After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 451

The Next Day

The entire territory was doused with renewed energy for training after it was popularized that Althea had awakened an element!

Before, only the closest ones, particularly the barracks, were aware of it, but such big news naturally couldn’t be contained.

The previous night, during one of the nightlife parties in the territory, someone got drunk and mumbled how nice it would be to awaken an element like Ms. Althea.

This news was passed on from person to person, naturally injecting another douse of inspiration for everyone to work hard!

After all, rather than the talented soldiers who arrived months prior, someone who transferred with them had awakened as well!

Who knew? Maybe they could really be next!

At this time though, this aforementioned source of inspiration was kilometers away from the territory with her husband.

This time Althea took a break from the Training Hall and her experiments, deciding to stay outside the whole day.

She couldn’t do anything about her lack of knowledge in arrays except self-studying, but she didn’t think she would be able to get too far on her own. This was very worrying because she knew how stingy local people were with their expertise. _{frёewebηovel.cѳm}

Anyway, Althea didn’t wallow in depression for too long, and just decided to focus on the other skills she ought to train more.

For example, her elements.

She and her husband were currently in a rare clearing they found after some exploration. It was a large space with sparse trees, likely a product of some erosion a long time ago.

They chose the least demanding element to train this time—Earth. The element simply needed to control the elements already available and ready to use around them, unlike water which she still had to condense from the air as there were no water sources nearby. They also announced she could use wood and earth, leaving water behind in order not to be too unusual.

"Have you chosen which direction you hope to take?" Garan asked and she nodded to tell him her choice.

"Aggressive."

As mentioned to her many times, Elementalists also tend to focus on a certain type of techniques to activate. For instance, if one chose aggressive techniques, they would most likely only learn such, at least not until the element had been mastered to a certain degree. Similarly, auxiliary techniques would inspire the same.

For wood, she had chosen to use the auxiliary aspect of it so she wouldn’t be able to learn the more aggressive techniques for a while. She didn’t need to.

As for water, because of her predispositions, she would be more likely to choose auxiliary as well. She’d be learning more from people like Turbo than Ryo, who used water aggressively. Anyway, she was also an archer so she could focus her attacks there.

For Earth, there didn’t seem to be a lot of differences between auxiliary and aggressive skills, primarily due to its stable nature. However, she would still focus on attacking skills to balance things out.

Garan had learned what he could from Gill and Mao to teach his wife.

As for why he didn’t just ask an earth elementalist to go with them, it was naturally so he could bond with his wife.

Gill was also very busy. Besides, those other men couldn’t talk straight with Althea and just gape at her.

Very annoying.

Not to mention, their children stayed with them most nights, and combined with their busy day schedules, their alone time had been greatly discounted.

What if his place in his wife’s heart lowered because he hadn’t been satisfying her enough lately? Last night, they only did it thrice!

(If Althea could hear his thoughts, she’d glare at him. Although they didn’t do it as often, their sex life was still very active, okay?)

Fortunately, Althea had no idea at this time so she was just very eager to learn.

"Husband. Teach me!" She said, very excited for what she would be learning.

Although she had a short introduction back in the barracks, she still had a long away before actually using them to the degree that they could be used in battle. She couldn’t bear take the guards’ time either.

"Let’s start with what Gill and the others call Geokinesis, the art of shaping the terrain," he said, moving behind her to give her a place to practice in front of them.

Garan, of course, didn’t forget to take a bit of an advantage and settle nicely behind her. A step back and she’d be resting on him.

Althea felt his large hands on her waist as he spoke. "Focus on the earth beneath you." He told her, very close, and she could feel his warmth as he spoke. "Imagine a piece of clay, ready to be molded."

Althea closed her eyes and extended her hand towards the earth, channeling energy. It took several minutes to get a decent hold on to the earth elements.

"Feel the connection between your energy and the Earth’s all around," Garan said, his hand on her waist caressing ever-so-gently. Garan wasn’t even trying to seduce her now. He was simply trying to keep her still, as the earth seemed to require a lot of stillness from their user as if they were part of the rocks themselves.

Althea concentrated harder, and she started to sweat as she tried to manipulate the earth as she imagined.

Garan looked concerned and wanted to wipe the sweat off, but was afraid he’d distract her.

"Go away. You’re distracting me."

"..."

It was now he realized his hands had crept just below her breast.