After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 1189

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The situation in Iron Mountains was slightly different from that of Limestone Valley.

It has also become a tourist attraction itself and its population had also spiked so much that Alterra had no choice but to add a few manual mid-rise buildings to handle the population.

It was quite a hassle that the custom buildings of Alterra (or even Limestone Valley's) could not be 'pasted' here, but what could they do?

Fortunately, they had a mountain right next to them had some useful rocks they could use. The raw material for steel (i.e. iron) was also taken directly underneath it. They had long built the processing plants for Iron near the mines, so it wasn't that difficult to do.

Not to mention, they had the Warehouse to transport the raw materials they didn't have. For example, lime and quicklime, which was taken and processed directly from Limestone Valley.

Finally, there was no challenge looking for men willing to do the manual labor. For better or for worse, they had tens of thousands of population, too.

Because the technicality required in the work was minimal, there were also a lot of aborigines hired.

Rather, their average levels were higher than that of Terrans' (at least for now) so they were actually more useful in the highly physical jobs—provided they didn't have attitude problems, of course.

Anyway, with the construction boom came a huge need for manpower —meaning a lot more people had daily salaries—which in turn added another small spike in the economy.

It was the first time most of these people earned money from something like this—without having to go out to hunt monsters every day.

Considering many of them didn't have professions—and there were a limited amount of other jobs for the illiterate—hunting outside had been their only source of living for a long time.

It was novel and appreciated, despite the challenges that came with it.

Hiring aborigines became one of the ways for the new administration to merge better with the local population they adopted, and so far it had worked well.

After all, if people's lives were improved—even if they had various gripes—they would soften in time.

Word also spread and a lot of citizens from villages even a hundred kilometers from them started to immigrate, skewing the aborigine-Terran ratio even more.

This also increased Iron Mountain's prestige even more—which was actually already half-way to a Town when Alterra took over. If Guia did not fall, it would've become a town in less than a decade. Alterra taking over expedited that by years.

After all, although black metal wasn't—in reality—an extremely rare resource, it was relatively unusual in this region. There were also the very real challenges of mining it.

After all, not many territories got lucky and captured a whole slew of goblins to dig for them. In most cases—even if a territory was lucky enough to find a mine, they'd more likely die because the soil collapsed on them instead.

So, for many years, Guia Village was the sole source of black metal in these parts. Considering many long-lasting territories had weapon stores that produced Class D weapons, this meant the demand for the material was not low. In time, this added quite a bit of prestige to the village, which only increased with the injection of Alterrans and their innovations.

However, like Alterra, they also knew they couldn't handle other towns at this time.

To cope, Iron Mountains had also increased their prices similar to Alterra's before they upgraded to a Town. It was still affordable, but it helped control the citizenship somehow.