While I waited I pulled out the skill ticket I got earlier and tore it in half causing the skill wheel to reappear and with a mental nod , spin. 'e on something useful , papa needs a helping hand.' I mentally ted hoping beyond reason it would actually do something. My prayer seemed to have reached something as the wheel stopped and I got the metal w skill which filled my head with even more knowledge than the ing skill did. "Ugh!" I groaned from the massive headache this caused me. Gaia looked at me with but I shook my head to reassure her I was fine.-

  'While I appreciate getting the full set of knowledge on the skill , I think I could live without the headache.' I mentally pined as I sorted through my newfound knowledge. 'Oh , now this I work with.' I thought with a grin. As it turned out metal w covered the bare minimum that you o use it and it was a very low bar to meet. Basically you just needed a ft hard surfad a blunt object to teically work metal. It helped if you tossed the metal in a fire first but cold f was totally doable as well. -

  The only thing I was missing to start was the raw metal itself and I could probably find some iron by looking around sihe stuff is apparently super abundant in nature. 'It helps I have a giant stone mohat help me harvest the stuff.' I thought with smirk. "Before all of that though it's chow time!" I said genuinely excited to try fire roasted Zigzagoon. "Hey you want any of this?" I asked in my usual broken on and Gaia looked thoughtful for a moment before reag over and tearing the roasted and very much hot corpse in half with her cws.-

  She then tossed it in her mouth bones and all and started chewing it up like it wasn't fresh from the fire. "So that's what beiant to fire damage is like iy? I'm kinda jealous." I said and Gaia merely rumbled in amusement as she swallowed her food. She looked a bit dissatisfied with the portion though if the way she was looking at my food was any indication. "If y baore I don't mind cooking it for you." I offered and she immediately stood up and walked out of the cave without a sound making me ugh.-

  "Seems like I got a foodie on my hands." I mutter with a smile before blowing on a pieeat to cool it off. Taking a bite of the meat careful not to burn my mouth I was surprised at how delicious it was. Sure it was a bit chewy and oily but fvor wise it was very simir to a fi of beef. 'It needs some salt and peeper but I could totally deal with not having any.' I thought before taking another bite.-

  The sun started to go down outside the cave as I ate and hearing heavy footprints I turo see Gaia holding han four more dead Zigzagoon's. She had already gotten rid of the skin and internals of each of the and casually dropped the bodies on the grouo me before sitting down at the cave entrao wait. I carefully set up two of the corpses to roast on one side over the fire befoing back to eating my own portion. Unfortunately I was only able to eat half of my portion so I gave the rest to Gaia who was more than happy to eat it and the bones.-

  It was only at this point that I realized she had sat at the entrance of the cave not out of fort but safety , specifically my own. The light of the fire reflected several pairs of eyes outside the cave in the growing shadows. 'Likely drawn by the st of food cooking in the fire.' I thought seriously as the eyes seemed to slowly fade into the darkness after determining it wasn't worth the threat of Gaia to attack the cave.-

  That was my first true remihat I was in the wilderness in this world and I vowed not tet it anytime soon. Knowing that I o gain more strength fast I reached into my bag and took out the exp ticket I had and tore it. [gratutions on obtaining 1000 exp points! How would you like to allocate them?] The system said a a drop down menu of my options appeared in front of me. They were [pokemon] , [skills] , [abilities] and [level] I immediately chose pokemon sihe straia was the safer I was.-

  I could always work on myself at a ter date but for now Gaia was my greatest reliance. After making my choiother message appeared from the system. [gratutions on pokemon {Gaia} leveling up to five! would you like to see it's status?]. I eagerly agreed and a preheatus s much like that of the games popped up. 'Hmm , she seems to be primarily focused toward speed and defense. Oh? Her royal variation gives her a boost to stat growth in all dires huh , useful to know. And she has the sand veil ability which is good si'll give us an edge.' I thought looking the status over.-

  [Pokemon: Larvitar{Gaia}

  LEVEL:5

  Moveset: Bite(j) , Leer(n) , Sandstorm(n) , Iron defense(Egg Move)(n)

  Variations: Royal , Shiny

  Attack:64

  Defense:75

  Sp. Atk:45

  Sp. Def:50

  Speed:85

  Ability: Sand veil(n)]

  The little symbol o the moves and ability meant novice just like it did for my own skills which made sense as instantly mastering a move would be pretty crazy. The j oher hand was the rank called the journeyman rank and basically meant having an average uanding of whatever it was o. Personally I was more surprised at her egg move as it was holy super useful for making her even tahan she normally would be.-

  I was a bit skeptical about the sandstorm move though as in the game it was sort of implied it legitimately effected the weather in an area but that retty godly level of power for a mere level five to have. 'It probably uses energy to mimic the weather phenomena in a small zone of a certain size iy.' I thought si made logical sehe other two moves were standard low level pokemon stuff so I didn't pay them much attention. Instead I focused on the fact that there was simply no HP stat on the s which made keeping track of her health signifitly harder for me.