After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 2021

Chapter 2021: Alterrans, Keep Training! (Part 1)

While Althea and Garan were having their own adventures, Alterrans were not much far behind.

The clearing missions were still very active, and all of the guards were definitely not loosening up even when the big bosses were away. Rather, they worked even harder.

Would they have lost so many people in the recent war had they been stronger? Of course not!

The challenge was that it was very difficult to level up past level 20, especially when one had so many ’rivals’ when hunting.

Even the soldiers who were with Garan had been stuck in the middle of level 20s. Very few, like Gill, reached level 28, and he felt like it’d take years before he could reach the captain’s level.

For example, even if they reached the max EXP, they might not necessarily level up. This started happening when they got past level 20, with varying degrees of problems.

They learned from the Grandmasters that using their elements frequently loosened this, and only when they used their elements and skills enough would they get past the level blockade.

In a sense, it seemed like while elementalists leveled up faster during the first 10 or so levels, the need and conditions to train and master their elements were necessary to move forward in their levels.

The theory was that the elementalist physique needed to be powered up as well, and that could be done only through training the elements and/or meditation.

From what they heard, the effect of aether crystals could bypass this obstacle. Of course, the effect was that (if the person neglected training) the foundation might become negatively affected, making the elementalists’ attacks inferior to peers of the same level and element.

As for Garan, there was something in his physique that allowed him to level up with minimal resistance. It was likely because he was extremely close to his elements, wielding them like it was part of his own body from the start.

To summarize, leveling up was more than just gathering EXP points. If that were all, then Garan, who was limited to fighting monsters up to 2 levels lower, would’ve been at a disadvantage.

This progress was also slow if they didn’t go against monsters around the same level. Alterra was already Level 2, and the monsters’ average level had already spiked up, but how many warfreak level 20s did Alterra have? How many compared to the number of monsters at that level lurked around?

It was estimated that when monsters of that level—which usually lead with a mob of its own—appeared in the vicinity of Alterra, several aether letters would light up and powerhouses would pour in to attack it.

Fortunately, while the experience points were granted only to the person who killed it, the training it provided to others would not disappear. Still, the progress was slow unless they found large mobs of monsters at that level.

Since the Valov war, all of the soldiers that had been with Garan were back to Alterra and would not be assigned elsewhere indefinitely. This was good because, at their level, Alterra had undoubtedly become the best place to live and train in now.

Each one of them would go to clearing missions every day, even outside of their working hours, and often with family members to ensure everyone was leveling up and strengthening themselves.

VERIFYCAPTCHA_LABELVerify