Chapter 39: New Carved Products

"New products added..."

After Charizard left, Xiang Guangtai's work here was basically finished.

He made a few more carvings, mostly stone carvings, with fewer wooden ones, but he marked the new wooden carvings as customizable.

Afterward, he took photos, uploaded them to the shop, and added new products.

Xiang Guangtai designed them based on the Pokémon of the clients he had met or the Pokémon that worked, but there were also new items.

The Pokémon he had encountered, or rather, those represented by his clients, were "Charizard," "Charmander," "Dragonite," "Scyther," "Gengar," and "Xatu."

And the new items were "Slugma," "Lairon," and "Dratini."

Adding the Snorlax made earlier, these were the products for sale.

Xiang Guangtai felt he should see which models sold well; if they sold well, he would make more, and if they didn't, he would stop making them and develop new sculptures.

Of course, don't forget to put the Arceus sculpture up for sale, although he guessed no one would recognize this Pokémon... He made three stone carvings in total, plus one wooden carving, making four.

At the same time, whether it was an evolved Pokémon or an unevolved Pokémon, as long as the material, carving technique, and style remained unchanged, the effects of the carvings were somewhat similar.

This point was discovered from the statues of Charmander and Charizard.

"Artifact: Small 【Ancient Stone Statue】 — Style of the Shenhe Ruins."

"Description: A stone statue carved in an ancient style; the shape is Charmander, which some enthusiasts will purchase at a high price."

"Artifact Effect: Hot Air — The surrounding air will become warm."

And Charizard's effect was:

"Artifact Effect: Burning — The flames will burn more vigorously."

For Dou Jianqiao, Xiang Guangtai didn't forget... Although the patterns on the scabbard were a bit troublesome, the finished product looked quite good.

First, the stone carving; Xiang Guangtai placed it next to the Cherubi carving.

He deliberately made it in the style of a "Sword in the Stone," adding a stone base that could be inserted, but because there were two swords, they were inserted diagonally into the base, forming an X.

"Artifact: Small 【Ancient Stone Statue】 — Style of the Shenhe Ruins."

"Description: A stone statue carved in an ancient style; the shape is Dou Jianqiao, which some enthusiasts will purchase at a high price."

"Artifact Effect: Gathering — Efficiency of chopping/cutting/gathering near the statue +10%."

"Oh, a statue for chopping wood? If used together with the Cherubi statue, is it a fast-growing forest farm?"

"It can also be used for cutting stones and tailoring cloth; this is an excellent work-type buff statue."

It seems now that the ancient bracelets should be for teaching moves, while the ancient statues are items with various small buffs.

As for the ancient pot and ancient crown, Xiang Guangtai didn't know what abilities they had yet, and in the game, things related to crowns and pots... King's Rock and Prison Bottle?

But many King's Rocks are natural stones, not forged, although artificial examples exist.

As for the Silver Bottle Cap and Gold Bottle Cap, they look more like bottle caps with a crown pattern printed on them.

"Ha, maybe the forged ancient crown is actually the head of Calyrex."

Secondly, the wooden carving.

"Artifact: Small 【Ancient Wooden Carving】 — Style of the Shenhe Ruins."

"Description: A stone statue carved in an ancient style; the shape is Dou Jianqiao, which some enthusiasts will purchase at a high price."

"Artifact Effect: Prayer."

"Gained knowledge due to completing some work repeatedly."

"Carving Expert: Carving efficiency and technique +20%."

Xiang Guangtai handed the ancient wooden carving to Dou Jianqiao.

"Come on, pray to the wooden carving and let it show you its power, but it's best not to pray for increased speed. Because even if you evolve to the highest form, your speed itself is still not fast enough."

"Whether it's attack speed or movement speed, from the perspective of priority, the speed option is currently not important."

Dou Jianqiao was a bit puzzled by this.

Isn't a sword supposed to be as fast as possible? Swing the sword, and the opponent is already cut down before they can even see the attack!

Besides, he himself is capable of "Body Lightening," which can significantly increase his speed. Now that he has two swords, if he maximizes the power of his speed...

"Yo-pu? Yo-wu? (⊙╰X╯⊙)~?"

So, why not choose speed?

Xiang Guangtai listened to Dou Jianqiao's protest, his thoughts wandering, and he couldn't help but think of Ash's Torterra.

Well, known as the cannon-fodder turtle, but Xiang Guangtai really wanted to catch a Torterra.

Ash's Torterra was because its speed was particularly fast before evolution, so it exerted all its ability on speed, but after evolving to the final form, because its body became heavy, it had to exert extra power to move at full speed, increasing stamina consumption.

In real-time combat, a Pokémon's stamina is also a link that must be paid attention to. Even if there is still life left, if stamina drops, both attack and defense will become much weaker.

This Torterra had been playing the speed style since it was a Turtwig, ignoring the training of defense, which led to the weakness of low defense after evolution, often unable to withstand the opponent's attack.

However, there was no item like "Loaded Dice" in Ash's era.

And in later eras, Torterra could learn Shell Smash, which allowed the speed-attack style Torterra to appear. The playstyle of Shell Smash + Loaded Dice + Bullet Seed + Wood Hammer could make Torterra completely abandon defense and defeat the opponent quickly with a desperate attitude.

And Dou Jianqiao's final evolution, Aegislash, is generally best used for counter-attacks, relying on the high durability of the Shield Form to take an attack and then switching to Blade Form to output damage. If you attack first, you will switch to Blade Form and get hit.

Although there is no turn limit in real-time combat, the base stat changes brought by the "Stance Change" ability still exist, which means Aegislash in Blade Form is still very fragile. But don't worry, leave the defense to King's Shield, which has +4 priority.

It won't be too late to increase the speed individual value after getting more rare wood.

"In reality, it's equivalent to abandoning your original talent to do something you're not good at, which will lead to half the result with twice the effort."

"We must fully exert our strengths. After our strengths are exerted, we will use the remaining time and effort to make up for our shortcomings."

Xiang Guangtai counseled and explained to Dou Jianqiao and Cherubi, while his tone shifted slightly:

"And after training your shortcomings, it will also cause the opponent to misjudge. A Pokémon that shouldn't have such speed possesses extraordinary speed, and a Pokémon that lacks power possesses extraordinary power. Combining these supplemented shortcomings with the excellent talents you possess is the secret to moving toward strength."

Just like the initial era of Pokémon games, in the first and second generations, the maximum value of a single effort value was not 252, but 65,535.

In the real world, the efforts made by Pokémon will inevitably be rewarded and will not be locked by the so-called 252 limit, because this limit does not exist, just like the "individual value raised to the maximum" seen before; the wooden carving only gave this information and did not give a specific number.

To use gaming terms, perhaps it's 31, but in the realistic Pokémon world... who knows! After all, in the initial generations, the maximum number for individual values was only 15!

Individual values are talent, effort values are sweat, and a true genius is achieved through the combination of talent, sweat, and a portion of luck.

"Yo-wu!"

"Cherubi!"

Both Dou Jianqiao and Cherubi understood Xiang Guangtai's meaning, and then focused intently on the wooden carving. Dou Jianqiao floated forward, its two eyes began to close, and fragments of memories from the past flashed through its mind.

Dou Jianqiao, who had stayed in an ancient kingdom, seemed to have special feelings for the word "ideal." After seeing Cherubi fighting so hard, it immediately recognized her; perhaps this is chivalry... although "Honedge" was not a knight at the time.

The wooden carving began to emit brilliant light! It became as dazzling as a small sun again!

"The ancient wooden carving responded to the Pokémon's wish and showed it power."

"Power shown: Dou Jianqiao's attack individual value has been raised to the maximum!"

"Yo-pu! Yo-wu!"

Dou Jianqiao felt its sword body become sharper!

"And the Arceus stone carving," Xiang Guangtai thought of the Arceus stone carving.

The stone carving can allow Pokémon to learn a move that can only be used after evolution, and the second use is for hatching eggs, but he doesn't need it here because this isn't a daycare.

Maybe wait a little longer, wait until Dou Jianqiao and Cherubi become stronger, and then let them touch the Arceus stone carving.

Speaking of which, if Dou Jianqiao learns King's Shield... No, that small shield behind it seems unusable; the Pokédex description is that the shield is incomplete and cannot withstand attacks.

When in the house, Dou Jianqiao had already seen the stone carving and tried to touch it, but was stopped by him.

At the same time, he also used a large piece of wood to carve a new Arceus wooden carving, but unfortunately, the stone carving was upgraded to premium directly at the time, but the wooden carving did not change.

Perhaps the wooden carving also needs extra materials and extra brand-new craftsmanship to become better, just like the ancient stone carving must have ruin stones and ancient rocks.

And that wooden carving is basically useless now.

The wooden carving will show power for Arceus, but where is Arceus? And does it need this wooden carving to strengthen itself?

"If this thing is sold online, others will definitely think I'm faking it if they find it has no effect."

"I'll just sell it to Volo and scam him out of some money?"

"Tomorrow... go into the forest to collect wood and salt rocks."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 40 =====