After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World - Chapter 1117

Chapter 1117: Town Status
[Received! 15000 Wood, 15000 Stone, 15000 Gold, +2 Building Slots]

[You may now upgrade Farm (Lv2).]

[You may now upgrade Training Hall (Lv2).]

[New Buildings Unlocked!]

Well… while the money was not particularly special to her wallet, what really made her excited about the upgrade was the availability of new building slots, upgraded buildings, and the new special buildings.

Before doing more though, she went to look at her new stats.

[TERRITORY STATS

Status: Level 1 Town

Area: 28, 270,000 square meters

Residents: 14585 (4913 permanent, 9672 temporary)

Total Population: 29824

Base Resources:

Wood: 29300/40000

Stone: 24220/30000

Money: 139731 Gold, 439199 Silver, 5298699 copper

Prestige: 2110

Buildings: Village Center (Lv3) , Weaponry Shop (Lv3), Defensive Wall (Lv5), Warehouse (Lv3), Farm (Lv2), Training Hall (Lv2), BathHouse (Lv2), Prison (Lv1)

Bonus Building: Custom Buildingx3, Armory (Lv3), Restaurant (Lv3), Special Torch (Lv1), Well (Lv3), Barracks (Lv3)

Custom Aether Buildings: Library (Lv1), Lighthouse Watchtower (Lv1), Hospital (Lv1)

Building Slots: 8/11 (+11)]

When there was an option in the ‘system’, it would remain floating until she answered. This time, there were plenty of questions about whether she wanted to upgrade so-and-so and there was also a notification of whether she wanted to expand.

She did not delay the expansion this time, increasing the scope of her territory. She spread out more along the river for more resources, taking over another tributary from the mountains, creating a more regular-and-roughly circular shape.

Even so, while she decided to expand this time, she would not be building new walls—at least not one that covered the entire area.

Although the area wasn’t restricted to a circle, the areas were calculated approximately in relation to a certain radius. At level 1 Village, with a 1 km radius, the maximum area was 3.14 square kilometers.

For level 2 Villages, the approximate radius was 1.5 km. Albeit she didn’t expand back then, the maximum area was around 7 square kilometers.

Finally, at Village Level 3, she had a 2 km radius to play with, so her maximum area was more than 12 square kilometers. With her current population and the expected boom, it was still more than enough for a while.

Her current area, with an approximately 3 kilometer radius, had expanded to more than twice of that.

This was really huge—too huge for their current forces, and it wasn’t practical to wall all that land if she wasn’t going to maximize it yet.

At most, she’d create an outer secondary wall in certain areas she wanted to use, which would eventually make the entire territory line look like irregular stars in shape.

For now, she only expanded so the poisonous plants and bugs would be pushed out beyond the wall, but it would not be guarded by a wall. This way, her people could forage relatively peacefully even far away from the walls.

The reason she didn’t do this back when she was a Level 2 Village was that the aether of a bigger territory seemed to also be bigger than their smaller counterparts. Expanding… would’ve made them even more attractive to beast mobs.

Their population was so small at the time, and it was better to hunt around at their own pace.

Now…, they were a Town and they still had some catching up to do to match the average levels of Townspeople, so she decided expansion could be done as soon as possible.

There was also the fact that the next level wall she wanted—Level 7—was unavailable at this time and would require her to upgrade once more to access it.

Anyway, putting that aside for now, she went to take a look at the new building options.

Aside from more restaurant and food options, the new residential houses available now had toilets with seatings (made of stone), and some more expensive ones even had tubs. Of course, that wasn’t something that interested her in the slightest.

There were also two-storey commercial buildings available now, which was indicative of how Towns were—commercial hubs. Of course, that didn’t interest her either.

She then looked at upgrade requirements for several buildings, which were apparently met a long time ago, except for the fact that Alterra needed to be in a Town to actually upgrade.

[The Farmlands (Lv2) are now eligible for Upgrade!]

[Plants in Level 3 farms will be granted a 30% increase in productivity and 100% increase in survivability.]

This was compared to the Level 2 Farms, so this value was not small.

[Would you like to upgrade all existing Farmlands (Lv2) for 10230 gold? Yes |No]

How many fields did she have now? She reckoned there were more than a thousand, though they were maximized to go above and below ground. That said, this meant that the cost of upgrade was now around 10 gold per field.

She hesitated for a bit. It wasn’t that she wasn’t being too stingy—she did not lack that gold—but she had to make sure the farmers and the land renters would be able to pay for the increased rent that’d come with it.

So, like before, she would send out the option for individual upgrades instead, wherein the current user of the land would have the prerogative to increase its level.

In order to make it fair for both parties, she would have them pay for the entire cost of the upgrade, but they’d be able to use the land rent-free for the next year. For those who owned their farmland, then she’d simply charge them the bare upgrade cost.

New farms or farms that would be opened for rental would be directly upgraded to Level 3. In that case, she’d charge 2 gold for a month’s rent.

If one calculated this way, most landowners would definitely take the first deal. It would just be an advantage of being an existing renter/landowner.

Anyway, if she were to estimate how much improvement it would bring if another Extreme Weather happened, then the drought-resistant plants and many others would survive without having to do extra protective measures.

Next… was the Training Hall. She looked at her panel to check for the upgrade requirements.

[The Training Hall (Lv2) is now eligible for upgrade!]

[Would you like to upgrade the Training Hall (Lv2) to Training Hall (Lv3) for 20000 Wood, 10000 Stone, and 30000 Gold? Yes| No?]

Her eyebrows rose.

Whoa…