Elf: I Am a Farmer

Chapter 102 The Mutation of the Small Diamond

Upon arriving in the backyard, Chiba Kaede saw Terada Yuri weeding the Gracidia flowers with a small hoe, being very careful not to damage the surrounding flowers.

At this moment, Terada Yuri was focused on weeding, so she didn't notice Chiba Kaede's arrival. However, the swarms of shuttlecock flowers and shuttlecock grass floating around her immediately surrounded her.

The shuttlecocks, which have been living on Chiba Farm for some time, have now come to love life on the farm.

Here, they can live a carefree life, without worrying about being bullied by other Pokémon. They can also eat delicious berries and energy cubes. Apart from needing to learn the Grassy Terrain skill, they can play freely.

So when they saw the Chiba Maple that brought them this kind of life, they happily danced around him.

"Oh, boss, you're back! I'm so sorry, I didn't notice you!"

Upon noticing the unusual behavior of the shuttlecocks, Terada Yuri also noticed something amiss. Turning around, she saw Chiba Kaede smiling at her and quickly stood up, saying apologetically.

"It's nothing. I just saw you were focused on weeding, so I didn't want to disturb you!"

Chiba Kaede waved his hand and said.

"Thank you for taking good care of these plants during this time. I've noticed that they're in very good condition now and have even grown a bit taller."

After looking around at the plants, Chiba Kaede praised Terada Yuri.

"I really enjoy being here. By the way, boss, did you just tame this child? What's its name?"

Whenever she has free time, Terada Yuri spends it in the backyard. She feels it's becoming more and more like the little garden she grew up in. ♧✌ 6➈SĤ𝐮x.℃σΜ 🎃♚

"It's called Little Diamond, and it's still a bit shy, but it'll get much better if you spend more time with it!"

Chiba Kaede gently patted Little Diamond's head and then said.

And that was indeed the case. Chiba Kaede felt that Little Diamond was becoming more and more adapted to the outside environment. Now, when it encountered strangers, it would not hide behind him as it did at the beginning. However, it would still be somewhat wary of humans other than Chiba Kaede.

"Please take care of me from now on, Little Diamond!"

Terada Yuri greeted the little diamond with a smile.

"And congratulations on your successful evolution, Gastly!"

Terada Yuri and Gastly were already quite familiar with each other, and she happily congratulated Gastly after seeing it evolve.

After evolving, Gastly's personality has become somewhat mischievous and playful compared to its quiet and reserved nature. In no time, it had already made several funny faces, making Terada Yurika's branches tremble with amusement.

"By the way, Yuri, how's the shuttlecock grass doing with its grassy field skills?"

Chiba Kaede looked at the shuttlecock grass surrounding them and asked a question.

"They are all working hard. Five of the Jumpluffs have already learned the Grassy Terrain move, and one of them quickly evolved into a Jumpluff after learning the Grassy Terrain move."

After Terada Yuri finished speaking, she hugged the newly evolved Jumpluff and stroked it. 👮🎈 6➈𝐬𝓗у𝐱.ⒸＯ𝐦 ♘🐟

Chiba Kaede was very happy about this, after all, he had only been away for a week, and his progress had exceeded his expectations.

Aside from the exceptional qualities of these shuttlecock grasses, their daily exposure to grassy terrain is likely the most crucial reason for their remarkable achievements.

After all, for grass-type creatures, when they are in a grassy field, they will instinctively absorb the life energy and use their physical senses to make it easier for them to understand the skill.

Because there are many more Pokémon that can use the Grassy Terrace move, the number of times the Grassy Terrace move is used in the backyard garden has increased significantly recently, which has greatly accelerated the growth of several plants.

In particular, the Gracidia flower, which matures the fastest, has already produced flower buds. If this trend continues, it may bloom and produce seeds in a while.

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Therefore, Chiba Kaede felt that she could choose a place nearby to cultivate Gracidia flowers.

His envisioned garden, filled with groves of Gracidia flowers, is almost a reality. Although he doesn't know if it will attract legendary fairies like Shami, it doesn't affect the fact that these Gracidia flowers will become one of Chiba Farm's assets.

He hadn't forgotten his promise to supply Gracidia flowers to Miss Ayako's beautiful flower shop, and now there was finally a glimmer of hope for that.

After lunch, Chiba Kaede took Little Diamond back to his room. Back in Martial Arts Town, he was afraid that his experiment would cause unknown changes, so he didn't rush to verify his conjecture. Now that he was back on his own territory, he no longer had such concerns.

After communicating with Little Diamond, Chiba Kaede placed his hand on its body and activated his healing ability. Instantly, a stream of emerald green energy flowed from his palm into Little Diamond's body.

Unlike other spirits that receive life energy silently, once the life energy entered Little Diamond's body, the diamond on its head began to emit a pink light, as if it had suddenly transformed from a transparent diamond into a pink diamond.

However, the light didn't last long before it gradually dimmed, and the diamond on top of the small diamond turned transparent again. But if Chiba Kaede looked closely, she would find that there seemed to be a pink dot of light inside the diamond.

"Little diamond, how did you feel just now?"

Chiba Kaede asked the little diamond, who was still engrossed in its beauty.

After the little diamond gestured, Chiba Kaede finally understood how it felt, through a combination of guesswork and deduction.

First of all, the little diamond does not reject Chiba Maple's life energy; in fact, it gives Chiba Maple a comfortable feeling after the energy enters its body.

Then, since the small diamond's body was not damaged, the life energy that should have gradually dissipated was attracted by something and spontaneously entered the diamond on the small diamond's head.

Chiba Kaede had some guesses about this phenomenon. It was probably that the fairy attribute energy stored in the diamond on the top of the little diamond spontaneously attracted life energy, and the two merged, producing some unknown change. The pink light spot in the diamond on the top of the little diamond was the product of the combination of the two.

Subsequently, Chiba Kaede transferred the remaining two abilities into Little Diamond's body in the same way, resulting in two more pink dots appearing on Little Diamond's head inside the diamond.

Chiba Kaede then had Little Diamond try to sense its own changes and see if it could mobilize the power of the light spots on its head. Unfortunately, it seemed unable to detect the abnormality of the diamond on its head, nor could it sense these newly appeared light spots.

However, at this point, Chiba Kaede felt that any change would be the best outcome. If he inputted his life energy into the little diamond's body but it didn't cause any changes in the little diamond, then he definitely wouldn't try again.

The pink speckle that has appeared in the diamond on the top of the small diamond has given Chiba Kaede hope to continue trying.

He wanted to know what would happen when the diamond on Little Diamond's head turned completely pink, and whether it would allow him to transform into Diancie.

Of course, all of this is unknown, and at this rate, even if Chiba Kaede poured all her life energy into the small diamond every day, it would still take a very long time for the diamond to completely change color.

Moreover, Chiba Maple needs to reserve healing opportunities for other Pokémon, so she can't possibly provide all her life energy to Little Diamond.

Afterwards, Chiba Kaede tried to have Little Diamond receive the life energy from the Grass Field, but the effect was not very obvious. The key is that Grass Field is an area-of-effect skill, and Little Diamond cannot utilize all the life energy.

At this rate, it would probably take more than ten uses of the Grassy Terrain skill for a small diamond to form a pink dot.

This makes it completely uneconomical. You should know that Jumpluff can only use Grassy Terrain a few times a day at most, and the evolved Jumpluff can use it a few more times, but it still won't exceed 10 times.

(End of this chapter)