After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 1121

Althea sparkled with satisfaction. Although her hair was messy, her shirt was in disarray, and she was filled with sweat, she still looked absolutely gorgeous in her husband’s eyes.

Althea was the brightest after a successful challenge.

Althea actually thrived on it.

Although she did her best to prepare Alterra to be as stable as possible—over-designing here, over-preparing there—it didn’t hide the fact she actually lived for the thrill.

At least when she wasn’t affecting others, she would find ways to give herself a hard time. She’d pick the most difficult projects, she’d go deep in areas she had little expertise on, she’d care for plants that had no chance to survive, or she would push ideas that would make her sleepless in thought.

Whether it was of discovery or of growth, a good challenge was Althea’s true source of joy outside her family.

Thankfully, she was still anchored in them and in Alterra, otherwise, Garan was certain she’d have long flown away to find adventure.

"Good job," Garan said, leading her to a collapsible chair he took from his space.

He wiped her sweat away as he handed her her favorite unripe mango juice.

It was very refreshing.

"Sit tight and just study us," he said, patting her face again before he headed to his own battlefield.

Next was Garan’s enemy, a Level 26 monster. They watched as the shimmering dust slowly condensed to form a rough shape and, from here, they could see that it’d be more than 3 meters tall.

Garan tightened his hold on his weapon. Level 26 and above monsters could be found at town level but they were fairly uncommon.

In Ferrol, after reaching a certain level, he had to spend days hunting for monsters that’d give him experience.

It was why he was (and would be stuck) in level 29 for a while.

Fortunately, the Training Hall could now ease that burden.

Soon, the monster formed and they watched as it slowly came to life. There would be a brief moment where it showed the monsters building up from bones, to muscles, and finally the skin.

It was another fascinating feature in this place, and she knew some scientists who’d join teams in the Training Hall just so they could see these moments.

After all, to the people truly studying the creatures, it was quite useful to have their skinned and de-muscled views.

Speaking of which, this monster wasn’t like the mantis which had an exoskeleton, so they saw muscles first. This one seemed to have a hydrostatic skeleton—that was to say, its body shape was maintained by fluid pressure inside its body.

It was large, more than 3 meters tall, and was akin to a giant earthworm except with yellow-brown skin that was not as soft as it looked.

They saw how it was ’built’, after all. That skin was not thin at all.

Its mouth was circular and had razor-like fangs. It had no eyes, and was just a disgusting sight overall.

Fortunately, her husband was the one to deal with it. She simply used her assessment skill to get its name.

[Gorevyrm (Lv26)]

Surprisingly, the Gorevyrm was not entirely unfamiliar.

As a standard, Alterra bought off information from aborigines in exchange for contribution points. In the past few months, Sahara gained quite a bit of points by sharing information about her region.

The Gorevyrm was a monster relatively common in the desert. She had told them about this, made a rough sketch using their pencils (she had a talent for it, learning how to draw only after a few weeks of being introduced to it), and even said how to handle them.

The point was, since it had a lot of moisture in its body, she curiously tried to do something.

Among the water users, there were plenty of people who wanted to try doing ’blood-bending’ to control a person. The concept was because humans were mostly made of water, perhaps they could control them.1

She didn’t know where they got the inspiration, but many people tried, especially during wars.

However, it wasn’t as straightforward as people thought, which was both a disappointment and a relief.

For one, although humans were technically composed of a lot of water, it was mixed with a hell lot of things like plasma, iron, and other organic compounds. Healers could feel the water inside a person’s body, but not move it enough it’d manipulate the entire body weight.

And… all intelligent beings were, in a sense, protected by the aether—as if holding it together—so they couldn’t be manipulated in this way. (A few of other races may or may not have volunteered as experiments for large amounts of contribution points).

In the cases of monsters, the other barrier was that their skin was too thick, and they tended to have a similar or less proportion of water in their bodies.

This worm was different.

It basically didn’t have much to cover it, so she wanted to try if she could control it.

She was a bit sweaty, using the rest of her mana. It flinched, and made a decently big movement, before she had to give up—exhausted.

Her eyes brightened. That was good enough for now.

Garan smiled, shaking his head, before walking over the monster to finally end its suffering. _{freēwebnovel.com}

Hehe. Dune inspiration, of course xDD

Heheh. ATLA throwback xDDD