Elf: Seriously? You only get a cheat code when you're about to die?

Chapter 1 A Hut on the Plateau

Carlos region, Nibel Plateau.

The Nibel Plateau is a place with a very beautiful natural environment. To the northwest are endless mountain ranges, to the northeast are dense and deep forests, and to the south is a rushing river that flows into the distance.

Looking into the distance along the river, you can see a bustling city nestled there, a kingdom renowned for its mysterious science—the Kingdom of Azot.

Although the world is now under the unified management of the Pokémon League, some regions still have kingdoms from the old era, and retain the special group of royalty and nobility.

The Kingdom of Azot is one of the remaining ancient kingdoms.

Returning our gaze to the Nibel Plateau, the air is fresh, the sky is clear, and fluffy white clouds float above the azure sky, seemingly within reach. Every now and then, a few little finches or rocket finches streak across the sky, their clear and melodious chirps echoing through the air.

At the heart of the Nibel Plateau stand two towering trees, rising abruptly from the flat grassland like two powerful arms supporting the sky. Countless different kinds of Pokémon inhabit these trees.

In front of the two giant trees was a lake as smooth as a mirror. A gentle breeze rippled across the surface, and a goldfish curiously poked its head out of the water and blew a bubble.

Such a place should have been deserted, but nestled among the giant trees and lake, there is a striking three-story red-roofed building.

Zooming in further, the main door of the first floor of the building was tightly closed. A small, antique-looking bronze bell hung at the entrance, and next to the bell was a wooden platform covered with a soft blanket. A small, adorable tree-pillowed koala was fast asleep, hugging a wooden stake, with a thin blanket covering its belly.

"Ya-lo~ Ya-lo~~"

Just then, a little finches flapped its wings and landed lightly on the eaves of the small building, looking at the building that had suddenly appeared not long ago with curious eyes.

The little finches hopped lightly, looking down at the sleeping tree-pillow koala. Just as they were about to fly closer to observe, they heard a creak and the wooden door on the first floor suddenly opened. A handsome young man dressed in a white chef's uniform pushed the door open and walked out.

The boy looked to be sixteen or seventeen years old, standing 1.8 meters tall. His short, golden hair shone brightly in the sunlight, and his resolute face resembled that of the ancient sun god Apollo.

This young man is the owner of the small building, and also the protagonist of our book, An Jie.

Upon seeing Anjie, the little arrow sparrow was greatly frightened and immediately flew away with a cry.

"Huh? Am I that scary?" Anjie subconsciously touched her face and said.

What Angel didn't know was that the Nibel Plateau was a very special place. A significant portion of the Pokémon there had been abandoned and harmed by humans. This story spread from one to ten, from ten to a hundred, and over time, other Pokémon also began to fear and hate humans.

Shaking his head without giving it much thought, Anjie placed a bowl of steamed buns next to the Koala Matatabi and said, "Koala Matatabi, time to eat!"

Upon hearing the word "eat," the tree-pillow koala's two large ears twitched slightly. It then lifted the blanket, put the wooden stake in its arms aside, and rolled over to the food bowl. It picked up a white steamed bun that was bigger than its head and began to gnaw on it with gusto. Although its eyes were still closed, its face was full of satisfaction.

The koala's defining characteristic is absolute sleep; it is asleep from birth, even while eating, moving, or fighting. No one has ever seen a koala awake.

The wooden stake it holds is called a tree pillow, and it is said that it has been holding it since birth and rarely leaves its side.

The story of this tree-pillow bear and its encounter with Ange is quite dramatic.

At that time, Ange had just woken up from the royal tomb and arrived at the Nibel Plateau in a daze. Then, a tree-pillow bear fell from the sky and landed right at his feet.

The tree-pillow koala had been through so much, its body covered in wounds. It was so pitiful, and so cute, that Anjie couldn't resist holding it in her arms.

And so the tree-pillow koala attached itself to him, and soon after, it moved into the small building where it is now with him.

As for why the tree-pillow koala was injured, Anjie asked it later, but it only knew how to sleep and did not answer any of Anjie's questions. Anjie had no choice but to give up asking.

Seeing the koala eating happily, Anjie felt a surge of pride. All his hard work practicing his cooking skills for a month hadn't been in vain.

Ruffled the tree-pillowed teddy bear's fluffy head and said, "You eat first." Then he turned and went back into the house.

The first floor of the building is a spacious restaurant with neatly arranged tables and chairs, each one polished to a shine, clearly having been meticulously cleaned.

The restaurant is decorated very warmly, giving you a feeling of coming home as soon as you enter.

At this moment, there is a Diancie in the room, diligently cleaning with a feather duster. This Diancie is Angel's starter Pokémon.

The moment Ange saw Diancie, Diancie's stats appeared in his field of vision.

Diancie

[Attribute] Rock, Fairy

【Characteristics】Eternal purity

[Gender] None

[Level] 50

【Skills】 Impact, Harden, Diamond Storm, Defense Split, Shoot Down, Frenzy, Primal Power, Rock Polish, Light Wall, Rock Slide.

Individual Value

Blood volume: 31

Attack: 31

Physical defense: 31

Special Attack: 31

Special Defense: 31

Speed: 31

The ability to see Pokémon data is one of the starter gifts that Angel's cheat codes gave him. Diancie's full IVs and the small building where Angel currently lives are also starter gifts from his cheat codes.

In fact, Ange's starter Pokémon was originally just Diamondite. After sleeping with him for five hundred years, when he awoke, Diamondite had mutated into the rare Diancie.

Anjie speculated that the mutation of the small diamond might be related to the golden finger.

Thinking of this, his thoughts drifted back five hundred years.

Ange is a time traveler who was reborn into the royal family of the Kingdom of Azot five hundred years ago and became the only prince of the royal family at that time.

He was born with a twin sister.

However, unlike her healthy sister, Anjie was born weak and sickly. She couldn't carry heavy loads, and even walking was difficult for her.

Furthermore, as he grew older, his health deteriorated, and the royal physicians predicted early on that he would not live to adulthood.

For this reason, Ange's parents, who were the king and queen of the Kingdom of Azot at the time, doted on him and granted his every wish.

Thanks to her parents' meticulous care, Anjie defied the doctor's prediction and lived to the age of sixteen.

Unfortunately, just after his sixteenth birthday, his condition began to deteriorate rapidly, and he fell into a coma from which he never woke up again.

After doctors confirmed that Ange was dead, Ange's parents held a funeral for him and buried him in the royal burial chamber.

Diamond, the Pokémon that had been with Ange for over a decade, refused to leave him and entered the royal tomb with his coffin, where it fell into a deep sleep.

However, in reality, Anjie, who was in a coma at the time, was not dead. He was still clinging to his last breath, and it was at that moment that his golden touch came into play.

It's a system.

The system gave him a newbie gift pack when he was on the verge of death.

①The starting Pokémon has full Individual Values ​​(IVs).

②The host and the starter Pokémon share a life.

③ One base (awaiting summoning)

④ The Eye of Observation

It was thanks to the second gift that Anjie was able to regain her health and be as lively and energetic as she is now.

Perhaps due to the system's blessing, at the moment when Anjie and Little Diamond shared their lives, Little Diamond fell into a deep sleep and began to transform, which also caused Anjie to fall into a deep sleep.

He slept for five hundred years.

After waking up, Angel and Diancie stumbled out of the royal tomb and then stumbled onto the Nibel Plateau, where they encountered an injured tree-pillow bear.

After An Jie woke up, he began to study his belated cheat code.

He originally thought his cheat system was some kind of super trainer assistance system that could help him reach the pinnacle of trainer status, but he never expected that the system's name would be the Great Chef System, also known as the Pokémon Feeding System.

Fine, if he doesn't want to be a trainer, he doesn't want to be a trainer. Anyway, it's popular for transmigrators to not be trainers these days. Besides, although he likes Pokémon, he doesn't have any obsession with being a trainer. He just wants to pet Pokémon every day.

After studying the system, Anjie noticed the newbie gift pack that the system was giving away.

Let's leave aside Articles 1, 2, and 4 for now, since he's already enjoyed the benefits. And then there's Article 3...

stronghold……

He had just awakened from his slumber and indeed needed a place to settle down. Although he had once been a prince of the Kingdom of Azot, five hundred years had passed, and Ange was not even sure if the Kingdom of Azot still existed.

Moreover, even if he were still alive, it's questionable whether the royal family would recognize him as a prince from five hundred years ago.

So Ange decided to wait until things were completely settled before going back to the Kingdom of Azot!

In the end, Anjie looked at the three words "Awaiting Summoning" behind the stronghold and chose to summon without hesitation.

Anjie originally thought that he could choose the location of this base, but he didn't expect that he couldn't. After the summoning, he led Diancie and Tree Pillow Koala to the small building where they were living, following the system's instructions.

An Jie was generally very satisfied with the small building, but the location was too remote, with no one around. Was he going to live a secluded life from now on?

However, Anjie didn't think much about it at the time. He had just come out of the tomb and was already grateful to have a place to stay.

Pulling herself out of her thoughts, Anjie smiled and walked towards Tianxi. "Tianxi, don't bother, the house is clean enough already. Let's have breakfast!"

Tianxi stopped what she was doing, rubbed her flat stomach and said, "Oh dear, my stomach is growling!" With that, she put down the feather duster and ran quickly into the kitchen.

Tianxi from Ange's family has telepathic abilities, so she can communicate with him without any problems.

When Tianxi came out of the kitchen, she was carrying an iron basin filled with plump, white steamed buns.

Anjie did all of this early in the morning.

Since An Jie's cheat system is called the Great Chef System, it is naturally related to cooking skills. Even the first floor of the small building where he lives is designed like a restaurant.

During his month of recovery, he has been honing his culinary skills by following the system's instructions.

However, what left Anjie speechless was that he had spent the entire month kneading dough and steaming buns. Fortunately, following the systematic training methods, his cooking skills had indeed improved rapidly. Even just steaming buns made him feel that he was no longer the same as before.

If someone had made him eat steamed buns for a month straight, he would have said that person was crazy. Wouldn't eating steamed buns for a month make him vomit?

However, the truth is that he has been eating homemade steamed buns for a month and has not gotten tired of them at all.

Not only him, but also Diancie and the Komamura were like that; you could tell just by looking at how the Komamura was eating.

Ange's Eye of Observation can see not only Pokémon data, but also his own data.

Anjie

Race: human

Sex: Male

Age: 16 (+500)

Physical condition: 1

Intelligence: 1

Culinary skills rating: A complete novice, barely able to eat it.

Compared to Pokémon's data, Angel's own data is much more rudimentary.

The system was very harsh in its evaluation of Anjie's cooking skills. Even though Tree Pillow Bear and Diancie liked his steamed buns so much, in the system's eyes, he was still just a novice.

Just a month ago, the system's evaluation of his cooking skills was "utterly inedible garbage!"

In his previous life, Anjie was a chef, although the restaurant he ran eventually went bankrupt.

Anjie's parents died early in his previous life, so he lived with his grandfather, who owned a restaurant. However, he did not learn cooking from his grandfather when he was young.

After her grandfather passed away, Anjie quit her job, returned to her hometown to take over her grandfather's restaurant, and began to learn cooking skills according to the recipes left by her grandfather.

Unfortunately, he failed to learn the essence of his grandfather's cooking skills, which ultimately led to the restaurant's closure due to poor management.

Even so, compared to the average person, An Jie's cooking skills are already quite good, but even so, he can only get a "little piece of trash" rating from the system.

This "newbie" rating is already considered lenient by the system.

"Eat quickly, I can't wait any longer." Tianxi placed the steamed bun on the table and sat down impatiently.

"Yes, yes, yes." Anjie looked helpless. "Why are you in such a hurry? Breakfast isn't going anywhere." As he spoke, he sat down opposite Tianxi and picked up a steamed bun.

The moment Anjie touched the steamed bun, she felt as if she had touched soft cotton, so light and fluffy, or like clouds in the sky, pure white and pleasing to the eye.

Each steamed bun in the basin is the size of a fist, and they are all exactly the same in shape and size, just like they were made by machine. However, in fact, they are all handmade by Anjie.

Tianxi couldn't wait to start eating. Taking a bite of the steamed bun, her mouth was immediately filled with a sweet taste, the pure and simple aroma of wheat flour, the taste of autumn harvest.

With her eyes closed, Diancie felt as if her soul had risen to the sky, freely wandering in the sea of ​​clouds, feeling so wonderful.

After a long while, Tianxi opened her eyes again, her face full of satisfaction. She exclaimed, "No matter how many times I eat it, Anjie's steamed buns are always so delicious."

Tianxi couldn't help but feel proud of Ange.

"Eat more if you like it," Anjie said.

"Mmm~~" Diancie nodded as she ate in small bites. Although she ate quickly, she chewed each bite carefully so that she could savor the unique flavor of the steamed bun.

Seeing how happily Tianxi was eating, Anjie's appetite also increased.

Soon, the bowl of steamed buns was devoured by the person and their Pokémon. Of course, most of them ended up in Diancie's stomach. It was small, but its appetite was astonishing. After eating, there was no sign of any change in its stomach, and no one knew where the steamed buns went.

After finishing breakfast, Tianxi elegantly wiped her mouth with a handkerchief and then said to Anjie, "Anjie, the system has issued its first mission."

Why does Diancie know about the system? Because after Diancie and Ange shared their lives, Diancie was appointed by the system as Ange's system-guided spirit.

In other words, all tasks issued by the system in the future will be conveyed to Ange through Tianshi.

The system itself is not intelligent. Without a guide spirit, its functions would be very rigid. That's why Diancie is assigned to this role, so that she can better assist Ange.

Of course, as the system's owner, Ange has the right to revoke Diancie's position, and the system also obtained Ange's consent when appointing Diancie.

Ange was happy to have Diancie in her life and of course wouldn't revoke her status as a guide spirit.

Upon hearing Tianxi's words, Anjie was slightly taken aback, then thought to himself: Has it finally arrived?

"What kind of mission is it?"

Diancie replied, "Serve ten Pokémon in the shop and get their praise."

Upon hearing this, Anjie thought to himself: As expected of the system's alias, the Pokémon Feeding System, the guests it serves are not humans, but Pokémon. No wonder the base is located on the Nibel Plateau.

How do I tell if a Pokémon has given a good review?

"This system will determine it automatically."

"Is there a time limit for the mission?" Anjie nodded and then asked.

Tianxi shook her head. "Yes, within three days. If it exceeds that time, it will be considered a mission failure."

"Is there a penalty for failing the mission?" Anjie was worried that his cheat system was an exploitative system.

"Of course not. Failure will only mean no mission reward, there will be no penalty," Tianxi replied with a smile.

"That's good." Anjie breathed a sigh of relief, then asked with great interest, "What's the reward for the mission?"

Tianxi replied with a pained expression, "I don't know either. I'll only know if you, Ange, complete the mission."

"Okay." Angie shrugged. "It doesn't seem too difficult to entertain ten Pokémon in three days."

There are many Pokémon living on the Nibel Plateau. Over the past month, he has often seen Pokémon watching him from near his home, but they would run away as soon as they saw him.

These Pokémon are quite shy.

At this point, Ange didn't realize that the Pokémon were avoiding him not just because they were shy.

"Let's do our best!" Tianxi encouraged Ange by clenching her fist.

"Go for it!" Angie nudged Tianxi's fist with her own.

(End of this chapter)