After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World-Chapter 1257: Side of Basset Town (Part 1)

While the Town itself was preparing, they also planted a few Plan Bs and Plan Cs in the enemy territory in hopes of making things easier for them somehow.

Of course, the wars in Xeno were not like the wars in Terran, with the system rules and all.

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Therefore, in Xeno, there was little to do in the attacking territory as people on the defense. During wars, more likely than not, the people who would be attacking had already gone through the array.

Not to mention, it'd be too dangerous to attack upfront because they'd be extremely outnumbered and she would never ask that of her people.

What they could do from the other side was to either stop reinforcements coming through the array (in one way or another—without sacrificing themselves), or take the token.

To be honest, Alterra had no interest in Basset Town. Other than the fact that it was a Town, it had few resources that they'd want. Most territories were like this, and Althea doubted she'd merge with another territory again until she found a territory with great natural resources attached to it.

However, even if they defeated it, it could still rise someday after a few years or so. Even if they couldn't get the token (and sell it to someone who would ally with them), they hoped to at least weaken it as much as they could so it wouldn't cause trouble in the future.

How to do this when there were people twice their level? With a bit of scheming, of course.

Interestingly, Althea had no talent in that at all. About a week ago, during this particular discussion, she was in a definite backseat. They also called in Mathilda's team as well as the intelligence team to lead it.

After a lot of discussion, it was decided that Eagle and Chris would be the ones assigned to go to Basset Town, along with a few aborigines like Mauru. Their mission wasn't to take the token—that was too dangerous—but to try and incite a bit of chaos during the war.

They left soon after the news was announced, and they arrived a couple of days ago, already meeting with the team there. This included the brothers Tambai and Tanod.

Over the past few weeks, these two had integrated well in the Basset population using spying techniques taught to them as a course in the Barracks.

Tambai and Tanod were recognized for their talents in this area not long after they were hired, and they—along with dozens of others—were trained in the field for months.

They were top of their aborigine class, which was why they were the ones sent to Basset in exchange for large amounts of contribution points.

Speaking of spying lessons, the subjects ranged from surveillance, counter surveillance, intelligence analysis, and the like.

They were even taught 'basic disguise' lessons and 'how to get information subtly' lessons, which had all been put to practice in this mission.

Through them, they gained an insight on the resources and the powerplay within the territory.

According to their spies, the power play in Basset was quite complicated. The current lord was the son of the former lord who died about a decade prior, taken over when he was already 50 years old.

However, the noble families there had been entrenched in the territory for decades, some as early as when the Town was just established as a village.

There were also nobles who had family in more powerful territories like Cities. Even if those relatives were minor nobles at best, it still felt a good deterrent and point of pride because gaining a foothold in a City—no matter how small this foothold was—was not easy.

There were also some who owned rich caravans, and some families had powerful forces working for them. These were all created across several decades and three generations and it wasn't easy for the lord to just cut them off if he wanted to.

The Lord of a territory in Xeno might be more powerful than rulers from places like Terran—who had no system implementing rules for them—but they weren't omnipotent either.

The Lord had the magical power to blacklist people, sure, but what if those people had a major hold in the Town's economy, military, or any other important facet of its existence?

Blacklisting those people would then be equivalent to making a mess of their territory's infrastructure!

This was often the case in Towns as a single family was rarely able to handle all aspects of a successful territory. This also meant the power was no longer concentrated on the ruling family, and this had a lot of downsides for a Lord.

Further, very few families were also willing to take deep oaths to the Lord. Some of the few exemptions were the previous generation of the Gold Family, who had made oaths to the Bleulle ruling party nearly two centuries prior, back when it was still a village.

In their case, the Lord had the foresight of capturing their hearts and loyalties, ensuring their service for the years to come.

To be fair… it seemed that the original Lord of Bleulle was a fair and just man, which was why he gained the undying loyalty of his servants. Sadly, after a few generations, the Lords became entitled and excessively selfish, leading to its current state.

Anyway, in Basset Town's case, there were a few families that held a large part of the territory.

According to the information, he had tried to weaken them by imposing rules and taxes, but a lot of them pushed back and the economy suffered.

This happened every few years, and some compromises had been made here and there.

There had been a few threats of rebellion as well, but those were snapped in the bud before anything could happen.

However, to Mathilda and the lot of them, one thing was obvious: They had plenty of holes to exploit, and they were planning on attacking them.