After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 823

Sigh.

"What’s wrong?" Garan asked, crawling down to kiss her bare shoulder. He placed several kisses to various parts of her shoulders and neck, and his wife buried her soft hands in his hair.

"Someone declared war on Iron Valley," she said, making Garan pause a little. He lifted his body a bit and placed a chaste kiss on her forehead before he sat up, knowing they had a job to do.

They really weren’t surprised in the end. After all, Guia Village was a very rich village—and everyone knew this. They thrived on this reputation.

Alterra earned a lot of resources from winning alone.

Unlike the poor Fargo Village that gave her a few hundred gold for taking over, Guia gave her a few thousand just for winning it, let alone taking over its warehouse.

What Althea didn’t know yet was that she was very lucky because of her timing. If the war had been a few days later, she’d have gotten even less than what she got from Fargo.

This was because, if Guia attacked a little later, then they’d have given much of their resources to a certain city—as it always did—and then give a small portion of the remaining to Ferrol, which was its ’master’ town, at least on paper.

Of course, this was something that they’d find out much, much, later. For now, they had to prepare for the war at hand.

The couple sat up to get dressed, with Althea turning off the sound blocker (which they used to avoid disturbing the babies) and prepared for a very early start for the day.

They didn’t sound the alarm in Alterra, simply because the war was far away to another territory. From where they were, only Althea could really do anything that could affect the other territory.

She witheld the announcement in Iron Mountains as well, opting to do what she could first. Anyway, they’d need their rest for what was to come.

The enemies that could attack it were naturally strong enough to think it could win over Guia without its Lord, and they didn’t want them too prepared so Garan and Althea decided not to do anything with it until they received the attack notice.

They considered upgrading a lot in favor of hoping the enemy would be intimidated, but that would just delay the fight until the enemy felt they were ready enough. When would that be? When they were stronger? During the heat wave?

Now that the announcement was sent, Althea immediately sat up and opened her panel, and began with the upgrades.

Anyway, she got thousands of gold from Guia, which she’d use to improve the whole thing. She would wake up the citizens in a couple of hours, which was plenty of time for the war that’d happen in the middle of the day.

"It’s interesting how they chose to fight in the middle of the day. Did they really not feel the heat?" She mumbled as she pretty much drained out Guia’s money for its upgrade.

Hey, this was fun. It was like splurging, but with other people’s money.

If the person who was supposed to receive the money was to know about her splurge, they might just pop a few veins.

But that was a story for later.

Anyway, she amusedly clicked and ordered and splurged—ah, so fun—in the middle of the night.

The citizens would be quite surprised when they woke up.

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The people of Iron Mountains were woken up by the announcement that they would be attacked in six hours!