After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 726

While the others were training outside, the lord was also practicing her own elements. This time she was focused on an element: Wood, and she was practicing in the comfort of her own gardens.

They summoned the newly-arrived Thorance for his knowledge of wood elements. He was called to the gardens to help her out, and was soon brought in to meet with the couple.

The handsome Thorance with his light-colored curly hair and sleepy eyes couldn’t help but appear more awake as he was faced with both the captain and his famous wife.

Leon, the only wood soldier user remaining, used the element as an aggressive element, which wasn’t applicable to her. Thorance, a support, was called for the purpose of training her.

He looked startled when he saw her but he couldn’t look for a long time because he felt the captain’s stare.

"Hello, Ms. Althea," he said, "My name is Thorance—"

His voice died when he saw the garden behind her. His eyes widened at the beautiful sight and he was very tempted to leave the other people and just be with the plants.

He didn’t of course. He had worked under many nobles, and not one would be forgiving if he did so.

He was overthinking things of course. Althea could naturally see how his eyes brightened at the sight of her plants. She smiled. This was actually good. After all, this meant this was his passion, and that was the best type of employee.

"Have you gardened a lot before?" She asked. He flinched under her attention before gathering himself to answer.

He nodded. "I was born and raised in a small town south," he said, "When I awakened, I immediately applied as a gardener in the Chancery. I was hired by a bigger town, also South, which was great because I can visit my hometown relatively often.

"In such a big town, there are plenty of wealthy nobles. My skills were often used to maintain the sensitive gardens of nobles."

In such towns with a lot of nobles, they took status symbols very seriously. One of these symbols was a healthy garden with exotic plants.

One would think that gardening wouldn’t be hard in a place like Xeno with amazing refresh rates. However, this was not the case. Althea herself knew too well that plants wouldn’t grow well if not in their proper environment, even if they were planted in system farms.

On the contrary, they were a bit more ’picky’. They would grow extremely well under the right conditions, but wouldn’t sprout at all if it wasn’t.

In Xeno, unless one had either specialized knowledge of plants or a support-type wood elementalist, it was too difficult to care for plants not endemic in a place, and so his services were very popular in Towns.

Unfortunately, one (or a few) ladies fell in love with him and it caused quite a bit of ire among their fathers and husbands, so he was forced to resign and find a new place to get hired in.

"Why do you choose to focus more on the milder side of the wood element?"

It was understandable in her case as someone who dwelled and studied in plants, but this was an odd choice for others—especially in this world where all aggressive skills could save your life.

The young man’s eyes softened and he smiled. It was such a gentle smile that hit the maternal instincts of women.

"I have loved plants since I was a child. My father was also a gardener, and so was his father." It was such a great honor for the family to have him awaken as an elementalist—much more so as a wood elementalist.