Chapter 50

In the Rock Mountain ruins.

Xiang Guangtai approached the broken giant stone statue with extreme caution, while simultaneously discovering that half of the H-shaped characters on the ground were already covered by rubble.

Looking at the statue, a great deal of information surged into his mind:

【Ancient Crafted Sculpture: Giant Stone Statue (Damaged).】

【Description: A stone statue used for worshiping and sealing Regirock. Now, it seems impossible to feel any power from the statue, and it is severely damaged.】

A statue with no effect, and it had collapsed by half; this meant that the Regirock should no longer be here.

"Looking closely at the surrounding minerals, I realize these seem to have crumbled out from the interior walls of the ruins."

"Regirock is said to seek out special stones to repair its own body, so did the ancients also add a large amount of ore to its temple when they worshiped it?"

Aside from these, Xiang Guangtai also packed iron ore, limestone, and the like into his backpack; among the iron ores, the high-quality ones were "Iron Fragments."

【Rare Material: Iron Fragments.】

【Description: Natural metal sheets that can be processed into parts such as buckles.】

【Forging Insight: Obtained some forging knowledge from excellent blacksmiths.】

Xiang Guangtai also easily discovered Soft Sand.

In the area where the ruins had collapsed, there was a lot of sand, piled into sand dunes.

【Rare Material: Soft Sand (Quartz).】

【Effect: Sand with a delicate texture. After being held, the power of Ground-type moves increases.】

【Obtained Craft: Unique Glass-Blowing Craft (C): Through the firing and processing of Soft Sand, unique glass products can be made, retaining the original material's effects.】

【Craftable items: "Marbles," "Glass Flute."】

Oh, it's the specialty item "Glass Flute" from the Hoenn region, though the Hoenn Glass Flute is made from volcanic ash and can produce flutes with different effects after being processed by local glass masters.

"I wonder what unique function the flute I make will have."

Xiang Guangtai continued searching in the ruins, and when he touched the collapsed wall section and dug out some heavy, uniquely textured, and differently colored stones, information appeared once again.

【Rare Material: Ancient Rock.】

【Description: Rocks that have fallen off Regirock or have been assimilated by it. It is said that all the rocks composing its body were dug from different lands, and stones identical to those composing its body can be found in all strata of the world; some Rock-type Pokémon will also shed or create the same stones.】

【Stones containing powerful Rock-type energy or injected with powerful spiritual energy are Ancient Rocks.】

【Obtained Craft: Ancient Architectural Craft (B) — Combined with ruin carving craft and environmental carving craft, it can reproduce buildings with an ancient atmosphere.】

【Acquisition Clues: Regirock, Gigalith, Stonjourner, Carbink, Diancie, World Tree.】

【Craftable: King's Rock, Cleanse Tag (Shell).】

【The King's Rock itself is a naturally formed crown-shaped stone. If one masters the corresponding craft and has Ancient Rock, it can be processed into an artificially made King's Rock, but it cannot unlock the "Ancient Wang Guan" crafting craft.】

"Oh, so this is Ancient Rock! In other words, it's a stone that has been assimilated by a unique and powerful Rock-type Pokémon!"

"I can make King's Rocks and Cleanse Tags now!"

King's Rock, an evolution and held item; after being held, when attacking and dealing damage, it sometimes makes the opponent flinch!

And if given to Poliwhirl or Slowpoke, it can make them evolve!

Cleanse Tag, described as a crystal-clear pendant. After being held, stats will not be lowered by the opponent's moves or abilities!

There is speculation that its raw material is the diamond of "Carbink," which has the Clear Body ability, or the iron skin of Metagross.

In battle, this thing is the item that Pokémon with the "Intimidate" ability hate the most! Of course, only the enemy's!

But with the three Legendary Giants, sure enough... one can make such items!

Moreover, judging from the information description, it's not just Regirock; other Pokémon can also create Ancient Rocks.

Indeed, for example, Gigalith; the orange rocks on its body are actually crystals of rock power. It uses the orange crystals growing on its body to absorb sunlight, and after a reaction occurs in its energy core, it fires them from its mouth as light orbs.

And in Stonjourner's Pokédex description, it is said that the rock composition of its body is consistent with bedrock, and Stonjourner has the unique "Power Spot" ability that boosts teammates.

As for Carbink and Diancie, it goes without saying, and the World Tree is considered the origin of Fossil Pokémon; the rocks there are all attribute crystals with powerful life force.

In this case, the effect of Ancient Rock is indeed similar to ruin stones and can be substituted for each other, because ruin stones also contain the spiritual power of the ancients. Ruin stones carved by the ancients embody the spirit and thoughts of the ancients; this idealistic energy is real in the Pokémon world, otherwise, how could there be Ghost and Psychic types?

Xiang Guangtai felt that there were quite a few useful good things in this temple, with various ores peeling off from the collapsed walls onto the ground.

At this time, after collecting enough materials, the backpack began to become particularly heavy. Fortunately, Celebi used Psychic to make the backpack float, which made it much easier.

"Thank you, Celebi."

"Cele~!" Celebi patted its small chest.

Leave it to her, no problem!

"Is the Ancient Crystal also here, or is it this on the floor..." Xiang Guangtai searched for the last item that could be found in the Rock Mountain ruins, which was the "Ancient Crystal."

In the entire ruins, the things most like crystals were the round eyeballs on the ancient giant stone statue and the huge H symbol on the floor. After all, this thing would automatically light up when stepped on, and the crystal-clear yellow halo looked just like a crystal.

Xiang Guangtai carefully swept away the dust on the ground, then touched the transparent part in the middle of the H symbol, and information immediately gathered in his mind.

【Precious Material: Ancient Crystal (This material has not been obtained yet!)】

【Description: An ancient precious crystal with incredible power; it can convey the will of Pokémon, allow humans and Pokémon to communicate heart-to-heart, and can also seal Pokémon.】

【Craftable: Cleanse Tag (Core).】

Xiang Guangtai looked around and finally found a huge, damaged crystal in a corner, which seemed to be extra material used to fill the wall.

"Obtained Ancient Crystal!"

【Obtained Knowledge: Heart of Crystal: Able to communicate heart-to-heart with ancient Pokémon.】

【Obtained Craft: Unique Tool Manufacturing Craft (C+): By mixing Pokémon materials, one can make some production and ritual tools with unique abilities; it may require forging technology.】

【Craftable item: "Part Protector."】

After collecting enough materials, Xiang Guangtai and the three Pokémon left the Rock Mountain ruins. With the help of Celebi's Psychic, even if the backpack was stuffed with heavy stones and materials, he could easily carry it.

After this, following Celebi's guidance, he continued to move southwest.

Before long, in an open space in the forest, he saw Celebi's shrine.

The shrine here was different from the Ilex Forest shrine; it was entirely built of stone, and its architectural style looked like the stone shrine in the "Celebi: The Voice of the Forest" movie, with a stone base below and a stone shrine above, but there were also obvious differences.

This style was the "Celestic Ruins style."

The upper part of the shrine was completely missing, the shrine part had vanished, and the lower pedestal also had many defects.

"Alright, let's start the restoration. First, I need to process the ruin stones into the shape of a shrine. For the severely broken and missing parts, I will re-carve a shrine and then splice it with the base. For slight scratches or damage, I will use stone materials and debris to fill and polish them to restore their surface luster."

Soon, Xiang Guangtai began to work, and Doublade also participated in the work, helping Xiang Guangtai cut the stone materials.

As for Petilil and Celebi, they helped Xiang Guangtai on the side, taking some polished stones and re-gluing and inlaying them into the surface of the shrine pedestal, gradually restoring the missing parts to their original state.

Petilil plucked two leaves from its head, and Celebi moved water over with Psychic. The two Pokémon happily began to polish those stones with Petilil's leaves.

Xiang Guangtai also felt it was magical when he saw this scene.

Those leaves could not only be used as medicine, but could they also be used as sandpaper?

However, the Grass type originally had a restraining relationship with the Rock type, so... could this kind of polishing also be considered an "attack"?

It seems that in the future, he can let Petilil help him use leaves or "Magical Leaf" to polish sculpture products.

A long time passed. Xiang Guangtai finished carving the shrine and glued the severely damaged parts. However, even without gluing, it could be placed very stably because both the new shrine and the old shrine were trapezoidal in shape.

Assembling, gluing, and repairing, the shrine was restored to its original state, and the damaged parts of the pedestal below were also polished to a brand new look by Petilil and Celebi. Finally, the glowing moss was attached, and this small shrine immediately radiated an ancient charm and atmosphere.

"Cele!"

Celebi was extremely happy; it couldn't wait to open the new shrine and put its small sculpture inside.

This way, everything was the same as in the past!

At this moment, thoughts suddenly surged into Xiang Guangtai's mind.

【Crafted Sculpture: Celebi's Shrine.】

【Description: An ancient shrine carved by the people of the ancient Celestic Town to worship Celebi. It was once severely damaged, but now it has been restored with the help of a highly skilled craftsman.】

【Crafted Item Effect: Time Jump — This is the landing point for Celebi when traveling through time, and it will occasionally refresh incredible things from the past and future.】

A wild material refresh point? Xiang Guangtai rubbed his chin, and then he heard a sound coming from behind the shrine.

Did something fall out?

It was a grass-green, plump fruit, rolling out from behind the shrine with a rumble.

It was... "Lum Berry"!

(End of chapter)