After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World-Chapter 1888: Growing Limbs (Part 1)
The hype of the fertility potion wasn’t over yet when another well-known potion made an appearance in Alterra.
It was none other than the Limb Regenerating Potion, and it was finally produced with an amount that could actually cause a change.
Of course, this wasn’t announced publicly. It was just that the three people who received the enhanced potions were part of the inner team, so it was still very big news to those ’in the know’.
The people who’d be the first recipients of the potions were none other than Eugene, Eagle, and Chris. They all received the amount they’d need to grow the entire appendage.
The amount was not small, which was also why it took so long. It wasn’t a potion that was best consumed orally, after all. It was a potion where the remaining part of the limb, as well as the area where it’d grow into, must be submerged in.
Further, a sufficient concentration was needed in order to let it catch up to the maturity of the rest of the body. Which big man would want to have an arm of a baby?
Before, the City Hoffen worked with would have to provide the materials, and that cost a huge amount of money. In Alterra, the procurement was challenging but not impossible, fortunately.
Over the past several months, various missions had been opened to gather the required materials, though they made sure to separate the requests lest the people hunting for Hoffen would trace him prematurely.
The main ingredients for a limb regeneration were all quite rare, after all. To review, the most difficult materials were the Elysian plant, which was a regenerative herb found in orc territory, and the moonlit sea dew, which was collected at certain times from coastal areas.
A large amount of the raw materials was brought by Ceeman, another one of Tronie’s friends. He arrived not too long ago, right when the Fire Plague was at its height, in fact.
Tronie sent updates to his friends regarding the disease. They were too young to have experienced the previous one, but their parents had mentioned it a few times in heavy depression.
He told them about the three territories that had inhibitors, then vaccines, and then finally a cure. He wanted to make sure his friends, should they be affected, knew where to go.
When Ceeman felt the symptoms, he immediately headed out.
When the fire plague exploded, Ceeman was hired at the Masusa Port City, straight North of the continent, tens of thousands of kilometers away from Alterra.
The cost of a teleportation array from there straight to Warrior City was way too expensive since it was too far. In the end, he teleported to a City midway and just took on missions from the mercenary hall, in which case he’d be more likely to land in Alterra, which posted specific and a lot of missions.
The Northern area was among the first to be affected by the disease this time so time was tight. He had to use all his strength to hide his symptoms. It was a good thing that everyone wore masks already, so he could hide his flushed face.
He could feel the growing weakness and pain in his body, and to be honest, the anxiety was making things worse. Fortunately, he knew where to go.
Tronie mentioned that there were plenty of missions to Alterra, though he was just too far before to make use of the Mercenary Hall.
That said, he also knew what Alterra needed, so how could he, who had just been from a Port City, miss out on supplying the dew? Before leaving the Port City, he made sure to procure the materials.
It was extremely difficult to get a bottle of, but he endured and also invested in the bottle that could hold on to its essence. By the time he was showing harsher symptoms, entering stage 2, he had already landed in Alterra, though he didn’t have a clue what to do after that.
Fortunately, he just had to use the Mercenary Hall after this. He wasn’t able to appreciate the place much as he was escorted to a quarantine room with others.
The Mercenary Hall was located within the town, and the surrounding area was automatically set as Stage 1 quarantine zone. When he showed signs of entering stage 2, he was quickly moved to another zone dealing with this level.
To be fair, the quarantine wasn’t as scary as one would think—or at least he got really lucky.
First of all, the guards were surprisingly...humane. Most would be rude and be disgusted with them, not bothering with their comfort at all. It gave the impression that they didn’t care about them, the victims, because they felt like they were going to die anyway.
Ceeman was relatively strong, so he didn’t personally experience it, especially since he managed to hide the symptoms, but he had witnessed it in the towns he had passed through heading here, and he knew it was more common than not.
In contrast, Alterra’s was much kinder. They treated them with respect, as if they were customers, though they did not forget to mention that most medicine thereafter was on credit, though the price was also quite humane.
They asked him which medicine he wanted and if he wanted to enter the shortlist for the cure, though for a price.
He told them about the material he brought, and his request was approved immediately.
Ceeman was then placed in the recovery room of the hospital. He knew that by this time, the advanced development of the disease had been slowed down, making him not only curable but also minimally affected by the disease after he recovered!
He was amazed. How long had it been since the news of the disease spread? When the vaccine appeared not long ago, he was already very cynical. But he got ill and it wasn’t like he had a lot of better choices, so he went in with the attitude of just doing his best for himself.
Who’d have thought everything was legit. No, even more comprehensive than he thought.
Tronie...that guy got really lucky this time!
