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

This ’population transfer’ program started a few months prior and had seen good effects on all the affiliated territories.

After all, thousands of Alterrans and foreigners flooded the nearby allied villages. There were thousands of ’slaves’ that were also sent to the satellites.

This large injection of population naturally created a boom in development for all the affiliated territories.

Thanks to this program, these territories now had a lot more forces against beast tides—to the point that no monster mob posed a threat to them anymore.

In fact, with the leadership of Alterrans who had temporarily settled there, the attitude of ’looking forward to mobs’ had also influenced the local population, turning everyone into war-hungry fiends… er, citizens.

The population also allowed the economy to spike up, not just for the local shops, but new ones also popped up. Of course, there were a few conflicts in terms of monopoly with a few residents.

After all, before the Alterrans moved there, certain parties were the leading suppliers of so-and-so products. The arrival of people from the ’source’ naturally threatened their way of life.

However, it was nothing Terrans hadn’t encountered before. Considering they were used to wars and beast mobs, business conflicts were the least of their problems.

For the most part, because Alterrans had access to a wider variety of products (displaced citizens also had higher purchase limits), it was the Alterrans who gave way, selling rarer products in the end. Those were much more profitable, anyway.

The increased population of elementalist (on top of being associated with Alterra) had also become a deterrent to war declarations, giving the villages the stability needed to grow well on their own.

In fact, all the territories—except for Iron Mountains—hadn’t been attacked for months.

Although getting enough prestige to become a town was still a distant dream to them, they definitely grew to be the strongest villages in the region.

Imagine: A group of villages superior to the previous Guia’s were compressed into a single region. Further, all these territories were allied to each other.

As a whole, how powerful would they be?

The effect was even more pronounced with the satellites, which received a lot more people than the allied territories. Allied territories were allied territories, but satellites were still—technically—part of Alterra.

In terms of systems, points, and the like, satellites had mimicked Alterra much better than others. Contribution points of those who were staying in satellites were also quite a bit higher than those in other allied territories!

It just so happened that they were relatively far from Alterra so there were still a lot of them who opted to go to the nearby allied territories instead.

The people assigned to the satellites were also asked to stay for a longer period of time for more efficiency and lesser turnover.

For Iron Mountains, there were about a thousand people sent there—and they were assigned for an entire year.

First of all, it was too far away to travel to every month and, second, it was full of aborigines, was placed in the middle of aborigine territories, and was more prone to wars. Iron Mountains, in particular, were in dire need of stability.

The new policies injected the Terran population into the place, increasing its strength by a notch, and creating a new subculture that would quickly change the world of the locals already living there.

Anyway, Althea was certain that they were as ready as they could be for an upgrade. At this point, delaying it for longer wouldn’t be practical anymore—it could even be dangerous if most of their fighters went past the level cap.

At this, she called the Elder meeting to discuss this issue.

If they all agreed, then they’d call back a few (thousand) people currently staying in the allied territories—effectively triggering the dreaded upgrade.

…

The Elder meeting began about an hour later. They were all a little somber, because they knew what the meeting was about.

The last meeting they had where every Elder was called in was when they were discussing the distribution of Alterrans to other territories.

So the dreaded day had finally arrived.

They were really enjoying the few months of peace they had. Sure, there were small scuffles and quite a bit of spies caught during the past few months, but they really felt that they held the world—so to speak. Or, at least, their part of the world.

All that would change as soon as they upgraded. A lot of territories had been eyeing them, after all…

The first to arrive, of course, were Althea, Garan, Eugene, Mathilda, and Gru. They just happened to be near the Center so it didn’t take long for them to arrive.

Speaking of the Elders, a lot has also changed during the past several months with them and their families.

For one, Mathilda and Gru had trained a lot during this time, a bit more than what was required in order not to be left behind.

They were now level 10 and their white hair had basically disappeared. They also trained together a lot, allowing them to develop a wholesome friendship between old people.

Eugene, on the other hand, was just… happy, and it showed with the impressive progress of his team in the Research Center.

Melissa’s pregnancy was also going well now, though there had been a lot of scares during her first trimester. After all, she had a weak body and a low level at the time.

They had to get her to kill some low-level monsters to increase her level, and she had been stable since then. Melissa had grown to be quite healthy and was fulfilling her ’wifely duties’ very well despite her pregnancy. Ahem.

Althea didn’t change much, though she seemed even more glowing with her level up, let alone Garan, who seemed much more intimidating just sitting there.

After the straight months of training (with his wife far away) he developed a sharper ice-cold aura that made low-level folks have difficulty in breathing. Fortunately, his wife was next to him to thaw that.

Soon, the remaining Elders arrived, each displaying notable changes of their own.