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

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Dinner was nice and they chatted about their day and accomplishments. Althea asked them first and she listened well. She had heard stories about the new hires, and the new inventions, as well as some suggestions that could really help with their side’s efficiencies.

Soon it was finally her turn to speak, and everyone leaned in to hear.

They were all looking forward to knowing her progress. ”What about your experiments?”

Althea was chewing on her fruit salad when Harold asked this. ”Chocolates are in process, but while I managed to hasten their growth by a few days so far, it probably wouldn’t be mass-produced for a long time.”

”Aww…”

”But…,” she paused with a smile, putting her audience at the edge of their seats (literally). ”We should still be able to eat some as a group in another 2 months.”

Sheila clapped a bit and the others grinned. Chocolate! It was finally within reach!

But Althea wasn’t done with her story.

”Other than that, I can tell you that popcorn is much more possible.”

”Popcorn!”

This obviously excited the others very much, with Sheila’s mind immediately going to those nice times she’d watch movies alone with her large-sized popcorn.

Harold beside her also nodded. He immediately made a plan for the inevitable commercialization of popcorn. ”I’ll get the Spice-and-sauce factories to come up with different flavor powders.”

Inexplicably, his mind moved to the various flavors—from cheese, to barbeque, to sour cream, and to many other flavors.

A moment of silence passed, followed by gulps.

They looked at her and curiously asked for her process, which prompted Althea to speak more about her elements and new skills and how the interlaced together as a single concept. She mentioned how she activated skills by combining them both, and how she combined their functions and uses.

Althea explained it in a way she thought they’d understand, but geniuses simply didn’t think the same wavelength as the others. However, the others did take note of her methods and mused, perhaps they could do the same when they awaken their respective elements.

”It’s amazing,” Sheila mumbled. She wondered more about how her water element related to healing primarily because the human body was made mostly of water. As a nurse, she also had a more intimate knowledge of the going ons inside the human body. She reckoned the healing ability was also related to this.

”It’s amazing how everything just seemed… connected,” she said, Eugene nodded.

”Maybe everything that had to do with aether are interrelated somehow.”

Althea paused a bit as their words echoed.

Connected, eh?

However, the light of idea didn’t really connect for now, and she didn’t go after it either. Dinner was for family and relaxation, not for work.

Anyway, dinner ended soon after and everyone went to their respective abodes. Althea and Garan spent time with each other and the babies in the living room.

”Mwamhammma…”

”Gugumamwghhh…”

The couple watched fondly as the children crawled from point to point, getting a block there, getting a yellow ball here, and then trying to put them together. The couple also played with the babies, filling that night with simple but warm memories with the children.

Eventually, the little things’ eyelids began to feel heavier. This was followed by the babies yawning, showing off their toothless gums.

The couple chuckled as they lifted the babies and put them to bed in their crib. She couldn’t help but admire their adorableness for a while longer until she felt warm hands over her stomach.

The warm hand naturally crawled to more sensitive areas and she moaned when she felt his tongue tracing the back of her neck.

”Husband…”

His large hand groped her mounds as his mouth traced more of her skin. ”The babies…”

”They wouldn’t hear as long as we’re quiet,” he whispered hotly against her skin. She flushed, really worried.

If there was some kind of tool that could block the sounds for the babies…

It was around here though that Sheila and Eugene’s words finally rang a bell.

Everything connected to Aether is connected.

She immedaitely gestured to go back to her farm.

”No. It’s time to rest,” Garan said, almost pouting in bitterness. Althea’s heart softened to goo, but she really couldn’t let this eureka moment pass by.

”I want to try a few more things… please, husband?” She asked, her emerald eyes large in plea. It made Garan gulp, but his frown didn’t dissipate at all. She tiptoed and kissed his cheeks repeatedly.

”Please, please, please…” She mumbled as she kissed his cheek, and Garan’s eyes stayed on her the whole time. Emerald eyes met azure ones and a battle of grit began.

”Pleassseee?” She asked again, eyes so large and shiny it reflected him.

Garan could only concede defeat.

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For now.

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Back to the farm.

There must be something to learn from the system farm itself, she mused. Everything was connected, and this very much included the place where her element was the strongest.

One of the things she realized in her success was that the Eye had a lot more uses.

She looked at the system farm closer using the eye. With it, she could pinpoint more accurately each of the green spots amongst the bright clusters.

She looked closer and saw the green dots congregate on specific paths. It was an unfamiliar pattern, but it reminded her of the teleportation array in the Village Center.

Her eyes widened.

Of course! An array!

It made sense! This meant that the farmland… was just a giant, complicated, array. The arrays were formulated to create these magical effects!

Immediately, she used her ability to look at the patterns closer. She traced them, trying to understand.

It was difficult and mind-boggling, but even when she didn’t understand, she memorized them, trying to find a pattern of sorts.

Everything had some logic in it and these patterns definitely had some rationale, some meaning, and some effect to the world as they interacted with it.

As this realization dawned on her, the familiar ding rang in her head.

[You have received World Knowledge

Magic Tool Creation (C) Level 1: Gain the ability to integrate arrays to create Class E to D magic tools. Mama Requirement: Varies]

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Then…, she remembered:

She didn’t know anything about arrays!