After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 988

A/N: One more chapter later today~ I looked at my stockpile and it seems like I can upload some bonus chaps every Sunday after this!

For this December ’24, I can do the +1 bonus chap if we retain Top 2 and I’ll try to do +3 Bonus chaps if we land Top 1 for the week~ (Hopefully, we don’t lose it during the last few hours of the month again like last time lol SOBS)

Regardless, all support would be loved and appreciated! *HUGS* Your support keeps the story alive!

On to the story~

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Elsewhere, there were plenty of other reunions abound.

For example: Ghesso, after making the announcement, only had to wait at the park outside the Village Center.

Novas had quite the distinct features—they looked very different from Terrans or the locals—so they found each other very easily.

"Ghesso!" Gaudi yelled from afar, immediately running to his old friend. Ghesso flinched as he stood up.

The two burst into tears as they ran towards each other. Any one around them would think they were about to hug, except… they started punching each other instead.

POW!

BANG!

The two punched and punched and wrestled all over the park’s grassy field, leaving the third member of their group (and the passerbys) baffled.

Badjao: "..."

Was this a traditional greeting from the home planet?

No one knew what was happening until the two just laid side by side, staring at the sky with faces full of tears and snot. This, in turn, caused a lot of dirt to stick on their faces—making them especially unsightly.

Seeing as everything had calmed, the young half-novan cleared his throat and approached them. "So… are we okay now?" Badjao asked, stopping a meter away, just in case.

The two older men sat up and turned to him simultaneously. They even helped each other up. "Why aren’t we okay?" they asked, before turning to each other with smiles on their dirty faces.

"You got really strong," Gaudi said, Ghesso shrugged. "I was a slave in a Town and was asked to fight a lot."

"I was also a slave in a Town," Gaudi said, he was even hired by mercenaries during the latter part of it. Sadly, they were filled with fighters so he mostly just needed to clean up after them, causing him to stagnate.

Ghesso, in contrast, was a meatshield before he was bought by Urkin, letting him gain some levels a bit faster than the other.

Their chatter was interrupted when the young lad Badjao cleared his throat again. "Er… that fight… was it a greeting?"

The two looked at him, taking a moment to absorb his question before shaking their heads.

"No. We were rivals growing up," Ghesso said, Gaudi nodded beside him.

"It had become our habit to check out the other’s strengths whenever we could."

"...oh," Badjau mumbled, relieved. Fortunately, he didn’t have to pounce on someone who looked like him, after all.

Anyway, now that things had calmed, Gaudi took Ghesso to a house.

Gaudi and Badjao lived together in a rented apartment house. Badjao was new so he didn’t have enough contribution points for even a temporary residency, but Gaudi—as someone who fought in the mobs, wars, and killed a lot of enemies—had.