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

Engineering Department

While certain people’s love lives were being discussed, the construction design team had reached a massive milestone.

At this time, the Architectural and Engineering team surrounded the large connected tables, admiring the three A1 size glowing blueprints in front of them.

It had a special aura around it, and it filled the team with so much pride.

”Amazing…” they whispered, some under their breath, and some were quiet but their smiles were deep and from the heart.

Oslo was the one with the brightest eyes. He had to admit he was even a little teary.

They…really did it!

They made aether blueprints!!

He managed to secure eighteen sets of blu and special papyrus after spending a lot of money. However, he was expecting to get only 1 successful blueprint even after all those tries.

After all, creating even one was extremely hard, let alone he had never attempted to do so before! Back home, he heard that even experienced Architects would take at least a dozen sets to be able to create a successful product!

But with the help of his team, they actually managed to create THREE aether buildings!

This was unprecedented!!

Even a team of Class C architects wouldn’t be able to do this!

Anyway, the team admired the pieces of paper for a while before they were used and turned to magic dust.

”I’m still amazed at what we made,” Santosh mumbled, looking to the side to look at the remaining Blu and papyrus they had.

Speaking of materials and ingredients, they didn’t use everything because there was too small a small chance of them creating another blueprint, so they opted to retain the rest for research.

The papyrus was a special type of writing material made with several layers of secret ingredients, but the Blu itself was more mysterious. It was precious dust with a gorgeous shimmer. Someone called it Fairy Dust.

From those magical ingredients, they created the magical blueprints which would then turn into actual buildings they’d use… it felt a little surreal.

They looked at the three aether blueprints, especially at the glowing lines that felt like they were floating above the paper. ”It’s like 2D holograms… but better.”

Oslo grinned. ”It gets better,” he said, spreading his palms over a drawing. ”Us architects have another skill.”

He abruptly raised his palms and the glowing 2D drawing turned to a 3D one! Like a hologram!!

”Wowwww!”

”Whoaaa!”

”Beautifulll!!”

The siblings Brianna and Brian were particularly high because someday, as system architects, they’d also be able to create the same! How exciting!

Anyway, as for which building the team ended up drawing successfully, well, the Architecture and Engineering Team actually had a shortlist of what they could try and build.

There was the Hospital, the Library, a new wall, a Dream Forge (where, in theory, equipment makers could create stuff fast), a Cinema, an Observatory, and a Clock tower. They were also asked to create a better prison compared to the system, but there were too many concepts there that eluded them.

In the end, they chose the Hospital as the first and priority building to create.

When they finished it and—by some miracle—still had more sets to spare, they chose the library.

And when they still had more, they pushed their luck. They tried the Dream Forge once but failed a few times.

They quickly realized that they didn’t have enough understanding of certain concepts to be able to create one, so they moved on to more doable ones rather than risk wasting the remaining bluelle sets.

They had also wanted to explore the walls, but they were reluctant to waste sets when there were perfectly good options available in the system.

Then there was an upgraded prison. The lord didn’t want the current one as it stole the life out of people. However, it would take a bit for them to make a prison that could withstand strong enemies, especially elementalists. Even for Oslo, he didn’t have the understanding of how to keep powerful people trapped inside a room and unable to get out.

Their current makeshift prisons could be fine for now, but when they went against strong enemies, the lord may have no choice but to spend a building slot for a prison in the end.

It broke his heart a bit to not be able to meet this need, but sometimes people would just have to adjust to where they were.

In the end, they built an Observatory, which was mainly to study the skies, but it could also double to see extremely far distances on land as well.

The buildings were chosen not only because they were most practical, but Oslo had better understanding about these than others. The hospital was obvious and one of the building types Oslo studied a lot.

The Library, with the advent of books, would also be useful. Maybe someday, they could develop it in a way they could maximize the World Knowledge as well. Of course, this was still far from their capability.

Finally, the observatory was chosen because it could help them handle the inevitable extreme weather here and could also serve as a hyper-effective watch tower.

Oslo shook his head and looked at his team with big ’panda eyes’ as they called it. Since getting the sets, they had only taken the bare minimum rest.

While it was hard work, he had also seen the love for the craft, and it was something that definitely helped him keep going. They had also taught him so much, and there was no chance he could’ve built more than one without them!

Class C architects and above had the skill of creating these things without having to learn arrays. However, they still had to have a deep, deep knowledge of what they were building if they wanted a small chance of putting the design to life! This was all credited to these people.

”Good job guys! The territory promised us good contribution points for this!” he said, ”And I, myself, will treat you all to the Premier Restaurant for Dinner!”

The people cheered.

”Also, an all day pass to the spa is on ME!”

The people screamed.

Oslo laughed, letting the cheering die down before rolling the blueprints to carry.

”Now, time to present this to the elders,” he said with a wide smile on his handsome face. ”Let’s shock all of them!”

…

The Elders were asked to convene in the third-floor meeting room about half an hour later. At this time, there were only Althea and Oslo, with the latter excitedly showing the blueprints.

”My success rate is really high, and I hope to give much of my contribution to my team. It was only because of them that I had seen such success.”

Althea smiled and nodded, looking down at the blueprints splayed out on the table.

Althea stared at them in fascination, not expecting an aether blueprint to be so… pretty.

While waiting for the others, Althea decided to study the plans in detail. She wasn’t planning on critiquing the space planning—that was not her field—rather, she saw that there were arrays embedded inside and she was absolutely hooked.

Oslo didn’t seem aware of it, however, and Althea surmised that the Architect occupation had a passive to just integrate arrays in the drawings. This was similar to her tool maker inheritance that allowed her to integrate arrays into whatever item as long as they understood the array.

She was curious. Perhaps, was it because the arrays were not clear to the Architects that their success rates of creating a successful product generally weren’t high?

Then… just as the success rate increased when the architect understood the functions of the building intimately, wouldn’t this increase even more if they learned more about arrays?

Oslo mentioned that there were certain buildings they couldn’t even touch. Althea felt the limitation of that was determined by everyone’s knowledge of arrays. Of course, she didn’t know exactly what arrays to learn for those nor did she understand much, but it was a rational thought.

At the same time, she also took advantage of the easy-to-see arrays (convenient because they were still small and could be seen more holistically) and jotted them down into her array notebook.

Oslo beside her couldn’t help but peek. He thought that she’d be writing would be critiques or things for him to improve on, not expecting the notebook to be filled with familiar-yet-unfamiliar patterns.

Oslo shook, whipping his head to look at her in disbelief. ”Are those… arrays milord?”

”Yes.”

Oslo couldn’t help but gape at her. He knew she had been studying arrays, but… to such a degree? Also, it seemed like his work had a lot of it.

”So my drawings have arrays...” Oslo mumbled in amazement. These things… weren’t explored much. As long as things worked according to how they were taught, they didn’t explore things too deeply.

How amazing was Alterra, the lord, and her people to have such inquisitive minds.

At some point, Althea turned to look at him deeply, making him blush.

”I have a feeling that your success rate will increase even more when you learn of this,” she said, showing him the notebook. ”Wanna try?”