After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World-Chapter 1419: Subtle Changes

"Let’s go."

"B-B-But..."

The two of them joined the dance floor and followed the steps. Despite the initial awkwardness, Leez had joined a group dance before, so she adjusted faster.

Obi, on the other hand, was completely clueless. For a while, he stood there like a dazed broat.

"Captain... you go like this..." Leez said, waving her hand and moving a bit along with the rest of them. Then she would wiggle her hips—just to follow. Obi was embarrassed at first but not to mention embarrassing himself in front of Oslo, now he couldn’t bear to lose face in front of the younger "man".

It was awkward at first until they somewhat became proficient with the steps and were able to follow them. They were both guards, so their reflexes weren’t bad, after all.

The two eventually let go of their inhibitions with the others, even if only for a bit, and soon smiles crept up their faces.

They moved their bodies and followed the beat and others, no longer caring if they made the wrong move. In fact, when someone made a mistake, they’d laugh together, making for an overall good time.

Well, except for when they neared some couples who were blatantly flirting. As conservative aborigines, a part of them were aghast.

Obi heard the flirtations surrounding him and couldn’t help but look at the smaller man dancing together with him.

Inexplicably, many memories with him floated up, and they were alarmingly clear to him.

Obi hadn’t really noticed ’him’ for a long time at first. Leez was one of those people who had been recruited from as early as 12 years old. In Bleulle, the population was closely monitored. Not every lord would check their population list so often—especially in cities where hundreds upon hundreds of thousands, if not millions—of people resided and stayed.

In Bleuelle, this was not the case. Rather, the Bleuelle Lord built and assigned a small team to monitor the population closely.

It required a bit of gold to give access to others, and this was charged per person and for a certain amount of time, so this department was limited in number. Not to mention, the Lords were suspicious people at their cores. How could they give this right to anyone comfortable?

In the end, a lot of those monitoring were slaves who barely got much rest. They were the perfect "eyes" because they didn’t have any power or leverage for holding such a right, they didn’t have to rest (at least in the nobles’ eyes), and they would follow everything the Lord wanted. ƒгeewebnovёl_com

As one of the captains in the guard team, and as a Gold, he was privy to these things and had even seen this team once.

He assumed that Oslo told the Alterran Lord—whoever it was—about this, which was how they managed to build such intricate monitoring systems as early as Village Level.

Anyway, when a child was an elementalist, they would be tagged and monitored as soon as they were noticed. Then, they would be taken to get trained as soon as possible—which was usually around 11 or 12 years of age. They would then be assigned to a team after a few years of training.

When Leez was assigned to his team, he nodded, but it was known that the weaker ones were assigned to him, and at the time, he was not even level 20. Of course, he appreciated another elementalist on their team.

He began to notice him when he realized the guy trained hard—very hard. Whenever everyone had gone home, this guy would stay for hours longer. Whenever there was training, this guy would redo it until he was satisfied.

Obi had always loved the ’fight’ and his time of peace was his training, so naturally, his impression of the younger lad was very good.

At some point, their late training sessions meshed together and they became training partners even when it was just the two of them together.

He didn’t know when, but the younger man eventually became his favorite teammate.

When they went off to fights, they were also teamed up closely, and it could be said that their teamwork was one of the best.

The most impactful thing was when Leez—who was at least half his level—went to block an attack that he did not see. Fortunately, Obi managed to notice on time and pushed her away, but he recalled his heart clenched tightly in fear.

He did not notice that his stare on the shorter man was getting deeper and deeper, and the latter couldn’t help but flush in unknown emotions, though the dance and beat did distract him a bit.

The sound got faster and the steps got more difficult and the two were pulled out of their daze, forced to concentrate on the dance at hand. It was a little complicated, but people at their level had excellent coordination and they did learn after a couple of tries.

There were still funny fails though, but no one cared. People weren’t there to perform and look good; they were just there to have fun and move their bodies.

They didn’t know when, but the next thing they knew they were laughing unhibitedly as they danced. It had been a while since they had so much fun like this. Rather, they didn’t remember the last time at all.

In Bleulle, there were always people watching their team, waiting for them to mess things up. In Alterra, they were really happy, though there were also a lot of things they had to do, especially in consideration to the possible future conflicts with Bleulle.

Tonight though, even for just a moment, they had no worries at all.

The two were in their own world when something bumped on Leez’s back. There were plenty of people dancing around them, and "he" fell onto Obi, their bodies touching.

Time seemed to pause as they stared into each other’s eyes, but they gasped when they realized the position they were in.

They immediately parted and, regrettably, their dance became a bit awkward again.

Whatever happened, this night was the start of quite a few changes.

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