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

While Alterra was at its final phases of preparation (and even beginning to consider scientific explorations), the other territories were not idle either.

The Satellites were doing particularly well, thanks to its close connection to Alterra and the magical warehouses. This was especially true for Limestone Valley.

As the satellite with predominantly Terran citizens, its culture, infrastructure, and the like were closest to Alterra. In the past few months, there has been an explosion of shops, development, and so on. For people who couldn’t move to Alterra, most of them ended up settling in Limestone Valley instead.

It was also in a great middle ground between aborigine villages and Terran villages. It was the Terran territory that had the most visits from aborigines next to Alterra and Iron Mountains (which was surrounded by aborigine villages).

Anyway, the tourism and trade industry was also doing extremely well and the economy was booming. They had their own banking system now, too, which only served the territory.

Not to mention, Althea only received the entry fees, resident fees, and taxes (the system sent it to her automatically) while the rest of the profit the territory generated circulated in itself, allowing it to develop the fastest among the associate villages.

Using this money, the roads were widened and trees were added on islands. A lot of manual buildings were created, all of which were commercial. The tunnels were also expanded and reinforced to add safety.

They also had their own hospital, using another blueprint created by Oslo. The leader assigned here was not Vanessa, but Raffy, the masculine nurse who opted to stay there instead of going with Volohov and the others.

There were quite a number of conflicts involved in this, but Henry was steadfast in his decision and so far Raffy was doing a great job considering everything.

Their military was also showing great promise. A lot of people had awakened their elements and a lot of them chose to be guards thanks to the various benefits (housing, canteen use) the territory gave to them.

A lot of the current guards had also experienced Fargo’s reign of terror back then too, and were determined to be the direct opposite of the culture he encouraged.

Therefore, the guards here were quite nice and understanding, at least compared to the usual arrogant attitude of guards in aborigine territories.

Over all, next to Alterra, Limestone Valley was the one developing the most. Henry and Victor were doing a great job in overseeing the place, though the latter was only in the territory half the time because he was always in Alterra to visit his wife, who was very pregnant.

Of course, it was not all sunshine and butterflies even in Alterra, let alone Limestone Valley. There were still a lot of conflicts and tensions they had to fix, especially with the arrival of hundreds of aborigine visitors.

Henry also received some reports of suspicious aborigines lounging about. Everyone had been warned before and knew to watch out, especially after what they got from Inko Village. Of course, they couldn’t just imprison people because of suspicion, which could get really stressful at times.

Limestone Valley was like this, more so was Iron Mountains?

Iron Valley, after the war the previous month, had not been attacked again. However, it was still the one with the most tension. After all, it had a predominantly aborigine population and was located smack in the middle of an aborigine region.

Fortunately, the injection of more than a thousand Terrans had slowly begun to change the landscape.

For one, the widened avenue was now filled with Alterran shops. Tofu, the pioneer, had hired very good cooks among these Terran migrants. He was self-aware and knew there were countless better cooks than him. His skill was more on business, shamelessness, and overall exhibition of his thick face.

Anyway, he was still among the richest Alterrans in Iron Valley, so he was able to give good salaries and got great talents. It didn’t matter if new restaurants popped up to compete with him, he had already carved himself a good spot in the market.

It had also created a lovely subculture there, too, which slowly leaked to the aborigine neighborhoods. The integration was further improved by various programs and festivals designed to melsh the two races together.

Of course, it was never so smooth. After all, many of the aborigines were just bitter and arrogant and were difficult to interact with. However, with time, they soon became the minority and most had no choice but to adapt as well.

The Alterrans would befriend more and more local aborigines and eventually those aborigines would be the ones pushing their brethren to interact well.

After all, they were really enjoying their current territory! What if it went back to how it was before if they kept pushing these people away?!

Overall, every territory associated with Alterra was doing well… and this was also subject to a lot of greedy hearts just waiting for their chance to strike.

A number of spies lurked around, some were captured, while some were not. It was safe to assume they’d never get every one of them either and just prepare for whatever could come.

The ill-intentioned aborigines were—fortunately—the minority though. Most of the aborigines there were aiming to get a better life for themselves. They had seen how the Terrans were living, what their standards were, and they wanted that too!

If they stayed and served the village well, then they could very much receive it too!

It was the same with the migrants from the nearby villages. Guia was always well-known in the area, but when they heard about the changes they couldn’t help but want to take a look, too.

They did, and now they didn’t want to leave.

Sadly earning contribution points had become much more difficult now.

So… they worked harder than the Terrans when it came to clearing out beast mobs! Monster mobs were really not a problem now, and the only threat Iron Mountains had to face was fellow humans (which was kind of sad in a way, too).

It was just that they worked so hard that the Terran locals started to complain that they were taking too much of their kills!

When the aborigines heard of this, they were flabbergasted.

Instead of being thanked and admired for their hard work, were they irking the locals instead?!