After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 2008

Chapter 2008: The Fret Family

The Fret family was not just the family who knew how to handle the resource metal, they could also produce weapons themselves. A lot of these weapons were superior to the weapons the upgraded Weapon Store produced.

For them, who had to go through many wars within a short period of time, this was an invaluable asset.

The Fret family held the technology of combining their metal to black iron, creating a superior Class D weapon. Even if his own weaponsmiths use them, all that happened was the black metal getting wasted or weakened. Those ores were not cheap, and seeing them wasted genuinely pained him.

Since they were in a war at least once or twice a year, it was extremely difficult for him to recover the losses. They had to strengthen their defences, and that meant weapons.

Every blacksmith in that family swore an oath with that family too, so there was no way for him to steal talent.

At the same time, the bastard managed to amass his own army that was well-equipped. After the first war, the rest of the war was won mostly due to the Fret family’s help.

And they never moved without a lot of things in exchange.

Every war they assisted in, they demanded some things or oaths, exemptions, and so on that ultimately built up their family’s influence in the war.

He reckoned that had Serao not hidden the Token well, they would’ve taken it long ago.

In a recent war, Serao had to make a lot of concessions and oaths to make him move and do his best in that war, which was why he was so arrogant now.

At the time, he had just lost a war after refusing to succumb to his demands for the first time.

In that war, he forfeited his brother and his son, and his sister-in-law was taken away as a slave.

As for the Fret family, they had left the territory line before the war, so none of them turned to slaves even after the territory lost.

Serao, in contrast, was simply not in the right mind to handle another war.

While the territory was still recovering, slowly, another declaration was thrown in, and at the time, only the Fret Family was intact and had enough military prowess.

Although the matters of the previous war was suspicious, he could only depend on them, and he had to beg for their help in a humble manner. The only thing he could not give them was the Token itself, knowing that he would die a horrible death as soon as he dared to do so.

Lords could not steal from their people’s spaces or anyone’s spaces and wallets. He could only make rules, but if he kicked the family out, he’d be defenseless.

They might even ally with enemies.

He was the Lord, and he was being pushed around like this, he only had himself to blame.

Anyway, this much power allowed the Fret family to control the territory even without a token. They would even order him to demand a beautiful bride for his son. Now, he wanted more than one because the young man’s virility was apparently very strong.

So, other than that poor sacrificial girl from Illyan, Orny was now asking for his niece!

This niece...was the only blood relative he had left after the wars!

He had already been pushed around so much, losing so much ground, was he really willing to sacrifice even more? 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚

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