After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 721

At this time, some hundreds of kilometers Southeast of Ferrol Town, a team under Rolan Mercenary Team was finally getting back to civilization after completing their mission.

Their mission was to get the Rush flower. It was a rare plant that could only be found in Cape Rushless.

It took them a long time to find it in such a huge place and they even lost someone. They ultimately found it after weeks of searching a tall cliff, with all their supplies gone—no more healing potions, no more of those expensive beast repellants, none of the previous sauces they got from Garan.

It was horrible.

Rather, they had been to longer missions before, but they didn’t have a taste of good food back then, making the absence of it all the more torturous.

Horrible, it was horrible.

However, getting this mission done was still worth it. With this, their upgrade to B Level was finally in reach!

"Finally heading back!" Bart said, stretching his arms. With this mission, his section would be among the top of the mercenary team, and it would elevate more when they moved to a city!

Generally speaking, Mercenary Teams that could do decently in cities were Class B and above. They had settled in towns—albeit powerful ones—so they could focus on their growth. Now, they could venture in cities and still do well!

"Finally!! Our barbecue sauce had run out long ago," one of the younger members of his team, Bulgogi, mumbled. "My tongue is going numb from the tasteless meat!"

This earned him a knock on the head, "Stop being a sissy, you could even eat charred meat before."

Bulgogi shrugged. "There’s no way—they spoiled our taste buds!"

The imagery of the food they were missing passed by their heads, making them sigh.

They didn’t disagree, even the strict Eloi, whose high hairline went even higher at this time.

They walked, alert, and paused somewhere.

Sipa, the Rolan Mercenary Team’s scout and archer, leaned down to look at the floor. "This is unusual."

"Footprints of animals… but they are far apart…" he mumbled, thinking. When a theory came to mind, he whipped his head towards Bart. "It seems like it’s a two-legged beast?"

Bart narrowed his eyes. "Two legged beasts? There should be few in this area."

However, they didn’t put much thought on this especially since it started to rain.

It was a bit of a drizzle at first but then it poured, making them curse out. What luck!

"Ah darnit, what a strong rain!"

"Tsk."

This also made them miss some of the markings and scents nearby, which were indicators to all trespassers to leave and that this was someone’s territory.

At this time, they just focused on avoiding getting hit by the rain.

Although Xeno bodies were naturally strong and wouldn’t catch a cold easily, prolonged exposure to strong rains wasn’t recommended either.

Strong rains in Xeno was a way for the land to ’cleanse’. The rain calmed down any excess or turbulent aethers with what was called anti-aether—a vague concept— letting it be absorbed by the ground.

Being exposed to this for a long time would literally lower a person’s health and would take longer to recover than usual.

Of course, this applied to all creatures so unless the prey was right in front of them, a lot of monsters would actually avoid getting into fights during the rain.

Anyway, being in a weakened state could mean life or death in the wild, and this was why they were running away from it so desperately.

Sepa immediately looked around for signs of a cave, with the rest of the small party following him.