After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 1816

Chapter 1816: Nearing the End of the Cold

The alchemists used their own skills to study the current auras the babies were emitting. When the old men’s eyebrows furrowed, everyone immediately felt nervous.

"I understand why you’re so concerned now, apprentice..." Hoffen said, and the other two nodded. Althea and the others’ hearts dropped.

"The unknown is scary, and I have never seen anything like it at all," he said. "However, it is not guaranteed to be a bad thing—we simply do not know anything about it."

There was no one who spoke, just observed the babies who were lively and healthy.

Cheman said. "However, while small uses like this seem okay...I recommend avoiding overuse as much as you can. It seems like completely not using it is impossible now, especially with children who could not control it.

"Perhaps just limit the use and then feed them healthy food. I observed that the fruits and crops from the farms are very good."

It was here that Zenno finally spoke. He might not be able to divulge some things prematurely, as it was not his secret to tell, but he could give some hints.

"They seem able to gather aether fast enough to sustain their current use," he told them. "All you have to do is make sure they won’t overexert. That is to say: to use it continuously for an extended period of time.

"From what I see, they’re only using it casually and intermittently, which is fine.

"Please don’t put them in situations where they would feel threatened and feel like they had to give everything. They’re babies, I doubt it’d happen."

"And...when they can, perhaps in a year or two, you may want to start training them with low-level monsters."

"What?"

"You might not know this, but when monsters perish, they also emit energy that would disperse to the world. A part of it would attach to the person who killed them, which is what EXP is."

"To balance things out for them, they might have to start killing monsters at an early age, which I assume would be in a few years."

"...they’re two years old."

The old man shrugged. "It is what it is."

...

Later that night, Althea told Garan about what happened. He came home late, having no idea that such a big thing happened.

It was already after dinner, and the masters had already left by then, so he could only catch up on recent events based on what Althea told him. 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦

They had already put the babies to bed, and they lay in the bed, hugging each other for extra warmth.

"I wonder if there’s a way to keep them from bursting," she mumbled. "What would bursting even look like if those were the powers?"

For now, it seemed like they could no longer stop the children from using their abilities at all. What they needed to do was to safeguard them from situations where they’d overexert, and this meant high-stress situations.

Would they really have to be forced to keep the babies in the house? Would that even help? Perhaps it could make things even worse, considering how free-spirited the twins were.

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