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

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. 

Of course, despite the astronomical cost, she accepted the cost anyway. She would do so when she did expand regardless, and there was no point waiting when she had the resources to do so. 

How many lives would it save? Not a few. 

Anyway, fortunately, it didn't seem like it would bill this much for every single expansion. She reckoned the next one would be at the City Level—but it would likely consolidate the cost of all three Town-level expansions that came after this. 

She already shivered at the potential cost, but that was so far away she pushed it aside for now. 

Putting imminent money drain to the back of her mind, she went to look at her buildings. Until now, they were still deciding what to use the remaining blueprints for. The raw materials were increasingly finite, so they were deciding as if the sets they had would be the last ones.

Speaking of aether buildings, she would never stop being amazed by the Training Hall. She couldn't imagine the intricacies of arrays on the other buildings, but this Hall was on a different level altogether. 

Nobody knew where the Training Halls—or even the Mercenary Halls—came from. This was the same with the Centers, which had been there since the beginning of the 'System' as they knew it.

Many of the other buildings, in contrast, were associated with certain Cities. 

She knew that the Sanctum of Constructs— only available in cities—was where Lords could 'franchise' building blueprints and make them available in the System building options. 

Once applied, other territories could build these blueprints like how they could currently build restaurants, residential areas, and so on at the click of a button. 

Of course, the blueprints submitted must be Class A, made by a Class A Architect. 

When approved, the building would be integrated into the construction options available to all the Lords of this world.

When another territory purchased it, the submitting City would get not only a fraction of the initial purchase cost, but also a portion of the earnings until the end of time.

If the building was classified as a 'Special Building' —like the Pharmacy and the Post Office—then the profit share was even bigger. 

Oslo knew this because there was a family record from another Architect in the family—his great uncle, though he had unfortunately passed away before he was born.

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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