After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 824

Although Guia had a lot of gold, it naturally couldn’t afford the dense sentries that Alterra had. The walls alone had consumed almost all of the gold she won from Guia.

Hence, like what she did with Limestone Valley, she chose to add dense sentries in the more sensitive areas like the gates and added watch towers everywhere else. Anyway, sentries were more useful in beast mobs, which were more active by the gates.

In wars, people tended to be more creative—sending forces that would not focus on attacking the well-guarded gates. They’d also be sneaky in trying to get over the gate. In such cases, some human factor would be useful.

She, however, added a lot of interior watchtowers for efficiency as well. It used a bit of her own funds, but it was worth it for her peace of mind.

Anyway, it was a shock to the locals and they couldn’t help to stare, gape, and admire. When the leading party was in sight, they immediately surrounded them, bombarding them with questions and maybe a few words of admiration here and there.

Gill and the others looked awkward. They were embarrassed with the succeeding questions and compliments because they were relatively surprised too.

They didn’t think Alterra would spend too much of its own money improving another.

Hey, Guia must’ve been really rich to get so many upgrades all at once. Lucky them.

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In the mining area, another dormitory was also prepared. Alterra’s custom buildings could not be built here. She just built the standard houses available and placed them together to create dormitories.

They’d have to make manual public toilets, but the living condition was definitely improved for the poor.

This was found outside the mines and was also built inside the mine area.

In this dormitory, it happened that Kimura and Lin were there, bonding with the goblins.

Lin was someone found from Fargo and happened to be Kimura’s student many years back. She arrived literally a day before the war, which was fortunate because she didn’t have to experience the horrors many women there had to go through.

Lin shared the same fascination with rocks, allowing her to quickly be promoted in Terran and, similarly, in Alterra as well.

The two had a fascination with minerals and more so with the critters who had a special bond with it.

It was amazing, it was like the goblins had a special sixth sense! They were both queasy though so they didn’t think of dissecting the creatures, but they were certainly doing everything to observe them as closely as they could.

And they were very close indeed.

Literally living together with them, for one.

At first, the goblins were a little scared of the two humans being all buddy-buddy with them—to the point they were willing to stay in the same hut!

But after so many days of not sensing impatience, but rather fascination and genuine admiration for their skills, the goblins had slowly softened up to the duo.

"What’s that?" They asked and the humans turned to look at it. They brightened when they realized what it was.

"Oh, finally a dormitory! I had thought Alterra forgot about us!" Kimura exclaimed, patting away some soil on his attire.

How long had it been since he took a bath? After getting to do so daily in Alterra, he had to admit he really missed it.

Of course, he wasn’t complaining, his field was still most important to him.