After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World - Chapter 1718

Chapter 1718: Dealing Tokens

There were more reasons than there were for Rowan to take the offer, and many were quite objective. If the Lord’s level was so low, then wouldn’t it just cause chaos? Wouldn’t they just be attacked more often?

Voumi was also broken internally. It had so many addicts, and its infrastructure was a mess. Rowan was an excellent guard, but he was no leader.

Alterra offered support, but he refused for a while. He asked Silvia if she wanted to be the first lady of a Town, too, and only then would he consider, but Silvia made an awkward face that told everyone she did not want to go back to that place.

Rowan smiled, agreeing. Voumi was never really good to him, and it was only his home because his grandmother was there. His grandmother was now in Alterra, living very well, so he hoped to stay.

Not to mention, the recovery of towns was an incredibly tedious and costly endeavor.

They put this decision on hold for a while. As long as the character of the new Lord was good, a couple of decent oaths should be sufficient.

They thought of the event where they’d sell the tokens. It or they would be sold for a fair price, and this would include the attached territories, which was really a good package deal.

As for the gold, the Voumi Lord was dead, so the wealth was limited to what he had left behind, like in his treasure room. On the other hand, Peaco was alive, and he bought his life by giving up all his wealth.

Which was a whopping thirty thousand gold and more! One had to note that he was dirt poor a few months ago. The drug trade was a really lucrative business.

Anyway, the whole deal for the token was extremely profitable, especially for aborigines whose view of tokens was much more revered compared to how Terrans looked at them.

Once the main token was taken over, the satellites, allies, and subsidiaries would also follow. The control was limited to networking, of course, because alliances and subsidiaries were recognized by the system per individual territory. This meant that if the allies weren’t also allied with each other, they could attack each other.

Voumi Town, at this time, had 1 satellite village, 3 allies, and 8 subsidiaries, while Flaret Town had no satellite villages, 2 allies, and 7 subsidiaries.

Purchasing the town token would let the new Lords obtain all these villages! On paper, this was extremely attractive. After all, people go to war to get these tokens!

The standard prices of Level 1 Town Token ranged from 30 thousand to 50 thousand gold, depending on its wealth and potential. (Speaking of this, the Alterrans who managed to get the token, individual or team, would also gain 20% of the earnings here).

In this case, Voumi and Flaret would be in the upper ranges of this because they had so many more territories attached to them. Their location was also very good and lucrative for future trade with Alterra and the rest of the world.

Further, whoever decided to take over would be given 3 years to pay for this amount, which was incredibly generous.

To determine the final decision for this, they sent invites to everyone of decent character past level 25 in Alterra, who also had a partnership with them.

This included the Golds, the soldiers, Bart, Pietro, and even those in Ferrol, like Jonathan.

It would not be a bidding war in terms of gold, but a bidding war in terms of ability.

The bidding didn’t guarantee someone would win, either. They simply want to see all options and decide from there.

If someone truly wanted to take over the territories, they’d have to propose how they would handle their growth and how to keep it growing despite everything, as well as how they’d be able to sustainably pay for what they owed.

More importantly, how Alterra could stand to gain and how they could ensure the loyalty of the Town, as well as future generations.

The meeting lasted two full days, and the winner for at least one of the territories was determined like this. Interestingly, both were aborigines too, because Terrans really found taking over towns way too cumbersome.

The days of imperialism had long passed in Terran, and even the masculine men had less interest in those than expected. After all, this world…was really no joke. They could really die with a single wrong move.

The Golds, who were now fully Alterrans, didn’t even bother to bid.

For Voumi Town, Jonathan was very nearly the winner. It so happened that Jonathan still had a slot left for a satellite, so it was possible.

However, Elders from Voumi Town, at least those who didn’t become slaves, rushed over to beg for Rowan to take over.

Mafo died during the war, and Felipe, as much as they hated to admit it, really did prepare his town well; it was actually Flaret Town who won the war.

Very few people were actually loyal to a dead person. It was more likely that they wanted Rowan because his level was low; they would be able to influence him more.

Similarly, Alterra also preferred an Alterran-at-heart at the helm of Voumi, which was the closer of the two new territories.

With such conflicts, they put it on hold for now.

Jonathan did not mind. He simply tried to take Voumi because it was the Town nearest to Valov, a territory he hated.

He wasn’t planning on attacking them per se, but he wanted to help keep them at bay. They had done enough to him and Ferrol to warrant that.

He was also thankful to Alterra. When he found out that they got Wazan, after getting the information they needed, they sent the bastard to him to punish.

Jonathan took Wazan’s life himself, making sure he died in agony.

He then buried the bastard’s decaying corpse facing Adreen’s grave, prostrating.

This way, he would apologize to his Adreen’s soul forever.

RIP Adreen