After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 607

Village Center Top Floor, an Hour Later

The territory settled for about an hour before some key personnel were asked to meet up at the Village Center’s top floor.

This was all done manually (with attendees just telling each other—because none of them had control of Fargo’s ’system’ at this time, even Althea, because she chose not to merge the tokens yet.

Fargo Village was, essentially, ’ownerless’ at this time.

At the same time, because the territory was ownerless, the amenities that would usually be blocked for the lord alone—including the third floor and even the warehouse—were accessible to all.

In theory, if no one merged with the token and just left it in a secure place, what would happen when the war timer ended?

There was the possibility of obliteration, but somehow she doubted it. There was no reason to set it up that way as the token was—from observation—like an anchor to the system.

The system’s regulations were most powerful here and the only reason a territory would be obliterated was because the lord—to whom the token attached to—perished.

Rather, the more likely scenario was that it would either try to merge with the nearest qualified individual or the territory would become truly ’ownerless’, instead.

While she wasn’t planning on doing it in Fargo Village, she did wonder how an ’ownerless’ territory would work.

Anyway, back to the meeting, Althea looked around to see if everyone was there. On Altera’s side, it was her, Garan, Oslo, and the other soldiers. On Fargo’s side, it was naturally a bigger party with Victor, Henry, and his team.

At first, Victor and the others thought they’d be meeting in one of the meeting rooms on the second floor, and they were surprised to find out they were heading towards the previously restricted floor.

"We can access? How could that be?" Victor asked, looking around.

"Probably because this place is ownerless now," she said as they settled around the table. The table in the head was purposely left blank. However, consciously or not, everyone turned to Althea for instructions.

It wasn’t even to Garan, primarily because he was obviously there to agree with whatever his wife proposed…

The first topic was, of course, what to do now that the former lord was gone.

Before that, Althea asked how the situation was before the war, including the situations during the upgrade mobs. This would give them an idea as to the defensive strength and performance of the territory.

Soon, they would come to realize that Altera’s mob upon upgrading to level 3 was at a very different intensity than what Fargo experienced.

"This is natural, Miss Althea," Oslo said, "In fact, from what I heard, the upgrade mob of Fargo was the relatively normal standard."

Of course Fargo’s upgrade to level 3 was not comparable to Altera’s. First, Altera’s aether was far stronger despite the lower level average at the time (compared to aborigine villages) and, second, Fargo upgraded many days earlier and the cloud was still working at its peak. Fargo did not encounter a single level 5 monster at all.

Lucky.

"Actually, it’s not as worrisome as you think," Victor said. "Fargo’s men didn’t really work much against beast tides, it was all our team, Santos, and Leon who handled things. _{ƒreewebηoveℓ.com}