After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 1882

Chapter 1882: Amongst the Top 100

Everything changes when disaster strikes.

To be fair, their Lord seemed aware of the cold coming and told them, though with the added drama and flair.

He acted like some sort of prophet, and this indeed increased his prestige among the people.

Of course, telling them was one thing, but whether he actually helped them through the upcoming disaster—or even made decent territory-wide preparation—was another thing entirely.

Spoiler alert: He didn’t. Not really.

People knew an Extreme Cold was coming, and they gathered firewood and things like that. However, they had no idea how intense it’d be. Many people froze while gathering resources outside, and too many people starved to death within the first week.

At the time, many blamed the Lord, and many tried to get food, especially when people saw them living well. They obviously had more than enough food. There was even warmth and insulation, and this was revealed by some servants who were kicked out in the midst of the disaster.

Many brave citizens complained. They gathered their courage and their wits to surround the Lord’s palace, asking that he help them out.

However, the Lord retaliated with excessive force, but at the same time, they were led to believe everything was their fault for not preparing when they had been warned. Behave or get kicked out, he said, and most people could only grit their teeth and quietly stay in their homes.

Logically, he wasn’t wrong. People who survived this long would know that they could not depend on others, only themselves.

If only the Lord didn’t treat people like trash while they were begging, or if he didn’t take more advantage to line his own pockets as well as forcibly tie up people to work under him.

It was only if they made loyalty oaths (though with some limitations, thanks to the system) that they could purchase goods. And the price still wasn’t low.

The oaths could become quite specific if they had a lot of conditions. For example, this Lord’s contracts were not too far from slaves’. The only difference was that it was slightly less intense, and they couldn’t be ordered to jump to their deaths. The limitation would either be in the time limit or in effectivity.

The Lord took advantage to get more oaths from his people.

To buy a piece of bread, or a cup of rice, and an extra blanket, many people had been forced to commit years of their lives to near-slavery.

For the weak, the effectiveness of the oath would be around ten to fifteen years, for the relatively strong, it was three years or even five years, which wasn’t a short amount either.

Many people did it, many did not, and a lot more of the latter died.

Like this, the Lord had completely grasped the power inside his village, and the deep kind due to the oaths. They couldn’t even leave even if they wanted to.

And because of this security, the Lord could afford to be careless, the mask he had been holding on to cracking.

By the time the cold wave ended, he already had several women of all ages in his harem, some were willing, some were forced, while most were practically sold. As for how the Lord treated them behind closed walls, no one knew, and no one had the energy to care.

For the inhibitors and the vaccine, he also required the oath and a large amount of money. By this time, the majority of the people with decent levels and skills were already under oath. 𝒇𝓻𝓮𝓮𝙬𝙚𝒃𝒏𝓸𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝓬𝓸𝒎

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