Chapter 13: -.-.-Chapter 13-.-.-

The next morning was an interesting one, I had just finished my breakfast only for my dad to call me out to the back garden shed, a grin on his face as he began handing me tools as well as supplies for a large camp set up.

"We won't be going to get your school things until after lunch, so I figured it would be a good time to see about making a start on setting up a base of operations in your Pokémon home world," he said as he handed me a massive rolled up tent, "this stuff has just been sitting out here gathering dust."

I nodded as I began to put everything away into my inventory as he handed it to me, "smart, I actually saw that there was a camping post for sale in my store, (legends Arceus Base camps) but this will save me from having to buy it, there were also buildings and other things in the store but they are currently way outside of my current funds this will be perfect for now."

Last night when I came out of the dungeon I had to give in and actually buy a kilo of poke-chow from the store to feed Cyndaquil, it should be enough to keep him for a couple of days but I need to get my berry farm up and running asap.

"I thought so," my dad nodded as he put his hand on my shoulder, "let's get going."

I nodded and with a thought the very next second the two of us appeared once more on the same hill in my Pokémon Home looking out over the scenery.

"Alright so where were you thinking of setting up camp?" My dad asked as we surveyed the area.

I pointed down the hill to the edge of the lake, "down there just a little bit off of the shore of the lake, the tent can be put there and we can pick an area a bit off one of the rivers for the berry trees"

My dad nodded, "sounds like a plan to me, come on" he said as we started off down the hill towards the lake.

It took us a few minutes to get down the hill and another ten minutes of walking before we were close enough to the lake that I nodded, "here seems far enough from the lake to set up camp" I gestured around.

My dad nodded as he gauged the distance to the lake, a little over a hundred meters, "seems good, will give you plenty of space to work with towards the lake."

I nodded, "my thoughts exactly," as I began to take things out of my inventory and the pair of us got to work.

It took us little under an hour to get the tent set up, it was quite big, easily big enough for six people to fit inside with room to spare. I remember it was the old tent that we had used to go camping that one time a few years ago in the summer, but my mum had taken a dislike to it mainly due to all the bugs she kept getting bit by.

"Looks good," my dad nods as he looks over the securing spikes that kept the frame in place and nailed the whole thing to the ground.

"Spacious too, lots of room for storing any berries that I grow but don't need" I mused.

"Other things too, and will provide shelter if it rains here," my dad mused in return before looking toward the nearest river that ran into the lake, "where do you think you want your berry farm?"

I thought again for a moment before opening my system shop and with a quick search found what I was looking for in the key item.

Town Map: 100 Pokédollars

{A system modified map to show you a complete lay out of your Pokémon home, self updating}

I instantly purchased it given how cheap it was before pulling it out from my inventory and opening it as I lay it out in the ground.

"We'll if we're currently here, I think we should have this area dedicated to berry farm," I said indicating to the along one of the rivers on the map, it also included another spot across the river in a smaller clearing just before the forest started, "we can use the river as a watering source, and we can divide up the area for different berry trees, not sure how many I'll eventually have but it's better to plan big"

I had checked with the system the previous night on selling prices, and anything I sold to the system I got back half the buying price for, much like the Pokémon games, so essentially if I could grow enough berries that I didn't need I would have a perfect source of passive income without having to do anything.

Looking over the map from beside me my dad nodded, "while still being close enough to here to allow easy transfer of any extra berries, that would work"

I nodded as I opened up the system store again filtering for Berry trees, "I only have enough for a couple of trees, to start, berries themselves are only eighty each but the trees are eight hundred for the more common one and the price goes up by times ten as we move up in rarity" I said as I saw Oran berry trees for eight hundred but Sitrus berries costing eight thousand and then the like of the Lansat berry tree for eighty thousand, yeah it would be a while before I got even one of them.

"So what do you want to do," my dad asked.

"We'll plant the two we can now and then set up the perimeter of both the campsite and the berry field, hopefully I'll have more funds soon to get more" I mused as I put the town map away in my inventory again and we started in the direction of the river, it was time to get dirty.

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