After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World-Chapter 1127: Next Steps (Part 2)

Of course, some might say for her to just expand and build a low-level wall around the new area like Fargo did, creating a better-guarded inner wall.

This was indeed the ’best’ approach to her situation.

Most territories would opt for an inner wall with the highest level while using a lesser wall for the rest of the territory.

Other than the fact that this would give exclusivity to a ’higher class’ of the Lord’s choosing, there were plenty of practical reasons for this.

First, high-level walls were too expensive to use in the large area of a territory.

Second, an inner wall would be far easier to guard during wars because there were fewer areas to guard.

To win a war, the majority of the enemy must get into the highest walled areas. Hence, it would be more difficult for enemies to win because the area they had to get into was smaller and more guarded.

But Althea and her elders would not do this. They wanted all their citizens well-protected.

While having a class strata was unavoidable because some people were simply more skilled, more powerful, or more hardworking than others she didn’t want this distance to be so stark that the lower rungs were unable to live life like proper humans.

After some discussion, they agreed that there was no need to fence the current areas—at least for now.

She looked at her stats.

[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: 109731 Gold, 449229 Silver, 5898699 copper

Prestige: 2150

Buildings: Village Center (Lv3) , Weaponry Shop (Lv3), Defensive Wall (Lv5), Warehouse (Lv4), 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: 8/11 (+11)]

Even during the past day, quite a few thousand people had landed in Alterra. It would only increase more and more.

With their population, the current area was already more than enough, even with her massive amount of greenery and forestry retained for resources.

All the new communities built in the past few months were either dormitories or mid-rise buildings, so her current population still fit well in her current space—with room for thousands more.

In order to fit the rest of the 50,000 population the upgrade needed though—if needed—she would just sacrifice a few green spaces and parks and build a few more mid-rise dormitories there. She could just make up for her personal greening requirements upon expansion.

Anyway, now that the residential concerns had been addressed for now, the next point to discuss was the special buildings they’d be spending their slots on.

For everyone to make informed decisions, Althea explained to them what they learned from Jonathan when they went to Ferrol, as well as what his father placed on his notes.

As a Level 1 Town, the special buildings available to them was the Chancery of Appointments, the Post Office, Pharmacy, and the Timekeeper Tower.

The Repeatable buildings were the Beast Stable, Guard Station, and the Inn.

Obviously, the last three were not even considered because they already had them. Of course, they did not discount the advantages of the System’s versions.

For instance, the Timekeeper Tower was extremely accurate—based on mysterious principles of this world—though they believed it was not unattainable with their math team.

For the System’s Beast Stable, it had a passive calming effect on beasts— making them easier to handle.

This could also be built multiple times, so as long as a business had money, they could pay the lord to create a Beast Stable for them. This was a very common deal seen in towns and cities, particularly for establishments that catered to nobles.

Finally, it had self-cleaning functions, which was extremely convenient. However, Balzy (their own Beast Inn Keeper) would argue that every part of monsters had some uses, and he indeed gained a bit of extra income by gathering beast excrement and selling them to farmers.

The Duplicable Guard Stations were also really convenient in terms of passing around information, and with their lessened access to aether letters, they actually seriously considered these.

The Inn was self-cleaning and had passive relaxing people and hastening recovery of Mana and Spirit. However, other than that, their own Inns were superior let alone their hotel. They could just make up for the recovery functions with their furniture instead.

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The Chancery of Appointments was where people could get hired by other territories like how they got their own NPCs.

However, would they want their people to go out? Especially, since they’d be under oath not to harm the territory they went to?

The reason other towns would build this was because it would allow them to hire beyond the limits of the Village Center, with an additional slot of 10 hires at the lowest level. This was something indicated in the Ferrol notebook, and precisely the reason why the former lord had one.

However, for Alterra, this didn’t seem particularly attractive.

The Pharmacy was self-explanatory with its ability to produce HP and Mana Potions at the lowest level, and buff potions when upgraded. Their own pharmacy had managed to mimic this to some degree, but it wouldn’t hurt to have one that continuously produced potions as long as they had the necessary raw materials.

They already knew the raw materials, and the most used was the Haozen Berry and the Youna plants (both of which among the first plants she encountered.

Other than these two, there were other ingredients, but they were fortunately relatively common in forest areas across the continent. As of this date, they had already gathered all these ingredients through various sources, including their seeds.

They’d be dedicating a number of farms to raise these plants. Before, Althea had dedicated farms for her own pharmacy, but that would no longer be enough.

One of the challenges pharmacies had to go through during peak times (during wars or mobs), was when they would run out of resources—and therefore run out of products—to sell.

Imagine being in a war and the pharmacy was ’out of stock’?

So, they learned this lesson and had been preparing for the mass production of the necessary raw materials.

They had, in fact, already managed to cultivate the seeds in their nurseries (primary credit to Althea and Thorance) and the plants were all growing well.

They weren’t actually difficult to plant and grow either. Otherwise, they wouldn’t be such ubiquitous plants at all.

The reason why there were only a few people who could actually take advantage of the resources was because no one knew the formulas.

Alterra’s pharmacists did figure it out after a bit of study—but that was because they were various experts who had hundreds of years worth of foundational knowledge taught to them since childhood.

Anyway, even if some locals knew, they would not share. And so… Alterra had the honor of pioneering such mass production of raw materials.

"The Pharmacy is a must," she said, and no one disagreed. "Now for the next slot…"