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

The new custom building slot was quite magnificent.

It was more than thrice the size of the original one and… five times as expensive.

The new custom building had a maximum total floor area of 1000 sqm, which meant she could do a lot more than before. Just a pity that it came with a maximum height of 10 meters, so she couldn’t go to the ideal eight or so floors.

With this, only three floors could be made. Maybe four, at best, which was just the same height as the manually created inns.

However, the system buildings were built for the weather or conditions here. That was to say, even if she built slightly taller, she didn’t have to worry about the gravity here or earthquakes.

This was a major plus, even if it was costlier.

Of course, she now had civil engineers in the territory so they could make the necessary calculations regarding this, just having to remind them of the new gravity quotient they had to deal with.

She told Ansel about this and he threw out his opinion, ”I suggest four. The original custom building should still be a luxury. We can make these four floors smaller with smaller areas per room, and at a much more affordable rate.”

Although the design rate was expensive, the per unit costs should still be fair so they didn’t need to charge too much.

Althea thought it made sense. She studying a bit and making some preliminary plans. When she and Ansel decided on the final ceiling heights and ’unit cuts’, she sent a private mission to Eugene and Oslo’s teams to help her iron out the details and technicalities.

When the team arrived, they were a bit surprised to see them, although they just quickly assumed the Village System just sent her the same mission as it did to them.

Anyway, without further ado, they went to work to create a preliminary design including planning of utilities and other considerations.

Because of its height, the water tower had to be above the roofdeck. As for how they put water up the tanks, they used not only siphoning but something called hydraulic ramp pump. The challenge was that they needed some good metallurgy work to make pathways that could withstand the water pressure.

As for the other systems, similar ones from before were retained and fitted for the new arrangement. For example, waste treatment was common for the entire building. This meant that the resulting biogas was shared in the building and would therefore be bought per usage, with the funds earned used to help maintain the building.

It also had features for natural ventilation like atriums, naturally ventilated hallways, and sky gardens. There were also provisions to cover these openings with youli stone slabs in case of exceptionally cold winters.

A whole community was built using this module and it was estimated a lot of people from the dormitories would jump in queue.

As such, the middle-class studio units and one-bedroom small condominiums were born.

There were actually plenty of buildings she hoped to build and Althea had specifically left a lot of space for these buildings. Although she could manually build them like always, not only would it take time, but it would need a lot more resources and also waste potential.

This world had allowed people to create miracles through buildings. How could she not tap it?

Speaking of magic buildings…

She turned to stare at Oslo, who was startled by her stare.

”When are you going to level up to C?”

”Soon.” He said. He wasn’t lying. The level that had been stuck for so many years was finally showing progress inside this unique village and under its unique Lord.

You must know, because of the incredible rarity of their pertinent materials—materials needed to create aether buildings—Architects had a much more difficult time to upgrade than others.

Most architects, in fact, remained stagnant at Class D for their lifetimes, which was very poor compared to most other professions who could reach their peaks at Class C.

And now… he was going beyond that at the young age of 30. His eyes met the lord’s and smiled. This was all thanks to her and her people.

Althea was just relieved to know he was upgrading soon.

”Good,” She said and handed him the tablet. She opened up all the architecture-related books for reference. ”I’ll lend this to you, you can study it within the village center library.”

Growing up with a holographic screen in his head, the tablet naturally wasn’t too magical.

But its contents were.

And… it was still in the language he grew up with!

Thanks to the aborigines, Althea and many others had already learned the local alphabet system. When books were popularized, others would learn of them too. With that knowledge, she had transcribed it to her high-functional tablet, allowing it to automatically translate the books so Aborigines would understand.

”I… thank you,” Oslo said, a bit shaky. He knew it must not have been easy to collect all this knowledge and make it available to him.

Although Aborigines could not betray hiring territories even if they wanted to, this level of trust was unprecedented.

He was actually only required to stay hired for a month by the family, but now he just wanted to stay to watch its development indefinitely.

He then excused himself to settle on the top floor of the village center. And he wouldn’t be coming out for many, many days.

Of course, his food delivery would still be exclusively from Cooke’s or Harold’s. But that was a story for later.

At the moment, Althea was looking at her building tabs to study the Upgrade conditions for various buildings.

During the height of the beast tide, she had received several notifications. It was just that she was too busy to care for them. Then she forgot about it while preparing for the lift.

The condition of the upgrade for the Bathhouse (Lv1) was accumulated use of 10,000 hours. Considering how many days it had been built… how many people actually used it every day? She didn’t count anymore. All she knew was that it was raking in profit.

The Training Hall was still a bit far from an upgrade, but the progress was very good. The hall witnessed a natural surge after her announcement. She estimated it would be upgraded within the next few days.

The warehouse though, was finally eligible for an upgrade at this time. It was ten times more expensive than the previous one, but she still bought it.

With her mind’s eye, she looked at the changes in the warehouse and was pleasantly surprised.

The Warehouse (Lv3) was larger with 1000 square meters and five meters in height. What was amazing was that the area outside was unchanged, as if the space within the warehouse could expand indefinitely without affecting the building outside!

This was basically a type of space folding right? She wanted to know more about that!

It also had an automatic sorting function. The categories were vague but it was enough. For instance, she could separate rocks, wood, plants, and others, which would make her occasional rummaging for treasure much easier.

In a good mood, Althea took another look at the basic improvements of the territory with a smile.

[TERRITORY STATS

Status: Level 3 Village

Area: 12,566,400 square meters

Residents: 1415 (373 permanent, 1042 temporary)

Total Population: 3524

Base Resources:

Wood: 700/20000

Stone: 200/15000

Money: 10711 Gold, 14699 Silver, 898699 copper

Reputation: 150

Buildings: Village Center (Lv3) , Weaponry Shop (Lv3), Defensive Wall (Lv5), Warehouse (Lv3), Farm (Lv2), Training Hall (Lv1), BathHouse (Lvq)

Bonus Building: Custom Buildingx2

Building Slots: 7/9 (+2)]

The village was upgrading, and so were its people.

And that was good enough.