The Disciple of the Vanished Dojo
After returning to school, Bruce's beautiful and fulfilling university life began anew.
Bruce resumed his previous routine, studying, attending classes, practicing, and in no time, a week had passed.
Saturday morning,
Bruce arrived at the school gates and found that Nicholas was already standing in front of the family's luxury car.
When he saw Bruce, Nicholas smiled, quickly walked over, cupped his fists, and said, "Junior Brother Bayne, congratulations on becoming the champion of the first-year student exchange competition."
Bruce responded with a fist salute, "Nicholas, thank you."
Although Bruce had never revered Master Doom as his teacher, and the two didn't have a direct relationship, during his training at the Doom Dojo, Bruce had habitually addressed the other disciples as brothers to facilitate communication.
The two got into the car.
"Junior Brother Bayne, I watched the entire match," Nicholas suddenly said.
Hey, why does that sound so familiar?
"Your Metang and Gardevoir already have strong professional-level strength, and Ace-level is just around the corner," he said with a smile.
"Thank you," Bruce smiled slightly.
Nicholas shook his head seriously, looked at Bruce, and said, "Junior Brother Bayne, your psychic talent is already top-notch, and your two Pokémon are not far behind, their talent is astonishingly high."
"Two eyes."
"Your potential far surpasses ours. Over time, you might become an elite figure." Nicholas's words were sincere, and his tone was earnest.
Bruce smiled slightly and responded, "Nicholas, you're too modest."
Frankly speaking, after getting along with him for some time, Bruce had developed a good impression of this older brother Nicholas.
Nicholas's personality was very similar to Liam's—gentlemanly, modest, and polite.
But Liam had more passion and fire than Nicholas. He would sit among the crowd, shouting with a flushed face, cheering for the players.
Nicholas wouldn't be like that; he would simply sit quietly in his chair and watch in silence.
When the match ended, he would come up and congratulate you.
In his eyes, there was only the pursuit of practice, and everything else was trivial.
During their conversation, the car slowly stopped in front of the Doom Dojo.
Bruce got out of the car, turned around, and noticed that Nicholas was still sitting in the last row, motionless.
Perhaps due to the curiosity in Bruce's eyes, Nicholas smiled gently and took the initiative to say, "Junior Brother Bayne, I've been training in a secret realm during this time."
Bruce nodded in realization.
The secret realm Nicholas mentioned was the psychic secret realm that Bruce and Jessica had visited together.
According to Nicholas, there were many psychic Pokémon living in the secret realm, and the environment inside was excellent, perfect for cultivation.
However, this secret realm was still in the early stages of development, and currently, only Pokémon Association personnel and Ace-level Trainers from the dojo could enter.
When the development matured, this secret realm would be opened to the public.
After bidding farewell to Nicholas, Bruce went directly to the dojo.
Due to some previous training, Bruce ran into many disciples, greeted them, and went to the room in the farthest corner.
The first thing to do, of course, was to visit Master Doom.
Master Doom was still sitting cross-legged on the futon, invisible psychic energy fluctuations rippling through his body, mysterious and profound.
"I heard you're the champion of the competition."
Suddenly, Master Doom opened his eyes and said flatly.
"Keep it up," he added.
"Thank you, Master." Bruce nodded slightly.
Master Doom's reaction was expected by Bruce. Psychic people are inherently indifferent, not to mention that the first-year student exchange competition wasn't a large-scale competition, so the popularity was limited.
"Train hard, and if you don't understand something, ask me in time," Master Doom said again.
Upon hearing this, Bruce hurriedly said, "Master Doom, I have a question."
Under Master Doom's inquisitive gaze, Bruce quickly considered his words and told him about the idea of the gravity training room.
"This is what I came up with, but I'm still not sure. Can I use Psychic to complete the production?" Bruce said.
"Gravity training room…" Master Doom silently listened to Bruce's explanation, then his eyes flickered slightly, thinking carefully.
After a long time,
Master Doom lifted his eyes to look at Bruce and said gently, "First, go practice, I need to think about this carefully."
"Okay."
As Bruce left the room, Master Doom murmured something softly, stood up from the futon, and quickly walked toward the bookshelf in the corner.
"It should be here…" he murmured softly.
Then, Master Doom examined the shelves one by one, and after a while, he took out a green-covered book. The title of the book was Two Simple Sciences: Physics.
Bruce went to his Calm Mind room, sent out his three Pokémon, and began Calm Mind.
Although Blaziken and Metang couldn't master the move [Calm Mind, Blaziken's experience learning [Focus Punch] showed that practicing Calm Mind more during the weekdays was useful.
Ignoring Metang scratching his head, Bruce relaxed and began to Calm his Mind.
In recent days, he had focused on preparing for the first-year student exchange competition, so Bruce had barely practiced Psychic, and his Psychic progress had been relatively slow.
As his greatest confidence, Psychic still couldn't be neglected, and he needed to persist in practicing day and night.
One day, Bruce would use Psychic to rival a psychic-type Pokémon.
Hours later, around noon.
Bruce opened his eyes just in time, about to leave the room for lunch, but suddenly, a rapid alarm sounded from the Doom Dojo.
A siren?
Bruce seemed confused and looked outside.
After staying in the Doom Dojo for so long, this was the first time he had heard the siren.
Just as Bruce was thinking secretly, someone knocked on the door, and a brother who had seen Bruce a few times brought a breathless news.
"Bruce, Nicholas and the others are missing."
Missing?
"Where are they missing?" Bruce was startled and asked hastily.
The next second, he remembered that Nicholas had said before that he was going to cultivate in a secret realm—could it be…?
Indeed, the brother nodded and said, "It seems they've disappeared in the newly developed psychic secret realm."
Then, the older brother hurriedly said, "Junior Brother Bayne, let's meet up first. I don't know much about the rest of the situation."
Bruce nodded silently, knowing that this older brother considered him a true disciple of the dojo, but he didn't choose to explain aloud, instead following him to the meeting point.
There were many disciples at the Doom Dojo, hundreds of them were psychic, but only more than a hundred disciples had gathered in the training field.
Bruce looked around and realized that the disciples present were psychic types with strong combat effectiveness, or at least professional-level trainers.
As a result, the number of people was barely a hundred.
Well, after all, most psychic types in most dojos only have Psychic and relatively low combat experience.
Standing on a high platform overlooking everyone was a gym-level trainer from the Doom Dojo, and he was also a powerful psychic.
His old name had been abandoned, and he was now called Tobey Doom, managing the dojo's matters inside and out for Master Victor Doom.
At this moment, Tobey's face was solemn. He first looked around and then said in a concentrated voice, "Everyone, [be quiet]."
The crowd, which had been a little noisy, quickly calmed down.
Tobey said again, "Half an hour ago, Nicholas and five other dojo disciples disappeared in the newly discovered psychic secret realm."
As soon as this was said, the crowd stirred, and soon, the riot broke out.
Seeing this, Tobey let out a cold snort, and his rising psychic energy quickly spread to the surroundings, shocking everyone present.
It was just that when this psychic energy approached Bruce, it suddenly turned and ran toward others from both sides.
"This secret realm was discovered a month ago, and there are a large number of psychic Pokémon living in it, with strengths ranging from Novice to Ace level. It belongs to a medium-level secret realm."
"After the disappearance, the Pokémon Association immediately sent people to search the secret realm, but they still haven't found them."
Speaking of this, Tobey's voice was deafening as it echoed in everyone's ears.
"The secret area here is quite large, and the progress of the search is slow, as it only depends on the personnel of these associations."
"Now that Master Doom has gone to the secret realm, we should go there immediately to search for traces of the missing disciples."
Tobey spoke seriously, and the purpose of summoning these dojo disciples was precisely to find the missing disciples.
"According to the previous competition format, after ten minutes, gather at the dojo entrance and head to the secret realm."
As soon as the words fell, the disciples quickly formed teams, with 22 disciples in each team and an Ace-level trainer as the captain.
Not long after, Tobey saw one team after another leave the place.
In the field, Bruce was the only one who had discarded the spider.
Tobey quickly approached Bruce, a stiff smile on his face, and said kindly, "Young Master Bayne, I won't bother you with this matter. You may stay in the dojo and practice."
Upon hearing this, Bruce shook his head and said seriously, "Since I'm training in the Doom Temple, I've received teachings from Master Doom and Senior Brother Nicholas and learned the method of Calm Mind. Therefore, I can naturally be considered a semi-daoist disciple."
"In this way, although my strength is low, I
can also help find Senior Brother Nicholas."
Bruce had thought carefully about this response. Of course, he wasn't willing to do things with good intentions but cause accidents, unlike some people who clearly weren't capable but insisted on helping and caused mishaps.
Bruce had a clear understanding of his own strength, and Blaziken was already comparable to an Ace-level Pokémon, which was enough to protect him.
Most importantly, he was a psychic, a powerful psychic.
After Tobey silently listened and looked carefully at Bruce, a sincere smile appeared on his face. He nodded and said, "Okay."
"Come with me."