After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World - Chapter 150

Chapter 150: Build-Up
[17 days of Protection Period]

Althea’s chin rested on the base of her palms as she fondly watched her children… well, exist.

Listening to her children giggling with their new customized toys, the gentle smile on Althea’s face grew wider.

They particularly seemed to like the rotating cartoonized Terran animals hanging above their heads. Very cuddly.

Speaking of wooden children’s toys, Althea had to say Baron’s business mind was something else. It had only been a few days but he and his team—a very well-balanced team with both fighters and artisans—had already bought 3 commercial modules.

These modules were all quite important and have become household names within the territory: One module was for furniture, another one was for toys and other paraphernalia, and the last one (still under construction) was for leather products including but not limited to, leather clothing and shoes.

Of course, most of them were still ongoing development but one could see the potential from a mile away.

It was also because of this group that she placed a maximum of 5 real estate properties (of any form) per person.

After all, she knew her commercial spaces would be in very high demand. It wouldn’t do for someone to monopolize them.

Speaking of wood products, when would paper appear?

She took out her tablet to study the methodology of paper making, eyebrows raising as she did so. Compared to what they have been doing so far, paper was actually relatively simple to create.

She decided to partner with Baron’s woodmakers for this.

Putting this note aside, she went to take a peek at the status of her territory.

[TERRITORY STATS

Status: Level 2 Village

Area: 3,142,000 square meters

Residents: 431 (81 permanent, 350 temporary)

Total Population: 964

Base Resources:

Wood: 9300/10000

Stone: 7100/8000

Money: 12582 Gold, 99263 Silver, 174497 copper

Reputation: 50

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

Bonus Building: Custom Building

Building Slots: 7/7 (+1)]

“Hm…”

Because she was out cold the past few days, the resources had pretty much caught up.

This meant she could finally start building comfortably again. She looked at the deferred item. If she chose to expand this time, the perimeter would be more than 12.5 kilometers long.

[Would you like to expand your wall to the edge?

Movement Cost: 1110 wood, 1110 stones, 3500 Gold

Building Cost: 2010 wood, 2010 stones, 3140 Gold]

It seemed that moving the walls was actually more expensive than creating a new level 3 wall in terms of gold but, at the same time, it would be using half the resources.

This made sense because they could recycle old resources, but the ‘labor cost’ of demolition, transfer, and construction was more.

In the end, she decided to keep the old wall and defer the placement of the wall to the new border.

Anyway, there was still plenty of space and—for better or for worse—not too big of a population.

Not to mention, the upgrade to level 3 should only need 1,000 residents at most, and her current size and speed of construction would be able to handle this little number.

It was the upgrade after that that would be a challenge, as the aborigines mentioned they had not encountered a town with less than 20,000 population (so far).

In any case, her (planned) dormitories alone could swallow a thousand with no problem, not to mention she would still provide many housing types for people’s choosing.

She decided to place a level 5 wall directly when she expanded a second time, to create an inner city and then simply expand outwards during the succeeding upgrades.

According to the NPCs, Level 5 Walls were already above-average defense even in towns, which was just right if she wanted to retain her advantages every tier she climbed up to.

It must also be very expensive.

So, for now, it was better to invest the reward money in money-making buildings instead.

Looking at the map, she first set the construction time to 27:00:00 in the evening. She kind of wanted to surprise people when they woke up.

First, she dealt with the residential buildings.

She set up several more dormitory communities with designated small parks in the middle, located deep in the residential zone. This area alone would be enough to accommodate a thousand people.

The more populous Southwest Avenue would finally be lined with commercial buildings. Of course, the roads would maintain the greenery, keeping the beautiful approach to the main areas.

There would be several new communities with hundreds of houses. Mostly of duplex communities, the best-selling housing type she had so far.

She also made sure to add enough open spaces every few blocks.

Her goal was that if one walked around Altera, one would find a path or two covered with trees at all times.

This was healthy, practical, and very atmospheric.

There would also be a bigger commercial street perpendicular to the main roads, ending in cul-de-sacs.

These streets would be pedestrian-only streets, filled with park walkways, benches, and the occasional small park and playgrounds.

Then she placed public toilets adjacent to the larger parks. There would be payment per use to avoid their degradation, but definitely very affordable.

Marketplaces for stalls and commercial events would also be placed along this area. It would eat about a thousand square meters, with set locations for stalls, on each side.

After a thought, she decided to place a small Events place in the middle, should someone want to sponsor it. For example, if a stall owner hoped to bring more customers, he could use this area to promote his/her products, for a small cost.

When the area wasn’t rented, benches and other rest areas would be placed there.

Going back to the pedestrian-only streets. She planned the ends of these streets, the cul-de-sacs, would have malls and other large-scale commercial spaces. Some mid-level inns were included in this.

These buildings would be erected manually because the current modules would not be able to support them.

The limitation of the custom modules was not only in area but also in its use and allocation. She could catch the ‘residential use only’ loophole in the storefronts simply because people could use the upper floors as residential.

Similarly, her supermarket—an enlarged version of the grocery store—would also need to be built manually. She already reserved the building on one of the cul-de-sacs.

As for the current grocery store, it would remain operational even after the opening of the supermarket, though it would shift focus to serve more as a convenience store instead.

Inns and village clinics also had to be built manually. The advantage of this was that they would have more leeway in designing, so they weren’t limited to two floors.

For the clinics, they opted for three floors, and for the inns, they decided on four.

That said, other buildings that used dormitories like schools could be made from modules, but it didn’t feel very organized to do so. She didn’t want it too horizontal either, feeling that it was a waste of space, so having higher floors for the school was also ideal.

Speaking of building heights, she should add merit to Oslo and his knowledge, otherwise, they wouldn’t dare build high in this gravity.

Although aborigines didn’t build high it was because they didn’t have the concept of reinforcements like they did. The material, combined with the reinforcing fibers they discovered, allowed them to build manually until the fourth floor.

Anyway, her construction team was huge and efficient so it wasn’t much work to build manually.

They needed to build their bodies as much as risk their skins outside to get stronger anyway, so she didn’t worry too much about the construction workers’ training.

Smaller clinics could also be made, but that would be work for other people. That was to say, if there were medical professionals who hoped to own their businesses in the industry, she’d support them with open arms.

She was a very good lord, she proudly told herself. She could easily give preferential treatment to professionals needed by the territory, leading to a win-win situation, and also retaining herself good talent.

Now that the commercial and residential zones were completed, her emerald eyes shifted to the rest of the territory—to the so-called source of life of a Civilized Society.

The Agricultural and Industrial zones.