After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 1568

Chapter 1568: Departing Hassen

Hassen City

The City’s academy, Hassen Academy, was located at the nobles’ circle within the Inner City, which was quite near the palace, the town center, and the other central functions of the territory.

Here, the young nobles and royals of Hassen would congregate to learn about various subjects together.

It was an all-boys school teaching etiquette, literature, history, fighting, and survival. Girls were tutored in their homes by established noblewomen. They would be taught womanly arts like crochet, singing, arts, and so on, depending on their age and aptitude.

Of course, this was only half of its function.

The main function of the academy was also for socialization. This was for networking, creating connections, and training them as a precursor to adult social situations.

This function has nothing to do with Marcus, though.

The fourteen-year-old just took advantage of their access to the parchment library and read what he could.

It didn’t matter if his peers either ignored him and pretended he didn’t exist, as long as they didn’t outright bully him like what his brothers and cousins tended to do.

Today, he studied a bit about the history of Hassen City.

Hassen City was established more than a millennium ago. It had been a village for about a hundred years, a town for a few hundred more, and had been a City for a little over a hundred years.

Since its creation, Hassen has been through hundreds of direct wars, and countless other indirect ones. However, over the past few decades, it suddenly... stopped

"Curious..." he mumbled, though the rest of the material didn’t say anything of interest.

Then he moved to the next book.

This one had to do with Hassen’s metallurgy expertise. Naturally, there were plenty of things not said in the work, but the basics were there.

Hassen’s adoption of the industry coincided with the first dwarves they captured back then. It didn’t say so, but he could surmise some things.

It so happened that black metal was not uncommon in this area, so the innovation for them was good. There were varieties like special black iron or improved black iron that were a few times sturdier than the usual black iron. The majority of the weapons built for nobles, royalties, and their guards were made of these.

These topics might not be useful for him, but he found them interesting regardless. Hassen was, for better or for worse, his home and the place he lived in his whole life, so he was naturally curious how it grew like this and how his experiences were shaped by the place.

He stayed for a few more hours and was planning on staying a few more when his library stay was cut short. He blinked as his aether letter alerted him. His aether letter would only receive messages from his family and, since his sister was no longer there, it could only be from his mother.

[Come back home. We’re going on a long trip.]

...

Octavia was naturally suspicious so while she agreed, she did think Lady Zinnia was planning something. Was she really just there to see her old home and her daughter?

She, too, wanted to see the Gold’s old home anyway. 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

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