After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World - Chapter 1035

Chapter 1035: More on Town Buildings

Garan, who was hyper-aware of everything related to his wife, smiled when he saw this. With his free hand, he patted her head.

“You are already part of our Mercenary Team,” he said. “If you’d like, we can take on missions together even before we have a Hall in Alterra.” They simply had to go to Ferrol and take missions from here.

This made Althea sparkle. Although she knew she couldn’t galavant around at this time—she had a territory and children to care for—she liked the fact that she had the option ready.

Another consideration she needed to take was the fact that Lords would be able to see that she was the ‘Lord of Alterra’ as long as they peeked on their panels and looked for her name.

It was why during the few times she had gone to other territories—even during rescues—she made sure to stay outside the territory lines.

At the same time, the fact that she was here, in Ferron Town, meant that they trusted Jonathan who had made an oath with them.

Even if he found out—perhaps he already knew—it was unlikely he would be saying anything about it.

Even if he wanted to, he wouldn’t be able to.

The oath he sighed… had a lot of subtleties and traps that Mathilda placed there. They weren’t obvious, especially when one didn’t know the details and the secrets of the territory. But, even when they did find out anything, they wouldn’t be able to utter it out nor write it down at all!

Of course, this was something Jonathan would find out much later—not that it mattered. By that time, he could only be impressed.

The only dangerous exception to her going outside was during the Fargo war, but she entered with the Lord unaware she was there, and even when he was he’d be too busy, distracted, or in pain to look into it.

Granted, that was a risky move that could’ve gone wrong on so many levels so she didn’t dare test her luck anymore.

In this vein, it wasn’t like she wasn’t doing anything.

She dedicated a team (a subgroup in the maths-and-arrays team) to study the anti-slavery token that Oslo lent to her a long time ago.

In theory, the way that a person with the token could bypass the system and become an ‘exception’ was because their status—or a certain part of it—as temporarily ‘hidden’ from it.

She had studied its arrays and, though all of them were unfamiliar, she had a feeling that at least one of those arrays was set to ‘hide’ status. This was the array she wanted to extract.

Anyway, that was a long way to go, so she focused on what she could learn now.

The next special building Jonathan took them after the Mercenary Hall was the Post Office, which was a specialty building that would be available as soon they became a Town.

The Post Office was the main communication method in Xeno, where one could send a letter to whoever you wanted and they could access the letter from a Post Office.

There was no alert sent to the specific recipient, however. The Post Office simply had an aether board-like thing near its counter where the recipients of unclaimed letters were listed.

Another thing to note was that the Lord could access the letters if they wanted to. They’d have to go to the Post Office and manually open the letter they wished to see, but the option was there.

Jonathan did not specifically say this, but Garan had found out about this during his stay in Twinwave Town. Apparently, there was a conflict that was settled by this breach of privacy.

The Pharmacy was self-explanatory—a place where they could buy HP and Mana potions (which she bought a lot of by the way).

At its upgraded state (as Ferrol’s currently was), it also provided buff potions like potions to temporarily increase all the stats like Agility Potion, Defense Potion, and the like. Unsurprisingly, Althea also bought a lot of these as well.

The Pharmacy functioned a lot like the equipment store wherein it could produce these potions even without someone making them. The raw materials though were different from the usual but fortunately they were endemic to most places, including Alterra.

The raw materials for the buff potions varied, however, so the items were a lot more expensive than the typical HP and Mana Potions—at least ten times, in fact.

She put in her mental list, however, to buy the seeds for these raw materials so by the time they could upgrade the pharmacy, they could produce these potions without depending on foragers outside. This would mean they’d also be able to mass produce the buff potions at a fraction of the cost. Of course, that’d take time, but it was the likely scenario for them.

She also pondered whether to buy a Pharmacy come upgrade at all, and maybe she would if they were unable to crack the formula for these items.

Of course, the convenience of a Pharmacy’s automatic production was also very attractive, but everything was still up for consideration—i.e. What other buildings would be available or if they could receive one as a winning during merging.

However, she was not so arrogant to believe they would win a pharmacy during a war that hadn’t happened yet. Even if they did win a war against a Town, who was to say she’d even take it as a satellite at all? In that case, she would not receive a new building.

Next was the Auction House, which was already explained by Gill to them before. Frankly, it wasn’t anything they could not do on their own so they didn’t even consider it.

The Spring of Life—which Ferrol bought as a Level 3 Town—was basically a much larger version of the well. It would never dry out, but it was a bit shallow and took time to refill. Still, during the Extreme Heat, Ferrol had a much lower death rate than others because of this.

The Enchanter’s Guild was the one that interested her the most. It was also Jonathan’s most proud purchase and something he, himself, bought as soon as he upgraded decades ago.

Here, one could place a weapon or equipment and, for a high price (in Gold and materials) and a low success rate, one would have a chance of enhancing it.

For example, a Class D weapon could suddenly take on monsters that it normally wouldn’t be able to. For example, a weapon would suddenly have an elemental affinity which would increase an elementalist’s efficiency by folds. Et cetera.

In theory, this was probably the building embedding arrays of sorts, and this meant she’d have unlimited access to different arrays in the future!

It was available at Town Level 3 though, so it was still far from her.

These buildings made it really tempting to upgrade to Town (she had saved a few building slots), however, she decided to still hold back and delay the upgrade for as long as she could anyway.

She still wanted to be overpowered.

That was the way to live peacefully in a place where fists ruled.