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

Chapter 25 Mission Completed

Flamel woke up late today, so she was in a great hurry when she left the house.

She passed by the park where Angie sold breakfast on her way to work at the palace.

Seeing the long queue not far away and smelling the aroma filling the air, Flamel really wanted to go and see what they were selling.

Unfortunately, she was going to be late for work, so she could only glance at it before hurrying away.

"Good morning, Princess." Upon arriving at the palace, Flamel greeted Princess Jimia, who was staring at a wall.

"You're a little late today," Jimia teased Flamel with a smile.

Flamel has a rather serious personality and rarely smiles. She always arrives at the palace early for work and seems to never be late.

Today, she was unusually late, so Ji Meiya couldn't resist teasing her.

"Ahem~~" Flamel coughed awkwardly twice, then quickly changed the subject, "Princess, you're looking at this painting again."

Upon hearing this, Ji Meiya sighed deeply, "Yes, Father entrusted me with the entire investigation into the theft of Prince Anjie's tomb, but so far we haven't made a single clue."

Princess Jimia was looking at a painting depicting Ange and Anna sitting together, hand in hand.

"Princess, don't worry, there will be clues. Since that tomb robber stole His Highness's body, he will definitely make a move. As long as he dares to show his true colors, we will definitely be able to catch him."

"I hope so," Ji Meiya said, still wondering what the tomb raider intended to do with the prince's remains.

What if he doesn't want to sell, but just wants to collect it?

Seeing that the princess was in a bad mood, Flamel decided to talk about something else.

"Princess, on my way here I found a stall that's doing pretty well in Elifas Park. I'll buy some for you to try tomorrow."

The park where Anjie set up his stall is named after the mysterious scientist Elifas.

"Great!" Ji Meiya finally smiled. "What does that stall sell?"

As Flamel's boss and best friend, Ji Meiya knew very well that although Flamel had a serious and unsmiling personality, she was actually a foodie who loved good food.

"Actually, I don't know either." Flamel shook her head seriously.

"Huh?" Ji Meiya was taken aback. "Then how do you know it's delicious?"

"Because there are a lot of people in line."

"Hahaha~~ You really are~~"

The two walked away chatting and laughing.

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As noon approached, Anjie finally decided to pack up and close up shop.

"Alright, we're sold out. Everyone, head back now," he called out to the people queuing behind him, rubbing his back and wiping away sweat.

"Oh, that's it? I waited in line for ages!"

"Boss, are you coming again tomorrow?"

……

The customers who didn't manage to buy anything left reluctantly.

As soon as the guests left, Anjie started packing up, moving all the tables and chairs back to the car.

After everything was packed up, Anjie closed the car door, set up a table in the car, and carried the tree-pillow koala to the chair opposite her.

"Tree-pillow koala, thank you for your hard work! You did a fantastic job today, you were a great help!"

As he spoke, he placed a bowl of steamed buns in front of the tree-pillow koala.

"Eat up, you must be hungry."

The tree-pillow koala's stomach was already growling with hunger, so it immediately picked up a steamed bun and began to wolf it down.

"Eat slowly, no rush," Anjie said as she poured water for it.

Anjie then began to tally up today's profits.

503 steamed buns were sold, totaling 5030 Union Coins.

1052 steamed buns were sold, totaling 21040 Union Coins.

There are also 5600 happiness points, which were contributed by the Pokémon eating steamed buns.

After taking stock of everything, Anjie opened the taskbar on the system interface, where it displayed...

【Daily Task 1】Train in the culinary training room for 1 hour – To be completed.

[Daily Task 2] Invite 10 Pokémon - Completed, reward to be claimed.

[Purchase Task] Go to the capital city of Azot to purchase ingredients - To be completed.

[Temporary Quest] Earn your first pot of gold by setting up a stall in Azot Royal City - Completed, reward to be claimed.

Anjie didn't rush to claim the daily task rewards, planning to wait until he completed another task that evening before claiming them together. He reached out and claimed the temporary task rewards instead.

The system immediately displayed a prompt.

Congratulations, Master, on completing the [Temporary Quest] to earn your first pot of gold by setting up a stall in Azot Royal City. Reward: Recipe "Baozi"

Anjie paused for a moment, then opened the recipes on the right side of the system interface and flipped through them. Sure enough, she found that there were more contents on them.

The recipe for "Baozi" is quite different from that of Mantou. It is very rich and includes vegetable buns, vermicelli buns, mushroom buns, radish buns, kelp buns, red bean buns... It has detailed recipes for almost every filling that Anjie knows.

Upon seeing the recipe, Anjie was overjoyed, which meant that he could now earn happiness points with steamed buns!

That was so satisfying!

After finishing their meal, Anjie drove the food cart to a secluded corner, put it back into her system inventory, and then hugged the tree-pillow koala, saying, "Tree-pillow koala, let's go shopping."

The tree-pillow koala was so full that it had already started snoring. It rolled over in Anjie's arms and buried its head deep in Anjie's chest, leaving only its round little tail and chubby little bottom sticking out.

Anjie smiled and shook his head, then went to the supermarket he and Tianxi had gone to yesterday and went on a shopping spree, spending almost all of the 20,000 Alliance Coins he had earned that day.

He only bought ingredients and seasonings; he didn't buy anything else, since ingredients were the only thing he couldn't buy from the system store.

As Anjie was leaving, she suddenly realized that the koala tree pillow she had put in the stroller was gone, leaving only the tree pillow in the stroller.

"A tree-pillow koala?"

Anjie called out softly, "How could it have disappeared in the blink of an eye?"

"A tree-pillow koala?"

Anjie pushed the cart and started searching. Could it be lost?

Ding-dong~

The sound of glass hitting the ground came from right beneath his feet. Anjie looked down and saw the tree-pillow koala rolling to his feet from somewhere, holding a bottle of wine in its arms.

"You ran away just for that?"

Anjie bent down and picked up the tree-pillow koala.

The tree-pillow koala hugged the bottle even tighter.

Anjie chuckled helplessly, "Other people's koalas treat their tree pillows like their lifeblood and rarely let them go. How could you abandon yours for a bottle of wine?"

Anjie tried to pull the wine out of the tree-pillow koala's arms, but he couldn't budge it at all.

"Alright, I'll buy it for you, okay?" Anjie said helplessly. "Hurry up and put it in the car."

Who would have thought that this adorable tree-pillow koala was actually a little drunkard!

Hearing Anjie's promise, the tree-pillow koala reluctantly let go of the bottle. The koala jumped out of Anjie's arms into the stroller, picked up its tree pillow again, and went to a corner of the stroller to continue sleeping.

Anjie checked the price of the wine; it was only 30 Alliance Coins, very cheap.

Let's buy it then. The tree-pillow bear really worked hard today, so we can't just not let him buy such cheap wine.

Anjie put the wine into the cart and thought to himself: When we have money in the future, I will buy you good wine, as many bottles as you want.

After leaving the supermarket, Anjie planned to return to Nibel Plateau. He didn't intend to set up his stall again in the afternoon; he was already exhausted from setting up the stall all morning.

Even when he set up his stall in the morning, he didn't plan to do it for too long. Once he had earned enough to live on, he would run away. He couldn't endure any hardship and preferred to spend his days lazily on the Nibel Plateau.

Back at the edge of the forest by the Nibel River, Ange called out, "Papa Swallowtail?"

"Wow~~"

With a cry, the father cottonbird slowly descended from the sky.

"Are you hungry?" Anjie asked after stroking its soft wings, and then took out a steamed bun to feed it.

The father cottonbird was indeed very hungry, and he ate the steamed buns very quickly, one after another.

"Thank you for your hard work," Anjie said to it.

The father bluebird shook his head. Not to mention that Anjie had saved their family of three's lives, Anjie had provided the bluebird with food and drink every day for free, so it was only right that it did this little favor.

After feeding the father cottonbird, Anjie climbed onto its back and began her journey home.

On the way, he opened the system interface and claimed the reward for the [Purchase Task]. This task was completed when he came out of the supermarket checkout.

After claiming the reward, the system interface displayed a prompt as usual.

Congratulations, Master! You have completed the [Purchase Mission] to purchase ingredients in Azot Royal City. Reward: Individual Value +2.

Wow, that's an individual value!

Anjie was thrilled; it was a great reward.

He added two more individual values ​​to the little Snorlax, and just like before, he added them to its Attack stat.

The following are all the IVs of Munchlax:

Blood volume: 29

Attack: 21

Physical defense: 20

Special Attack: 6

Special Defense: 10

Speed: 31

At that moment, Snorlax was washing dishes at home when it suddenly felt as if its strength had increased.

Click~~

Inadvertently, the bowl it was holding was crushed to pieces.

What happened? Snorlax looked completely bewildered.

Note: A Pokémon's various stats are related to its level, base stats, effort values, individual values, and nature. This book does not cover nature modification. Effort values ​​are hidden in a Pokémon's daily training (such as Munchlax training in the cooking room every day), so they will not be described in detail.

After thinking for a long time without figuring it out, the carefree Munchlax simply ignored it.

The father cotton bird flew much faster than the dragon could swim in the water, and Ange quickly returned to the Nibel Plateau.

As he passed the waterfall, he saw that the number of Magikarp that had evolved into Gyarados by crossing the "Dragon Gate" had increased to four.

The evolved Gyarados did not leave. They perched above the waterfall, encouraging the Magikarp to continue climbing upwards, while waiting for them to evolve into Gyarados together and embark on an adventure upstream to Nibel.

Even Gyarados, known for its ferocious nature, has a tender side.

"Tianci, we're back!"

Before landing, Ange craned his neck and waved to Tianxi below, who was watering flowers in the flowerbed.

Upon seeing Anjie, it smiled and waved to her.

After the father cottonbird landed, Anjie quickly jumped off its back, patted its neck, and said, "Thank you for your hard work. Come to my house for dinner tomorrow."

The father cottonbird cried out once, flapped his wings, and rose into the sky, disappearing in the blink of an eye.

"How's business today?" Tianxi asked eagerly.

"Not bad, I earned over 20,000 Alliance Coins, and all the missions are complete," Anjie said casually.

Diancie looked surprised. "So many?"

Earning over 20,000 yuan in a day—no, to be precise, in just one morning—is really impressive, considering that Anjie has virtually no costs other than time and manpower.

The biggest investment was in the food truck, which cost tens of thousands of points, but the food truck can be reused.

"It's alright," Anjie said smugly. "After all, I'm good at cooking."

Tianxi chuckled, "You're getting cocky now that I'm calling you fat."

"Hehe~~" Anjie chuckled foolishly.

"You water the plants, I'll cut some flowers to put in a vase." With that, Tianxi shoved the watering can into Anjie's hand and pulled out a pair of scissors from somewhere.

Anjie put the tree-pillow koala on the ground. "Go play by yourself."

However, the tree-pillow koala did not move.

"What's wrong?" Anjie asked, puzzled.

The tree-pillow koala patted the tree pillow in its arms. Anjie suddenly remembered something, took out the bottle of wine he had bought at the supermarket from his system inventory, and handed it to the koala.

"Here, is this what you want? You rascal..."

The tree pillow koala immediately grabbed the tree pillow and the wine bottle and rolled away.

A short while later, Anjie saw that the tree-pillow koala had gone back to its hut, and when it came out again, all that was left in its arms was the bottle of wine.

Well, he left the tree pillow again because of the wine, but at least he knew to take it to his own room.

Seeing the tree-pillow koala carrying the wine bottle gradually disappear, Ange looked at Diancie in confusion and asked, "Where is it going?"

"I don't know." Diancie shook her head. "It seems like it's been going out a lot lately."

"Really?" Anjie was surprised. Komaru was a shut-in. "Could it be that you made some drinking buddies outside?" Anjie joked.

"You never know, it might actually be true."

Tianxi smelled the bouquet she had cut. "It smells so good. These flowers are really nice."

The flowers planted in Anjie's flower garden are not ordinary; they are the very rare Gracidia flowers, which are said to attract the legendary Pokémon Shaymin.

Anjie only recognized them after they bloomed, and didn't know where the butterfly came from.

After returning home, Tianxi placed the bouquet in a vase at the front desk, and the entire hall was immediately filled with a faint fragrance.

Just then, Snorlax came out of the kitchen, and its eyes lit up when it saw Angel.

"Gang~~Gang~" Master, you're back! I missed you so much.

As it spoke, it ran to Anjie's side and jumped into Anjie's arms.

Anjie tapped its head and asked, "How did you do this morning?"

"Gang~~" Excellent!

Upon hearing this, the little Snorlax pulled its head out of Angie's arms and confidently patted its chest.

"Pfft~~" Diancie burst out laughing when she saw Munchlax praising itself like that. "You're pretty shameless."

Snorlax looked at Diancie with a "What are you laughing at?" expression. "Waaaaaa" Was I wrong? Everyone likes my cooking.

Turning his gaze away from Diancie, Snorlax suddenly grabbed Ange's hand and pulled him upstairs.

(End of this chapter)