After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World - Chapter 824

Chapter 824: Improving Iron Mountains (Part 2)
Although Guia had a lot of gold, it naturally couldn’t afford the dense sentries that Alterra had. The walls alone had consumed almost all of the gold she won from Guia.

Hence, like what she did with Limestone Valley, she chose to add dense sentries in the more sensitive areas like the gates and added watch towers everywhere else. Anyway, sentries were more useful in beast mobs, which were more active by the gates.

In wars, people tended to be more creative—sending forces that would not focus on attacking the well-guarded gates. They’d also be sneaky in trying to get over the gate. In such cases, some human factor would be useful.

She, however, added a lot of interior watchtowers for efficiency as well. It used a bit of her own funds, but it was worth it for her peace of mind.

Anyway, it was a shock to the locals and they couldn’t help to stare, gape, and admire. When the leading party was in sight, they immediately surrounded them, bombarding them with questions and maybe a few words of admiration here and there.

Gill and the others looked awkward. They were embarrassed with the succeeding questions and compliments because they were relatively surprised too.

They didn’t think Alterra would spend too much of its own money improving another.

Hey, Guia must’ve been really rich to get so many upgrades all at once. Lucky them.

…

In the mining area, another dormitory was also prepared. Alterra’s custom buildings could not be built here. She just built the standard houses available and placed them together to create dormitories.

They’d have to make manual public toilets, but the living condition was definitely improved for the poor.

This was found outside the mines and was also built inside the mine area.

In this dormitory, it happened that Kimura and Lin were there, bonding with the goblins.

Lin was someone found from Fargo and happened to be Kimura’s student many years back. She arrived literally a day before the war, which was fortunate because she didn’t have to experience the horrors many women there had to go through.

Lin shared the same fascination with rocks, allowing her to quickly be promoted in Terran and, similarly, in Alterra as well.

The two had a fascination with minerals and more so with the critters who had a special bond with it.

It was amazing, it was like the goblins had a special sixth sense! They were both queasy though so they didn’t think of dissecting the creatures, but they were certainly doing everything to observe them as closely as they could.

And they were very close indeed.

Literally living together with them, for one.

At first, the goblins were a little scared of the two humans being all buddy-buddy with them—to the point they were willing to stay in the same hut!

But after so many days of not sensing impatience, but rather fascination and genuine admiration for their skills, the goblins had slowly softened up to the duo.

“What’s that?” They asked and the humans turned to look at it. They brightened when they realized what it was.

“Oh, finally a dormitory! I had thought Alterra forgot about us!” Kimura exclaimed, patting away some soil on his attire.

How long had it been since he took a bath? After getting to do so daily in Alterra, he had to admit he really missed it.

Of course, he wasn’t complaining, his field was still most important to him.

“Well, they are all very busy,” Lin calmly added and it made sense so Kimura agreed. “It’s a bit different though. I guess we can’t build Alterran buildings here…”

The goblins, though, looked at the building and at them curiously. “What’s a dormitory?”

This made the humans smile and led the goblins to the building. “Our new house! C’mon let’s take a look.”

The goblins looked up at the multistory building. It was similar to what they had seen in the main village, but it had more decorations and was built side by side as if they were just one building.

The moment they stepped on the threshold a familiar ding sounded in their heads.

[Would you like to rent this bed for 1 day for 1 copper?]

“1 copper a day?” The goblins paused looking around to see whether they heard it correctly.

Lin giggled. “Yes! That’s what you have to pay for staying,” she said. “You can only have a bed for yourself though and the bathrooms, kitchens, et cetera are communal.”

“Ohhhh!”

The green little things nodded and immediately looked at their interface.

[Yes] they clicked and they immediately received directions to their assigned beds. Theirs were on the ground floor and they saw that each room didn’t have many beds at all, at least not in their standards.

Then when the goblins went to their beds one by one, they realized something.

It was Gup, one of the older goblins who asked. “We get one bed each?”

They saw more of this as they walked around. Their beds were small compared to the humans, but it gave them plenty of room, still.

Anyway, the goblins, who were used to squeezing in huts, naturally didn’t see the problem with this. Rather, it felt like a luxury to have their own bed!

It only cost 1 copper to use this. They had salaries now, and this was super affordable!

“This is your own home that you pay for yourself,” Lin began, leaning down so she could be at eye-level with the little ones. “You will buy your own food, your own clothes, your own lives… isn’t it nice?”

The goblins felt a little teary, nodding repeatedly. They nodded a lot, as if doing so would make sure everything was real.

There was a special feeling of spending money that you had, and they relished in it.

This made them even more worried about the upcoming war. These people were so good, they didn’t want anything to happen to them. They also didn’t want to return to the lives of slaves again.

It was cruel—if they didn’t see all this, they wouldn’t have cared as much, but they had and now they were terrified of losing everything.

“Will the war be ok?” Gup asked.

Kimura smiled and Lin patted his head. “Oh, don’t worry.

“Alterra is Proud and Strong!” she said, looking quite proud as if she was there. “It’ll handle everything, as long as every one of us does our part.”

This made the Goblins sparkle and look at her with light in their eyes. “What can we do to help?”