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

Ansel watched as the beautiful Althea gracefully press on her screens. He found it fascinating even if he couldn’t see what she was seeing.

Also, judging by her movements, her ’screen’… seemed to be at least twice as theirs!

He was very very curious about the lord panel, so he ended up asking a lot of questions like ’how big is it?’, ’what could you see?’, or ’is it also sparkly?’

Partnered with his large wistful eyes, Althea just thought her little brother was so pitiful that she hoped she could show it to him.

She thought for a moment and nodded to herself, looking at her baby brother with seriousness.

”Or we attack back whoever attacks our territory. I’ll give you the Lord Token.” She said, very blunt.

”...”

Ansel was genuinely touched, but he just laughed and shook his head. ”I’m a businessman and not a leader. I’d rather make money here with you than take on that responsibility.”

Althea smiled and Ansel cheekily served her another cup of tea and snacks.

As he did so his eyes stayed on the large map and his brain turned. Their territory… was becoming really, really, good. People ought to pay more.

”I think it’s time to adjust the prices. There’s no need to have the equivalence of contribution points anymore.”

”Oh?”

”People could afford it now. Besides, the luxuries Altera provided is no longer the same as before.”

”Housing prices ought to increase as well.” He said, placing a cookie in his mouth. ”Of course, we will be improving the terms of payment to make it accessible to normal people. I wonder if we can develop a bank or loan system as well?”

There was already an IOU system in the clinic, why not apply to anywhere else?

Althea nodded, thinking that it made sense. ”Yes, Elder of Finance and Economics.”

Ansel grinned.

The two discussed the new prices and rationale, as well as the adjustment in the value of contribution points.

After their chat, Althea looked at the screen in thought, ”Since price raise was inevitable…, then let’s make this price increase 100% unquestionable.”

She looked at the updated tabs in the Lord panel to see the New buildings available to them as a newly-minted Level 3 Village.

To be honest, when she saw the buildings before the mob, she thought that they were neither disappointing nor exciting, so she ignored them for a bit and focused on the preparation for the upcoming fight.

There were still new residential houses, new food stores, and drink stores. There were now clothing stores and shoe stores, too, albeit it was indicated that the clothing store was the lowest level using coarse cloth, and would probably only provide the better fabric upon leveling up.

This was a new addition though, as the aborigines mentioned before that there was no such thing. This was very interesting as, apparently, additions in ’options’ didn’t occur often, at most once every few years.

She later found from Oslo that there really was a way for people or organizations to create ’building types’, wherein they would get a lot of money when it was built and used regardless of how far the purchasing territory was.

In Terran terms, it was basically franchising, only much more convenient and magical.

Oslo didn’t know the details, however, though he mentioned he’d try to find out during his ’day off’. Although his family didn’t have the Lord Token, they had some relations to their City Lord.

The bookstore was also now available and it was not charming at all. As mentioned before, it only sold plain papyrus and ink for a hefty price.

Not everything was a waste, however. The improvement among the options was that there were now Fish ponds, taverns, parks, and prisons.

These were all basic buildings that many territories would love but were not so special in Altera, which could build all these by itself.

In fact, she just used the options as an alert of what she could add, in case she missed anything.

For instance, the prison. The Aether Priosn was very strong and could hold prisoners up to level 50. It also took slowly took aether of people inside the cells. It was very miniscule every day, but deadly in the long term. In Xeno, this was akin to taking people’s lifespans.

While intrigued, she didn’t buy it in the end. Not only was it expensive, she had no need for such an inhumane building.

As for the others, she literally had them all in the territory already. The difference was the convenience of magic of course.

For instance, System fish ponds increased the size, fecundity, and nutrition of fish by 20% at level one.

System Taverns had automatic refilled cups as long as Gouji fruit raw materials were often provided.

In the end, she just opted to save her two new building slots. There should be more powerful buildings available when the territory was upgraded to a Town.

Shifting tabs, she went to the infrastructure section to see there was also an addition.

There was a new stone road called Redstone. In the information, it said it could withstand a mob of level 30 monsters for ten days.

Her eyes brightened at this. Someday a lot of carriages would go through here.

Although she heard from the aborigines that only rich towns and cities had this, because the services of beast tamers were so expensive and so rare, it didn’t make her falter at all.

Even if they didn’t get beasts, they could someday—even if it would take decades—build cars, instead.

Or maybe both.

She was a bit ambitious in this regard.

She overlaid it with the existing carriageway and more than half of the resources used in the old roads were automatically recycled.

Outside, she could hear the oohs and aahs of the people admiring the beauty of the red stones.

She and Ansel looked at each other with raised eyebrows, standing up to look out to see the sight. It was more pink than red, but it blended well with the peach-colored sidewalk, the calming green of the forest, and the erratically colored stone walls and wood of the custom buildings.

Very colorful. She loved it.

And lastly, she turned her attention to the last tab and her precious alternative to the creation of taller buildings.

Her new custom building!