After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 1257

While the Town itself was preparing, they also planted a few Plan Bs and Plan Cs in the enemy territory in hopes of making things easier for them somehow.

Of course, the wars in Xeno were not like the wars in Terran, with the system rules and all.

Therefore, in Xeno, there was little to do in the attacking territory as people on the defense. During wars, more likely than not, the people who would be attacking had already gone through the array.

Not to mention, it'd be too dangerous to attack upfront because they'd be extremely outnumbered and she would never ask that of her people.

What they could do from the other side was to either stop reinforcements coming through the array (in one way or another—without sacrificing themselves), or take the token.

To be honest, Alterra had no interest in Basset Town. Other than the fact that it was a Town, it had few resources that they'd want. Most territories were like this, and Althea doubted she'd merge with another territory again until she found a territory with great natural resources attached to it. _{ƒrēewebnovel.com}

However, even if they defeated it, it could still rise someday after a few years or so. Even if they couldn't get the token (and sell it to someone who would ally with them), they hoped to at least weaken it as much as they could so it wouldn't cause trouble in the future.

How to do this when there were people twice their level? With a bit of scheming, of course.

Interestingly, Althea had no talent in that at all. About a week ago, during this particular discussion, she was in a definite backseat. They also called in Mathilda's team as well as the intelligence team to lead it.

After a lot of discussion, it was decided that Eagle and Chris would be the ones assigned to go to Basset Town, along with a few aborigines like Mauru. Their mission wasn't to take the token—that was too dangerous—but to try and incite a bit of chaos during the war.

They left soon after the news was announced, and they arrived a couple of days ago, already meeting with the team there. This included the brothers Tambai and Tanod.

Over the past few weeks, these two had integrated well in the Basset population using spying techniques taught to them as a course in the Barracks.

Tambai and Tanod were recognized for their talents in this area not long after they were hired, and they—along with dozens of others—were trained in the field for months.

They were top of their aborigine class, which was why they were the ones sent to Basset in exchange for large amounts of contribution points.

Speaking of spying lessons, the subjects ranged from surveillance, counter surveillance, intelligence analysis, and the like.

They were even taught 'basic disguise' lessons and 'how to get information subtly' lessons, which had all been put to practice in this mission.

Further, very few families were also willing to take deep oaths to the Lord. Some of the few exemptions were the previous generation of the Gold Family, who had made oaths to the Bleulle ruling party nearly two centuries prior, back when it was still a village.

In their case, the Lord had the foresight of capturing their hearts and loyalties, ensuring their service for the years to come.

To be fair… it seemed that the original Lord of Bleulle was a fair and just man, which was why he gained the undying loyalty of his servants. Sadly, after a few generations, the Lords became entitled and excessively selfish, leading to its current state.

Anyway, in Basset Town's case, there were a few families that held a large part of the territory.

According to the information, he had tried to weaken them by imposing rules and taxes, but a lot of them pushed back and the economy suffered.

This happened every few years, and some compromises had been made here and there.

There had been a few threats of rebellion as well, but those were snapped in the bud before anything could happen.

However, to Mathilda and the lot of them, one thing was obvious: They had plenty of holes to exploit, and they were planning on attacking them.