After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 297

Unlike the others who were looking at the lord with a mix of worship and incomprehension, Oslo smiled and handed her some cookies instead.

The others soon calmed down and adopted a similar stance. After all, they ought to stop being so surprised.

Althea didn’t know what was going on in her NPCs’ heads as she was focused on the map of the territory that had become too large. Fortunately, the map had a zoom feature.

As always, while the terminology was modern Terran, the actual interface was a lot more magical looking that it sounded. When she zoomed in, it was more like billions of tiny fireflies floated around to build her the image. It was very amazing.

She studied the map closer and went to the edges. She did not build to the edge of the allowable building area, at least by the avenues.

She turned to look at Oslo. "You said that the building function cannot work during territorial wars?"

"Yes, milord."

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"I… haven’t thought about it, milord." Oslo blushed a bit, embarrassed.

Althea pursed her lips in amusement. "I was just curious. Don’t think too much."

In any case, she had left about 50 meters away from the main walls on the side of the gates. Horizontally, it would extend about 100 meters from either side of the gates, leaving an open space of about a hectare.

The NPCs said that the building options were blocked during Territory wars, but she mused it was not necessarily the case during beast tides. During the last beast tide, she was too busy in the East gate to remember to try it out.

These secondary gates would have plenty of uses.

For one, refugees and visitors that happened to arrive during wars would be able to hide there temporarily, should the gates be closed.

It was a little costly, but she planned to add a level 3 fence all around as a barricade to give a chance for relatively safe close combat. She also added level 3 sentries there for extra measure. Theoretically, this meant that at least four sentries would be attacking monsters in certain areas, primarily where most of the fight was happening.

Before clicking though, she paused and looked at the NPCs watching her graceful movements in fascination (despite not seeing her ’screen’ at all).

"Has there been a case where the sentries attacked a citizen?"

Oslo, who had been embarrassed for not answering her earlier question, jumped to answer this one. "No, milord. When it’s not during a territory war, unless the person happened to move in the way, the sentries generally did not hit citizens.

"Anyone registered as a visitor or citizen in a territory will not be attacked by it unless expressly set by the lord."

Althea’s eyebrows rose at this, "We can add directions to sentries?"

"I’ve seen it done in cities, but I do not know of the requirements."

She looked at her panel and saw no additional instructions for level 3 sentries, but there was indeed an additional box for level 5.

There was a one-time payable amount per instruction per sentry, however.

There were options on who it would attack. In fact, when Oslo said that visitors would not be attacked, she was both relieved and worried.

Now, she had an answer to these.

After all… what if someone paid the visitors’ fee and caused chaos inside the territory? The automatic blacklisting took a few seconds to work.

And what about during the wars, where the automatic blacklisting was temporarily disabled? What if there was an enemy who registered as a visitor first and then attacked from the inside?

Don’t tell her she was being paranoid, the whole inside job method had been done historically a lot of times even in Terran.

Anyway, she definitely appreciated this feature, very much.

Other than the defense structures, she also extended the avenues accordingly but did not build anything else for now.