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

Resso Village, hours later.

[The war between Resso Village (Lv3) and Alterra Village (Lv3) has begun. The Array will close in 27:59:59]

The sun was now up, and the time to fight finally arrived!

”WHOOOOOH!!” The thousands of forces yelled altogether, raising their arms, and completely motivated. They were so loud they created reverberations everywhere, which just added to their momentum.

Tout, the Lord of Resso Village, looked at the luminescent array not far from their gate, lighting his heart with fiery—and blood-thirsty—excitement.

This war was a long time coming—planned for months, which was already a huge amount of effort on their part. Alterra should be honored! That said, they’d definitely milk it for all its worth for all this trouble!

They were waiting for Basset Town’s signal to attack, and they knew it was coming soon. However, they got the news that a lot of people were heading back to Alterra, which signaled a change of plans!

They knew that Alterra had blocked entry for months. Apparently, the infrastructure could no longer sustain a bigger population so they blocked them off in favor of comfortable living.

The official statement was that Alterra preferred the ’exclusivity’ and openness allowed by a smaller population, claiming that the subsidiaries could provide enough forces and manpower as needed.

It was really snobbish, and in their opinion a bit stupid, but they also understood that they might want to attract rich people in their midst. This was supplemented by the fact that they only allowed really rich merchants in to trade, but blocked almost everyone else, keeping the population at a certain threshold.

They also spiked up their threshold for residencies, though for some reason they didn’t change the visitor’s fees at all. They found the latter inconsistent, but who had the energy to think too much about that?

(They didn’t think of the possibility of Alterra upgrading at all. Alterra had only existed for a year. In their minds, it was unthinkable to upgrade so early!)

Anyway, in their interpretation, Alterra suddenly calling on thousands of forces back meant either one of two things: They had changed their minds and wanted to inject population again or… they were preparing to go to a war!

Either way was not good!

The first one meant that they’d be harder to deal with, and the second risked them losing Alterra to another.

So—after maliciously choosing a time of resting—he decided to declare war in a rush!

Fortunately, Basset—while disapproving of the suddenness—had instructed all territories to always be prepared and it wasn’t too difficult to gather so many forces in just over a day.

So, here they were.

Tout looked at his forces surrounding the magic circle, ready to enter at his signal. He smirked, looking at the sea of people about to come in.

There were more than ten thousand people there—not including the several thousand more already near the war area—which was well beyond Resso Village’s fighting force.

It was not just their village fighting this time.

Along with Resso, there was Ugoy Village, Tangga Village, Picno Village, Hasa Village, and the Level 2 Pang Village. There were also a few subsidiaries that didn’t join directly but sent hundreds of forces to assist.

Including most of their slaves, each one contributed thousands of people to this war.

Five villages against one. How could they possibly lose?

While everyone knew that calling on allies to assist in wars had a lot of limitations, there was a loophole that many territories knew of, but simply did not publicize.

The rules only applied to those who either entered the territory walls or went through the array.

That was to say: Other methods of travel were ignored. The System was not entirely all-knowing after all. For the most part, its powers were limited to what it produced: The Lord Token, and the territory attached to it.

This meant that they could get a lot more assistance if the reinforcements traveled to Alterra by foot instead.

And, because the rules were void during wars—as long as allies didn’t do either of those things—then it was free play.

Even before the declaration of war, all the aforementioned territories sent a good portion of their forces to help take Alterra. Before the set time of war, these forces—after rushing to the Alterra region—arrived to surround the place.

They went in groups of a couple of hundred or less, passing by the surrounding territories. Although the villages were ’nearby’, this was only in a relative sense. They were still separated by tens if not hundreds of kilometers, so it wasn’t difficult to bypass allied territories without alerting Alterra.

Anyway, even if they did get alerted, it wouldn’t make a difference anyway.

Things would’ve been more perfect if they had managed to attack the oncoming population, but things happened quickly and they really feared that someone else would declare war ahead of them.

Of course, such a big war alliance wasn’t typically done even if people did know of this loophole. After all, so many things could happen every kilometer! How many mobs would be encountered on the way there? How many people would they lose en route?!

Not to mention, the cost of assistance was huge. In most cases, it was not worth it to call on external forces in this way.

However, they were exempt because they had the strong Basset Town as their backer!

Alterra had grown so much and had just become too attractive! At this point, even Basset Town could be inferior in terms of connections, economy, and prestige! Too many territories were eyeing it now, and Basset Town was determined to be the one to take it!

They had been preparing for this attack for a long time. They had also been trying to weaken it bit by bit, though most of their plans didn’t find success at all. If anything, they just lost valuable spies each time.

They also prepared to deal with whatever Alterra could throw at them based on what they knew.

They believed they had prepared long enough—they’d be able to handle whatever Alterra threw at them.They got this war! Alterra would be theirs!