After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 1902

Chapter 1902: Papell Town (Part 1)

Crystal City could not attack Ferrol since it was on a different tier, but the relatively midway Papell Town, which was an ally and a business partner for decades, could.

Papell Town actually had no idea that there was such a new product at first. The merchants naturally chose to head straight to Cities when they could, as the items were resold there for a much higher price.

It was just that some people from the Town would occasionally go to the City, and they found a superior equivalent to theirs. It was sold at a higher price by the merchants.

Then they found out through close connections that they had apparently added a lot of markup along with others. This actually made things even more concerning because this meant that somehow, the other side could produce the superior products for cheap! Possibly at even lower cost than what they could!

The Papell merchants couldn’t help but buy several copies and send them to their own experts. They studied it well, its composition, and so on. The raw materials indicated that the base was also plant fibers, but they couldn’t figure out how they managed to make such good parchments!

And even if some had theories, they didn’t know how to produce them for a low cost! Even if they attempted it, they’d have to price it for a much higher price than what the other sold for, and their profit margin would be too low for the capital they had to churn out.

When they realized that it was impossible for them to beat it, they went straight to the Lord to beg them to ban the item. This was in exchange for better deals, only to find out they were encountering similar problems.

Even if there were literally only a few products that reached their territory—two rims of paper, sold in pieces, and one glass plate, two glass cups, and one vase—they were enough to make them feel a sense of alarm.

After months of investigation, after tracing back several merchant groups from various territories, they finally ended up on Ferrol Town, which had been known as the commercial town that many people on their side also knew of.

Thinking of this made sense, so their investigators surmised that the products either came from them or at least passed through them.

After such intense investigation, they had naturally heard of Alterra Town, but when they found out it had been a village less than a year prior, they did not think of them too much. They were biased, but it was usually the case. Who knew they’d encounter such a massive exception?

Not that they knew of this yet, of course.

As for how they missed the fact that the medicine they bought from Warrior City was from this place, Virion and the others kept it a secret to protect their interest, which was the natural course of action.

Alterra was so far away. How were they supposed to know that they’d cross swords with such an important place?!

That said, not everyone agreed to the decision to attack Ferrol either. For one, several advisors from Papell Town disagreed for all the reasons why high level towns did not want to go to war.

Regardless of amount, half of the assets and registered population of a losing territory would fall to the victorious party. For towns of their level, that could mean decades of hard work, gone. And this was a conservative estimate.

There had been records of once-thriving towns becoming empty shells after a war, especially when other towns take advantage of the weakness to gain resources too. 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖

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