Pokémon from Galar

Looking away, Mary glanced at the little diamond that had just returned from outside, its head still covered in snowflakes. This must be the one.

Seeing this, the village chief smiled and reached out to brush some snow off his head. Little Diamond, however, twitched his ears, seemingly jumping around anxiously in front of the village chief.

"Squeak—(There are some terrifying giants fighting nearby! Everyone must stay indoors!)"

"Huh? You mean there's some danger coming? Then I need to go and warn everyone quickly."

The village chief, who had lived with Little Diamond for many years, quickly understood its meaning and hurriedly got up, intending to let the people still tending the fields go home early. Mary, however, stood up first.

"It should be my companion and that black and white horse. I'll go outside the village to keep watch and prevent any wild Pokémon from charging in."

"Oh, then I'll go help too!"

Hearing Mary's tone, the assistant quickly put down what she was holding and was about to follow, but Mary grabbed her arm and said with a smile:

"You stay inside and continue learning this; this area is very important."

"OK then……"

Seeing that the assistant didn't insist, Mary smiled and nodded, then walked out of the house first and called out all her Pokémon.

"Little Chirp, go observe from the sky. Baloo, please go to the mountain path in the northeast. Suzu, you'll be in charge of the road leading to the research institute. Kyon, you and Izumi, and Mori, you'll be in charge of the southern Ice Point Snowfield. Hime, you and I will be in charge of the village, to guard against Rock-type Pokémon emerging from underground."

After quickly setting up, everyone scattered, while Hime-chan stirred up the water and carried Mary and the village chief to the fields near the center of the village.

"oh oh--"

The village chief was startled when he saw the water rising from his feet, but the water steadily supported his legs and back without wetting his clothes. In fact, the water was warm, like being in a kotatsu, which amazed him.

Upon arriving at their destination, the water receded, leaving the village chief warm but without a trace of water. Hime-chan, with her eyes slightly narrowed, followed Mary, holding Mary's hand in hers and humming a cheerful tune.

Marie's actions of summoning everyone and then scattering them earlier were quite impressive. Now that they saw the village chief and Marie appear together, they all approached on their own initiative. Everyone's Pokémon issued warnings to varying degrees, and everyone obviously knew that something must have happened.

Mary didn't intend to interfere in the negotiations, since the villagers would definitely trust the village chief more. But just as the village chief was about to finish speaking, suddenly...

Boom! Boom!

Suddenly, a long, translucent ice pillar grew horizontally on the mountaintop. Then, a huge shield phantom appeared and shattered the ice pillar. Dark energy exploded in mid-air, and then it was cut in half by a sword light.

The sudden explosion threw the villagers into a panic.

Let's sing.

Marie nodded to Hime-chan, and the melodious singing that had been lingering in her ears was quickly amplified, with a little energy spreading to everyone and every Pokémon in the village.

The cheerful singing soothed the villagers' unease, and the people gathered around the village chief also calmed down incredulously, their gazes towards Mary and Hime filled with disbelief and amazement.

"Everyone, the Champion has sent out her Pokémon to protect the village. Don't panic when you get home, the Champion will definitely protect our village!"

Hime-chan's skillful demonstration made the village chief's explanation more convincing, especially with the dark shadows circling high in the sky and the enormous body floating above the eastern passage. Without further ado, the villagers quickly headed towards their homes.

"Thank you, Miss Mary. Otherwise, it probably wouldn't have been so easy for me and Little Diamond to calm everyone down."

While nervously watching the massive battle unfolding in the distance, the village chief thanked Mary.

"It's what I should do. Village chief, you should go back inside. I'll keep watch here."

“Okay, I understand. Thank you so much, Miss Mary, for everything you’ve done for our village.”

Knowing that he was only a burden, the village chief agreed to Mary's explanation. After bowing sincerely to Mary, he quickly turned around and walked towards his house with Little Diamond.

At such a distance, Marie couldn't see the battle situation clearly, while the only one who could see clearly, Chirp, needed to observe which Pokémon, frightened and out of control, were rushing towards the village.

"Go for it, Yuri, and Hop too."

Chapter 439 The Operation Begins

As time went by, Marie's expression became increasingly awkward due to the raging energy on the distant mountain. There weren't many Pokémon that were frightened in the village, and even if there were, they were quickly suppressed and tamed by Marie's Pokémon with their power, so there was no need to worry.

However, for Yuri, taking some mane shouldn't take too much time, especially with Zacian and Zamazenta present, plus their own team. It shouldn't be a long-lasting head-on confrontation.

Moreover, starting from the middle, the occasional attacks such as flames or water jets stopped appearing, leading Mari to believe that Zacian and Zamazent had probably gotten really into a fight.

It's estimated that Yuri and Hop's teams have all retreated at Sword and Shield's signal, leaving them to fight against Black and White Horse alone.

The increasingly violent and sharp sword light could probably give Mary a sense of Cangxiang's feelings at this moment.

Because Zacian and Zamazenta were exceptionally calm and cooperative during their previous battle against Eterna, Mari was incredulous when she realized the current situation.

As far as I remember, Black and White Horse was just a bit short-tempered; it shouldn't be able to make Sword and Shield angry like Mugenta.

"Oh... (They're probably working so hard because of me...)"

The Crested King slowly emerged from its hiding place and stopped beside Mary and Hime-chan.

"...I suppose it can only be because of you. Was the mount you tamed back then really that bad-tempered?"

Mary was quite helpless. If she had known it would turn out like this, she wouldn't have let Yuri and Hep go. If she had gone herself, she probably would have been back by now.

"Yo—(Back then, I personally subdued them because they were too unruly, yet not exactly evil. Their tempers are much better now than before.)"

"Oh, well then..."

After finishing their conversation, Mary and the Rachel waited together for the battle in the distance to end, and they waited until the city lights came on.

With the final slash and charge, the battle abruptly fell silent, and Mary finally breathed a long sigh of relief; it was finally over.

……

The next day, Mari didn't pay much attention to the fact that Zacian and Zamazent had a serious fight. She took the mane of the black and white horse to the village chief's house. Yuri, as the second person who also knew needlework, joined the group learning to make reins with the assistant.

Mary, who wasn't very good at this kind of work, started working with Sonia to process the mane and radiant flower through various processes, turning them from raw materials into fine ropes that could be woven.

As for Hep... Hep is basically not good at this kind of thing, at least not now, so Sonia packed her up and threw her into the research institute next door.

After venting their anger, Zacian and Zamarant honestly apologized and regained their usual composure. According to them, the Snowstorm Horse and the Spirit Horse were injured by them, which also dampened their spirits, making it easier for the Raikou King to tame them in a while.

After several busy days, Mary showed the sample of the reins to the Calyrex for quality control, and finally the official reins were made. There were two reins, but the manes of the black and white horses were mixed together, so they had to be separated for different purposes.

However, considering that they had been disturbed twice in a short period of time, and even fought with Zacian and the others, Raicron felt that they needed some specialty radishes to attract Black and White Horse.

Unfortunately, most of the radishes in the village had already been consumed, and this year's harvest was almost entirely made into pickled radishes or dried radishes by pressing them in jars.

These stale and underdeveloped radishes obviously held no appeal for the Snowstorm Horses and the Spirit Horses, otherwise they would have already stormed into the village to steal and eat them.

Left with no other choice, King Lei Guan had to personally go outside the village to find a place to force-feed a few radishes for use.

"What do you think of this piece of land? The villagers say it's a piece of land that their ancestors abandoned."

Following the map, Mary found herself near a small patch of ruins. She pointed to the snow-covered land in front of her and asked Raicrown to come and confirm. Zacian and the others thoughtfully stayed in the village and did not follow, so as not to embarrass Raicrown.

"Yo—(This will do.)"

Having received a positive response, Mary asked Ah-Xu to come out and loosen the soil in the hard field. She then sprinkled a large bag of the best fertilizer made by the Tomalocom Group before taking out half of the seeds that she had been keeping in her backpack for a while and planting them.

Stepping back a few paces, Mary stood to the side, supporting herself with a shovel, watching the life energy emanating from the Crested King merge into the frozen earth before her with a strange dance and intonation, in a rhythm and cadence she could not comprehend.

So, in front of Mary, the frozen soil suddenly came to life, and a few seedlings sprouted from the ground. Just as Mary was surprised, she suddenly discovered that the Crane King had changed its strategy and poured all its energy into one of the seedlings.

So the seedlings grew rapidly, transcending time and pushing aside the surrounding soil. Looking at the lush foliage, Mary knew that the ice radish had grown up.

"Oh... (I didn't expect that even something like this could only be supplied with one carrot at a time...)"

The Calyx King, having stopped what it was doing, sighed with a touch of melancholy. After all, it used to be able to create an entire grassland with a wave of its hand, but now it couldn't even make radishes grow in a small patch of cultivated land.

"It will recover eventually."

As Mary spoke, she took a shovel and walked over to the radish, starting to dig.

But just as Mary was about to pull the radish out completely, King Raecrown suddenly said anxiously:

"Yoo—! (Hide! A blizzard is coming!)"

"Huh? No way?!"

Mary stood up, looking at King Critter with surprise, but King Critter had already grabbed Mary's arm and floated towards the ruined wall beside them, asking as he went:

"Yo—(Can you contain the light within you?)"

"can."

Seeing the serious atmosphere of the King of Rachel, Mary obediently nodded and followed him to a collapsed house not far away, looking out at the fields through the brick holes in the wall.

Striving to suppress the activity of the light within her body to the lowest level, the Queen of the Crane waved her hand, and something inexplicable swept past Mary's body.

"Wow—(You still need to practice more. The quality of this light is extremely high; don't waste such talent.)"

Hearing this, Mary scratched her face a little embarrassed. It seemed that her ability to control her aura was being criticized.

"Hehe, sorry..."

"Yo~ (Alright, watch out, he's coming~)"

A hint of amusement crept into the Crowned King's voice as he patted Mary's shoulder and flicked his wrist to grasp the reins he had been carrying.

"hiss--!!"

Accompanied by the approaching neighing and hoofbeats, the snow-white figure drew near, and Mary finally pinpointed its location. The Snowstorm Horse slowly slowed down, even dispersing the swirling snow around its body, and carefully made its way to the dug-out ice radish.

He hadn't seen such fresh and well-grown radishes in a long time. When they occasionally awoke from their slumber, the radishes on the human side were either unavailable or sickly and utterly unpalatable.

Chapter 440 The Snowfield Matters Are Over

However, Snowstorm Horse wasn't stupid. Seeing that the soil next to Radish was still freshly turned over, he knew that there must have been someone there earlier, and that they had probably noticed his movements and chosen to avoid him.

His first thought was of the two groups of people who had previously bothered him, and judging from the tone of the two dogs' voices, they seemed to be connected to the Calyrex. This made the Snowstorm Horse wary.

He cautiously turned around, lowered his head, and carefully observed his surroundings, sensing for any familiar presence nearby. He saw Mary's footprints and followed them to the ruins where Mary had hidden. But he sensed nothing.

Mary turned to look at the Regina, unsure whether she should show herself in the face of this scene.

The Crowned King gently placed his hand on Mary's shoulder and silently shook his head. The Snowstorm Horse couldn't sense their presence and was only puzzled. But if Mary suddenly appeared, it would make him aware of his own existence.

"hiss--"

The snowstorm horse snorted, and icicles suddenly pierced out from the field beside it, overturning the still untapped soil and pushing the large ice radish out of the ground intact.

The horse's hooves retreated slightly as the Snowstorm Horse gradually approached the mud-covered ice radish. The tempting aroma kept distracting him; the taste he hadn't experienced in thousands of years had indeed made him lower his guard.

He quickly lowered his head and bit into the iced radish, and was about to run away when the Crowned King suddenly rushed out!

The accumulated energy erupted in an instant, allowing him to traverse the thirty-meter distance and land precisely on the Snowstorm Horse's back. At the same time, he flicked the reins, and the reins, imbued with the power of the Calycerin King, stuck to the Snowstorm Horse, making it impossible to break free.

"hiss--!!!"

The Snowstorm Horse angrily reared up its front hooves, bursting forth with icy energy that engulfed its entire body and released a massive amount of energy that surged toward the Calyx on its back.

"Steel Wings!"