After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 1663

Chapter 1663: Guardian Village (Part 2)

Baltheo and the others nodded, absorbing the information she had just given them. It was really...difficult to believe. Their Village had a great ratio of fighters and soldiers, and they still suffered so much.

Yet they said that they had been battling mostly aborigine villages? And winning? And with so few losses?

Some were particularly cynical, thinking that they won due to some other reason...like fooling other villages to shield them.

Maybe that was why they were going around making allies with territories they had never met!?

At this, the Lord looked sharply at them. "Are you going to assist us in wars?" he asked. If they could not swear to do that, then what would be the point of taking this risk? It’d just increase the chances of them trying to use their village as a shield instead.

"We’re probably not going to send people—" Misha said, and she watched the atmosphere around them darken. She raised her hand as she continued her words. "However, we can supply good weapons for a fair price lower than the market."

"Weapons?"

They took out some advanced crossbows, iron weapons, and a steel sword.

The soldiers gaped at the weapons. Some had indeed developed improved weapons, like those from monster bones and the like, and they had also developed a crossbow (though they had to pay for some royalties). Each one of their development was far inferior to these weapons.

Most of these were Class D weapons, too!

They must have a few experts in their midst! How lucky!

"We also have steel," she said, taking out a dagger. It could’ve passed as something taken from Terran, but anyone with a close relationship with weapons could tell some differences.

"What?"

"However, steel is still limited to our forces, but iron weapons are fairly standard and can be purchased by outsiders now."

She didn’t tell them about the cannons or any other weapons of the sort. Those were limited and were naturally limited to Alterra and the satellites’ use.

"In exchange, we just want you to feed us updated information about the events here," she said. "We may also require some assistance whenever we... have to handle some surrounding villages."

This naturally made the soldiers become more guarded. They felt even more guarded now that they had a glimpse of the capability of the enemies, not including the level 40 leisurely sitting in front of them!

"I’m sure you know that aborigines are targeting us. They have been for the past several months in fact, and you should count yourselves fortunate they only got to you recently."

Her words shut down the retorts about to come out.

"Many Terran territories had been taken over by those bastards months ago," she continued, with a determined look on her face.

"We simply want to take them back."

Misha smiled. "Just a focus on creating a good territory that doesn’t exploit the weak. That’s all."

"I see..." that was still subjective, and they wondered if they had to do anything extra to gain favor. Besides, whether they wanted it was still debatable. This was still too suspicious.

Anything too good to be true usually were.

"Do you even know the requirements for upgrading into a town?" Otto said, crossing his arms. "We can tell you."

One of the instructions for all Diplomacy teams was that if they came across a good territory—a sufficiently strong one with good management and focus on citizens—they could offer a direct alliance, one with extra benefits.

They would also tell these territories the requirements for a Town. Of course, as for how they’d meet the prestige requirements would be wholly up to them.

However, if they allied with Alterra and targeted areas where Alterra’s influence was not particularly deep, it wouldn’t be impossible for them to reach that status within a couple of years.

Not to mention, Guardian village was a few hundred kilometers away. It had enough space to create its own sphere of influence, so it was not impossible to develop into a town despite being in the same region as Alterra. It could take several years, but that was still miles ahead of most.

With this, they could develop Guardian Village as the stronghold against the enemies in the north.

"As for our town, you’d know more when you get there," she said with a confident smile. "You wouldn’t believe us if we just told you, anyway."