After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 1905

Chapter 1905: Crystal City (Part 2)

When the heir of Papell Town, Rigam, ran away from home to survive, with the help of some of his maternal grandfather’s loyal servants. He ended up at the nearest City, which was Crystal City, where his mother’s maternal family was originally from. It was also here that his great-grandfather received a Lord token back then.

They were a fallen noble family in this City, which was why his father didn’t care about what happened to his mum under his roof. It was quite the distant relationship, as the closest relatives by blood were his great-grandparents, but they were there and were more of a family than his father ever was.

He studied in Crystal City’s Academy as a student, which started from ten years of age to eighteen. He and Salam were classmates and clashed more often than not.

However, after a few ups and downs children went through in their acquaintance (i.e. the occasional fight and pranks), they eventually grew to become best friends.

It was Salam who also helped Rigam return to his hometown and regain his birthright, which would’ve been difficult as the Lord and his new wife would’ve already taken hold of the majority of things.

Like his friend, Salam had shown quite a bit of apprehension with how rash the Lords were going with this. For people who held the helm for so long, the two young men believed the older generation was being reckless.

Was it because the Lords were so used to things happening their way that even the slightest disturbance caused them to feel panicked?

There was actually some truth to this.

Many high-level territories remained stable for a long time that they grew stagnant. Since the two territories were well-established, well-connected, and had monopolies on their respective industries, they hadn’t seen threats for a long time.

As time went on, even their industries grew stagnant as well.

The Lords managed to do this, for the most part, by gatekeeping and some cutthroat work—the harshness of which depended heavily on who the one held the helm.

It could just be threatening business partnerships for those who threatened their monopoly, while others outright killed them. It seemed like this generation’s Lords were the latter.

Because of the false stability, many of them had always been afraid of taking risks, causing stagnancy and a lack of innovation. While there were some developments over the years, they were not much, nor were they rushed, because the Lords felt like they could afford to take their time, because there was no pressure to do so.

Until now.

Seeing their stability threatened, their instinct was to lash out. To cut the threat at the root early on.

These old people who had been used to a particular status quo for decades were more likely to desperately hold on to it.

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