After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 1800

Chapter 1800: Training in the Cold

This happened just a few days after the cold started. It was found by guards on duty, wherein one would keep watch and the other would pass the time by meditating with their element.

Who would’ve thought that he managed to gather more elements than usual, more than what he usually gathered in the hot springs! And he was not even a water elementalist, but a fire elementalist!

Soon, they found out that training outside was helpful to every type of element. Despite it being cold, it seemed like the other elements—which always existed—moved more slowly or controlled and were therefore easier to absorb. This was just the theory, of course, but what they cared for was the effect.

Anyway, soon, it was proven that Alterra’s continuous dispatch of guards was indeed the right choice.

...

Another week passed, making it the second week of Cold. The previous one ended in two weeks, but this one seemed to be going strong.

By this time, many towns were also struggling, particularly the commoners and those below.

Alterra would be welcoming its first refugees in this period. They were not there yet, but they were already on the way.

This was the Culit family, composed of the old and dying patriarch, his two sons, their spouses, and their children. It was an entire clan, basically. 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖

They came from... Jacoba Town.

This was led by the first son of the patriarch, Urkin, the person Gill made deals with back when he passed by to rescue Cassandra.

Since then, they had been dealing goods through Ferrol, which wasn’t too suspicious because Ferrol and Jacoba were loosely connected, considering the family trees.

He was asked to make a non-disclosure oath, however, it was only belatedly that Urkin remembered the chaos that happened around the time Gill was in Jacoba. That was to say: the failed wedding with Ester Town, the death of its heir, and the war that happened after that.

He had an inkling feeling that the handsome man might have something to do with that, but he shrugged it off at the time.

He thought it was none of his business. The Lord’s family was jerks anyway.

That said, Gill did not reveal Alterra as the source, but it did not take long for Urkin to put two and two together. He hadn’t been there himself, but his people had, and he had bought their maps from them.

Through this partnership, Urkin raised his family to new levels of riches in the past several months. Lady Cassandra had already introduced the products the first time she returned, and with her gone, there was a void that was happily filled by his supply.

The exclusive deals in Alterra only applied to the massive bulk buys. For small merchants like them who could only afford a cart full of goods at best, it was fine to buy and sell.

For the past several months, their family made their wealth like this.

It was just that...the Lord could see the amount of money in their wallets.

Even if they divided it amongst the family, it was still a sizeable amount.

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