After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World - Chapter 1051

Chapter 1051: Garan’s Gifts

“Did you enjoy your day?” Garan asked, placing chaste kisses all over her. Night time was, apparently, the time for service.

He bathed her himself and he asked her not to move, which was really sweet torture.

He claimed he wanted to give back the gift he got during his birthday. She rolled her eyes, but she enjoyed his service anyway.

After they got off the bath, he helped her get in her comfortable night dress and dried her hair. He didn’t do anything else for a bit, which surprised her because she really thought he’d throw her down the bed like he usually did.

Garan saw her puzzlement and smiled. He leaned down to kiss her forehead. “So hungry?”

This earned him a pinch on the abs, though Althea was unable to grasp much flesh at all.

Garan chuckled at her cuteness and sat next to her. “I won’t let my wife go hungry for too long, of course,” he said, placing a chaste kiss on the side of her lips.

“But before that, let me give you a few gifts,” he said, pausing to take a gift from the space. “This is the first one.”

He wrapped his arm around her so she could rest her neck on his arm, and he leisurely handed the gift to her.

It was a shimmery flat stone that was smaller than her palm. It had what seemed like a flattened youli stone in the middle. He didn’t say what it was, but she knew it was a magic tool.

She raised her eyebrows and checked it with her ability.

[Memory Stone (E): Can record and store a moving image 30 seconds in length for an indefinite amount of time. New recordings will automatically overwrite existing ones.]

Her eyes widened and she looked at her husband. He smiled and leaned down to place another kiss on her forehead. He then gently took it off her hand and placed aether into it.

It activated immediately, with an image appearing on the youli flat stone. It was semi-transluscent and faded out, but the image was clear enough to Althea that she felt a few tears lining up her eyes.

It was an image of Garan and her two kids. They were smiling and staring out from the stone.

“Happy birthday, my love, I hope you enjoyed your first birthday in this world,” Garan said, with the two babies happily bouncing as they sat on a thigh each. “We shall have decades after decades—no, centuries—more of adventures here, and I promise that this is the first of countless celebrations to come.”

“Mwammwwaaahhh!”

“Goooghhmmammaaa!!”

The babies yelled, wiggling cutely and raising their little arms to reach the tool, though obviously to no avail. Garan held a baby in place with a hand on each stomach, though it didn’t stop them from attempting to jump out.

“We love you, Althea.”

The thirty seconds ended in a flash, but it definitely made an impact. She turned to her husband, wrapping her arms around his wide shoulder. “Thank you! This is really great!”

She carefully placed it in her space. Garan smiled and took another gift from his space.

“That one’s from the babies,” he said, handing her a small box of sort, which was something she had encountered before. “And this is mine.”

[Token Guard (D) – unused. Has the ability to store a Lord Token outside the body while retaining its ability to be used as well as retain its ownership. Can only be synchronized with one Token.]

She gasped and looked at him.

It was a magic tool that would allow her to keep the lord token outside her body safely even during wars. It would also ensure that, should anything happen to her, the territory would remain standing.

She had first encountered this when she found the Guia Village’s Lord Token. However, even after it had merged with her own token, she could not use that tool because it had already synchronized with the Guia Token, rendering it useless unless she decided to separate control from Iron Mountains.

She needed a whole new tool that would work on Alterra’s ‘wavelength’, so to speak.

She had expressed her sadness and disappointment when she found out about this, and apparently her husband took note of that.

To be honest, Garan wasn’t particularly comfortable getting this tool. He didn’t want to consider anything happen to his wife at all. However, there had not been a day where she didn’t worry about it.

He had once gotten angry to her about it even, but she hugged him and comforted him. “I wasn’t saying something could happen to me,” she said. “It’s all for peace of mind, you know?”

She even went on to say analogies so far off that it took him aback. “For example, since my period is usually off by days, I tended to wear napkins early on—just for a peace of mind.”

“…”

Further, she had always wanted an adventure. Having a Lord Token attached to her was, apparently, something that felt suffocating to her. So, even if he wasn’t entirely happy, he did his best to get it for her.

He bought the tools from Jonathan. They were quite expensive, but he would be deducting the amounts to their personal deals with the sauces from before.

Garan would’ve been willing to sell a few shares, too, but he knew that if his wife found out, she’d feel pity.

Although the value of his sauces had lowered a bit because of Alterra’s plethora of options, his was still a good option primarily because he used purely Xeno ingredients and was much easier to mass produce.

It also helped that Jonathan knew about Althea’s position, and this was a lot of favor for them.

He smiled, gently getting her to lie down. Soon, his warm mouth was back on her neck, nuzzling it, and his large calloused hands groped her breasts, moulding it to different shapes.

She felt her body heat up under his caress, her mouth letting out moans she could not hold back.

Garan separated to kneel above her, taking off his shirt and revealing the sculpted figure underneath.

“Now,” he paused, placing his hand on the hem of her night dress to pull it above her head, “It’s time for the finale.”

…

Unfortunately, sometime in the middle of the night—just when Althea was about to doze off after several rounds of ‘service’ —the familiar ding of the system sounded in her mind.

[Yasof Village (Lv3) has declared War against Alterra Village (Lv3). War will commence in 13:59:59.]