“Woo…” Bloodmoon Ursaluna’s intelligence was far higher than Eric had imagined.
The fact that it could live in seclusion in the Timeless Woods for so many years without any conflict with the residents of Kitakami was enough to reveal its survival principles.
As long as you didn’t attack it, Bloodmoon Ursaluna wouldn’t view you as an enemy, even if humans ran around right in front of it.
“Hm?” As they were talking, Eric noticed Bloodmoon Ursaluna seemed to want to express something to him: “Is there something you want to give me?” “Roar.” Bloodmoon Ursaluna nodded, and Victini hurried forward to ask.
After some Pokémon language that Eric couldn’t understand, Victini returned to Eric’s side and began a series of gestures.
“You mean, the place where Bloodmoon Ursaluna used to live has treasures it collected, and it wants to give them to me now?” Hearing about treasures, Eric’s eyes lit up.
What he lacked most right now was money.
Although Bloodmoon Ursaluna’s treasures might not all be useful to humans, what if?
What if Bloodmoon Ursaluna really had hidden something valuable?
Eric would have to support Bloodmoon Ursaluna for many years to come.
As long as Bloodmoon Ursaluna didn’t leave the team, Eric would have to provide for and take care of it every single day; the expenses during that time would probably be more than all three little ones combined.
Therefore, using Bloodmoon Ursaluna’s own things to support it gave Eric no psychological burden at all.
“Victini Victini~” Victini patted its chest, indicating that it would just go with Bloodmoon Ursaluna.
It would bring back all of Bloodmoon Ursaluna’s treasures.
Eric let Bloodmoon Ursaluna lead the way for Victini, while he, along with Lilligant and Ogerpon, prepared a welcome banquet for Bloodmoon Ursaluna’s joining.
Having lived in the wild for so many years, Bloodmoon Ursaluna probably hadn’t eaten much food made by humans.
However, very quickly, before Eric had even finished processing the ingredients, Victini and Bloodmoon Ursaluna returned.
“Victini~~” Victini sat on Bloodmoon Ursaluna’s head, swaying left and right.
Seeing Eric, Victini quickly flew into his arms, then held up both hands, handing a pitch-black piece of charcoal in front of Eric.
“This…” Eric took the charcoal, his brows furrowing slightly as a guess formed in his mind: “Could it be a peat block that allows Ursaring to evolve into Ursaluna?” peat block, an item in the Pokémon games, which has the effect of allowing Ursaring to evolve into its final form, Ursaluna, during a full moon.
Bloodmoon Ursaluna is a variant of Ursaluna, similar to a case of becoming a special individual after breaking through level 80.
“Good stuff.” Eric had been wondering earlier if Bloodmoon Ursaluna might have any valuable treasures.
He hadn’t expected the treasures to actually appear.
“Roar~” Bloodmoon Ursaluna walked to Eric’s side and lowered its arms, and a large pile of peat blocks clattered to the ground.
A preliminary count showed at least twenty or thirty of them.
“So many?!” Eric was genuinely surprised.
The value of a peat block was beyond doubt.
In the Pokémon world, items related to Pokémon were already valuable, to say nothing of items like an evolution stone that could allow Pokémon to break through and become stronger.
The target for a peat block is Ursaring.
Although it had a single target, things are valued for their scarcity, and in this era, there wasn’t a second Ursaluna in the whole world besides Bloodmoon Ursaluna.
In other words, Eric held the core technology for Ursaring’s evolution!
Monopoly!
Without a doubt, this would be a significant business opportunity.
Eric didn’t care if the appearance of new Ursaluna would affect him.
Ursaluna might be rare, but their strength was completely in a different dimension from the Mold Breaker Bloodmoon Ursaluna.
Conversely, if someone else’s Ursaring achieved excellent results after evolving into Ursaluna, that would be a living advertisement, which would be even more beneficial for Eric to promote the peat block.
“But before that…” Eric asked: “Bloodmoon, where did you get these peat blocks?” Does Kitakami produce peat blocks?
If that were true, it would be a bit troublesome.
Honestly, Eric really didn’t want to provide benefits to those unruly people in Kitakami.
It wasn’t about the money, but about the disgust!
Eric didn’t want to disgust himself.
“Woo~” Fortunately, Bloodmoon Ursaluna shook its head, indicating that the peat blocks had nothing to do with Kitakami.
Afterwards, with the joint translation of Victini and Ogerpon, Eric roughly understood the birth mechanism of the peat blocks.
peat blocks were deeply connected to Bloodmoon Ursaluna.
This thing was essentially a product of Bloodmoon Ursaluna’s power.
Theoretically, any Ursaluna could, over the accumulation of long years, gestate new peat blocks.
Bloodmoon Ursaluna’s strength was even greater, so compared to an Ursaluna, both the gestation speed and the quality of the gestated peat blocks were much higher.
These nearly thirty peat blocks were the crystallization of power that Bloodmoon Ursaluna had accumulated over one or two hundred years.
“A peat block can allow Ursaring to evolve into Ursaluna.” “Ursaluna, in turn, can gestate new peat blocks in its nest over the accumulation of long years.” The two complemented each other; as long as a portion remained, neither side would be completely cut off.
However, in the current era, Bloodmoon Ursaluna was very likely the last Ursaluna in the world.
“Ursaluna and the peat block are like the chicken and the egg.” Eric felt that there must be another way for peat blocks to be born.
Otherwise, there would be no way to explain where the first Ursaluna in history came from.
“Special environments, the climate of the ancient era, probably could also allow Ursaring to evolve into Ursaluna.” Eric was not a researcher, and he did not care about the extinction of the peat block or the disappearance of Ursaluna.
Compared to that, he was more interested in knowing what kind of high price a peat block could fetch.
“Given the current market, a top-quality Evolution Stone can sell for hundreds of thousands of Pokedollars.” “For my one-of-a-kind peat block, selling it for a million sounds reasonable, right?” Eric thought of the Sun Stone that had evolved his Petilil into Lilligant; it had cost him over 40,000 Pokedollars back then, and that was just for a common, average-quality Shiny Stone.
Evolution Stones are categorized into three grades based on quality, from low to high: common, fine, and top-quality.
Of course, in reality, they wouldn’t be called that.
Similar to the purity of gemstones or the gold content in gold, Evolution Stones are also graded into different tiers during appraisal.
The best Evolution Stones can even boost a Pokémon’s potential and increase the level cap it can reach.
Conversely, inferior Evolution Stones might consume a Pokémon’s vitality during evolution, damaging its foundation.
Precisely because of this, the price of a good Evolution Stone is exorbitantly high.