After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 1765

Chapter 1765: New Toolmaker! (Part 1)

It wasn’t just the urban landscape that was seeing some growth for the next few weeks. They were also celebrating another step forward in terms of other fields.

Because Alterra had finally witnessed the awakening of a new tookmaker!

It was none other than Melissa, Eugene’s wife. She had shown great talent in maths and patterns, and had spent a significant amount of time studying tools as well.

Interestingly, the inheritance she received was for a lighting and heating tool.

This stemmed from her desire to protect her baby. The child tended to get cold easily, and perhaps it was because of this that she ended up receiving these inheritances in particular.

It helped, of course, that her element was fire. One had to be an elementalist to be a toolmaker; this was because elementalists were closer to aether and controlled a part of it.

Since there was no formal occupation of an array master, this could be the system’s way to shift through the proper bodies when giving out skills and inheritances.

Speaking of this, Kalfene was an earth elementalist, Sleuth was a wind elementalist, Kahonn was a wood elementalist, and Menzon was a fire elementalist.

Many times, the inheritances they received had nothing to do with their elements or were neutral, like many of the tools they had. However, when it did have an associated element, it was a great advantage.

In those cases, the toolmaker would usually have higher chances to succeed in creating their tools, much faster than their peers, who could take months to years to be able to create a functioning one.

And Melissa, who had awakened a week ago, had created her first tools today.

The tool required materials like Youli stone to create. Melissa just had to modify it and stamp some arrays according to what the inheritance was telling her. The tool’s user would just have to light a fire once, and it would light and heat up the immediate area for a certain amount of time.

It would need a bit of aether to maintain longer, but basically, anyone who had entered a certain level could have an instinct and affinity for aether and could activate it.

So far, each activation lasted for an entire day, which wasn’t bad at all.

Anyway, regardless of what tool she made, this was a cause for celebration!

Melissa was the first Alterran toolmaker known to the public (Althea had hidden the fact that she was a toolmaker from the public, though the research center folks did know), so the next few days, she’d receive a lot of congratulations and even a few gifts to their door, from people wanting to get close to an eminent toolmaker.

Unfortunately, not everyone was happy for her.

Among the masses, there were a few jokes and grumblings.

For example, those who had been wanting to enter the research center but had failed. There were also misogynistic people who had a hard time accepting that the first toolmaker in Alterra was a woman.

Some were neutral, but she did occasionally end up being part of the joke.

"Did you hear? That Melissa chick became a toolmaker. I guess sleeping with a Creator has its perks," a random guard commented to his friend when they heard about it, and they cackled together.

"HEY! It was a joke!"

Anyway, in the past year, Eugene had helped create several of the everyday machines, particularly those used in the hospital and the research center.

Well, at least the research center and the hospital folk practically worship him for this.

Eugene was one who preferred things low-key, as long as he was getting his contribution points. It was just that some people thought he was too good for Melissa because of this.

A lot of the sources of the disgruntlements were the citizens who had once been part of Vismont Village, which was Melissa’s—and her late brother Matthew’s—territory.

This wasn’t too much of a surprise. Somehow, through different accounts and observations from different people, they somehow surmised that Matthew had likely made a lot of concessions to Higson because of her. 𝐟𝕣𝗲𝕖𝕨𝗲𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝗲𝚕.𝗰𝚘𝐦

They had now experienced another territory, after all, and although no one knew who the Lord truly was (or if there was one), they had seen the power of the rules and regulations.

Anyone with a brain would question why their old Lord did not make even the basic no-harm policies, especially against a bully who did nothing but make people suffer.

There was no other reason: The former Lord let him. Why? Because he had a hold over him.

And like this, anyone who had lived in Vismont at that time could tell that there was only one person who could serve that purpose: Melissa.

Considering how much they suffered back then, and how much they lost—how could they truly, wholeheartedly, be happy for her now?