After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 320

"Geez, you really haven’t changed!" Beanie told him, mocking. He then elbowed Garan, his expression turning sly, "Hey, tell me. How’d you two… you know, transition to lovers?"

Garan didn’t answer him, though his pace hastened forward, to the point that Beany struggled to follow.

"Hey!" Beanie yelled, cackling when he saw Garan’s ears a bit red. "Stop running away!"

The team watched their interactions with complicated expressions. Other than in relation to his wife, their captain had never been so uncharacteristically… human. It seemed that the captain placed a high importance on the reporter, as well.

Moving on from the topic, the old friends changed to Beany’s family. "What about your wife? Do you have any idea where she is?" Garan asked, shifting the topic off him.

The two of them reunited when they accidentally met on a mission related to Fargo. Garan actually knew he had been married by virtue of his wedding ring, but he never met his wife.

Beanie was also a wife slave and was successfully distracted from teasing his friend.

"I was too weak alone and couldn’t go out to find my family." He said and with a smile looked at their team in admiration. "Now I can find them safely, preferably with all limbs intact."

"Well, we’ll help you train. Most of the monsters here wouldn’t add any experience to us, anyway, not even the copper."

"Really? I owe you!!"

"We owed you first," Garan said as they moved forward. Before they could go far though, the stoic man couldn’t help but ask again. "Was that all you know about her?"

Beany nodded apologetically. "Yeah, I was in isolation for a while after that. I wasn’t able to contact her at all until all this happened." He said, as he was imprisoned for months after revealing government ’secrets’ about their disappearance.

"I was only able to call my wife, but I was too far to reach them in time."

Fortunately, Beany was freed for about a week before the disaster, or else he’d have been guilty for life.

"I’m sorry for you."

"No, I did a lot for myself." He said, "It’s very hard to get a good scoop. I’ve been stagnant for so long, I wanted to make my wife proud."

Beanie’s face because soft in remembrance of his beautiful wife. "When I married her, I promised heaven and earth you know. How else would I win such a beautiful woman??"

It was not entirely for Garan or Althea, but to get a big scoop to bring pride to his beautiful wife. He had always pictured her proud smile, telling him that she was glad she chose him.

"You must be thinking of your wife," Garan said after a while, making Beanie raise a brow.

"How’d you know?"

"You look stupid."

"Heh, you should see how you look when you talk about Althea."

Garan shrugged… and then proceeded to look stupid indeed.

Beanie could only cackle.

…

Hours passed as they traveled East and the team was now fighting another mob.

It was a relatively strong mob with a few level 9 monsters and a number of level 8 minions.

Luis, Plaridel, and Sammy, the lower leveled ones, dealt with rare monsters level 9 and above because it could still give them experience.

Fortunately, there weren’t many of this level or the refugees nearby could only wait for death.

Sammy took out a level E bow he bought months ago. It would be too much of a waste to use his level D equipment—which generally handled monsters level 11 and above—on such weak monsters.

"Wind arrow," He called, and the poor damage of a level E attack increased by a notch, killing the monster in a couple of shots.

A moment later, using the same techniques, the dark-skinned man took down another one. There were four level 9 monsters in that mob, with the remaining lower-level mob killed early on.

Luis and Plaridel went directly against the four monsters, while the long-range attacker Sammy was protected by a wall of fire made by Plaridel.

It was thin, as Plaridel needed to manage energy use, but it was enough to redirect the monsters’ attack for Sammy to make his shot and Luis to use his fire sword to deal with the other one.

"Fire Barrier," Plaridel chanted, forming another wall of fire around the remaining monsters to keep them in place. The monsters roared as they were burned and Luis quickly slashed his weapon to deal with another one which had been greatly damaged by Sammy’s arrows.

"Fire Slash!" He yelled, with unnecessary gusto, swiping his fiery blade at the beast.