After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 1636

Chapter 1636: Mason and Abundance

As many things were happening all over the region, there was also something brewing just outside of it.

A few hundred kilometers southwest, there were also a few new arrivals in Ferron Town.

"Ah, been a while since we’ve been here, huh?" one said, and he had an imposing aura around him.

This was Wazan, the Valov Town Lord’s right-hand man, sent to investigate various things. After various detours, they finally ended up in this Town, very much different from theirs.

In terms of wealth, it was unclear which one was richer, but Ferrol had a livelier atmosphere while Valov—being a Black Metal processing town—was a lot more dour.

He liked the latter more and thought Ferrol should be the same.

"Let’s see what interesting things are happening on this side."

...

Back in Alterra, the Eastern Diplomacy Team and their guests had finally arrived near the walls.

The visitors all had blank looks on their faces. They were pale from the fear, extreme tension, and shock they experienced over the past few hours. It was mostly just shock the closer they got to the Town, though.

It was really amazing. Those stickers really worked!

Those stickers with smiling faces actually shooed away monsters stronger than they were!

"How..." they asked, for the nth time that day. There were more and more strong mobs in their way, and the Alterran guards couldn’t get all of them in time before they could approach such a large group.

But lo and behold, monsters level 15 and below really skipped over them! As for the stronger ones, Ryo and the rest focused on getting rid of them early on, so they didn’t pose much trouble either.

One of the Lord’s right-hand men couldn’t help but whisper to his Lord’s ear, making the latter want to push his face away.

"Milord, how do they do this? Is it some aborigine technology we don’t know about?

"I know of some mosquito-repelling stickers, but beasts?! Town level ones, too!"

The visitors were really impressed. For a while, there were a lot of doubts about what was going on, and they were very antsy, fearing that the Alterrans would throw them to the mobs they could not handle.

But that never happened. Hours of travel passed by, and they did not cross a single monster. It was unbelievable!

Rather, they felt they were dreaming. They didn’t know it was possible to travel for ten minutes without a monster popping up to eat them! SOBS

Anyway, seeing one of Alterra’s prized innovations at work added a layer of reliability to everything.

Sure, the food was impressive, but after so many months, most of the Terran-led villages had already made their own innovations.

Basically, most Terran territories that had lasted a year in this place had their own cuisine that was far superior to the system restaurant offering. They couldn’t compare to what Alterrans brought in, but it wasn’t enough for the villagers to throw all caution to the wind.

They all had restaurants in their territories as well. First, because it took them a while to actually innovate as they were too focused on survival at the start, and second was that the supplies/raw materials for manually-made food weren’t actually enough to feed their tens of thousands of population.

Anyway, now that Alterra was a legitimate territory with so much technology, the Lords had to think of what they had to do to get all these things.

These stickers, for one, were too valuable! They definitely needed a few in their spaces, just for peace of mind!

They then looked at their wallets and wondered if that’d be enough. They still had territories to run and that needed money, too. Just maintaining their territory hires, which was easily hundreds of gold a month, was draining the wallet.

Anyway, this meant that the few hundred or a thousand or so of gold they had in their spaces were not necessarily liquid funds they could use to buy whatever they wanted.

So....they thought of what else they could offer in exchange. Fortunately, most of the territories coming to Alterra also had their own resources.

For example, there was a large rocksalt mine between Abundance and Great Villages, so the food in their places was relatively good, and they didn’t have hyponatremia even when their levels were super low.

The resource actually caused a lot of tensions between the villages in the past year, and there had been a few skirmishes that almost—almost—led to war.

If Great Village hadn’t been attacked by Supreme Village back then, in fact, Abundance could’ve declared war.

When his attack didn’t go through, Crispin (the Lord of Abundance Village) was reminded that there were plenty of enemies that surrounded them, and going to war when it wasn’t even needed would just weaken their forces.

That said, he had the option to take advantage and attack again after two weeks had over or he could just stop things before it got worse.

He did not have to be the one to decide because, a few days later, Great Village won the war, and many representatives visited Abundance Village, offering a reluctant alliance on their own.

The alliance was renewable annually and, for the span of 1 year, Abundance Village could mine 70% of the rocksalt mine while Great Village retained the rest.

Really skilled elementalists.

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