After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 1585

Chapter 1585: Bleumrick’s Interrogation

Everyone was promptly forced to go to the Palace, even those who were still half-dazed or unconscious.

Bleumrick stepped over a few, thinking they were fools for embarrassing themselves like this.

Speaking of fools who dropped down and were stepped on, Aetat groaned as he rolled along the grass next to him.

He felt uncomfortable and panicked, and the last thing he remembered was falling down and foaming in the mouth, all while being stepped on in panic. This was his last memory and seeing another set of feet triggered him.

He yelled, screamed, and gasped for air on his own. He even ended up eating grass by accident!

"Ptooey!"

He coughed out the dirt and looked at the rest of the people there. He saw that there were many people standing over him, and he immediately flinched, startled.

"Get up, Masters," the guards said, talking to not just Aetat but the rest of the toolmakers there.

"The Lord is calling everyone to the Palace—ah, everyone who hasn’t signed a detailed loyalty oath to the Lord will have to make a basic honesty oath before heading there." 𝐟𝕣𝕖𝐞𝐰𝕖𝚋𝐧𝗼𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝗰𝐨𝐦

"What?"

The guard this time was also a noble so he was more or less at the same stature as a low-level tool maker.

He didn’t really care as much about their feelings. "It’s to determine the threats."

At this, Aetat had no choice but to stand. He looked at the other toolmakers who were also feeling annoyed. They had almost died (at least it felt like it), and it was naturally annoying that they couldn’t just go home and rest.

He glanced around, wanting to make some snide comment to vent.

For example, he glanced for his senior Kalfene, who had looked similarly pale and seemed to be about to be eaten by the crowd or the smoke the last time he saw him.

Was he even still alive?

He looked around, eyebrows furrowed. Where is that guy? Did he die already? Finally? Too bad he didn’t see it...

"Where’s Kalfene?" he asked, at least wanting to see the corpse.

The toolmakers and guards similarly looked around. There was no dead body and by this time, even the physically weaker ones like Aetat had already woken up. Despite this, there was no sign of Kalfene at all.

"He probably escaped without us. Selfish jerk."

Anyway, the guards assumed that Kalfene was simply elsewhere and others would bring them in. They thought he was no longer their problem and didn’t think too much about it anymore.

Aetat and his group also followed after them, definitely not imagining that the person was already tens of kilometers away from them as they speak.

This was the advantage of being so isolated. No one even remembered he was there to speak.

...

After about an hour or so, more and more people arrived at the palace.

Excessively domineering oaths were usually not honored by the system. Only slaves were essentially oppressed simply by the power of the system. This was why honesty oaths, despite their costs, were still relatively lax.

In fact, to make it most effective, a time limit had to be added, especially in relation to people with high levels of aether—i.e. high-leveled people, a.k.a. many people in the City.

For example, they had to be honest for a few hours, and so on. The shorter the duration, the higher the level of reliability. For this interrogation, the duration was six hours, and this was the maximum they could do for the average level of those they had to interrogate.

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