After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 2070

Chapter 2070: Gossip in Warrior City

The most popular were gossip between nearby neighbors and coworkers, and then the most gasp-inducing ones were often related to nobles.

It was really like how it was anywhere. People cared too much about gossip between friends and acquaintances, but they also cared too much about the lives of ’celebrities’, which were the nobles in this world.

For example, they’d overhear a person’s daughter and that person’s son had been secretly in love. The problem was that the parents were mortal enemies! There was apparently a bit of drama. The city did not prohibit fights, but it did prohibit a certain show of force and above, so after a while, the two fathers went to prison.

Another was that the husband of a neighboring food stall owner was killed in a beast mob. However, rumor has it that the wife placed a lot of food on his body, making him very attractive to monsters. When he fell down the wall, he was gobbled up immediately. The wife happily gained ownership of the stall.

And then there was someone who had fallen in love with someone from Crystal City, but had been abandoned a year after she gave everything. The girl’s parents loved her and had apparently liquidated their assets to afford mercenaries to escort her home.

This one caused quite a bit of commotion because apparently, the girl was dumped because the man’s parents found out that the girl had half-orc blood!

It was very diluted and absolutely did not have physical manifestations on her at all, but even a tinge of half-orc genes was appalling to some people.

The residents were naturally offended, and some people unrelated to that family had even asked the Lord to go to war with Crystal City.

This must be the only City where its own citizens were so warfreak.

As for the nobles, it seemed like another noble daughter volunteered to enter Virion’s harem. According to Otto, Virion himself had a few women, but he was not a rakehell who’d sleep with every woman who approached him. He actually only had two women officially in the harem, which made it even more sought after among noble ladies.

It couldn’t be helped. Virion was very handsome, strong, and he was (for now) the heir to the throne.

This superfluous gossip came from Otto, but he mostly mentioned this in the context of some women in the harem possibly trying to gain advantages when making deals with them.

They were advised to always go directly to Virion.

Then there was even gossip about a beautiful elementalist woman who had once lived in the palace being pregnant. It wasn’t indicated who the father was, but the rumor was them was one of the royals.

Althea didn’t really mind gossip as long as they were not intrinsically harmful. For example, gossip about where the person is now, what they have accomplished, and so on. Some studies showed that there were positive sides of gossip, as long as they were not malevolent in nature.

Some of the interesting conversations they eavesdropped on were from a group of half-orcs. They seemed to be discussing some big event in an associated territory East.

"I heard another village was plundered by orcs and the women were taken."

"There’s a mission to rescue them," another said. "It’s an official one held by the territory."

"Shall we join?"

"I want to, but remember what happened when we went last time? Those people looked at us as if we were enemies. Our team was almost endangered."

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