.J., get out of the css!"