[Congratulations to the 114,876,877.00 Terranian who survived the migration!]
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[Welcome to the Grand Continent of Xeno.]
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[Protection Period of 1 Xenoan Month is activated.]
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Althea stared at the new announcement blankly, feeling a bit shaken the moment her brain made the calculations.
The number may seem a lot, but this was not even 1% of the almost 17 Billion people who survived until the migration.
This was a depressing number. One for every one hundred people. What were the chances her friends and family survived?
And… what was the protection period?
However, she could not even take the time for deeper thought as all her stats appeared in front of her without her prompt, distracting her thoughts.
[STATS:
Name: Althea Witt
Age: 25
Level: 3 (1125/5000)
Life: 490/500
Spirit: 470/500 (-5%)
Physical: 80 (-5%)
Agility: 77 (-20%)
Defense: 64 +12
Mana: 300
Physical Potential: B
Mental potential: SS+
Skills:
Active: None
Passive: None
Elemental Affinity: Wood, Water, Earth
Titles: None
Overall rank: S
Current Status: Gestating: two life forms, weakened state ]
[WEALTH: 9,711 gold and 79267 silver, 14233 copper]
[EQUIPMENT:
Head: None
Ears: None
Body: Leather Jacket, cotton undergarments +2 Defense
Synthetic Vest +3 Defense
Arms: Arm Brace +1 Defense
Legs: Leather Pants +2 Defense
Hands: None
Leather Gloves +1 Defense
Feet: Leather Boots +2 Defense, +0 Agility ]
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[You have been assessed to have over 1000 gold and overall potential above B. You are confirmed eligible to hold a Lord's Token.
[The Lord's Token: Enchanted magical accessory that grants its owner the right to establish ownership over a designated safe and optionally fortified location of his/her choice.
[Note: The Lord Token will be integrated with the Territory Lord upon activation.
[Would you like to take it?
[YES | NO]
Her eyebrows rose, the distraction shaking away some of the depression and worry that plagued her.
Lord Token?
The key to a safe place?
She chose YES, of course.
[Would you like to use it now? YES | NO]
NO.
She still knew that one shouldn't build villages anywhere. Giving her surroundings a cursory glance, she judged that this was literally the middle of nowhere.
[Establishment of Territory is put on hold. Please use the token within 7 days.]
However, before becoming too relieved, she had come to the question: Why would a 'safe' place be necessary in the first place???
"What is it?" Sheila asked, pulling her back to the present.
Sheila was not used to seeing the other woman look in a daze. Was there something odd in the stats that popped up? At this, she couldn't help but take a second look at her stats.
Other than the so-called 'Elemental Affinity' the others were intuitive, and she found no major anomaly.
On the other hand, Althea did not answer immediately. No one could receive her absolute unconditional trust except for her husband.
Even her parents and brother, although she loved them very much, couldn't receive this, let alone a new friend.
So, at Sheila's question, she only shook her head in the end. "It's nothing."
Neither woman spoke for a while, absorbing the new place, feeling its difference. She smiled when she saw Fufi safe and sound and still smiling.
Then, she looked at the new counter on the top right.
[195:59:57]
This must be the counter for the deadline of the Lord Token activation.
Obviously, the unit of time here was a little different than in Terran. Making a quick calculation, she had a rough estimate to have an idea.
So…, a day here was 28 hours?
Fortunately, the smaller units of measurement were the same, or else she would have been very confused.
Of course, it could also be that the system simply converted it to units they could understand.
Her emerald eyes couldn't help but stay on the new icon on her screen. It was an image of a palace and was dimly lit. It had a subtle feel of majesty to it and she immediately knew that pressing it would probably activate the token.
Speaking of the Lord Token, she pondered more about the qualifications needed to receive it.
Assuming B was the average potential, it would mean that almost everyone who managed to get over 1000 gold coins before migration could get a Lord Token.
She wondered, just how many territories would there be?
And...if people who got 1000 gold could get the accessory, she really wondered if it was a good thing.
She had taken out all the physical riches and safety deposit box items in her upper-class neighborhood and only got a little over 1000 gold coins because she robbed a drug lord.
And, after robbing a bank, she managed to save over 9000 gold coins during those 24 hours. How many people managed to get similar achievements?
Considering the few survivors she met, she mused that most people would probably gather less than 10 gold simply because cash and digital money turned to waste. Except for the old generation, most people opted to place their wealth in banks and other digital wallets for convenience.
So...what kind of people could get 1000 gold coins within 24 hours?
Gangsters? Drug lords? Ultra-rich people with dirty money? Normal people wouldn't think of robbing banks like she did.
If most territories had leaders like that—she shivered just by thinking about it. Would those places still be considered a 'safe' place?
Then again, those who could get this amount could be considered capable and this was a plus in its own way.
Developing a territory in any world was a capital-intensive endeavor and the powerful Lord token might just be wasted on others.
She just sighed and put the matter aside for now. Anyway, that was the problem for other territories, not hers. At least not for a while.
Whatever the case, she definitely wouldn't take the task of creating a territory lightly. Chances were, this new 'home' would be her permanent one.
This meant this would be the place her children would grow up in.
She was determined to make it the best, at least for the children.