After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 814

Supreme Village

Meanwhile, one of the easternmost Terran Villages—the Supreme Village—was currently undergoing its second war.

"Milord, be careful!" A guard managed to block an attack on the lord, his sword creating a screeching sound with the enemy’s weapon.

The aforementioned Lord, on the other hand, just screamed like a pig.

"SHITSHITSHIT!" he yelled and he barely avoided another blade from an enemy. Next to him were his cronies, mixed with fighters and cowards.

One of the cowards couldn’t help but look at him with a wronged expression. "Why did we not hire more aborigines again, milord?" he asked. "Why did you let the ones we had leave?!"

"Don’t you think I don’t know that, you fucker?!" The man cursed. It wasn’t like he didn’t want to hire new aborigines—but he couldn’t!!

This was a territory primarily composed of Yuta Country citizens.

The cowardly lord here, Ongko, was the son of a powerful individual back in Terran. Well, he was.

This was the son who stupidly exposed his father’s wrong doings—to Mathilda, Gill, and the Edenian party—by accident, which in turn ruined his family’s lives.

Well, technically Gill did, but he didn’t know this yet.

Anyway, he was on house arrest during the first disaster. Because of this, his house was pretty much blocked from zombies and he survived without a problem. He also managed to take more than almost 2000 gold from his home so when he went here, he was given a Lord Token.

How happy he was at the time! How smug!

He didn’t have his father, yet he had his own land!

Anyway, when he saw all the magical buildings… he splurged. He was confident and hired the strongest NPCs he could at Level 2!

After weeks, he managed to get 2 guards at level 7 and 8, as well as a cook (though apparently not ’system’-tagged). He also bought a lot of ’plain’ hires like cleaners and sluts.

Anyway, he knew that he was far superior to any of the others around—even the hired NPCs said so—and this bloated his arrogance to no end.

Sadly, the NPCs didn’t renew their contract and left for some reason (note: he was an ass) and he couldn’t hire decent new ones because the options all sucked.

He purposely ignored the large monthly salaries he had to pay his hired aborigines, too, regardless of whether they weren’t useful in the end. He refused to accept that he made the wrong decisions. Even when most of them left, he didn’t bother to look at the bill!

However, his confidence in his territory was still sky-high. It got to the point that he decided to attack the nearby Level 2 village! Maybe he could get their gold, too! And slaves sounded really great!

Unfortunately for him, without the guidance of knowledgeable aborigines (the ones remaining were women who only knew how to use their bodies), there was plenty of worldly knowledge that he missed!

So when he decided to attack the adjacent territory without warning, he was suddenly fined 500 gold!

500 gold!!

His balance was only 100 gold! What did this mean? The attack left him in DEBT.

Thankfully, he won a bit from said territory so his debt was greatly reduced.

He was still in debt though so he naturally increased taxes and he did have to kick a lot of people out (because they were being stingy and ungrateful and didn’t want to pay).

Fortunately, when the Protection Period ended, there were so many refugees coming in and it didn’t take a long time for him to upgrade!

However, he quickly realized that he had been happy too soon because there was a cost in upgrading… and he couldn’t afford it!

Why was it so much more expensive than the first time?!

Hence, Ongko had no choice but to defer it, hoping to get enough—only to realize the upgrade was mandatory after 100 hours!

So he was forced to upgrade and forced deeper in debt! With interest!

When stronger monsters finally took down the outer territories, shifting their target to him, it only got worse and worse and worse.

He trudged through this difficult time with the territory almost falling to the suddenly stronger mobs who went from level 2s to level 4s and 5s!

They only managed to survive because he was smart and invested a lot in good walls and relatively dense sentries at the start when he was still rich, otherwise he’d be living in monster stomachs by now.