After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 731

Alterra.

[Guia Village (Lv3) has declared war on your village, Alterra Village (Lv3). War will commence in 13:59:59.]

The declaration happened almost as soon as Althea realized the bigger problem they were having—the declining refresh rates.

Of course, if it would just return to rates similar to how Terran was, then it wouldn’t be too big of a problem. They were used to that productivity even before, and they could calibrate themselves accordingly.

Further, their current population could easily be supported by the current farms, even if they get much slower. They would just need to slowly reduce their exports. After a certain amount of deals with other territories, they might have to slow down. It’d be troublesome if they changed the prices too much because of the reduction of surplus.

Anyway, Alterra itself would be fine. But… what would that mean for the rest of the world?

Wars were prevalent even now when the resources were plenty, what more when they were lacking?

However, she put all these worries aside as Baltimore had finally sent their formal declaration.

Deal with him first.

As soon as the declaration was passed, all elders met in the village hall to strategize, including the top aborigine officials.

It was Garan who led the meeting this time. He knew most about the territory and was as detailed as he could be. "Guia Village is easily the strongest Level 3 village in the region. If we’re not careful, we will have a lot of losses," he said, and the others nodded solemnly.

"We know that many strongmen from Guia have been lurking around our territory in a while, while a few within the level cap are already within our walls."

"We will contain them all," he said, "Including those who had suspicious contact with them."

They might not be able to get everyone—including those who snuck in with the visitors—but they needed to contain who they could.

And when they fought back, heh. They might think they’d end up just banned in the territory and therefore kicked out, but they’ll be in for a surprise…

The prison this time was the system one. They had been reluctant to build this prison due to its unfortunate side effect of taking some lifespan for prolonged periods from prisoners.

However, it also had the weakening capability, even if the prisoners used elements and skills, which made it too attractive for them to be stopped by some minor moral issues that these people might not deserve.

At level 1, it could easily contain an elementalist level 20, and would need a few more guards if they were stronger. Since they were only a village, a level 1 prison was enough.

"We need to add guards to the prison as well," he said, in case people would try to rescue their captured comrades. Anyone attacking the prison outside of wars would be placed in cells, but during wars such rules were void.