Elf: I Am a Farmer

Chapter 93 Beach Training

Overjoyed at having found her dragon and phoenix chicks, Chiba Kaede packed up her fishing rod and began preparing dinner. (New 69 Bookstore →)

Having spent the whole day fishing, Chiba Kaede wasn't in the mood to cook anything fancy, so he just boiled a pot of noodles for dinner.

At this time, the group of elves who had been out having fun all day returned to the beach one after another and ate the energy cube meal that Chiba Maple had prepared for them.

Today, Torchic was unusually not by his side. Instead, it formed a jungle exploration team with Shiny Frill and Gastly and went on an adventure into the jungle.

Chiba Kaede was quite familiar with the surrounding area; there weren't any particularly powerful Pokémon living nearby, which was why he felt comfortable letting the Pokémon roam freely.

With their current strength, Shiny Eevee and Gastly should have no problem protecting the chicks. In fact, the strongest Pokémon they encountered today was an Arbok.

This Arbok was hiding among the fallen leaves, trying to ambush the chicks that were running around.

However, just as it was about to succeed, a Shiny Woolman hit it on the head with a Thunderbolt, nearly killing it and forcing it to slink away.

For the next period of time, they did not encounter any Pokémon that dared to attack them. During this time, they also encountered many Pokémon living in the forest, but there were no conflicts, and they all communicated amicably.

Then came the lazy ones. Shuttlecock flew straight to the top of a big tree and basked in the sun all day, while Sandslash dug a hole in the sand and lay down for a beach bath.

The only foodie in the group is Hercules, who searches the jungle for large trees that produce delicious sap.

However, it doesn't exhaust its resources. After consuming a certain amount of sap, it will move on to another tree to feed on, ensuring that its excessive consumption does not cause the tree to wither.

This is also their instinct for survival; sustainable development is the key to the continuation of their species.

The last group was the fishing group where Chiba Kaede was. The three admirals from the sea, land, and air forces, who were forced to be assigned to this group, were very unhappy about it, feeling that they had been tricked by their own trainer.

After all, their trainers hadn't caught any powerful Pokémon that required their help all day, leaving them bored.

The next morning, Chiba Kaede was awakened by a commotion. When she opened her camping tent, she found that it was already quite lively outside. Clearly, the elves knew that training would begin today, and they were all eager to get started.

In particular, Swellow felt that its recent strength improvement had been somewhat slow and wanted to make greater progress by battling other Pokémon.

"Everyone looks very energetic!"

Chiba Kaede greeted them with a smile.

After breakfast, Chiba Kaede announced the start of training.

Swellow still had it practice battling with Mosquito Coil, Geely, and Gastly, and they were all eager to try, showing great enthusiasm.

Of course, this is also related to the grudge they had last time. Both sides have pride, and how could they not retaliate when they were bullied?

Especially Mosquito Coil, the old 6, felt that it had performed so poorly in the previous battle because there was no water source nearby, and strongly demanded that the battleground be chosen by the sea.

Shiny Fluffy and Gastly were also very excited, feeling that their recent joint control tactics could finally be put to good use.

That's right, because their bodies weren't suited for digging, Chiba Maple didn't let them participate in the artificial lake expansion project.

However, they haven't wasted these days; they are not entirely oblivious to the bloody defeat they suffered at the hands of the Great Swallow a while ago.

Especially the variegated fluffy sheep, it felt that its attribute was a natural counter to the king swallow, and it could not accept being brutally defeated by the king swallow with its reverse attribute.

However, because the giant swallow is so fast, if they cannot limit its speed, they cannot launch an effective counterattack, let alone defeat it.

During that time, Shiny Eyjafjalla and Gastly often trained together. Shiny Eyjafjalla practiced mastering Electromagnetic Wave and Cotton Spore, while Gastly practiced mastering Strange Light, Hypnosis, and Scary Face.

Not only that, they also practice skill combinations, basically using giant swallows as hypothetical enemies, trying to figure out how to catch them and then let them slaughter them.

Since Sandslash rarely comes to the beach, Chiba Maple lets it practice Sand Splash and Quicksand Abyss to improve its control over sand, and hopefully it can learn the Sandstorm skill through this.

For Sandslash, which has the Sand Cloak ability, learning the Sandstorm move allows it to conceal itself and confuse enemies, which is very useful in battle.

After receiving the training task assigned by its trainer, Sandslash changed its previous lying-down posture and began to play in the sand seriously.

After realizing that it was no worse than other Pokémon, Sandslash no longer wanted to use lying down as an excuse to avoid battles.

It, the Pangolin King, must rise up and become a guardian, not a weakling to be protected.

Heracross and Machop were still grouped together by Chiba Kaede because they are both Fighting-type Pokémon, and battling is the fastest way for them to improve their strength.

Chiba Kaede's only requirement for Heracross during this training was that he could only use fighting-attribute skills and arm wrestling techniques.

Otherwise, if Heracross used a flying-attribute move, he could probably render Machop helpless in just a few hits, thus negating the training effect.

Heracross readily accepted this, even feeling a little embarrassed. However, it fully acknowledged the recent improvement in Machop's strength, knowing that this would be more effective for both of them.

Arm Strength, of course, had no objections, or rather, it preferred this training method that was closer to actual combat, since Heracross's strength had been restricted too much in the past.

After arranging the training of these Pokémon, Chiba Kaede went to the beach and looked at the Crouching Dragon and Phoenix Chicks blowing bubbles on the sea. For a moment, he seemed to not know where to start training them.

They all have the same skills now: jumping and ramming. It's pointless to make them compete to see who can jump the highest.

So Chiba Kaede had them do collision training. After several collisions, she discovered that Magikarp liked to charge headlong into things, while the seemingly silly Feebas would assess the situation and avoid Magikarp's collisions, and then use its head to hit Magikarp's body, avoiding its hardest part, its head.

However, Feebas's impact force is less than Magikarp's. For Magikarp, whose entire body is made of bones, the damage is relatively small no matter where it is hit.

Chiba Kaede did not correct him; he simply watched from the sidelines and promised that whoever defeated the other first would receive an energy cube as a reward.

Upon hearing about the reward, the two saltwater fish, who had initially been somewhat perfunctory, began to take it seriously. As creatures at the bottom of the ocean, neither was stronger than the other, so for a time they were evenly matched.

This is also what Chiba Kaede wanted to see. Without this fighting spirit, he wouldn't know how to make them level up in such a short time.

Finally, only the chick was left. What it needed now was to improve its physical fitness, so Chiba tied ropes to both of its legs, then tied stones to the other end of the ropes, and made it run laps around the beach.

This helps train the turkey's leg muscles. This is how Chiba Kaede trains it for a short period of time. Of course, the weight of the stones will be changed as the turkey's strength improves.

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