After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 2109

Chapter 2109: Finally Leaving Quo Town

"This guy’s from Crystal City; your enemy is from Warrior City," he said.

For the latter, although Virion hadn’t seen the whole fight between him and Garan, he actually recognized the guy.

They had met when Virion was a teenager. He had been following after his uncle like a proper minion. He had aged a lot since then, but he was very recognizable because of the birthmark on his face.

The man, defeated and crippled, looked at Virion with hate and annoyance.

"Why? You think I’m wrong?"

"This is for the greater good!" the man retorted with pride, obviously brainwashed.

This had been his uncle’s specialty. He didn’t have any special abilities regarding this, but he was glib enough to be exceptionally convincing. This guy had been following his uncle since he was a child, so the teachings he lived by were naturally Vairoz’s.

All the guy’s limbs had been crippled, and he was shivering not just from the pain, but also because Garan had frozen his body, exacerbating the pain.

Despite this, he still had the energy to annoy Virion.

"Hmph! You think you’re all that? The Lord is dead, but his bloodline isn’t!" he yelled, and then he fainted from all the agony.

The two of them frowned. On the surface, there was nothing wrong about the man’s words. Wasn’t Valhalla and Virion technically Vairoz’s blood relatives?

However, there was something subtle here. In the local language, the word for ’blood relative,’ as in any relatives related by blood, had subtle differences from ’bloodline,’ as in offspring.

Garan looked at Virion. "Didn’t you say your uncle didn’t leave any offspring?"

The two exchanged glances but didn’t look too much into it for now. This was something they could investigate later, and it was no longer Althea or Garan’s scope of interest.

Virion put this issue on hold and focused on the other guy instead. The guy was the leader of the operation. The leader was not his uncle’s right-hand man in the region, which was telling something.

Crystal City was very far from the nearest orc village, but it seemed like their claws still extended this far. They had an inkling after finding out which village Quo Town had cooperated with, but it seemed like the connection was more than just that almost-war.

Soon, they reunited with Althea and found out about her findings, which were actually more than what they gathered. Obviously, some people were just more talented with certain things than others.

From here, they discovered that the experiments actually started in Crystal City. Vairoz was just an incidental benefactor.

Virion also remembered who the woman was referred to as the former Crystal City Lord’s daughter (and the current Lord’s older sister). At the time, Valhalla was already an invalid, and Vairoz married a princess from another city. One could imagine what people thought.

However, Uncle never openly pushed for the heir position to be shifted to him. It was always the retainers blabbering about things. On the surface, he seemed uninterested in gaining the ultimate power and was completely cooperative with every policy and decision Valhalla had made.

That woman became the uncle’s main wife, and he did not take any new mistresses for years after that. She happened to be an elementalist, too. It was just that decades ago, she died of mysterious circumstances. Virion never really cared, but it looked like he’d have to investigate that a bit.

There was definitely more to this story than met the eye. Virion wondered if he had to pass by Crystal City soon?

Of course, this was just Virion. Althea and Garan had no further interest in going with him. All they asked was for him to coordinate with Alterra’s intelligence team. They wanted to be updated regarding this issue, and that was enough.

"Crystal City actually has more vested interest in this area than just the experiment subjects," Althea explained after she investigated the scientist and the laboratory. There was also a large, shared warehouse between the two laboratories that she gained access to.

Most of the important or unique contents were in her space now though.

"They were taking some resources from the area. It’s something like Fluorite found in karst mountains East."

Orcspire Mountains, according to the description, should be mostly made of granite. Granite had plenty of other minerals there, and fluorite was one of them.

Crystal City was a glass-making City. Other than the resources found in their area, the granite mountain was also rich in materials. Not just fluorite, but it should also have things like quartz, feldspar, and so on.

Crystal City was near a desert and already had an abundance of quartz, but the other things like feldspar and fluorite were still more common along the granite mountains.

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