[19 days of Protection Period]
Althea's emerald eyes stared at the many notifications that appeared in front of her.
Her fingers paused when the final message appeared.
[Would you like to expand your wall to the edge? Yes | No]
She blinked and thought for a while as she calculated the costs. Her dainty fingers moved and pressed the negative.
[NO]
It seemed that not every built edifice was unmovable. It was just that the gold requirement was not much lower than if she simply built from scratch. However, the resources needed were also pointedly lower.
But this didn't matter now. Either way, she chose to defer any changes until the beast tide ended.
After all, she not need such a large area. And more importantly: a smaller territory was an easier to defend territory.
[TERRITORY STATS
Status: Level 2 Village
Area: 3,142,000 square meters
Residents: 159 (27 permanent, 131 temporary)
Total Population: 404
Base Resources:
Wood: 7820/10000
Stone: 4750/8000
Money: 11522 Gold, 98663 Silver, 46407 copper
Reputation: 50
Buildings: Village Center (Lv2), Weaponry Shop (Lv1), Defensive Wall (Lv3), Warehouse (Lv1), Farm (Lv1)
Bonus Building: Custom Building
Building Slots: 5/7 (+1)]
Hm, it was beautiful.
She looked at the resources' with satisfaction, although it had a long way to go, if she wasn't building anything, it should be enough.
During beast tides, she could refill the 'health' of the walls as she saw fit, and she wanted to make sure she had more than enough resources to fill it up even if it was on the verge of destruction.
She called on an advanced NPC meeting again, treating the NPCs as consultants prior to choosing anything that consumed a building slot.
She observed the NPCs as they entered one by one. She suddenly called them in the middle of the night but there was no sign of complaints.
"Milord." They bowed as she entered the lounge, and her green eyes observed the set-up of the meeting area.
There was already food in front, prepared by Harold and Sheila. She knew very well the appeal of their food to the NPCs and she was willing to give this benefit.
Of course, if she had coffee, she'd prefer it at this time for everyone else, and hot cocoa for herself.
Ah, she really missed those hot beverages…
When she arrived, everyone had been waiting there and were now relatively casual.
They could now eat the snacks and sip their tea without being worried of being thrown in the blacklist for impertinence.
Through this, she would also get clearer ideas on what would sell well with the aborigines. It was hitting many birds with one small act of kindness.
"We had just upgraded," She told them, "I temporarily delayed the expansion until after the Tide, but I will need your help to choose buildings."
As she said so, she already opened the Buildings Tab.
It was just that her peripheral vision couldn't help but catch Clutch's eager gaze and she felt a little guilty.
Althea had indeed considered an armory, but deferred again in case there were better options among the new buildings.
She looked at the available buildings that were no longer greyed out.
In the Residential Tab there were two new housing types, but they were really just a bit bigger than the previous. Very uncreative.
Did the locals not pay attention to where they were living, or was the system hyping up the ultra expensive options by low comparison?
For Commercial buildings, only new food stores were lit up: one store selling fruits, another store selling dried foods, and one fruit juice shop that served both hot and cold drinks.
The last one seemed interesting, but she naturally didn't choose it. She had already seen a couple of stores who probably made better drinks than this.
There were no potion houses or any medical related facilities available at her level. There were also no new buildings regarding equipment either, and the armory remained unchosen.
But… there was a new building tab named Luxuries. Inside, two new buildings were available for purchase.
One was called the Lighthouse, defined to be tall tower lit up to guide people as well as serve as supporting lighting for a territory.
It was set to light up at night and lit up an area with 100 meter radius, for a certain amount of wood every day.
Althea was very curious: What kind of light was used there?
It was Oslo who answered her inquiry. "It is perennial fire, my Lord, and it simply consumes a bit of wood every day to maintain."
She nodded, understanding the charm of this. The nights here was quite dark, it was only because they had two moons that there was still a bit of visibility.
She could see the advantage of this in terms of population as well, especially for a territory like hers set up in the middle of nowhere.
And… it would also look good, and the function was practical, but it was something that could be done on their own for a much, much, lower cost.
The other luxury building was a Bath House, with the function similar to an ancient civilization back in Terran. It also came with automatic heating and cooling functions.
[Luxury Bathhouse (Lv1)- automatically redirects water and produces various temperature pools: extreme hot, very hot, lukewarm, cool, cold, freezing.
Must be placed near a water source with 200 tons of water a year.
Automatic cleaning and reuse function.
Note: Water is not potable.
Cost: 300 wood, 500 stone, 500 gold. ]
She stared at the special note, though, that the water here was non-potable.
Perhaps the energy needed to heat or cool the water will somehow turn the water non potable? Anyway, a few tons of water a year wasn't much for her who had mountain springs and rivers in the territory.
But… more than the light house… she actually considered this more.
She had not forgotten about the once-every-year-or-two climate disaster that could last weeks, if not a month.
At that time, wouldn't a good bath in hot/cold water actually start saving lives?