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

Chapter 173 Encounters with the World Tree

Anjie was amazed for only three seconds before she saw the Phoenix King's body flash with light and then transform into a dreamlike form.

"Mew~ Mew~"

Seeing that Ange had successfully overcome the test and arrived at the Tree of Beginning, Dream seemed very happy. It flew to Ange's head and hovered there.

"Babu~ Babu~"

Babu Tubo hopped and skipped, raising his hand to greet Dream.

"Mew~"

Dream flew down and gave Babu Tubo a high five.

Sneasel wasn't familiar with Mew, so it ran behind Angel and hugged Angel's leg, silently watching Mew interact with the other Pokémon.

While Dream was playing around with everyone, Anjie treated the fossil pterosaur's injuries.

"Awoo~" The fossil pterosaur and Anjie nodded, then quickly flapped their wings and disappeared.

Then Dream waved to everyone and led them toward the interior of the Tree of Beginning.

Although the Tree of the Beginning is called a tree, it is actually a rock life form. Because a large number of special trees grow on it, it looks like a tree overall.

The leaves of those trees are the leaves of the primordial tree that Anjie is looking for.

They are essentially part of the Tree of Beginning, just as human body hair, or Pokémon fur and scales, are to the Tree of Beginning.

The Tree of Beginning contains a vast array of spaces inhabited by all sorts of Pokémon, and these spaces are connected by a series of special passages.

Led by the dream, Anjie and his companions passed through a passage and arrived at a space with rivers and forests.

In the clear river, Anjie saw many ammonites, spiny ammonites, fossil helmets, and sickle helmets.

These two fossil Pokémon, which have become extinct in the outside world, still survive in large numbers inside the Tree of Beginning.

After passing through this space, Anjie and his companions entered another passage. When they emerged from this passage, they found themselves in a space filled with waterfalls and forests.

A large number of blue-winged birds and black-winged birds flew above the waterfall.

Meanwhile, the water beneath the waterfall is home to numerous miniature dragons and dragonflies.

There were about 10 dragonfish playing on both sides of the waterfall.

It is a spectacular sight when flocks of blue-winged birds and tamarisk fly across the sky.

Anjie walked to the water's edge, and the Dratini and Dragonair immediately swam over, staring at Anjie with wide, curious eyes.

This was the first time they had ever seen humans.

Anjie put his hand into the water, and the miniature dragons all gathered around and licked his palm with their tongues. It was so cute.

Their tongues were soft and cool, and Angie felt very comfortable being licked.

Babu Tubo also followed Ange's example and put his hand into the water, but the Mi Ni Dragons did not get as close to Babu Tubo as they did to Ange.

Because Babutops carries a faint electric current in its hands, the Dratini can sense it and are therefore afraid of being shocked.

Suddenly, Babuto had a flash of inspiration. It took out the food it had stored at the royal banquet from its backpack. Attracted by the food, the miniature dragons swam ashore and gathered around Babuto.

"Mew~ Mew~"

Mew flew over to Anjie and called out twice. Only then did Anjie realize that the Dragonite they had encountered on the way was actually the leader of this place.

After leaving this space, Anjie and his companions continued upwards and arrived at a space inhabited by a large number of fossil pterosaurs.

The fossil pterosaur that fought the tree-pillow bear is the leader here.

Leaving the space where the fossil pterosaur lived, Anjie and his team continued into the next passage.

Led by Mew, Angel and his friends encountered many Pokémon living there, all of which were attached to the Tree of Beginning and under Mew's protection.

In one of the passages, Ange and his friends met Regice, Regirock, and Registeel, which Ash had mentioned.

The three Titans were very surprised to see Ange, a human. The light spots on their faces flickered rapidly as they pondered whether or not to banish Ange.

Fortunately, Mew appeared in time. Seeing that Ange had come here with Mew's permission, the three legendary pillars turned around and left.

After passing through another passage, Anjie and his group came outside.

This is halfway up the Tree of Origin. From here, Ange and his companions can see the endless mountains and forests in the distance, and can also vaguely see the outline of the city of Orudron.

"Mew~ Mew~"

At this moment, Dream pointed to the leaves of the Tree of Beginning next to them, reminding Angie not to forget the purpose of coming here.

"I was so engrossed in watching it that I almost forgot."

Anjie patted his head and walked over to the leaves, carefully observing them with his keen eye, trying to select the suitable leaves.

However, the result was that all the leaves here were judged as inferior by the eye of observation.

Dream knew the answer from Anjie's expression, so it led Anjie and the others back to the passage and continued to walk towards the upper levels of the Tree of Origin.

After passing through several more spaces, Anjie was once again led out of the passage by Dream, this time to a higher place on the Tree of Origin.

Anjie walked to the leaves growing there, looked at them with his Observational Eye, and then turned to Dream and shook his head.

Dream clenched its fists, looking like it was about to punch Anjie, but Anjie just smiled helplessly at it.

After playfully waving her fists a few times, Meng Huan resignedly slumped her shoulders and continued leading An Jie uphill.

Unbeknownst to them, Anjie and his companions had arrived at the very top of the Tree of Origin.

At the highest point of the Tree of Origin, Ange saw a patch of trees that were similar to, yet different from, those he had seen before.

The moment he saw these trees, his intuition told him that he had found what he was looking for.

Anjie rushed over, activated his Eye of Observation, and saw information about the leaves flashing rapidly within it.

"Leaves of the Tree of Origin, common quality, can be used as a special ingredient!"

"Leaves of the Tree of Origin, high quality, can be used as a special ingredient!"

"Leaves of the Tree of Origin, of superior quality, can be used as a special ingredient."

……

Anjie's face lit up with joy; they had finally found it!

The leaves of the Tree of Origin in the ordinary world are dark green, while the leaves here are light green. The higher the quality, the lighter the color. The leaves of the best quality are even light yellow.

According to Anjie's observation, most of the leaves here are of ordinary quality, a small number are of high quality, and the top quality leaves can only be described as rare.

Anjie immediately took out a basket from her backpack and started picking.

Seeing this, other Pokémon rushed to help, including Mew.

Babu Tubo and Niula secretly competed to see who could pick the fruit faster.

Babu Tubo picked a handful and proudly raised his chin at Niula; Niula picked two handfuls and cast a provocative look at Babu Tubo.

The two Pokémon were "battling" so fiercely that Loke, who was watching the show from the sidelines, almost burst out laughing.

While picking the leaves, Anjie asked Meng Huan, "The leaves here look so special. You've failed to pick them several times, why didn't you think of trying here?"

"Mew~ Mew~"

The dream said that it had never noticed such a place before. It was usually too busy playing to pay attention to such trivial details.

Moreover, it rarely comes to the highest point of the Tree of Beginning.

Before they knew it, they had picked several baskets of leaves from the Tree of Beginnings. Seeing that it was getting late, Anjie called out:

"That's enough, let's find a place to rest, or it'll get dark."

Upon hearing this, the Pokémon all stopped.

After putting the basket full of leaves into his system inventory, Anjie asked Meng Huan, "Is it alright if we stay here for the night?"

"Mew~ Mew~"

Dream nodded, then turned and flew into the passage, waving to Anjie and the others as she flew, seemingly to take them somewhere.

Led by the dream, Anjie and his companions arrived at a space that was not very spacious.

The space was filled with grass, below which was a small pond, and in the center grew a large tree.

The area beneath the tree was piled high with all sorts of toys, which were probably all brought back by Dream from the cities of Ordron and Rota.

Anjie guessed, "Dreamlike, could this be your residence?"

"Mew~ Mew~"

Dreamy squinted and nodded repeatedly.

Anjie laughed and said, "Then we'll be bothering you tonight."

"Mew~ Mew~"

Dreamy nodded happily and asked Anjie to make it something delicious.

Anjie readily agreed, "No problem, I promised to cook you three big meals!"

Upon hearing this, Dreamy became even more excited and kept circling around Anjie's head.

Just then, Babu Tubo seemed to have noticed something, and it barked, beckoning Ange to come over.

Anjie walked over in confusion and saw it lying under a big tree in the middle of the grass, its rear end sticking out, doing something that was unclear to him.

"Babu~ Babu~"

Upon seeing Anjie approach, Babu Tupo nimbly scrambled to his feet, pointing with a look of surprise at a tree hole and shouting to Anjie.

Amazingly, the hollow tree was shimmering with a bright green light.

"What is this?" Anjie asked, equally surprised.

"Mew~ Mew~" At this moment, Dream flew to Anjie's side.

After its explanation, Anjie realized that the tree hole was actually connected to the nutrient delivery channel of the Tree of Origin.

The nutrient delivery channels are crucial to the health of the Tree of Origin; if any problems arise, the entire Tree of Origin will collapse.

This passage also has a special function: it allows Dream to quickly travel to any part of the Tree of Beginnings through it.

Upon learning that the tree hole was so important, Anjie quickly pulled Babu away to prevent it from getting too close, in case something happened.

Anjie had heard Ash tell her about the terrible things that happened to the Tree of Origin.

"Mew~ Mew~"

However, Dream told Anjie that it was okay for them to touch it.

The Tree of Origin does not produce any excessive or repulsive reactions to either of the two types of beings.

One type is Pokémon.

One type is humans who have awakened the power of waveguides.

It was only then that Angie realized that even if he had come to the Tree of Beginning without Mew's permission, it wouldn't have caused the Tree of Beginning to reject him as Ash had said.

Because he possesses the power of waveguides, and the Tree of Origin is close to the power of waveguides.

Even Ash didn't know this.

It was precisely because Ange awakened the Aura that Mew could so easily become close to Ange, because it coexisted with the Tree of Origin.

"Mew~ Mew~"

Dream waved to Anjie, then disappeared into the tree hole to Anjie's surprise, before peeking out again.

"You mean we should all come together?" Anjie asked.

"Mew~Mew~" Dreamy nodded with her eyes narrowed.

Anjie walked to the tree hole, and Meng Huan immediately shrunk her head inside, while Anjie slowly poked her head in.

Then he witnessed a miraculous scene.

In the upward passage, green energy flowed, and dark green spheres floated rapidly upwards.

At this moment, Dream was bouncing on a green ball.

Anjie crawled into the tree hole and leaped onto a green ball, but he almost fell because he lost his footing. Startled, he quickly imitated the dreamlike pose and lay down on it.

When Babu Tubo outside saw that Anjie was gone, he quickly crawled into the tree hole as well.

Then Sneasel, Loko, and Metagross with a tree-pillow-tailed bear on its head also crawled inside.

Once inside the tree hole, everyone was filled with wonder and climbed onto the green balls, then controlled them to bump into each other like bumper cars, having a great time.

Even the usually mature and composed Metagross couldn't help but bounce around on the green ball.

When he saw Mew bump into Ange with the green ball beneath him, almost knocking Ange off the green ball, Babubo secretly glanced at Sneasel and then revealed a wicked smile.

Taking advantage of Sneasel's inattention, it controlled the green ball to crash into it.

However, what it didn't expect was that Sneasel was on guard against it. When Babuto went for it, Sneasel twisted its body and skillfully dodged the green ball.

Babubo missed its target, and just as it regained its footing on the green ball, Sneasel charged at it.

After a violent shaking, the green ball flung Babu Tupo away.

"Babu~ Babu~"

Babubo screamed as it plummeted downwards, only to be lifted back up by another rapidly rising green ball.

"Babu~ Babu~"

Babu Tubo patted its chest, still shaken, and everyone burst into laughter at its disheveled appearance.

Of course, the loudest laugh came from Sneasel.

Through the nutrient channel, Ange and his friends were led by Mew to visit many more spaces inhabited by Pokémon.

Some areas are home to large numbers of scallops, which are almost extinct elsewhere. They either fly in flocks in the air or line up to drink water at the river, looking leisurely and content.

Some of these spaces are inhabited by rare Pokémon Kangaskhan that are hard to find outside. They carry baby Kangaskhan in their pouches and either stroll on the grass or forage in the forest.

In another space lived the Slowpoke race, led by Slowking. A large group of Slowpokes floated on the water, bowing and worshipping Slowking on the rock in the center of the water, creating a very ceremonial scene.

In one of the spaces, Anjie also saw groups of chrysanthemums.

Chansey are very gentle. Whenever an injured Pokémon comes to them, they will kindly treat the injured Pokémon with Healing Pulse or Life Drop.

For Pokémon fans, this place is simply paradise!

If the timing weren't so bad, Angie would really like to trade some eggs with the Chanseys, as those are extremely rare ingredients!

After they got tired of playing, Dream took Anjie and the others back to its home.

Then Anjie began preparing dinner.

After thinking for a moment, Ange teleported Diancie, Snorlax, Inteleon, Gengar, Magearna, Volcanion, and Throwing Monkey from her home.

He really missed everyone after not seeing them for a long time.

Since leaving home, he has never summoned any of the family's Pokémon to his side.

Of course, the Pokémon at home also miss Ange.

"Gang~"

"Geng~"

"Indeed~"

As soon as they were teleported over, the three creatures—Snorlax, Gengar, and Inteleon—ran into Angel's arms.

Anjie was instantly pounced on and knocked to the ground.

"Gang~ Gang~" Master! Master! I miss you so much!

The little Snorlax hugged Anja's waist, rubbing its head against his chest, its face looking incredibly aggrieved.

The master never summoned it even once.

"Geng~ Geng~"

"Intai~ Intai~"

Gengar and Inteleon, one holding Ange's head and the other wrapping their arms around Ange's neck, both expressed their longing and accusations against Ange.

Why not call everyone?!

Anjie patted each of their heads. "Good boy, I missed you all too! Didn't I summon you here? I'll try to summon you more often in the future."

"Just now~" It's settled.

The little Snorlax looked up at Anja and said.

"It's a promise, it's a promise," An Jie assured him repeatedly.

After a heartfelt exchange, Anjai and his three apprentices started cooking, while the other Pokémon played with Mew.

Mew has collected all sorts of toys, like Squirtle spinning tops, Hitmonlee yo-yos... some of them are quite old, and it's unclear when Mew collected them.

Soon everyone became familiar with the Dreamy creatures, and their laughter and chatter filled the space.

Mew flitted about among the Pokémon, enthusiastically explaining how to play with various toys.

With the help of his three apprentices, Anjie quickly prepared dinner. His family, along with Meng Huan, Luo Ke, and Niu La, sat together, chatting and eating, creating a lively atmosphere.

Dream has never had such a lively meal before, so she was in particularly high spirits. Every two bites, she would jump up from her seat to chat with everyone before sitting down again.

Then there's Niu La, who fawns over Anjie and tries to win her favor, all in the hopes of one day eating the delicious food Anjie makes.

I didn't expect this day to come so soon.

Looking at the table full of delicious food, it could hardly take it all in. It was the sweet little Snorlax who took care of it, constantly putting food on its plate. Only then did it know which dish to start eating.

During the meal, Snorlax took extra good care of Sneasel, the new member.

For this reason, Sneasel had a particularly good impression of Munchlax, and its attitude towards it was completely different from that towards Babuboo.

Whenever Snorlax looks at Sneasel, Sneasel always smiles with an incredibly kind expression.

Although NiuLa holds grudges, it is equally grateful.

After dinner, Anjie laid out a soft, thick, and large blanket in the dream house, and everyone lazily lay down on it.

After sitting for a while, Anjie took out the leaves of the World's Beginning Tree from his system inventory and then sorted them according to their quality.

Snorlax, Inteleon, Gengar, Magearna, and Throwing Monkey rushed to help.

Anjie said, "Could you please help me wash the leaves I sorted clean?"

All five Pokémon nodded at the same time.

(End of this chapter)