After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 1179

Chapter 1179: Next Steps (Part 1)

The next few days focused on Alterra's recovery and adjustment. It also included the handling of the new population that entered the premises.

Now that there were no more limits in the entries, the number of visitors definitely spiked, increasing the overall energy in Alterra even more.

Thousands of people had entered the past few days, not including those who arrived in time for the anniversary event.

Further, thanks to the contribution points granted during the previous war and the upgrade beast tide, a few hundred also gained residencies though most could only afford temporary residency with the new system.

While lounging in her home, Althea took another look at her territory's status.

[TERRITORY STATS

Status: Level 1 Town

Area: 28,270,000 square meters

Residents: 14785 (4963 permanent, 9822 temporary)

Total Population: 31824

Base Resources:

Wood: 39300/40000

Stone: 28220/30000

Money: 95731 Gold, 449229 Silver, 5898699 copper

Prestige: 2150

Buildings: Village Center (Lv3) , Weaponry Shop (Lv3), Defensive Wall (Lv5), Warehouse (Lv3), Farm (Lv3), Training Hall (Lv3), BathHouse (Lv2), Prison (Lv1)

Bonus Building: Custom Buildingx3, Armory (Lv3), Restaurant (Lv3), Special Torch (Lv1), Well (Lv3), Barracks (Lv3)

Custom Aether Buildings: Library (Lv1), Lighthouse Watchtower (Lv1), Hospital (Lv1)

Building Slots: 10/11 (+11)]

As for why her gold decreased so much despite the influx of population and property purchases, it was because she had to pay for the expansion of the Rules and Regulations.

This was understandable. After all, expanding the area wherein all those specific rules applied required a lot more energy. It was normal for the System to charge more.

It was triggered as soon as the loose sentries outside the walls finished construction.

She wanted it so that if the people were fighting outside the walls, they had the extra reinforcement of sentries even when they were hundreds of meters away from the main territory.

That said, when the billing was triggered, she was planting in her garden. When she saw how much it was, she almost fell down on her experimental plants.

How much did it cost? Just a few tens of thousands of gold!

Although she had a lot of gold, it was still painful to watch all that drain away for something that felt concrete. The upgrade of the training hall—and the construction of the Post Office and the Pharmacy—cost a fraction of that!

That said, it was optional. This meant that in other places, some rules were applied to certain areas, while it was lawless in others, which explained a lot of things, to be honest.

Speaking of this, she also found out about the other system buildings and their associated Cities.

For example, most of the food-related items like restaurants and juice shops—as well as the Inn and Hotel—came from Holt City.

The first Clothing store was from Makita City, but in the past few months, more Clothing stores from the other two Cloth-making cities popped up. She vaguely felt some competition among them.

The Bookstore was Bleulle's—the blueprint of which was created by Oslo's late uncle.

According to them, unlike restaurants and pharmacies where Alterra had to provide the raw materials for them to keep working, the Bookstore chose the option of providing the raw materials—though for premium costs.

They just had to submit a stock of raw materials in the Sanctum's Array and it would send it out according to its need.

This was another reason why the papyrus in the Bookstore was so expensive in general.

As for the raw materials, Althea found out from Oslo and Cassandra that they came from several subsidiary towns. They were quite secretive of their resource too, which was why Bleulle opted to do it this way.

For example, the main component of papyrus was from Ester town—the place Cassandra was almost married off to. On the other hand, her hometown Jacoba's main product—the Isatis—was a component of ink.

The Barracks came from Warrior City, which seemed to be located in the far East, very near the Orc territory.

The others, they hadn't gathered yet but they were likely from well-known cities around the human territory.

This was the peak of passive income in this world, and she was really interested in it.

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