After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World - Chapter 1107

Chapter 1107: Defending the Walls
Althea decided to observe for a few more minutes before going into defensive mode again. She had limited mana anyway, and it was best to use her overpowered weapons against stronger monsters, particularly those that would still give her experience points.

“Anyway, back to positions!” Mao yelled, seeing as more and more monsters were piling up below by a few meters.

After the monsters got near, they would prefer to attack the walls, just because the ‘aether’ was stronger there. It was why the people desperately tried running towards the wall in hopes of losing the monster’s attention.

However, how easy could it be? Except for the first people who managed to flush themselves against the walls—some even managing to dig a small corner for themselves—the rest were not so lucky.

It was really a gruesome sight. Whether it was monsters or humans, they were trying to go up the unscalable 5-meter-walls—which, at this point, could only be done by piling up on one another.

There would be humans trying to climb above monsters. Some would succeed, while some would only get swallowed from below. Similarly, there were also monsters stabbed by people trying to use them to go up.

They were so desperate they often forgot there were still several layers of obstacles above the walls.

“Hey did you start counting?” Luis-the-obstacle asked, holding up his sword after waving a fire whip downwards, causing a lot of beasts to slide down.

He couldn’t directly attack people because he was way past the level cap, but he could definitely get beasts to crush the humans in his stead.

“I think I’ll win the bet,” he said, counting the number of humans still moving. There were a lot—and most of them used their brains very well when it came to hiding, avoiding attacks, and so on.

Mao’s eyebrows furrowed. “Huh?” he asked, narrowing his eyes as he looked down. “Obviously there are more monsters right now, right?”

Luis shook his head. “Have you forgotten? There are fewer monsters in areas not in the gates. Of course there are more monsters in this place.”

At this, Mao paled, and he looked down. Piles of earth floated around him, intimidating humans. He couldn’t attack them directly but he could use the stones to push them back—right into the mouths of monsters. “I will protect my 10 Gold!”

The battles had gotten near, and a lot of people were well within earshot.

Further, because Mao and Luis stood a couple of meters apart and were having their own fights (i.e. obstacles), they tended to yell at each other.

So the enemies heard this bet loud and clear. “YOU BAS—”

It naturally made them very angry, but also very distracted. One of the men there—a level 18—wanted to throw a sword at them, but he ended up losing balance as he stepped on something.

When he fell down, he lost all sight—because his head was eaten up by a monster that appeared out of nowhere.

“GAHHH!”

“One down,” Mao said, nodding.

Luis then lifted his sword and sent a flame blade and split a level 8 monster in half. “One down, too.”

Mao sneered and started to target the nearby humans one by one too, and so did Luis.

The others just rolled their eyes and focused on the battles at hand. The monsters were starting to jump dangerously close to them now, and it was only a matter of a few moments before their own fights would start.

“Ready!” they yelled, and everyone was prepared to attack. Their sights were mostly directly below though, forgetting that there was a beast type that specialized in distant attacks.

Suddenly, a shadow appeared right by the battlement, right above Mao’s head.

It was a monster akin to a bipedal feline with a terrifying face and large arms—with paws that could destroy a person’s face with a swipe.

“WHOA!”

Fortunately, despite his lackadaisical appearance, Mao—and the others— developed very strong instincts.

Before the monster could hit Mao’s head, a line of soil appeared in front of it, taking all of the force.

Crash!

As the monster’s palms destroyed the rock, an arrow appeared from its side, going through its head.

[Killed! Leapard (Lv13)! Gained +470 EXP, +470 Copper!]

Althea put down her bow and arrow. Because she was taking note of this monster, she had an idea where it was going to go next. Seeing that the battle was upon them, she immediately hid her notebook and took up weapons again—just in time to take this kill.

Mao and the others wouldn’t receive experience from it anyway, so it was already an accepted norm for her to take the last kill when she was nearby.

Still, this attack seemed to serve as a signal for more and more monsters to arrive. Further, it seemed like they were not just stepping over other monsters—they were also using the nearby trees.

The Leapard, in particular, was very good at this. Not to mention, it was also fast enough—and its movements unconventional enough—to avoid some sentries.

Althea took note of cutting down (and preventing growth) trees a few meters away from the walls to prevent this in the future.

Speaking of that, if they weren’t in a war during this beast mob, then it was estimated that a lot of these monsters would’ve jumped over the walls by now and caused trouble inside the territory.

If a few of these managed to enter, then it’d have been quite troublesome.

Gulp.

Well, fortunately, they also had a lot of ‘meatshields’ to distract most of them.

…

In any case, the monster mobs had arrived near them and had found the territory more fascinating than the other humans outside.

Especially near the gates, monsters started heading toward the wall without care for the sentries. Similarly, the humans were trying to climb up the other areas relentlessly.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

The arrows, sentries or not, finally rained down, and the humans in the path could only scream as many of them were hit in the process.

Some died like this, suddenly reminded that—after everything—the Alterrans hadn’t shown any of their cards yet.

So many of them had been killed and destroyed, but—strictly speaking—Alterra had barely even lifted a hand!

What were they thinking attacking such a territory?

But it was too late for regrets because they would join the thousands of people who perished due to a few people’s stupid decisions—and a lot of people’s greed.