After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 1703

Chapter 1703: Western Tensions

Meanwhile, tensions intensified in the West, and it was in no small part due to a certain Terran territory.

Not to mention Valov and Voumi Town, somehow, a Level 2 Town named Baccal Town had become involved somehow.

Baccal’s involvement was not too deep. Mafo contacted their Lord about Valov, telling them they were the hub of drugs. The drugs had also reached Baccal Town and had also affected, to a small degree, the nobility and the citizens there.

And then there were mysterious mercenaries (some said they were from Valov, some said they were from Voumi) and an increased amount of monster mobs messing with distribution in the area, so the conflict was high.

The mysterious mercenaries were Alterrans, of course. The Golds would forever be excited for contribution points, so they definitely had a hand in this.

Particularly, there was Obi and his three musketeers (Leez, Tener, and Dejel). What could town-level mercenaries do against fighters from cities, especially in the middle of the forests where no territory could protect them?

Not much! They could only blame whoever they said was to blame, not questioning it at all!

If they uttered they were from Voumi, they were from Voumi. If they said they were from Valov, then they were from Valov!

Anyway, Valov was known to have a backing of a City, and Voumi had been actively trying to gain one by sending elementalist slaves to their close subsidiaries, so claiming that strongmen were working for either of them was actually quite believable.

Speaking of which, thanks to the informants that the enemy ’sent to their arms’ (i.e. the now-prisoners like Wazan), they also received bits of information about both territories, many of which ended up being useful.

While these people made oaths so they couldn’t be as detailed as the interrogators would’ve wanted, what they could squeeze out was enough using the deductive ability of Alterrans and the intelligence team.

To be fair, those guys really suffered unimaginable pain, and they were only granted death when they revealed what they could, considering their oaths.

For example, they got some names of lower-tier people they could monitor and get some clues from there. People of power tended to underestimate the roles of the ’little ones’, after all.

It wasn’t against oath to name-drop like this, especially for people below the food chain. They could get more information about these people, and use them to enter deeper into the chain.

They also knew who was most susceptible to bribes, what kind of bribes worked best, and what kind of information they could extract, all things considered.

From there, they also started infiltrating Valov. The spies, this time, included level 20 and above aborigines. They considered Obi and the three musketeers, but they had been away from Alterra for weeks, and they claimed that ’it was not good for the psyche’ to be away for so long.

Not to mention, word had it that the Lord in Valov was much sharper than others. Sending elementalists or anyone too powerful could garner attention.

Further, because the system was strict, if they shifted residencies, then they’d still have to pay the gold even if the contribution points were waived.

It was why, at village level, they limited the spies to those who weren’t citizens to save on this cost. As for Town-level, Alterra did not have enough, so their options of spies that’d take residencies were limited.

Obi and they were also serving as mysterious mercenaries when needed, so there was that.

So...they sent Jest, one of the people they got from Basset, Shinho, and a few of his team, as well as Massan. Among Terrans, they sent Foxii, though she was crossdressing for her own safety.

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