After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 730

Vismont Village

At this time, one of the more relaxed territories happened to be Vismont Village. When everyone had experienced their first—with some even on their second—wars, Vismont hadn’t even received a threat.

They actually had a few aborigine guests from the West. They were extremely arrogant when they came, but they had barely entered when Matthew made the fact that they were subsidiaries slip.

When they found out they were subsidiaries of another village, they lost interest.

The advantage of being a subsidiary was that it was really not attractive to attack because it was likely poorer than others.

They also had somewhat of a guaranteed assistance from the ’master’ territory (should they request for it), which meant attacking it was usually not worth it.

There was also the fact that if a territory won theirs, they’d have to serve the master territory as well during the duration of the agreement. They had just entered the contract with Alterra for a month. This meant there were still 11 more months to go and the attacker—if they won—would just serve in their stead.

Further, their visitors were also unaware of the only advantage in taking them, which were basically just Alterran products.

At the time, Alterra had just been in a war so their exports had been limited the past week or so. So the stocks for Alterran goods in VIsmont were only available in a few homes and a few establishments.

Matthew made sure to keep information amongst themselves—which also saved Alterra from a visit from a possibly hostile territory.

It was a bit rushed, but when the people were told that being too attractive could send a war in their direction, everyone cooperated.

Anyway, except for the custom houses being a bit special, there was nothing worth taking at all, the aborigine scouts went North. They did beat up a few people to get ’shortcuts’ to the gates, but fortunately no one died.

Matthew and the others took advantage of the peace to regain their strength after the successive tragedies. Matthew also implemented his own contribution system, giving everyone who stayed in his territory an ample amount.

This was the reason why the couple Okuri and Ronny stayed longer than they anticipated and hadn’t moved to Alterra yet as planned.

They wanted to spend the contribution points—which would be nulled if they changed their citizenships—first before moving.

At this time, the couple was shopping in the territory-owned grocery shop selling Alterra products, buying their supplies for the next couple of weeks. It had just been restocked after a few hours, and the queue spanned streets.

They were just planning on filling up their space, ready for their travel to Alterra when the Alterran guard team and caravan arrived, though they weren’t clear when exactly that’d be.

Okuri was dictating what she wanted to the clerk, spending their remaining contribution points. Her boyfriend tapped her shoulder, making signs to tell her what to get more of.

"Do we need more flour?" She asked and he nodded, signing that it could be made into many things.

Okuri nodded in understanding, ordering the items. He would also hand signal or write down other things and Okuri followed his wishes. They made sure to buy as much as they could, even if they had to carry some outside the space.

This way, they’d have a good starting point even after they left to move to Alterra.