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413: Chapter 412: Thorn 413: Chapter 412: Thorn He could still help it when it was asleep, but now that it was awake and he hadn’t communicated with it yet, he didn’t input his plant energy as it might just offend the cactus.

Luciel knew that mutant plants that weren’t willing to follow others would dislike the plant energy of others.

Such a gesture would be seen as coercion by those mutant plants.

They traveled all day just like before, and in the evening, they stopped at a farm that didn’t have anything on it.

After their dinner, Luciel entered their RV and started channeling a bit of his plant energy onto the surface of the cactus.

“Hello,” Luciel said.

[Hello, human.

Thank you for taking care of me.] The voice of the cactus sounded like that of a young teen, unlike the voice of Mr.

Acacia.

“You’re finally willing to talk now.

What’s your name?” [I don’t have one.

Can you list some names for me?

I’ll choose one.] The cactus had been around him for months, so it had surely received a lot of information about them already.

It wasn’t surprising that it even wanted to choose its own name.

Luciel agreed to the cactus’s request and said many names, and in the end, it picked the name Thorn.

“I said a lot of good names, but in the end, you just picked Thorn as a name?” [Yeah, I think it’s cool!] “Ok, Thorn, you remember me, right?” [Yes, of course, I remember.

I remember that you have been helping me a lot.

If it weren’t for you, I might have failed to awaken properly, or it would have taken me longer to awaken because the place where I was originally didn’t have a lot of plant energy.

Thank you.] He had found Thorn in the corner of a trader’s stall before.

If it hadn’t been for him, Thorn would probably have been neglected and cast aside because no one would have had the time to take care of it.

If it had been abandoned back then, it might still have grown, but it would have taken a very long time since there wasn’t much plant energy around, and it wouldn’t have had enough water or other nutrients it needed to grow.

For awakening plants, they still needed water, sunlight, and other things that normal plants required.

Only after they had completely awakened and gained enough strength would they no longer need to rely too much on water and sunlight.

So, Thorn’s likelihood of survival, if Luciel hadn’t noticed it, was indeed slim.

No one would have bothered watering it with the lack of water around, and it might even have been accidentally uprooted because of its small size.

“No need to thank me.

I did it because I wanted to at least let you help a bit after awakening or directly have a contract with me.

So, what do you want to do?” [You’re strong.

I’ll have a contract with you!]  “Are you sure?

The contract would last until the day I die or until I no longer need your help.

The contract they would establish would be effective until they die.

When they die, the contracted plants would be free again and could go wherever they wanted or form a new contract with other people.

The contract they had was different from the ones written in the novels he had read before, which truly bound those under the contract.

The contract he was talking about was actually just establishing a link with the conscious plant.

With that link, he could communicate with the conscious plant even without touching it with his plant energy.

Through the link, they could fight and cooperate properly when dealing with enemies, even if they were a bit far from each other.

The conscious plant, having more goodwill toward him because of the link, would generally follow and cooperate with what he wanted.

But if it was really unwilling, then there was nothing he could do.

He couldn’t force a conscious plant to move with just his order, unlike what was written in many of the novels he had seen before.

That was also why, when the human died, the plant linked to them would be set free.

Of course, they could also sever the link without waiting for him to die, but both parties had to be willing for it to be severed.

And they needed to be completely willing-if either of them still had lingering thoughts about keeping the link, then it wouldn’t be severed.

Luciel knew himself well.

As long as there was danger around him, he wouldn’t let go of those who could help him deal with it so he wouldn’t have to face it alone.

That was why he asked Thorn about it again-because even if the link wasn’t as restrictive as those written in novels, it still imposed certain limits on the plant.

For example, once linked, neither of them could harm each other, and Thorn would also have to help him deal with zombies and other threats.

[Yes, it’s okay.

I know I’ll live for a very long time, so it’s fine to stay with you for the time being as thanks for helping me awaken.

I’ll also be able to practice my ability by following you around.

I saw a lot of things I could fight about in my memories.

If I follow you, I can fight a lot!

So, we can establish a contract now,] Thorn said happily.

It seemed Thorn was an energetic one and even accepted the contract because it wanted to fight other beings.

Well, since it wanted to fight and deal with zombies, Luciel could just let it go and fight-meaning he wouldn’t have to do anything and could comfortably lie on the sofa to watch a movie or play something else.

Since Thorn was willing to have a contract with him, Luciel said, “Sure.

Let’s establish our links now.” To establish a link with Thorn, he slit one of his fingers and dropped blood on Thorn.

Then gathered more plant energy from his body to his hand and gently poured it into Thorn.