After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 2145

Chapter 2145: More Orcs

Well, regardless of whether or not Althea forgot something, she had a task on hand—that was to say, rescue these orcs and get out safely.

"AHH!"

"Ouch!"

"Son! SON!"

"Don’t close your eyes, BAAA!"

They could see the orcs with thinner skins already growing weak from the blood absorbed from them, while those with thicker skins had already been penetrated. The more they struggled, the denser the branches clustered.

She prioritized rescuing these people first. Anyway, since Garan was cutting them from afar, the plant’s energy would shift more to regeneration and defense, considering the considerable damage Garan was making.

She knew this because of the [Eye]. Before, the wood elements except from the source were relatively consistent throughout. However, as Garan made moves, less energy was distributed further out and would head towards the damaged areas. 𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮

Taking advantage of the increased distribution of forces, Althea used her water whip to free up the weakened orcs from the vines. She did this one by one, so whoever was freed would help with the others too. For those who were too weak to fight, Althea would create an earth platform underneath them.

It wasn’t that the branches wouldn’t reach upwards. It was just that there were ready targets right below, so there was no need to exert excess energy, especially with other people causing damage elsewhere. Thus, those at higher elevations would be ignored.

This process was repeated several times until all the struggling orcs were able to move and defend themselves.

At some point, Garan also found the root of the plants, and it shrivelled up on its own. Sol, who arrived who-knew-when, also targeted another root, freeing up the area from any more threats.

The orcs, now free, finally allowed themselves to get a short breather.

The half-animals looked at Althea with bright eyes. "Thank...thank you..."

...

This was the third orc tribe she encountered since coming here. Althea had to say, considering how these tribes might not encounter a member of another in a year, her encountering three in a few weeks was quite impressive.

The orcs went to Althea and Garan to thank them, but they flinched when they saw a large sunflower right behind them.

Due to all the chaos, they did not see it at all before. Now, they shivered, but they were ready to fight despite being spent.

Every sway of one of its petals made them defensive.

Obviously, moving plants have traumatized the poor orcs.

"Watch out! There are monsters behind you!" They yelled, wanting to pull Althea and Garan to their side.

The couple held down a smile. "It’s fine, it’s a friend," she said, raising her hand and coating it with the wood element. Since she had ’awakened’ back in the Valov war, doing this had become increasingly easy.

"This...er..." they had the expression showing their very confused state, unable to wrap their heads around how plants could be ’friends’. In their common sense, this was simply not within the realm of possibility.

"This is the only one that I could turn into an ally. Its name is Sol," she said. "The others are just bloodthirsty; don’t try to befriend them."

Althea herself was still in the process of influencing those wild roots. They don’t really interest her as much as Sol did, but gaining this ability would certainly help their trip deeper in.

They were going around the Hollow Forest blind. How dangerous was that? Deadly. It was dangerous to the degree that even the strongest orc would not dare think of facing it on his own.

So, they didn’t tell this to the orcs, just telling them that they were going around the periphery to feed the plant, lest they befriend something that would 100% try to kill them.

Althea kindly gave them meat to help them recover, both to sate their hunger and also heal their wounds.

When Garan found out about this, he stared at them deep in thought, and she knew that he also wanted to explore this avenue.

While the orcs ate and recovered, Althea chatted with a few who could. Soon, they found out that this dozen orcs had separated from their tribe after a large mob managed to break through. Many orcs died, and they had to run away to survive.

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