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

The letter was only sent to Bright, Shrao, and Belluga for efficiency. While taking away hundreds of manpower would affect them, they had long been preparing for Alterra’s upgrade.

Besides, they also had a lot of foreigners staying long-term in their residential areas. Unlike Alterra, which had become increasingly restrictive to enter, these territories had a lot of foreigner-friendly programs to attract the aborigine strongmen to stay.

Of course, they had to make oaths of non-betrayal, but this was in exchange for extremely good terms like their own houses and the like, provided they also fought and protected the territory to an acceptable degree.

They were also welcoming of Mercenary Team branches. Their area only allowed for one or two patches of land to be leased out however, so they were still choosy on which team to invite.

In any case, to aborigines who wanted to relocate in this region but could not do it directly in Alterra, then these deals were extremely attractive.

All territories had reached the peak of Level 3 Villages as well, though their Prestige would definitely take decades to meet the requirements of a Town, especially since they had no unique resources or tech to anchor on.

Being so close to Alterra also slowed down their prestige increase as well, because whatever happened in the region was likely to get associated with it instead.

However, thanks to the current system, no one went hungry anymore and the dormitories had also become the prevalent home. All shanty communities had been abandoned and replaced with proper housing and parks.

Although they couldn’t charge as low as Alterra for their bed spaces, it was still extremely affordable. Even the invalids—who had very limited job options—could afford to have a roof over their heads.

This amazed the aborigines very much and those who went to visit and returned to their home passed this on. Because of this, somehow this region—slowly referred to as the Alterran Region—had become the ’dream’ place to go to, especially for people who were struggling to survive until now.

In terms of defense, all villages had kept their level 3 walls, but they could now afford to place sentries at the optimum of 200 meters apart. Like Alterra, mobs and wars had started to lose their threatening nature now, too.

With the injection of strong forces in their ranks, those aborigine villages that used to scare them no longer had the chance of putting a dent on them!

Bright had also paid back all of its debts to Alterra by now and he felt a huge weight off his shoulders. Of course, he still had to pay monthly tribute (which was not small, especially with the revenue generated by aborigine tourists) but being technically debt-free was still a nice feeling to have.

Because of this, he had the time to start tracing where Gingo and his people were.

All he got after so long was that they headed West to Southwest, and in that direction—excluding a few Terran villages like Limestone Valley—were predominantly aborigine villages.

If they thought they’d live better there, heh, naive.

Still, so many of his citizens were hurt by that group, so they continued to investigate—as long as the scouts could guarantee their safety, of course.

In any case, the three territories were definitely miles ahead of most other Terran villages, and they had Alterra to thank for it.

Other than these three, there were also the new allies Yasof Village and Dune Town.

As soon as Yasof Village separated from Basset Town, it naturally caused a bit of commotion. However, Alterra helped weather out the wars by sending some good bone weapons as well as some guards.

There were also soldiers beyond the level cap there, in case the enemies sent similar people to cause them trouble—and they really did. These people were Basset Town citizens planning to weaken Yasof by killing off people going outside or heading in even before the war could be declared.

However, Yassop had long studied Alterra’s methods and as soon as he declared his separation, he limited his people’s movements to around the walls (which had also increased sentry numbers by the way, which was impressive considering he still lost a large amount of money from his war with Alterra back then).

However, during wars, the enemy strongmen could still cause trouble by helping the others get into the walls—which was the primary requirement to win the wars anyway.

It was a pity they couldn’t kill people, but that was that. They could just torture them after the war somehow.

However, they did not expect Yasof to have a counter to their attack.

Whenever a strongman would appear by the battlement, aiming to push down or pull the defenders there (and let their people kill them as soon as they lost balance), an Alterran strongman would appear, blocking their way.

The Basset Town sent were naturally not that special in town-level—below or in early level 20s—though they were still considered strongmen in Village wars. Anyway, they did not expect to encounter such a strong repelling force as soon as the war began!

Because people beyond the cap could actually harm each other, the soldiers had no reason to hold back from dealing with them. The soldiers sent were not few either—there was Luis, Ryan, Mao, Minko, and Sammy.

During the previous wars with its subsidiaries, Basset Town had sent some level 20s to assist, though none of that worked in Alterra, whose high-level archers could just target them specifically.

Althea herself one-shotted a few with her strong Bellagio bow. (It helped that she had a small mountain of mana cookies and potions in her space, of course).

After causing some losses in Basset Town, the wars against its subsidiaries had significantly slowed down until they halted.

However, they knew that there was no way they gave up. Things were just brewing and they were preparing for a bigger fight.

Anyway, they knew their style so they knew how to deal with them. Basset Town was also very vindictive so he sent quite a number of them.

Sammy and the others definitely did their best to weaken their future enemies, so most of the attempts to pull down Yasof citizens ended up in their deaths.

A lot of these strongmen died during the war, causing huge losses to the enemy villages and—most importantly—caused another small dent on Basset’s forces.

Of course, none of this came for free and Yasof had to pay Alterra a lot of money like Bright Territory did back then.

Fortunately, their location was not too far from Alterra and they could also send caravans to and fro to get products, managing to profit by selling the items for a very good price for the territories in their area. It was estimated they’d be able to pay Alterra after a couple of months.

In any case, winning the war against Basset Town’s subsidiary caused a lot of waves in another region.

To the aborigines in the East, this signaled that the Alterra region—a force to be reckoned with, even at Town level—was increasing in size and influence—and it was slowly reaching in theirs!