After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 761

The guard looked at her greedily and Luis behind her was really about to throw a fireball. How dare this trash eye Miss Althea!

Who cared if he was a Level 18 or so!

"You can come in, but just you," the guard said, heckling Luis’ feathers even more.

Althea raised her palm to stop him. "It’s okay, Luis, just go around the place to pass time," she told him, giving him a meaningful stare.

Her words calmed Luis down and he nodded, heading out the gate to the satisfaction of the greedy guard.

He led her to the servant’s quarters at the side of the main house. Here, the live-in guards and other servants stayed, though when they saw him with a woman, many of the servants who were there scuttled away.

"You can wait here," he said, asking her to sit on a crude sofa at the side. "The Lord has not yet returned from the war, but since they went all out, it shouldn’t take long."

"Thank you." Althea nodded and took out tea sets, "Do you want some?" she asked. "It’s special Tea from Holt City—according to the salesperson, anyway."

He grinned, liking her humble attitude and took the pretty cup. "These are good," he said, giving her a deep look.

"I bought it from a merchant when the Ferrol Fair was ongoing," she said, smiling gently and taking a graceful sip in her own cup, prompting the man to do the same.

He took a sip and felt it bitter. He frowned, but did not show his distaste too much.

Holt City was known to have developed and was the main source of various things, including several sauces and special teas. They also owned the developmental rights to several System Restaurants and Tea Houses, which meant they earned money every time a territory bought and used their building.

He knew this because their visitors from Towns and cities often bragged about their knowledge and he, an ambitious man, naturally remembered as much as he could.

Doubting that the weak level 10 woman would dare do anything against him, he just thought it was a special tea with an unusual taste that catered to high nobles.

"Where did you say you were from again? Ferrol?" he asked, as he sipped.

"Yes, the Town," she said. "It is your master town, right?"

The guard sneered. "Heh, not really," he said, sitting right next to her. "Ferrol Town… is not much to us," he said.

She appeared genuinely confused. "I heard Guia Village is a subsidiary to Ferrol. Is this not accurate?"

"Well, we serve a higher master," he said.

"I see…"

"But… does your lord answer to anyone? I’m asking because I hope to find someone from Ferrol… or the master territory. A steward, perhaps?"

The guard sneered. "Well, there was before, but how could they stay in a little village for so long?" he said, tone with hints of bitterness. The man definitely had some humiliating encounters with these people.

Althea continued to fill his cup with ’tea’, and asked him more and more questions about the territory. Her attitude made him like her even more and, as long as it wasn’t a scope of the oath, he would answer her inquiries to show off what he knew.

Within the next few minutes she confirmed that there was indeed someone ’superior’ who stayed in Guia a lot. However, after a while, they came back less and less frequently and stayed for shorter periods of time. Apparently, they hadn’t seen the person for a few months now.

She also found out that this person also stayed in Baltimore’s main house, particularly in the Central House, so it was likely the token was near there as well.

Another side effect of the truth potion was that it nulls a lot of the other senses. This was why when Luis arrived in the house, the level 18 guard was completely unaware, and it was why he couldn’t react fast enough when she threw oil at him. _{freeweɓnovel.cѳm}