After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World - Chapter 814

Chapter 814: Supreme Village
Supreme Village

Meanwhile, one of the easternmost Terran Villages—the Supreme Village—was currently undergoing its second war.

“Milord, be careful!” A guard managed to block an attack on the lord, his sword creating a screeching sound with the enemy’s weapon.

The aforementioned Lord, on the other hand, just screamed like a pig.

“SHITSHITSHIT!” he yelled and he barely avoided another blade from an enemy. Next to him were his cronies, mixed with fighters and cowards.

One of the cowards couldn’t help but look at him with a wronged expression. “Why did we not hire more aborigines again, milord?” he asked. “Why did you let the ones we had leave?!”

“Don’t you think I don’t know that, you fucker?!” The man cursed. It wasn’t like he didn’t want to hire new aborigines—but he couldn’t!!

This was a territory primarily composed of Yuta Country citizens.

The cowardly lord here, Ongko, was the son of a powerful individual back in Terran. Well, he was.

This was the son who stupidly exposed his father’s wrong doings—to Mathilda, Gill, and the Edenian party—by accident, which in turn ruined his family’s lives.

Well, technically Gill did, but he didn’t know this yet.

Anyway, he was on house arrest during the first disaster. Because of this, his house was pretty much blocked from zombies and he survived without a problem. He also managed to take more than almost 2000 gold from his home so when he went here, he was given a Lord Token.

How happy he was at the time! How smug!

He didn’t have his father, yet he had his own land!

Anyway, when he saw all the magical buildings… he splurged. He was confident and hired the strongest NPCs he could at Level 2!

After weeks, he managed to get 2 guards at level 7 and 8, as well as a cook (though apparently not ‘system’-tagged). He also bought a lot of ‘plain’ hires like cleaners and sluts.

Anyway, he knew that he was far superior to any of the others around—even the hired NPCs said so—and this bloated his arrogance to no end.

Sadly, the NPCs didn’t renew their contract and left for some reason (note: he was an ass) and he couldn’t hire decent new ones because the options all sucked.

He purposely ignored the large monthly salaries he had to pay his hired aborigines, too, regardless of whether they weren’t useful in the end. He refused to accept that he made the wrong decisions. Even when most of them left, he didn’t bother to look at the bill!

However, his confidence in his territory was still sky-high. It got to the point that he decided to attack the nearby Level 2 village! Maybe he could get their gold, too! And slaves sounded really great!

Unfortunately for him, without the guidance of knowledgeable aborigines (the ones remaining were women who only knew how to use their bodies), there was plenty of worldly knowledge that he missed!

So when he decided to attack the adjacent territory without warning, he was suddenly fined 500 gold!

500 gold!!

His balance was only 100 gold! What did this mean? The attack left him in DEBT.

Thankfully, he won a bit from said territory so his debt was greatly reduced.

He was still in debt though so he naturally increased taxes and he did have to kick a lot of people out (because they were being stingy and ungrateful and didn’t want to pay).

Fortunately, when the Protection Period ended, there were so many refugees coming in and it didn’t take a long time for him to upgrade!

However, he quickly realized that he had been happy too soon because there was a cost in upgrading… and he couldn’t afford it!

Why was it so much more expensive than the first time?!

Hence, Ongko had no choice but to defer it, hoping to get enough—only to realize the upgrade was mandatory after 100 hours!

So he was forced to upgrade and forced deeper in debt! With interest!

When stronger monsters finally took down the outer territories, shifting their target to him, it only got worse and worse and worse.

He trudged through this difficult time with the territory almost falling to the suddenly stronger mobs who went from level 2s to level 4s and 5s!

They only managed to survive because he was smart and invested a lot in good walls and relatively dense sentries at the start when he was still rich, otherwise he’d be living in monster stomachs by now.

But now their greatest challenge was ongoing—they were being attacked, and by strong aborigines too! The weakest of them was at level 6!

Averaging at level 9!

What the heck!

How could their weakling group averaging level 5 manage them?

Again, the walls managed to save them a while, with the enemies taking 15 hours in order to get enough of their forces inside the walls. When they did though, all hell broke loose.

Of course, at first, they still managed to somewhat fight against the enemies as there were so many of them in the territory. In addition to the sentries, they managed to hold on… for about half an hour.

Soon more and more enemies got inside and more and more people started dying. The momentum fell down really quick. No one was willing to stay on the front line and be the one to get attacked!

Even his guards eventually gave up and ran away the moment they realized the level gap. He was left alone now, screaming for people.

What’s worse, the people realized—or rather, his aborigine enemies announced—that regulations were lifted at this time.

It was chaos. All of the shops were looted. Everyone wanted to ensure their own survival and supply, and they didn’t care what happened to others!

The only safe place was the Warehouse which was only accessible to him. However, the only things in the warehouse were wood and stone resources! Those were useless!

“DAMNIT! FIGHT!” He yelled at the citizens who were either running, hiding, or freaking stealing from him!

There was no one who listened of course and he could only run away as well, hiding, lest the enemies hunted him down! The way to the warehouse was blocked as well, and the aborigines started targeting it!

Ongko had no choice but to hide in one of the dug pits, which was there to throw trash and shit in. While the decomposition rate was higher here, the place still smelled hell! Every sniff he took, he felt like vomiting!

However, when he heard screams from above he immediately sucked it up even if he felt like his insides were being burned by disgust and the bad smell.

Several other guards had found their own hiding place, just waiting for this to be over.

Anyway, while the lord and his cronies hid, the rest of the territory tried to protect themselves and their properties.

The stalls were absolutely smashed and several citizens were trying to guard their remaining ‘wealth’.

One of his richer citizens, Cuppin Farrol, yelled as an enemy took interest in some ingredients he had been selling. “Don’t you dare steal that!” He screamed, taking out his wooden sword.

The enemy was injured by a sentry before—judging from the arrow lodged at the back of his thigh—and it wasn’t like it was hopeless for him!

“HYAAA!” Cuppin yelled as he tried to stab at the man. The thief had the audacity to laugh, kicking him with his injured leg. “Not like this has any use for you!”

“My brother’s a great cook!”

“What’s cooking skills if you don’t know the ingredients?” he said, raising his hand to slash at Cuppin.

Cuppin was clumsy and accidentally stepped on an ingredient. He fell down, barely missing the slash by a hair, and he crawled backward before he used all the adrenaline he had to lift his body and gestured to bolt away.

Sobbing, he had no choice but to let go of the interesting ingredients he gathered for his brother and escape for his life.

Fortunately, the men were focused on looting and Cuppin managed to find an alley to hide in.

Fortunately, the war had a time limit. So after a few hours, Ongko, hiding in their makeshift septic tank, would receive a ping.

[Your territory Supreme Village (Lv3) has lost to Sus Village (Lv3)!]

[You lost 5452 citizens]

[You lost Custom Building 1]

Ugh!

Since they were poor and didn’t have gold, there was no gold reward for the enemy, which was satisfying for him.

However, the system decided not only to take two-thirds of his people, it also decided to take away buildings instead!

Damn this place!!