After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 1467

Chapter 1467: Voumi Mission Continues (Part 2)

"Misha? What do you mean by that?"

Misha put a finger in her mouth, asking them to be quiet, and the girls immediately pursed their lips.

Although they were in the bedroom, the insulation here was horrible. Heaving a deep breath, Misha took some items from her space. 𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺

One of the loopholes of slavery was that their spaces were unaffected. This was why Sarah managed to keep much of her money, because she transformed it into its physical form before the war ended.

This knowledge was not a secret, but not exactly widespread either. Those who figured it out tended to hide it, lest their ’masters’ would order them to give what they saved.

Another was that the default mode of a slave was really just to follow the explicit orders of citizens. That was to say, as long as they didn’t sign a detailed oath of non-betrayal or things like that, they wouldn’t be bound by it.

It was just that in most cases, the slaves were either too scared, too tired, or too hopeless to do anything about their situation. Further, they were usually ordered around at all times. They simply didn’t have the time nor the energy to have intelligent rebellious thoughts that could actually work.

This was understandable, especially when anyone around them could order them to stab themselves in the neck.

In the same vein, one could see that Alterra’s requirement for slaves to sign oaths (because they were, technically, freed in a sense) had an unintended consequence to counter this loophole.

The girls looked at the item Misha took out. It was a green-brown bar that looked like frozen vomit.

The girls gazed at it weirdly. "What is it?"

"It’s medicine that will make it seem like you have a horrid allergic reaction. It would temporarily affect the skin, causing redness, and even the formation of some pus.

"We need to get this to everyone," she told them.

"You only have one?"

"It’s like a soap, and it can work on whoever uses it."

This item actually came from Silvia. As for why Silvia even had such a thing in her space, it was related to a woman’s foresight.

Althea made it herself, in fact. However, since it was a bit...unpalatable and could be considered a hidden weapon, she only sent it to women on her side entering aborigine territories.

Silvia bought a box-worth of the item on top of what Althea gave for free.

Although she was crossdressing now, she might be found out to be a woman eventually. No woman without status was safe in this world, and it was best to assume that she’d encounter people who’d want to take her away.

Rowan—bless his soul—was unfortunately not strong enough to handle every problem they’d encounter in a Town.

At the same time, although she didn’t say anything, the amount of preparation she made Rowan both relieved and sad.

Rowan thought: If he was strong enough, how could she be so insecure?

They worried it’d be painful, but it was just a little uncomfortable and itchy. After some time, they barely noticed them there. They had gone through much much worse pain for this to bother them now.

Misha nodded when she saw their attitudes. She then took two more from her space and handed them a few pieces of the soap each.

"Now... it’s time to spread it."

...

An hour later, Misha walked back to Hesso’s abode. She had been granted relative freedom because of the favor, and no one dared to take Hesso’s favorite woman, so she was safe.

She could not use her ability on people much stronger than she was. For example, the Lord. So she did her best to attach to Hesso and his cronies.

Although their levels were higher, it wasn’t too far, so her ability had an effect. And, because they were brainless, self-absorbed idiots, her ability worked much better than it should, considering their level discrepancies.

When she got there, she saw that the event’s place for the auction was being set up. Tomorrow was the long-awaited slave trade, but if all went well, that would be cancelled.

With that in mind, she headed back to greet Hesso and accompanied him to his room and in his own imagination, waiting for things to start.

A few hours later, people indeed rushed over to Hesso and the Lord.

"All the elementalist slaves have been infected by an unknown disease!!"