After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World-Chapter 1404: Departure to Bleulle (Part 2)

The Golds were also concerned about their loyalists. Although they had asked for leniency and they had left instructions to them not to fight, there was still the worry that their lives might be hard.

Veronica’s heart twitched at the Golds’ genuine concern for their servants and partners.

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"Of course, I will also take note of this," she told them, taking note. They also gave a list of names, especially those who were especially stubborn and would therefore have it the hardest.

"And if you can, buy some magic tools," Otto added. "You may want to check on Miss Althea as well, in case she wants to ask a favor, as well."

After all, since they were cut off from their supplies, the supplies for certain magic tools like the aether letter and the voice blocker had naturally dropped.

They would definitely need a few more of those, something they could no longer provide. At least for now.

Veronica nodded, taking note and headed to Althea after finalizing the plans with the Golds.

Veronica arrived to Althea’s Office in the Research Center half an hour later, telling her everything, as well as what the Golds asked of her.

This naturally got Althea interested. There was a team that was dedicated to studying the arrays of certain tools, and they had gained some progress. However, it was not enough to put into practice, especially those who didn’t have the skill to integrate the arrays to actual objects like she had.

Their population was growing rapidly, and the amount of aether letters they had now was simply not sufficient. Not to mention, when they expanded, more and more guards had to be given this tool, and she needed to prepare for this.

"We need to buy a couple more tools, actually. Specifically, we need a lot of the voice blocker tool and the aether letter," she said. "We will give you the money as well as ample contribution points for your time."

Veronica nodded passionately. Now she found that Althea really needed tools, and she was glad! Even if she didn’t have many things (for now) to spend contribution points on, she wanted to hoard a lot of them for the future!

Before Veronica left, Althea took out a paper from her space and wrote a letter, adding a personalized stamp (each elder had one) at the end.

"Here, give this to the bank," she said, handing the stamped paper to Veronica. "There’s no Lord, so this means we do not have access to the main treasury. However, we Elders do have access to the Bank."

Veronica blinked as she looked at the letter. It was written in their lingua franca, but she did recognize a few characters.

For instance, she knew that she was asked to be given 10,000 Gold.

"..."

So rich? The bank was only a portion of the territory’s wealth, right? She couldn’t imagine how much was inside the so-called main treasury!

Veronica gulped.

"We will also send you a team of guards to ensure safety. Their spaces will also be used to store many of the tools you buy."

Ten thousand gold could indeed buy a lot of magic tools. The standard aether letters, voice blockers, and the like usually sold for about 30 to 60 gold each (which was about one month of a City higherup’s salary), and so did other basic tools. A great majority of tools were tagged as Class E, anyway, so the price ranges would be around there.

"Of course, if you can find a way to save money, but at the same time successfully purchase what Alterra needs, then we’ll add bonus contribution points to your account."

Veronica nodded passionately. "Yes, Miss Althea! I’d do my best!"

Althea giggled at her enthusiasm, saying a couple more instructions before their meeting adjourned.

In the end, other than the guards assigned to her in Hubble Town, including her strongest guard, Ignus, Alterra also sent a few of their guards, one of whom was a soldier, Sean.

Even Gregory was there, just in case. For one, it was a city with stronger enemies. They would never send their people to missions where the risks outweighed the gains and, in Alterra, lives were far too important, so one could imagine the safety factors considered in most missions.

Of course, even if he was not the most powerful person there, Sean was the leader of this operation. For one, Gregory wouldn’t be able to accompany them inside the City. He was, after all, too well known, and his name would be listed in the Lord’s panel, so a disguise would be useless.

On the other hand, Sean was a soldier used to strategizing, information gathering, and spy work. Even if he had lower levels than his companions, most of them could actually follow him without much gripe since many of them had seen his abilities early on.

Sean naturally chose those who had been working with him on this team. It wouldn’t do if someone were slow to follow orders because they didn’t believe in him.

He had to be especially careful about it because none of the people in his team were Terrans. Other than the initial batch of soldiers, the rest of the guards simply would not be able to safely traverse a City full of people twice or thrice their levels.

Sean was currently a level 28 wood elementalist. Before this mission, he was assigned to train wood elementalists who chose to learn the aggressive skills related to the element. This was mostly refugees who had awakened before heading to Alterra, or had been determined to be fighters.

Generally speaking, most wood elementalist who ’grew’ in Alterra chose the auxiliary path first because it was peaceful and paid a lot at the same time. Wood could never be in par with the other elements when it came to fighting, but the other skills—especially those Miss Althea popularized—gave them a niche to excel.

The party left before dawn, and Althea and Garan saw the party off.

"This will be your first trip to a City," Althea told Sean. "Be sure to listen to Veronica well," she said. "There are too many things to consider in that circle."

Garan nodded, adding a few more reminders of his own. "Find out as much as you can with the current situation and the current power play there," he said. "Determine what could be future problems for us, particularly what could happen when they find out both the Golds and Hoffen are here."

It was never a question of ’if’. It was inevitable that they’d eventually find out about it.

"Yes, Captain," Sean said, and he headed to one of the two beast carts they’d be using for this adventure.

They took a day to prepare everything. They filled their spaces with their weapons, food, and the like, adding boxes in the carriages as well.

Don’t say Bleuelle was a City, but nothing could beat Alterran food! So they—including Ignus and the others—filled up their spaces and the carriages with supplies to last them weeks.

Veronica hugged Cassandra, who had also seen her off.

"Good luck, and see you soon."

Veronica chuckled as she embraced her friend a bit more tightly. "Well, I’d need all the luck I can get indeed."

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