After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 1732

Chapter 1732: Upgraded Again! And Here Comes Another Mob

The highest level of walls available was now Level 7, and they’d definitely use that everywhere, so the expenses made people feel like drowning just by thinking about it.

At best, she’d probably slightly reduce the cost by not walling all the way to the edge. When they didn’t wall after the town upgrade, they really felt the advantages of a sizable forest area outside the wall, but within the territory, especially for those who wished to train well and on the ground.

It would also allow her to build sentries beyond the walls. Many fighters who used the current outlier sentries called them ’savior towers’ which was indicative of how useful they were for the citizens.

Further, now that the high-level sentry’s scope was larger and could shoot a bit more frequently, its usefulness in this scenario was amplified.

Anyway, as a group, they decided on the next expansion, which was creating a more-or-less circular shape, to minimize the extra walls they had to use while following the terrain.

Anyway, the advantage of system buildings was that they were erected by themselves and had a fixed cost, so they had little problem with the extra costs implication of building on odd terrain, unlike manual construction.

"Can I have recommendations on how to handle the new expansion, walls, and sentries during the beast mob?" she asked because she always wanted to take advantage of any changes in the territory when dealing with enemies. She herself had some theories, but she wanted to hear what others thought.

They nodded, and it was the people in the military team with the most recommendations.

"Unlike humans, beasts would always instinctively target the openings, which are the gates," Loki began. "So we can take advantage of this instinct."

"Indeed. The monsters that appear on other sectors of the walls would only be a small fraction of the total attackers. We at least know where they are heading, and how to target more efficiently."

In the end, they recommended to still build a portion of the Level 7 walls and Level 7 sentries before the beast mob arrived.

However, to minimize the damage of monsters targeting the new gates, they would simply leave certain sections blank, for now.

It made for somewhat of a concentric arrangement, with an outer wall temporarily serving as channeling walls.

This way, most of the monsters would funnel through this area, and they would be much easier to target.

Althea could also add standalone sentries along this path, so there was a line of sentries attacking from the new outer walls, from the old outer walls, and then several in between.

This kind of arrow shower was bound to take down a number of monsters before they could even get to the existing gates!

This was something only possible now because they hadn’t developed the land yet. Hopefully, it would work well because the cost of those walls would definitely turn her poor again, and she didn’t want to do so many repairs after!

...

The next morning, about an hour or two after dawn, a loud announcement resounded in everyone’s heads.

[Good morning, Alterrans! We have an important announcement to make. And please remain calm about what we will say next.]

[We are upgrading to Level 2 in a bit! The beast mob is expected to arrive in 1-2 hours after the Upgrade. Please prepare well, and earn a lot of contribution points!]

[The highest level available walls and sentries have been built as well, so do not worry. As always, the town is buying loose resources.]

Clank!

Pak!

Bang!

A lot of plates, books, or whatever people were holding dropped at that moment.

"WHAT?"

"Excuse meee?!"

"Already?"

"I’m not prepared! Gosh! My Class D weapon is broken!"

"At least you can repair or buy a new one. I was planning on reaching level 15 first!"

"I’m so worried right now."

"Hey, is this why the nightlife street was shut down at midnight? I thought it was just one of those occasional forced leaves to get people to rest... Oh."

Well, the whole ’please keep calm’ preface was definitely going to need several minutes. It seemed that most people needed to breathe several times first to adjust to this news.

That said, others were more in a dazed state rather than in a frantic frenzy.

"Level 2 town, huh?"

"What does that mean for us, exactly?"

Others could only cover their faces. "I mean, I’m proud—Alterra’s even stronger now! But... why am I not happy?"

The citizens were feeling all sorts of emotions at this time. A stronger territory was great and all, but in this world, it also meant that the troubles were also stronger!

They genuinely thought they had time to mentally (and physically) prepare for it!

Was this the so-called being the ’Victims of one’s own success’?!

"Are they upgrading to Level 2? Already?"

They weren’t even the ones who took over the two towns directly, right? So background manipulation could also give that many prestige points?

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