Care Guide to Raising a Max Level Leaf in a Apocalypse

Ch. 38: Bestow

When faced with food, the Little Grass displayed an unprecedented level of care, even his owner couldn't make him this attentive.

His intuition told him that if he ate this Luminous Lilies before it bloomed, he would just be consuming an ordinary mutant.

But if it was a mature specimen, it might be the highest-gama concentration mutant he'd ever eaten.

Perhaps sensing the danger, the purple-and-white petals of the Luminous Lilies shrank back. The vines, unwilling to give up, tried to wrap around him once more, releasing an intoxicating fragrance capable of ensnaring hundreds.

Before the fragrance could take effect, Ji Jiu's hands returned to the enormous flower bud.

A gentle green light began to appear in his hands.

"Vitality – Bestow."

Like sparkling starlight, the green dots circled around the flower bud again and again, revitalizing the nearly lifeless Luminous Lilies, visible to the naked eye.

The vines around them all obediently lay down under the influence of the green light.

Ji Jiu's eyes were filled with green, and the countless green dots turned this space into an unreal fairyland.

This was the second time he had used this ability.

In reality, his first awakened ability after the apocalypse was not "Devour," but "Vitality – Bestow."

Unfortunately, this ability was not very useful, at least for a fragile potted plant like him.

He had no one to bestow it upon.

In the early days of the apocalypse, there were large numbers of mutants inside the building. It started with the plants and small pets kept by residents, and later, the mutants in the neighborhood began to enter the building to forage. The flimsy doors couldn't withstand the increasingly powerful mutants, and soon, people inside the building were either running for their lives or dead. The person Ji Jiu was expecting had yet to show up.

Ji Jiu nearly became a mutant's meal three days into the apocalypse when a mutant almost carried him off the flowerpot. That was his first brush with death.

He used "Vitality – Bestow" on himself.

As for what exactly "Bestow" was, he had no idea, but with the use of this bestowed ability, he underwent a second awakening.

Everyone only had one ability, even mutants couldn't have two.

Ji Jiu was a special case.

The second awakened ability, "Devour," was the one that truly matched his identity as a mutant. The first ability seemed like a joke from the heavens.

Ji Jiu used "Devour" to consume all the bad things that bullied him, and then he was unwilling to use that ability again.

The second use was clearly different from the first time he used it on himself. The creature he had bestowed life upon had become lively, but it still didn't want to bloom.

Ji Jiu paused, puzzled, and stopped the output. "What's wrong with you?"

Clearly, it had reached the critical point for blooming, but it seemed to be waiting for something, deliberately resisting from blooming.

The Luminous Lilies didn't respond to him, continuing to pulse slowly like a heartbeat.

Ji Jiu frowned and threatened with his little tiger teeth showing, "If you keep this up, I'll eat you, you know! Even after you bloom, I'm going to eat you."