[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-after-i-fully-prepared-for-the-apocalypse-the-un":3,"chapter-after-i-fully-prepared-for-the-apocalypse-the-un-after-i-fully-prepared-for-the-apocalypse-the-un-chapter-155":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","After I Fully Prepared for the Apocalypse, the Ungrateful Cried with Regret",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},146319,236,"Chapter 155: Wishing Pool","after-i-fully-prepared-for-the-apocalypse-the-un-chapter-155",155,"\u003Cp>\"Run that way.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs pointed in a certain direction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But after running a short distance, the group realized something was wrong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs and Wayne Warner hadn’t followed them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You guys go on ahead,\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"we’ll meet you at the rendezvous point.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs waved her hand, creating a curtain of fire at the intersection where the others had left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The curtain of fire completely blocked the entrance to the road.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The mutated pheasants didn’t dare to advance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No, there are only two of you,\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pascal Paige refused.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although she had known Nina Jacobs for less than a day, Nina had already saved them twice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How could she abandon them now?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were at least thirty of those mutated pheasants.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yeah, we can help too.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You go find the others first. We can handle things here.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides, Nina Jacobs was looking for an excuse to head toward Vespera Peak anyway.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Plus, Pascal Paige had already planned routes for various scenarios, so finding their way wouldn’t be difficult.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As they spoke, Wayne Warner had already grabbed a mutated pheasant by its beak with one hand and snapped its neck with the other.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then you have to be careful,\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"we’ll wait for you to come down the mountain together.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pascal Paige shouted, her eyes red.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs had no intention of removing the curtain of fire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If they didn’t leave soon, they would just continue to drain her Superpower.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once the others had left, Nina Jacobs finally unleashed her Wood Element Superpower.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wood Element Vines, imbued with her Speed Element Superpower, rapidly entangled several mutated pheasants.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOM!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, rolling flames traveled along the Wood Element Vines and struck the pheasants directly!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before they could even cry out, the mutated pheasants were instantly killed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wayne Warner guarded Nina Jacobs, ensuring no danger could get near her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This kind of chicken is usually best slow-cooked in a pressure cooker for a few hours,\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"but you have to use a lot of seasoning.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Oh, right, it would also be good marinated and air-dried to make jerky.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs was already thinking about how to prepare these mutated pheasants.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The meat of mutated animals was edible, but extremely tough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, this wasn’t a problem for the people of Drakonia.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As long as something was edible, they could always figure out a suitable way to cook it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs could clearly hear Wayne Warner gulping beside her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at the ground littered with the corpses of mutated pheasants, Nina Jacobs simply stored them all in her system’s inventory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs took out the map Pascal Paige had drawn.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To climb Vespera Peak, it seemed they had to pass through a temple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The route was a bit winding, but that wasn’t a major challenge for the two of them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In front of the temple on Rexton Mountain was a wide, flat area with a Wishing Pool.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Nina Jacobs approached, she discovered a motionless giant tortoise lying in the center of the long-dry Wishing Pool.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The giant tortoise was lying on a high stone platform.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It lazily opened its eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And around it were several other turtles of considerable size.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were huddled together, nestled around the base of the stone platform.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs could tell the giant tortoise must have mutated; otherwise, it wouldn’t have grown to be over two meters long.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Let’s go.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing that the turtles in the pool had no intention of attacking them, Nina Jacobs didn’t linger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Continuing forward, a small brown rat appeared before them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was the mutated rat Nina Jacobs had released the previous night.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs walked over to the Little Zombie Rat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While scouting last night, she had clearly felt a strong energy fluctuation through the rat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was why she had left it here as a marker.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now, that feeling was gone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was nothing around but rotten grass and withered trees.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Was it just my imagination?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two arrived at the so-called Vespera Peak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By now, the scorching sun was high in the sky, its blinding rays beating down on the wasteland.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As far as the eye could see, the surroundings were as silent as an empty valley.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no sign of any fallen Mystic Ice Cores.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She couldn’t help but feel a little disappointed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Looks like this trip will be for nothing.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Due to the high altitude, the ground temperature had risen significantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even the green leaf on the Little Zombie Rat’s back had wilted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs bent down to pick up the Little Zombie Rat from the ground, preparing to put it back in her inventory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But just then, she suddenly realized something.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She thought of the dry Wishing Pool and the giant tortoise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’In such a dry place, how did those turtles survive?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Even if the giant tortoise was a mutated one with a special constitution,’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’the other turtles around it were just ordinary ones.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Could it be...?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs quickly led Wayne Warner back to the temple they had passed earlier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She observed the giant tortoise in the pool.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, she began to activate her Earth Element Superpower.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bits of earth and dust started to fall from the stone platform.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The giant tortoise finally moved. It opened its mouth toward Nina Jacobs and her companion, and a volley of ice shards instantly shot out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t unusual in her past life for mutated animals to have Superpowers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this giant tortoise was using an Ice Element Superpower.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’It must have absorbed a Mystic Ice Core!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Turtles by nature prefer shady, cool places.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No wonder the other turtles were all gathered around it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had probably only survived this long thanks to the giant tortoise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally having a clue, Nina Jacobs felt her spirits lift.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wood Element Vines shot rapidly toward the giant tortoise, but just as they were about to touch its shell, sharp Ice Spikes suddenly shot out from it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It’s got some fight in it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs was forced to retract the vines.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’It seems the only thing that can counter the Ice Element is a Fire Element Superpower.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Several Fireballs soared into the air, and the surrounding turtles instantly scattered in terror.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Fireballs landed on the giant tortoise’s back, and it let out an enraged roar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sound shook the entire temple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What Nina Jacobs was interested in was the stone platform.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was a shaded area in the middle of the pool, yet the tortoise preferred to be scorched by the sun rather than move from that platform.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The same went for the ordinary turtles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Why were they all willing to be baked by the high heat?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’What was so special about that stone platform?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps finally unable to bear the high temperature of the flames, the giant tortoise pushed itself up onto its four legs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At first, it tried to cover itself with a layer of ice to resist the flames.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the temperature of the fire was too high.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Several Fireballs converged, and the entire giant tortoise was engulfed in fierce flames.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOM!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A moment later, its scorched shell was knocked off the stone platform.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs stared in shock at the pile of things on the stone platform.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mystic black was a color closest to true black.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The pile of objects was nearly black, yet under the sun, they reflected a resilient gleam like that of steel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She leaped down into the Wishing Pool and climbed onto the stone platform.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Holding an Ice Core in her hand, she instantly felt a strange sensation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was as if she were holding a special form of energy, making her feel an uncontrollable urge to draw closer to it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And what surprised Nina Jacobs the most was that there were over thirty Mystic Ice Cores here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It must have collected them.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’There’s no way all these Mystic Ice Cores just happened to fall on this one platform.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’The only explanation is the giant tortoise.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The giant tortoise had gathered all the Mystic Ice Cores that had fallen in the vicinity and placed them on the stone platform.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Behind the platform, Nina Jacobs also discovered a number of clean-picked white bones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some were animal bones, but there were also a few human skeletons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She first stored all the Mystic Ice Cores from the platform into her inventory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs was now ready to take Wayne Warner and go find Pascal Paige and the others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"System, can you analyze the things I just put in my inventory? And can I absorb it directly?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the way, Nina Jacobs called out to her system.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In her past life, she had only heard about the effects of these Ice Cores but didn’t know the details.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was especially unsure if she, a Fire Element Superpower User, could absorb them directly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A moment later, the system’s voice echoed in her mind:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Analysis initiated for Host.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[System analysis complete. The item the Host just acquired is a special type of energy material. It shares the same origin as Superpowers and can be absorbed by the Host.]\u003C\u002Fp>",1508,"2026-05-29T03:44:18.636Z","2026-06-01T04:29:06.436Z",1,"novelbin.me","0e38454a8fa03e51395090575ea6a31013d37addffaac7096283a4b268f322d9","after-i-fully-prepared-for-the-apocalypse-the-un-chapter-156","after-i-fully-prepared-for-the-apocalypse-the-un-chapter-154",312,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fafter-i-fully-prepared-for-the-apocalypse-the-un-cover.jpg"]