Gaia moved the boulder to the side of the cave's entrao let me in before moving it ba pce. I purposefully picked this boulder in order to have enough room left for the smoke to still flow out of the cave freely while letting new air in. This was aplished due to the round shape of the boulder aangur shape of the cave entrahat had rge holes at each of it's er while the boulder was io allow proper airflow. The cave darkened up a bit sihere was no longer much sunlight shining through but the glow of the fire gave me plenty of light to work with.-

  Reag into my bag I pulled out the few fist sized ks of raw iron and chose the fttest oo be my anvil while the rou small one was my hammer. With that taken care of I tossed one of the rough pieces into the fire and began to furiously fed said fire pine needles to keep the temp really high as I fahe fmes. It took a while but the k of iron in the fire got red hot so I carefully removed it from the fire with some sticks and pced it o iron rock.-

  Grabbing my hammer rock I struck the hot iron def it immediately and shaking the unsecured ft iron u. I ighis as I readjusted the hot iron o one and struck it again def it even more. I was sweating heavily during this time as I relentlessly beat the metal ft. O was ft I used the stick to flip it away to cool and grabbed another piece of iron to toss into the fire.-

  I repeated the process until I had three very rough ptes of iron each with different sizes. I tossed them into the fire together aed them up t temperature before carefully setting them on top of each other on my anvil iron. I then began to strike them hard in order to try and fe weld them together. Fe welding was simply usi and pressure to force two or more pieetal to fuse into a single one. Ideally I would have a furnace of some sort and an actual anvil and hammer for this but I will work with what I have avaible.-

  It was hard for me but I eventually got the three ptes of iron thly fuse together. I took a bit of a break after that to rest my sore muscles as well as to cool off. H over a fire and red hot metal for hours on end in a squat while smashing a fairly heavy k of iron down over and over was very hot and tiring after all. Once I was no longer feeling like I was about to keel over I went back to iing the pieetal together.-

  When I was satisfied with my new solidish pte of iron I started to round the whole thing out into a very rough bowl shape. I was finally doh making my "pht at the same time Gaia returned with a giant chuilky white crystal and five dead Zigzagoon. My "pot" looked like a horribly dirty dented and all arou up bowl big enough to fit on my head. Gaia raised a skeptical eyebrow at the terrible looking thing after she opehe "door" of the cave and came in.-

  "Yeah yeah I know it's not very pretty but it should work , probably." I said half jokingly seeing the look she had. At this point a surprising thing happehat made me a bit excited to see. [gratutions host for creating item "caveman pot" for the first time! +1x item ticket!] I was thrilled about this until now unheard of feature of the system si meant my skills actually had a use besides making me det at basically everything I had a skill for. I ripped apart the ticket without hesitation and cimed my prize eagerly before frowning deeply at what I got.-

  A wok , I got a literal wok for making a primitive metal pot. The sheer irony of the fact I spent fug HOURS making this shitty pot only for the system to give me a decisively superior cooking implement stung terribly. (A/N: I'm not fug joking this actually happened with the roulette wheel. ROTFLMAO) I took a few deep breathes to calm myself after this happened so that I didn't rage out and do something stupid. Gaia just looked at me funny after seei all angry after I tore the ticket from the system.-

  ht I fot to mention it but system items like the tickets weren't invisible or anything but were actual things that physically existed until I destroyed them and then they vahankfully as a pokemon from the system Gaia was also aware of it's existence which was a really good thing since I am pretty sure any other pokemon would have definitely fronted me about the crazy bullshit going on around me by now otherwise. This wasn't to say I was only limited to system pokemon just that they would be the most ve in terms of accepting my system reted weirdness.-

  Anyways after I calmed down from the irritation of having my hard work spat on by RNG I got busy making our food. First I took out my new shiny bck wok which made Gaia rumble in ughter as she figured out why I got upset. Then I had her grind up some of the frankly huge salt crystal she brought bato dust into the wok. After that I had her rip the Zigzagoon corpses into small pieces that went into the wok alongside some cut up sitrus and oran berries. I thehe wok over the fire and tossed the ingredients together as the metal started to quickly get hot.-

  A wonderful fragrance rose from the cooking food as the fat from the Zigzagoons rendered out and started to fry the ingredients together. Gaia actually drooled a little which I couldn't bme her for as it was the best smelling thing I'd found so far food wise since I got to this world. Still we held off oemptation until the food was do which point I portioned out a serving for me in my metal bowl/pot and gave Gaia the wok after specifying that she wasn't to eat it.-

  You may think that was a given siial was rather uhy but Gaia okemon and pokemon spit in the face of such logic. She actually looked disappointed when I said that as if to prove my point. Still she ate her food with gusto and a happy little wiggle while I waited for mio cool. I stirred it with my fork as I waited for it to cool down but like always she finished before I could evearted.