On the other hand, while the citizens slept soundly, the lord was not. She was shifting in her sleep, drenched with sweat.
Abruptly, she opened her eyes and sat up, a few tears lining up her eyes.
She dreamed of her husband. She dreamed of him fighting for his life and protecting his team.
She dreamed of him looking out the two moons, hoping to see her again, desperately fighting to get back home—to her.
Only to find that the home they knew was no more.
When she opened her eyes, her eyes were wet with tears.
She sighed as she sat up, subconsciously patting her stomach, an instinctive act when she longed for comfort.
He didn't even know he had children yet, didn't he?
Although he didn't seem to like children (or most people, in general), she could still recall him meticulously taking care of her even at the age where boys simply wanted to go out and play.
He also took care of Ansel a lot, training him and making sure he wouldn't get bullied.
Althea thought, he would definitely be a great father.
She shook her heads of the thought. There was nothing she could do for Garan, except build him a new home—something that they, as orphans, had an integral need for.
With this thought, she smiled and looked down at her protruding stomach.
"Good morning." She said, "Let's take a look at the changes in the territory, okay? I bet they're good…"
[TERRITORY STATS
Area: 3,142,000 square meters
Residents: 31 (10 permanent, 21 temporary)
Total Population:53
Base Resources:
Wood: 020/5000
Stone: 50/3000
Money: 7676 Gold, 91767 Silver, 27987 copper
Reputation: 3
Buildings: Village Center (Lv1), Weaponry Shop (Lv1) , Defensive Wall (Lv3), Warehouse (Lv1), Farm (Lv1)
Bonus Building: Custom Building
Building Slots: 5/5 (+1)]
She looked at the increase of reputation in interest. How did it get calculated?
However, because she didn't know what it was for yet, her interest dwindled quickly. Instead, what caught her attention was her severely lacking resources.
Even if she had plenty of gold, it seemed she wouldn't be able to do much more at this point. However, with more people, more people would gather resources for her, so she wasn't very worried.
What surprised her was the fact that she had 3 new permanent residents. Her fee for this type of residency was not cheap.
She was already planning out the alternative methods for her future residents to pay for it because the price was prohibitive.
For instance, merit. For instance, contributions.
But look, one night and she had 3.
She then opened her territory window and chose the never before touched tab: People.
Soon a list of 53 names appeared on her screen. Next to their names was their loyalty to the territory.
In her own party except for Eugene who had 95%, the rest had 100%. This was not surprising. What surprised her was the rest of the people.
Outside of their team had pretty good loyalties as well, at least 60%, there were even as high as 80%.
Was such loyalty the default?
How was Althea to know that these people had lost hope the previous night, and the light of guidance the territory released saved them all.
How could they not have even a bit of goodwill?
The next column was their level, then their professions, citizenship, elemental affinity, and overall potential. She could even see their net worth.
Althea paused.
What an intrusive access panel…
She shrugged in the end though, as she wouldn't abuse this feature too much, at least not to the detriment of the individual.
With this comforting thought, she resumed in exploring this function of the Lord Panel.
She began to take a look at the professions. She was the only one who had something listed there.
Pharmacist, Archer.
She had totally forgotten about this.
She ignored this for now, and shifted back to the list. She realized that the list could be arranged in decreasing or increasing order of the category needed for convenience.
As she perused the list, Althea found some interesting figures.
For example, arranging by potential, Sheila's B level was really above average. In the 53 people, there were a few Bs and even an A, the rest were Cs or Ds.
For example, someone actually had 624 gold in hand. A bit more and he could've had his own territory.
For example, this same person bought the other two villas next to her!
That was, what, 200 gold from the get-go? A little more and this guy really could've had his own Lord token.
Then she looked at his C potential and corrected herself. After all, only people at B-level could get a token.
Anyway, if she could change the names and add nicknames, she would put 'golden goose' on this guy.
It was also worth noting that everyone had the so-called 'elemental affinity', whatever it meant. So far there was no indication of what this was but it definitely meant something.
She really hoped there was an FAQ section somewhere…
Another thing she noticed about this particular attribute was that everyone else only had one element.
Sheila had water, Harold and Maya had Earth, and Eugene had the rare Metal affinity, wherein he was one of the 2 people among the 53 to have it.
The most common one, so far, was earth and fire, comprising more than half of the population together.
For now, she knew there was at least 6 elements: Wood, water, fire, earth, wind, and metal. As for the others, there may be some out there, but they hadn't reached her land just yet.
Thinking about it, if asked, she decided to just say she had wood affinity.
Three was really too much, she hoped to see someone with at least dual elements…
Though she had no idea what it was for yet.
Putting this aside for now, she continued to look at the winnings from last night. Seeing that there were 53 people, it meant that she must have attracted a lot of mobs.
The sentry towers were reliable enough that a few intermittent groups of low level monsters were no threat at all.
The best thing was that the loot (no experience, unfortunately) of sentry towers automatically went right into her pocket, evident in the thousands of copper coins added to her wallet.
Although she lost a bit of wood, the resources that she made in her sleep are satisfying! Better only a bit of damage was done to the walls, that it didn't even register as 1%.
Sentry towers were too worth it!!
She stretched and stood up, looking forward to meeting her new citizens.