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

While doing a guided tour for such a small village was weird, they were aware that they only had a little over a day here and naturally hoped to know (and gain) as much as they could.

After a moment, the two lords decided to hire a guide and the others also followed their leads and hired their own.

Because the two of them had different targets from the others, they asked the rest to form separate tour groups, including their confidants. This was actually what the people wanted (though they tried not to show it). After all, how could this ’field trip’ be fun with the ’bosses’ around?

Anyway, the groupings were completed after some time. Interestingly, most groups had a mix of people from the two territories. Obviously, a lot of people bonded on the way here.

Each group was soon approached by a designated guide and, for the lords’ ’group’, it was a lively girl. She approached the two lords with a blushing face and bright eyes and—from how the other girls glared at her—this assignment was hard won.

”Hello! My name is Lulu! I am in charge of your customized tour today! May I know who will be the members of your team?”

”It is just the two of us,” Matthew said with that gentle smile of his, hitting the hearts of the girls around.

”I see, I see~ What kind of tour do you want to take? We have food tours, luxury tours, etc. We can also customize~!”

”Custom, please,” Matthew said, meeting his blonde companion’s eyes. ”We may have more targeted requirements than the others.”

Lulu nodded amicably, ready to listen to them and meet their needs. ”Okay, this is noted! May I know what exactly you wish to know?”

Matthew smiled and proceeded to explain. ”Well, we are Lords of our respective territories. We would like to get a more detailed description of the features of the territory, is this okay?”

”L-Lords???”

The girl paused, paling, and excused herself. She turned her back and scuttled somewhere. When she got back a minute later, she was already pulling that guy Fred from before.

”Hello, distinguished guests! This is my boss Fred, and he knows most about the territory than any other guide. The Lords definitely deserve the best~” Lulu said, blushing, and ran away to shyly hide beside the other girls and soon to get new less-intimidating guests.

Back to the two lords, although a little startled, they didn’t mind the change. As long as much of the information they wanted would be known, then they’d consider the guide worth it.

Fred grinned as his eyes stayed on the two lords. Rich guests tended to tip a lot!

Of course, this batch of people was technically their first guest, so he had yet to confirm this personally.

Anyway, his grin did not diminish as he walked closer to the two lords. ”May I know how many people would be in the lords’ group?” He asked.

”Just the two of us,” Matthew said. Even his sister joined another group, focused on going to the pharmacy and health center first. Anyway, now that she had already leveled up, he wasn’t too worried about her.

It must’ve been a while since she had free reign…

”Okay, then! Follow me, please~” Fred said and began walking along the avenue, describing what he knew about the territory (that was allowed to be released in public, especially to outsiders, of course).

”This is one of the two main avenues in the village: the Southwest Avenue. There is another one called the East Avenue. The two avenues are very wide with a nearly 20-meter-wide carriageway, not including the provisions for sidewalks and the lane in the middle.”

He did not mention the middle was a bike lane. It still hadn’t been publicly sold and he didn’t want to jinx it.

He really, really, wanted a bike.

”The greening is very well maintained,” Micheal mentioned, blue eyes looking at the street islands with warm eyes.

”Yes, the greening here is very rich, even in areas filled with buildings. They are maintained by people hired by the system, but I heard there is a new NPC specializing in taking care of plants.”

”NPCs?” Matthew whispered, unaware of the term.

Micheal saw that he was really confused. ”They’re the aborigines hired through level 2 Village centers…” he said, ”You haven’t upgraded your village center, have you?”

”What?”

Matthew felt endless regret. So that was where the Aborigines came from. He couldn’t bring himself to ask before, thinking it was a private matter.

Matthew also had a very hard life and had no idea about game terminologies, so he wasn’t aware of what NPCs meant as much as the NPCs themselves.

Matthew shook his head and looked at Fred and Micheal again as they moved forward. ”Tell me more,” he said, ”I mean the process and requirements.”

Fred didn’t know much about the actual process but the fellow Lord, Micheal, did.

”When you upgrade your Village Center to level 2, it will become a two-story edifice. On the second floor, you could ’summon’ aborigines to hire.”

Not just Matthew, but even Fred listened in. Although he knew some of these from his friendship with the aborigines, he hadn’t heard of it from the point of view of a fellow Alteran.

”Is it expensive?”

”Very. The cost of hiring and their maintenance isn’t cheap either.”

”...”

Matthew sighed. ”They should be worth the money though?”

Micheal didn’t answer immediately. ”The first batch is decent, the next ones are usually letdowns. Good NPCs come days in between.” Micheal said very succinctly.

There really were too few decent NPCs to the point he couldn’t take any of them with him on his trip, lest mobs attack the territory.

He then turned to Fred, who he saw was also listening to him in interest. ”Can you tell me more about this territory’s NPCs, if possible?”

Fred flinched under his stare and cleared his throat. ”Well, I don’t claim to know all of them. But I do know of most,” he began, ”We have a seamstress, a healer, an armor maker, a weapon maker, and others.

”There is someone who specializes in building and could control earth and metal. His name is Oslo, very handsome and he even has his own fan group that may be able to rival Fable’s soon.”

”Fable? The idol?”

”Yes, that Fable,” Fred grinned. ”Then there is Rowan—who was with you—an essential NPC to the guard team and could control fire. The others can’t control elements, but they also serve their purpose.”

”So not all NPCs can control elements, then…” Matthew said, and Micheal nodded.

”None of my NPCs can. Seeing Rowan use fire is my first time seeing this.”

”Really?”

”Yes.”

Fred let them chat for a bit before continuing his info dump. ”There were also NPCs hired by individuals. One was hired by Baron to join his woodworking factory, while Ms. Althea partnered with a seamstress NPC.

”I hear they just hired them for some gold, and according to my source from Baron’s side, they were very very worth the money.”

At this point, the two lords could only look at each other.

People could do this?

The two were silent for a while. They seemed to have… not seen the world???