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

Althea smiled at the energized atmosphere althroughout the territory. However, she knew that the splurge of announcements wasn’t over yet.

Following the economy, it was time to improve the territory’s military might.

The reason why economy came first was that the sentries and the wall had been providing them with enough protection. She had decided to improve people’s spirts first.

She also preferred thinking about money than military affairs any day.

Sigh. If her husband was here, she could throw this problem to him and not care about it anymore.

But he wasn’t, so she could only adjust. As she relaxed, she mused as to how to handle this issue when she didn’t know anything.

At this thought, a familiar face appeared in her head: Drake. Her husband was not here, but there was someone who knew no less about these issues. It was still someone they could trust. With a smile, she stood up and went to knock on the opposite door.

She knocked a few times before the gate opened, revealing a middle-aged woman with a bun hairstyle. She remembered that she came with Mathilda’s team back then. Her name was Belinda, and back in Terran she used to be an antique appraiser, which was an unfortunately useless job to have at this time.

For now, anyway. Althea, for one, never thought any skill was useless.

Althea smiled at her. ”May I see auntie?”

”Of course.” The other woman said, letting her in. ”She’s in the verandah.”

”Thank you,” Althea said, entering with a smile. Because the layout of farm villas were similar, Althea didn’t need guidance to get to the older woman.

When she entered, she saw Mathilda was sitting on the verandah on her rocking chair (Baron got quite a lot of talented people in a day), staring blankly into space.

Althea stopped herself from making any more noise. She didn’t say anything for a while, wondering how she’d give the woman some pasttime to distract her from worrying excessively for her children.

At the moment, Mathilda’s livelihood was a landlord, in which she rented out rooms to her former companions. This meant she had too much time in her hands, and therefore too much time to fret about how her children were.

After a while, Althea finally decided to knock on the already-opened door, to catch the woman’s attention.

”Good afternoon, auntie.”

The older woman’s face warmed from her previous blank expression.

”Come, sit.” She said, pointing at the opposite rocking chair. Althea nodded and relaxed, and the two were silent for a while after that, simply appreciating the peace and each other’s silent company.

After a while, Mathilda finally spoke, turning her head a little to Althea’s direction. ”Is there anything you need, child?”

”Hmm…” She mumbled, eyes closed as she rocked back and forth in the chair. She then stilled and opened her eyes, looking at the elder. ”Auntie. May I borrow Drake?”

Mathilda’s eyebrows rose in interest, and Althea went on to explain. ”I’m planning to form a guard team, but most people only had the mandatory military training at school. I hope to hire him as an instructor.”

Mathilda paused, looking at her in surprise. But not even a moment later, she nodded in approval.

Althea blinked. So easy?

Mathilda saw her daze and chuckled. ”If he’s willing, he can do whatever he wants. He’s done enough for me.” Mathilda paused, ”I had already told him this as early as when we entered the territory.

”It’s a good way to force him around young beautiful women. He ought to fix that excessive selective shyness of his or he would never get a wife!”

The two women laughed at the man’s expense, sharing stories they had heard about his embarassments.

Poor Drake.

…

Ha-choo!

About a few hundred meters from the wall, a certain woman-shy man sneezed.

It wasn’t that he was afraid of women in general, but only young beautiful ones. He vaguely remembered as a kid, he was adorable and didn’t speak much, and he happened to come upon a rowdy group of young girls who pinched him and patted his head.

They were smiling as they surrounded him, blowing compliments endless compliments with their high-pitched voices.,

It terrified him.

Anyway, this issue had never hindered his work before so he never really got his way around it.

But now…

”Drake… am I doing this correctly?” One woman, a ginger named Jona, waved her sword in the air, trying to show him a technique he showed the group before.

He froze, nodding blankly. Then there was a black-haired woman with sun-kissed skin, Yen, who appeared right beside the Jona. She showed her own sword skills, much flashier than Jona, who rolled her eyes in response.

”It’s like this right? Drake?” She said, smiling brightly with heavy blush on her face.

Drake gulped, freezing, not knowing what to do.

To be honest, he’d rather face a mob of monsters than these two women.

”Drake, help!”

Someone from his team called, as he was being attacked by three monsters, and Drake was improperly relieved of the news.

He sprinted there and he worked together with his team and dealt with the monsters, gaining some of the experience, occasionally giving some deserving people the last hit.

Soon it stabilized enough that he only weakened the monsters, and the others dealt with the rest. He watched by for a couple of minutes until he heard a familiar ding inside his head.

[Ding! The village system detected that you are suitable for military instructor. Do you accept?

Yes | No]

[Job: Military Instructor

Wages: 3 silver/day

Benefits: 1 basic weapon every month

10% off to all system items

Free residency during the hired period]

Drake paused in his movements, but his peripheral view saw a Level 3 monster incoming. He temporarily put this issue aside and resumed his killings. Later, he ran to the other side of the field to rescue another one.

Looking at the grateful looks of his temporary party, he just nodded with a blank expression.

When the situation finally settled down, with them reaching the scope of the sentries, he finally had the time to study the new notifications.

He wiped the sweat running down his cheek, low-key avoiding the women trying to do it for him.

He opened his panel again and many thoughts were running inside his head.

There was even a voice echoing. It was Mathilda’s, and he recalled their conversation just a few hours after they settled down.

’Drake, this is no longer the old world. You are no longer my employee, but a partner.’

’Your small disability should’ve been improved by your upgrades right? Don’t you want to focus on that?’

’You loved being a soldier, didn’t you?’

He looked at the floating question asking him if he wanted the job. With eyes filled with renewed determination, he clicked Yes.

[Announcement: the village system has determined that Drake Lesley is eligible to be the temporary trainer of the guards.]

[Announcement: The territory is hiring people to guard the territory and clear out monsters in the vicinity.

Requirement: Men and women aged 18-50.

Physical: 30 or above

Overall potential: C or above.

Wages: 100 copper/day .

Benefits: 1 basic weapon every month

Free residency during the hired period

Limitations: 0/30 people

Please submit your resume at the Village center. ]

”That’s amazing Drake!” Yen said, smiling, with Jona closely beside her. ”Congratulations!” They yelled together, trying to one-up the other with their soft voices.

Drake froze, nodding. ”Hmm.”

And he scurried away.

Poor Drake.

…

With that announcement, people once again flooded the Village center, making their CVs beautiful so they could get the job.

Along the way, the citizens also sold their forages, increasing the average number of transactions in the village center by another bulk. Sitting peacefully next to Mathilda, Althea suddenly got a notification.

[Triggered: Village Center upgrade tasks:

[✓] 1000 successful transactions

[×] 1000 gold transactions (760/1000)]

Althea’s eyebrows raised in interest.

Oh…?

She wondered what would happen when she upgraded?

She had a feeling it was going to be very good.