Divine Plan? But I'm a Pokémon trainer.

Chapter 251: Heading North to Cover the Face

The leisure time of playing cards, fishing and walking the dog soon came to an end, and that night, the long-awaited Beishang Masking Festival finally arrived.

After dinner, Link led the elves along the Dancing Mountain Trail and arrived at the North Center where the festival was held.

As the Mask-Masking Festival officially began, the number of tourists coming to visit the temple fair was much greater than usual, which made him secretly curious whether Evil Ghost would appear in such a busy place again.

It doesn’t matter if you don’t show up, just enjoy the festival first.

Wearing a cursed fox mask, he and the elves went to the temple fair, eating as they walked, and almost swept through all the stalls they passed by - the stomach of the little Snorlax, who worked voluntarily and was hungry for a whole afternoon, was prepared for tonight!

"Have you heard that a trainer with a super giant Snorlax is randomly clearing out all the food from the stalls?"

"That's great. I don't know when that person will be able to come to my house..."

“But your family sells masks, right?”

"Won't buying like this cause trouble for others?"

"You outsiders really look down on us. Don't underestimate the inventory that we, the stall owners, have prepared for the entire summer!"

The trainer who brought Gigantamax Snorlax to the temple fair was like a cloud hovering above the Kitakami Center, becoming almost like an urban legend.

Soon someone found Link's location.

"Brother Xiaolin, it is you after all."

When Xiaosheng saw Snorlax from a distance, he guessed it was Link and rushed over. As soon as the Snorlax appeared, he hugged its belly, almost half of his body sinking into it.

"So soft and fluffy, it smells like shower gel. I'm a little sleepy..."

"Just?"

Snorlax handed over the candy apple.

"Thank you, Snorlax!"

Xiaosheng, who was a little sleepy just now, suddenly felt hungry again.

Then Qianli and his wife hurried over and found their son who had disappeared in the crowd.

As a result, as soon as they met, Qianli felt dizzy after seeing Link's lineup of elves.

There is the little Snorlax with a fire fox on its head, which is even bigger than the regular Snorlax, the imposing Blazing Tiger and the subspecies of Windy Dog that seems like a door god, the Popo dolphin leisurely swimming in the air, and the big fish burning with flames, plus the Dragonite who looks impatient as if he is ready to take off into the sky at any time.

Is this still the rookie trainer who came to challenge his Orange Gym more than a month ago?

Which rookie trainer can train a Pokémon to this level in just half a year?

"Xiaolin, your Pokémon's strength has improved significantly since the last gym challenge."

Link nodded and said modestly, "He's still a far cry from the trainers I identify with. Come to think of it, I don't think I saw Xiaoyou. Is he not interested in this kind of festival?"

"My brother is also very capable. He is preparing to participate in the Caiyou Conference in two months!"

"I think with Xiaoyou's strength, there is no need for him to participate in the League Conference. It might be more effective to practice directly on the Champion's Road."

Hearing this, Qianli shook his head. Even though the child's ability as a trainer had surpassed his own, he still needed experience in interacting and fighting with various trainers and Pokémon.

However, he did agree that Xiaoyou's level had reached the level of the Four Heavenly Kings.

"Actually, I'm also planning on attending the Caiyou Conference, and I'm afraid I'll have to meet him in the finals then."

But whenever Link thought about the last few matches of the League Conference being 6-on-6 battles, he felt tired.

Then I took two big mouthfuls of the fried noodles and rice from the stall.

I don’t know which country from the food desert invented this weird rice bowl.

Then he went to the temple fair again and found Xiaoxia who was playing with catching weaklings. However, looking at the broken paper nets on the ground beside her, it seemed that she, who was more skilled at fishing, was not having much success in catching fish.

Seeing that the other party seemed to be concentrating, he did not go forward to disturb him, but continued wandering around.

"Fu?"

The Firefox riding on Kirby seemed to have discovered the activity of interest.

Link looked in the direction of the sound and saw that it was fireworks in various elf styles.

The fireworks craftsmen in Beishang Township mix in crystal fragments with different properties to replace the metal salts used in conventional situations. This not only does not make the fireworks lose their colorful characteristics, but instead creates special effects like stardust trails when they burn and explode.

"Fu~"

The fire in the sky was reflected in the fire fox's eyes, and many inspirations came to his mind.

Even the usually casual Tigerblade and Dragonite couldn't help but look up at the fleeting fireworks.

But considering that the little fox had already judged the coordinated moves of the house elves on TV as not having the beauty of precise calculations when he was just born, Link suspected that the little fox might be thinking of a more efficient and gorgeous way of using them...

The trial fireworks before midnight soon ended, and they gradually walked to the shrine at the end where the Samboban was enshrined.

When Link came here for the first time, he suddenly discovered that there was a crystal tree behind the shrine that produced secret seasonings (here’s the picture, I’ll go back to Area Zero to intercept it)?
How come Beishang Township has secret seasonings?
He was puzzled and was about to go forward to check it out carefully, but unfortunately he encountered the shrine's activities.

The little Snorlax, who seemed to be stronger than several of the Wrestlers, was invited by the shrine to make sticky rice cakes on the spot.

The sticky rice cake of Beishang Township is one of the local specialties. During the Masking Festival, huge rice noodles will be prepared for all tourists to taste. The rice noodles will be made on the spot by strong fighting-type elves, and various special seasonings will be added. It is described as "unique" in the travel brochure.

Snorlax's strength is naturally no less than Goli's. In order to eat the sticky cake, he put 120% of his concentration and worked hard.

While the sticky cake was being made, Link ordered Porygon to keep a close eye on the ingredients they put into it just in case.

And Porygon quickly came to the conclusion -

"After testing, it was found that the seasonings added to the sticky cakes were more than 99% similar to the secret seasonings."

Link was speechless after hearing this. If the secret seasoning was added, it would definitely be "unique". Not only would it be delicious, but it would also cure all diseases.

Anyway, it looks like the sticky cake will take a while to be finished... maybe I should go digest the food before then.

After handing over the surveillance task to Porygon, Link and Fire Fox came to the colorful wishing well.

"No need to ask, this must be water from the Crystal Light Pond."

He looked down at the pool curiously. The crystals at the bottom of the pool were like a mirror, but the reflected image was so blurry that he couldn't see it clearly.

"Fu?"

The fire fox was a little surprised, and didn't know what he saw.

"By the way, if you see colorful, glowing stones and metals in other places, it's best not to touch them, because they are likely to be radioactive and corrosive."

Link didn't make a wish.

Just at this moment, there was a sudden burst of warm cheers from the shrine behind.

It seemed like the witch came out to pray for everyone.

He looked over from a distance and saw an extremely bizarre scene.

A "witch" who was less than 1.3 meters tall and wore a green ghost mask walked out in full view of everyone.

Wait, wait, wait, wait!

Isn't this the Eruption?!
(End of this chapter)