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

Somewhere in Terran, 2 Years Ago

”CAPTAIN!”

Gill looked worriedly at the captain who had already stood up, ready to run to another country. He had just been stitched for an unnecessary injury!!

That injury was not small! He should be bedridden!

The man packed up the basics, like his passport and his wallet. ”Captain—-”

Gill was, unsurprisingly, ignored and he could only try to talk some sense out of him. ”Please captain, you’re not in the condition to fly right now.”

Garan’s face did not change. He didn’t even send him a glance before heading to the door. He was still handsome, tall, and prideful, but anyone who knew him well enough could tell that he was moving at a much slower than usual.

It was clear that Garan was not letting a little injury stop him from going to his wedding. Gill would’ve called Althea so she could convince him herself. Sadly, even those got destroyed during the accident.

Gill turned to glare in a direction, making the woman—Vanessa— flinch. Her palms were curled over her chest and her eyes were red from crying.

It irked Gill to no end.

Gill’s acerbic attribute lit up at the sight of her. How dare she act pitiful right now?!

”Well, we’re called special forces because no one pulled the others’ legs. What are you? A leech?”

”I—”

Vanessa was almost crying, but…

This couldn’t be blamed on her! Vanessa couldn’t breathe at the thought. Her love was going to get married!

The thought had been in her mind the entire mission was that it was going to finish soon and he was going to his wedding and she wasn’t going to have that!

Vanessa didn’t think at all. Because of her impulsiveness, she needlessly wasted a lot of effort—well-planned and funded to meet the schedule—and botched her part.

This resulted in the enemies finding them, and causing the captain to get injured.

Against all odds though, they still finished the mission somewhat on time.

Garan sighed, not wanting to bother about anything that could delay his departure. He opened the door and turned to them. ”I’m going now. Take care of the rest.”

The others trusted the captain and weren’t close enough to even attempt to stop him. They could only salute and do their best to handle the aftermath. ”Yes, sir!”

Gill just rubbed his hair, but he knew the captain could only be stopped if he was chained to a building. In the end, he just planned on finding a decent international phone so the captain could be welcomed back with an entourage to assist him.

Of course, not everyone was so cooperative. For instance, the only woman in the team.

”Captain!” She yelled, running to step in front of him, ”Your wound! You can’t be travelling at this tim—”

But her next words died down as she met his deep blue eyes filled with chilling cold. ”Move.”

Her body followed by survival instinct, but she regretted the moment she did. It was just that her legs were shaking in fear, as if she’d be shot if she dared block his way again.

So she could only watch as he left, to be married to another woman.

…

Limestone Valley, Present

Vanessa woke up crying then.

She covered her eyes that was flowing with tears. She was reminded of the pain she suffered that day he got married.

It was so painful. She was also suspended for a year, which was fine because she couldn’t function well during that time anyway.

Her first mission after her suspension was the one that sent them here, and she tried desperately to finally get to him, though to no avail.

No fair, no fair.

She loved him so much. That woman just happened to meet him first!

If she had more chances, more time with him—maybe he’d look her way!

She swore, no matter what her family said, she’d move to Alterra after the weather change!

She looked out the window. The party heading back to Alterra should’ve already left… but she was sure to be on the next one.

…

Alterra.

At this time, the man the selfish woman was pining about was in the play cot of their bedroom, doing warm up exercises with his children.

Well, to be exact, there were two adults stretching and warming up, while their babies were crawling around them.

It was a morning exercise for the family. It was healthy and had that small possibility of activating the glitch-like powers of the twins. Occasionally, Garan would carry Meatball with a hand as he stretched, making him giggle as he ’flew’.

Althea, would also stretch carrying little Pepper, carrying her up from one area to the next, using positive reinforcement whenever she ’landed’ on the finish spot.

”Wheee~ there. Landing. Very good, Baby Pepper.” She said, kissing the baby’s soft chubby cheeks.

”Ohh, my Baby Meatball is so good at flying~” She said, doing the same to her son.

It had to be said: They were really trying everything, but the kids always exhibited abilities at odd times.

It wasn’t that they were trying to activate the powers for the sake of activating them. They wanted to see how they could be controlled, so that they didn’t exhibit them unnecessarily outside the house.

While there was a running theory of Meatball likely doing it when he was very giddy and Pepper when she wanted to go somewhere, they couldn’t mimic these situations every time, right?

They sighed, just tagging this day as one with minimal progress.

Then, after the exercise, the family went out to the dining area where the food was already served. The team didn’t eat breakfast together, particularly when everyone was busy.

The goblins had arrived and a lot of things had to be arranged. There were much fewer Goblins assigned to Alterra.

There were less than a hundred, as the goblins were much more needed in Limestone Valley, which not only had the mines to care for, but also lacked a lot of infrastructure compared to Alterra which needed a lot less digging.

For example, most houses in Limestone Valley did not have basements, their farms were also much smaller and less productive, and their facilities needed a lot of improvements.

As for why she didn’t send more when there were still more than a thousand left in Iron Valley, it was because the Goblins were also very much needed there. She had already studied the productivity of the goblins with a Research Team and they based their numbers accordingly.

Iron… was too important and the goblins were at their peak efficiency there.

Ah, her iron.

Interestingly, she had gotten a lot of the iron ore samples in the Iron Mountain warehouse and they were very good ores. They could definitely make a lot more weapons for the same mass of raw ore compared to the ones in the bog which had a lot of impurities.

What was more? They found magnetite among the ores! Magnetite was pretty much the last thing they needed to develop electricity!!

Not only that, they would be able to use magnets for other things. The implications of that were immeasurable!

Overall, the arrival of Goblins was extremely timely.

Anyway, unlike in Limestone Valley, she wasn’t very worried about the integration of the goblins here.

After all, they already have goblin citizens, and from what she heard they were integrating quite well already.

She believed that the newcomers would fit in quite well.