After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World - Chapter 1529

Chapter 1529: The Howlbreaker

The Howlbreaker, a new tool that got Taho a Class D gift box, was created like this.

To be honest, Althea wanted it named Beast’s Whistle Bane but they made a poll and she lost that battle.

Anyway, the Howlbreaker used the combination of sound and vibration to do this task.

Although…because most monsters had a different frequency or wavelength that worked on them, this experiment took a lot of calculation and experimentation to work.

It was also a frequency that didn’t bother humans and even other races, though the initial versions did make Baku and the half-orcs irritable.

It was as if something was trying to pull on their fangs, they said.

Naturally, that model was deemed a failure, but the Research Team definitely kept a version of it in case they encountered hostile half-orcs someday.

They also had to consider wind, which was not constant. It wouldn’t do to have such a tool only for it to stop working because there was no wind, right?

So they had to figure out how it’d work with minimal wind, but would still work even if there was no wind, if it was windy, or if some violent stuff was happening near it.

They had to go through thousands of simulations on their computers, something the aborigines would just attribute to magic at this point.

The Howlbreaker worked to around 50-meter radius or so, and was completely powered by wind energy, so it was very sustainable and cheap to build. It was no problem to surround the new community with it.

They also added a few outside the walls so these areas would serve as additional resting places for those who were hunting along the walls. She would also place these things in the camping grounds, among other places, and perhaps along the roads as well.

It could work on monsters up to level 20 (but they had to be closer to the tool itself), and it would still have an effect on monsters beyond that.

Its current weakness was that it was essentially just a fancy post. If someone above level 10 decided to take it down, it was as easy as slapping a branch, let alone if it was done by beasts.

While it should be able to repel monsters on its own, when there was a mob, it was inevitable for some monsters to get pushed towards it.

All they could do for now was to add the metallic grass most monsters hated around it as an extra repellent. The effect was not perfect, but it was what they could do until they could create a sturdier construction.

A lot of them would also be placed on the buildings so they were less likely to be damaged. The design might vary a bit, though, because wind moved differently next to buildings. Fortunately, with their computers, creating a new customized design by changing a few variables wasn’t too difficult.

In any case, this innovation would definitely be groundbreaking once perfected. Even at its current initial state, there’d definitely be a lot of people who’d scramble to get it.

Who wouldn’t want to have a passive beast repellent around their territories?

Another feature was that, while easy and simple to make, the actual mold and model had a lot of intricacies and connections that would make it difficult to copy without a blueprint. Even if they did, Alterra would receive royalties too.

It was all very useful and a lot of points were given to the main person behind it—the aborigine Taho. (He’d give a big portion of the proceeds to the researchers who helped him, of course)

Speaking of this, when Taho found out the use of his abilities… he sobbed. He sobbed for an entire day.

When he received the first paycheck—royalties from the people in-the-know and ordered beforehand—he cried again.

Growing up, he had always felt useless. When he awakened a profession he couldn’t activate, he felt even worse.

Now…he could actually help people! This was already way beyond his expectations!

…

Speaking of findings, they had also found something interesting in the past few months, and this was related to the superpowered aborigines.

After the two Mauin residents awakened physical powers upon landing level 10, a handful of others also awakened the same within the next couple of months.

Many were not from Mauin, and did not have relatives who had awakened the skill, so the study’s samples changed again, starting parts of the research all over again.

What they did surmise, though, was that there was and would be more ‘powered’ people showing up in Alterra soon.

When Althea and the others made initial investigations, the aborigines were really surprised. They said that it was highly unusual before because the ‘powered’ people were quite rare.

Rare like elementalists…

At this, the aborigines couldn’t help but look around them… remembering that, right now, they were surrounded by ‘rare’ elementalists.

“…”

Anyway, this fact became the starting point of the research which started about a week prior, and just today, she received notice that they had a working hypothesis.

Althea, naturally, went on to see it.

The tests were done with a combination of blood tests and physical tests, as well as a lot of surveying. For instance, what did these people have in common, what did they do, why was it only them who awakened, and so on…

After an entire team studied it relentlessly while barely having any sleep, they had come to a couple of theories.

All the affected individuals had been in Alterra, and surrounded by elementalists for months before they upgraded to Level 10, and all of them worked in close proximity to elementalists.

All of them were in the guard team, which meant they were actively exposed to elementalists in close range and while they were using their abilities too, as well as pushing their own bodies consistently.

The working theory was this: Something changed in their physiques, or at least how it handled aether, by being so close to elementalists while honing their own bodies to their limits.

With their upgraded computers and equipment, as well as Volohov’s MRI-type powers, they had realized that some people’s bodies react to the elements.

Of course, there was only a small fraction who met these conditions and had actually activated it. It was probably less than 5%. Still—it was still amazing!

Oslo was there as well and he couldn’t believe his eyes.

In time, wouldn’t many rare physical-type powers also roam Alterra’s streets?

Thank you for reading all the way to here, Alterrans!