Pokémon Researcher Road

Chapter 39 The Ponkan Island Contest
It was still early, so Genma and Doko decided to wander around Ponkan Island.

The area of ​​Ponkan Island is not large, and its geographical location is not important, but it is extremely prosperous.The reason is that Ponkan Island is rich in mineral deposits.

Except for a thin layer of soil covering the surface, Ponkan Island is almost entirely composed of glass ore.And the most amazing thing is that Ponkan Island is located on an active volcano. Every year, a large amount of glass is formed in the hot volcanic lava. Through the passages designed by the islanders, it flows out and condenses into new high-purity glass, constantly supplementing the consumption of the mined glass ore.

There are almost no agricultural products produced on Ponkan Island, and all daily necessities need to be imported, and what maintains this trade is the continuous output of glass from here.

It is not possible to make a lot of money by selling raw glass ore. The islanders realized this very early on, so they began to refine glass a long time ago, and have continued to pass on this craft.Today, the crystal handicrafts of Ponkan Island account for more than half of the glass handicrafts of the entire alliance.

No matter for girls in that world, crystal clear glass products are fatally attractive to them.Multitrack has already been bought and bought.

"Speaking of multiple tracks, you can buy these things in other places, right? There's no need to buy so much here?" Seeing that the space backpack was about to be full, Xuan Jian couldn't help asking, and he might become a porter himself.

"How can there be such a complete range of handicrafts in other places? How can you buy enough at one time?"

"What a powerful reason."

Duogui also knew that Xuanjian was not very interested in shopping, so he changed the subject: "When I was shopping just now, there was a statue of a big rock snake in those stores. I asked the boss, and the boss told me that there is a legend on this island. It is said that there is a big rock snake made of crystal on the island. It is said that the earliest inspiration of these glass craftsmen for glass products came from the big crystal rock snake. Are you interested in this topic?"

"Okay."

"Hey, unexpectedly indifferent!" Duogui looked at her companion strangely. Based on her understanding of her companion, when encountering such a rare Pokémon, shouldn't her eyes shine, and she can't wait to study it immediately?

"Isn't it the Crystal Rock Snake? What's so strange about it?" Xuanjian said.The food of rock snakes is mainly mud and rocks. It is not surprising that there are a lot of crystal mines on this island rich in glass mines. If rock snakes feed on crystal mines, it is not surprising that they accumulate for a long time and become crystal rock snakes.Besides, the animation in the previous life has clearly told me that there is indeed a crystal rock snake here.

"Don't you want to subdue?" Duogui asked strangely.

Xuanjian shook his head: "I'm not interested." Although the Crystal Rock Snake is a shining elf, the only advantage it has over the ordinary Rock Snake is that it is not afraid of water and can catch opponents off guard.But its resistance to fire is also much lower than that of ordinary big rock snakes. It's hard to say which one is better at being afraid of fire or afraid of water.After all, there are many water-type elves in terms of quantity and type, but most water-type elves have low special attacks, while fire-type elves generally have high special attacks, but most of the water-type and fire-type skills are special attacks.

Most importantly, although the Big Rock Snake looks bulky, it is actually strong on the outside and strong on the inside, and its race value is not strong. Only when it evolves into a big steel snake can it take on the main force of the team.Whether the crystal rock snake can evolve is still a question worth discussing.However, people have not yet discovered the evolution method of the big steel snake, so the crystal big rock snake that can overcome the characteristics of weak water is still attractive.But I don't intend to be an elf hunter, so there is no need to subdue the kind of elves that I am not worth cultivating at all!Every elf ball of oneself is very precious.

"Forget it then," Duogui saw that Xuanjian was not interested, although he didn't know why, he didn't ask again.

But Xuanjian was unwilling to stop, for fear that his multi-track attention would return to shopping: "But this small island is mainly engaged in processing glass products, so there are many fire spirits on the island!" Fire spirits are extremely rare in the Orange Islands, which are dominated by sea areas, but almost every family on this island has them.

"Yeah, that's right. Speaking of this, I remembered something." Duogui took out a leaflet from his bag and handed it to Xuanjian, "I almost forgot. When I was shopping just now, the boss gave me one. I think you should be interested."

Xuanjian opened the flyer, and saw it read: Fire Elemental Spirit Competition.

After quickly reading the leaflet, Xuanjian was really attracted, "Interesting. I want to participate." It turned out that the leaflet said that in order to better cultivate fire-type elves, a fire-type elf competition would be held on the island.The rules of the competition also have a strong flavor of the Orange League - advocating practicality.The stepping stone of the competition is not the common elf confrontation, but the control and power of the fire skills.What follows is the elf confrontation.

"I knew you would be interested, but can you give me the reward after winning?" Duogui stared at Xuanjian expectantly.

"No problem." Xuanma nodded.The reward of this competition is a handicraft made by the most famous master on the island, and the specific style can be chosen by oneself.I am not interested in this Xuanjian, and it is nothing to give it to multi-track.

"Thank you so much!" Hearing Xuanjian's promise, Duogui blushed with excitement, "Then let's go now." Duogui dragged Xuanjian to the match point impatiently.

The competition venue is located in the square not far from the bazaar.Probably because of the primary competition, the popularity of the competition venue was not very high.Xuanjian quickly finished his registration and was brought to the field by a referee.

"In the first round of testing the control of the elves, the elves must use fire skills to spray flames through the wooden ring and light the torches, but at the same time they cannot burn the wooden ring to pass."

Xuan Jian looked at the bowl-sized ring and nodded, "Understood." The difficulty of this test is not small. The flames emitted by the fire elves are very hot. If they are not restrained, they will easily burn the ring and fail.

"Come out, fire dinosaur." Xuanjian summoned the fire dinosaur, explained to it, and let it go forward and play freely.

I saw the Fire Dinosaur came to the specified shortest distance, looked at it for a while, opened its mouth, and spat lightly, a thin fire snake spewed out from its mouth, passed through the middle of the ring, accurately landed on the torch, and lit the torch.

"Pass." The referee, after checking, found that the ring hadn't changed at all, and announced loudly.

"The second competition is to test the power of the flame, and it is required to melt this piece of glass within 1 minute." The referee pointed to a piece of glass the size of a baby's head and said.

"No problem, Fire Dinosaur?" Xuanma asked.

The fire dinosaur nodded, this little thing is too simple.

"Okay, then get ready, 3, 2, 1, the timer starts!"

When the referee gave an order, the Fire Dinosaur immediately raised its head, and a ball of flames spewed out of its mouth surrounded the glass.After spraying out the flame vortex, the Fire Dinosaur made no other movements, imitating Xuan Jian with his hands crossed in front of his chest, looking confident.

When the flames dissipated, there was only a puddle of molten glass where the glass ore had been placed, and less than 20 seconds had passed.

"Passed," the referee announced, "please follow me, let's go to the final."

"Hey, didn't you just pass the screening? Why did you go straight to the finals? Could it be that only one contestant passed the test?" Xuanjian asked strangely.The first of these two tests should be really difficult for the fire elves, but the second is easier.After all, most elves are full of explosive power and lack of control.But for the fire elves of the glass craftsmen on the island, controlling the power of fire skills should be their forte, right?
"You two come with me first, and I will explain the reason to you along the way."

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