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

The days passed by in a flash and the war cool down finally came to an end.

The Lord of Basset Town—possibly afraid that he'd get preempted again—declared war the moment he could.

[Basset Town (Lv1) has declared war against Alterra Town (Lv1). The War will commence in 13:59:59]

As soon as Althea received this announcement, a barrage of announcements resounded across the territory. This was followed by the first ring of the Bell Tower, indicating the countdown had begun.

[Announcement: Basset Town (Lv1) has declared war against Alterra Town (Lv1). The War will commence in 13:59:00]

[Announcement: Please refrain from leaving the territory lines from this point forward, even with a team.]

[Announcement: Gentle reminder to secure all of your belongings properly. Prepare yourselves and your families well.]

[Announcement: Everyone please prepare as much as you can and take a rest. It is assumed that this war will last a full 28 hours.]

[Announcement: Anyone who causes inconvenience, suspicion, and danger to the territory will be met with punishment according to the degree of sin or its potential damage. Anyone who reports a valid case will receive a reward upon verification and oath.]

[Announcement: All resources will be bought at 120% of their normal price. All weapons, equipment, healing and mana potions, and other essential items will be sold at 50% of their regular price. The purchase limit is retained in quantity, but renewable every 2 hours.]

[Announcement: A gentle reminder that all visitors are also entitled to receive Contribution Points. All visitors who wish to join in the war and contribute, please register in the village center and sign an oath valid for 1 day.]

These visitors who volunteered to help would be given a returnable colorful token they'd wear during the war. This was to help identify who was an ally or not.

It wasn't foolproof show of alliance, but they couldn't suspect every single non-citizen fighting for Alterra right?

That said, Alterra did not ask any of the subsidiaries and allies for help, though a lot of them would definitely be going on their own to receive precious Contribution Points from Alterra.

Alterra's rationale for not asking Ferrol was that if there was an imbalance in a transactional relationship, there could be quite a few changes and a lot of inconveniences. Alterra would always be on the advantageous side as long as it could help it.

Besides, calling on allied forces that might not fully care for Alterra might not be worth the costs.

At the same time, calling subsidiaries was actually quite affordable—it was their duty to help out a master territory. However, the Elders didn't want to call people to this risky war either. Instead, they just gave subsidiaries the same promises of contribution points and it would be up to them to take it.

Anyway, the announcement was definitely tempting to the many visitors that Alterra had—especially now that the Contribution Point requirement for everything had increased after Alterra became a Town!

They would not be risking their lives, but it should be safer with a few trusted people helping out together. Anyway, chances are: It'd be worth it.

This was especially true for the people within the level cap, which was almost everyone! After all, the points they could get when it was still a village were limited. Now, they could go wild.

Many of these people had been waiting for a chance to rake up contribution points—whether it was just to get access to the library, among others—and it was finally here!

How could they not take advantage?

…

While the territory had started mobilizing everywhere, a certain dungeon was reeking of blood and depression.

Kimmy and Yelena stood outside its gates, led by a guard. This time, it was Luis, who looked at the two women in concern. "I will go with you. I'm instructed to end his life today, and we invited you to come if you wanted to see.

"However, if it'd make you uncomfortable—"

"No," Kimmy said, right hand gripping Yelena's. "We are willing."

Yelena also held on to her, using her as her support, and the two women entered the dungeons with wildly beating hearts.

This wasn't the first time they were here. In fact, they had watched the kind of torture he went through every day, and they watched it a few times the past couple of months whenever they were reminded of what he had done.

Usually, it was after a nightmare. Even when it happened fewer and fewer times, they still did, and they were still as vivid as it was.

When the guards found out about it, whenever they visited, they'd cut off one of the man's fingers, burning it in front of his eyes as he screamed. It was morbid, but it brought a dark sense of satisfaction that blew away their nightmares for weeks to come.

However, until now, neither of the two women had dirtied their hands by torturing him themselves.

Yelena was too meek at the sight of blood while Kimmy refused for a while. After all, she couldn't touch her precious baby after touching blood, right? Especially not as filthy as Patte's.

So, for a time, they were just comforted by the fact that he was suffering every single minute of every day during the past few months.

The guards reassured them that they would kill him eventually, though they didn't risk it before the war lest the enemy Lord would do irrational things in his anger. After all, irrational people were difficult to gauge. So, until the war was official, they kept the bastard alive.

Now, it was finally time to clean the world of the bastard.

"Can I do it?" Kimmy asked, making the other two stare at her.

"Miss Kimmy?" Luis asked while Yelena squeezed her hand, questioning. "Are you sure?"

Kimmy nodded. "I already got the nanny to take my baby to the bunker. I will be joining this war, so I'll have blood on my hands anyway."

Her expression became more somber as she turned to the man's direction.

"I want the first one to be that bastard's."