After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 1918

Chapter 1918: The Pseudo-elves (Part 1)

While investigations about the incoming forces and preparations against them were ongoing, the members of Althea’s team—now about to rest after dinner—received a guest.

It was none other than the Grandmaster Zenno.

They were not quite sure what to expect from the visit. Master Hoffen often visited mostly for Althea, Master Cheman mostly for the children, but Grandmaster Zenno was most usually in a laboratory or with another team exploring something.

There were a lot of things, studies, investigations, and deals happening in parallel, especially in the Research Center, some of which were expedited because everyone knew they might be heading to a big war soon.

There was one letter sent weeks ago, and had only received a response today, and the recipient went straight to the Gaia Team’s villa when he did.

Zenno was hosted well, and some of his favorite snacks and tea were served. The old alchemist took a sip of his favorite tea, turmeric black tea with cinnamon. It went very well with sesame crisps.

Crack!

"Yum."

He only noticed people were staring at him after he finished his third crisp.

He cleared his throat. "Ahem. I’m here because I received a reply from my associates in Holt City."

They straightened their backs at this. They had a few people connected to Holt, but it was such a massive place that these connections varied in relevance to them, and it also depended on the topic.

For example, Orion’s main contacts were the Glens as well as a few minor nobles and royals. Zenno’s were the old people who generally didn’t participate in the social scene anymore.

Basically, for news about current events, they’d ask Orion. On the other hand, for more ’historical’ (possibly obsolete) knowledge, Zenno would know better.

And what they got Zenno to investigate...were the children’s case. They hoped to learn more about their powers, what their situation was like, and if there was any danger to them, whether in the short term or the long term.

The Grandmaster Alchemist naturally didn’t disclose who he was asking for, though the risk was still high because they knew where Zenno was, and if they asked anything of Cauis, the guy would definitely answer honestly.

Still, so far, Holt had not shown any sort of hostility to them, and they were very vague anyway, as if much of his question was theoretical.

"Because our information is veiled and vague, what I gathered might not be completely applicable. However, all knowledge is knowledge, and some of it might be useful."

"Okay, let me start with how I framed my question. I asked as if the dwarves got me to inquire about it, and dwarves have been a relatively mysterious race, so it makes sense." Most people didn’t know any dwarves; if they did, they wouldn’t be close enough to discredit his words.

"I told my Holt friends that the dwarves had encountered a child with the same condition as your children, far away from here." He specifically mentioned the far North, which was relatively isolated from their area because of the various mountain ranges that made travel more difficult than usual.

"I told them that these were young people, less than ten years old, and exhibited some special powers like levitation and teleportation."

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