After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 2164

Chapter 2164: Way Back

The dead are remembered, but the living need to survive too.

While the old elf was pondering deeply on what to do, Althea took out several of her toolmaking tools and started making some protection charms.

It was her specialty and the easiest to make for her, and she needed to impress. Through this, she would showcase not just her toolmaking skills, but also show how different she was from other toolmakers because of her mastery of the arrays.

The dwarves stopped thinking and surrounded her, watching her movements in fascination and intrigue. At some point, some dwarves even gasped, some sighed wistfully, and one even cried due to emotions.

To summarize, it was when the lady showed impressive toolmaking skills and array magic that not just the elder, but every dwarf there, was completely won over.

Althea chuckled. She should’ve just done this earlier.

"You...are amazing!"

"Those movements...are you an array master?"

The differences between a typical toolmaker and an array master were the way they inscribed the arrays. As mentioned before, toolmakers received the inheritance of a premade array. They simply had to ’stamp’ it, though the process itself was far more arduous than that.

Someone who could draw arrays from a dot could no longer be classified as just a toolmaker.

"I am an array master," she said with a smile. "I have a team studying arrays. And we can really use expertise from your clan."

The Array Research Team and the various experimental teams, for one, had been clamoring to get more dwarves since they were really quite useful.

"It’s a win-win situation. If the masters decide to resume the project, wouldn’t more knowledge allow you to make better tools?"

Althea was determined to be the master of this tribe, primarily because she wanted to regulate the use of those bombs. She and Garan wouldn’t fear for their lives even if it exploded next to them, but that wasn’t the same with everyone else below level 30, which comprised probably 99% of the population.

In the end, Elder Vasto reluctantly agreed, and the rest of the dwarves cheered.

He added a lot of conditions among the dwarves. For example, they could go only after equipping the dwarves with various magic tools. Althea reckoned that one or some of these tools would ensure the dwarves’ safety, so she waited patiently until everyone was fully equipped.

Althea’s party had become several times larger than when they arrived.

For the Orcs, they had Bable and Buggy, and for the dwarves, they managed to pull six, which was already more than what they had hoped, considering everything.

These dwarves were in several generations. A third would be the teens, exploratory and with a lot of room for growth, while the others were adults who should be more stable, though they were definitely excited inside.

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