After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 1827

Chapter 1827: Pursuing Dreams and Wants

While some people were thoroughly supported by their families in their scholarly pursuits, others had a bit of a challenge in this area.

For example, Thorance, who had been mocked endlessly for focusing on the ’peaceful’ direction of the wood elements. He could no longer count the number of times he heard them yell at him ’what’s the use of being an elementalist’ and be called useless waste because he couldn’t bring enough money.

He heard them mention it would’ve been good if his brother had received the ability instead, then it would not have been wasted. Perhaps, if there had been a way to transfer his elements to others, they might have taken the chance.

Thorance shook his head of that dark thought, believing that family would not want that for their own relatives.

Anyway, this same family was only showing full support because he was finally making good money. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝚠𝕖𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝕖𝚕.𝚌𝗼𝗺

Thorance also received a lot of bonuses for successfully cultivating a few new desert plants in Alterra, which they could breed with some plants to improve drought resistance.

He got such big bonuses that it spread wide, and soon his family was knocking on his door to get a bit of it.

He had brought them here for treatment for their addiction. He allowed them to live in a house he was still paying for (and would for the next few years) but he placed a limit on every other expenditure.

Except for his parents, who’d receive just enough not to starve, his siblings wouldn’t get more than that.

This naturally angered them, but he was thankful for Alterra’s anti-harassment rule so the annoyances were limited. It was even more so because he would spend most of his time in the farms and greenhouses, all of which were restricted areas.

Anyway, his siblings were now trying to get some more money by camping outside his house. They would also occasionally make a scene, but they’d stop the moment a warning came in.

While they didn’t believe that Thorance would let them rot in jail, they were not entirely confident he’d pay for their bail either.

The brothers started out as allies, trying to pressure him in agreement by virtue of their numbers.

They were both his younger brothers, but they had indeed been used to ordering him around. Even if they were practically dependent on him to have a roof over their heads, old habits died hard.

They were step-siblings. His mother died giving birth to him and his father remarried very quickly after that. That family treated him as the main breadwinner and made him believe it was his duty to do so.

His job was in the Town of course, but eventually he did feel fed up and decided to leave for some space. The turning point had been during one of the extreme weather conditions and they took everything from him, barely letting him have enough just to survive.

He ran to the Chancery and had been taking jobs there since then, and because the towns he went to didn’t have level 2 post offices that could send money, he could not be forced to send so much money to them.

He only reconnected with them when, somehow, he received a Post from them telling him his father was dying from an illness. Since then, he’d take a few days off every month or so to go to a nearby Level 3 Town to send money to them.

Then the drug pandemic happened and they were dying, and he had the idiotic idea to bring them here to help them out.

The entire time they were here was a headache to him, and the gardens and farms became even more of an escape.

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