After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World - Chapter 296

Chapter 296: Level Three Village (Part 1)
[Congratulations on upgrading to Village Level 3!]

[Received +5000 wood, +3000 stone, +5000 Gold, +2 building slots]

[Collected resources detected outside Resource Space. Merge? Yes | No]

[Detected deferred expansion, would you like to expand now?]

Althea stared at the magical screen floating in front of her, her emerald eyes following the floating luminescent particles in thought.

She pondered whether to defer the expansion again. After all, a smaller area to defend was more practical.

In the end, though, she wasn’t comfortable not having level 5 fences and she found that just changing the current fence to level 5 was too wasteful.

So, she decided to expand in the end. Anyway, she had so much preparation, it should be fine as long as no one was careless.

She looked at the map and saw a semi-transparent shape overlapping the current 1-kilometer radius circle.

Her delicate hand rose and she touched it and she soon realized that it was moldable. This meant that she was able to choose which area to expand towards.

Outside the scope of the current territory, the available map to her as a Lord was the available map to her as a person, this meant that lords that didn’t explore would be expanding blindly.

Fortunately, she had consolidated maps of other people, mostly by buying the information via the Village center, so she was very aware of the surrounding areas tens of kilometers away.

To summarize the surrounding terrain: South and West were mostly hilly forest. East, northeast and Southeast had flatter terrain. North and a portion of the Northwest were mostly mountainous and rocky areas.

Contrary to most people, who would only choose to expand East, she actually chose to enclose a lot of area towards the northern mountains.

This was not only to expand on her luxury areas there but also her attempt to secure the natural water source from the mountain.

All poison was expelled during the creation of the territory, but no one knew for sure what happened after.

What if the purifying function was a one-off?

Anyway, she had heard stories from the NPCs where warring territories poisoned their enemies’ water sources. While it could’ve been poisoned from the inside, there was still the possibility of the poison being added upstream.

While she was figuring out a way to safeguard her rivers, the safest bet she had was to secure a water source in the first place. In her case, it was the mountain springs, which created tributaries towards the river.

Despite consuming a good bulk of the mountains though, she still had plenty of expansion area because of her previous deferral.

After the mountain, she then expanded towards the east and noutheast with relatively more flat lands, conducive for construction and planting, and a bit more towards the forests.

[TERRITORY STATS

Status: Level 3 Village

Area: 12,566,400 square meters

Residents: 1315 (323 permanent, 992 temporary)

Total Population: 3224

Base Resources:

Wood: 18700/20000

Stone: 14200/15000

Money: 26711 Gold, 143669 Silver, 798199 copper

Reputation: 150

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

Bonus Building: Custom Building

Building Slots: 7/9 (+1)]

In terms of area, it seems like a Level 3 village would have a maximum scope of 2 kilometer radius.

She looked at her stats, relieved, and immediately started the major construction works. Of course, beginning with the best wall available at her level—the level 5 Walls. It was about 6 meter in height and required 0.5 wood and 0.3 stone per meter, in addition to 75 silver per meter.

Her eyes twitched at the potential costs. After all, her perimeter increased from over 6 thousand meters to over 12 thousand meters.

By calculation, the wall should be finished in a few hours. Even if there were mobs that would get to them so early, it shouldn’t be much of a problem with the old wall (temporarily) still up.

She built a new wall directly at level 5, however not to the edge as to give an allowance for a secondary wall.

[Built Wall (Lv5): -6284 Wood, -3770 Stone, -9425 Gold]

She closed her eyes, refusing to look at the numbers as if she could physically feel the pain. She even had to massage the back of her neck because it felt stiff.

Next were the Gates (Lv5) which was basically as tall as the wall and hopefully even stronger.

[-300 Wood, -300 Stone, -50 Gold]

[-300 Wood, -300 Stone, -50 Gold]

When the new wall was set, she took down the old wall and recycled over half of the resources that were used to make the old wall.

[Wall (Lv3) Recycled]

[Received! +500 wood, +500 stone!]

[Sentry and Gates (Lv3) Recycled]

[Received! +730 Wood, +415 Stone]

In the zone of mass shopping, she also added sentries at the optimal distances of 100 meters apart, allowing two sentries to guard an area as before. She also directly chose level 5 sentries which could deal with level 20 monsters with relative ease.

[Sentries (Lv5) capable of hitting enemies 100 meters away. Strength Rating (C)

[Rate: 1 shot per 1 second

[Wood consumption: 0.01 wood per shot

[Construction: 100 wood, 50 stone, 15 gold per sentry

[Would you like to build 125 Sentries (Lv5)?

[Yes| No]

It was unfortunate they still had a cooling down period so she still had to mobilize the whole territory to defend, but it was now thrice as effective with ⅓ Cool down period and much stronger hits. Naturally, she wouldn’t be stingy.

[Yes]

[-12500 Wood, -6250 Stone, -2500 Gold]

[Construction failed. Insufficient Resources.]

Oh. My. Goodness.

Her head rang. She seemed to have been so used to being rich that it didn’t occur to her she’d be lacking??

However, she calmed down and calculated. She saw that the resources needed weren’t much, so she immediately sent an announcement, buying out resources for twice the cost, valid for 3 hours.

The teacup in front of her refilled and she lifted her eyes to look at Oslo, who was gently smiling my lord. “Is there anything the matter, Milord?”

She looked at the room and saw the Aborigines looking at her in concern. She must’ve looked so distraught for them to look so worried.

“I was surprised I lacked resources. That’s all.”

The NPCs were surprised. Although they didn’t know for sure how much money the lord had, she should still be extremely rich.

“What did you build, my lord?”

“A level 5 wall althroughout. I wanted to build sentries every 100 meters, but I lacked the resources.”

Brenda, who was chewing on a cookie, coughed wildly, shocked, and Betty had to use her ability to quickly comfort her.

“Oh my elves.”

Otherwise, silence ensued before the aborigines finally had the energy to utter something.

Clutch cleared his throat and stared at the lord. “Level 5 walls and sentries?”

“Those are only found in mid-tier Towns,” Betty mumbled, still patting the still-coughing Brenda.

Althea looked at them. “Well, I guess it’s a good thing then because a lot of my money has been sucked out.”

And she looked so very dissatisfied with this.

The aborigine’s lips twitched. That was a LOT of gold, right? My goodness. They want to tell her, she didn’t have to set the standards so impossibly high!