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

The group eventually reached the outskirts of the Alterran region, and the group had to be divided up to head to the respective territories. They stopped just before they entered the Town’s scope of influence, with the ’recruiters’ doing their best to get as many as they could.

Fortunately, the fee paid to Alterra was just an additional 4 gold, fixed, regardless of how much the ’slave’ was bought. After all, if it were in percentage, then some people would become way too expensive.

Alterra was not stingy, at least. After securing a certain amount of new talent, they didn’t really care where the rest would go as long as they headed to an associate territory.

In the end, each ally and subsidiary managed to get several hundred new elementalists, which made them all very happy.

If they had more money, they’d have bought even more! Sadly, their territories had a lot of expenditures and could only budget so much for new manpower.

Still, thousands of new elementalist injected into the region were a major step forward.

As for the rest, they’d be further divided between Alterra and the satellites. The lower-leveled ones would likely head straight to the satellites, though. It wasn’t because of the administration being elitists. Rather, people below level 10 simply had much better chances to grow in villages.

Before separating, the familiar caw of the messenger bird sounded and it landed right at Mao’s head.

”Ow.”

Sammy smirked (he may or may have trained this one to do this) and raised his arms next to Mao’s head. The bird cawed again and jumped onto his arms, with Sammy easily taking the message while Mao almost lost a clump of hair.

The dark-skinned man read for a moment, and his eyebrows rose midway. He looked at the groups.

”All Lords were called in for a meeting in Alterra, and the meeting will last 2 days,” he said. ”They just want to inform us in case there’s business with them.”

This way, if there were urgent matters concerning the Lords, there would be no detours.

Misha’s eyebrows rose, and so did Otto’s. With a grin, he turned to look at her. ”Looks like you’re heading to Alterra in the end,” he said. ”Shall I be your tour guide?”

Misha looked at him curiously. Putting aside the flirtations, an aborigine using the term ’tour guide’ so casually was really interesting.

At this, the girls Stephanie and Lacie immediately squealed. ”How wonderful~”

Misha’s eyebrows rose and she gave him a teasing smile, waiting for what he was going to do.

At this, he smiled at the women.

”There will be plenty of guides for everyone. I’d like to spend a day with Misha, if you don’t mind.”

He looked at Mao. ”Like Mao over there.”

Mao’s eyes twitched and looked at the girls oozing with flirtatious appeal.

He raised his hand. ”No, thanks.”

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About half an hour later, the teams separated to head to their own territories, all of which had varying levels of danger.

Those from Villages didn’t have to worry about monsters in these parts because the sheer number of elementalists they had could crush the normal village-level mobs.

As for the chance of encountering a town-level monster, they had learned well from Otto’s commands on how to handle them.

Granted, there were members of each associate village who could handle town-level monsters on their own, but since they were relatively near Alterra now, this also meant they had more chances of meeting these monsters—or mobs of them.

Mao would send 500 of Alterra’s lower-leveled new elementalists to Limestone Valley. Another 500 would be led by Minko to Iron Mountains after a day of rest in Alterra, while the rest of Alterra’s rescues would stay in the Town.

As for the associate villages, Fos went with about 200 people to New Shrao Village, and 800 would be going to Bright. Elias’s team would be traveling a bit farther because their territory was further East, and he surprisingly had the most among the three closest villages.

He managed to buy off 1000 elementalists, which surprised many of them. Many of the people in the know were expecting it though, because they had heard that, among the subsidiaries, Belluga Town paid much bigger tributes than others.

This was due to the combination of skill and luck. Raine ended up being quite the good leader. With Elias and other skilled men around her, they managed to elevate Belluga to a very good level.

This also combined with the fact that they were the main Terran subsidiary East of Alterra. This was in contrast with the West, which had Bright and New Shrao, let alone a satellite in Limestone Valley, and relative proximity to Ferrol and Iron Mountains.

Yasof was also in the East, but it wasn’t as near nor was it as developed and planned as Belluga’s at all. What made an organization was always the people. Yassop wasn’t a bad guy, but the ingenuity of Terrans was difficult to capture anywhere else.

This meant that, basically, business and tourists from the East and Southeast would likely land in Belluga first. The traffic of money raised it up even higher, and the administration team was smart enough to leverage that.

They also made deals with Alterra to buy off several new hires they got from Town-level. Village-level hires from the Center really weren’t that useful anymore, and fortunately, Alterra—with its natural injection of strong people—had a lot less need for territory hires.

And so, with Elias were actually several people past level 15! This was a great addition to the forces East, which was admittedly a lot weaker than their forces West and South.

Elias’s team separated at the camping grounds, which was already well within the Town’s area of effect and therefore encountering town-level monsters was common. They didn’t worry, though.

There was a lot of talent and capable people among them, after all, and with these thousands of new (relatively trained) Terran injected in each territory, things would only get better.