Elf: Start your slow-paced life after becoming a farmer.

"They seem to have curled up!"

"Holy crap!" Upon hearing Piper's words, Carl slammed on the gas pedal, and the off-road vehicle's engine roared to life, propelling the vehicle forward like a wild horse.

A sudden, forceful push pressed Pipa and Nemo firmly against the back of their chairs. Nemo asked, somewhat puzzled, "Karl, what's going on?"

Before Karl could answer, Nemo felt a distinct vibration coming from the seat beneath her. As if realizing something, she turned her head to look in the direction where the group of Donta warriors were.

The group of Dunka that had been standing on the sand dunes had now all huddled together and rolled down the dunes.

"No!" Pipa's face paled. "Why are they rolling towards us?!"

Chapter 48 Charging Bear: Look what good stuff I picked up! (Please read, add to your favorites, and comment!)

As is well known, the forces exerted by a moving object are determined by the object's mass and acceleration.

Therefore, in reality, the power of the Rollout move is positively correlated with the strength and weight of the Pokémon using the move.

In other words, the greater a Pokémon's strength and weight, the more powerful its Rollout move will be.

Donphan has a base Attack stat of 120, and according to the Pokédex, Donphan weighs around 120 kilograms on average.

For certain well-known reasons, most of the data recorded in the Pokémon Pokédex has no relation to real-world data.

Therefore, in reality, a healthy, well-developed Dunlin beetle has an average weight of about 500 kilograms.

When a Donak is fully rolled, it can smash a house down with a single blow, or clear a road blocked by a landslide.

There are now eleven tugboats following behind the off-road vehicle, meaning that the three of them are now facing eleven "large trucks" speeding towards them.

As the rolling sound grew closer, Pipa and Nemo's hearts leaped into their throats. They gripped the handrails along the top of the car window tightly, too afraid to look back.

Karl, sitting in the driver's seat, remained calm and composed. He was holding the steering wheel with one hand and taking out a Poké Ball with the other, pressing it down.

With a flash of white light, Espeon gracefully landed on Carl's lap, obediently calling out, "Eevee? (What's going on?)"

"Great! It's Espeon! We're saved!"

Before Carl could even answer Espeon's question, Pipa couldn't help but exclaim, "If Espeon can lift the car with its psychic powers, we'll be saved!"

“Theoretically, that’s correct.” Karl paused, glanced at the nervous Pipa and Nemo, and then grinned mischievously, “However, please allow me to refuse.”

"Huh?" X2

"Hold on tight!" Karl yelled, giving the two little ones no time to react. The instant his words fell, he slammed the accelerator to the floor.

As if responding to someone's call, the off-road vehicle's engine roared loudly, and then the entire vehicle shot forward like a speedhound, creating a considerable distance between itself and the rolling horde of armored vehicles behind it in a very short time.

"Karl!!!" Piper's heart pounded as the car sped up. His eyes widened as he stared at the scenery rushing past the window, his voice filled with undisguised terror: "You, you, you, stop right now!"

"Stop? Okay, I'll stop right now." Karl said with a smile, taking his hands off the steering wheel.

"That's not what I meant by stopping!" Piper was almost scared out of his wits by Carl's actions. Seeing that Carl had no intention of putting his hand back, he said in a broken voice, "Carl, don't stop, put your hand back now."

“Okay, you said it.” Carl very “obediently” put his hands back on the reverse wheel. “No taking it back.”

The moment Nemo, sitting in the back row, saw Carl release Espeon, her heart, which had been in her throat, returned to its place.

Knowing Espeon's strength, she was well aware that if Espeon wanted to, even if the group of Donphans were less than a millimeter away from the vehicle, they would have no chance of touching it.

Nemo was watching with great interest as Carl teased Pipa, finding the scene extremely amusing.

Just as the off-road vehicle was about to escape the pursuit of the Donjia herd, Karl pulled the handbrake and then turned the steering wheel all the way to the floor. The off-road vehicle cleanly and neatly performed a fishtail in place.

Karl's action provoked the Donkeys, who had intended to give up the chase, so they rolled even harder toward the off-road vehicle, and in the blink of an eye, they were within fifty meters of it.

"Whoosh!" Karl shouted with delight, continuing to floor the accelerator.

No matter how hard the Donkeys tried to catch up, after inhaling a long trail of exhaust fumes, they eventually gave up chasing Karl's off-road vehicle.

"How was my driving? Pretty good, huh?"

As the rolling sound faded away, Piper let out a long sigh of relief. Then he glared at Karl, who was standing next to him with a smug look on his face, and said irritably, "Was that fun?"

"Isn't it fun?" Carl grinned and said confidently, "Speed ​​and passion are the romance of a trainer."

“I agree!” Nemo raised her hands in agreement.

“All I know is that it was dangerous driving,” Piper retorted, but seeing that Carl didn’t seem to be listening to him, he could only sigh helplessly.

It was seven o'clock in the evening, and the scorching desert, shrouded in night, was exceptionally quiet.

Due to the large temperature difference between day and night in the desert, Karl chose a sheltered cliff for his campsite tonight.

At this moment, Carl had just finished assembling the tent where the two little ones would sleep tonight. In the center of the three tents, a huge campfire was burning quietly, and above the campfire was a huge iron pot.

Including the Mastiff Godfather, a total of eleven Pokémon sat around the campfire, watching with longing as Ubume worked busily by the iron pot, and Espeon floated beside Ubume to help.

Because Pipa and Nemo often bring their Pokémon to Carl's farm, Nemo's six Pokémon and Mastiff Godfather are very aware of how delicious Bum's cooking is.

Now, just smelling the aroma wafting from the pot is enough to make their mouths water.

During the time before dinner was ready, Carl began to give each Pokémon some simple care.

"Little Zhenyifa, please come over here for my first care of the day," Karl said to Zhenyifa, who was playing with Hakron, with a serious expression.

"Foo! (Yes, Mr. Karl!)" Upon hearing Karl's words, Zhenyi immediately abandoned Hakron and pounced into Karl's arms, calling out in perfect unison.

Carl, with a look of "you're teachable," patted Vibrating Wing's fluffy head, then casually took out his specially customized grooming kit for fluffy Pokémon and began to groom Vibrating Wing's fur.

"Next!" After combing Winged's fur, Carl turned around and searched for Ursaring among the Pokémon.

"Hmm? Where's the straight-up bear?"

Carl suddenly realized something was wrong. In the past, the Straight Bear would have already happily climbed onto his lap without him having to look for it.

That guy probably went treasure hunting somewhere again, didn't he?

As far as Karl knows, many ancient ruins lie buried beneath the Turksund Desert. Given Turk's adventurous nature, it is very likely that it secretly slipped away to search for treasure while Eevee wasn't looking.

Just as Carl was about to send Espeon out to look for Ursaring, he caught a glimpse of Ursaring carefully dragging something into his tent.

"Charge straight for the bear!"

Carl shouted at the charging bear and strode towards the bear, which looked guilty. The bear was clutching a worn-out purplish-black suit of armor tightly in its paws.

"Hmm! (Look what good stuff I found!)" Straight Bear barked at Karl, forcing himself to be brave.

"This is……"

Chapter 49 Haunted Ruins? (Please read, add to your favorites, and vote with monthly tickets)

"Could this be...?" Karl looked at the ancient armor that the Straight-Up Bear had "picked up" with some surprise, then turned to look at the Straight-Up Bear, who was nervously rubbing its little hands. "Straight-Up Bear, where did you find this armor?"

In Pokémon Generation IX, GF introduced two Pokémon that were both popular and powerful: Blaze, a swordsman clad in black armor, and Cinnabar, a knight in golden armor.

Both of these Pokémon, which possess both strength and good looks, share the same initial form—Samurai.

If Tanjiro wants to evolve into one of the two forms mentioned above, it must use either the Spell Armor containing the emotion of curse or the Celebration Armor containing the emotion of congratulation.

The black armor that Straight Bear "picked up" is the cursed armor that allows Tanjiro to evolve into Azure Flame Blade Demon.

Seeing Karl's reaction, Straight Bear immediately realized that the junk it had picked up from the ruins by instinct might actually be a good thing.

"Ugh! (Five double scoops of vanilla ice cream!)" Straight up, Bear puffed out his back, a "take it or leave it" expression on his face.

"Three at most." Carl immediately switched into "bargaining mode."

Carl, who understood the Straightforward Bear's personality, knew very well that if he agreed immediately, the Straightforward Bear would definitely think that the asking price was too low and then raise the price on the spot.

Only after some back and forth with Karl will Straight Bear be satisfied with the price he offered; this can be considered a "mini-game" unique to Karl and Straight Bear.

"You mean, there's a buried ruin nearby?"

After some struggle, Karl learned the specific origin of the spell armor from the mouth of the straight-up bear.

Since Carl didn't deliberately lower his voice, Pipa and Nemo came over after hearing what Carl said.

"Karl, you just said there's a ruin nearby?" Nemo asked excitedly. "Is that true?"

“If Straight-Beat Bear isn’t lying to me, there really is an ancient ruin nearby.” Karl said, pointing to the spell armor on the ground. “This armor is what Straight-Beat Bear brought out from that ruin.”

Piper first looked at the spell armor placed on the ground from left to right, then he squatted down and carefully reached out his hand to the spell armor.

"Pippa, don't touch it!" Karl immediately shouted to stop him, "This armor might be cursed!"

Piper was startled by Karl's words, paused in her hand movements, then immediately withdrew her hand and turned to look at Karl: "A curse?! Karl, are you serious?"

“I’m not entirely sure either, after all, this is the first time I’ve ever seen a spell armor in person.” Karl shrugged. “But with the Winged Armor, there shouldn’t be too much danger.”

Upon hearing its name, Zhenyi immediately flew to Karl's side and tilted its head: "Huh? (Are you calling me?)"

“That’s right, little Zhenyi.” Karl pointed to the spell armor on the ground. “Take a look at this armor. Is there any dangerous curse on it?”

Zhenyi blinked its big, bright eyes, floated near the spell armor, and looked around: "Whoosh~ (Although it contains a very strong negative emotion, as long as you don't have prolonged direct contact with it, there shouldn't be any danger.)"

"Karl, how is it?" Nemo's tone held a hint of curiosity. "Did Zhenyi discover any danger?"

After Karl repeated what Zhenyi had said, Nemo and Pipa finally felt relieved and touched the Spell Armor.

"It feels like touching a Ghost-type Pokémon," Nemo commented after withdrawing her hand.

"Karl, is this armor very valuable?" Pipa asked with concern.

In Piper's opinion, if this armor is valuable, then the ancient ruins containing it likely contain some kind of dangerous mechanism.

"The Armor of Spells should be considered a rather precious item, right?" Karl asked somewhat uncertainly.

"Armor of Curses?" Nemo repeated the term that sounded somewhat familiar to her. "It should be an item related to some kind of Ghost-type Pokémon, right?"

“That’s right.” Karl nodded and said, “The Cursed Armor can evolve the originally fire-type Charcoal Sprite into the ghost-fire type Azure Blade, which is a Pokémon with both great strength and appearance.”

Upon hearing the name Blastoise, Pipa immediately checked the Pokédex. After seeing the picture of Blastoise, he exclaimed excitedly, "Wow, it looks so cool!"

"Karl, now that you've obtained this magical armor, are you planning to tame a Charcoal Servant?" Nemo asked curiously.

"If I happen to find a Charcoal Servant that suits my taste, I'll probably try to tame it," Karl said, standing up after putting the Spell Armor into his backpack.

At this moment, Carl smelled the aroma of food wafting through the air, and his stomach rumbled: "Since things have come to this, let's eat first!"

Pipa and Nemo exchanged a glance, both seeing the tears welling up in each other's eyes, and then said in unison, "Agreed!"

For Pipa and Nemo and their Pokémon, enjoying a meal around a campfire in the silent desert is a novel experience, as both of them rarely have the opportunity to camp in the wild for their own reasons.

During dinner, the aroma of the food attracted wild Pokémon such as Hot Chick and Little Eagle, which are scattered throughout the scorching desert.

Master Bear had anticipated this situation. When the Pokémon approached the camp, he distributed the food he had prepared to these wild Pokémon who had come to freeload.

After putting the last bite of curry rice in her mouth, Papa looked at the dazzling Milky Way in the night sky and said with a sigh, "It's so beautiful."

Although Pipa's words seemed out of place, Nemo still accurately understood Pipa's feelings at that moment: "Yes, that's nice."

"If there's a chance in the future, I'll take you on another trip," Karl said with a smile, putting down the water bag containing lemon tea.

“Then it’s settled!” Nemo rested her chin on her hands. “Because of health reasons, I only challenged the gym last time I went to Frostbite Mt. How about we go camping there next time?”

“No problem!” Karl patted his chest and agreed, then changed the subject, “Now that we have some free time, why don’t we go explore that ancient ruin first?”

……

Ten minutes later, led by Straight-Up Bear, Karl and his two companions emerged from a crack in the stone into a long corridor filled with the smell of decay.

Looking at the seemingly bottomless corridor before him, Pipa felt a pang of fear and said, "Brother Karl, how about we come back tomorrow?"

“Since we’re already here, how can we go back empty-handed?” Karl casually pulled a powerful flashlight from his backpack and turned it on, instantly filling the dark passage with light.

"Or are you scared?"

Upon hearing Carl's slightly sarcastic remark, Pipa retorted, "Who's afraid?"

“Since you’re not afraid, let’s go in.” Seeing that his provocation had worked, Karl immediately started walking deeper into the ruins.

The corridor was very quiet, so quiet that there was no sound other than the footsteps and breathing of the three people.

Just as the three were about to reach the end of the corridor, Pipa stopped in her tracks: "Who?!"

"What's wrong?" Carl stopped and looked back. Only Piper was looking around, as if searching for something.

"Karl, Nemo, didn't you hear someone laughing just now?"

"Laughter?" Karl frowned upon hearing this, turning to Nemo beside him. "Nemo, did you hear that?"

"I didn't..." Nemo's words were cut short as her body suddenly stiffened, and her expression changed from confusion to terror.

Just as Karl was about to step forward to check on the two, a cool breeze, seemingly from nowhere, gently brushed against his face.

The next moment, a shrill laugh rang in his ears, sounding like someone scratching a blackboard with their fingernails, which immediately sent chills down Karl's spine.

Chapter 50 Ancient Ruins and Pokémon Hunters (Please read, add to your favorites, and comment!)