After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 790

First thing the next morning, he called on the two applicants to see him. He had to ask someone—one of the servants who cleaned the Lord’s House, which he was currently occupying—to do so.

This was the house the new leading team would be using while the new houses were being built. This was the only one with a decent toilet and decent amenities, so they really couldn’t be choosy if they wanted to live with some semblance of comfort.

As the occupied territory, Guia’s buildings could be built in the main territory, Alterra (not that any of those interested them), but the same could not be done to the extensions.

Anyway, the two applicants were naturally confused as to why he didn’t just send an announcement to them. However, they followed the servant anyway.

Elders and Stewards could make general announcements, but ’filtered’ ones or those directed to specific groups of people seemed to be a ’Lord-only’ privilege. The theory was that it required more energy for the system to do so, rather than just an overall announcement which was the default.

Similarly, they could not send messages to citizens outside the territory lines either, even if they were willing to pay the extra costs for it.

Pushing aside these thoughts for a while, Gill stood up and prepared to head to the Village Center to meet up with the new hires.

Before he left the room though, he heard the tapping sound at one of the interior balconies of the large house. The Bird Loft was there and Gill’s feet moved faster to check it out.

Sure enough, a Messenger Bird was there, and wrapped on its feet was a piece of rolled paper.

He fed the bird its meal and rolled out the letter. His eyebrows rose when he saw its content.

/Prepare to send goblins to Limestone Valley. Some guards would get there soon./

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Gill and the new hires met up in the Village Center meeting room on the second floor. The third floor—the one with the teleportation array—remained accessible only to Althea.

The two were understandably quite nervous. After all, they had heard of how many people Gill sent to jail. If he disliked them, what if they got thrown there, too?

They tried to appear professional and likeable though, which in Xeno meant appearing strong. So when Gill arrived, he saw the two’s posture suddenly straighten like tense bows pulled back.

The two tensely gestured to bow, "Milord—"

"I’m not the lord," he said, waving his hand. "I’m just a temporary steward assigned to fix things until a new steward comes in."

This made the two a bit confused but they nodded. The taking over of territories wasn’t common knowledge, but it was actually an open secret among the upper class. They assumed that the token was won and had been sold to the new lord, which apparently wasn’t the case.

They then returned to their tense postures, making Gill’s eyes to twitch.

It looked very uncomfortable.

"Relax," he said, "You look like idiots."

His words did not make them relax at all.

He sighed and sat down, staring at the two men who didn’t seem like they were breathing. He didn’t say much anymore since he knew he couldn’t comfort them anyway. Instead, he took the time to observe them and perhaps get more information about them based on their appearances.

Poki was a tall man with tanned skin and light-colored hair, while—as he thought—Gio was an extremely effeminate young lad that anyone could mistake for a female.

There were no signs of arrogance or complacency in them, which he liked. "I will be hiring the two of you, but there will be a probationary period," he said after a tense minute. "If you don’t perform well for the next month, then you’ll lose the job."