After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 2151

Chapter 2151: Grabbing Fruit

If this worked, then she was really lucky. After all, the space stones and now aether stones happened to be useful. How many people would have both of these on hand?

It was said that quasi elves were blessed by this world thanks to the sacrifice of their forefathers; now they feel it to be true.

Althea inventoried the remaining aether crystals and looked at the fruit. Garan moved forward first. He had aether crystals in his own space, and he took out one to use for the experiment.

While the crystal was on his palm, he grabbed the fruit and pulled it with all his strength. It wasn’t easy, as the fruit was firmly attached to the branch, but the fruit did move a bit, like a few fibers connecting the fruit and the branches had given way.

At the same time, the fruit began to absorb the aether in the crystal. While the fruit absorbed the aether, Garan continuously pulled it bit by bit until it was about halfway pulled out.

It was then that the aether crystal got consumed, and before it could consume his internal life energy again, Garan had to pull out another one.

Fortunately, it stopped on the second crystal, with a little bit to spare.

Althea went over to check Garan’s vitals. As she touched his cheek, she looked at him in concern. "Are you alright?"

Garan nodded, naturally rubbing his face on her palm. "You’re correct, as always," he said with a smile. "It really worked."

They simultaneously looked down at the fruit on Garan’s hand. After it was pulled out, it stopped absorbing energy. Fortunately, it seemed to be stable without signs of instantaneous rotting.

Confirming that it was alright, it was then that Garan did the same to the other fruits.

While Garan did this, Althea was staring at the tree with her [Eye] to see its vitality with her wood elements.

She had to make sure they were not harming the tree by pulling out its fruits. This plant was a treasure, and as a wood user, she was particularly fond of it.

The tree itself was obviously a good thing. From what they gathered, other than its passive ’aura’ that could kill, it hadn’t actively harmed anyone. Those who died approached it while it was just standing there, so those skeletons couldn’t be blamed on it at all.

On the contrary, it had the effect of strengthening the beings around it—like the wild roots, like the monster roots—giving them improved abilities to protect themselves. It was just survival of the fittest.

As a wood user, she would not condone harming these precious trees.

Fortunately, after checking, they really weren’t causing damage by taking fruits. Interestingly, for every fruit they harvested, a bud would flower soon after that.

It seemed like it would still fruit in the future, though how long it would take, she had no idea.

While her husband was busy, Althea stared at the first fruit in hand and studied it. She even scraped a bit and tested it on Tori, but it was so...mysterious.

There were some classic organic compounds, elements, and so on, but she realized that a bulk of it was put together by aether itself.

Perhaps its strong suction of aether when it was being pulled was its way of stabilizing the energy inside, as well as giving feedback to the tree, allowing another to grow sustainably.

Althea looked at it deeply, staring at its smooth iridescent appearance. It was like staring at a liquid rainbow in her palm, and it was subtly moving like the surface of a bubble. It was almost hypnotic.

Suffice it to say, Althea found it very, very fascinating. Soon, her pupils seemed to enter a daze, as if entering deep thought.

Althea, though her self-discipline had improved somewhat, still had this tendency to place plants in her mouth. This time was no exception.

A moment later, the fruit entered Althea’s mouth.

It wasn’t big and could be eaten within a few bites, so a single bite already took a third of its mass.

Crunch!

Garan, who was walking back to give another fruit:

"!!!!"

"Althea!"

Garan rushed to her with furrowed eyebrows. He wanted to reprimand her, but she looked like she had entered a daze. She absent-mindedly raised her hand to eat the rest, and Garan held her arm to stop her.

Her emerald eyes cleared a bit as she stared at her husband.

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