After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 2140

Chapter 2140: Defense and Departures

Garan, at this time, was indeed in deep shit.

After expending some effort, he took down the rock monster by controlling metal spikes he sent into its mouth. It took a while because it was not easy to control this way. He could only create metal coming from his own body, and it was more difficult to control if he could not see it.

The sensation was very much like putting a thread into the needle hole, a comparison his wife thought of, and he felt it was quite apt.

It was a challenging fight that required his full concentration. He did not even realize where he was being taken, tens of kilometers from where he met the monster.

He then used a large amount of mana to turn ice into steam. Turning ice to liquid water inside something’s stomach had minimal damage, but turning into steam expands it more than a thousand times in volume.

The attack created a rupture inside its stomach (or whatever it had) and caused massive internal burns, finally killing it.

The mana and energy consumption was also very beautiful. For a couple of moments, Garan could barely move after the attack. When he recovered some bearings, he immediately drank a bottle each of the best healing potions and mana potions he had in his space.

He took a deep breath as he felt himself recover a bit, looking around as he did so. When the monster was finally taken down, he found himself in the middle of a forest even denser and more eerie than the one before. It was a bit dark because of the density of the foliage. More than that, it felt eerie.

For defense, he took out one of his weapons from the space to save up on energy. He was about to run in the direction he came from when his instincts flared, and he rolled over to the side.

There was a sharp vine that shot from the side, sweeping sideways. He lifted himself up with his arms, though he had to lift his weapon to guard against another attack from elsewhere.

Soon, anywhere he stepped on was a moving vine or a moving branch aiming to attack him.

He realized he was being mobbed again.

...but it was a mob of plants.

Garan gaped, unsure of what he was looking at.

The density and the size of the plants were horrific, and the thinnest vine was as big as Garan’s arm, and they were all over. It was like there were dozens of monster snakes going after him.

If his energy hadn’t been so consumed, he might have attempted to go against them. However, he was weakened, and he was facing the unknown in a place he was not familiar with.

While he could still go berserk, it was too unstable, and he was too far away from home. Even if he destroyed hundreds of plants, if he fainted afterwards, then it was useless.

Garan had no choice but to go deeper into the forest to avoid them. He saw some beasts there, too, seemingly attracted by his scent. But as he ran away, many of them were captured by this animated vegetation. He watched as the plants wrapped around the beasts, wrapping around them until they suffocated.

He ran and ran, his goal towards the granite wall, because it was the best landmark there was. While he was heading away from it for now, he would slowly realign his direction to where he last estimated his wife was.

However, he quickly learned that it was not easy to do even this.

One moment there were bloody vines, the next it was a giant tree, and then it was a man-eating flower after that.

There were still plenty of beasts there, and he had seen plenty of monster versus plant fights, but the monsters were actually greatly overwhelmed. Garan took advantage of their fights to escape while recovering.

He tried to burn them, though there was a risk of forest fire using the firestarters in his space. However, just as how normal fire would still be challenged when dealing with wood from elementalists, his fire could not cause much damage to these animated plants.

So he used his remaining mana (added with a newly absorbed mana potion) to create a cage for himself as soon as he found a defendable nook.

Rather, he froze a meter or two of ground around him, found a rocky backing and created metallic spikes that pointed outwards.

Plants were not fond of the cold either, and elementalist ice was particularly harmful. However, if the plant was powerful, they could attempt to cross over anyway.

What could they do? Like beasts, their instinct was to consume!

Humans, especially elementalists, were beloved prey for these beasts and wild roots. Garan and Althea could be said to be ’top notch specimens’ among them. How could the plants not grow crazy in this case?

Further, she specifically drew the arrays inside. While this meant that she’d have to frequently repair the outer shell after encountering strong enemies, this also meant that she could replenish and repair the arrays as needed without having to go outside.

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