After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 2117

Chapter 2117: Pathway

Intelligent monsters were far more troublesome than normal monsters of the same level. In some cases, they could be said to be twice as troublesome.

For example, when they had terrain advantage.

CAWWWW!

It grabbed her again, and she was afraid of getting injured by its talons, so she twisted her body to be grabbed in a harmless way. Otherwise, she could’ve been punctured by those talons.

After finding out it was an intelligent beast, Althea became clear on what it was doing since it wasn’t eating her (yet) and was just taking her around the sky and making her dizzy.

It was playing with its food.

Intelligent monsters had killed countless intelligent creatures in its lifetime, developing its intelligence as it consumed more. For some reason, they had developed some sort of sadistic streak. This was a general consensus among experts, and no intelligent monster was an exeption.

This was something Alterran scholars had been studying, and some of their knowledge was even researched from the local monster experts.

According to the studies, it was like the intelligent monsters were fond of ’seasoning’ their targets by making them suffer.

Perhaps stressed-out humans let out specific chemicals that they liked? Like adrenaline, cortisol, or whatever.

In any case, as twisted as it was, it gave Althea more chances to escape.

CAWWWW!

The damned bird knew to avoid the downdrafts and take advantage of the invisible rotating winds to lift itself up.

If she hadn’t known for a fact that monsters couldn’t be elementalists, she might’ve thought this thing was a wind user.

Althea pushed down the rising bile in her stomach and looked around, her eyes fixed on the granite mountain in front of her. Soon, she saw something like a saddle or a col amidst the mass.

It was a few hundred meters high above ground, so it technically wasn’t considered a mountain pass, but it was at least an opening or a ’weak spot’ for anyone wanting to go to the other side.

She was about to throw a flare to signal to her husband that this was the direction to enter, but the wind changed again, so she had to abandon this plan.

She hit the monster with the flare instead; maybe traces of it could be found by her husband.

CAWWW!

It wouldn’t hurt a level 35 monster, but it certainly annoyed it. She had been against a number of avians in her lifetime, and a lot of their weaknesses (other than the eyes) were similar to those of the terran birds.

For example, their wings were the most vulnerable part of their bodies. The wing joints were even more delicate. It was also relatively easy to target, considering her current position.

Although it had a high level, being hit by the flare on its weakness was still a bit painful, like being stung by a bee, so the bird had a reflexive action against her.

And this reflexive action was to literally toss her away.

She was thrown into the gap, and she found herself falling down to slam against the sharp spikes of rock. Althea instinctively took out a fabric from her space, hoping to soften her fall.

The winds in the gaps were wild, and she found herself shot up, and then she was pushed to the other side. It was dizzying; she was amazed she was still conscious.

Fortunately, she still had some weight, and by taking the fabric back to her space at the right time and height, she fell down on the col’s surface with minimal injuries.

CAWWWW!!!

How could the bird allow her to escape? She was the most delicious prey it had encountered so far!

Elementalists were particularly delicious to monsters, and this was clearer among intelligent beasts. Now that Althea, a rare delicious prey, had appeared, it could even risk its life to get a bite of her.

It was also why it played around with her for so long. It was instinctively trying to make her even more ’delicious’ to eat.

CAWWWWW!!

Fortunately, the saddle was not too wide so it couldn’t fly inside. The monster furled its wings and used its legs to grab Althea, much like how a chicken would peck at worms.

Althea-the-worm was also flexible. She expertly avoided the monster’s pecks, taking advantage of the jagged surface to create hiding spaces for herself. Using her not-too-strong earth vibration skills, she would even find nice earth pockets and cause its beak to get stuck occasionally.

This long-winded approach gave Althea some breathing room, but it also caused the monster to go berserk.

CAAAAWWWW!!!

Peck!

PECK!

CAWWWW!

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