Pokémon: Starting with a Pokémon Ranch.

Chapter 225 Planting Black Radishes: The Correct Way to Use the Power of the Wind and Rain God

"Alright, Farfetch'd, stop playing around..."

Seeing Farfetch'd still playing the Euler mini-game with Gengar, Su Yu said helplessly.

These two are really a pair of oddballs; they actually managed to get together and fight for half a day despite all that.

"Kuja~" Upon hearing this, Gengar scratched its head sheepishly and stopped.

Farfetch'd only then opened its eyes, and upon seeing Gengar, it breathed a sigh of relief.

"Gah..." So this is what ghosts look like?

It didn't look that scary, but it gave me a fright!

Su Yu: ...

Look how scared you were just now.

Just then, Suijun came out of the house.

Upon seeing Suicune, Gengar suddenly stopped its carefree attitude. It stood up straight and serious, head held high, as if awaiting inspection.

Shuijun looked at it with a puzzled expression, then asked Su Yu:

"Can your farm handle taking in so many Pokémon at once?"

Upon hearing this, Su Yu patted his chest:

"Don't worry, the fruit trees on the ranch are still very productive, raising these Pokémon is no problem at all."

"Moreover, it is our duty as trainers to help these stray Pokémon... no, lost Pokémon."

Upon hearing this, Suicune nodded in appreciation. As expected of Arceus's messenger, his awareness was indeed high.

"Remember to call me if you need anything."

With that, Suijun turned and went back.

After Suicune left, Gengar, who had been holding its head high, finally relaxed. Just now, it had felt an extremely strong sense of pressure from Suicune.

It's as if... the opponent's ability completely counters this Poison-type Pokémon.

Through the power of Viridian, Su Yu heard Gengar's inner thoughts. He was surprised, because Suicune's ability was Purify, which was indeed the natural enemy of Poison-type Pokémon.

This Gengar... seems to have a pretty sharp intuition?

……

The next day.

The phantom of the cemetery outside disappeared, replaced by an endless ghost plain.

The phantom of the plain remained until that evening, and no new Ghost-type Pokémon appeared on the ranch.

Seeing this, Su Yu breathed a sigh of relief. He had thought that each change in the phantom image would bring a whole bunch of Pokémon.

In that case, his ranch wouldn't be able to accommodate everyone.

Meanwhile, on the other side...

A man draped in a red cloak rode a Fiery Arrow Eagle and arrived in Seagull Town. Looking down at the rather undeveloped town, he asked in bewilderment:

"The Alliance's instruments tell me that this is the location in reality corresponding to that divine beast in the spirit world."

"Is it really just such an ordinary little town?"

The cloaked man had the Arrowhawk circle Seagull Town a few times, but found nothing unusual. Frustrated, he sent the Arrowhawk to Officer Jenny's location in the town.

As soon as they landed, Officer Jenny from the station recognized the cloaked man. She exclaimed in surprise:

"Xin, Xin Dong champion?"

"What brings you here?"

Upon hearing this, the man called Xindong smiled gently and said:

"I'm on a mission, so I just happened to end up here."

"By the way, has anything unusual happened in your town lately?"

"Abnormal situation? Hmm... let me think," Officer Jenny replied, glancing at the records on the table.

"Well, there are some, but nothing particularly unusual. It's just that a ranch in the pastoral area has been receiving several batches of Ghost-type Pokémon in the last few days."

"These Pokémon all came to ambush us, but after being caught by the boy, they were brought here."

Normally, this wouldn't be considered unusual. After all, the news reported that having a professional-level Pokémon makes you vulnerable to being ambushed.

But that boy was different...

He would send several at a time, and he sent several batches in a row. The attacks on him from the Spirit World were so frequent that even the Gym Leader of the next town hadn't been treated like this by the Pokémon from the Spirit World.

As a result, Officer Jenny considered it an anomaly.

"Is that so..."

Xin Dong nodded in agreement.

"I understand, then let me go take a look."

……

Meanwhile, on the ranch, Su Yu was directing his steed, a lamb, to fertilize the dark purple fields.

"Riding a little lamb, on a grassy field!"

"Meow~!"

Just then, Su-kun walked over. He suggested to Su-yu that perhaps he could use his water droplets to enhance the moves of his little lamb mounts.

Instead of simply putting water droplets into the farmland as before.

"Hmm, this method seems to actually work?" Su Yu pondered.

Although the mount, Eyjafjalla, doesn't have the Water Absorption ability and can't use Water-type moves to restore its stamina, absorbing water is, after all, an instinct for Grass-type Pokémon.

Moreover, the water that Sui-kun uses is not ordinary water; it contains the special power of Sui-kun, who is a god of wind and rain.

It should be no problem to boost the attack power of the little sheep mount in a short period of time.

However, if the goal is to stack buffs, then it should be done thoroughly. Therefore, Su Yu went to the hillside shrouded in the illusory image of the graveyard from yesterday. There, a patch of dark purple soil remained.

Su Yu summoned the pumpkin spirits living there and asked them if any of them knew how to use the [Halloween Night] spell.

The move "Halloween Night" can only be used by the Pumpkin Spirit race across many generations. Its effect is to add the Ghost type to the target.

Using this move, the grassy terrain of the riding sheep might be infused with Ghost-type power, thus better promoting the growth of these crops.

After Su Yu inquired, several pumpkin spirits floated out, indicating their willingness to help.

"Then I'll have to trouble you." Su Yu nodded and led the pumpkin spirit back to the dark purple field.

At this moment, the pumpkin spirits floated forward and used their stems and leaves to hook the tentacles formed by the vine whips of their mount, the little sheep, and began to slowly dance around it.

After jumping for a while, a surge of energy emanated from them and entered the body of the little sheep mount, causing the little sheep mount's body to turn somewhat grayish.

"Did it work?" Su Yu asked, puzzled.

"Mwah~" The little sheep mount nodded. At that moment, Suicune stepped forward and used his water droplets to give the little sheep mount a buff.

"Let's try again!" Su Yu looked at his little sheep mount with anticipation.

Upon hearing this, the little sheep mount also unleashed the Grassland Ground. Unlike before, this Grassland Ground contained stronger life energy, and the energy level was also higher.

"This must be the power from Suijun," Su Yu thought to himself.

The life energy that Pokémon possess is naturally categorized into different levels. After all, the life energy possessed by a regular mount like Eyjafjalla and a Reeves's Deer is definitely on a completely different level.

With the help of Suijun, the energy level of the mount, the sheep, was also improved.

At this moment, the little sheep mount tried to add Ghost-type energy to it, which made the grassy field darken and be shrouded in a layer of black mist.

These ghostly energies might be deadly to ordinary crops. But the crops in the dark purple field were different; they cheered and leaped for joy, not only sprouting new leaves quickly, but some even growing and maturing rapidly.

"It's already cooked?"

If it were the previous grassy field, it probably wouldn't have been possible to achieve this level. Su Yu had tried many times, and almost never managed to force-grow the grass to mature on the spot.

This level of power... is comparable to the harvest that the Crowned King can achieve with a wave of his hand.

After digging out the radish, Su Yu looked at the twisted radish and nodded.

"That's right, it is indeed the black radish from Sword and Shield, it looks almost exactly the same."

If that's the case, then the crops next to them must be "blackened" versions of their original varieties.

"I wonder... what kind of effect these crops would have if used in cooking?"

(End of this chapter)