After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World - Chapter 453

Chapter 453: Magic Tools
Oslo looked at the sky already reddish skies and led them to his carriage, which was the car behind the one they were in. He didn’t want the lord to squeeze in with all of them siblings.

“Shall we ride on my carriage back home, Ms. Althea?” he asked, and the couple didn’t reject his offer.

Unexpectedly, every other sibling except Honda followed them to his carriage instead.

Whether it was curiosity or just wanting to gossip, they didn’t know, all they knew was that there were now six adults squeezed into the carriage.

Of course, their carriages weren’t small, so they weren’t really uncomfortable.

Their private spaces got breached though.

Althea’s lips twitched.

Oslo looked at the couple apologetically, really wondering where his siblings’ upbringing went, before shifting attention to them.

“What are you doing all the way out here? Training your element?”

Olga leaned down a little across the aisle, “So you are an Elementalist as well? Me too, I use water!”

“I’m training my earth element today,” Althea answered with a smile. The official statement of her elements after awakening was wood and earth. “However, I’d love to watch you practice sometimes.”

“Deal!” The woman said with a big smile.

Oslo also brightened at her mention of the earth element. “Miss Althea, if you need some guidance for the earth element—”

“She’ll manage, thanks,” Garan said, because of course he did. The two’s eyes met, and their blue eyes collided.

Oslo’s eyes though, were blue like their skies, while Garan’s eyes were as blue as the deep sea.

…which was kind of intimidating.

“Ah, of course,” Oslo said after a pause before he turned to look out the window. If one looked closer, one could tell he was pouting.

Beside him, his siblings stifled chuckles at how cowardly he was being—especially in front of a man obviously several levels weaker than he was!

Their careless brother changed so much! It just made them more curious about this new territory!

…

“So was the trip productive?” Althea asked she felt the carriage lunge forward. Oslo nodded, excited to report.

“Very, I’ll report to the elders later,” he said, knowing the process. “In the meantime, I’d like to give you some of my gifts in advance.”

He then handed her a small treasure box-like chest around a foot in width. “We managed to get magic tools!” He said, opening the box.

“First of all, I would like to show my gifts to the babies,” he said, first lifting a toy that resembled a frog, but was bluish and had six legs. “This one is the crawly toy, which the babies could throw to about a meter away and it would always crawl back.”

He then lifted a ball with various patterns. “This is a float ball, but it’s only useful when they can already walk,” he said, putting some aether into it. They watched as the ball floated a few inches above Oslo’s hand and the two were surprised.

“Both toys would require some rest time, but I doubt the kids would use it every single hour of the day.”

“This is amazing. Thank you,” Althea said, admiring the tools. Oslo smiled. “I also bought gifts for all of you, but let me focus on the aether tools first.”

Althea and her husband’s eyes brightened even more at this. First, Oslo put out a few pieces of papyrus. The difference from what they’ve seen from normal papyrus (in Althea’s case, observed from papyrus from the Terran Mercenary team and Oslo’s spaces) was that this one had somewhat of a golden luminescence to it.

It was quite similar to the sparkly quality of the system screen.

“These are aether letters,” he said, “Basically, an aether letter could communicate with a set number of other letters it connected with, even from a distance.”

“The number of other sheets one could connect with will vary in quality of the letter. The safest assumption is 3.”

“Another limitation is that they could only work within ten miles of each other.”

The couple looked fascinated. This meant that they could send letters to each other in a relatively far distance, fixing their problems with communication to some degree.

Of course, ten miles (or a little above 15 kilometers) was not far enough if one wanted to communicate with other territories, but this was plenty enough for its convenience and its various uses during wars.

“How to use them?”

“Every letter will have an assigned symbol, determined or drawn by the owner. In order to link two letters, you’d have to draw the assigned symbol of the other letter in your papyrus, while they were placed on top of each other. If the connection is successful, then the drawn symbol will stay. If not it will fade.

“Directing aether to the symbol is to send messages to that letter. Keep in mind that each letter consumes some mana, and that they’re consumable—they would eventually lose effect after about a thousand uses, depending on the quality.”

“Amazing,” Althea said, making Oslo very proud and happy. Garan was also very impressed that he didn’t remember to glare at the blonde.

Instead, he looked at the other man inquisitively, “How many do you have?”

“My family’s toolmaker specialized in aether letters so I could provide quite a few, around a hundred, but that’s about it for now.”

“That’s already really good Oslo, thank you,” Althea said and Garan nodded.

The siblings couldn’t help but look at the couple who had such an impact on their usually arrogant brother.

Aether letters weren’t actually easy to create. Those hundred letters… were the family’s stock for trading for a whole month. However, Otto managed to cut losses by temporarily raising prices for it, which was a huge favor on Oslo’s part.

Oslo was obviously very sincere to this territory and this couple.

Anyway, Oslo happily rummaged the ‘treasure chest’ to explain a few more things. It was like he was a little boy eager to show off. It was quite amusing to watch for his siblings.

Oslo pulled out and took a small token about a few inches in diameter. “This is called the loyalty faker.”

The two’s eyebrows rose. This was what Gingo used to fool Micheal before.

Fortunately, it only added 50, at most, with more inferior versions only adding a score. This meant citizens with loyalties above 60 were definitely non-hostile.

Not to mention, people with some loyalty would generally not need to buy such questionable equipment.

“Interesting,” she mumbled. Not for its function to fake loyalty but… for its potential. Could it possible be tinkered to hide/show some other stat?

It was a curious thought, one that was still far from her but still hoped to explore.

“Magic tools…” Althea mumbled, staring at the aether toy in her hand, low-key using the Eye on the toys. Her eyebrows rose as she looked at the arrays there, though interestingly there were only a few on the toys.

This was good because this meant she could study arrays with very clear-cut samples, unlike those she had encountered so far. They had so many arrays overlaid that just looking at them hurt her head.

She paused raising her head to look at the Golds, followed by a question that surprised them all.

“What do you know about arrays?”