chsdbacks Chapter 272 The Master Blacksmith's Poison Skills
Chapter 272 The Master Blacksmith's Poison Skills
Chapter 272 The Master Blacksmith's Poison Skills
Under Xia Mu's worried gaze, Qing Teng She hesitated for a moment, but finally explained what had just happened to Xia Mu with gestures.
From preparing to go home to the skilled blacksmith discovering the materials, to the flying purple energy body and the iron stake with the bell hanging from it —
The Green Vine Snake didn't miss a single detail.
Upon hearing about the iron stake with the purple bell that the skilled blacksmith had discovered, Xia Mu immediately thought of the scene in the game that made him run around the map until his liver ached.
The sealed treasure of calamity—four calamity Pokémon from the Padina region.
Ancient Slipper Snail, Ancient Sword Leopard, Ancient Cauldron Deer, and Ancient Jade Fish!
It is said that during the time of the Padian Empire, 2000 years ago, a merchant sold four treasures he brought from the East—a tripod, a sword, a bamboo slip, and a jade—to the king of the Padian region.
As a result, that very night, the four treasures suddenly transformed into Pokémon and wreaked havoc, leading to the destruction of the royal city.
Legend has it that the true form of these four treasures is Pokémon. Because they absorbed a lot of desires and curses during their long journey to various places, when they were handed over to the king, it was like the last straw that broke the camel's back. The king's desires turned these treasures into calamity Pokémon.
In the end, the king invited a Pokémon trainer to subdue the four Pokémon and sealed them into four shrines with eight stakes each.
"So it's just one iron pillar. There are still seven left, no problem at all!"
Qing Teng She breathed a sigh of relief after Xia Mu comforted her.
"Ta (That's good————)"
The Green Vine Snake was too shocked to stop the skilled blacksmith in time. By the time she reacted, the blacksmith had already flattened the iron stake, making it impossible to put it back in and reuse it.
After hearing Xia Mu's story, the skilled blacksmith reached out and tugged at Xia Mu's pants.
As Xia Mu hurriedly pulled up her pants, the skilled blacksmith asked the question that concerned her most.
"Clang! (Can we leave just one stake? I think this iron stake is super useful!)"
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Xia Mu looked at the skilled blacksmith with a speechless expression.
"Is that even a question? Of course not, but if you leave four or five strands—"
After all, it's an iron stake that's been stored for over 2000 years, so Xia Mu figured it must be very valuable.
"Besides, the Calamity Pokémon has been sealed away for so long, its strength must have weakened. Maybe keeping two or three of them will allow us to continue using them—"
"Clang!"
The skilled blacksmith nodded vigorously, his single ponytail almost creating a phantom.
The fact that the skilled blacksmith was even more excited than when he first saw the alloy made Xia Mu even more convinced of his idea.
"This thing is definitely valuable, if we could sell it—"
Upon hearing that Xia Mu actually wanted to sell the iron stakes, the skilled blacksmith immediately shook his head frantically.
"Clang, clang clang~"
The skilled blacksmith slapped his hammer and said something, but because he was too excited, Xia Mu couldn't understand what he was saying at all.
Seeing Xia Mu's bewildered expression, the skilled blacksmith became even more anxious.
So she grabbed a sunflower monster that happened to be passing by and smacked it on its round, flat face with a hammer.
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"Tap (Huh?)"
"No way, even if you're angry, you can't take it out on other Pokémon!!"
Amidst Xia Mu and the Green Vine Snake's shocked questions, the Skilled Blacksmith simply lifted the Sunflower Monster and placed it in front of Xia Mu.
"Clang! (Look!)"
"I can see that. You have some amazing skills. You turned his smiling face into a mournful one."
"Ta-da! (No, not this one, it's this one!)"
The skilled blacksmith shook his head repeatedly, then pointed to the pale purple color that had appeared on the face of the sunflower monster.
"A light tap and suddenly everything turns purple or red?"
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The skilled blacksmith looked at Xia Mu with the eyes of someone looking at an idiot.
With your IQ, how dare you call me an idiot every day?
Xia Mu also noticed the disdain in the blacksmith's eyes, and in an instant, Xia Mu's heart suffered a great blow.
The skilled blacksmith felt he was a fool, which was basically equivalent to someone saying that Snake Sister's cooking skills were not as good as A Miao's. It wasn't a question of whether the two could be compared, but rather that Snake Sister's cooking skills had already lost when compared to A Miao's.
Therefore, in order to avoid being thoroughly humiliated by the master blacksmith, Xia Mu was extremely focused at this moment.
All the knowledge about Pokémon flashed through his mind, and in just a moment, an almost impossible conjecture appeared in Xia Mu's mind.
"This is... poisoning?"
"Clang (Hmm!)"
As the skilled blacksmith nodded excitedly, Xia Mu suppressed his doubts and put on a calm and collected expression.
"Actually, I figured it out a long time ago. I was just teasing you on purpose. I didn't expect you to not even say 'Clang!' (Really?)"
"That's definitely true! What's our relationship? Besides, with your intelligence, if I lied to you, it would be like Caterpie evolving into Rayquaza, which is completely impossible!"
"Clang (Yeah, that's true~)"
The skilled blacksmith nodded thoughtfully.
Seeing this, the Green Vine Snake's expression immediately turned speechless.
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That's a load of rubbish. With your intelligence, let alone Xia Mu, even a newly hatched sea lion like Qiu Qiu is smarter than you.
However, the skilled blacksmith didn't notice the speechless expression on the green vine snake's face, so Xia Mu managed to maintain his precarious intellectual standing in the blacksmith's eyes.
Moreover, to prevent the skilled blacksmith from continuing to ponder, Xia Mu immediately changed the subject.
"I remember you shouldn't be able to learn poison-type moves, so the reason the Sunflower Monster got poisoned just now was because—"
"Clang!"
The skilled blacksmith, disregarding the inconsistencies in Xia Mu's words, immediately pointed to his hammer and began to speak upon hearing the question.
Just as the blacksmith was explaining to Xia Mu, the Green Vine Snake took out an antidote spray from Xia Mu's backpack. After spraying the swaying Sunflower, the snake sister took out a box of energy cubes for Grass-type Pokémon and put it into Sunflower's hand.
"Let's go!"
"Hikaru (oh!)"
As the sunflower monster left with a bewildered expression, Xia Mu had basically figured out what had happened and, through his astonishing deduction, understood everything.
In order to seal the Dark and Grass-type Ancient Snail, the sealing masters of the past used the Poison type, which is super effective against the Ancient Snail, to seal it. Over time, the iron stakes used for sealing have become highly toxic steel due to the influence of the Poison type energy.
When this steel is mixed into the blacksmith's hammer, the blacksmith's hammer becomes a poisoned hammer.
Although the toxicity is currently very weak, given enough iron stakes, Blacksmith could very well become a terrifying Pokémon with a deadly poisonous attack in the future.
"Speaking of which, are the sealing posts for other Calamity Pokémon also—"
Thinking of this, Xia Mu immediately stood up.
"Damn it, sealing things up is so immoral—not only does it violate the Pokémon Protection Law, but it also doesn't truly solve the problem. Therefore, we must save the Gargoyle of Calamity!"
"Clang!"
The blacksmith excitedly waved his hammer in agreement with Xia Mu's suggestion. As for the Snivy, she just shook her head helplessly and secretly made up her mind to protect Xia Mu from those Pokémon that sounded so ominous.