Gourmet master of the Pokemon world

As An Jie's words fell, Articuno quickly vibrated its wings, and a terrifying blizzard howled forth.

Nosepass and Probopass quickly hid behind the boulders in the valley, and An Jie and the others hurriedly followed suit.

"What do we do now?" Cynthia asked.

An Jie said with a serious expression, "Only by defeating Articuno head-on will we be qualified to negotiate with it and allow Nosepass and Probopass to live here."

"That's the only way," Cynthia and Diantha nodded in agreement, their faces full of approval.

"So, who's going first?" Cynthia was a little eager to try, after all, opportunities to battle a Legendary Pokémon were rare.

Although Diantha wasn't as enthusiastic as Cynthia, she also showed an interested expression.

An Jie thought for a moment and said, "To be fair, let's play rock-paper-scissors!"

"Okay!"

"No problem."

The two women readily nodded in agreement.

"Rock, paper, scissors!" The three threw their fists at the same time. An Jie threw a fist, Cynthia threw scissors, and Diantha threw paper.

Cynthia: "Again!"

"Rock, paper, scissors!" The three threw their fists again at the same time. This time, An Jie threw scissors, while Cynthia and Diantha both threw paper.

Withdrawing his fist, An Jie smiled and said, "It seems this rare opportunity is mine."

"Why like this…" Cynthia looked disappointed.

"Alright, I'm going to act." Saying that, An Jie walked out from behind the boulder. Articuno was still raging in the sky.

Seeing An Jie appear, Articuno's eyes immediately locked onto him, and it immediately launched an Ice Beam.

At this moment, a red light emerged from An Jie's waist, and Latias appeared, erecting a Protect shield, firmly protecting it and An Jie behind it.

It was Protect.

Articuno wanted to continue attacking, but Latias wouldn't sit idly by, directly launching a Dragon Pulse.

The blue-purple dragon-shaped energy wave directly hit Articuno's forehead, causing its head to tilt, and it immediately fell downwards uncontrollably.

However, Articuno's reaction was obviously very fast. It braked sharply in mid-air, immediately stopped falling, and flapped its wings to soar into the sky.

Latias launched another Dragon Pulse at it, but it was dodged under its rapid sprint.

"Scree~" Articuno let out a cry, and snow began to fall in the sky.

It used the Snowscape skill, which would maintain continuous snowfall for a period of time, while also increasing the defense of Ice-type Pokémon.

Immediately afterwards, it used the Tailwind skill, increasing its speed.

Seeing this scene, An Jie's eyes lit up. Wasn't this the opportunity?

Strengthening abilities in front of Latias, it's like an old man eating arsenic—courting death.

An Jie shouted loudly, "Latias, Charm Voice!"

As An Jie's voice fell, a beautiful song came from Latias's throat, and circles of pink sound waves spread out.

Seeing this, Articuno waved its wings, speeding through the sky to dodge.

But it can dodge once, twice, three times… can it keep dodging forever?

Finally, Articuno was caught off guard and hit directly by Charm Voice, immediately letting out a wail and falling towards the sky.

Bang!!!

Accompanied by a loud noise, Articuno fell to the ground, and snowflakes flew everywhere.

However, what surprised An Jie a little was that after Articuno fell into a confused state, it continued to attack Latias, and it was successful.

Latias was caught off guard, and its tail fin was frozen.

When a Pokémon falls into a confused state, it still has a certain probability of successfully using a move.

But immediately afterwards, it wasn't so lucky, and it frantically slammed its head against the ground, and its original elegant and beautiful image disappeared without a trace.

When a Pokémon in a confused state attacks itself, its confusion time will be shortened as a result.

"Scree~" It cried out, flapped its wings and flew into the air, and a terrifying chill spread throughout its body.

Seeing this scene, An Jie seemed to have thought of something, and secretly thought it was not good, and immediately shouted at Latias:

"Latias, quick, fly up."

Latias didn't hesitate at all, using its speed to the extreme, rushing into the sky like a cannonball.

The next second, a terrifying chill erupted with Articuno as the center, turning everything around it into an icy world.

Fortunately, An Jie reacted in time and hid behind a boulder, otherwise he would have turned into an ice sculpture at this moment.

Latias also narrowly avoided this wave of attacks, almost being hit by the chill.

Having survived the attack with lingering fear, Latias launched a Dragon-type ultimate move to counterattack without hesitation.

A golden ball of light was spewed into the sky, and when the ball of light exploded, countless huge meteorites fell from the sky, smashing towards Articuno one after another.

Latias used Draco Meteor.

Seeing this, Articuno quickly flapped its wings and flew high, swiftly shuttling through the constantly falling meteorites, occasionally launching an Ice Beam to freeze the meteorites.

However, the falling meteorites were too dense, and gradually it began to feel overwhelmed, and was finally hit in the back by one of them.

Accompanied by a scream, Articuno fell to the ground, and spirals appeared in its eyes.

Success!

Seeing this scene, An Jie, Diantha, Cynthia, Nosepass, and Probopass all showed joy.

An Jie hurriedly walked to Articuno's side, checked its injuries, and then took out medicine to treat its wounds.

Articuno's recovery ability was very strong, and it woke up leisurely not long after.

"Articuno, are you okay?" An Jie hurriedly asked.

However, Articuno was very vigilant, got up and jumped a few steps, away from An Jie and his group.

Seeing this, An Jie first apologized to it: "I'm sorry, Articuno, it was wrong of us to break into your territory, but we didn't do it intentionally, we thought no Pokémon lived here."

Hearing this, Articuno realized that it might have misunderstood, and the look on its face softened a lot.

Then An Jie told Articuno about Nosepass and Probopass's loss in the territory dispute, and that they were now in urgent need of a place to live.

"Articuno, I wonder if you can take in Nosepass and Probopass to live here?" An Jie asked.

Nosepass and Probopass all looked at Articuno eagerly, which softened Articuno's heart.

Articuno is not a cold-blooded Pokémon, on the contrary, it is very kind. Whenever travelers are lost or trapped in the snowy mountains, it will quietly appear to lead the way.

After a moment's hesitation, Articuno finally agreed.

"Hey beep~ Hey beep~" Seeing Articuno nod, Nosepass and Probopass danced with excitement.

Seeing the happy Nosepass and Probopass, Articuno thought: Having a group of neighbors is pretty good, it's quite lively.

With Articuno's approval, Nosepass and Probopass immediately began to work enthusiastically in the valley, striving to settle down as soon as possible.

Looking at their joyful appearance, Cynthia said with a smile, "The matter is resolved, it's time for us to leave."

Angie nodded and said, "Yes."

Diantha turned around and said, "Let's go."

Just as Angie and the others were about to leave, a Probopass hurriedly ran over, holding a few stones in its hand.

"Hey beep~ Hey beep~" Here, a gift!

Probopass looked at the three of them with a flattering expression, and placed three stones into Angie's, Cynthia's and Diantha's hands respectively.

Seeing the stone it handed over, Angie was stunned, this… isn't this the Hard Stone he had been looking for?

It truly is a case of searching high and low to no avail, only to find it right in front of you!

The moment Angie received the Hard Stone, he vaguely seemed to hear a system notification.

Collecting Hard Stone was the only remaining task in the series mission, and now it was finally completed. Angie couldn't help but feel delighted.

Angie asked Probopass in confusion, "Where did you find it?"

"Hey beep~ Hey beep~" Seeing Angie liked its gift, Probopass was very happy, pointing in a direction and shouting excitedly.

Cynthia said, "This is Hard Stone, an excellent material for nurturing Steel, Grass, Ground, and Rock-type Pokémon."

"That's right, I didn't expect there to be storage of it in this valley," Diantha also said with a face full of emotion.

Clearly, they both recognized this material.

Angie asked Probopass again, "Can you take us to see the place where you found the ore?"

"Hey beep~ Hey beep~" Probopass nodded vigorously.

Under the leadership of Probopass, Angie and the other two came to a cave, only to see the walls of the cave inlaid with Hard Stones.

Hard Stone is a light pink ore, gathered together in irregular rhomboids, with a crystal clear texture, exuding a faint light, very beautiful.

"Should we take some Hard Stone with us?" Angie asked, "The opportunity is rare."

"Okay!" Cynthia and Diantha nodded in agreement.

"But we have to get Articuno's consent first, after all, this is its territory," Angie said, pondering.

"Indeed," the two women nodded in agreement.

When the three of them came to seek Articuno's opinion, Articuno agreed without saying a word.

It didn't need Hard Stone anyway, so Angie and the others could take it if they wanted.

So, with the help of Nosepass and Probopass, Angie and the other two began to mine Hard Stone.

Of course, they didn't mine too much, after all, the capacity of the backpack to hold Hard Stone was limited.

Angie could装多点, but with Cynthia and Diantha present, he couldn't secretly do it.

After obtaining the Hard Stone, Angie and the others rode on Flying Pokémon and continued to cross Mt. Coronet, heading towards the location of the Mysterious Land.

On the way, Angie couldn't help but open the system to see the progress of the task completion.

As soon as he opened the system, an interface popped up in the taskbar.

"Congratulations to the host for completing [Ingredient Collection Task 5] Collecting a certain amount of Hard Stone.

Reward: A large Hard Stone vein, recipe "Crystal Ore Dumplings" (deeply loved by Steel, Ground, and Rock-type Pokémon, long-term consumption can slowly increase attack and defense.)"

The reward wasn't over yet, and another pop-up window appeared immediately afterwards.

"Congratulations to the host for completing all tasks in the Ingredient Collection series, and receiving an additional reward: Golden Bottle Cap (use on any Pokémon to maximize all of its Individual Values)."

After reading the rewards, Angie widened his eyes in surprise.

Ore veins can also be used as rewards? And it's a large ore vein.

Suddenly, he felt that his previous hard work in mining Hard Stone was a bit thankless.

He already had a large ore vein, so why bother to mine those.

He just didn't know where this large ore vein reward was located, was it on the Nibel Plateau?

At this time, Angie didn't know that a large Hard Stone vein was slowly forming deep underground in the Nibel Plateau.

Then Angie began to browse the newly obtained recipe. This reward was within his expectations, because this series of tasks would reward one or more recipes.

After reading the recipe, Angie discovered that in order to make Crystal Ore Dumplings, in addition to using Hard Stone as the main ingredient, he also needed Golem's Rock Salt, Watatsumi Rice from Floaroma Town, and Pickled Radish made with Seaside Herbs as auxiliary materials.

There was no problem with Rock Salt and Seaside Herbs, he had plenty at home, but Watatsumi Rice hadn't matured yet, so the matter of making Crystal Ore Dumplings could only be put aside for the time being.

And then there was the last reward.

Golden Bottle Cap, this was a prop about the size of a beer bottle cap, with a golden body and a crown-like pattern on the top.

There were actually similar props in the game, but the function was not exactly the same as described by the system.

This was probably the system's modified version.

In addition to the Golden Bottle Cap, there was also a prop called the Silver Bottle Cap, and he didn't know if the system had it.

The functionality of the Golden Bottle Cap was very powerful, it could actually maximize all of a Pokémon's Individual Values.

Angie looked at his Pokémon and found that, except for Ditto, everyone's Individual Values were close to full, and there was no need to use the Golden Bottle Cap at all. He could slowly raise them in the future, and he would definitely be able to fill them up.

Should he give it to Ditto?

Because it could transform, it wasn't actually important for Ditto whether its own Individual Values were full or not.

Should he keep it for now!

Thinking this way, Angie put the Golden Bottle Cap back into the system backpack.

After closing the system, Angie began to concentrate on flying over Mt. Coronet again.

During the next journey, although there were occasionally some small situations, overall it was still smooth.

About a day later, Angie and the others successfully crossed the harsh Mt. Coronet, and what they saw was a lush, deep, bottomless forest.

Although it was already deep autumn, there was no sign of withering here.

Angie, Cynthia, and Diantha each rode their Flying mounts and stopped at the edge of the forest. Cynthia said:

"The Mysterious Land is here."

Diantha nodded: "What we need to do now is to find the entrance to the Mysterious Land."

Angie asked in confusion: "What does the entrance look like?"

Cynthia replied: "According to Mr. Morris's map, it should be a place similar to an altar."