Elves: Angler's Rainy Day Team

The 30th day of traveling to the Kanto region, cloudy.

Yu Hai got up early in the morning, made breakfast for the elves, and then let the Hazelnut Ball use high-speed spinning techniques against the rocks to grind off the bark shell on its body.

They were polishing the shell yesterday and tamed the Hazelnut Ball yesterday. In front of the Mosquito Frog, Hazelnut Ball still wanted to self-destruct, but that was impossible.

The unconvinced Hazelnut Ball, after being beaten up several times by the Mosquito Frog, finally accepted his fate and let Yu Hai arrange everything. Hazelnut Ball just did as he was told, and he was provided with food, lodging, and fighting.

The hazelnut ball has been constantly polishing its shell from yesterday to this morning. Its original diameter of 80 centimeters is now only 60 centimeters, and its height has also shrunk a lot and is less than one meter.

Not only did its size shrink, but its weight also shrunk. It originally weighed more than 30 kilograms, which was four times the average weight of a hazelnut ball.

Now it weighs only over 20 kilograms, and most of the outer shells that have been worn off are the fragile bark, and he has not yet started to work on the round tangerine bark.

Because he found that if he continued to grind it in this way, the hardness of the hazelnut ball would become terribly high. The fragile shell would be worn away, and only the hardest part would remain, forming the shell of the hazelnut ball.

No matter how hard the hazelnut ball is, even if the shell after evolution turns into steel, steel is afraid of fire. He wondered if he could add something into the shell so that even if the shell turns into steel, it would still be fire-resistant.

Let Foretos go from four times weak fire to two times weak fire. He didn't dare to ask for one time weak fire. As long as he could reduce it to two times weak fire, he could use rain to reduce it to one time weak fire.

So what kind of materials should be added so that after the Hazelnut Ball evolves, it can maintain the many resistances of steel attributes and also gain more fire resistance!

After opening his mind, he found that this seemed to be a promising idea. The hazelnut balls cultivated in this way could also be transformed into insects with various attributes like Forritos.

For example, Bug plus Rock, Bug plus Ice, Bug plus Ground...

Bug plus steel type is a weakness.

Insect and rock are three weaknesses.

Insects and ground system are four weaknesses.

Insect and ice system, also has four weaknesses, and two big daddies.

No matter how you look at it, the attribute combination of insect and steel seems to be the best choice.

In terms of resistance, the steel type has ten attribute resistances, the rock type has only four attribute resistances, the ground type has two attribute resistances, and the ice type has only one attribute resistance.

It was impossible for him to change the properties of the hazelnut ball, so he just had to increase its fire resistance to make up for this shortcoming.

Moreover, only one kind of material can be added, not too many. If too many and too mixed, it will become a weird hazelnut ball and will lose the steel properties of the Forlitos.

He seemed to have this kind of fireproof material, but it was almost eaten up by Hanhan...

When facing fire-type attacks, only the Fire, Water, Rock, and Dragon attributes can resist.

The materials he wanted to use could only be chosen from these four properties, and the only materials he could easily obtain were those with the first three properties.

For the first three attributes, he prefers water-based materials, and fire-based materials are the first attributes to be excluded.

This cultivation method is originally designed to resist fire. Does it mean using fire-related materials to fight fire with fire?

Don't be funny, when facing fire-type moves, fire-type materials may have a negative effect and become a positive, and will actually increase the power of fire-type moves.

Because the material he is going to use is wet rock, the corresponding fire item is hot rock.

The hot rock can increase the duration of sunny days. It is a fire-type item that increases the power of fire-type moves, so it cannot be used.

The reason why I don’t choose the Shasha Rock from the Rock system is very simple. The Rock system has too many weaknesses, five in total.

In case the Sand Rock is added, Foretos becomes a Rock type, and the five Rock types that were not originally weak points are Ground type, Fighting type, Water type, Grass type, and Steel type.

These five rock-type weaknesses could potentially become Forritos' weaknesses, so materials like sandstone would be a direct pass...

The water type has only two weaknesses, the grass type and the electric type. Forlitos has four times resistance to the grass type and one times resistance to the electric type.

As long as the quadruple weakness of the Fire type can be suppressed, it doesn't matter if there is more Grass type restraint, since there is four times the resistance anyway.

However, the electrical system is a bit difficult to deal with.

It is best to control the amount of wet rocks added, otherwise the electric system will be restrained and his hazelnut ball will not be able to play the rainy day team.

If there is thunder on a rainy day, his hazelnut ball will be destroyed. There is no way to play on rainy days.

He also has his own considerations for adding the limit of materials. Can't the Hazelnut Ball learn to pray for rain? As long as the prayer for rain appears on the panel, the Hazelnut Ball can learn to pray for rain by itself, which means that it has reached the limit.

Furthermore, the shell of the hazelnut ball is no longer made of steel, but probably of water.

Do it as you think of it. After recording all the ideas, Yu Hai stopped grinding the hazelnut ball and let it jump into the river to cool down.

Well, you've all seen blacksmithing, right? He just had an idea. The hazelnut ball was very hot after being polished, so he let the hazelnut ball go to the river to try and see if it could be quenched. Unexpectedly, the hazelnut ball really could be quenched. He was really surprised and happy at that time.

Quenching is a heat treatment process whose main purpose is to change the microstructure of the metal, thereby changing the physical properties of the metal, especially to increase hardness and strength, improve wear resistance, and change toughness.

After discovering this new gadget, he felt that he could refine the hazelnut balls as if they were iron and turn them into steel, making the hazelnut balls even harder.

The evolved Foretos has a basic physical defense of 140. The Foretos cultivated by quenching steel may have a physical defense of more than 200 or even more than 300.

This is amazing. Since physical defense can be improved, special defense can naturally be improved as well. If both defenses can reach more than 200, he will be satisfied.

Flettos is not like Huhu. Huhu's racial value is all focused on double defense, which is as high as two hundred and thirty, but his attack is only ten points.

But Forlitos is different. While raising both defenses, his basic attack is 90, which is much stronger than Huhu's 10 points.

However, there is a problem with this cultivation method. He has no idea how to control the temperature and how to turn a piece of iron into steel.

He was a layman when it came to blacksmithing knowledge. At most, he had watched some documentaries and sword-forging competitions in his previous life.

He needed to find a blacksmith shop or an experienced craftsman who could make steel to complete his vision of hazelnut balls.

Look for it, what else can he do? He did it as soon as he thought of it. He immediately called back the elves who were training, boarded the gull and returned to the Light Red City, asking people where he could find a blacksmith shop that could make steel.

As for the agreement with the logging camp, he would go there later. He had asked Darkrai to catch a Dajia in the hunting zone. The Dajia had a potential of only over 30. He was too lazy to even look at an elf with such potential.

Then, he looked for a blacksmith shop on the outskirts of Qianhong City. After searching for several hours, he actually found a blacksmith shop. The master craftsman in the blacksmith shop was an old craftsman who had passed down the tradition for five generations.

But when the old craftsman heard the purpose of his visit, he thought that this young trainer was crazy, sitting around doing nothing all day and talking nonsense.

The hazelnut ball is an elf and the shell is bark. How can it be made into steel? Steelmaking requires iron.

Then, he was treated as a mad trainer and kicked out of the blacksmith shop.

He had no choice but to look for other blacksmith shops, but without exception, they all thought that he was daydreaming. He was really helpless!

He could only come to the lumberyard to fulfill the agreement he had made with the foreman yesterday. The foreman was already waiting for him, and when he saw him coming, he greeted him happily.

"Little brother, you are finally here. I have packed more than ten sacks of the bark you asked for. I wonder if it is enough," the foreman rubbed his hands. Seeing that Yu Hai was not in high spirits, he did not mention Dajia. He only mentioned the bark, implicitly pointing to Dajia.

"The big armor you want," Yu Hai was indeed not in a good mood. He was rejected repeatedly by the blacksmith shop, which made him fall into self-denial. He doubted whether the method of cultivating hazelnut balls was feasible and whether his idea was just a fantasy.

If one person rejected him, he wouldn't think too much about it, but when three veteran craftsmen rejected him in a row, he couldn't help but think too much.

After much thought, he decided to give it a try. Since they refused to help him even when paid, he would do it himself, slowly summarizing his experience and verifying his idea step by step.

"Little brother, thank you so much. Please follow me. The bark you want has been packed and stacked." When the foreman saw the big armor in the Poké Ball, he immediately put it in his pocket with joy, for fear that the Poké Ball would be lost.

He ran around for this big armor countless times, and finally got this elf. He could finally make his son happy.

"I'll get it myself, you go ahead and do your work," Yu Hai waved his hand and followed the foreman's instructions to go to the warehouse where the bark was stored.

Seeing that Yu Hai looked absent-minded, the foreman did not disturb Yu Hai. He said hello to his colleagues and drove home. He wanted to hand the elf to his son as soon as possible.

Yu Hai came to the warehouse and looked around. There were more than ten sacks of black bark piled inside, which should be enough for the transformation of the hazelnut ball. He asked Gengar to come out and eat all the bark, then turned around and left the sawmill and came to the river where they camped yesterday.

The elves were released again. He had lunch with everyone first, and then the elves trained as needed and rested as needed. He also had to work on the transformation of Hazelnut Ball.

The current task of the hazelnut ball is naturally to continue polishing the body, using the quenching method to remove impurities from the shell, leaving the most essential part.

In order to better use the quenching steelmaking method to cultivate the Hazelnut Ball, he also went to the Pokémon Center and contacted the Xia Gan Gym to get the Starfish.

He needs the gravity move of Sea Star. Under the gravity move of Sea Star, the body of Hazelnut Ball should become more solid.

He also divided his ideas about the hazelnut ball into three steps...

The first step is to purify and refine the accumulation before the hazelnut ball, leaving only the most essential and hardest part of the bark, which is also the innermost layer.

The second step is to add pumice powder to the middle layer to reduce the weight of the hazelnut ball. This step is crucial. If you make a fat man weighing a thousand pounds, it would be difficult to move, let alone turn it.

The third step is to add fireproof material and wet rock powder to the outermost layer to increase the fire resistance of Foretos and at least reduce the four times weak fire.

He is currently taking the first step, using the quenching steelmaking method to purify the shell of the hazelnut ball.

In fact, he had made some discovery before. He found that the best quenching state was achieved after ten minutes of continuous high-speed rotation.

Then, he continued to polish the hazelnut ball, from its previous width of 80 to its current width of 60, and then from its width of 60 to its current width of 50, until it reached 40 centimeters in width, and he felt it was about right.

After all, the average width of a hazelnut ball is only about 40 centimeters. Those over 40 centimeters are considered special individuals, not to mention this hazelnut ball that has been quenched.

The original diameter of the body was 80 centimeters, but it was worn down to only 40 centimeters, shrinking by half.

The height has also been reduced from more than one meter to only seventy centimeters after being polished down to its current size, shrinking in almost all aspects.

The first stage of removing the dross and leaving the essence has been completed.

Dang Dang Dang——

"It's really crisp," Yu Hai knocked on every side of the hazelnut ball, and it made a crisp sound, very similar to the sound of metal knocking. So this layer is called pure steel, and it is also the innermost layer.

Steel is just a metaphor. How can tree bark be made into steel? It is just continuous polishing, leaving the hardest part. He doesn't really understand this metal-like material.

Next, he started the second layer of polishing. He planned to add pumice powder and polish it together with the citrus tree bark, integrating the pumice powder into the body of the hazelnut ball, thereby reducing the weight of the hazelnut ball.

Before that, he had to test whether the pumice powder was effective on the elves. If the powder had no effect, he would grind the pumice into powder. Although it could be better integrated into the shell of the hazelnut ball, it would be useless if it had no effect.

He took out the grinding tool, called the Scyther who was in training, tossed the pumice stone, and shouted to Scyther: "I will throw this stone into the sky, and you have to split the stone into four pieces. Can you do it?"

"Yes," Scyther nodded, confident that a mere light stone could not stop the blade.

"Okay," Ukai stepped back and threw the light stone at Scyther.

brush brush --

Scythe stared at the light stone, raised its sickle and chopped it down, instantly splitting the light stone into four pieces. When it put away the sickle, a flash of blade light flashed across the crescent-shaped sickle.

"Good, go train," Yu Hai waved his hand and asked Scyther to go for sparring. He picked up four pieces of light stone fragments on the ground, walked to Hazelnut Ball, picked up Hazelnut Ball and put it on the scale.

The hazelnut ball on the electronic scale shows that my weight hasn't shrunk much compared to before, still 18 kilograms, not bad.

The greater the weight, the higher the defense. It seems that the first step of polishing and quenching is feasible. While removing impurities, the hardest material remains. He will continue to repeat this process.

After seeing the weight of the hazelnut ball, he put a quarter of the pumice fragments on it, which should have only a quarter of the effect.

A quarter of half of the 18-kilogram body weight of the hazelnut ball is 2.25 kilograms, but the electronic scale only subtracts one kilogram. The effect of the damaged light stone was actually cut in half again.

In other words, a complete pumice stone can reduce body weight by half, but a damaged pumice stone will further halve the effect, leaving it with only half the effect of a complete pumice stone.

What a loss. Adding the loss from polishing, I don’t know how much pumice stone I will have to use to achieve the effect he wants.

Now he can only take things one step at a time. If he doesn't have enough materials, he can go to the department store to buy them. He doesn't mind spending this little money.

Then, he put the pumice fragments in a medicine mortar, ground them into powder, and sprinkled them on the body of the hazelnut ball. He found that the effect of the pumice was halved again, and it could only reduce one kilogram of weight...