Manor Lord of the Elf World

Chapter 60: Developing Poké Balls?
Spring has arrived, and the residents of the territory are all busy with their tasks.

The miners went to the other side of the mine to extract clay and limestone, and with the help of the frizzy buffalo, transported them back to their territory.

The blacksmith and others then used the power of the Exploding Ape to fire the clay into bricks.

After accumulating bricks over the winter, the territory now has enough bricks to fill an empty space. Once another batch is fired, they can officially begin building brick houses and paving stone roads.

After the morning training session ended, Raven saw Megan feeding Magikarp by the pond on his way back.

Upon seeing Raven approach, Megan hurriedly rose and bowed, "Your Highness Raven!"

“Don’t be so nervous, Megan.” Raven smiled and shook his head, then turned his gaze to the six Magikarp that had surfaced.

Thanks to Megan's meticulous care, the six Magikarp appeared to be in excellent health, both in appearance and spirit.

“It seems you’ve taken very good care of them,” Raven said.

“These are things I should do!” Megan said somewhat reservedly.

The six Magikarp were also staring at him intently.

Raven: "..."

He shook his head helplessly, looking at the scene before him, and a picture couldn't help but appear in his mind.

—The timid and cowardly girl is protected in the middle by six ferocious Gyarados. If anyone dares to bully her, what awaits them will be six Hyper Beams fired at the same time.

Wow, that's truly terrifying!
However, Raven was actually looking forward to that day.

He smiled and told Megan to get along well with Magikarp, then turned and left.

Megan breathed a sigh of relief as she watched his retreating figure.

She squatted by the pond and said to the Magikarp, "That's Prince Raven. He's a very kind person! Thanks to him, my brother and I can live in such a nice house and eat such delicious food!"

When they were slaves, they were at the very bottom of the royal city, eating cold, hard black bread, the food of the poor, and sleeping on hard wooden beds.

If you accidentally do something wrong, you might get beaten by the adults in the royal city...

For Megan, it was a very terrible memory.

The Magikarp seemed to sense Megan's emotions; they leaped out of the water with a splash, then fell back down.

“But now everything is slowly getting better!” Megan said happily.

*

After returning to the territory hall, Raven let Snivy and Dratini play by themselves for a while, while he sat at his desk, took out a quill, dipped it in ink, and began writing a letter on parchment to the old king who was still in Eindook.

Although he was not the original owner of the body and had no relation to the old king, Raven felt that given his current status, he still had to let the other party know that he was safe.

Besides finding out about the situation in the royal city, they can also ask the old king for a batch of technical talents and a batch of Pokémon that are being exploited in the royal city.

The letter was quickly written, and the next question was how to send it back to the capital.

Raven sat at the table, pondering their current situation.

The Pokémon world is vast and sparsely populated. They had lost their way in the blizzard and had no idea where they were in the Unova region, let alone the direction of Royal Castle.

Secondly, there is the issue of choosing a messenger. Since this is the world of Pokémon, dangers can easily arise on the road, and if the messenger is not careful, they may perish on the way.

"If only there were Pokémon that could deliver messages..." Raven thought of Pelipper.

Just then, the old butler, Elif, suddenly walked in from outside.

"Your Highness, is this the spherical fruit you were looking for?"

Raven looked up and saw that he was holding several bright red fruits with a slightly pungent smell. Those were...red berries?

Raven paused for a moment, then asked, "Where did this come from?"

Elif smiled and said, "Your Highness asked me about this before, so I recently had the patrolling knights keep an eye out for it. They discovered this special fruit in the nearby forest."

Raven held the red berries in his hand. They were the same size as the Poké Balls he was familiar with, and very light.

It really is a cone...

Raven searched for relevant technologies on the tech tree, but unfortunately found that he couldn't afford to exchange them at his current level of satisfaction.

Since that's the case, they'll have to figure it out themselves first.

But before that, they had one more thing to do.

Raven asked, "I've already written the letter to send back to the capital, but I don't know how to send it back yet. Elif, do you have any suggestions?"

“Hmm… Perhaps someone in the territory remembers the way we came,” Elif pondered. “Perhaps Your Highness could send someone to search the vicinity for towns and villages. If we can find them, we can then ask for directions to the capital.”

“In that case, I’ll leave this matter to you to arrange,” Raven nodded.

"Okay." Sharing the master's burdens is what a butler should do.

"Oh, by the way, have Morrick come over here!" Raven said, looking at the tree fruit in his hand.

While Elif went to call for help, he used a quill to draw the approximate shape of the Poké Ball on parchment.

Regarding the development of modern Poké Balls, Raven recalled seeing related information in the anime.

If he remembers correctly, it seems that a Pokémon professor was researching Primeape when he made a mistake in the dosage, causing Primeape to become weak and hide in his glasses case.

This means that Pokémon have the habit of shrinking their bodies and seeking small, secluded places to hide when they are in a weakened state.

But then another question arises: even without a Poké Ball, could he simply use an empty bottle to let the Pokémon hide inside?
"In any case, let's try to make a Poké Ball first," Raven thought to himself.

Eriff quickly brought the blacksmith Morrick over.

Raven handed him the Poké Ball blueprints and the Red Berry, saying, "Take a look and see if you can make this Red Berry look like this."

"What is this?" Mokri looked at the sphere on the drawing with some confusion, but he still answered honestly, "It should work."

First, use a knife to cut the fruit in half. Then, use metal rings to hold the top and bottom parts of the fruit together. This way, the fruit can be opened and closed freely.

“But there are no suitable materials in the territory yet,” Morrick said with some difficulty. “There are traces of iron ore at the mine, but we haven’t dared to go deep because it seems that there are many magical beasts living there. Our miners only dare to dig clay on the outer perimeter.”

“Iron ore…” Raven couldn’t help but think of the Cocodora that lived in the mine, which Christina had noted in her ecology notebook.

He thought for a moment, then asked, "What kind of magical beast?"

“There are stones with two arms that can float, and huge monsters made of stone that look like snakes!” Morrick said in a somewhat frightened manner.

The monster appeared once when they were digging clay, and it sounded like an earthquake, with the ground rumbling.

Upon hearing this description, two images of Pokémon came to mind.

Geodude and Onix.

“I’ll go back and take a look,” Raven said.

He'd see if he could use food to cooperate with the Pokémon on that mountain; if that didn't work, he could force them to mine the ore through battle.

After all, with Snivy around, and Onix being four times weak to Grass (as a Rock/Ground type), Snivy has a significant advantage.

(End of this chapter)