The next moment, a resounding ding sounded across the territory.
[Congratulations! Your territory has unlocked special buildings!]
People froze and stopped talking, before whipping their heads to look at each other. "Special Buildings? Did I hear it right?"
Although it wasn’t announced, a lot of people knew what the Architecture and Engineering department was up to. It wasn’t a secret and there were many members of that team.
It took a moment for them to absorb that it was really happening, though.
"Wait, whaattttt?"
"When are they building it?"
"I wanna see!"
At this, someone tapped his friend.
"Look, look!!"
They turned in the direction of the plaza.
"WHOA!"
Soon, three areas around the territory witnessed the magical creations of buildings and people swarmed to watch a good show.
First to be erected was the Observatory, which was located above the mountains for a maximum vista. This also allowed a lot of people to see it even at the foot of the mountains.
There were a few people having a picnic near the view deck though, and they were lucky enough to be the first to see it up close.
It had a square floor plan and relatively ornamental side decorations extending all the way up. The ground level was also very pretty and designed to be a hang-out place. The territory would definitely improve the park amenities in this place.
It was also located far from the lighthouse because the light pollution would interfere with the observations. They might even dim it a bit when they had to.
Speaking of the lighthouse, it really made Alterra visible at night, even at dim settings. They got quite a few refugees since the time they had it operational.
As for enemies, it didn’t really matter if they saw them. Wars generally required people to land inside the territory before a declaration could be made.
There were staff members given access to monitor everyone who entered that day and how long they stayed.
Of course, they couldn’t watch out for all spy activities with this, but they would strive to be as prepared as they could be.
Besides, Alterra was Proud! They definitely wouldn’t adjust their goodness because they were afraid of new enemies!
Next to be built was the Library, located next to the manually-built Research Center. This place had plywood surrounding it for quite some time. There was a massive hole inside this wall and they would now know what was meant to be there!
The structure was around 400-500 sqm in floor footprint area, expanding another three floors upwards. Further, it also had 2 floors underground, thus the need to dig it up beforehand.
"A second one?" Otto mumbled, looking at the building slowly being built, dust by dust. They were no less fascinated than the others to witness this.
After all, cities were already built up even before they were born. How often would they see a building being built from scratch?
"Oslo really made two with 18 sets?" Olga asked, very impressed and a little in disbelief.
Obi was even more cynical, "Maybe there’s another level C Architect in here?"
"A village? It was already amazing it had gotten so many good hires at this level, you think they could get 2 level C architects—something only seen in high-level towns?"
"Who knows, right? Maybe some lord’s wife fell in love and the said lord wanted to…"
"You could start writing stories."
"Should I?"
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