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

[Inko Village (Lv3) has declared war on Limestone Valley (Lv3)]

"Oh?" Althea let out an unconscious exclamation and everyone whipped their heads and looked at her with tense faces.

"What is it? Is the war declaration sent?" Ansel asked, walking over. The others waited for her response, eyebrows furrowed in nervousness.

At this time, they were actually having a meeting in the Town Center.

While they believed they were over-prepared enough to at least not lose the war, they were still brainstorming what else they could do to minimize the sacrifices—something inevitable against a Town with a lot of level 20s and level 30s.

This was why, no matter how well they prepared, they couldn't help but feel nervous. They didn't know who, where, or how many would perish, but even if it was just one person, they cared too much to be cool about the upcoming war.

Althea had a complicated expression on her face. "Well, yes, but…"

Luckily or not… It was Limestone Valley that got attacked first.

Wars with satellites were still limited to its level cap, so it could only be village against village. However, very few actually attacked satellites unless there was a specific resource to be taken away.

Satellite Villages had its wealth tied to the main territory—which was basically just Althea's wallet— so even if they won, they wouldn't be able to take the monetary wealth or any of the resources directly 'owned' by the main territory.

That was to say: At best, the only thing they could automatically get from winning was half of the population as slaves.

This was because, technically speaking, the population was separated because they lived in different areas and territories.

Even if they were under the umbrella of Alterra, they had to pay a citizenship fee again if they moved to a satellite to rebind to the land.

During the Blockage, a lot of Alterrans moved to the satellites because of the offers to sponsor their citizenship. Many of them couldn't afford Alterran citizenship, so the deals were very attractive to them.

The rule could be summed up to the magic's effect being the strongest within the territory scope. Money wasn't a problem because the wallet was integrated with the System, but living humans were a different issue.

The enemies could also plunder whatever was left inside. Basically, the Iron Mountains was still being attacked due to its iron and its population, which had a lot of goblins and elementalists.

The reason for attacking Limestone Valley was likely the same, but it had been safe for so long because it was so close to Alterra and they could easily send support while the war was ongoing.

Speaking of this, Inko was very brave to go for revenge this time.

However, if they had the backing of a Town—which was likely Voumi Town, according to their intel—this would explain their confidence to go against them again.

Garan patted her hand. "Henry and the others will be able to do well. Each territory had their own cards prepared," he said. "There's no need to be so nervous."

They made sure to keep their strongest weapons under wraps.

After so long, most of the aborigine enemies still hadn't gotten much information about their cannons and their bombs—which had been improved many times in the past few months.

The only exception was probably Fargo, though what they could create with just him there would be limited.

After all, a lot of great minds had to work together to be able to replicate the various technologies with the materials they had on hand.

Whether it was anything related to electricity, technology, and most definitely explosives like gunpowder was no excemption. Aether was a major variable in all of that, and he doubted Fargo had found a way to adjust to that.

"Inko Village is being backed by Voumi Town, which according to our information has at least 8 villages under it," Garan said.

"Damn. It's safe to assume all of that is attacking."

"Possibly."

This was a problem. Unlike Alterra back then, they had no town-level mobs arriving to eat up most of the forces. They had considered something like this happening to the satellites, though they concluded it wasn't likely because mobilizing so many people was too costly for the 'meager' rewards of attacking a satellite.

Fortunately, after hiring a lot of good aborigines after the upgrade, they actually sent most of the ones within the Village level to the two satellites instead.

After all, there was little need for that in Alterra—with wars now expanding to level 40s—but they could make huge differences in villages where they'd be considered powerhouses.

Another preparation was to equip the guard team with good weapons. Even before they upgraded, Limestone Valley actually had three cannons in their armory. Looks like it was time to add a few more.

There was no Lord there to receive the declaration, so Althea immediately sent the message to Limestone Valley of the attack.

This was another of the few pros of attacking satellites—they usually were less prepared because they might not be informed of the attack on time.

Unlike subsidiaries that had lords who could receive messages from the Center, satellites had no such thing. Their news could come even slower than subsidiaries.

Fortunately, that wasn't a problem in Alterra (or any territory with a Lord that had some presence of mind).

She didn't even need to use the birds. She just had to teleport to the warehouse and went out, placing the letter in the mailbox there. It was convenient, but wasn't done often because Althea was a very busy person.

At the same time, about a hundred guards within the level cap were also sent to assist. A few soldiers like Mao and Luis were there to guard them against possible ambushes as well.

Fortunately, they had been preparing for a town-level war beforehand so they had a lot of excess equipment, medicine, and the like which the guards' and soldiers' spaces were filled with.

She also sent huge bulks in the Warehouse. She would then head to Limestone Valley and go to the covered shed right outside the warehouse.

She made a mental note to get both satellites to just build another structure that covered their warehouses, so she could transfer a lot more stuff from Alterra during events like this.

She nodded, looking at the mountains of resources the local citizens could use. "Good luck, Limestone Valley."

...

While the territories were preparing as much as they could, a certain town lord was preparing to send his declaration, only to receive a very annoying response.

[A satellite of Alterra Town (Lv1) is undergoing war and cannot be attacked for a period of time.]

CRASH!

"DAMNIT!" Bentro yelled, throwing whatever he was holding to the wall. He was past level 40 and his throw wasn't weak, creating a little crack on the wall with the item—an earthenware cup—splattered into hundreds of pieces.

He felt his blood rising in annoyance. Everything was ready! He just had to make that declaration! What bastard decided to destroy his plans?!

However, he forced himself to calm down.

"Well, it doesn't matter," he said, heaving a deep breath. "What could these people do in two weeks?"