Pokémon: The Bold Rat

Walking on the street, you can clearly see that the frequency of elves appearing on the street has increased a lot.

"Mosquito-repellent tadpoles, coyote dogs, gas bombs, and even a fire-attributed stupid fire camel!"

The fat classmate next to him was more and more surprised. When he saw the dull eyes and the yellow earth-colored stupid hunchback, he pulled Zhao Yiyuan's shoulders, eyes full of envy.

The fire attribute has a powerful destructive power. For ordinary people, each one is considered a rare elf, and the price is simply beyond their ability to pay.

"It's safe, it's safe, Dafei. As long as we train it well, you can choose whatever you want as the second Pokémon."

Feeling quite ashamed of this, he grabbed his best friend's hand and walked faster towards the elf shop.

The closer he got to the elf shop, the more elves he encountered. Through the system's detection methods, he also verified a small part of his own guesses.

Level 0-15 is the apprentice stage judged by the Elf Alliance, which is a small threshold for level five.

The initial elves sent to them by the Alliance were almost all stuck at the middle stage of promotion to apprentice, which also indirectly verified the strength of the Alliance's breeding house.

Level 16 to 25 is the category of entry-level trainers.

Just now, on Pingxi Street, which is associated with elves, I saw a level 19 giant wolfhound and a level 22 gentleman moth.

As for the Pokémon of intermediate trainers, I didn't encounter any.

The Pokémon Shop is a building that looks like a convenience store. The only difference is that there is a huge red and white Poké Ball logo on it, representing the identity of the Pokémon Alliance. In addition, there is a dragon-like icon next to the Poké Ball logo, which is the logo of the Dongxia Alliance.

With a "click", the automatic sensor door opened, and the dazzling array of goods inside dazzled the boy's eyes.

Unlike his fat deskmate, Grandpa doesn't have an elf, so naturally he doesn't need to buy elf-related things. This is also his first time to come to an elf store.

"One Yuan, what do you want to buy first? The elf food section is not together with the energy crystal."

Comrade Dafei, who had bought food for his father more than a dozen times, was very experienced. He introduced casually as he walked in.

"Let's go check out Nengjing first."

Before coming in again, Zhao Yiyuan warned himself that he must not spend money carelessly and must spend money wisely, so his goal was very clear.

"Okay, the energy crystal area is over here."

As he spoke, the fat boy flexibly led the boy to move between the various merchandise areas.

Soon, they saw fist-sized pieces of energy crystals emitting a bright luster.

Because of their different properties, the colors of energy crystals are also different. Generally, the energy crystals are white, or transparent, the grass crystals are green, and the water crystals are blue. These three types of energy crystals are the most commonly displayed in the display area.

Zhao Yiyuan noticed that there were red fire attribute crystals and purple super power attribute crystals in the upper right corner.

However, the price is twice or even more expensive than the common attributes below.

"One Yuan, you must be buying ordinary energy crystals. We are all at the trainee level, so we must be using inferior ones. They also cost 1000 Alliance Coins each. I don't know if the money my father gave me is enough?"

As he spoke, Dafei pulled him to squat on the ground, because the lightest-colored inferior energy crystal was at the very bottom.

"Well, let's buy three first, one a day to see how well Rattata absorbs it."

Carefully picking up the three transparent crystals, Yiyuan's face showed an obvious expression of pain.

Just these three little things are worth more than a month's scavenging by my grandfather and his two-month part-time job during the summer vacation.

As a high school student, not yet an adult and not yet an elf, there are not many ways to make money in this world, and they are all the hardest and most tiring work.

"Okay, I'll take three first, too."

The fat boy Liu Fei also took three in a very decent manner. He knew that his grades were not good, especially in the elementary elf training course. He had just barely passed the individual subject exams before, so he learned from the big guy sitting next to him.

As for his father, he had long forgotten a lot of knowledge due to the pressure of life. Even the Hayok in the family had not been trained for a long time, and its strength had regressed to the beginner level. He was also old, and might not even be able to beat a young elf at the apprentice level.

After putting away the three low-quality grass-type energy crystals, they walked towards the Pokémon food area while chatting.

"If I could find a vein of energy crystals in the wild, I would be really rich."

"A standard inferior energy crystal costs only 1000 Alliance coins!"

"What are you thinking about, Dafei? If we really find out, we won't be able to protect it with our strength!"

Hearing that the little fat boy was daydreaming again, Zhao Yiyuan directly burst his fantasy bubble.

Energy crystals are special mineral substances that suddenly appeared on Blue Star a few years after the elves appeared.

According to the book, it is because the secret realm is integrated with the blue star space. Although most of the special energy of the elf secret realm is released into the air with the appearance of the elves, a small part of it is deposited in the earth's crust, naturally forming energy crystal veins.

This thing can assist in training, allowing Pokémon to absorb and improve their strength. The effect is very significant, and there are no side effects. Therefore, once it was discovered, it caused a large number of trainers to scramble for it and even fight for a crystal vein.

In the end, it took the combined efforts of the five major alliances on Blue Star to stabilize the chaos that had spread across the globe, and they also gathered their forces to conduct research.

I heard that now intermediate and lower energy crystals can be artificially crafted by high-level elves, and can be considered a recyclable resource, so the price is not too outrageous under the alliance's price control.

Low-quality energy crystal, best suited for apprentices, 1000 Alliance Coins per crystal.

Low-level energy crystal, best suited for primary level, 5000 Alliance Coins per crystal

Intermediate energy crystal, the best applicable object is the intermediate level, 3 Alliance coins per piece.

I don't know the prices of the advanced and top-quality items. In fact, the most expensive item sold in the elf shop in Anping, a small third-tier city, is the intermediate energy crystal.

The reason why the price increases exponentially as the level goes up is because the stronger the elf, the higher the level of energy crystals it requires.

After all, only when the energy purity in the energy crystal is kept up can high-level elves absorb it better.

Someone has done an experiment in the history of the Alliance. Under the same conditions, a high-level elf is not as good as absorbing one high-quality energy crystal instead of absorbing 1000 low-quality energy crystals.

On the other hand, the Alliance does not recommend using high-level energy crystals on low-level elves, because this will cause the elves to experience a phenomenon similar to oxygen intoxication, which is detrimental to their growth and development.

When the two arrived at the elf food area, they found that there were many more people here than in the energy crystal area, and there were also several more display shelves in the food area than there.

Most of the people coming and going are young trainers, and there are also a few white-collar workers in various uniforms. Although they have given up the adventure of being a trainer, they have not given up their own Pokémon, but continue to raise them as part of the family.