Chapter 50: One-shot 999 Damage Doesn’t Happen
Because there was no obligation to go to school, plus it was a rainy day, Li Wei didn’t wake up the few lazy ghosts.
Bringing Riolu, who had finished washing up with him, to the kitchen, he prepared to make breakfast for this group of ‘lazy dead kids’.
Due to having Magikarp, breakfast required preparing normal cooking as well as an extra special breakfast for Magikarp.
The kelp and kelp bought yesterday could be soaked in water and then fed directly to Magikarp.
In addition, to ensure Magikarp’s balanced nutrition, Li Wei specially had Dragonair buy some Pokémon-exclusive food.
This was a type of small cylindrical particles similar to ‘mixed meat chunks’.
They contained rich energy, and eating about ten would satisfy the energy needs of one meal.
Looking at the effects and energy table marked on the manual, Li Wei felt this was very similar to high-energy foods like compressed cookies eaten by humans.
With warmth and satiety not an issue, Li Wei next considered nutrition for Magikarp.
After all, it was his Pokémon, and the Magikarp, who was only 1 year old, already had such a huge body size—either from eating well or ‘exceptional talent’.
Looking at the lake where he lived, Li Wei thought the latter was more likely, so it was necessary not to waste his talent and let him grow more robustly in a second growth phase.
With this in mind, Li Wei decided to make some Pokémon Food, commonly known as ‘energy blocks’, to ‘supplement’ Magikarp.
Having fish eat at the dining table was really a bit abnormal, drinking juice seemed like he couldn’t hold the straw, and pouring it directly into Magikarp’s mouth seemed too violent.
After comprehensive consideration, given their dormitory conditions now, if Magikarp got on the dining table, he might die of dehydration by the time he finished one meal.
The situation of only being able to eat ‘fish food’ forced Li Wei to expand his cooking business.
Fortunately, the method to make Pokémon Food was simple.
But correspondingly, its effects weren’t as mystical as those seen in novels, where eating one was like taking a miracle pill.
No bone marrow cleansing effects, no significant energy boosts, and certainly no becoming cute and adorable without a brain.
Eating it was like taking advanced calcium tablets; combined with effective training, besides improving basic physical fitness, it also had the effect of promoting attribute energy absorption.
Things like eating one top-tier berry and instantly doing 999 damage with one slash wouldn’t happen.
Well.
After fully understanding the method to make Pokémon Food, Li Wei had long lost those unrealistic expectations.
Making Pokémon Food didn’t require strength, just berries and one Pokémon Food machine, that’s all.
The machine looked very similar to a blender, except there was an extra fusion part at the bottom（as shown）.
Pokémon Food itself had a texture similar to jelly, so after pondering the machine’s internal structure, Li Wei’s mind was full of—’that’s it?’
No wonder in games and this world, Pokémon Food was defined as ‘snacks’; after finally touching the real thing, Li Wei was full of emotion.
The recipe for Magikarp’s energy blocks was obtained after harassing Doctor Liu again.
One Chesto Berry, one Pecha Berry, one Rawst Berry, one Aspear Berry, one Oran Berry, one Persim Berry, half a Lum Berry, and a quarter of a Sitrus Berry.
After washing the berries, no need to peel; cut into small pieces, remove pits and seeds, put into the mixer and blend evenly, then press the button; after the dull, soulless fusion step, the resulting Pokémon Food provided the nutrition Magikarp could intake for one day.
The blocks Li Wei made were rainbow blocks; his training goal for all his Pokémon was the path of balance.
Not only do I run faster than you, my attack power is stronger than yours, my defense is higher, my stamina is better, I’m better looking than you, my fur is shinier, my trainer is richer than yours—in the mental sense, comprehensively crushing enemy Pokémon, that was Li Wei’s ultimate purpose.
Battle, aside from pure strength, is always about attacking the heart first.
Hehe.
Pinching a small rainbow-colored ‘jelly’ in his hand, Li Wei subconsciously started reciting the exam outline’s knowledge about ‘Pokémon Food’.
No matter what berries were used to make Pokémon Food, besides the mixed rainbow color, it would only show five colors.
Red, blue, green, pink, yellow.
After extensive statistics, breeders categorized the berries that could produce corresponding colors under these five colors.
For example, the Cheri Berry used for curry last time was under the red category, Mango under pink, and the Oran Berry that Eevee, who lost the game, would eat raw was under yellow.
Li Wei hadn’t finished memorizing the specific statistics table yet; although his Pokémon’s strength had solidly surpassed that of ordinary trainee trainers, the trainer’s own knowledge reserve, due to starting from scratch, was not even as good as Yu Yixian.
In a sense, this was also a tragedy.
Berries under the red category mixed into Pokémon Food turn red, blue category turn blue, and mixing four or more color categories results in rainbow-colored Pokémon Food.
This knowledge consistent with the game saved Li Wei extra study time.
Besides this basic knowledge, breeders, perhaps due to some obsessive-compulsive tendencies, classified them further by rarity, energy size, contained attributes, etc., into six grades.
This grading system, as terrifying as Sakura Island and wagyu grading, made Li Wei want to tear up the textbook.
#（*）@#（！——@#！￥*
But even if Li Wei himself didn’t understand much, he could act as the client, just make requests, and let Doctor Liu figure out the methods.
Based on Li Wei’s requests, Doctor Liu provided the corresponding Pokémon Food recipes.
Rawst Berry and Aspear Berry contained some water attribute energy; after making into Pokémon Food and consuming, it could promote Magikarp absorbing attribute energy to enhance his strength to a certain extent.
The energy contained in Pokémon Food relates to the berry types, quality, and mixing quantities; when Magikarp was still a weak Magikarp, the energy he could absorb was certainly limited.
Doctor Liu’s suggestion was to eat Pokémon Food with corresponding attributes and not too concentrated energy, to let Magikarp’s body form a habit of passively absorbing attribute energy, or slowly develop the talent to absorb corresponding attribute energy using berries.
After all, you can’t become a Snorlax in one bite; no matter how much money or rare berries you can buy, at the start, you still have to begin with simple, ‘beginner’ eating.
It’s said that advanced Pokémon Food contains energy from dozens of berries in just one piece; besides freaks like Eevee who can digest it all, general beginner Pokémon can’t afford to eat it.
‘Balloons, you know? They’ll explode.’
This was Doctor Liu’s exact words specially advising Li Wei not to impulsively feed Magikarp too many advanced ingredients.
Li Wei understood the reasoning, but hearing Doctor Liu’s instructions, he had a doubt again.
‘Why is such a luxurious thing defined as a snack?’
Was this like the legendary gold foil fried chicken legs?
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Sitrus Berry and Persim Berry increase flying-type strength; after all, Magikarp evolves into Gyarados, which at least has a flying-type, so to give Magikarp a head start, Li Wei decided to let him absorb some corresponding attribute energy.
Some Pokémon shouldn’t evolve too early, like pseudo-legendaries or those whose attack forms and combat styles don’t change much pre- and post-evolution; they can spend more time in beginner form appropriately.
The reasoning is like in fantasy novels, where many big shots are willing to spend more time before the foundation establishment stage.
Foundation is the most important part of growth.
But for Magikarp, which isn’t even the same species pre- and post-evolution, after hundreds of years of research and data records, the consensus is ‘evolve as early as possible’.
Li Wei wasn’t planning to raise some ultimate alien beast Magikarp, so his plan was to take Magikarp to break through himself and seek the path of evolution after this training camp ended.
The Pecha Berry in the recipe mainly targets boosting ice attribute strength.
Considering Gyarados’s move pool and type disadvantages, Li Wei felt that appropriate ice attribute training would help in comprehending moves later.
Oran Berry is one of the few berries containing dark-type energy.
Sour and hard, eating it directly would definitely make Magikarp cry.
So to prevent Magikarp from crying in the water, Li Wei soaked it overnight in sugar water, the purpose being to soften the Oran Berry for better mixing with the other berries.
Sour and sweet together is delicious; if it’s sour sour sour sour, that’s lemon.
The finally mixed Chesto Berry and Lum Berry contain a little dragon attribute strength.
As everyone knows, anything with ‘dragon’ in it has a very touching price.
A price of 10,000 per berry is something only a rich guy like Li Wei would feed to a Pokémon like Magikarp.
But Li Wei wasn’t too heartbroken about it.
After all, his Magikarp had learned Dragon Pulse; although even mega evolved Gyarados still lacks dragon-type, it didn’t stop letting him with dragon-type talent train related attribute abilities and moves early.
After all, learning a move is a skill in itself; attributes don’t matter.
Just like water-storing Charizard knowing Thunderbolt, that’s becoming a type advantage master through skill, the capital to counter counters.
Considering this real case, he felt it wasn’t too much to have his Magikarp learn Dragon Dance after evolving.
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During the time waiting for the Pokémon Food to finish making, Li Wei basically finished today’s breakfast.
One egg a day was already a daily staple; Li Wei felt he had become very hungry recently due to excessive exercise, so starting from breakfast, he chose to eat big fish and meat.
Today with rain, he especially wanted something warm; after thinking, the morning menu was decided as ‘udon noodles’.
Originally he wanted oil-splash noodles with a bowl of hot soup and roasted meat, but considering his few Pokémon’s dog tongues, Li Wei chose udon noodles with mild soup.
Take out a whole pre-made char siu from the refrigerator and slice it, fry in the pot to heat, throw in various pre-cooked items from the fridge and boil.
Add high stock, put in udon noodles, then wait for the water to boil and enter the happy plating stage.
Everything ready about ten minutes later, thinking of Eevee and Dragonair not up yet and Magikarp still sulking in the room, Li Wei and Riolu, like acrobats, each carried two trays back to the room with today’s breakfast.
Not enthusiastic about eating means something wrong with the brain.
Obviously, the few at home still had normal brains.
Especially enthusiastic about eating.
Eevee’s dog nose jumped off the bed the instant it smelled the delicious food, even using Quick Attack to beat Dragonair to it.
Li Wei’s basic requirement for them was to finish washing up before eating breakfast.
Eevee, seizing the initiative and entering the bathroom first, naturally arrived at the dining table five minutes ahead of Dragonair.
No so many formalities at home; Eevee squatted on the small stool, used psychic power to put on a small glove, then used chopsticks and spoon together, eating heartily.
During which she turned her head and drank her iced mixed fruit juice through the straw.
“Ha~ Bu Yi~”
【Ha~ Life ah~】
Seeing Eevee eating happily, Magikarp couldn’t hold back anymore.
After excitedly splashing two laps in the pool, he poked his head out and asked Li Wei.
“Karoo Karoo!”
【Li Wei! What’s good to eat today!】
“A bit more vegetables than yesterday, and some Pokémon Food.”
“Karoo Karoo!”
【Pokémon Food what’s that? The colorful little block in your hand?? Let me smell~ ah~ so fragrant~ berry aroma~ throw it over quick~ I want to eat I want to eat!】
As always nagging, as always excited expression, as always exaggerated movements.
“Okay okay okay, eat it now.”
Saying that, Li Wei put the breakfast portion of Pokémon Food and the added new Pokémon Food into the pool.
Watching Magikarp ‘aba aba’ eat one Pokémon Food block at a time, Li Wei felt he had raised another fool.
Timo’s Flop Diary
July 22
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Slept all day today.
I think I’m done for.
Don’t know why, but when it rains, I uncontrollably just sleep.
Today too.
Was sitting on the bed typing, then don’t know what happened.
Splatted.
And fell down.
The instant in my brain with ‘I gotta get up and type’, consciousness disappeared.
Ah this·······
Slept till evening.
At the time, I hadn’t even finished breakfast.
Ah this·······
Maybe I’m really not suited for this weather.
ε=(ο｀*)))sigh
Gonna die.
Wanna sleep again later.
I’m probably beyond saving.
Promised 3k words, failed again, whatever, beyond saving.
Tsk.
Wrote more, so whatever.
Sigh.
Plot stuck here, tomorrow is Bu Yi special.
┓(`)┏
Besides tonight’s soup being delicious, small dumplings super fragrant, beef brisket stewed super flavorful, nothing else to say to you all.
Oh right.
Soul Lotus, gonna whale!
Ultimate Timo, I must get!
Speaking of which, calculating my desired skins recently, instantly feel my wallet is in danger.
That math Kog’Maw is cute to death.
The kind that makes you bleed cuteness.
Wow.
Too pokey my moe points.
Vayne, Yasuo, Cassiopeia, Ahri, Thousand Cuts, Timo + Ultimate, tsk tsk tsk, wallet ah.
Might whale another Viktor~~~~ Hellfire, and Karthus Hellfire.
I fu
My wallet fml.
Dammit, why.
Write more words these days to go on sale sooner, see if can replenish the ‘national treasury’.
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