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

[22 days of Protection Period]

[TERRITORY STATS

Status: Level 1 Village

Area: 3,142,000 square meters

Residents: 154 (25 permanent, 129 temporary)

Total Population: 384

Base Resources:

Wood: 2320/5000

Stone: 1250/3000

Money: 7412 Gold, 96667 Silver, 39407 copper

Reputation: 50

Buildings: Village Center (Lv2), Weaponry Shop (Lv1), Defensive Wall (Lv3), Warehouse (Lv1), Farms (Lv1)

Bonus Building: Custom Building

Building Slots: 5/5 (+1)]

It had been a few days since she got the notification for the upgrade and… Althea actually decided to delay the upgrade in the end.

She had considered it deeply and decided to build her foundation well.

After thinking long and hard, she realized that there wasn’t much of an advantage to upgrading as soon as she got the chance.

It would only bring her a wave of beast…

While there was no express limit on the population in the territory, the land size, resources, and buildings had a lot to do to cap it. Not to mention, there would definitely be useful new buildings after every upgrade.

It was why many lords upgraded when they could because it was necessary to properly support the growing population.

They also hoped to unlock amenities and functions necessary for human survival.

But her territory, which could create 2-floor mixed-use buildings and dense dormitories, did not have a problem with sheltering the population.

Altera was also a territory built on land of good resources like rivers and springs. Hence, these issues weren’t a problem for her at all.

In terms of the wars, not upgrading immediately was also not a bad choice. It was advantageous, even.

Because generally, only territories of the same level could attack her. To feel safe, she just had to make herself invincible among her own level to at least a level higher.

She couldn’t help but be thankful to the NPCs, especially Brenda, for letting her know of the territory wars in advance. Otherwise, she may have chosen to upgrade every time she could.

Maybe by the time the protection period ended, max-level villages would attack her as soon as she got out.

What a pinch that would be…

Brenda, who felt the Lord’s rather appreciative stare, couldn’t help but blush. ”I… It’s an honor to be of help, Milord.”

She smiled and looked at her, as well as the other NPCs.

Althea and the NPCs were now on the exclusive second floor of the village center, but the difference within these few days was great.

The lounge had been expanded to all four sides. There were now complete furnishings and decorations, intricately designed as commissioned from Baron.

There were even rugs (albeit made of monster fur, so people occasionally get shocked by the menacing head of a Stormdoer).

There was even a little pantry complete with snacks, coffee, tea, and others, to give the NPCs a shining new impression. This aimed to not only welcome them but also to improve their sense of belonging to the territory.

Speaking of NPCs, she had received two in the past three days. One day was null as there were no useful ones, while the other two days took a few tries to show a good one.

Althea felt that it was getting increasingly more difficult to get decent NPCs.

She wondered why…

Anyway, one of the new NPCs she got was a level D soldier who could assist Drake. From what she gathered the past few days, the review (care of Drake) was stellar.

The latest one, who just been hired two days before, was a level D architect.

They were both ’Elemetalists’, so their base salaries were twice that of the same class.

The soldier, Rowan, was a red-haired Fire Elementalist. While Oslo, a handsome blonde, had a dual earth and metal element.

It was only when she met them that she knew the meaning of their affinities.

They could literally create fire, earth, and metal out of thin air.

It was magical.

And it made her really want to reach level 10, the level this could be tapped, as soon as possible.

Also, she found someone with two elements now, and she didn’t feel so out of place.

Of course, she still didn’t disclose her affinities, just in case.

In any case, the salary of these two was a whooping 30 gold per month each but, it had only been a few days, and she was already sure it was worth it.

For instance, with Rowan’s help, Drake’s workload had decreased exponentially. He could now have the time to come up with the guards’ training plans.

This was essential in building a foundation for their fighters, as fighting was much more than just brute strength.

Oslo, the Architect, was even better.

Although it was not cheating enough that she could build a system-level structure that could get her a building slot (for now), he was a great help to the construction team being formed.

The population had risen again in the past few days, increasing the pressure to build more.

Furthermore, while she could build residential and commercial homes as needed, there were still many infrastructure projects that needed to be handled.

These buildings would take time to produce, unlike system buildings, so they had to be planned in advance.

This was where Oslo, said architect, came into play. He not only had the knowledge of local building materials they so lacked, he also gave them ideas on buildings on other territories, as well as some construction techniques they could use.

Oslo had babbled several materials and techniques and the Terran engineers and architects that followed him had their notebooks out.

Of course, a lot of these technologies were inferior to what they knew, but most of them were still quite useful.

For example, they found that a common rock—he called it prud—could be used as a sort of adhesive for wood construction. This was a great help because there was no nails yet, and they could only use jointery techniques to secure wood-to-wood construction.

All this help was well after Oslo gushed about the modular houses though, as beforehand he was very uninterested in interacting with anyone (except for a couple of beautiful women whom he flirted with from the get-go).

Her lips twitched when she heard of this gossip. Thinking that these aborigines were really so interesting.