After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World - Chapter 391

Chapter 391: Aether Blueprints
Finally a C-Class Architect!!

In his surprise, he stood up all of a sudden, the force making his chair fall to the ground.

“Ei, golden god, what’s wrong?” The teammate asked, shocked by his abrupt movements. They saw the man’s blue eyes wide in glee, totally uncharacteristic of his usual suave self.

“I upgraded!” he said, like a happy idiot. His words, though, made everyone flinch.

“What?”

“I am going to tell the lo—the others. Bye.”

Oslo immediately ran to the Lord’s house to tell the news. He felt elated, like he could finally look at the Lord in the eye.

His smile was wide, habitually flirtatious, and effortlessly charismatic. His smooth, beautiful face and golden hair were illuminated by the reddish light of the resting sun, making him appear a bit ethereal.

And his sky blue eyes… they were as bright as the sky itself, one that a person would want to stare and willingly get blinded by.

Oslo could be said to be a very, very beautiful man, and the sights of the women he passed by followed all his movements until he disappeared. With very few exemptions, every one of them was swooning.

Minutes later, this very shining sight was approaching Althea very happily—

—until he felt a sharp warning gaze that could kill directed at him and he quickly stopped, almost falling down.

Garan sneered.

Oslo cleared his throat and gathered himself, returning to his poised self.

He found them on the East Avenue commercial street after asking around, so he could not greet her as he should.

“Elder,” he just said respectfully, sweating a little under Garan’s sharp stare. “I have good news. May Invite you somewhere more private for a meeting?”

Ansel watched his friend sweat in nervousness under Garan’s stare. He felt both pity and amusement.

Fortunately for Oslo, friendship weighed more to Ansel than a good show, so the latter decided to save him.

The redhead tapped the blonde’s shoulder. “Just in time, we’re having dinner at Cooke’s tonight!”

“I…” He paused, unsure.

“I want to hear this news as soon as possible,” Althea said, reassuring him that he wasn’t disturbing anything.

Around them, onlookers looked curiously. Also, in fascination. After all, the group of them really was a pretty sight.

No one thought anything of an aborigine being so respectful and secretive with Althea at all.

Anything Ms. Althea did just made sense to them. Besides, hired aborigines should be respectful to elders by default, anyway.

“Let’s go~” Ansel said, dragging his friend’s neck. The small group headed to Cooke’s restaurant—the Terran Gastronomique Haven—for a much-awaited lunch.

Although the line wasn’t as long as Harold’s due to the much higher prices, it was still fully booked, some of whom were visitors from the other three allied territories (who also paid exuberant protection fees to get to the territory).

However, their group did not need to line up as they had a fixed private room in the building.

Their room had bespoke furniture with a table that could fit ten to twelve people. On the side, there was a small relaxing lounge by the window, which people could relax in as they chatted and observed the lively streetscapes below.

They settled down and a waiter arrived with their menu—a new addition with the addition of paper. What’s more, because paper had not yet been made commercially available, this also added a bit of prestige to the restaurant.

Each of them chose an a la carte meal, to be shared at the table, as well as the dessert to be served later.

They watched as the waiter left and looked at Oslo, who promptly started to explain what this was all about. First, he started with the progress of the team and then with his upgrade.

The more he said, the brighter the others became.

“Good!” Ansel smiled. “This is enough reason for us to get another bottle of Althea’s special booze!”

Oslo smirked. That was indeed a good reward.

Althea rolled her eyes. “The next batch is still fermenting.”

“…oh.”

Althea shook her head in amusement, “Congratulations, Oslo.”

Oslo found himself staring at her before his eyes shifted a bit when he met her husband’s eyes.

Tsk. Obviously so many levels lower, but so damned intimidating.

In any case, his attitude became more serious and he looked at Althea, bowing his head. “I have now upgraded to C-class thanks to you my Lord.”

She smiled, waving her hand. “Congratulations. But don’t underestimate your own efforts.

“Tell me more about the upgrade,” she said. Although she had an idea, she hadn’t explored it too deeply as of yet.

Oslo was happy to explain to her, of course. “I now have a chance to create Aether Buildings.”

Oslo was now a level C architect and could design buildings with effects, albeit only with 8-10% chance of success.

As long as he kept working in her territory, this was a good thing for them.

Of course, Althea knew that Oslo would stay. His character was one thing, but they signed a contract before she let him learn so much Terran technology and designs:

He could not apply them anywhere else, not unless Altera had a share with all of his creations inspired by what he learned from them.

Althea nodded. “But…?” she asked, urging him to continue.

She understood that creating system buildings, locally known as Aether Buildings, was not simple.

“Each attempt requires a special papyrus as well as an ink called Blu.”

“Tell me more.”

“The special papyrus was made specifically by Papyrus Makers—a system-given occupation. It’s like the typical papyrus, but is incorporated with special arrays, available only through inheritances of that profession.”

“The Blu is a special mineral that is harvested in very few places—my hometown happened to be one of the biggest producers of this, fortunately.”

“They must cost a lot,” Althea said after a moment of silence. “Tell me honestly how much it would cost.”

Oslo thought for a while, thinking about the usual market price. “A set typically costs about 120-160 gold. But with my connections, I can get it to about half of that.”

“Ten tries means a successful blueprint would cost around 800 gold,” Althea said. She had the money but, obviously, the original plan of turning every functional building into aether Buildings wasn’t feasible.

Money was one thing, but these materials were also rare. They may not be available at all.

There was also another limitation of the blueprint: most blueprints could only be used a few times at most, depending on the quality and the architect’s level.

“Only Level A architects could create blueprints that could be used an unlimited number of times.”

“Like certain system buildings?” She asked, referring to the ones they could build from the Lord Panel.

Oslo paused, the thought not really occurring to him before. “Yes, like so.”

Oslo couldn’t be blamed for this. There were some things that had integrated into people’s whole lives that they were just not thought about any deeper than it appeared.

It was like words in a language. Most people simply wouldn’t think of how words were coined. They were just… there.

In any case, Aether buildings were still something to aim for for various reasons.

If successful, buildings made from the special blueprints would be constructed extremely fast and durable—within a few hours, instead of weeks, months, or maybe even years, using manual construction.

Furthermore, it would only require basic wood and stone materials to build. Those resources were basically unlimited in Xeno and she only needed to mobilize the population to get what she needed.

And, most importantly: Aether Buildings had very, very, convenient special effects.

Although what these effects were, they could not guarantee, they’d definitely be able to produce magical effects, not inferior to system-provided aether Buildings.

She didn’t forget how fascinated she was with the system buildings and their special effects.

System Restaurants, Snack shops, and Juice Bars were buildings that could produce food or beverages as long as they had raw materials. For instance, the System Bakery would only need a certain amount of Flute to work indefinitely. It could also clean itself up afterward.

Equipment Stores like Weapons and Armory stores could continuously produce equipment that could damage the monsters here. Note that this was something that ‘technologically-advanced’ Terran weapons struggled with. Like others, it only needed a certain amount of stone and wood (Iron, for higher-level buildings)

There was the bathhouse that could change the temperature of the running water that flowed through it and the Territory Center which functioned so well as an administrative building for the entire territory.

Her current favorite was the Training Hall, a building that could manifest monsters that actually gave experience points in turn. Not to mention, the damage received only targeted certain stats and generally wouldn’t kill people either.

She really couldn’t imagine the intricacies of this particular building type, and it fascinated her so.

If this was developed…, then the limitations of building slots wouldn’t be a problem anymore!

It was really curious and she looked forward to what the effects of their first aether building would be.

Very exciting!