After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 1125

Anyway, now that Alterra had upgraded to a Town, they would no longer have to ’block’ visitors from coming en masse. However, the requirements for residencies would definitely increase.

This was something they had planned a long time ago in order to control the burst of population inevitably coming in. They didn’t want to get into a situation where they had to block people again just to stop an upgrade.

Speaking of population, they got a lot of Prisoners of War this time —thousands of them, excluding the ones dead and on death row.

They did not expand and did not need to build new buildings (for now), but it didn’t mean that such a large new labor force wasn’t needed.

They could actually use a lot of new miners because they found a nice resource in Alterra for them to mine.

A few months ago, a group of goblins—led by Iko, one of the first goblins they received from Guia—was tasked to dig the mountains to get to the hot water under the mountains.

Alterra did not have volcanoes, but there was a good amount of geothermal activity underneath. This allowed the heating of the underground water reservoir to just the perfect temperature for it to be considered hot springs.

This was to be pumped and siphoned out for their upcoming Hot Spring Luxury community set to open in a couple of months.

After a large amount of planning and zoning (as well as underground surveying with the tools they had), the geology experts decided on certain areas they’d use and sent the goblins to work on them.

A few months ago though, the goblins came across an interesting mine. The walls were lined with soft rocks with unusual color, and the goblins took a few samples and wrapped them up in a blanket—just in case.

Anyway, the goblins found them beautiful and brought them up to share. The rules in Alterra were strict, and people couldn’t take resources outside of what was allowed by the rules.

Like how people weren’t allowed to build anything without approval—preventing the formation of shanties—the rule for this worked in a similar way.

Of course, even if there weren’t such rules, the goblins were honest critters and would’ve definitely reported it regardless. _{freēwēbnovel.com}

Anyway, the goblins didn’t think much of it. It was only when a Terran saw the stone that the word ’Purple!’ was called.

It was a saturated purple mineral. It had a matte finish and was softer to touch than typical minerals. When the Research Center studied it (undergoing various safety checks of course), they found compounds that, when processed, could yield a vibrant purple dye.

There might still be other uses, but a different team was assigned to figure those out.

From Oslo, they knew that it was a very rare color. He had a girlfriend who had family in Cloth City, so he knew a bit about it.

Anyway, they obviously had to inject a bit of manpower if they wanted to mass-produce it. Whether it was the mining work, the processing of the product, and factory work for the various end products—all these things would need some manpower.

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