Pokémon: Starting with a Pokémon Ranch.

Chapter 253 The Drummer's Cooking, Lusamine's Shock

I was busy all afternoon.

Before nightfall, Su Yu finally prepared the corresponding dish, which was a type of steamed bun.

Lifting the lid of the steamer reveals the electrical energy inside, which is sparking with arcs of electricity.

【Plasma Lightning Meat Bun】

"These buns contain powerful lightning energy. Some Electric-type Pokémon, after consuming them, will gain the ability to transform into lightning. Furthermore, frequent consumption will increase their Electric-type abilities."

P.S.: I am lightning!

The name does sound a bit like Zeraora's signature move, Plasma Lightning Fist.

Besides this dish, one of the buns has completely different characteristics.

"Skill Imprint: Thunder"

"A unique thunder-striking technique, with extraordinary power."

Another move imprinted?

It's been a long time since the last time. This technique imprint is indeed quite rare.

After calling Dongdong Mouse over, Su Yu let it eat all the buns by itself. Seeing this, Dongdong Mouse felt a little embarrassed, after all... it was too small, including its belly.

"It's okay, eat as much as you can."

Dongdong Mouse was already among the weakest in the ranch. But it found a lot of precious food for Su Yu, making a great contribution. Therefore, Su Yu's side had an abundance of steamed buns.

Upon hearing this, Dongdong Mouse immediately started eating. In the blink of an eye, three buns were gone, and Dongdong Mouse's belly became round and bulging, as if it had been inflated.

"Your appetite... is really not good."

"How is it? Do you notice any changes?"

Su Yu asked curiously.

Upon hearing Su Yu's question, Dongdong Mouse sensed its own presence. Soon, it found a way to transform itself into a lightning form.

In this form, it radiates powerful lightning, and anyone who touches it will be electrocuted. It also controls this lightning with ease, unaffected by Pokémon with lightning rod abilities.

"Thump, thump-thump!" How amazing!

In this form, the Drum Mouse can continuously absorb electricity to strengthen itself. It tried to move, and even its speed increased significantly.

Although it was far from being a real lightning bolt, it was still quite fast.

After running around the house for a while, Dongdong Mouse got a little tired. Although the feeling was novel, its physical condition was still too poor, and it couldn't last long.

As it exited its lightning form, its stomach rumbled. The three steamed buns it had just eaten were completely gone.

"Your foundation is still too weak. You should postpone being an examiner for a while. Let's talk about it again later."

"Remember to eat these buns. I need to go prepare dinner."

With that, Su Yu returned to the kitchen.

After eating three more buns, Drummy re-entered its lightning form and went to find Patchletz and Screw Mole.

Seeing such a big change in the dummy mouse, the screw mole and the others seemed quite surprised.

What kind of strange and unusual dish is this? It looks amazing!

……

……

The next day.

As agreed, the group of new trainers returned to the ranch once again.

They gathered together, waiting for the Pokémon that Su Yu had mentioned, the one responsible for the assessment, to appear.

"I've heard that the ranch owner of this farm is a very skilled Pokémon trainer. Even the champion respects him greatly. I wonder what kind of Pokémon he'll send out?"

"It's probably a woolly-horned sheep. I remember my cousin came here last time. It's just a pity he was defeated by that woolly-horned sheep."

"Yeah, yeah... I remember too. Those Wooloo weren't ordinary Pokémon at all; they were ridiculously strong!"

With nothing else to do, the group discussed the possible next steps. Just then, the Strider-like dragon slowly descended from the back of the mountain.

Su Yu told it yesterday that it would be in charge of today's battles. He also instructed it to provide guidance to the newcomers as much as possible during the battles.

For a helpful dinosaur like Styracosaurus, this was a very welcome task. And so it came with great enthusiasm.

Someone in the crowd recognized it, knowing it was a Pokémon with great potential, a "late bloomer." Online, however, this Pokémon has another name.

Quasi God!

"Hiss... As expected of a master, he even has a quasi-god."

"That Pokémon looks like it's coming this way. Could it be coming to battle us?"

Amidst everyone's speculation, the Styracosaurus stood on the battlefield that Su Yu had reinforced with his mountain goat mount, and looked at the crowd.

Meanwhile, Su Yu was pushing a small cart of juice and milk, which was reserved for the players who were going to battle.

If they get injured, Su Yu doesn't have any Pokémon with healing abilities, so he can only give them a bottle of milk.

Pushing the cart forward, Su Yu said:

"Alright, these are your opponents for today."

"Battle it, and it will give you a score based on your performance. The top fifty trainers in today's score will receive two bottles of magical goat milk from our ranch."

After Su Yu confirmed it, the trainers below went wild.

"It really is this pseudo-legendary..."

"This rancher is really something, using pseudo-legendary characters to fight against us newbies. No wonder he's so famous."

Not all the newlyweds were timid; some of them had a look of eager anticipation in their eyes.

Although they generally cannot defeat the final form of a quasi-god, fighting against them is a form of training.

Immediately, people stepped forward to sign up, wanting to engage in a battle.

……

After leaving the battle to the dinosaur, Su Yu received a phone call and rushed home.

Here, Lusamine and Lillie were waiting; she had come about the medicinal herbs.

"What you said on the phone yesterday, is it true?"

Upon seeing Su Yu arrive, Lusamine asked curiously.

"Of course it's true, I have no reason to lie to you."

"Or, you can come with me to the herb field and you'll see."

Su Yu nodded.

He glanced at Lillie beside him; her Vulpix had hatched and was being held in her arms. It seemed her fear of Pokémon had lessened considerably.

Lusamine: "Then take me to see it."

When they reached the medicinal herb field...

"Are these the medicinal herbs you mentioned, the ones that were just planted yesterday?"

"How did they do that...?"

Looking at the medicinal herbs in the field, which had already passed the seedling stage, Lusamine was quite shocked by their rapid growth.

It was planted just yesterday, but it looks like it has been growing for more than ten days, which is quite incredible.

Elsewhere, cultivating medicinal herbs artificially is already very difficult, with a success rate that's extremely low. But here, are the herbs being grown in such a rushed, force-feeding manner?

If this gets out, people might not believe it!

Looking at the vast expanse of rapidly growing medicinal herbs in the field, Lusamine felt that Ether Pharmaceuticals had truly struck gold this time.

In the past, their company could only supply a small quantity of the highly effective medicines they produced. This was mainly due to the scarcity of the medicinal herbs. After all, the vast majority of medicinal herbs need to be found deep in the mountains.

This is why tree fruit-based treatments have become the mainstream in the market. While their effects may be less pronounced, they offer higher yields and are cheaper!

As for Su Yu, the supply of medicinal herbs is almost entirely in bulk. Such a large quantity of herbs can reliably provide healing remedies.

Lusamine could already imagine the scene when Ether Pharmaceuticals would dominate the wound medicine market.

At that time, stores all over the alliance might be selling her [Good Healing Medicine].

(End of this chapter)