Global Lord in the Apocalypse: I Begin with a Greenhouse

Chapter 14 - The Legendary Touch

Could this heal her face?

Adrian raised his hand in front of his face, his expression suggesting that he was deep in thought.

I’ll never know unless I try, right? Why not just give it a shot?

“Darla, let me…”

Adrian reached out toward the woman’s face.

“No. Keep that away from me.”

Darla turned her face away. Although her lips formed a refusal, her voice was softer than usual.

She thought the man was actually disgusted by her appearance. However, out of pity, he was pretending that it didn’t bother him by touching her.

“I’m used to this. I…”

Before Darla could finish her sentence, Adrian’s index finger had already touched her forehead.

[Legendary Touch failed. No transformation occurred. Host has expended one of three available uses.]

What? It failed?

Adrian furrowed his brows deeply.

Does Legendary Touch only work on shelters?

Adrian had only tried this ability once yesterday, and even then, he had used it on his shelter. He still had no idea whether it would work on anything else.

If the ability turned out to be ineffective on other objects, touching a human would most likely produce no effect either.

But didn’t it also fail when I tried it for the third time yesterday? I have to try again!

Adrian placed his index finger on Darla’s forehead once more, startling the young woman.

“W-what are you doing?”

At the same time, the scars covering her cheeks concealed the blush spreading across her face.

[Legendary Touch failed. No transformation…]

What?! It failed twice?

One failure was understandable. But twice? Shouldn’t the conclusion be obvious by now?

Adrian had only one chance left. If he insisted on using it and it still failed, wouldn’t he have wasted his miraculous ability for nothing?

No! I can’t give up! This final attempt has to work!

Closing his eyes, Adrian steeled his resolve.

Please, let it work this time!

He extended his index finger toward Darla’s forehead once again, leaving the woman even more flustered as she struggled to understand what he was trying to do to her. Even so, she made no attempt to pull away, allowing Adrian’s finger to touch her forehead.

Bzzzz!

A faint electrical sensation immediately spread across Darla’s forehead. Warmth surged from the man’s fingertip, spreading across her face and throughout her head before flowing down to envelop her entire body.

At the same time, Adrian’s eyes lit up.

A golden light appeared on Darla’s forehead before slowly spreading to cover her entire face and body.

[Legendary Touch succeeded. Target has undergone a mysterious transformation…]

As the notification appeared before Adrian, the golden light enveloping Darla began to fade.

Yet with the remaining glimmers of light shimmering across her body, the woman looked like a fairy who had just descended from the heavens.

[Target possesses the mental ability to perceive beyond what is visible on the surface.]

“You…”

The next notification left Adrian staring at the woman without saying another word.

With such a mental ability, could this mean she was capable of discovering artifacts or valuable objects that others had overlooked?

If so, that was an incredibly valuable ability!

And that’s not all, Adrian thought, still visibly shocked. Could… could this woman also see a monster’s weaknesses?

There was a horde of Abominations waiting outside. If Darla’s ability was what he suspected, it could be the solution to their current predicament.

Meanwhile, being stared at so intensely only made Darla blush even more.

This foolish man… What exactly is he looking at?

Still unaware of what had happened to her, Darla couldn’t understand why Adrian kept staring at her. Yet for a woman who had lost much of her self-esteem because of what had happened to her face, the way Adrian looked at her filled her heart with warmth.

Darla remained confused until she accidentally caught sight of her reflection in the greenhouse’s glass wall.

With traces of light still lingering around her body, her reflection appeared clearer in the glass. She could vaguely make out someone different staring back at her.

“That…”

Darla immediately hurried toward the glass wall.

Staring intently at her reflection, her eyes widened before she raised her hands to touch her face, carefully feeling her own features.

“My face…”

She would have thought she was hallucinating if the smooth sensation beneath her fingertips hadn’t confirmed what her eyes were seeing.

“So this is real?”

Her long black hair fell softly down her back, gleaming with health. Her fair skin carried a rosy glow, making her look healthy and full of vitality. Most importantly, her face had returned to its former beauty, as though she had never suffered any injuries at all.

Not only that, but her overall appearance seemed even fresher and more radiant than she had been at the height of her beauty back in the old world.

In an instant, clear tears trickled from the corners of her eyes.

“For months, I’ve lived in shame, believing there was no future left for me. But now, in a way I never could have imagined, everything has changed.”

Turning around, she felt a strange wave of emotion surge through her chest as she looked at Adrian.

This foolish man was the one who did this.

He was the one who saved me.

It was only right that she thanked him.

“Adrian…”

Darla walked toward him slowly, her eyes still brimming with tears.

But before she could reach him, a loud noise suddenly rang out from outside.

Boom!