This special metal ore felt icy cold to the touch, its texture extraordinarily dense, standing in stark contrast to the relatively loose Iron Ore layers around it.
Its surface was brighter in color, with almost no impurities visible. It was a pure silver-white metal ore, gleaming beneath the flashlight.
"It looks like one massive ore body connected together and embedded in the rock layer." Xinhai studied the grain of the rock wall and judged, "Krokorok, dig it out from all sides and see just how big it is."
"Heylo!" Krokorok nodded, no longer fixated on breaking through from the front, and instead began carefully digging along the edge of the hard section.
Before long, its claws once again sank into the relatively "soft" ordinary metal ore layer.
It controlled its strength and angle like the most precise sculptor, gradually stripping away the "wrapping" around the silver-white ore body.
As the surrounding dirt and rock were continually cleared away, the outline of the silver-white metal gradually emerged.
It was not regularly shaped, roughly a flat oval with irregular edges. At its widest point, it measured around 1.2 meters across and was more than half a meter thick, making it quite substantial in volume.
When Krokorok finally pried it completely out of the rock layer, the heavy metal ore fell to the ground with a thud, kicking up a cloud of dust.
It was bright silver-white overall, but under the light, an unusual sheen occasionally flickered across its surface. It vanished in an instant, impossible to notice without looking closely.
"This is... Metal Coat Ore?" Xinhai recognized it, and his surprise deepened.
Metal Coats did not naturally exist in the Pokémon world. Like common metal ore, they required a series of processing and refining steps before they could become the Metal Coats