Master Craftsman of the Elven World

Chapter 263 Battle Against the Subway and N and the Purple Jade

In the desert, Yoghurs gradually regained consciousness, but this was accompanied by a mental ache.

Surrounding him, the Plasma Team's grunts escorted him away from the ancient city.

"What exactly happened?"

Joggs's memory was hazy; he vaguely remembered seeing the fire moth in the ancient city, which proved the investigation was correct, but the reason remained a mystery.
"Our memories are a bit hazy, but it seems like we were knocked down by a powerful force and then thrown out. When we regained consciousness, we were already outside the ancient city."

The Plasma Group's henchmen answered Joggs' question with lingering fear: "Lord Joggs, there seems to be an extraordinary power here! It's terrifying, what should we do?"

"The equipment and everything else were destroyed."

"Let's go back first and find a place to rest." Joggs looked at the sandstorm, his head was throbbing, and he felt like his old bones were about to fall apart. Moreover, a blue glow lingered deep in his memory.

Sigrún has taught at the Iceland University of the Arts as a part-time lecturer since and was Dean of the Department of Fine Art from -. In – she held a research position at Reykjavík Art Museum focusing on the role of women in Icelandic art. She studied fine art at the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts and at Pratt Institute, New York, and holds BA and MA degrees in art history and philosophy from the University of Iceland. Sigrún lives and works in Iceland.

"Aha! The guards have all left! Waaah! How did the fourth level get cracked like this! We can't go to the lower levels now, and the quicksand around us seems to be sentient."

On the fourth underground floor, Kiku and the workers arrived. The symbolic birds and coffins of death had been summoned back by the ancient spirit, allowing Kiku and the others to catch their breath. They then came down without stopping and happened to run into Saito, who was returning with the equipment.

And, there was also the light moss that followed behind Saito.

"Has that ancient spiritual power stopped? Hmm, the guards have all left too. Well done!"

"But those guards are different from those in the tower next door, so it seems we can't let them out. I think the development and excavation of this ancient city will have to stop here."

Originally, it was thought that the excavation plan for this ancient city would be a good opportunity, after all, a lot of money was spent on it. Who would have thought that the inside of this ruin was full of dangers? As a result, the excavation plan had to be temporarily suspended. For Boss Ju, this investment was really not worth it.

"Master Ju, the ancient spirits want to make a deal with you."

Lightmoss spoke, recounting the discussions she had made with the ancient spirits, and took out a Pot of Vitality.

[Item: Pot of Vitality]

[Effect: A special pottery crafted by the ancients that can store natural energy and condense it into vitality. Holding the Vitality Pot usually prevents one from feeling fatigued.]

This is something that ancient spiritualists believed should be given as a gift, since people excavate ruins to obtain treasures or learn ancient secrets.

"Hmm? You mean, those lingering spirits here don't want this ancient city to be buried by the sands of time, so they plan to help me turn this place into a scenic spot?"

"Hmm! Attracting tourists was originally part of my work plan. I never expected that those ancient spiritual forces would be so agreeable. I thought they would roughly drive us out and seal this place off!"

"Hahaha! It seems they're quite reasonable after all! Also, this definitely isn't just the idea of ​​those ancient spirits; it must be your suggestion too! Hey! I must say, this suggestion is really good, if there's a possibility of cooperation between us."

"How about this?" Boss Ju looked at the situation on the fourth floor: "The damage to the fourth floor is unexpectedly severe. We will only open the area above the fourth floor for people to explore. Let the ancient spirits manage the area below the fourth floor. Let's not disturb their peace. Also, you said that there are treasures and fossils hidden in this city?"

"Ha! I'm not interested in those things at all, but I'm sure many tourists will be interested in the treasure! The romance of the ancient city, the treasure buried in the desert! Great, this is a good promotional gimmick, it will definitely attract a lot of tourists!"

Lightmoss: "This Pot of Vitality is their gift to show their sincerity. Also, after we leave, the quicksand that was taken away will flood the area below the second floor again, and you will need to clean it up again. However, this time there will be no guards to disturb you."

"These quicksands will also lose their power."

"We have to do the same work again!" Boss Ju was quite dissatisfied, but for some reason, he couldn't get angry at Guangtai, so he waved his hand and said, "Alright! It's not a big deal! It's just cleaning up the sand. Now that we have the blueprints transmitted back by the instruments, we can clean up much faster!"

"Let's get out of here quickly!"

Ju Laoda took the Vitality Pot. As soon as he held it, he felt that this pot was not a simple thing. He wondered if he should take it to Aloe Vera for identification.

The group returned to the first basement level, and after they left, endless quicksand buried the entrance and exit again, as if the previous passage had never existed. However, there wasn't much quicksand on the second floor, meaning that only half of it needed to be cleared to reach the third floor.

This was good news for Boss Ju, and he laughed heartily, saying that those ancient spirits were becoming more and more interesting and quite knowledgeable about human relationships.

That night, the stars shone brightly, and the sandstorm gradually subsided.

The entrance to the ancient city and its towers stand silently in the desert. The endless, cold desert in the distance touches the soul. The sky and the earth merge in the distance, stirring the heart of even a businessman like Boss Ju.

"Ancient history and present history converge at the ends of heaven and earth! I was feeling pretty down tonight, but now my mood has completely changed!"

"Oh, and also, this is what we agreed on—your payment! I'm not the kind of foreman who doesn't pay his debts!"

Boss Ju took a card out of his shirt pocket and handed it to Guangtai, claiming that it contained a million dollars in savings that could be withdrawn at will.

As the night passed and everyone rested briefly, dawn broke from the edge of the desert. The sun's rays pierced through the darkness and dispelled the chaos, and people gradually awoke from their slumber.

After saying goodbye to Kiku, Guangtai prepared to head to Raven City. However, when Kiku heard that Guangtai was going to Raven City, Kiku immediately stopped her!
"Ah! Wait a minute, I have something I'd like to ask you to bring back to my daughter on your way to Raven!"

"Because I came directly back to the construction site from outside the region, I haven't had time to go to Raven yet."

Kiku personally carried a portable incubator out of the room at the construction site, and inside the incubator was a Pokémon egg!

"This is a Pokémon egg from the Galar region, and it's a Fairy-type Pokémon. I obtained it from a professor through some channels and plan to give it to my daughter to raise."

"My daughter looks like the cutest one with pink hair at Raven's Academy! Her catchphrase is 'I don't think this is right,' so you can easily find her. Here's her contact information. Oh, her name is Ziyu!"

"Here's some reward for your help. It's a super resurrection herb, a specialty of Fanba City. It only exists on Mikumo Island. It's an incredibly powerful resurrection herb, known as the King of Herbs!"

Boss Ju paid him with three resurrection grasses of excellent quality. Of course, he remembered Sanyun Island and Guangtai. Land Cloud had a bountiful shrine on that island, while Thunder Cloud and Tornado Cloud also had two small shrines. That island was famous for its abundant resurrection grasses.

The resurrection grass there is indeed of very high quality because the soil of that island was nurtured by the combined efforts of the three cloud gods: wind, thunder, and earth.

After bidding farewell to Kiku and Saito, Hikari embarked on her journey to Raven. During this time, Hikari had Aegislash patrol the area around Wilderness Sanctuary.

As before, check if they are being followed by Team Plasma. After Aegislash flew to a very far place and then came back, inform Lightmoss that there is nothing unusual within its flight range.

However, no sooner had they left the desert than some strange traces appeared. The Shielded Sword Monster deduced that these were probably left by the person who had been following them, meaning that this person was still behind them, just at a great distance.

"The Dark Trio, huh. Their ninja-like tracking ability is really annoying. Even from this distance, they can find my trail and successfully track me down."

Lightmoss found a secluded cave and released Landorus near the end of Route 4. Landorus immediately released a sandstorm to cover itself. In addition, Route 4 was already filled with sand and dust, and there were no villages or towns nearby, so there were very few witnesses. It was the perfect opportunity to leave!

"La dong!"

The earth cloud bids farewell to the light moss.

Thank you for your help. Perhaps we'll meet again in other places in the future! Farewell, the last king of the ancient city!
And goodbye, friends from the universe! I'll be careful not to be recognized when I return to the ancient city next time.

"Calling me the Last King or something like that really doesn't sound nice."

Goodbye, Land Cloud.

Watching the land cloud disappear into the distance, the light moss waited in the same spot for a long time before leaving. When darkness came to search for traces, it looked around with some confusion.

What have you been doing lingering here for so long? Have you been discovered?
Probably not. Although the other party is indeed very wary, and I can't get close at all, so I can't gather a lot of information immediately. Never mind, don't think about these things.

The darkness was inexplicable, but Raven was right in front of him. Appearing in Raven City as a ninja would probably make him look like a clown, so he needed to change his image and blend into the crowd in a completely new way.

On the other hand, after passing through the gate, Lightmoss did not arrive at Raven City, but at Raven Town. This is a small town located south of Raven City in the anime, with a very similar name. Like Raven City, it also has various theme parks and is the venue for the East George Battle Tournament.

However, Lightmoss had no interest in this. After passing through Raven Town, she arrived at the real Raven City.

Raven City, a dazzling town shimmering with electricity, is arguably the entertainment center of Unova. Various themed amusement parks of all sizes are scattered throughout the city, along with a large arena, a small sports field, and Pokémon musicals. It is also home to the world-renowned Battle Subway and the Trial House.

This prompted Guangtai to complain again: Is it really a good idea to study in this highly entertaining and lighthearted town?

Who would open a school inside an amusement park?

Every city in Hezhong truly gives people a different feeling.

Then, the light moss saw a strangely dressed person—a plasma cluster.

"These guys?"

It's really annoying to see people with plasma clusters everywhere.

However, the current situation seems to be that Team Plasma is planning to give a speech in Raven City, but everyone here is busy with their own entertainment-oriented lives and no one cares about their speech. And what's even more ridiculous is that—

"Your speech time coincides with Miss Xiaoju'er's fashion show. I'm very sorry, your speech event may have to be temporarily suspended."

The staff of Raven City were cleaning up the area set up by Team Plasma, while a sage in a long robe seemed to be negotiating with them. Unfortunately, the negotiation was destined to fail, so the sage could only angrily say that the people of Raven City did not understand the meaning of Pokémon to people's lives and were only indulging in playing.

But the staff member gave a strange answer:

"Even if they indulge in playing, as long as the Pokémon themselves are happy, isn't that enough?"

The old sage had no rebuttal to these words and could only slink away and pack his things.

Of course, they didn't plan to leave. After all, Xiaoju'er's fashion show was only today, and if it didn't work out today, there was always tomorrow!

"That guy looks familiar...wait, that familiar middle-part hairstyle, is it Vio?"

The second-in-command among the Seven Sages of the Plasma Cluster? Should I be considered one?

However, Lightmoss did not give chase, because the group had already left, since Team Plasma had no activities today.
"Hello, I want to file a complaint."

After filing a series of complaints about the plasma cluster, Lightmoss left the Raven City office satisfied.

However, it seems that quite a few people have come to complain about the Plasma Group. Many residents of Raven City said that they started preparing for various activities yesterday, and even blocked the intersection to distribute flyers indiscriminately. In short, they were very disturbing to the public and out of place in this entertainment city. Some tourists from other places complained even more harshly!
So the Plasma Team members, who had just packed their things and were planning to do it again tomorrow, were given an eviction notice from Raven City Hall.

"Are you kidding me! We are a legitimate organization!"

However, no matter how much they protested, the order to leave remained unchanged. It was said that Vio was furious because of the numerous complaints from tourists.

Those tourists have no idea how precious life is, nor how great the Plasma Group's cause is!
Ah, alright! There's no other way but to go to another city. Anyway, we don't need your Raven family. You can just drown in your entertainment!

After dealing with the Plasma Cluster, Lightmoss found out the location of Raven Academy. However, it seemed that Raven Academy was on holiday today, and all the students had gone to the fashion show venue next to Raven Gym.

And before that.

Lightmoss dialed Professor Taxo's number at the Pokémon Center.

Dr. Yew: "Ah! Light Moss, is there something you need that you're contacting me about all of a sudden?"

“I have a Pokémon that I would like to temporarily leave with you,” Lightmoss briefly described Volcarona’s origins, and Professor Taxo was naturally taken aback!
Are there really Pokémon deep within the ancient city?!
"Although I had heard my dad mention similar legends before, saying that Pokémon might be hidden deep within an ancient city, and that it might be related to the origin of Pokémon, which made me a little curious, I never expected that you would actually?! You actually encountered Volcarona!"

"And you even recognize it?! There are more and more mysteries surrounding you. If you were a Pokémon, I might catch you."

Dr. Yew could not hide her excitement; the fire moth that had lived for hundreds of years was of great value to her research!
Although Deoxys has left, the ancient sun god has returned, and wonderful things are happening one after another! Moreover, it is said that he was entrusted by the ancient spirit?
Could the spirits of those ancient people still reside in the ancient city? There are so many mysteries and incredible things in this world!
"I was originally planning to investigate the Pokémon statues in the Ancient City area, because they said they discovered some incredible sculptures."

Guangtai understood this time.

During the second playthrough of Black and White, Dr. Yew appears in the Ancient City to investigate the statue of the Daruma Baboon and gives the protagonist Angry Buns to awaken them. However, since the investigation is about the statue, why would he go deep into the Ancient City? It's hard to say whether Dr. Yew knows about the Volcano or not, or perhaps he thinks it's nonsense.
Regardless, after sending Volcarona over, Lightmoss gave her a few more instructions, but judging from Professor Jugland's joyful expression, she would probably take very good care of Volcarona, after all, it is an extremely important Pokémon!

Meanwhile, in the back hills of Dr. Yew's place, the fire moth can live freely for a while, until it has more time and has mastered that special knowledge.
"Creating a kingdom where Pokémon can live freely? Hmm, I never really thought about this before."

Lightmoy took out the Pokédex, and Kiku-sama even gave him Ziyu's contact information, but judging from the strange last digits, it was probably Kiku-sama's other work number.

Although the connection between the people of the Divine Harmony made him and Boss Ju a little closer, Boss Ju was not the kind of person who would easily lower his guard. After all, he was a businessman. Rather, the fact that he actually asked him to run errands was enough to surprise the other workers.

"Hello?"

A crisp sound came from the other end of the PokéDevice.

"Hello, Miss Ziyu, I was sent by your father."

Zi Yu: "Ah! Could it be Brother Guangtai? Father already told me that an older brother would bring me something important!"

Lightmoss: "It's an egg of a Fairy-type Pokémon."

"Is that so?! That's wonderful! Where are you? I'll come pick you up right away."

Guangtai: "It's okay, I'll come find you. Are you at the fashion show?"

Ziyu: "Oh, that? I was invited, but I didn't go. I'm currently at the Battle Subway! There's a rare doubles Super Train match these days! So I've been training the whole time!"

"Besides, there's still a long time before the fashion show, isn't there?"

Guangtai was somewhat surprised.

According to the setting, Ziyu should be a girl who likes cute things, but unexpectedly she was not in the audience of Xiaoju'er's fashion show, but in the battle subway which is mainly for battle.

The entrance to the Battle Metro is Gear Station, which is the largest building in Raven City and is very easy to find.

Guangtai told Ziyu about her characteristics and quickly arrived at the waiting area of ​​the Gear Station. At this time, she could see a little girl with pink hair standing on tiptoe and waving high in the distance.

Trainer type: Elementary school student in cram school!

And next to her was... a young man with green hair?!
N was also surprised to see Guangtai. He looked at his "doubles partner" and then at Guangtai, and immediately lowered the brim of his hat.

This is a bit awkward.

(End of this chapter)