After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 1695

Chapter 1695: Taking Over A Region (Part 1)

Nearly two months passed by in a flash, and for most of the world, it had been mostly the same. In a certain region, though, it was different.

While there were still Terran slaves that were being spread and sold off here and there, especially through previously established routes, the increase of the number had slowed down significantly. In certain directions, it had wholly come to a halt.

A couple of territories even directly returned some of them.

In that time, Alterra received dozens more allies and subsidiaries—some through wars, and some through peaceful means.

Decent territories generally had no reason not to join in. Even if many were guarded at first, it was not difficult to prove that Alterra meant no harm.

Some would also realize they were already ’surrounded’ by unallied domains and might have no choice but to succumb to it.

The few ’decent’ Terran villages that refused for a while eventually gave up, too, when tradespeople from several adjacent villages came and started convincing people from the ground up.

The recruiters would even mention times when an aborigine village attacked one of the allied villages, and the enemies would be shocked at the reinforcements, crushed without much of a fight.

This actually happened quite often in the past few months, and soon it spread out that a solid network was forming, even among villages with no Post Offices, which was already indicative of the scale at which it was happening.

As for the oppressive territories within the region, aborigine or not, they were dealt with by the alliance that formed. It wasn’t anything too brutal like massacring a village, of course.

All territories had restaurants and wells, so they were fairly self-sufficient, so economic pressure would take too long, especially when they didn’t know Alterra for long and hadn’t experienced its products yet.

So, when the territory was hurting Terrans and was stubborn, then they were probably going to be dealt with by war.

There would just be an allied or subsidiary village who’d start a war, get another ally or two to help out, and they’d get the territory to surrender with—as per Alterra’s request—as few deaths as possible.

In those cases, Alterra didn’t have to do anything except sell some resources and weapons for a good price, giving limited-time-only increased purchase limits in all resources to whoever decided to go to war.

This was a win-win for whoever ended up attacking. Not only would they win a war and gain half of the loser’s assets, but they would also increase purchase limits, which was not a small matter at all.

If they strategized well enough (Alterra wouldn’t help anymore), they could even get a token.

Sometimes, the Lord would keep it, but more often they’d sell it instead. The latter had to invest in a Token Guard, however, fortunately allied territories could buy it with terms of payment (i.e. half a year to pay or something like that).

Anyway, at some point, a sort of Token auction started in the region, now called Alterra Region.

However, for the villages within the region, only Terrans were allowed to participate.

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