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

The next moment, a resounding ding sounded across the territory.

[Congratulations! Your territory has unlocked special buildings!]

People froze and stopped talking, before whipping their heads to look at each other. ”Special Buildings? Did I hear it right?”

Although it wasn’t announced, a lot of people knew what the Architecture and Engineering department was up to. It wasn’t a secret and there were many members of that team.

It took a moment for them to absorb that it was really happening, though.

”Wait, whaattttt?”

”When are they building it?”

”I wanna see!”

At this, someone tapped his friend.

”Look, look!!”

They turned in the direction of the plaza.

”WHOA!”

Soon, three areas around the territory witnessed the magical creations of buildings and people swarmed to watch a good show.

First to be erected was the Observatory, which was located above the mountains for a maximum vista. This also allowed a lot of people to see it even at the foot of the mountains.

There were a few people having a picnic near the view deck though, and they were lucky enough to be the first to see it up close.

It had a square floor plan and relatively ornamental side decorations extending all the way up. The ground level was also very pretty and designed to be a hang-out place. The territory would definitely improve the park amenities in this place.

It was also located far from the lighthouse because the light pollution would interfere with the observations. They might even dim it a bit when they had to.

Speaking of the lighthouse, it really made Alterra visible at night, even at dim settings. They got quite a few refugees since the time they had it operational.

As for enemies, it didn’t really matter if they saw them. Wars generally required people to land inside the territory before a declaration could be made.

There were staff members given access to monitor everyone who entered that day and how long they stayed.

Of course, they couldn’t watch out for all spy activities with this, but they would strive to be as prepared as they could be.

Besides, Alterra was Proud! They definitely wouldn’t adjust their goodness because they were afraid of new enemies!

Next to be built was the Library, located next to the manually-built Research Center. This place had plywood surrounding it for quite some time. There was a massive hole inside this wall and they would now know what was meant to be there!

The structure was around 400-500 sqm in floor footprint area, expanding another three floors upwards. Further, it also had 2 floors underground, thus the need to dig it up beforehand.

”A second one?” Otto mumbled, looking at the building slowly being built, dust by dust. They were no less fascinated than the others to witness this.

After all, cities were already built up even before they were born. How often would they see a building being built from scratch?

”Oslo really made two with 18 sets?” Olga asked, very impressed and a little in disbelief.

Obi was even more cynical, ”Maybe there’s another level C Architect in here?”

”A village? It was already amazing it had gotten so many good hires at this level, you think they could get 2 level C architects—something only seen in high-level towns?”

”Who knows, right? Maybe some lord’s wife fell in love and the said lord wanted to…”

”You could start writing stories.”

”Should I?”

Olga rolled her eyes.

The siblings had just gotten out of the stadium to watch a very fun game of basketball. Otto and Obi, in particular, were very invested.

It so happened that Ansel was the one to patent the game so they had already reached a deal with him.

They did not expect though, to get such a surprise as they went to get their after-game snacks.

To their shock though, they heard another building was being erected. ”Another one?” they looked at each other in disbelief.

”No, right?”

Without further ado, the family (now including Honda who had reunited with them after crossing paths sometime in between) went to where this new building was, half-expecting it was a manual construction.

But, to their surprise, it was another aether building!

”This is… three? I didn’t expect him to finish one!”

”Orcshit!”

”Language!” Olga yelled, covering little Honda’s ears. Amusingly, the half-orc Gochi happened to be in the vicinity, and he turned to them as Obi yelled the expletive.

An awkwardness passed as the Golds met his eyes, and every one of them just looked forward as if nothing happened.

Olga cleared her throat, guiding the topic back to where it was. ”So… really three?”

Otto looked at the building being erected, the construction reflected in his blue eyes. ”Maybe Oslo took 50 sets?”

”That’d make much more sense,” Obi said. Not considering the enormous cost and difficulty of procuring 50 sets, it still made more sense than Oslo making 3 buildings out of such a small amount of tries.

The siblings couldn’t help but want to look for their youngest brother to get some confirmation of this. Well, all were curious except for Honda, who was perfectly happy to leave them again and go adventuring with his friends.

After a few hours, all three buildings had been erected and people scattered to try them all out.

The Golds found Oslo after asking around, and they decided to drag him so he could personally guide them. He was with his entire team, witnessing this historic moment together.

”Come, guide us!” Olga said, dragging her little brother to check out all three buildings.

What Oslo could say was naturally limited but the show was fascinating enough that they didn’t beat him up because of his smugness.

While many people went straight to the library, the Golds decided to climb the mountain and admire the towers. Anyway, there were thousands of people in the territory. No one wanted to miss the chance to see the new buildings. The tower, which was far from the hustle and bustle, was naturally less busy.

The details were really amazing and the multipurpose function was inspiring. To be honest, a lot of the time-keeping in Xeno heavily depended on the system (which appeared during countdowns like in wars), while more approximate estimates were done with tools similar to sundials.

To see time accurately portrayed outside the system, and at all times, was new even for city dwellers.

In Xeno, working hours were arbitrary. Basically, as long as the workers could see, they were expected to work with minimal breaks, if any. Slaves didn’t get breaks at all, and they would even work even if it was very dark.

Oslo didn’t tell them about the massive telescope as it counted as a territory secret, but he did tell them some tricks about the clock.

”It’s a difficult concept to explain as I still don’t fully understand it,” he said, ”The team taught me about many mechanical concepts that made them work with available technology. For example…”

When he explained and saw them dazed—although he hadn’t mastered the principles himself—he still felt smug for finally knowing more than his siblings.

Seeing his smug face, Obi wanted to punch him, but he was too curious. ”What about the others?” he asked, looking forward to pointing at the large building by the plaza.

They were at an altitude so they could easily see the territory. Oslo followed where he was looking at and nodded. ”That’s the library.”

”Library?”

”Like the papyrus library we have at home. But it’s accessible to the public. Or at least those who did something for the territory,” he said. ”Here they would be able to learn many things like what the territory knows about the monsters, as well as basic knowledge about plants, etc.”

”What?!” They exclaimed, but immediately calmed down. They had been here for so many days now, they had naturally realized the culture here was just… different.

Still, it seemed like Alterra would never cease to surprise them!