After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 262

Althea was blissfully chewing on something sweet—a sticky candy Harold made from her new sugary discovery—when the familiar ding sounded in her head.

[Congratulations! Your Village Center has met the requirements for upgrade!]

[✓] 10,000 gold

[✓] 10,000 total transactions

[Would you like to upgrade for 1500 wood, 1000 stone, and 1500 Gold?]

Her candy almost fell on the floor—almost, as her body didn’t want to waste a single bit of sugar.

"Upgrade?"

And… goodness. This was way higher than the previous time. Normal villages wouldn’t be able to afford this, right?

She wasn’t wrong. Most territories with level 3 Territory Centers were already Towns, in which case they would already be called Town Centers.

Of course, this did not mean that NPCs she could hire were still no longer limited to village level. However, that didn’t matter to Althea, as she would always upgrade these buildings when she could.

She had seen the advantages of the level 2 Territory Center, she didn’t want to miss whatever an upgrade had to offer.

She naturally said Yes to the upgrade, of course.

However, she knew that it was in the middle of the day and the building was being used by a lot of people. So, she decided to defer the upgrade by a few hours, scheduling an announcement of its upgrade as well.

Now that the Village Center was set to upgrade, she looked at the lord’s panel to see when the territory itself would experience the same.

[TERRITORY STATS

Status: Level 2 Village

Area: 3,142,000 square meters

Residents: 1115 (261 permanent, 854 temporary)

Total Population: 3024

Base Resources:

Wood: 6790/10000

Stone: 5989/8000

Money: 19911 Gold, 133269 Silver, 768199 copper

Reputation: 150

Buildings: Village Center (Lv3) , Weaponry Shop (Lv2), Defensive Wall (Lv3), Warehouse (Lv2), Farm (Lv2), Training Hall (Lv1), BathHouse (Lv1)

Bonus Building: Custom Building

Building Slots: 7/7 (+1)]

Althea looked at the population requirement that was finally exceeded. Now, she only had to maintain this for three days and she would be able to upgrade the village to level three.

She nodded and—after finishing up her candy break—resumed her experiments. Today’s experiments comprised mainly of powders.

She was now working on a bomb, inspired by the pharmacist potion bomb Oslo mentioned before. She didn’t know if she’d trigger a Pharmacist inheritance someday, but she always liked to rely on herself first.

She commissioned the construction team to build her a comfortable shed on the opposite side of the houses in the two conjoined villa lots. This was her alternative laboratory for things with a bit of… risky nature (not that Ansel and the others knew of course—she just told them it could get…smelly).

This was, after all, inspired by fertilizer bombs so there would be a time she might be using some… unsavory elements.

She wouldn’t be using much feces, fortunately. After all, a third of her fertilizer formulas didn’t need excrement, though these were naturally much costlier.

However, if she figured out the formula for this, the formula for lower-cost excrement-using bombs would be easier to handle and mass produce. But that would be left for others to do. She wasn’t going to touch that.

Anyway, she still had confidence in her skills. She could formulate great fertilizers with a combination of various plants. She could naturally make an alternative for fertilizer bombs.