B2 Chapter 40: Death from AboveTiberius kept his head on a swivel as he walked through the remains of the besieged city. Aside from the now crumbling wall, most of it remained relatively intact, a consequence of their utter inability to fight back once the Legion was inside. Which was why he felt so confident in his contempt for its construction.Again and again, the people of this world found ways to disappoint him. This was the largest city they'd been to by many orders of magnitude and still it fell so far short as to be laughable. The best thing he could say about the residents was that they seemed to have quite impressive wells situated all around the city, if only because they didn't have even basic plumbing.Their streets were narrow, haphazard, and poorly paved. Dark alleys and crooked lanes ran all throughout the settlement. There was no orderly grid expanding out from a central forum. Rather, the middle of the city, the most reasonable place to put a marketplace and center of commerce, was instead home to a secondary wall and resplendent homes of what he assumed to be the aristocracy. A complete waste.Tiberius shook his head in dismay. It was like conquering a city of the far east back in his world, created by a sheer mass of humanity rather than careful planning. He was actually a little regretful that they hadn't done more damage. At least then they would be starting from scratch instead of having to work with this mangled mess.He let out a long sigh. Despite all of the issues he had with the city—ones that continued to pile up as he walked—it was in fact his city now. While his men were still securing it to his standards, the System certainly recognized it as such. [You have successfully seized the barony (...)