After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 1765

Chapter 1765: New Toolmaker! (Part 1)

It wasn’t just the urban landscape that was seeing some growth for the next few weeks. They were also celebrating another step forward in terms of other fields.

Because Alterra had finally witnessed the awakening of a new tookmaker!

It was none other than Melissa, Eugene’s wife. She had shown great talent in maths and patterns, and had spent a significant amount of time studying tools as well.

Interestingly, the inheritance she received was for a lighting and heating tool.

This stemmed from her desire to protect her baby. The child tended to get cold easily, and perhaps it was because of this that she ended up receiving these inheritances in particular.

It helped, of course, that her element was fire. One had to be an elementalist to be a toolmaker; this was because elementalists were closer to aether and controlled a part of it.

Since there was no formal occupation of an array master, this could be the system’s way to shift through the proper bodies when giving out skills and inheritances.

Speaking of this, Kalfene was an earth elementalist, Sleuth was a wind elementalist, Kahonn was a wood elementalist, and Menzon was a fire elementalist.

Many times, the inheritances they received had nothing to do with their elements or were neutral, like many of the tools they had. However, when it did have an associated element, it was a great advantage.

In those cases, the toolmaker would usually have higher chances to succeed in creating their tools, much faster than their peers, who could take months to years to be able to create a functioning one.

And Melissa, who had awakened a week ago, had created her first tools today.

The tool required materials like Youli stone to create. Melissa just had to modify it and stamp some arrays according to what the inheritance was telling her. The tool’s user would just have to light a fire once, and it would light and heat up the immediate area for a certain amount of time.

It would need a bit of aether to maintain longer, but basically, anyone who had entered a certain level could have an instinct and affinity for aether and could activate it.

So far, each activation lasted for an entire day, which wasn’t bad at all.

Anyway, regardless of what tool she made, this was a cause for celebration!

Melissa was the first Alterran toolmaker known to the public (Althea had hidden the fact that she was a toolmaker from the public, though the research center folks did know), so the next few days, she’d receive a lot of congratulations and even a few gifts to their door, from people wanting to get close to an eminent toolmaker.

Unfortunately, not everyone was happy for her.

Among the masses, there were a few jokes and grumblings.

For example, those who had been wanting to enter the research center but had failed. There were also misogynistic people who had a hard time accepting that the first toolmaker in Alterra was a woman.

Some were neutral, but she did occasionally end up being part of the joke.

"Did you hear? That Melissa chick became a toolmaker. I guess sleeping with a Creator has its perks," a random guard commented to his friend when they heard about it, and they cackled together.

"HEY! It was a joke!"

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