After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 1696

Chapter 1696: Taking Over A Region (Part 2)

In the West, Voumi had sent all of its remaining subsidiaries to find a place to wage war on. They were desperate to get new elementalists now due to some internal conflicts.

One of the territories they were targeting was one of the stubborn ones. It was still a Terran territory, but it was lucky enough to find a small valley and had remained undetected by aborigines during the first year.

Because of this, whenever they attacked a neighboring (Terran) village, they triumphed over them at all times, and had become arrogant.

When an unknown territory approached them, opening an alliance whilst asking him, the Lord, to go out was extremely stupid of them. Anyway, they were left alone, and they thought ’good riddance’.

However, because of this, when one of the low-level territories at the borders alerted the alliance that several of Voumi’s subsidiaries were making moves again, this territory wasn’t informed.

How could they be informed? They were not allies and therefore were not connected via their respective Village Centers.

Because subsidiaries weren’t satellites, Voumi could indirectly start several wars at the same time.

The stubborn territory was soon taken over, and half their slaves were taken to Voumi to finally replenish their elementalist population.

On the other hand, its neighbor, which had accepted the alliance and was warned even before the declaration, and some reinforcements from a nearby ally were also sent in.

They were attacked less than a week later by another Voumi subsidiary and won without much bloodshed on their side, even getting the token of the attackers.

Anyway, the contrast was quite stark.

Voumi naturally was told of this. However, Voumi wasn’t in a position to do too much at this time, and they did not have the resources to thoroughly investigate either.

This was because a good portion of their forces had become addicted and, with the lack of the powders, became a bit difficult to control.

Another...Hesso tried to assassinate the Lord’s child!

It was such a shocking twist that it was the topic of discussion for weeks after that.

Hesso was now imprisoned for trying to kill Sandra and his seed, and the bastard was drug-addled enough to actually curse at it to die, erasing all doubt that it really was him.

The investigation claimed that Hesso had met with people from Valov Town shortly before that. This exacerbated the relationship between the two. If they were at the same level, perhaps they’d have gone to war already.

It also made sense because the Voumi people believed that the poison could only be from Valov.

A while back, Alterra had spread news in Voumi that Valov was also producing the drug, and this was something—through their spies and allies—spread everywhere.

They did not spread that it was in Voumi because it was unlikely, considering how poor they were, and they still had hundreds of elementalist slaves (maybe thousands again, after the latest wars they had against non-allied terran territories). If Voumi was targeted as the producer of the drug, then many of those Terrans would perish as collateral damage.

So they had to add and put in a lot of drama so that they’d be busier with each other. Valov’s hands would also be full to some degree, and perhaps they could also detect the true source of the drug while those bastards were busy.

The Intelligence team had narrowed it down to somewhere North of the Terran region, and they could see this because the Northern territories they went through had the most addiction cases.

However, their resources were spread thin in the other directions, so most of what they were doing in the North was only gathering intel. They were also subtly spreading word of ’decent’ territories they could find anywhere South of them.

Guardian Village and they were also tasked to go around in their area, to connect with more territories on their own, and investigate the issue from their side as well.

There had actually been dozens of refugees who had already escaped and settled down in associated territories. They were afraid of the growing chaos of the drug pandemic and how unstable everything was becoming.

Sedonia has begun again this time. They are making them here. Many friends and relatives are trying to settle down, but to no avail.

"I didn’t think we’d hear from him again," Loki said. "We have been making a few ripples in the North, perhaps Gian was made aware of our movements somehow."

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