Elf: I Am a Farmer

Chapter 99 The Stone Cave

"The match just now was fantastic, and I acknowledge your skill. Here's a boxing badge for you!"

After retrieving his Iron Palm Warrior, Fujiki approached Chiba Kaede and handed him a fighting badge shaped like a boxing glove, saying, "🍑 ⋆ 🍭 🎀 60M.K.S. 🎀 🍭 ⋆ 🍑

"Thank you for your recognition, Mr. Fujiki!"

Chiba Kaede accepted the badge and responded politely.

After completing the gym challenge, Chiba Kaede didn't rush to leave. Instead, he went to the stands. After all, they were his companions who had come together, and he wanted to watch their match before leaving.

Congratulations, Xiao Feng!

Upon seeing Chiba Kaede arrive, Ishikawa Shizuru and the others offered their congratulations.

Then, Ishibashi walked onto the fighting field, but compared to the nervousness he felt when he first entered the martial arts dojo, he was now much more confident.

By observing the previous battle, he felt that he had gained some understanding of the fighting style of Gym Leader Fujiki.

The match then officially began. The first Pokémon sent out by Fujiki, the Gym Leader, was Marshall, also known as Yoga Monkey, a rare Fighting-Psychic type Pokémon.

For Masana, daily yoga practice is indispensable, and she enhances her spiritual power through meditation. She meditates for several hours each day, and by increasing her spiritual power through meditation, she is able to levitate. 69🅂🄷🅄🅇.🄲🄾🄼

However, its concentration is constantly interrupted during meditation, so its practice never ends. It eats only one tree fruit a day, and this limited diet is also part of its practice; it tempers its mind by enduring hunger.

Chiba Kaede actually prefers to call it Ah San Monkey, although it has a somewhat teasing tone, but that doesn't mean that Martha isn't strong.

Putting aside its superpower attribute, its unique ability, Yoga Power, which can double the damage of non-fixed damage physical moves, is already quite troublesome.

Goichi Ishibashi's first Pokémon was a Flying-type Beautifly, clearly indicating that he intended to win by leveraging its type advantage.

After a fierce battle, Martha was defeated by the Hunting Butterfly, but the Hunting Butterfly only had a little bit of strength left.

The second Pokémon sent out by Fujiki was Hitmonchan. Goichi Ishibashi used Beautifly to render Hitmonchan unable to battle, and then covered Hitmonchan's body with paralyzing powder.

For his second Pokémon, Goichi Ishibashi sent out his ace Pokémon, Mudkip. With Hitmonlee paralyzed and disrupted, Mudkip ultimately defeated Hitmonlee at the cost of severe injuries, winning the Gym Battle and earning the Boxing Badge.

Seeing that his two companions had successfully obtained the gym badges, all the pressure fell on Kosuke Kinouchi, who was already at a disadvantage in terms of type.

With this feeling of trepidation, he stood on the battlefield.

This time, Fujiki used Makushita as his first Pokémon. This Pokémon, resembling a cheerful, chubby little boy, has an inherently comical charm that makes it hard to dislike. In fact, the moment Chiba Kaede saw it, he was reminded of a famous comedian from his past life.

Kosuke Kinouchi's first Pokémon was Rhyhorn, a simple-minded, physically strong Rock/Ground type Pokémon.

The one-horned rhinoceros has a very small brain; its single-celled brain can only think about one thing at a time. Once it starts charging, it quickly forgets the reason for its charge, regardless of what it was originally doing, and may even forget why it was running in the first place.

Unfortunately, Kousuke Kiuchi still failed to become a master of reverse attributes. Although his rhinoceros horn caused some trouble for Makushita Rikishi, he was ultimately defeated by Makushita Rikishi's powerful push attack.

After that, he could only send out his starter Pokémon, Graveler, but that still couldn't change the unfavorable type situation.

Although Gravestone managed to defeat Makushita Rikishi in the battle, it also suffered considerable damage and was quickly defeated by Hitmonchan, the second Pokémon sent by Fujiki.

Chiba Kaede was not surprised by the result of the match; in fact, it would have been surprising if Kiuchi Kosuke had won.

No matter what, Tengshu is a Gym Leader. If he can be defeated by two Pokémon with type advantage, it would easily make people doubt whether he is qualified to be the Gym Leader of this Fighting Gym.

After leaving the dojo, Chiba Kaede looked at the somewhat dejected Kinoshita Kosuke, but didn't say anything. He just patted him on the shoulder as a way of encouraging him.

Although Chiba Kaede has already completed the martial arts dojo challenge, there are still two days before Old Man Hatchi arrives on the island by boat, and he needs to consider how to spend those two days.

Immediately, Chiba Kaede thought of a place: the Stone Cave, a place where stone collectors gather rare stones.

Legend has it that Wudou Town was originally built because of this cave. However, later excavators dug up most of the rare stones, making it difficult for later people to find stones of sufficient value. As a result, these people gradually left and went to other places, and Wudou Town gradually declined.

It wasn't until the establishment of the Martial Arts Dojo that the town regained some of its vibrancy. However, most people who come here now are there to challenge the Martial Arts Dojo, and they generally don't stay for very long.

It's already afternoon, and Chiba Kaede plans to buy some adventure tools in town before setting off tomorrow morning.

On the way back, Chiba Kaede revealed his plans for tomorrow to the others. Apart from Kiuchi Kosuke, the other two were not very interested. However, Kiuchi Kosuke wanted to give his Pokémon some special training before challenging the Fighting Dojo again, so he had to give up the idea.

Although he had no companions, Chiba Kaede was not discouraged. After all, they were all on this small island, and it wouldn't be good for them to just disappear into thin air, so he politely extended an invitation.

Early the next morning, Chiba Kaede packed his things and set off for the Stone Cave. After walking for about 20 minutes, he finally found the entrance to the cave in the northwest of Martial Arts Island.

Not long after entering the cave, Chiba Kaede could no longer see her surroundings and only felt a dim light.

Fortunately, this is the real world, and unlike in the game, the elf doesn't need to use Flash to see the surroundings. He simply took out the prospecting lamp he bought, put it on his head, and it immediately illuminated the surroundings and the road ahead.

In this dark cave, Chiba released Sandslash, Heracross, and Machop to guard him. Of course, Gastly was already in his shadow, ready to come out and protect him at any time.

Of course, in this dark cave environment, the Sandslash plays the most important role. Its eyes can see in the dark, and if it gets lost or collapses, it can dig a hole directly to the outside.

After walking a while longer, Chiba Kaede came to a relatively spacious area. Looking around, she saw signs of shovel digging, indicating that there used to be a mine here, but it had definitely been completely excavated.

"Tick-tock!"

Suddenly, Chiba Kaede heard something dripping from above and making a sound as it fell to the ground. He quickly looked up and saw many supersonic bats clinging to the stone wall above. The thing that had just fallen was probably supersonic bat droppings.

Fortunately, these supersonic bats did not intend to attack him. However, for safety's sake, Chiba Kaede did not plan to stay here any longer and hurried forward to leave the supersonic bats' territory as soon as possible.

After walking a distance, the supersonic bats were no longer lurking on the cave ceiling, which relieved Chiba Kaede. However, knowing that this dark cave was not as peaceful as it appeared, his vigilance level increased again.

The further you go, the more branching paths you'll encounter. Some of these paths are interconnected, which is fine, but others are separate, making it easy to get lost.

Before venturing deeper, Chiba Kaede asked the Sand King if it could remember the route they had taken. Only after receiving an affirmative answer did he dare to continue.

(End of this chapter)