Gourmet master of the Pokemon world

The final level of the underground space was larger than the previous four combined.

This level was mostly occupied by water, with a huge pool in the center. High up on the walls, pipes were pouring water into the pool. Each pipe was over two or three meters in diameter, and the water flowing out fell into the pool like a waterfall.

Anji and Dianxi walked on the path along the edge of the pool and saw a huge black oval object suspended in the sky.

"What is that?" Anji asked.

Dianxi explained, "That is the power furnace of the entire aerial fortress. If the Soul Heart of Magearna is used as a key, this power furnace can turn the entire aerial fortress into a terrifying weapon."

"I see." Anji suddenly understood, "That's really dangerous."

"Eh~ Where does this lead to?" Anji suddenly saw a huge semi-circular pipe in front of the road, even larger than the pipes on the wall.

The pipes on the wall injected water into the pool, and the pool discharged water through this pipe, so as to maintain the activity of the pool water.

Dianxi explained, "The water here all comes from Lake Nibel, so naturally it has to return to Lake Nibel!"

"Let's go, let's go and see."

Anji walked into the pipeline.

There was a waterway inside the pipeline, and on both sides, like the edge of the pool outside, there were two roads for people to pass through.

The water flow in the waterway was not fast, gurgling forward, and the slight sound of water echoed in the pipeline.

While walking, Anji said to Dianxi, "Let's rename the aerial fortress. It's not appropriate to call it aerial fortress now."

"Okay, okay!" Dianxi nodded in agreement, "But what should we call it?"

The two, one human and one Pokémon, lowered their heads to think together.

"Why don't we call it Secret Fortress!" Dianxi suggested after thinking for a while.

"Okay, let's call it that!" Anji happily agreed.

"You just adopted it so casually?" Dianxi didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

"I think this name is very good, what's wrong?" Anji asked.

"It's nothing, I just said it casually. Since you think it's good, let's call it that." Dianxi spread her hands.

The waterway was very, very long. Anji and Dianxi walked for nearly half an hour before reaching the end. Approaching the exit of the waterway, Anji heard the huge sound of water crashing from a distance.

It turned out that the end of the waterway was the huge waterfall at the intersection of Lake Nibel and the Nibel River.

The exit of the waterway was hidden under the waterfall, and it was difficult for anyone to find it.

Standing at the exit, looking at the curtain of water falling straight ahead and listening to the roar of the water, Anji felt like he was in a water curtain cave.

"It's so spectacular!" Anji exclaimed.

"Yes!" Dianxi also exclaimed.

The closer he got, the more Anji realized the magnificence of the waterfall. It was really hard for the Magikarp to swim upstream back then. If it were an ordinary person, they would probably be crushed to pieces.

Brave Magikarp! Anji couldn't help but admire them in his heart. Even if they were only living at the bottom of the Pokémon world, they were still bursting with vigorous vitality.

After admiring the beautiful scenery of the waterfall for a while, Anji took Dianxi back to the ground.

Looking at the time, Anji said, "It's getting late, I have to leave, otherwise I won't have time to open the store today."

Dianxi asked suspiciously, "Strange, why hasn't Meowstic come yet today?"

Speak of the devil, Dianxi's words had just fallen when she saw Meowstic waving to them outside the wall.

It turned out that it wasn't that Meowstic was late, but that Anji's house had changed so much that it was too scared to come in. It had been wandering outside the wall. Fortunately, it had just seen Anji and Dianxi, otherwise it wouldn't know how long it would have to wander.

Meowstic asked Dianxi curiously what had happened.

Dianxi explained, "It's nothing, I just remodeled the house."

Meowstic: . . .

Its reaction was exactly the same as that of the Dugtrio brothers, Loach, and Whiscash.

"Okay, let's go, otherwise we won't make it in time." Anji said.

Hearing this, Meowstic didn't ask any more questions and hurried to Azoth Kingdom with Anji and Komala.

Before leaving, Anji instructed Dianxi, "Dianxi, you should go outside the wall to greet everyone today, otherwise I'm afraid everyone will think the place has changed too much and won't dare to come in like Meowstic."

"Okay, I know, you go quickly." Dianxi waved to Anji.

Anji took Meowstic and Komala through the space channel and appeared on the third floor of Munchlax's house. He looked out the window and was surprised to find that it was snowing outside.

"It's snowing?"

He opened the door to the balcony and walked out. He saw that the entire Azoth Kingdom was covered in silver. He opened the window and stretched his hand out to the balcony. Goose feather-like snowflakes fell on his palm and quickly melted.

At this moment, a gust of cold wind suddenly blew in through the window. Komala shrank in Anji's arms, completely shrinking into a small ball. Anji couldn't help but shiver.

He thought for a while and bought two scarves from the system store, wrapping one of them around Komala.

"Here, warm up."

After wrapping Komala, he squatted down and wrapped the other one around Meowstic, "Meowstic too."

Touching the soft scarf, Meowstic looked up at Anji and smiled sweetly, then buried half of his face in the scarf.

So warm! Meowstic thought, not only the body is warm, but also the heart.

"Let's go, it's too cold outside, let's go back." Anji said to Meowstic after closing the window.

Meowstic nodded and followed Anji downstairs to get busy.

Anji and the others were busy for a while when they saw Sobble running into the kitchen in a panic.

"Sobble~ Sobble~" Am I late?

Anji said with a smile, "You're a little late." As he said that, he squatted down and straightened Sobble's crooked chef's uniform and the chef's hat that was turned upside down.

"Sobble~ Sobble~" Being a little late is not handsome.

Sobble quickly started cooking porridge.

"Should I wake you up tomorrow morning?" Anji said while busy.

"Sobble~ Sobble~" I'll get up myself. I definitely won't be late tomorrow. It's not handsome to have someone wake me up.

Sobble shook his head resolutely.

Anji shook his head helplessly and said, "You little narcissist."

"Sobble~".

Sobble grinned and gave Anji a thumbs up.

"Good morning, Meowstic."

Soon there were customers in the store. Even with the heavy snow, it couldn't stop the customers' enthusiasm for dining.

"Meow pa~" Good morning, sir.

Meowstic also waved to the customers enthusiastically.

"Oh, Super Meowth, is that a new scarf you're wearing today? It's so pretty! It suits you very well!"

"Meow pa~" It was a gift from the boss.

Super Meowth was a little shy from the compliment.

Of course, the customer couldn't understand Super Meowth's words.

Seeing the customer covered in snow, Super Meowth quickly stepped forward and used its psychic power to flick the snow off of them.

"Thank you so much, Super Meowth."

After the customer sat down, Super Meowth quickly brought them a steaming bowl of porridge and buns.

Today, Little Snorlax House was serving red date porridge and black rice porridge.

The customer took a big bite of the bun and then a sip of the hot black rice porridge, instantly warming up their whole body.

"Ah, that's the stuff," they said with a sigh of contentment.

As time went on, the number of customers in the store increased, but compared to usual, the heavy snow still affected business.

Watching Super Meowth go back and forth between the kitchen and the dining area, Ange asked, "Super Meowth, can you handle it?"

With Rakel and Swirlix gone, Ange and Super Meowth's workload had greatly increased.

"Meow pa~ Meow~" I can!

Super Meowth shook its head and clenched its fist to show that it was capable.

"Thanks for your hard work," Ange said.

Super Meowth shook its head and immediately went back to work diligently.

Just as Super Meowth left the kitchen, Ange noticed a little mushroom head peeking in through the doorframe.

"Ralts? What are you doing here?" Ange asked in surprise.

"Ralts~ Ralts~" Mom sent me to help the boss.

Ralts said.

Ange didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "Can you do it?" It was just born!

Ralts was very unhappy when she heard this, "Ralts~ Ralts~" I've seen Mom and Dad work, I can do it!

With that, it angrily retracted its head.

Ralts didn't rush to help Super Meowth, but instead "Heave-ho~ Heave-ho" climbed onto the cash register, lay down next to the Komala, and silently observed Super Meowth's work.

After thoroughly understanding how Super Meowth worked, it went down to help.

Seeing the tiny Ralts, the customers were all surprised.

"Oh, the little boss is hiring employees again!"

"It's a Ralts, how cute!"

"Ralts, can I give you kisses, hugs, and lift you up high?"

… …

Unlike Super Meowth, who was very uncomfortable when first interacting with humans, Ralts was calm and composed in the face of a store full of customers, because no one had ever instilled the idea that "humans are scary" in its mind.

Its eyes flashed with blue light as it imitated Super Meowth in helping the customers. Believe it or not, it was actually quite impressive.

Except for a few minor mistakes at the beginning, Ralts gradually became more and more skilled.

The customers in the store were very tolerant of the little Ralts, not caring at all about the small mistakes it made at the beginning, and instead constantly encouraging it.

"Not bad, Ralts, very good."

"You're a big help, thank you Ralts."

"You're so capable, Ralts."

"Ralts, can I give you a hug?"

… …

Before long, Ralts became familiar with the customers in the store, and laughter could be heard from the customers in the hall from time to time.

Hearing the noise, Ange came out of the kitchen and poked his head into the hall, seeing Ralts "chatting and laughing happily" with the customers.

Ange: . . .

Is this the legendary social butterfly?

Shaking his head helplessly, Ange returned to the kitchen to continue working.

With Ralts's addition, Super Meowth was indeed much more relaxed.

At 10:00 AM, Ange closed the door as usual. After the customers left one after another, Ange put on a thick coat, hugged the Komala, and took Ralts and Super Meowth to the entrance of the store.

He wanted to see the snow scene.

Since transmigrating to the Pokémon world, this was the first time he had come into contact with snow. Five hundred years ago, his body was not in good health, so even if it snowed in Azoth, he had no chance to experience it.

Ange also put a small padded jacket on both Ralts and Super Meowth, and also gave Ralts a small scarf, which looked very warm.

Looking at the continuous heavy snow outside and the passers-by coming and going, Ange had a feeling of peace and tranquility.

There were not many motorcycles in Azoth, and you could hardly hear any horns, which made the snow-covered Azoth especially quiet.

He held an umbrella and walked with the three Pokémon on the streets of Azoth, all the way to the outside of the city gate, where he could see the original location of the ancient city wall.

After Ange removed the ancient city wall, no one in Azoth noticed anything wrong, especially when everything was covered in silver.

At this time, Ximena happened to call, and her surprised voice came from the other end of the phone, "Your Highness, did you really take the Sky Fortress away?"

"Yes!" Ange replied, "Didn't we already discuss it?"

"That's right," Ximena said, "But you took such a behemoth away silently overnight, and I'm still surprised."

Ange laughed and then said, "Don't worry, I'm guarding the Sky Fortress, no one can take it."

If something really happened, he could put the Sky Fortress into the system backpack at any time.

"Then I'll leave it to Your Highness," Ximena said.

"By the way, how is Rakel?" Ange suddenly asked again.

Ximena smiled and said, "Don't worry, Your Highness, although Jarvis's matter made him very sad, I believe he will be able to adjust soon."

"That's good," Ange said, "You and Edward should also try to take some time to accompany him, even if it's just eating a meal together every day."

Ximena was silent for a moment and then said, "Understood, Your Highness, thank you for your reminder."

After chatting for a while, Ange hung up the phone and went home.

After returning to the Nibel Plateau, Ange saw many Pokémon gathered on the fence in front of his house.

Fletchling, Swablu, and Spritzee were jumping and bouncing on it.

Pancham and Skitty hugged each other and rolled around on it.

Stunky and Gulpin chased each other on it.

Staravia and Swablu's mother squatted on the wall, watching the children play with a kind expression.

… …

Everyone was having a great time.

Unlike the cold Azoth, the Nibel Plateau was still warm as spring, but because it was winter outside, there was a slight chill.

Ralts and Sobble, who had just returned, saw this scene and ran over quickly. Following the Bellsprout's vine whip, they climbed onto the wall nimbly and immediately joined in the fun.

"Gang~~" Master, you're back!

Little Snorlax saw Ange, jumped off the fence and ran into Ange's arms.

"Gang~ Gang~" Our home has changed so much!