After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 1250

On the other hand, when the party ended, Althea and Garan approached Hoffen. "Master…" she said. "I can guide you around…"

"Nono, don't waste your time on useless things," he said, dismissively shooing her away. "Go study the skill scroll I sent you."

Althea held back a chuckle. As expected from an obsessive alchemist. "Ah, yes…"

However, as his new apprentice, how could she really just let him be when he was on her turf?

"Master, what about your accommodation?" She asked. She felt guilty letting him stay with the Golds when, technically, he was her half-parent now. "I can book you in our Grand Hotel for an indefinite stay…"

"Hmn, I think I did hear a few people mention that," he said. "Go do what you want," he said, but then he paused, looking at her.

"Do you have a laboratory at home?"

She thought about it and remembered his house was practically a giant lab. Would he want something like that again?

"Well, yes…" she mumbled after a moment. She wondered if she should get the Master live with her, but she went against it in the end.

If they did live together, it was estimated she'd have little time for anything else.

The best she could do, for now, was to book him in the hotel and then reserve him a house in the next developments.

She reserved a house for him in the new mountain villa development. The houses themselves were still custom buildings (though with very heavy customization), though the one master would get had extra very sturdy and reinforced walls fitting for the Master's explosive experiments.

If he still wanted to use his own lab when he saw Alterra's of course.

Speaking of this—

"We have a much bigger laboratory here, as it served the entire territory," she said with a smile. "Would you like to see?"

…

Now that both of them had taken their oaths, Althea had few reservations about what areas of the Research Center to show him.

She took him straight to the Research Center's newest building—the four-storey Alchemy Hall. It was a new building built perpendicular to the existing Research Center. They added a shared plaza in front of them, and there was space for another wing on the other side.

It was finished a few months ago, created when the demand for potions and the studies of various items had reached a new peak. Each System Pharmacist was also granted their own rooms and laboratories, and they also needed a place to mass produce certain potions.

While there was already a building dedicated to mass producing some potions—for instance, healing potions, sprite, and so on—there were also plenty that could not be handled there. For example, potions that had to be created by System Pharmacists.

The Original Research Center building, which housed dozens of other teams, simply could not accommodate the creation of hundreds of potions daily.

They could also foresee the awakening of more pharmacists, and the migration of others, so naturally they needed a lot more space specific to the profession.

Hoffen stared at the building. He wasn't saying anything, but the fact that he was standing in front of them, eyes sparkling, was telling enough.

Althea giggled and led her master inside, and a comfortable and spacious lobby greeted them.

There were only a few people and a lot of places to wait and sit. An interesting feature was a few walls, which exhibited alchemical history and some modern applications.

There was also a small, quiet, cafe on one side for quiet discussions in a different environment.

These were not just for guests who weren't allowed to enter the upper floors. Even pharmacists would sometimes go out of the lab and discuss here. A different setup could open up the mind, after all.

The rest of the ground floor was dedicated to the group workshops and supply rooms where the alchemists could request tools and materials from the alchemy warehouse, also located on the ground floor.

The warehouse here was the same for the entire Research Center, just different access as they were in different buildings.

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