Elf: Re-employment of retired champion of Padiya

Chapter 730 Today, I, the skilled blacksmith, will enter the realm of master craftsman!

Why would a skilled blacksmith forge the "Anti-Giant Blacksmith Armor"?

This story begins not long ago.

Well known.

The Padiya region is a place rich in ecology and boasts magnificent natural scenery.

On this vast land of towering mountains, lakes, wilderness, and rugged peaks, cities, which are inhabited by humans, occupy relatively little space.

This is why cities are often separated by a large area of ​​wilderness protected by the Padiya League, where excessive human development is prohibited.

Generally speaking, the flow of goods and trade between cities took place on fixed roads built by the Padida government.

This applies to both express delivery trucks and refrigerated food trucks.

There are also those who use Pokémon for short-distance transportation, such as the Motolizard family, which seems to be born to be "ridden".

Now, with the expansion of the farm's territory and the increase in production, there have been several promotional efforts from "celebrities" such as Zhimi and Qishu.

After learning programming from Peony, the intelligent gorilla built a website filled with purchase requests from all over the world, even from outside the Parthian region.

This matter prompted both Zhihuixing and Luomu to make their own judgments.

Perhaps it is indeed time for the farm's business to expand.

However, when it comes to expanding their business, a rather important issue has been placed directly in front of Luo Mu and Zhi Huixing.

Other farms expand their businesses in a simple way. Most of them either establish partnerships with transportation companies or recruit their own staff, hiring a few drivers, porters, and Pokémon to handle the transport, and then build their own independent transportation network.

But Luo Mu Farm's transportation system is not like that at all.

His farm has no human employees; it's all done by the cooperation of the Pokémon.

At most, when there were no distribution channels in the early stages, they would periodically have middlemen who traveled between various farms purchase a portion of the goods.

Nowadays, the farm's main business is based in Pingdie Town, with a small portion coming from orders from the distant Carlos region's Zhimi Restaurant and the well-known dessert shop "Pie Sole Mousse" in Roundmo Town.

Both of the latter methods involve sending someone to pick up the goods at fixed times, so Luo Mu doesn't need to worry about transportation issues; he only needs to prepare the goods on the list in advance.

The former, however, still employs a model where the farm hires members of the Steel-armored Raven clan, allowing them to exchange their labor for food.

Although Dragonite occasionally gets its mother's help, that can't be considered a regular occurrence.

The main transport vehicles on a daily basis are still Steelraven and Blue Raven.

Based on ravens, they have a strong sense of direction and are among the most intelligent bird Pokémon. Most importantly, they also have excellent endurance and load-bearing capacity.

In regions like Galar, Corviknight flying taxis are quite common.

Why is Corviknight, with its excellent qualities in all aspects and even more practical than Dragonite in some aspects of transportation, not used at all in the Padina region?

There is only one reason.

The Corviknights, with no natural enemies in the airspace of the Galar region, are virtually invincible.

In the Parthian region, however, there is a natural enemy that absolutely cannot be ignored.

Master blacksmith.

Perhaps it was because when he was a very weak little blacksmith, his hammer was often stolen by wild Pokémon that ate steel.

Once they evolve into skilled blacksmiths, and then into great blacksmiths, almost all wild great blacksmiths will develop a strong hostility towards the Corviknights.

Because Corviknight evolves from Chinchilla to Crow, and then from Crow to Corviknight, Corviknight, which gains a new Steel type, needs to ingest a large amount of metallic substances in order to grow a sturdy "steel feather armor".

So where do they ingest metallic substances?

Mining trucks attacking humans?
This behavior is somewhat reckless, and the intelligent Steel-armored Ravens would not take such a risk.

After all, in the first couple of attacks, they saw the miners' bewildered and helpless faces.

After a few more attacks, the trainers who came specifically to drive them away will be standing in front of them.

On the contrary, the blacksmith who often goes out alone to find the metal he desires to forge his own little hammer is very easy to bully.

The young tits can bully them with their numbers, the blue jays can steal hammers by themselves, and the steel jays can not only steal hammers, but also follow the little blacksmith who is "mining" alone, stealing not only its hammer, but also eating and taking away its hard-earned mining results from a busy day.

Probably, the so-called sworn feud is something that has accumulated over a long period of time.

Once the little blacksmiths evolve into skilled blacksmiths, they, having been oppressed for so long, will learn from the bully Corviknight and attack the group of Slashing Commanders to steal their metal.

Once they evolve into Great Blacksmiths, whenever there are Steel Ravens in the sky above where they are, they will swing their huge iron hammers to smash hard rocks high into the air, then accurately hit the flying Steel Ravens, causing them to fall from the sky.

Each master blacksmith's mastery of the "knockdown" move is unparalleled.

Therefore.

In the Padia region, Corviknights with such historical problems simply cannot enjoy the same secure job as flying taxis in the Galar region.

After all, no one wants to ride in a flying taxi that risks falling from the sky at any moment.

In the Padia region, many Corviknight trainers would rather walk than ride on the back of a Corviknight.

That would be far too dangerous.

Let's go back to the present.

The Dragonite on Dragonite Island is also an option, but that's something to do once the Eco Dome is built and the farm's business expands to other regions.

Corviknight remains the preferred choice for delivery.

If it were only within the area of ​​Pingdie Town, it would be fine, as this is human territory and there wouldn't be many wild great blacksmiths around.

The Steelravens deliver Moo Moo milk in town and serve as the sky watchdog over the farm without any risk.

Around Flatbread Town, Roentgen the Cat would occasionally go out to patrol and make sure there were no signs of the Greatsmith.

However, if Luo Mu Farm wants to expand its business to several other towns and cities, then it will have to rely on these other vehicles for transportation if it does not use human vehicles.

During transport, Steel Ravens flying in the wild skies have a very high probability of being attacked by Greatsmiths.

The loss of cargo after the ship was shot down was a minor matter, but the Steel Ravens that were attacked would certainly be injured, a risk that Luo Mu was unwilling to see.

With the threat of a wild master blacksmith looming, the farm's business expansion has been awkwardly stalled for the time being.

But at this time.

Under the personal guidance of King Raiguan, he honed his forging skills day after day, striving to become a "master craftsman" whom King Raiguan spoke of, and stepped forward to recommend himself.

This Pokémon has absolutely no awareness that its behavior is no different from that of a "cunning blacksmith".

His eyes were filled with a desire to complete this challenging task.

Recently, two things have been troubling Qiaodiao the most. One is that her best friend, Eguipeng, is suspected of having an affair and having other best friends behind her back.

Secondly, under the guidance of the King of the Brilliant Crown, its forging skills and experience have indeed improved significantly.

However, it gradually sensed the existence of a bottleneck.

The hammer in its hand has undergone countless upgrades and iterations, but it is still far from the level of craftsmanship it desires, enough to satisfy it to evolve into the level of a master blacksmith.

Not to mention later assisting Luo Mu and the Crowned King in reforging the two swords hanging in the center of the blacksmith's workshop wall, those "Rotten Shield" and "Rotten Sword" that, though decayed and broken, were completely beyond the blacksmith's comprehension in terms of craftsmanship.

Its master blacksmith once dreamed of becoming the king of the mountain behind the farm.

But its ideals have now changed.

Not content with being a mere mountain king, it aims to make its forging skills truly the best in the world. After reforging the "Rotten Sword" and the "Rotten Shield," it will then create artifacts comparable to these two weapons/armor.

Just like when the Lady Crown told it the story of the past of these two divine weapons, how the Sword King and Shield King, who wielded them, repelled "Dark Night".

Its master forge will become the "King of Hammers" in the future!
But this dream is still too far away for the skilled blacksmiths now; it has only been listed as a must-do for the future.

Its immediate priority is to break through the current technological bottlenecks, create a hammer that satisfies it, and then evolve into a master blacksmith with satisfaction.

So the skilled blacksmith stepped forward, intending to use this opportunity to try and push the limits of his skills.

Although the reason was partly due to the blacksmith's possessiveness in believing that all the feathers shed by the Steel Crows should belong to him.

But the Mastersmith can guarantee that no Pokémon or human (Lomu) on the entire farm understands Mastersmithing better than it!

From a young age, it grew up watching its elders swing giant hammers and smash rocks.

It knows everything about angles, forces, and all sorts of information.

After hearing about Luo Mu and Zhi Huixing's troubles, the skilled blacksmith stepped forward.

—As long as we can create "armor" that allows the Steel Ravens to safely transport goods without fear of attacks from their own kind of Greatsmiths.

It can not only break through the current bottleneck, but also learn from this experience and apply it to the moment when it needs to rebuild the "rotten shield" in the future.

After careful consideration, Luo Mu assigned the task to the skilled blacksmith.

The brand also stated that it can help them assess the quality of the finished products.

If the skilled blacksmith can successfully complete the "anti-giant blacksmith armor" it envisioned, and the quality of the finished product is also approved by it.

The Crowned King agreed.

In the future, when the master blacksmith—no, the great blacksmith—truly forges artifacts of the same caliber as the "Unyielding Sword" and the "Unbreakable Shield."

It will imbue its hammer with the same power as it did with the weapons/armor of Zacian and Zamazenta, who were tasked with stopping "Dark Night".

Having received this promise, the skilled blacksmith naturally went all out, completely disregarding his position as a future master blacksmith. His mind was filled with using his knowledge and skills to create armor that could prevent wild master blacksmiths from attacking Steel Ravens.

Therefore, the skilled blacksmith locked himself in the blacksmith's workshop almost every day, racking his brains to figure out how to forge armor that could achieve such an effect.

This kind of life continued until today, when Luo Mu left the farm and took the messenger bird to visit relatives in Frosty Mountain, before finally coming to an end.

Let's turn back time to the present.

Although Luo Mu has not yet returned to the farm, time on the farm has not stopped because of his departure.

After abandoning many plans and scrapping numerous failed products.

This time, the armor crafted by the skilled blacksmith finally earned the approval of the Queen of the Brilliant Crown.

Having already considered herself a part of the farm, King Rae-crown naturally cares a great deal about the farm's future development.

The promise it made to the skilled blacksmith was not only intended to motivate him, but also to help Luo Mu solve his problems in its own way.

Its way of doing things makes it impossible for it to recklessly use its enormous superpowers to do something like moving all the great blacksmiths in the wilderness near Flatbutter Town to a place far away from here.

In its memory, the only time it mobilized its power on a large scale was when dealing with the ecological problems in the Galar region caused by the ancient war in the neighboring Carlos region.

It foresaw the location of the "dark night" and, for the sake of the life in the forest, chose to forcibly relocate the entire forest and the life living within it to another place.

Therefore, the Crested King chose to go to the wild alone and observe some rare, or rather common, scenes of wild Greatsmiths attacking Corviknights, thus constructing a "model" in her mind.

According to Zhihuixing, the function of this "model" is similar to that of a "big data model".

It had a concept in its mind of the force with which the Great Blacksmith attacked the Steel Raven, the size of the rock, the impact, and so on.

This is why the Calyreth King can use the information he has to determine whether the armor produced by the Master Blacksmith can truly help the Steel Ravens defend against attacks from the Great Blacksmith.

The criteria for judgment are nothing more than the following.

How strong an impact can it withstand?

Whether it is compatible with the physiological structure of Corviknight.

Will it affect their flight?

Will it consume too much of the wearer's physical strength?

Now, the answer provided by the skilled blacksmith has greatly satisfied King Rachel.

The separate structure of the breastplate and abdominal armor not only conforms to the physiological curves of the Steel Raven, but also achieves the lightest possible appearance without sacrificing its impact resistance.

The Master Blacksmith's "Anti-Great Blacksmith Armor" perfectly embodies his profound understanding of the Great Blacksmith clan.

It also specifically targets their characteristic of preferring to strike the armored raven's abdomen and chest rather than its wings.

Not to mention that the craftsmanship for forging armor has also undergone a complete transformation.

The Crowned King smiled and said through telepathy, "You now possess the ability to forge a massive iron hammer that satisfies you and allows you to complete your evolution."

"I eagerly anticipate the day when you grow strong enough to reforge the 'Rotten Sword' and the 'Rotten Shield,' and create divine artifacts on par with them."

"Kanu!"

The skilled blacksmith nodded emphatically, then glanced at the clock hanging on the wall not far away.

Perhaps it can forge a hammer that satisfies it before Luo Mu returns to the farm, and give Luo Mu even more surprises!

Thinking of this, the skilled blacksmith felt all his fatigue completely disappear.

It raised the hammer, which was taller than itself, again, and looked at the furnace where colorful flames were faintly burning.

It was thanks to the special flame it obtained from the Moltres that it was able to accomplish this seemingly impossible feat.

But now is not the time to stop.

Today, its skilled blacksmiths will enter the realm of master craftsmen!

(End of this chapter)