After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 434

Flirting aside, the couple had a satisfying lunch with a bit of dessert squeezed in.

They went to the barracks after a short rest—which turned to over an hour because of Garan’s incessant flirting.

Frankly, it would have lasted longer if Althea wasn’t so vehement in her practice. Anyway, Althea absolutely would not rest until she practiced more so Garan could only give way.

The new formal barracks arranged by Garan was a large 3-hectare barracks and military area near the west gate. It was close to the industrial and agricultural areas, so it was much quieter than the rest of the territory.

It was too big for the current forces at this time, but it was big enough that even if Altera hired another thousand troops, it could house them comfortably.

It also had complete sets of dormitories (using intermediate Custom Building), canteens, and training areas. Because of the completeness of the construction team and experts, this place was far better than the one the soldiers built in Ferrol.

When it was completed, it made the soldiers’ blood boil so much that they trained extra hours to ’baptize’ the place. They were quite diligent and she asked Garan to treat them in her restaurant as a reward.

This raised Althea’s already-high status even higher in the soldiers’ hearts.

The Territory’s first fighting Arenas, ball courts, and other leisure courts were also built here. It would serve as an after-work benefit and more leisure exercise to the soldiers.

The couple checked on these facilities and their statuses before heading to the main training grounds. As before, the teams were divided into three rotating teams: Guards training, guards outside the territory, and guards handling safety and security within the territory.

The ratio they decided for this was 3:6:1 during peacetime. The system was already extremely convenient that it could handle a lot of the basic transgressions and punishments, making the job particularly light. For the most part, they’d be assisting Mathilda’s team in handling the rest of the problem.

Mathilda and her team worked relatively low-key, but when they were gone, it could easily lead to chaos. This would be especially important during wartime, when most regulations would be null.

Anyway, this meant that a pretty good ratio of the soldiers was now in the training ground. They occupied various places and training spots, some in the obstacle courses, some in the tracks, others doing the training courses arranged by Drake and Rowan, and others in the fighting arenas for spars.

This area was naturally one of the larger places fighting was allowed for sparring. In the barracks alone, there were around five 100-square-meter arenas and three 300-square-meter arenas for Elementalists fights.

At this time, the Terran Mercenary soldiers in Altera were Gill’s group, with the other team estimated to get back in another week or two. They weren’t really strict with exactly how long each turn was due to the excessive amount of variables. Anyway, they trusted their people wouldn’t be lax, and would find a way to strengthen themselves wherever they were.

At this time, Gill, Sammy, Mao, Eagle, and Luis were in the barracks because Garan asked them to stay for the day.

The group met them as soon as they approached and they headed towards the special elemental training hall.

In the huge barracks, there was an exclusive warehouse-like reinforced structure with stone statues. Here, the guards could practice their spells without being watched.

Civilians could also use this place, albeit they would have to pay some contribution for maintenance fees.

Garan called the soldiers here to show the skills they learned so far, especially Mao, who was used Earth—an element she had herself.

For water, she would be going to Betty later on, but she didn’t have any luck with the wood Elementalists.

Speaking of which, for some reason, wood Elementalists were relatively rare. This was a bit counterintuitive considering the lush vegetation of this world. After all, if an Elementalist had the ability to control the elements around, shouldn’t wood be one of the more common elements?

The only ones in Garan’s group before were Leo and Sean, but both were not with them at this time. Leo was among those who stayed in Fargo while Sean was one of the five people who went West.

Anyway, because they’d be focusing on her affinities later on, they decided to show her the other elements first. Althea was very smart and could always find something to learn in whatever. They might even learn something themselves.

First to show off was the fire elementalist Luis and then the wind elementalist Eagle. Although she didn’t have these affinities, it was good to familiarize herself with them, ideally in relation to her own abilities.

She was also very interested in how the other elemental skills worked.

"Wife, before anything though," Garan said before anything started, "Note that, as low-level Elementalists, we are limited to one ’type’ of skill per element—support or aggressive."

This was something they learned during their time in towns. "We think of it as a sort of calibration, where our bodies adjust to the elements. After this was mastered, only then could we proceed to the other type."

Except for Vanessa and Turbo, everybody else in their team chose the aggressive aspect of their elements first. This was natural. After all, they were thrust into danger the moment they got there.