After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 177

After walking out with the other elders and going home, she teleported back to the second floor of the warehouse to go back to the village center, precisely to where she stood ten minutes earlier.

Ah, the lengths she had to go through to hide her identity…

She stood in front of the summoning circle, heaving a sigh. Hopefully, this time she would be able to summon a decent NPC.

Well, ideally.

For some reason, it was getting pointedly more difficult each day to encounter a good NPC. More often than not, she just wasted her silver trying to get a good option.

Perhaps, this was the point. Maybe the first ’good stock’ was there to entice them to keep trying. Who knows…

"Wish me luck." She said to the aborigines that had remained there. Althea then walked to the summoning circle without another word.

"Good luck, milord." The aborigines uttered, also looking forward to it. They wondered if they would finally get another companion to share the good things with.

To be honest, it was quite fun to watch fellow aborigines’ surprised faces when they encountered things from this territory.

It made them quite proud.

It also showed that, subconsciously or not, they already felt great sense of belonging to the Territory.

Althea did not know about the going-ons in their heads, however. She simply stood on the circle, paid a silver as required, hoping to actually get a decent one this time.

Unfortunately, the first one was just a Level E armor maker. While she considered it seriously to give Clutch an assistant, she paid another silver for the next slot anyway.

The second slot was a gardener without any occupation at all. According to his description, he was very experienced in maintaining plants of the lord’s castle.

Sigh.

With pursed lips, she clicked on her final chance for the day, hoping not to waste another silver.

[Name: Lenny Po

Level: D

Abilities: Production of low to mid-level clothing

Wage: 15 gold per month, food twice a day inclusive

Confirm? (3/3)]

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Clothing??

She seemed to have… forgotten all about this?

It was fortunate that Terrans had been given space early on and some time to prepare. Pretty much everyone who survived had several changes of clothing.

However, after the initial suffering, a lot of clothes should’ve been destroyed. In time, they would really have no clothes left!!

She herself and her children had ample of clothing, enough change of clothing that could rotate a week, so she really didn’t feel the problem before.

Immediately, she hired the NPC and a bright light illuminated the room, revealing a middle-aged woman with a simple, but comfortable, dress.

However, it was notable that her eye bags were big, her eyes were dull, and her whole person had a somber feel to it.

The woman was a bit surprised when she saw Althea, but quickly caught herself and saluted. "Milord."

"Call me Althea, elder, or Miss Althea. My identity is a secret here."

"...yes, Elder Althea."

Well, good enough, Althea mused before she continued speaking. "May I know how your profession differs from non-professionals?"

"The clothing I create has defensive properties."

Similar to armor makers, though armor makers could produce other accessories like gloves, knee guards, and shields.

Althea nodded and quickly assigned her a job. "Okay, I will assign you a place. How many pieces of clothing can you make?"

The woman stared for a moment, blinking. "What cloths do we have available in the territory, milord?"