After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World - Chapter 303

Chapter 303: Bombs in Action
Aberdeen City, thirteen years prior

“Bomb it!” Twelve-year-old Althea told her teammate, Ansel, who happily obliged by throwing the bomb to their virtual enemies.

Their enemies naturally all died, and Althea looked very happy.

“Wow…”

Garan, who happened to be watching them play, felt complicated.

Did she love bombs so much because she was almost—

He glared at the brat who introduced her to such unhealthy games.

Ansel: …

Anyway, after their game, the teenage Garan couldn’t help but pull Althea somewhere to talk (though not without sending a small glare at Ansel, who shivered for his life).

“What is it?” She asked, and Garan wondered how to tell her without sounding overbearing.

“…”

“Garan?”

Garan couldn’t speak immediately. He just had a nightmare the night before, where Althea—who had now entered her teenage years, the supposedly rebellious stage—looked at him in distaste.

“Stop being sooo boriinggg!” Dream-Althea had told him. She was wearing that adorable pout of hers, but she just kept saying hurtful things.

He paled.

“Garan? Are you alright?” Garan blinked and looked down at the girl in front of him. When he saw only kindness and concern in her pretty emerald eyes, he heaved a sigh of relief.

Alas, he thought too much. How could he compare his angel with the brats of the world?

“I just want you to know, that hurting people isn’t a good practice. You just have to protect yourself.”

“Unless it’s the bad guy,” she corrected him. His lips twitched and he nodded in agreement.

“Yes, unless they’re the bad guy.”

At this, Althea looked at him proudly. “Didn’t you see? Those ninjas tried to attack my turf!” She told him, eyes filled with certainty. “Of course, I’m gonna protect it!”

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Altera, Present.

Helios and Hugo heaved a gasp as they killed a level 4 monster together. It took them a while, and they knew their movements had begun to lag.

“We just rested an hour ago.”

The battle has been going on for more than a day now, their rest times naturally had to be extended.

“There’s still so many.”

“Well,”

Now that their bodies were as heavy as lead and had begun to lose a few more people, the momentum had begun to slow down.

Everyone also had heavy injuries on their bodies, only kept standing by the medicines—which were quickly dwindling—and by sheer willpower.

The tension had risen, and it could be said no one expected this degree of strength they had to face.

It was fortunate they had reliable Aborigines, or else they’d have lost a lot more people.

Ansel parried the sword against the monster, slicing its eyes immediately after. He stepped back to avoid its claws, and the sentry hit it directly in the back.

He deftly avoided another attack from behind, but his legs had gotten a bit weak and he miscalculated, losing his balance.

The monster quickly took advantage.

Roar!

“Shit!” he yelled, placing a shield in front of him to give him time to recover. However, the shield was saved as a spear appeared. It was quick to pass through the monster’s neck, splattering blood all over Ansel’s face.

He turned to see Hugo, who had just pulled back his spear. “Thanks,” he said, standing up and ready to fight again. Although he didn’t like the bloke, gratitude due shall be given.

“I got the experience.” The other man said, redirecting another attack with his spear. He angled in a way that the monster moved in a direction and was promptly shot by the sentry for him.

It roared and he took advantage to hit it on its weak point, finally killing it.

A second later, Helios kicked another monster to their side, with Hugo—without any more prompts—stabbing it with his spear mid-fall. Ansel then jumped above yet another weird thing, kicking it with all his strength, just before stabbing its eye with his sword.

Immediately, Hugo stabbed its mouth with his weapon, using his whole body weight (and more) to pull it in the direction of a sentry. Helios also took a shot at it. Combined with the sentry’s arrow, the monster met its quick demise.

The three’s teamwork had improved by leaps and bounds during this time.

Soon, the uncle and nephew’s life had gotten critically low and they had to go rest. Then Ansel would shift to Luke and Leo’s fight, who had just arrived from their short break.

It could be said Ansel was quite the team player.

They continued to fight. This time, Oslo stayed a bit to lighten up the load further. Anyway, Rowan had Clout and the others to assist him on the other side.

But even if Oslo was strong, eventually his mana and physique would still take a beating like everyone else, especially when he was up against hundreds.

He was so preoccupied and he wasn’t able to help out Ansel, who got nicked in the arm, even if he was nearby.

Althea happened to see this and frowned, increasing her shooting. She also saw the strain on the walls. She used her ability to lock in on another set of stronger monsters who were doing the most damage to the walls, killing them, and it ended up consuming the bulk of her remaining mana in the process.

Looking at her soldiers in dire need of rest, she studied her stats and judged this was the time that she used her consumables.

She went to the intersection of the two walls a few dozen meters from where she was. She stood at the intersection of the T, where the height difference was two meters. She easily jumped down and walked along the outer wall.

“Althea!” Ansel gasped, looking up, “What are you doing??”

She stood at the edge of the level 3 wall on the verge of collapse from the mob. This time, she didn’t repair it and just allowed for a new opening.

Then on the monsters right outside the outer wall, she threw the paralysis and poison bombs.

Boom!

Bang!!

“What!”

Althea looked at the people gaping at the other side of the wall, seeing the strong flash of light and purple powder that was visible through the broken wall.

“Kill!” She ordered, jumping down to deal with them.

“Althea!”

“Boss!!”

People ran through the gates and the opening to help her out, though they didn’t expect to see the monsters were now just lying around like sitting ducks to kill!!

“Amazing!”

“They’re sitting ducks!”

“Don’t be too complacent! I only have a few!” She yelled, “And it only lasts so long!”

“Ah, yes!”

The group killed as much as they could. After so long, they have managed to master the weak points of these monsters. They had killed about a hundred or so before the effect loosened.

Althea’s sharp eyes saw the moment the monsters were about to wake up.

“Get back up!” She yelled, and they jumped up the walls again, resuming the stabbing while above it.

Then after a while, Althea would throw her bombs again, and they would repeat the same thing. Because the monsters were sitting ducks during this time, they didn’t have to waste too much mana and energy, increasing productivity by several folds.

About an hour later, someone sobbed. “I can finally see the end!”

The people looked forward and looked for the edge.

It was into the end of the horizon, which was still a few hundred at best, but at least it was finally in sight.

She looked into her space to see her final set of bombs—the actual explosives.

She only had a few and she had to time it well for momentum. She believed this was a good time.

Her emerald eyes watched the crowd and the mobs, holding on to small spheres smaller than her palm.

She took away the ignition, throwing it as far as she could. Immediately, she did the same to different parts of the mob.

A second later the air shook and three different areas of the mob exploded, throwing a bit of meat to their location.

BANG!

BANG!

BANG!!

[Congratulations! You have upgraded to Level 8!]

The fighters looked at the monster corpses where the bomb landed. Each one killing at least a few dozen monsters! Only level 5s survived but they were easily killed by the sentries.

They turned their heads and gaped at Althea.

Oh my gosh!

Ansel sparkled, wondering if he could get one. Many others looked the same.

She looked at them with embarrassment. “That’s all I had though.”

Awwwww~

Pity.

But it doesn’t matter, because they knew that this was a major step to finally finishing this damned mob!