After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World - Chapter 297

Chapter 297: Level Three Village (Part 2)
Unlike the others who were looking at the lord with a mix of worship and incomprehension, Oslo smiled and handed her some cookies instead.

The others soon calmed down and adopted a similar stance. After all, they ought to stop being so surprised.

Althea didn’t know what was going on in her NPCs’ heads as she was focused on the map of the territory that had become too large. Fortunately, the map had a zoom feature.

As always, while the terminology was modern Terran, the actual interface was a lot more magical looking that it sounded. When she zoomed in, it was more like billions of tiny fireflies floated around to build her the image. It was very amazing.

She studied the map closer and went to the edges. She did not build to the edge of the allowable building area, at least by the avenues.

She turned to look at Oslo. “You said that the building function cannot work during territorial wars?”

“Yes, milord.”

“What about during beast tides?”

“…”

“?”

“I… haven’t thought about it, milord.” Oslo blushed a bit, embarrassed.

Althea pursed her lips in amusement. “I was just curious. Don’t think too much.”

In any case, she had left about 50 meters away from the main walls on the side of the gates. Horizontally, it would extend about 100 meters from either side of the gates, leaving an open space of about a hectare.

The NPCs said that the building options were blocked during Territory wars, but she mused it was not necessarily the case during beast tides. During the last beast tide, she was too busy in the East gate to remember to try it out.

These secondary gates would have plenty of uses.

For one, refugees and visitors that happened to arrive during wars would be able to hide there temporarily, should the gates be closed.

It was a little costly, but she planned to add a level 3 fence all around as a barricade to give a chance for relatively safe close combat. She also added level 3 sentries there for extra measure. Theoretically, this meant that at least four sentries would be attacking monsters in certain areas, primarily where most of the fight was happening.

Before clicking though, she paused and looked at the NPCs watching her graceful movements in fascination (despite not seeing her ‘screen’ at all).

“Has there been a case where the sentries attacked a citizen?”

Oslo, who had been embarrassed for not answering her earlier question, jumped to answer this one. “No, milord. When it’s not during a territory war, unless the person happened to move in the way, the sentries generally did not hit citizens.

“Anyone registered as a visitor or citizen in a territory will not be attacked by it unless expressly set by the lord.”

Althea’s eyebrows rose at this, “We can add directions to sentries?”

“I’ve seen it done in cities, but I do not know of the requirements.”

She looked at her panel and saw no additional instructions for level 3 sentries, but there was indeed an additional box for level 5.

There was a one-time payable amount per instruction per sentry, however.

There were options on who it would attack. In fact, when Oslo said that visitors would not be attacked, she was both relieved and worried.

Now, she had an answer to these.

After all… what if someone paid the visitors’ fee and caused chaos inside the territory? The automatic blacklisting took a few seconds to work.

And what about during the wars, where the automatic blacklisting was temporarily disabled? What if there was an enemy who registered as a visitor first and then attacked from the inside?

Don’t tell her she was being paranoid, the whole inside job method had been done historically a lot of times even in Terran.

Anyway, she definitely appreciated this feature, very much.

Other than the defense structures, she also extended the avenues accordingly but did not build anything else for now.

She would study the available buildings when she had the time, but a preliminary look told her there was no building essential for the upcoming war.

Fortunately, the necessary resources soon arrived at her fingertips, so she could start building the sentries as well.

“My people are so efficient,” she said with a smile, and the NPCs couldn’t help but smile with her.

[-12566 Wood, -7540 Stone, -2514 Gold]

Outside the building, the walls and sentries were slowly erected to the amazement of the citizens—who immediately ran to the border to watch the show.

Hey, who told the entertainment program to be delayed due to all these wars? They could only rely on these things for fun.

A few hours later, the walls and the sentries finally stood straight. The walls were five meters high and its battlements were over a meter thick. The sentries were even taller than this at over six meters in height.

Everyone who looked at it would inevitably feel a sense of security.

[TERRITORY STATS

Status: Level 3 Village

Area: 12,566,400 square meters

Residents: 1315 (323 permanent, 992 temporary)

Total Population: 3224

Base Resources:

Wood: 700/20000

Stone: 200/15000

Money: 11531 Gold, 143669 Silver, 798199 copper

Reputation: 150

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

Bonus Building: Custom Building

Building Slots: 7/9 (+1)]

She watched her glorious wealth halve with a snap. Not to mention the wood and stone resources, which were reduced to three digits…

However, she looked at the overbearing defense she had created and knew in her heart it was worth it.

Althea opened her Lord Panel, making an important announcement.

[The Beast Tide will appear in less than 6 hours. Everyone outside the territory must return immediately, no one is allowed to leave the territory during this period.]

[There is a high chance that level 4 monsters will appear. Please prepare accordingly.]

She heaved a sigh and her back rested at the upholstery.

The NPCs frowned, hearts hurt by how stressed she was.

“You’ve done well, milord,” Oslo said and the others nodded. His blue eyes looked at her deeply and added. “Too well, in fact.”

The Aborigines couldn’t help but look at each other and then at their lord who was doing her best to protect everyone in her turf.

They, too, would protect the territory with their lives.

They swore on it.