After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 1609

Chapter 1609: The Bet

Estra was allowed to rest for a few more days before she received the recruitment notice. It was her choice whether she wanted to take it, of course, but Estra, who wanted to integrate as quickly as possible, didn’t even think twice.

It had a very strict probationary period, however, and this was something that spread out especially among Alterra’s well-off community. Several clubs, cliques, and groups of friends formed through time, and they also tended to hang around the same place, so it was fairly organic.

Anyway, at some point, Baron found out about Estra’s recruitment. Like many, he was flabbergasted and confused, but then he saw the money-making opportunity.

He started a bet guessing when Estra was going to get fired. The two sides were just deciding whether or not she’d be able to go through the six-month probationary period, but Baron took a leap and added a bonus amount that she’d last less than a month!

Estra somehow found out about it too, especially when she noticed people were reacting to her more than usual.

For instance, she’d show impatience about something like waiting in a queue, and she’d see some people shake their heads. With her good hearing, she heard them say words like ’there’s no way she’d stay for more than 6 months right?’

In another time, she had to go through the usual training routine outside the walls. She had a high level so even if her combat ability wasn’t special, she could handle town-level monsters relatively well.

’She’s not bad, especially if we trained her well. I hope she lasts. I bet a few gold on her.’

She heard this several times over the next few days until she grabbed a random person’s shoulder and asked outright.

It was then that she found out that Baron of the Woodworkers’ Company started a massive bet that now accumulated a few hundred gold!

Estra wanted to slap Baron so much, but their large level difference could get her to prison!

That fat bastard!!

In the end, she was just determined to make him lose the bet!

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While this was ongoing, there were two important letters that landed in Alterra’s Post Office. The staff immediately sent the postboys to alert the recipients of the letter, provided that they paid for the Alert Service, of course.

One was, interestingly, received by Kalfene. He had sent a letter to Elron, one of Gold’s former guards, as soon as he arrived. This was also upon the Golds’ request, and they had already prepared arrangements if the man decided to go to them.¹

The man was level 45 the last time he checked and was quite skilled. To be a door guard of a top city noble naturally had its requirements.

When he asked the Golds whether to order him to come, they reiterated it had to be his choice, and he also couldn’t state that they were alive explicitly. It wasn’t like they invited him here to guard their doors again, anyway. They were inviting him here to hopefully improve his life, should he decide to take their hands again.

After the Golds’ "deaths", Elron quickly escaped to a town with his family—which they later found out was Hubble Town.

In his letter, for safety, Kalfene asked someone else to send it for him. After all, they had shifted their residences and they were either thought of as dead or thought of as traitors.

His letter was very vague and would be impossible to decipher if it wasn’t Elron himself who read it. He started with "Remember that time when my master accidentally sent you a flirtatious aether letter meant for another person and your wife thought you were unfaithful?"

This was a true story, by the way.

His late master was quite the womanizer back in the day. He would gift his favorite girl an aether letter and they’d chat all night, possibly about less than innocent topics.

At the time, Elron was newly married, and his wife was full of insecurities. It caused quite a bit of drama, which was just funny in retrospect.

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