After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World - Chapter 763

Chapter 763: Final Clearing
Alterra Village

While their Lord was digging enemy territory, the final clearing was happening in Alterra.

The enemies were tied and locked, heading towards their prison, while the others were set aside for further interrogations.

Fortunately, the rain had been reduced to trickles. “The rain is finally stopping…” a citizen mumbled, relieved. “Well, sort of.”

During this time, they realized the effects of rain during fights. Not only were the fire abilities basically useless, it really affected everyone else as well.

They consumed a lot more energy and people had to be taken to the hospitals even when the war had completely turned one-sided. Why? Because they couldn’t recover the energies fast enough.

Anyway, now that things had calmed, they rounded up the enemies to be placed in the two prisons, with the strong ones in the System Prison.

There were hundreds of prisoners taken in, and they’d definitely have to be squeezed uncomfortably inside.

Another awesome thing about aether prisons was that it self-cleaned.

They couldn’t imagine having to clean after these jerks!

As for the manual prison, there was a proper toilet there, and they’d definitely be beaten up by other prisoners if they dirtied their floor.

Bit by bit, they brought people in, waiting for the official announcement that the war was over before completely relaxing.

Still, it couldn’t be helped that most would let go of some tension. Their hearts and nervousness had calmed to some degree, and most had time to absorb what had happened.

This was especially true for the aborigines who had lived with wars since as far as they could remember.

All their lives, wars were synonymous to death and suffering. If a territory like Guia Village attacked them, if they were in any other village, they’d have assumed they’d have lost early on.

But Alterra came out as a clear winner.

Alterra was only a couple of months old.

One of the most shocked was the aborigines from the Terran mercenary team. For instance, Knauf and Essed.

They had never been in such a war before. They had watched as the leading team did their best to protect the people, even using those bombs—those must’ve been expensive—just to increase people’s rate of survival.

They also saw how the injured were immediately taken to the hospitals by brethren, with designated ‘logistics’ people dedicated just to rescue people.

They had also seen how people protected and lifted each other up, rather than what they had been used to.

What made them most in awe was the results of the war.

To their knowledge, no one inside the territory died! There were hundreds of injuries, but no deaths!

Unprecedented!

Guia was not weak! Even they had heard of it back in Ferrol. It was hailed as one of the top villages in the entire human territory.

To be honest, when they heard they had been called to go all the way here to assist in a village war, it felt as if they had been demoted. They had also thought they’d be the frontliners who would be carrying the weaker locals on their backs.

But they quickly realized… that they had thought too much of themselves.

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Many of these war achievements were naturally not a secret to the visitors, who had been watching as spectators.

Their residencies were in other higher-ranked territories, so they naturally didn’t have anything to fear even if Alterra lost.

They watched aside as audiences and ended up learning a lot.

While they thought that not taking slaves was unnecessary, they did see a lot about how warfare could go. They saw how good putting sentries inside could be, they saw the advantages of wide roads during wars, and many others.

There were even two battle pets, who were both far from their masters, that focused on protecting other people. They shielded them and worked with them well. Judging by their teamwork, the visitors could tell that the battle pets had been training with a lot of people other than just their masters.

A lot of the aborigines, especially those from villages, had also seen Half-orcs for the first time. They had heard of their reputation and today they confirmed that were indeed very strong.

They watched in interest as the orc was treated as a genuine—and respected—member of the team. It was a bit incomprehensible to them, but the seeds of the idea had been planted, casting doubt to what they had believed in.

Even before the war, their worldviews had began to shake as they were exposed to various products, people, and concepts. After the war, they realized that it was a more enlightening trip than they had thought.

They didn’t expect it to be like this coming here. They thought they’d just be making some money!

Before… they just thought that whoever won, they were sure to still get those products, the output just depended on who they’d be talking to.

If Alterra lost, then a lot of their items would be sent to Guia (because a lot of the resources would go to them), though they preferred to make deals directly as the cost was really much lower.

Further, if Alterra got weakened due to the war, a lot of these people had been planning to tell their respective lords about it. That way, they could decide to send some subsidiaries to weaken it further. That way, they’d have bigger pieces of the pie.

This wasn’t anything new in Xeno, and it was why high-potential territories would often be cut from the bud.

But this was not the case with Alterra.

It won such a strong enemy with flying colors and they immediately knew it was not worth losing as a business partner. Besides, it wasn’t like the cost of the items was so high—especially if purchased directly from the village.

It wasn’t worth making an enemy of such a village that could very well rise to a Town in a few years or less.

They were also very interested in this show of strength and they wondered if they could get a hold of those hand-held weapons they could see. They were available to some of them, but the costs were high.

Speaking of which, the cost the territory accrued just to minimize the injuries of their vanguards was no joke.

This meant that it’d spend however much it had to protect its people—and that was something terrifying to go against.

Alterra…, was definitely the territory to watch out for.