Chapter 145: The Solitary Tinkatuff

Chapter 145: Chapter 145: The Solitary Tinkatuff

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With Julian’s fighting techniques, Rock Smash easily broke apart Steelix’s steel outer shell.

After observing the Tinkatuff repair their hammers, his technique for absorbing metal and tempering his own was already not much worse than theirs.

Out of the corner of his eye, he looked over and discovered that, at first glance, the Tinkatuff and Tinkatink striking Steelix all seemed to be using basically the same hammering technique.

But each one carried their own personal characteristics.

This was the slight difference brought by their Fairy energy.

If he wanted to forge a hammer that would allow this body to evolve into Tinkatuff...

Then during the process of tempering it, the weapon and his Fairy energy had to resonate with each other.

He swung the hammer. After it absorbed Steelix’s metal fragments and was strengthened, he carefully sensed the process of resonance forming between the weapon and his body.

The result was that although he had absorbed no fewer metal fragments than the Tinkatuff...

However!

His hammer had been directly forged into a lump...

Looking at the weapon that had originally been close to a smooth metal baseball bat, now hammered into a pitted and uneven shape, his mouth twitched.

He lowered his head to look at the Steelix meat, then looked at the Tinkatuff next to him, who had already carried a large piece of flesh to a heat-emitting rock on the mine mountain and begun roasting snake meat.

He sighed.

Since things had come to this, he might as well eat first.

He also carried a piece of snake meat and found another warm rock to roast it.

Steelix meat had a very strong muddy, earthy smell.

But there was no helping it. Right now, this was all they had to eat.

Only the strong had the right to go out and forage.

After eating three large pieces of snake meat, his stomach was completely full.

Food would not be available every day. He had to prepare himself for hunger later.

When there was food, he needed to hurry and eat more.

A whole Steelix was eaten clean by the Tinkatuff and Tinkatink.

It seemed the others had roughly the same thoughts as him.

Looking at the clean skeleton, Julian remembered how Duraludon had strengthened itself by eating Steelix bones during the previous simulation.

Then could Steelix’s skeleton be used to forge the hammer?

The answer was...

Yes!

Seeing him successfully use Steelix’s skeleton to forge his hammer, the other Tinkatuff and Tinkatink immediately ran over to fight for the bones.

Of course, no battle broke out. How many bones one could grab depended entirely on individual forging skill.

After using Steelix’s skeleton to forge the hammer, his weapon had become flat and stable again.

It also gained an extra curved iron plate.

As long as he forged two more iron plates, this body should be able to evolve.

It was just...

The originally ordinary hammer had, after absorbing Steelix’s skeleton, started faintly emitting red light in dim places.

Julian felt something was off.

It would be best to absorb ore from the mine mountain and further purify the hammer.

When the simulation began, he could still identify that Duraludon fragments had been used to forge the hammer.

That meant the weapon had not been tempered into a single whole.

After hammering for an entire day, he finally hammered out all the impurities in the weapon.

At the same time, he also hammered away the iron plate.

But he could confidently say that this hammer was at least twice as strong as it had originally been!

His understanding of Fairy energy deepened considerably.

If he wanted, he could even evolve now.

After hammering metal for so long, the stamina converted from Steelix’s flesh had almost been consumed.

It was time to find a companion and go down the mountain to forage.

He found a Tinkatuff who was swinging her hammer.

Her weapon had already forged its three iron plates into a single complete cylinder.

From the feeling she gave him, she was not far from evolving.

During yesterday’s scramble for Steelix metal fragments, this Tinkatuff did not seem to have appeared.

"Tinkatuff, do you want to go down the mountain together to find food?"

She glanced at him and said calmly, "A Tinkatink like you should act together with other Tinkatink."

"With your strength, you’re not qualified to move with me."

The Tinkatuff waved her hammer.

"See this? My hammer is almost fully forged. I will be the second Tinkatuff in the colony to evolve into Tinkaton!"

He did not care.

"Whether a hammer is fully forged isn’t something you decide by saying it. Do you dare clash yours against mine?"

She laughed.

"You? I’m afraid I’ll smash your hammer to pieces!"

He aimed his hammer at her.

"Just say whether we’re doing it or not."

The Tinkatuff waved her weapon.

"Since you want to compare, I’ll let you see how powerful this hammer of mine is!"

A contest between hammers did not require any technique.

Both sides only needed to swing their weapons without using moves and clash repeatedly.

Whoever’s hammer deformed first lost.

He swung his hammer and collided with hers.

A clear metallic sound rang out.

Tinkatuff was stronger, so he was sent flying together with his hammer.

But the weapon in his hands did not deform.

Her expression changed.

"That’s impossible!"

There was nothing impossible about it. After all, Julian knew a forging master.

When he went to Uncle Tsukasa to forge items, Uncle Tsukasa would occasionally explain small forging techniques.

At the same time, Julian had observed his methods while he forged.

Compared to the Tinkatink line, who forged hammers by relying on instinct and bloodline ability...

His methods were very professional.

He walked back in front of Tinkatuff and held out his hammer.

"Do you now think I’m qualified to move with you?"

Her face darkened slightly.

"With the quality of your hammer, why haven’t you evolved yet?"

He stroked the hammer.

"I feel the hammer can still continue improving, so I didn’t start evolution. I plan to wait until it improves to its limit before evolving."

"The higher the quality of the hammer, the better our physical condition will be after evolution."

Tinkatuff looked at the hammer.

"If you don’t evolve, how do you become strong?"

He smiled slightly.

"Exactly. Our goal is to become strong, not to evolve. If we work a little harder now, we’ll gain far more strength after evolution."

"If we choose to evolve early, I think the only difference is whether we die sooner or later. If we run into a powerful Pokémon, even evolving into Tinkaton won’t necessarily let us survive."

The Tinkatuff was convinced.

"I admit you’re qualified now. I know a fruit grove. I’ll take you there to fill your stomach."

This Tinkatuff was very confident, and her personality was quite proud and solitary.

Towards those whose hammer quality improved slowly, she was unwilling to associate with them.

Even when searching for food, she went down the mountain alone.

Her whole style was relying on skill and daring.

They arrived at her secret base, a hidden fruit grove.

Yet it had also been destroyed.

Tinkatuff was extremely angry.

"Who did this!? If I find out, I’ll flatten their head with my hammer!"

Julian looked at the surroundings and discovered traces left behind by a Pokémon he did not recognise.

A faint unease rose in his heart.

"I know a tree that produces tree sap. We can go drink sap to fill our stomachs."

Tinkatuff was a little curious.

"Tree sap? What kind of food is that?"

He smiled slightly.

"You’ll know when we get there."

After identifying the direction, he led the way towards the maple tree.

At that moment, a loud dragon roar came from the forest ahead...

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