After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World-Chapter 1879: Baby Fever (Part 1)

By the end of the day, people were congratulating the couple and were also inquiring about a lot of things, including some techniques.

At this point, the news of the fertility pills was still kept under wraps, so the majority of the population hadn’t equated the successful conception with it yet.

Then...a week or two later after Gwen’s news, several pregnancies were also announced one after another. Some were couples that had even starker level differences than Ryan and Gwen!

Other than Gwen and Ryan, there were Betty and Tom, as well as Otto and Misha. Both partners were expecting now, too! This caused quite a few excited stirs, just boiling under the surface.

"Wow, so love in Alterra can beat the limitations of genetics, huh?" someone said, giggling at the side. Everyone knew that having stark level differences made it very, very difficult—if not impossible—to conceive.

What was this now?

Misha wasn’t even level 20, right?

There were even those who were jealous of the beautiful woman, implying things like Otto might not even be the father. "That beautiful couple...they might’ve been so desperate for children that they might have...borrowed someone else’s seed?"

Rather than surrogacy, the actual implication was naturally infidelity.

Interestingly, this was no other than Thessy, Baron’s former crush, who was now working as a front desk concierge in an aborigine’s trading business.

She was a nurse in Terran, but her reputation and succeeding...questionable...actions and scandals (she got involved with a man while at work), made her unable to get a good job in the territory.

She could only work under private enterprises, mostly in newcomers or migrant businesses who were not too familiar with her or too particular with those they hired as long as they were Terran.

Basically, in most cases, as long as one was Terran, they could pretty much get a job due to their more flexible minds and the fact that they were all elementalists.

It so happened that Kimmy and Yelena were passing by, holding some paper bags after shopping along the street. This shop traded goods from other places, and there were actually a number of interesting things.

Who’d have thought that they’d hear this type of gossip?

When Kimmy saw it was none other than her former ’housekeeper,’ she sneered, unsurprised.

She did not even bother with her and went straight to the guard team, who would then mention the report to those involved.

There were libel cases in Alterra now, after all.

...

Others were more like detached spectators, gossiping idly and in interest.

For example, in one of the tea shops, the old men—Al, Bones, and Cake—were gossiping as they always have.

"Ah! To be young!" Al said with that ’old man’ tone of melancholy.

"And to see more youngins," old man Bones added wistfully. "I grew so old. To think we’ll be seeing more babies running around!"

"Good job, parents! They had been working very hard. It is good to see that they bore fruit," Cake said, wiggling his eyebrows. "Good thing the beds here are extra sturdy, yeah?"

The three let out that amused laughter that old people gave out as if they shared an inside joke.

People from the next tables gave them sideways glances, wondering what kind of perverted topic the old men were having this time.

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Such success rates naturally enticed a lot of discussion. Fortunately, the initial batches had already been completed, and it was now open for purchase!

By this time, there were already farms assigned to the raw materials (a few already had sprouting plants). While most of the ingredients were still rare, the discovery of alternatives allowed them to create around three to five pills a day.

Soon, news of the fertility pill—the improved kind!—had spread out.

The gossipy pressure under the surface finally exploded, and many couples ran over to the Research Center to inquire. They were prepared for it, of course, and the burden was then shifted to Althea’s Special Pharmacy.

To minimize the pressure on Cheman, they also limited the sales to 2 to 3 pills a day.

One pill was enough for a couple to increase their chances of the woman’s ovulation month, increasing the chances by approximately 10 to 30 percent, depending on the person’s body type and the couple’s health. Any more was not recommended as it was already unnatural, and there could be a lot of negative side effects.

Cheman had already created a miracle by not damaging the woman’s body even at the first use. Overdose was a definite no-no, not to mention unnecessary.

Side effects from overdose included health risks, some of which were permanent. 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮

The point was to just use it once a month to improve the condition of the womb and allow it to handle and stabilize the aether that entered. The original version did this as well, but not nearly as effectively, so the previous users—even when Cheman tried to forbid it—might even use it once a week or so.

The effects had always been stackable, which was to say the more they used it, the higher the chance that it would work. This was why, in other territories like Hassen and Bleulle, people did not mind the side effects.

Some parents and husbands might even force the woman to take one every few days if they could afford it.

To them, the women’s duties were to give birth to children, so they had to take responsibility for the increasing chances, no matter what it meant for their bodies.

Enala, Estra’s sister and Bleumrick’s latest mistress, was like this.

She did not know that she might never give birth again after this one pregnancy. Even if she did, she might not mind. After all, her family had convinced her that she desperately needed the closest place to the Lord, no matter what she had to sacrifice.

It was just how she thought, and she did not know how to prioritize anything else.

With the rise of the fertility pill, those familiar with it would naturally connect it to the person best known in making it!

After all...very, very few people could recognize the reclusive alchemists by face, but many people could recognize their work!