After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World - Chapter 62

Chapter 62: Choosing Buildings
Directly skipping the disappointing Residential Tab, she began to peruse the Shops tag.

Looking at the holographic images, prices, and interface theme with earthy tones, Althea thought that this felt like e-commerce on a whole different level.

The restaurant required 100 wood, 50 stone, and 50 gold to produce. The other similar shops like bakery, BBQ store, and the soup store required the same.

She did not even consider these, however. After tasting the restaurant, she didn’t believe the others were any better.

Like the residential tab, this part would also be (temporarily) skipped.

She went to the other parts of the Building Tab and saw the Weapons store and armory.

These required twice the resources and gold than that of restaurants. But she mused she would definitely take this for the automatic production of weapons and armours alone.

Not to mention, upgrading the buildings would also allow more powerful equipment to be available.

Without anyone who could consistently create weapons, these would be essential buildings added to her list of ‘to build, possibly’.

Other buildings were grayed out, indicating her level was not high enough.

The third tab was marked Production. Only a 600 sqm farm was available for purchase.

It increased the production of plants by 20%. Considering the fast refresh of the resources here, this 20% was immeasurable.

It was just that while there was no requirement on wood or stone, the gold requirement was huge at 10 gold per 600-square-meter field.

She could imagine how the other lords with only 1000 gold would fare. Would they even purchase this? Especially when there were so many resources outside?

She doubted it.

The fourth tab was Administration. Here, only two buildings were available, but both made her eyes brighten.

The first was the Village Center. With the village center, the Lord could post missions and recruitment.

She could also buy supplies in the name of the territory. She could set the buying price and quantity and people simply had to go there to sell their items for money.

The Lord would also obtain the ability to send messages not only to all residents in real time, but also allied territories.

It was just that the last function had a level requirement, but it wasn’t like she had allied territories anyway.

Of course, being extremely useful, the price was also very beautiful. It required 200 wood, 100 stone, and 300 gold.

The other administrative building was the Warehouse. The lowest level cost only 100 wood and 200 gold, but the size was 200 sqm with a 3 meter height.

From the introduction, it seemed that she could also see the contents from her Lord panel next to the resource space tab.

She could also take items as needed, as long as she was within the territory. It had a fresh keeping function which increased the shelf life by at least twice the time, and it would increase as the building was upgraded.

Next one was Infrastructure, though for now only dirt and simple stone pathwalks were provided. Fortunately, these were very inexpensive so she didn’t have to be stingy. These also didn’t consume a building slot.

Second to the last tab was Defense, and she immediately went to the Wall section. Here, she saw that a wooden fence 1 meter in height cost 0.1 wood and 5 silver per meter section.

Very affordable.

However, level 2 stone walls made a markedly huge price difference. 2 meter high stone walls cost 0.1 wood, 0.1 stone, and 10 silver per meter.

If she chose to cover the entire territory the cost would be sky high. The perimeter of her territory was nearly 6.3 kilometers. For a level 2 fence, the per meter cost would be over 600 wood and stone each, and over 600 gold.

Level 3 was even more insane, with total costs of 1000 wood and stone each, and over 1500 gold.

But—

[Do you want to build a Wall (Lv3) for 1000 wood, 1000 stone, 1500 gold?

The construction is permanent and cannot be moved, only demolished for a cost.

Yes | No ]

[-1000 wood, -1000 stone, – 1500 gold]

Althea looked at her wealth being eaten by a bulk with a complicted expression.

There was no other way: What happened to the Royal Territory really traumatized her.

Although level 3 was expensive, its durability was 10 times that of the previous level, and hundreds of times better than the wooden fence.

She had the money so she directly placed the wall around the entire territory.

In fact, if she had enough stone and wood, she’d have built the Lv4 wall directly.

One had to note that the existing walls couldn’t be moved. Even if they were upgradable, the rectification cost would not be cheap and it would still be more cost-effective to build a level 4 wall directly.

It was just that the wood and stone requirements were huge and beyond her resource cap, if she were to construct other buildings as well. She’d need to level up first before getting access to the level 4 wall.

She watched as a long elongated pit around the territory formed like magic, and from the bottom construction started.

Althea could tell that the wall itself would also erect itself in a similar manner.

Everyone ran to the area and marveled at the sight.

“So cool!”

“This is amazing…”

“How much does this cost?”

“This is unscientific!”

“Everything is unscientific.”

“Oh, you’re right.”

Althea chuckled at their antics and resumed studying the territory tab.

Finally, she came to the last tab and had no text. It was an image of gears.

She opened it and as she read, her eyes became brighter and brighter.

Before this, she had wondered if she had to build things on her own.

But, while not impossible, this wasn’t practical. With the current situation, the manual methods she could only use were the older traditional construction methodologies.

These often took months, or weeks at best.

With the four of them? A good stone building could even take a year…

She had not forgotten that the so-called protection period will end in a few weeks… at most.

After all, she still wasn’t certain how long a ‘month’ was in this blasted place!

But now that was not a problem:

Because she could, apparently, customize buildings!