After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World - Chapter 300

Chapter 300: Attacks
[Alert! For every 1% decrease in the health of the walls, 10 copper will automatically be deducted from the accounts of everyone inside it.

[Let us defend our home together!]

That was to say, the guards and fighters didn’t have to pay.

Anyway, the first citizens did not complain even with the increase in the penalty costs. They weren’t blind; they knew the walls and sentries must have been insanely expensive.

The newcomers, on the other hand, mumbled but did not dare speak out when seeing the established members not complaining at all. Who wanted to be an outcast?

The teams then went to their respective positions with Althea, Ansel, Hugo, and Helios—along with a score of guards—heading to the eastern gate.

The remaining guards and all the fighting citizens guarded the southwest gate.

Althea paused before she went up the battlement, looking at the other people sideways. “I will focus only on the level 4s and 5s alone, which will consume too much of my mana. The rest is up to you.

“Be careful. I will definitely not be able to watch your back the whole time in this situation.”

“Yes!”

Hugo watched Althea’s lithe back as she climbed the stairs to the top of the wall, with deep eyes.

“Uncle.” His nephew called him, pulling him back to the present. “Let’s get in position.” Hugo flinched a little and nodded, following him.

Ansel, who had been watching the whole thing, sneered. However, when he turned to face his sister, the sneer had become a gentle smile.

“You! Don’t go overexerting yourself!” He said, but saw that the mob was closing in so he could only follow the others to the main battle area.

The ground shook wildly and some people almost lost their balance as they ran. The magnitude got stronger and stronger until the monsters became visible even on the Eastern gate.

They opened the gates on the exterior wall set to allow inside some monsters that got past the sentries.

They stood in what they now called the gap—the fifty-meter area between the level 3 and level 5 walls around the gates, ready to handle these enemies.

The guards took out their new iron swords and shields. They were all level E, as Brenda and the others were still learning, but they were superior level E weapons, breaking into the quality of level D’s.

However, even if it didn’t, the new weapons—weapons that the territory prepared for them—gave them added courage to deal with the imminent danger rushing in their direction.

The vanguard monsters were generally level 3s and an occasional level 4. The guards were quick to take these on, using skills as needed.

Because of the spikes installed outside the fence, there were plenty of monsters distracted, making them a bit easier to handle.

Hugo and the others stabbed the monsters on the other side of the fence. Hugo even jumped up on top to get more access to the monsters. While risky, this could get him more kills as well as reduce the damage on the fence.

From the corner of his eyes, he could see several arrows occasionally flying and Hugo couldn’t help but steal glances at the woman above the wall.

Swish! A beautiful hit.

Swish! A one-shot kill.

But then, suddenly, she pointed the arrow at him… and shot.

His heart dropped until he saw a level 5 monster falling beside him.

“Focus.”

“Thanks.”

Althea didn’t really blame him too much. He had just risen to level 6, and level 5 monsters still easily could’ve taken him in a moment of carelessness.

Ansel, who was nearby, scoffed. This guy! He was totally eyeing Althea!! How could he even compare to Gar—

Ptoeey!

He stopped himself. He absolutely refused to praise that guy!!

To vent, Ansel quickly raised his iron swords, battering the monster near him.

[Killed! Stormdoer (Lv3). +70 Experience, +70 Copper]

He quickly moved to the other one, taking note of where the sentries were lest he accidentally get shot. Anyway, everyone had some sort of orientation about them, hoping to avoid unnecessary damage.

He jumped up above one monster’s head, precisely at where a sentry arrow hit, using his weight to embed it deeper. He then used its skin to propel himself somewhere else, hitting another monster near Hugo, showing off the skills he learned from that guy.

“That was very good,” Hugo said, quite friendly, as he defended against an attack.

Ansel sneered. “Hmmph!” Before jumping about and killing a monster just damaged by a sentry.

“…”

Althea was not aware of all this drama and she quickly moved to target the more powerful monsters, especially those aiming to destroy the level 3 fence.

The level 3 fence was relatively affordable since it was only a few hundred meters, at least compared to the higher-level stone walls. Even if she didn’t refill the resources for repair, she could just build another one altogether in its place.

However, she was a stingy person and she hated unnecessary costs.

She saw an unfamiliar pair of monsters—the first time this had happened in many days—and aimed at them. They were dark blue and had three small horns on their heads. They also had large saberteeth and bubbling skin, particularly ugly.

What’s more, from their size she knew that they were at least level 4 and level 5, respectively.

[Used Perfect Aim. -10 Mana!]

[Killed! Boggart (Lv4) +100 experience, +100 Copper!]

[Killed! Boggart (Lv5) +150 experience, +150 Copper!]

She heaved a sigh, and looked for more monsters of the same level, eating a mana biscuit to begin slowly replenishing her lost mana as she did so.

For hours this went on, and there were still no signs of stopping. She made sure to target only the stronger monsters, resting when necessary, knowing she could not be missing at this time.

When she had sufficiently rested, she once again took out the Bellagio, killing the next high-level monsters she saw.

[Killed! Boggart (Lv4) +100 experience, +100 Copper!]

[Killed! Boggart (Lv4) +100 experience, +100 Copper!]

She also saw how effective the sentries were. To be honest, she really worried they might hit citizens, but she thought too much. It seemed that as long as one was aware of the location of the sentries, it was fairly safe to be around them.

Her sharp eyes shifted and focused on her brother, killing anything nearby that could distract him too much.

She watched Ansel as he skilfully used the walls as a propelling force, damaging two monsters which were both killed off by the sentry a moment later. Except one was alive and he used his weight to finally skewer it through its head.

The wall move?

Using external forces to kill?

Using gravity to the max?

Hey, her husband would be proud.