Rare Plant! Thorn Sword Grass!

"Are you okay?"

Xu Jingming walked over, took out a bottle of mineral water from his Space Ring, and handed it to Erin.

After expanding the Space Ring's capacity, he had stored a large supply of purified water inside for emergencies.

"Th... thank you."

Erin, who had only just managed to recover, accepted the bottle. She took only one sip before pouring all the rest over herself.

But compared to the slime covering her entire body, that bottle of mineral water was no more than a drop in the bucket.

Aside from washing the slime off her chest, the rest of her body remained just as slick and sticky.

However, pouring that bottle of water over herself only made the full curves of her chest stand out even more.

"Thank you for helping me. Otherwise, I really wouldn't have known what to do."

Letting out a long breath, Erin stood up from the ground and thanked him solemnly.

"It was nothing. You could have dealt with those vines even without me."

Xu Jingming smiled.

When he had attacked earlier, he had noticed that the vines were not particularly aggressive.

They were only around Seventh-Order Lower. As a mid-level sixth-order awakener with an S-rank metahuman ability, Erin should have been able to handle them easily.

Her earlier reaction had probably just been triggered by some deep-seated fear.

After all,

Compared to ferocious beasts,

These soft things that wriggled around and secreted slime were what girls feared most.

And that was indeed the case. To Erin, these vines were hundreds of times more terrifying than bloodthirsty beasts!

After entering the cave, she had been caught off guard and bound by the vines.

That was why she had panicked so badly that she had even forgotten to scatter the plant seeds in her