Chapter 49: Rock Mountain Ruins

The next day, June 27th.

When Xiang Guangtai woke up from his dream, he found that there was something extra on his body at some point.

Celebi was lying quietly on his chest, making him a bit breathless.

And Dou Jianqiao was still leaning against the corner of the wall at 45°∠. Now it became two swords, leaning more steadily.

Cherubi was still in the soil outside the house and didn't come in.

This workshop has also become lively.

Three Pokémon, although one is not caught by himself, but becoming friends feels better.

Xiang Guangtai just stared at the ceiling like this, not daring to move his body, but after a while, Celebi seemed to have woken up. She stretched, her two small feet kicked hard, and she made a light and pleasant sound!

"Time~"

Watching Celebi wake up, Xiang Guangtai's mood also improved, but there is one point that Xiang Guangtai really wants to complain about, that is, the circle around Celebi's eyes is particularly like a dark circle caused by lack of sleep...

Forget it, this kind of complaint will not be liked by anyone!

"Good morning."

Xiang Guangtai greeted Celebi, and Celebi also flapped her small wings and flew up. Only then could Xiang Guangtai sit up, but it seemed that she saw Xiang Guangtai was not energetic, so Celebi flew to Xiang Guangtai's head again, closed her eyes, and hummed softly.

That sound was extremely pleasant, like a bell sound from the distant sky.

Heal Bell restored Xiang Guangtai's state!

"Oh! I feel especially good now!"

"Let's have breakfast first!"

Xiang Guangtai stroked Celebi for a while, then headed to the kitchen.

Today is to make strange food.

After getting the salt rock, he hadn't

The bait in the Hisui era is actually made by mixing bait ingredients with corresponding plants or minerals, and the bait ingredients are rice balls or flour dumplings.

Come to think of it, if you use rice, it's a rice ball, and if you use flour, isn't it a steamed bun?

Thinking this, Guang Tai began to make bait. After steaming the rice and kneading it into a rice ball, he added the corresponding Iron Ore. The rice ball gradually turned pink; thus, a most basic "Mineral Bait" was completed.

However, Guang Tai pondered for a while in his mind, and according to the information on bait crafting, he decided to add a few more things.

"Celebi, can you use Magical Leaf?"

Guang Tai looked at Celebi on the side. Celebi was curiously watching the Mineral Bait and seemed a bit hungry.

"Cele!"

Although Celebi didn't know why Guang Tai asked this, it did as told immediately, and thus produced some Magical Leaves.

Guang Tai kneaded those Magical Leaves into the Mineral Bait and added chopped berries.

"Completed a craft production!"

"Crafted Food: Mineral Bait."

"Effect: Made by kneading minerals, Magical Leaves, berries, and bait ingredients. It has a strong attraction to Grass and Rock-type Pokémon. If other special crops are mixed in, there might be unique effects."

"Extra Effect: Fierce Grass Food—Within a certain period, Grass-type energy will increase significantly, which is beneficial for the growth of Grass-type Pokémon!"

"Learned Skill: Cooking Expert—The food you make will become more delicious, deliciousness +15%."

This, did he make a Fierce Grass (Overgrow) dumpling?

Guang Tai looked at the Fierce Grass Bait in his hand and handed it to Celebi, who immediately took it and began to feast!

So delicious!

Guang Tai also stretched his body. At this time, the Doublade also woke up, drifting slowly from the corner of the wall, while outside the window, the leaves of the Petilil appeared, swaying and peeking into the house.

Everyone is awake!

Guang Tai opened the window and brought the Petilil inside, then immediately made several more dumplings. The Petilil and Doublade were extremely happy, especially the Petilil, who felt her body filled with power after eating the Fierce Grass dumpling!

"Wawa!"

The leaves on the Petilil's head seemed to have become a bit larger!

"Today, let's go to the Shenhe Forest. I need to prepare all the tools for entering the forest."

After everyone had finished breakfast, Guang Tai began to prepare the tools for going out.

He put on his work clothes, shouldered his material backpack, and put in the tools for carving and repairs. He didn't forget to bring the "Luminous Moss" that Celebi needed.

"Cele!"

Celebi suddenly flew in front of her sculpture and then picked up that small stone carving.

"Do you want to take this with you?"

"Cele!" Celebi nodded; she was quite fond of this sculpture, but suddenly she looked around, then found the Doublade and began to whisper something.

"Yo-wu~" The Doublade shook its blades and translated for Guang Tai:

Celebi wants to use other good things to trade for this sculpture.

"Bi~!" Celebi made a proud sound, expressing her meaning!

In the process of time travel, one can get different treasures in different eras! If she uses these things to trade, it should be fine, right!

After all, she can't take his things for nothing!

"Celebi's sculpture... if this thing is put into the forest shrine, it will probably become something like a wild Pokémon save point, right? After all, it can recall moves."

Guang Tai chuckled: "Then I'll look forward to it next time."

"Cele~~!" Celebi nodded, then proudly raised her head, indicating that the next gift would definitely not disappoint Guang Tai!

After Guang Tai and the two Pokémon went out, the Petilil came to greet them.

"No one is watching the house today, let's go together."

"Wawa~!"

Applying the game, maybe it's 31, but if it's the real Pokémon world... who knows! After all, in the initial generation, the maximum individual value was only 15!

Individual value is talent, effort value is sweat, and true genius is achieved by talent + sweat and a part of luck.

"You're very motivated, but we might not necessarily encounter those Hisuian Voltorb this time."

Guang Tai squatted down to touch her leaves, then stepped onto the road to the forest with the three Pokémon.

And after Guang Tai and the Pokémon left, in the forest on the other side, the Turtwig poked its head out from the bushes, looking with some envy at the departing Guang Tai and the Pokémon.

Having companions is really nice.

But no one is here today; he can come here to rest during the day, do some photosynthesis, and let the plants on his back grow better.

He has no companions, so he can only rely on these "special grasses."

And then, slowly become stronger.

On the roof of the workshop, Unown E stared at this Turtwig. It had already discovered that this guy had been running here often these past two days... it was the guy brought by Celebi.

It doesn't look like it has any intention of destroying the land; let's observe a bit more.

Celebi led the way in front, first passing through the outer woodland where they cut trees last time, then immediately began to go deeper, arriving near the Apricorn tree where they found the Black Apricorn.

Next, the route guided by Celebi began to change; the location was to the northwest.

"Huh, is it really in the direction that Voltorb rolled away?"

Guang Tai rubbed his chin while touching the items on his body. Just in case, he took out a bottle of Golden Spray and the Stealth Spray he bought from Volo last time.

Effect of Golden Spray: Weak wild Pokémon will not appear at all.

Effect of Stealth Spray: For a short period after use, one's footsteps will disappear, making it difficult to be noticed by wild Pokémon.

The Petilil looked left and right, maintaining a battle stance at all times.

After using the spray, the effect was very significant; the surrounding Pokémon seemed to have all left. In the process, Guang Tai picked up quite a few materials dropped by Pokémon and also discovered new Iron Ore.

Then, not knowing how long they had walked, they had completely penetrated deep into the northwest forest, and the anticipated battle did not occur. Neither powerful wild Pokémon nor the Hisuian Voltorb family appeared.

Celebi suddenly flew to the front and waved its little hands:

"Cele!"

We're here, it's that ruin! Let's take the stones first!

It was a fallen large tree, lying across the middle of the woods, with other slanted trees around it; something seemed to have happened here.

"Doublade, use Fury Cutter."

Guang Tai gave the order. Although he should use Cut for trees blocking the way, this tree was truly too large.

The Doublade drew its swords immediately!

Double speed Fury Cutter, cancel!

"This doesn't need to be canceled..." Guang Tai scratched his head, watching the Doublade quickly cut a large gap in the tree, then walked in with the three Pokémon.

Ancient trees blocking the sky, dark green shrubs, tall unknown plants, and various mosses visible everywhere, moist soil and humus—until passing through this relatively dim zone, light suddenly appeared ahead.

A relatively open clearing presented itself before Guang Tai's eyes, and this was not naturally formed, but artificially cleared, because the gate of that ruin was wide open and had strange traces of repair. One wall had collapsed, revealing the scenery inside.

Guang Tai led the three Pokémon into the ruin. As soon as he stepped in, Guang Tai immediately discovered something wrong.

The patterns on the floor of this ruin, why are they somewhat familiar? They look like an... H?

"Could this be the Rock Peak Ruin?!"

Looking toward the interior of the ruin, the main color of the temple was earth-toned, as if built from mud bricks mixed with rocks. In the works of past generations, the Rock Peak Ruin was always the sleeping place of the legendary giant Regirock. The locations they were in were also different, and they also possessed different methods of opening the door.

Guang Tai walked into the ruin. Like other Rock Peak Ruins, there were no extra rooms, only a main hall, inside which was a damaged giant stone statue.

There were traces of battle around.

Guang Tai suddenly felt a bit dazed. Looking at the damaged ruin before him, the scene in front of him gradually turned into an illusion, restoring to the way the ruin looked when it was still intact!

He shook his head violently, the illusion disappeared, and thoughts and information emerged in his mind.

So that's it; that illusion just now was the knowledge from the "Ancient Inscriptions" obtained at the very beginning!

The understanding of all ruin knowledge increasing by 25% actually meant this—being able to see the original appearance of the ruins and understand some hidden mechanisms and strange characters within the ruins!

Thus, with the help of the knowledge, Guang Tai soon saw a large amount of iron ore and a light purple stone placed on the ground in a corner blocked by rubble.

It's an "Eviolite"!

Guang Tai hurriedly went over to pick up the Eviolite and confirmed its authenticity. Information popped up in his mind automatically, but because he had already obtained an Eviolite, no craft was triggered.

"Yo-wu~!"

The Doublade saw the Eviolite and immediately became excited!

The power is back, the old stone is back!

"I'll help you polish it again when we get back."

"Yo-pu~!"

This time the two swords didn't argue either, and their mood suddenly became happy and joyful!

And not long after Guang Tai and the others entered the ruin, a large Scyther landed near the giant tree that had been cut open, staring dumbfounded at the huge tree that had been split!

"Scy!"

A strong one!

The Scyther sharpened its scythes, its eyes full of vigilance, and discovered the footprints on the ground.

Did a human from the outside come in?!

This level of "sword technique" is a bit too powerful; it will cause a great obstacle to its domination of the outer forest!

"Scy."

A black ghost giant, a giant bear wrapped in peat, a rock giant, and now another human who can split a large tree?

There are more and more troublesome guys.

Originally, that giant bear running to the outer forest was already very troublesome, and the forest commotion caused after the stone giant woke up made this place even more restless; even humans have run in to get involved.

But for some reason, it inexplicably didn't want to attack this human—what is going on?

Once the Scyther headed in the direction of the footprints, it found its desire to fight dropping rapidly, which left it baffled, and in the end, it could only fly away from here vigilantly!

This human is strange! For today, it's better to continue harassing that rock giant!

(End of chapter)