After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 131

[19 days of Protection Period]

Althea’s emerald eyes stared at the many notifications that appeared in front of her.

Her fingers paused when the final message appeared.

[Would you like to expand your wall to the edge? Yes | No]

She blinked and thought for a while as she calculated the costs. Her dainty fingers moved and pressed the negative.

[NO]

It seemed that not every built edifice was unmovable. It was just that the gold requirement was not much lower than if she simply built from scratch. However, the resources needed were also pointedly lower.

But this didn’t matter now. Either way, she chose to defer any changes until the beast tide ended.

After all, she not need such a large area. And more importantly: a smaller territory was an easier to defend territory.

[TERRITORY STATS

Status: Level 2 Village

Area: 3,142,000 square meters

Residents: 159 (27 permanent, 131 temporary)

Total Population: 404

Base Resources:

Wood: 7820/10000

Stone: 4750/8000

Money: 11522 Gold, 98663 Silver, 46407 copper

Reputation: 50

Buildings: Village Center (Lv2), Weaponry Shop (Lv1), Defensive Wall (Lv3), Warehouse (Lv1), Farm (Lv1)

Bonus Building: Custom Building

Building Slots: 5/7 (+1)]

Hm, it was beautiful.

She looked at the resources’ with satisfaction, although it had a long way to go, if she wasn’t building anything, it should be enough.

During beast tides, she could refill the ’health’ of the walls as she saw fit, and she wanted to make sure she had more than enough resources to fill it up even if it was on the verge of destruction.

She called on an advanced NPC meeting again, treating the NPCs as consultants prior to choosing anything that consumed a building slot.

She observed the NPCs as they entered one by one. She suddenly called them in the middle of the night but there was no sign of complaints.

"Milord." They bowed as she entered the lounge, and her green eyes observed the set-up of the meeting area.

There was already food in front, prepared by Harold and Sheila. She knew very well the appeal of their food to the NPCs and she was willing to give this benefit.

Of course, if she had coffee, she’d prefer it at this time for everyone else, and hot cocoa for herself.

Ah, she really missed those hot beverages…

It was Oslo who answered her inquiry. "It is perennial fire, my Lord, and it simply consumes a bit of wood every day to maintain."

She nodded, understanding the charm of this. The nights here was quite dark, it was only because they had two moons that there was still a bit of visibility.

She could see the advantage of this in terms of population as well, especially for a territory like hers set up in the middle of nowhere.

And… it would also look good, and the function was practical, but it was something that could be done on their own for a much, much, lower cost.

The other luxury building was a Bath House, with the function similar to an ancient civilization back in Terran. It also came with automatic heating and cooling functions.

[Luxury Bathhouse (Lv1)- automatically redirects water and produces various temperature pools: extreme hot, very hot, lukewarm, cool, cold, freezing.

Must be placed near a water source with 200 tons of water a year.

Automatic cleaning and reuse function.

Note: Water is not potable.

Cost: 300 wood, 500 stone, 500 gold. ]

She stared at the special note, though, that the water here was non-potable.

Perhaps the energy needed to heat or cool the water will somehow turn the water non potable? Anyway, a few tons of water a year wasn’t much for her who had mountain springs and rivers in the territory.

But… more than the light house… she actually considered this more.

She had not forgotten about the once-every-year-or-two climate disaster that could last weeks, if not a month.

At that time, wouldn’t a good bath in hot/cold water actually start saving lives?