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

Mathilda opened the door to see a beautiful woman and extremely adorable children staring at her.

She couldn’t help but give out a large smile. ”What are you doing here?” The older woman asked, pleasantly surprised.

Matilda then leaned down to take a closer look at the babies. ”Did you miss grandma?” She asked, kissing them.

She often visited Althea and the babies in their house, of course, but she was excited to see them at her own house.

”Come in, come in.” Mathilda smiled, leading them inside.

The farmvilla Matilda was living in was occupied by her team of 12. Most of them were young people, like Drake, who had found either employment or business in the territory—a lot of whom were in the hunting/meat supply business.

Only two old women with Mathilda stayed at home to care for the garden and do the housework.

At this time, they seemed to be planting Fuyu, a vegetable similar to cabbage. ”Old Yana was well known for her pickled vegetables.” Matilda, seeing where she was looking, said with a smile.

”Although we’ve sold one batch so far, they sold out quickly.”

The two old women noticed them and didn’t care much, until they saw the babies and their eyes sparkled.

As they approached, their eyes shone with bright light and—after asking permission— they washed their hands and carried the babies with them to the lush garden.

They absolutely adored the children with the third woman, Lola, lifting up Little Meatball as if she didn’t have back problems, and the other Yana, was talking to Little Pepper and cooed every syllable as if the baby could understand.

”Don’t worry about them.” Mathilda said, knowing full well Althea, who had an extremely busy schedule, wouldn’t be here just for a visit.

She then led the young woman to her veranda, which had the required set for tea.

Mathilda turned her head to the younger girl and led the way. ”Shall we?”

…

The two women sat around a circular table in the verandah. A few earthenware tea cups were there, and Mathilda made her a simple cup of tea.

”Is there anything I can help you with?”

Althea nodded. ”Actually, the territory is getting bigger. Other than administrative staff, the territory will also need a… face.”

This was another function of the administrative team.

From what she gathered from the gossip about refugees and NPCs, contact with other territories was inevitable.

The village center was limited to within the territory. She could not make announcements in the name of the system somewhere else, at least not in her current level. This would cause a lag of communication between territories.

”May I assign you as the territory spokesperson? I will announce it in the name of the territory system.”

Mathilda was a bit surprised. ”Is this alright?”

Althea nodded. She definitely didn’t want to be released as Lord for now. After all, how could she charge so much if people had a face they could haggle with?

Besides, Mathilda wouldn’t be in danger of being mistaken as the Lord during territory wars because she was with many people when the territory was established. It was not possible that she built the territory under their noses.

As soon as Mathilda nodded, the familiar magical screen appeared in front of her.

[Altera Village System determined you are eligible for the job of ’Elder for Internal and External DIplomacy’

Wage: 500 copper/day, free residency,

100 contribution/day

Do you accept?

YES | NO]

”Oh?” Mathilda’s eyebrows rose in interest. ”What’s my job description?”

”Basically you represent the territory outside. Inside, when there are conflicts, I hope you can settle them. Anyway, Drake follows your orders a lot. Just right.”

She mused for a moment. ”I should add the job description in the hiring notice.” She told herself.

She couldn’t be there to explain the jobs to the others too, right?

”Won’t people misunderstand me as the Lord? I don’t want such a burden.” Mathilda said, eyebrows furrowed.

Different from Althea, she had actually been to a position of power, above millions, and the pressure and intrigue wasn’t something an old woman like her wanted to experience again.

”Most people know you and it is just right to be tagged with a good job by the system. There should also be other ’Elders’.

”If they refuse to let go of doubts, have a gamble with them. The Village center has a contract system after all. You can make a bet: If you swear you’re not lord and the system agrees, then they will pay you 100 gold… or something.”

Mathilda nodded, a little amazed. The Village Center was really convenient. It could help them bypass so many problems…

This would also change the dynamics of the justice system. After all, people wouldn’t be able to commit perjury like before.

”Anyway, as I’ve mentioned: I’ve been thinking of making a few more ’System Hires’ so that yours wouldn’t be too eye-catching.” Althea said with a smile. ”That said, can you help me determine what jobs need people?”

Of course, Mathilda agreed very quickly. ”I assume you have a way to confirm people’s jobs and aptitude?”

Althea nodded.

Mathilda thought for a while. ”Someone needs to be incharge of the service aspect, such as welcoming newcomers and guiding their placements. The Village center is convenient, but there are a lot of hits and misses when people look for a place on their own.

”Speaking of, are the contents of the village center automated, or–”

”No, I program them myself.”

Mathilda looked at her with both admiration and pity.

Although they weren’t so close to know all of each other’s habits, she knew where this girl’s passion laid.

Other than spending her time with children, she would’ve liked to spend the rest of her day tinkering with her plants.

She probably didn’t have time to spend in her lab right?

”Then you can hire someone to study and document the needs of the village, submit it to the ’village system’— that is, you— and you just have to input it to the system for implementation.”

Althea brightened. Indeed, why didn’t she think of it? Sure enough, an experienced mind was the wisest.

She looked at her list and her good brain quickly zoned in on a few people with administrative jobs back in Terran.

Although the system couldn’t really determine the People’s old jobs, it had a lie detector embedded so only the true inputs of the citizens during registration were retained.

Prosecutor?

Jun Suarez. She made a mental note to send him a hiring notice later, after she finalized his job description.

”Drake can be a good trainor, but he is no leader. Perhaps you can assign someone to head military affairs? That NPC of yours, perhaps? If it’s safe and he’s trustworthy.”

It was tempting, but Althea shook her head. ”I hope to reserve this job for my husband. But I will put Rowan as an officer to temporarily lead this aspect. I plan to develop him and Drake into one of Garan’s deputies, next to Gill of course.”

Mathilda saw that she had the confidence that her husband would find her, and she felt more reassured about the safety of her own son.

The two continued to chat as Althea continued to peruse through the list of names.

”What about other fields?”

”I plan to limit the positions to green-tagged individuals.” She said, ”But other experts could become officers.”

”That said, Eugene would definitely be spear-heading the Research and Development Department.”

Mathilda nodded, interested. ”Are there other green-tagged professionals we could use for public office.”

Althea was scanning names when the older wman asked this. Suddenly, she paused at a name. It was an acquaintance—and he had actually gained an occupation.

Gru, the agriculture professor, unsurprisingly awakened the Farmer profession.

Oh, how exciting.