After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 102

"Tell me more about this… territory war." Althea paused, "And, has this always been the case?"

Brenda looked at the lord’s face and saw that she was really not angry, she composed the answer in her head and responded.

"Territory wars are inter-territory fights that have been happening for millennia.

"My father had taught me that wars had been going on since the time of our ancestors. It was the natural way of life back then.

"Plundering, murder, and theft were common practices and were considered common sense at the time—regardless of the race.

"But the wars had gotten so bad that over half the population died. This was some thousands of years ago, I believe."

"Led by the elves, the Concordium began and limited the waging of wars to a maximum of twelve times a year, or once a month. There was also a day required to warn the territory being attacked, so no there are no real surprise attacks.

"To some extent, this really allowed respite time for everyone to recover."

"Concordium?" Althea said, "What do they do? Where are they now?"

Brenda shook her head. "I don’t think they still exist, but the rules set applied to everyone who entered the land."

"I don’t know much about it, we were only commoners after all."

Althea didn’t bother with this Concordium as she felt it was far from her. On the other hand, she was still very worried about the wars. "Won’t strong territories just target weaker ones?"

At this point, Brenda now fully understood that the lord truly had no idea what was going on in their place.

Of course, while it was a mystery how the Lord’s people had yet to experience Territory Wars, it was none of her business.

Brenda simply answered as carefully as she could, trying to be as helpful as possible.

"Territories were only allowed to attack territories of the same level. However, if a territory wants, it can challenge any stronger opponent."

Althea nodded. Indeed, if wars could be waged without limit, it would only be endless bloodshed.

Wars could be said to be an inevitability for a planet with so many different intelligent creatures.

Even in Terran, where only humans were the only intelligent beings, wars had been an unavoidable part of history, let alone when there were so many races.

Speaking of other intelligent creatures, she’d have to ask this in detail later on.

"Then what’re the winnings?"

Brenda swallowed another piece of cookie. She couldn’t help it, it called to her.

"Regardless of whether the territory was challenged or was challenged, the loser will give up the current half of its assets to the winner.

"This includes gold, resources, buildings, people, and others."

Then she paused, looked at Althea with a bit of reluctance, but still voiced out her thoughts. "...Unless the Lord themselves are killed and their tokens taken, in which case the territory can be merged with the winning territory."