After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World - Chapter 1041

Chapter 1041: Some Improvements

The couple were set to head home later that day, along with Alterra’s first Beast Tamer (in name). They bought a lot of things from the pharmacy, the market, and so on.

Although the Ferrol Fair was an annual thing, its marketplace was active all year round. There were also stalls dedicated to foreigners who would bid to rent it for a week. From there, they managed to buy quite a bit of seeds, potions, equipment, and so on.

Fortunately, Althea’s space was large and could fit in whatever she wanted to buy.

Anyway, Althea was very, very happy and this earned Garan several pecks on the lips. It heated him up—as always—but they were scheduled to head back home so he could only suck it up, thinking he could just have fun with the wife as soon as they got home.

Sadly, his wife didn’t feel the same. While they were preparing to get out, she turned to him and said: “I miss the babies… they’re going to sleep with us tonight, okay?”

“…”

Garan’s shoulders slumped slightly. “Uhn,” he said, though very reluctantly.

Althea giggled at this. How could she not know what he was thinking about? With Garan, if one were to guess what was going on in his head when they were together, it was probably something perverted.

So, she just wrapped her arm around his torso and gave him a kiss on the chin. “We’ll do it the whole day on the weekend,” she said, voice warm and soothing—and, to Garan, seductive. “I already booked a room at the hotel.”

Gulp.

Garan was about to lean down to capture her lips when Taho limped over. “Esau said the Beast Cart is ready—”

His voice died down when he saw the sweetie position of the couple. He gulped, and he panicked when he met the man’s cold blue eyes.

“I-I’m sorry!” Taho yelled and turned back, though the abruptness of his movement caused him to fall down.

“AH!” he yelled, falling down. He ended up opening his wound and a bit of blood spread on the floor again.

“…”

“…”

Was he clumsy or just unlucky?

Fortunately, Taho was a level 20 person and it wasn’t easy to die with that amount of blood.

They just prepared the beast cart they borrowed from Jonathan. After all, they openly bought a lot of things in the market. She couldn’t place all of them in the space—it was getting a little crowded anyway.

This was why they borrowed two carts, one for them and the other for the boxes of things Althea bought in the market.

When they got out though, they were surprised to see five beast carts instead of the two.

“So many?” Althea asked Esau, who awkwardly turned in a direction.

“Althea, Garan.” It was Jonathan, smiling at them. “I heard you bought a lot of things.”

He still called them as before, but his demeanor changed a bit. He seemed a bit more tense and respectful.

Her eyes twitched. It seemed like he found out about her secret. Still, he was the town lord. She was only a small village lord; he didn’t have to act so nervous around her.

“Nothing’s changed,” she said. “You’re still the lord of a level 3 town, as well as our friend.”

Jonathan stared into her eyes and his shoulders relaxed. He smiled. It wasn’t that he didn’t know that he was still, technically, of much higher rank than she was.

He… just couldn’t help it.

It was like they were meant to be respected—even by him and other higher-leveled people.

“Well, I’m here to see you off,” he said, pushing the strange thought aside. “I also took the liberty to make your trip home more comfortable.”

He pointed at the largest cart there, almost twice as large as the others and had ornamentations onto it. “You can use that. It’s one of mine and is very comfortable.”

“Thank you,” Althea said. “Though we only really need tw—”

“Three,” Garan said, cutting her off. Althea blinked and shrugged. Although she did not see the point of getting another one, she went along with it.

It was only when he assigned Taho to sit on the extra cart— and then started kissing her inside theirs—did she figure out the reason for this!

This pervert!!

…

With the Beast Carts, the group comfortably arrived back to Alterra about half a day later, which was around dawn of the following day.

The beast carts weren’t allowed to go beyond the first plaza so they only called some bikes to get their items, and also commissioned one for Taho, whom she assigned to someone from the Research Team.

The person called in was Yen, who was curvaceous and had a strong personality, which made Taho look even more clumsy and awkward.

She didn’t seem to mind though. Yen just sent her greetings to her idols before pulling the new guy to the cart.

“Ah…” he gasped in pain as he felt the tension on his wound. He was already healing—thanks to Althea’s superior-grade healing potions—so there was no need to go to the hospital, but it didn’t mean that nothing hurts!

Still, he knew no one would care about his pain so he sucked it up, just sitting properly on the open-air cart that was pulled… by a broat?

Before moving though, he found something in front of him. It was a cookie—something offered by Miss Althea before.

He gulped. “This…”

“Yours,” Yen said, a little guilty for not noticing his wounds. “It should make the pain go away.”

It was a normal cookie, but she made it seem like a healing cookie.

Well, to her, it was.

“T-Thanks…”

He ate the cookie bit by bit, relishing its taste. He had only tasted this once before, and he couldn’t get it out of his head.

How lucky that he got the treat again. Immediately, he thought Yen was an extremely generous woman. She must be blessed.

“Wow…” Taho couldn’t help but exclaim as the broat cart lurched forward, and the rest of the grand village was revealed to him.

It was beautiful…

“Welcome to Alterra,” Yen said, amused. “The land of creativity and innovation.”

The woman looked at the unassuming guy who was just gaping at the sight. She couldn’t help but be curious.

“So… Miss Althea personally recruited you,” Yen said, leaning over a bit and making Taho flush in embarrassment. “What do you know?”

Taho blinked and looked down. Now that she mentioned it, when he saw Lord Jonathan so close to Miss Althea, he realized he was talking to an important person.

He was already intimidated before, but after finding this out, he was outright terrified.

The more he knew about her, the more he felt he was in the wrong place. “I’m… a beast tamer,” he said after a while. “But I haven’t tamed a single beast after 10 years…”

Yen blinked and looked at him, realizing what his issue was. She chuckled in the end. “Look around: Do you think we need Beasts here?”

Taho was confused at first as looked at the avenue. Its breadth was wide and refreshing and there were dozens (if not hundreds) of vehicles running through it in both directions.

They were all very quick and safe-looking… and none of them were pulled by the strong beasts he was used to.

“Miss Althea must have a use for you,” she said. “So lift your chin up, will ya?”