Pokémon: My Online Friend Is Cynthia

Chapter 294: Chapter 294: Wait, This Kid Can Actually Do It!

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Green light bloomed across the terraced fields, filling them with boundless vitality.

The originally barren soil rapidly became fertile.

The Oran Berry seeds that had just been planted immediately sprouted tender young saplings from the earth.

The sight made Julian look at Tapu Bulu with an especially heated gaze.

Seriously, who could resist this ability?

Making land fertile and causing seeds to take root and sprout at once?

Some Pokémon had the Grassy Surge Ability, but in battle, it could only slightly increase the power of Grass-type moves.

But when Grassy Surge was placed on Tapu Bulu...

That was basically an infinite grain-production machine!

Spend ten Oran Berries, and generate a whole field of berry trees.

Although Tapu Bulu had only caused the Oran Berry seeds to take root and sprout, just this move alone was enough to justify Alolans revering him as a god of agriculture.

Modern people might not think much of grain.

But to people in ancient times, when hunger was a constant companion...

Food was life itself!

Julian did not know how many fields of crops Tapu Bulu could ripen at once if he used his full strength.

Leaving emergency grain aside, as long as Tapu Bulu existed, he was practically the symbol of favourable weather and abundant harvests.

Now that the saplings had grown, Julian needed to fetch water and water them.

This was tedious and exhausting work.

The saplings needed water, but their roots were shallow, so he could not water them too much.

Julian had originally thought that of the five hundred seeds he planted, it would be good if half of them took root and sprouted.

In the end, Tapu Bulu had displayed a miracle and directly caused all five hundred seeds to grow.

His workload had doubled immediately.

Inside the terraced fields, the only thing growing faster than the Oran Berry saplings was the weeds.

He had not noticed it just now, but after Julian returned with two buckets of water...

He discovered that the land he had cleaned so thoroughly was already full of weeds again.

Julian: "..."

With a sigh, Julian still watered the Oran Berry saplings first.

Watering, weeding, then layering soil with the shrubs and weeds he had cleared before watering them to start composting.

Although Tapu Bulu had made the soil fertile, based on Julian’s observations, the Oran Berry saplings were also growing quickly.

This level of fertility would not be enough for the saplings to grow to maturity.

By the time everything was sorted out, it was already eleven in the morning.

Julian lifted his spirits and made two dishes to share with Tapu Bulu.

He did not stand on ceremony and sat beside Julian to eat with him.

Seeing that Tapu Bulu had something to say to him, Julian immediately used Aura.

Tapu Bulu smiled and said, "You are taking good care of these saplings. I can see that you have studied how to grow Oran Berry trees."

"Once the fruit ripens and the flavour satisfies me, your trial will be over."

Julian looked at the green saplings, and his originally good mood immediately sank a little.

"I understand! I’ll work hard and grow Berries that you like, Tapu Bulu!"

The reason Tapu Bulu’s Grassy Surge was called a miracle was because controlling plant growth was not easy.

Even one plant was difficult, let alone forcing five hundred fruit trees to mature.

Julian did not have that ability.

He was not Celebi. He could not simply tap a branch and make a fruit tree visibly blossom, bear fruit, and ripen.

Julian’s gaze shifted.

The special abilities he currently possessed were Fighting Energy, Psychic power, Aura...

And the small Dragon Energy and Fairy Energy within him.

Among the special powers that could influence life, Aura was probably the only one that might be able to stimulate plant growth.

All things had Aura.

Using Aura to influence a plant’s growth...

It seemed possible!

Julian planned to first test it on a wild fruit tree.

If it worked, he would then use Aura to stimulate the Oran Berries in the terraced fields.

Conveniently, there was an Oran Berry tree beside the large stone where Tapu Bulu slept.

The tree radiated rich vitality. Clearly, Tapu Bulu had taken care of it often.

Observing this Oran Berry tree would be very informative for Julian as he developed a method of using Aura to stimulate growth.

Tapu Bulu blinked.

He did not understand why Julian was sitting beneath the Oran Berry tree.

Was he resting in the shade?

It did not feel like that.

Tapu Bulu flew to Julian’s side and looked at the waves of Aura spreading from him.

He seemed to understand what Julian was trying to do.

His earlier words, that the trial would only end once the fruit ripened, had clearly made this young man unable to sit still.

But stimulating the growth of vegetation was not easy.

Especially if the fruit also had to taste good. That made the difficulty rise sharply.

Even when Tapu Bulu did it himself, fruit he influenced into ripening did not taste as good as fruit that grew and matured naturally.

No.

It did not even need to taste good.

As long as Julian could get it to grow fruit, Tapu Bulu would agree to help him!

Julian sat there all the way until sunset.

After his Pokémon returned from training in an open space they had found for themselves, Combusken led them in serving their own food.

Combusken smiled slightly and secretly added three extra scoops for himself.

He felt a little guilty. Only after seeing that Julian had no reaction did he finally relax.

Then he revealed a brilliant smile, sat down, and started eating!

With one bite, Combusken happily narrowed his eyes.

Eating really was the happiest thing in the world!

Julian stood up from beneath the tree and prepared dinner for himself and Tapu Bulu.

After dinner, Julian first massaged his Pokémon to relieve the fatigue from training.

Only after finishing all that did he return beneath the tree and continue comprehending the aura of the Oran Berry tree.

He continued until deep into the night, when a phone call suddenly woke him.

"Julian, I really didn’t expect Tapu Lele and Caitlin to be so disgustingly compatible! Tapu Lele has already agreed to help."

Receiving the good news, Julian immediately smiled with relief.

"Then I’ll have to thank Caitlin properly."

Caitlin squeezed in front of the phone.

"I heard you’re reclaiming land and farming on a mountain. How’s it going?"

Julian smiled and said, "The fruit trees have already sprouted. I believe it won’t be long before I can treat all of you to Berries I personally planted."

Cynthia was somewhat surprised.

When she left last night, the field had not even been fully cleared. In just one day, he had planted the seeds and grown saplings?

Julian explained, "Tapu Bulu gave me a little help. But if I want the fruit trees to mature, it may take half a year."

"Of course, if my plan succeeds, it may also be very soon!"

Cynthia nodded.

"We can’t help much on your side, so we’ll go to your father’s side and see how things are going with Tapu Koko."

Julian returned to sit beneath the tree.

When the moon reached the middle of the sky...

A strand of moonlight brushed across Julian’s cheek, and he suddenly sank into the life cycle of the Oran Berry tree.

He saw the whole process of this tree, from the moment its seed had been planted by Tapu Bulu, to taking root and sprouting, then growing into what it was now.

Julian opened his eyes.

He understood!

Julian stood up and came before one of the Oran Berry saplings.

Pink Fairy light bloomed from his left hand, drawing down the moonlight from the sky.

Blue Aura shone from his right hand, guiding the Oran Berry sapling to begin growing.

Tapu Bulu blinked.

That sapling was actually growing at a visible speed!

From the five centimetres that had only just emerged from the ground, it directly grew to thirty centimetres!

Under normal circumstances, even a month would not produce this much growth!

Wait.

This kid could actually do it!

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