After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World - Chapter 1116

Chapter 1116: Looting
A/N: Belated Happy Lunar New Year everyone!

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First of all, there were hundreds of monsters they were used to and therefore knew a lot. For example, after months of trial and error (and a lot of serendipity), they found unexpected uses for some body parts of common monsters.

For example, the ubiquitous gnomos, which were large green rodent-like critters with short tails. They were weak, yes, but their fecundity dwarfed that of the goblins’.

First of all, the Gnomos’ tails moved a lot even after death—like decapitated worms—and they could be used as distractions when they were fighting humans.

They were also excellent fishing baits…

Then… at some point, someone accidentally found a special fungus in the monster’s skin. After some study, they found that it seemed to have a symbiotic relationship with the gnomos’ body.

After a bit more research, these spores were found to enhance the effects of the Beast Attracting potion—particularly in terms of its effectivity with a wider variety of monsters. Perhaps it had something to do with the gnomos’ presence everywhere. Who knew…

As for how the Research Center figured this out, they had no idea—nor did they want to know.

Anyway, anything the Research Center would use could sell for a LOT of money and points. If they figured out the special use themselves, then they’d make even more!

This fostered an atmosphere of exploration in the population that would amaze the aborigines for years to come.

Anyway, starting with the Gnomos, more and more discoveries were made in the months that followed.

For instance, the Stormdoer, which was one of the first ‘strong’ beasts they encountered. It was a monster as huge as a bear but had the head of a long-nosed lion. It was a weak monster to them now but, when they started, a lot of people were killed by this particular monster.

Anyway, let alone its sturdy pelt, their manes made for very sturdy threads, which would create interesting bags, shoes, and so on that (if made properly) would not be easily destroyed by level 10 monsters.

There was also the Heather Rabbit, which was an alien and ugly version of the rabbit they knew. This one they found out through Taho, their new Beast master. The heather rabbit apparently had a special bone in its body that Beast masters used for their whistles.

Because it was a trade secret (lest the price for the material increased) and was registered and patented in the system, this use was not indicated when experts used their [Assesment Skills].

Next was the Tanto rat, which was similar to the bamboo rat except they were blood-thirsty. It had special stomach acid that created another type of fertilizer that was useful to grass-type plants like bamboo, wheat, and the flute plant.

Finally, there was the Juju Toad, which was the common blue frog-like creature as tall as their waists. It had acidic stomach bile which really helped increase the flexibility of hides without reducing its durability.

It would eventually be one of the main components for the research assigned to Clutch nearly a year prior—the effective combination of plants and armors.

Anyway, with the new town-level monsters, they were naturally more excited!

These were strong monsters, and therefore their meat and their pelts alone were far more valuable than the loot they were used to! Imagine what they could discover after a few more months!!

Many people started to rummage the carnage, yelling for more broats and bike carts to come and help them haul things out.

However, their carelessness was quickly doused with guardedness when they found a few people hiding underneath, immediately attacking them. The person was immediately killed by a sentry, but not before he stabbed at the Alterran.

Fortunately, the victim was a guard with a working protection token so nothing happened, but it certainly alerted everyone to be a bit more careful when they were scouring for loot.

Soon, they found more people who were still alive among the enemies. One of them was Tout himself, still miraculously alive. He apparently ordered nearby slaves to cover for him with their own bodies— all while he desperately dug the soil so he could melsh better with the ground.

He unsurprisingly got his token on, though no one was really interested in that one except to sell.

Althea was wondering how much it would sell for. From what she gathered, a Village Token could sell at a minimum of 1000 gold—and this was the absolute worst type of village that had low chances of surviving a mob without the injection of funds. However, depending on its quality and resources, this price could go up to about 10,000 or even more.

If she were to assess Alterra’s Token though—just for thought—it would definitely be at least several times of that.

Garan remained outside with the soldiers to make sure everything was handled well and without accidents, while Althea watched as the corpses of the monsters passed through the threshold, cart by cart, to various industries like meat sellers, tanners, and teams that specialized in butchering monster bodies.

Speaking of which, she took a look at her stats. She also took a look at her loot as well as her stats.

There had been a lot of notifications, but there were so many enemies that she hadn’t taken note. There wasn’t a ‘see history’ feature in the system, which was a pity, but thankfully she had an eidetic memory and she could take this time to absorb her rewards.

First, she recalled the rewards from the war against Resso Village, which was a decent amount of gold from the territory and the new slaves. It wasn’t much, considering it was a village, only several hundred gold and tens of thousands of silver.

As for population, they received nearly 9 thousand new people from Resso alone, though not everyone was on this side of the territory. By estimate, there should still be a thousand or two unaccounted for and still in Resso Village.

The allied territories were also not punished by the system so Alterra didn’t get anything from them.

The ones they captured would be manually set as prisoners of war, as mentioned prior, but she honestly wasn’t too excited for them.

If she was just a little heartless, she’d have let all of these people die instead. However, she hadn’t gotten into enough danger and felt enough threat to go down that hole quite yet.

Fortunately… the reward for turning into a Town was much more satisfying.