After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World - Chapter 727

Chapter 727: Wood Element (Part 2)
However, this was a potentially life-saving skill so it was good to learn it someday so she listened to his explanation.

…it didn’t mean she’d try it now though.

They watched as Thorance virtually seemed to disappear in front of their very eyes, making their eyes widen.

The two immediately walked over to take a look, with Garan lifting his feet to light nudge where he remembered the man’s ankle was.

“Ough!”

“…sorry.”

“It’s alright, captain,” Thorance said, scratching the back of his neck in embarrassment. “Basically, the slightest distraction can ruin the entire thing.”

“It’s still a good skill to have. Thank you for showing it to me,” she said, putting down the theory in her mind probably for future use. She then excused him and he went away, leaving the couple alone in her precious garden.

Now, it was time to get back to her plants~

However, as she turned, she saw her husband blocking the way with crossed arms. He was looking seriously at her.

“What is it?”

“Try it.”

“What?”

“That skill,” he said. “You cannot do anything else until you have mastered it.”

“What??”

Althea flinched and she looked at her husband, realizing he was dead serious about it.

No, she didn’t want to! Too embarrassing!

Garan frowned and stepped over, holding her waist and lifting her up effortlessly.

“You!”

He then placed her right in front of a young tree in the garden. She looked back and saw how the branches were really varying.

Did he have to choose this tree in particular??

She pouted and looked at him, her large emerald eyes looking straight at his. Garan gripped his arm a bit tighter to keep his serious face but otherwise he didn’t show anything.

“You need this skill.”

“…”

“…”

After some minutes of silence, Althea could only sigh in defeat.

She was flushed, knowing there was no getting out of this, so she sucked it up and attempted to do it. Her arms were raised and bent in strange ways mimicking the branch.

It really looked stupid!

“You’re very beautiful, wife, don’t be too self-conscious.”

She pursed her lips and glared at him (which he just found adorable) and she closed her eyes in concentration.

For a while, she stayed like that. Thorance mentioned she had to be completely still. Whenever she would flinch or move by even a millimeter, she could tell she was thrown back to the starting line.

Deep breath, Althea, she told herself, before she tried again.

Thorance mentioned they didn’t have to hold their breaths, but Althea still decided to control it somehow. Taking shallow breaths, she concentrated deeply while gathering the wood elements nearby around her.

She closed her eyes, concentrated, trying to do the theory. She failed many times by virtue of being unable to be completely still and combine with the tree behind her.

After a while, the finally felt the synergy point and remembered it, applying it everywhere.

[Learned! Woodland Camouflage (E). Stealth Skill to be completely undetectable to all levels below Level 30 without Perception Skills. Limits: Subject must be completely still.]

Finally!

She smiled and looked at her husband with a sparkling look in his eyes.

“You really disappeared,” he said.

As a high-level man, he could still tell she was somewhere, but he couldn’t pinpoint where, exactly.

She kissed him and ran to her gardens, excited to get back to her plants and also afraid the husband would make her do silly things again.

During this time, she found out more about the plants the soldiers got during the Ferrol fair. After all, every one of them finally sprouted. That meant she—using her skills—could get more information about the plants that had been eluding her.

One of these was Silkwood trees, which could produce a silky fabric. It was different from the products of silkworms, but it was a good alternative. While she got silk from Otto, she still needed to study the differences.

Anyway, the plant didn’t grow before because it needed damp and dark places to grow. She placed them with the mushrooms, and it grew out quite quickly inside the Level 2 Farm.

Speaking of which, if this was really the material used for the cloth, then this was obviously a seed that happened to end up in a pile, because Cloth City wouldn’t sell these things so easily and cheaply.

There was also Silver Leaf Willow—now a feet tall—which she determined to have something like analgesic and could be used like aspirin and other pain relieving functions.

She had also been studying its bark and found trace compounds of alkaloids like which could be used as anaesthesia.

However, plenty of alkaloids were dangerous so she’d need a bit more study on this.

There was also the Ferverbloom which could be used to calm respiratory inflictions and Moonlit lavender for insomnia (which would also make for great tea). She had used a lot of her mana to hasten the growth of these. Even it wasn’t much, if done everyday, there really was an effect.

She habitually nourished select plants until her mana was gone and went to the Greenhouse.

Unfortunately, only select plants thrived and she would still need glass to be able to completely control the situation inside the greenhouse.

Glass was already being developed in the research center. Thanks to Tronie, they really found out the sand deposits from the freshwater river.

From her tablet, glass from Terran sand would need 1700 celsius, which was just about the temperature their ceramics needed.

It was just that the composition was slightly different and they had to do a lot more experimentation to produce glass that would be used in everyday life. It wasn’t easy. After so long, the glass they produced was so thick and incredibly brittle…

If they found a professional glass maker, then they’d be able to expand the research further, but there was no such luck just yet.

Putting aside things that were out of control, she resumed focus on the plants that she could handle.

She also touched her coffee and cocoa trees. Judging by their appearance, they should only take another 2 months or so before some of them bore fruit.

She smiled, already thinking of the chocolate and coffee products. “Just a little more~”