Ansel watched as the beautiful Althea gracefully press on her screens. He found it fascinating even if he couldn’t see what she was seeing.
Also, judging by her movements, her ’screen’… seemed to be at least twice as theirs!
He was very very curious about the lord panel, so he ended up asking a lot of questions like ’how big is it?’, ’what could you see?’, or ’is it also sparkly?’
Partnered with his large wistful eyes, Althea just thought her little brother was so pitiful that she hoped she could show it to him.
She thought for a moment and nodded to herself, looking at her baby brother with seriousness.
"Or we attack back whoever attacks our territory. I’ll give you the Lord Token." She said, very blunt.
"..."
Ansel was genuinely touched, but he just laughed and shook his head. "I’m a businessman and not a leader. I’d rather make money here with you than take on that responsibility."
Althea smiled and Ansel cheekily served her another cup of tea and snacks.
As he did so his eyes stayed on the large map and his brain turned. Their territory… was becoming really, really, good. People ought to pay more.
"I think it’s time to adjust the prices. There’s no need to have the equivalence of contribution points anymore."
"Oh?"
"People could afford it now. Besides, the luxuries Altera provided is no longer the same as before."
"Housing prices ought to increase as well." He said, placing a cookie in his mouth. "Of course, we will be improving the terms of payment to make it accessible to normal people. I wonder if we can develop a bank or loan system as well?"
There was already an IOU system in the clinic, why not apply to anywhere else?
Althea nodded, thinking that it made sense. "Yes, Elder of Finance and Economics."
Ansel grinned.
The two discussed the new prices and rationale, as well as the adjustment in the value of contribution points.
After their chat, Althea looked at the screen in thought, "Since price raise was inevitable…, then let’s make this price increase 100% unquestionable."
She looked at the updated tabs in the Lord panel to see the New buildings available to them as a newly-minted Level 3 Village.
To be honest, when she saw the buildings before the mob, she thought that they were neither disappointing nor exciting, so she ignored them for a bit and focused on the preparation for the upcoming fight.
There were still new residential houses, new food stores, and drink stores. There were now clothing stores and shoe stores, too, albeit it was indicated that the clothing store was the lowest level using coarse cloth, and would probably only provide the better fabric upon leveling up.
This was a new addition though, as the aborigines mentioned before that there was no such thing. This was very interesting as, apparently, additions in ’options’ didn’t occur often, at most once every few years.
She later found from Oslo that there really was a way for people or organizations to create ’building types’, wherein they would get a lot of money when it was built and used regardless of how far the purchasing territory was.
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