After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World - Chapter 534

Chapter 534: Entering the Inner Circle
Before the war declaration, Oslo created a stable stair over the outer wall. They chose an area that wasn’t particularly guarded due to the terrain, with them thinking it’d be difficult to climb.

It was like the enemy totally did not consider the enemy could have high-level earth elementalist in their midst.

Of course, they couldn’t be blamed too much for this. The outer wall was too wide and it was impossible to assign a human guard every few meters. The coverage of the outer wall of a typical level 3 village would be tens of kilometers long.

This area definitely wouldn’t be a problem if they were battling other villages, but who told them to go against Altera.

Further, the guards were already reduced in numbers thanks to the Alteran’s hunting outside. These people were tired due to the mobs and were already spread thin, it was inevitable for them to find loopholes.

In such conditions, any lord would focus on guarding the inner wall instead and place most of the guards there.

In any case, Oslo’s level was relatively high. He had built and used his ability a lot during his stay in Altera. The staircase along the steep mountains was pretty simple to him.

Upon reaching the outer wall, building higher than the wall height was even easier.

After all, the outer wall was only level 2—which meant it was only two meters tall. That was not even one-story high, considering Fargo chose a residential unit with two floors.

The stair Oslo made was a slightly arched shape, ending less than a meter from the wall edge because they weren’t allowed to build on the walls themselves.

Other than the fact that walls could not be manually or elementally built upon or modified, another feature of system walls—and buildings, for that matter—was that they were unscalable and could not be dug underneath.

It was why back in the Guia war, even goblins would use their digging skills just to avoid head-on battles outside the walls, but would still have to attack it head-on in the end.

One option to get through a system wall was to destroy it by brute force which would not only take a while—even if the outer wall was only level 2—but it would also capture the enemy attention too quickly because of the noise.

The option was to go over it—which was what they opted to do in the end.

They quietly entered this wall as soon as the war started, with Althea adding sleeping formula in the area to minimize the chaos. She had dedicated farms for the raw materials of this medicine, so her space had tons of it.

They entered as fast as they could so that even if Fargo noticed that the number of high-leveled people in his territory spiked, they had already either found a place to hide in the outer circle and/or found a way to the inner one.

Everyone in their hundreds of forces easily managed to sneak in the outer wall, safe and sound, grouping into several teams because they knew they’d be separated by the sheer amount of enemy guards—and possibly citizens—once they were detected.

It was the inner wall that would be a bit more of a challenge since it had denser guards and some sentries (which, fortunately, were still decently far from each other and easily avoidable).

However, they opted to use a similar method with Oslo’s which would be faster in terms of getting the most people inside.

The interior wall was only a level 3 wall, so it was just a little above 3 meters tall. The house type Fargo chose was the two-storey one, and the custom building he activated was also built into two floors but with wider floor areas for his villas.

Either way, in terms of height, this would mean that the normal houses in were taller than the interior walls, so they simply had to secure an area (mostly by putting the citizens in the adjacent buildings the sleep) to be able to create a comfortable ‘stair’ without being too obvious about it.

The guard there—who was falling asleep from sleeplessness—only noticed an anomaly when it was already at the height of the wall. Before he could yell out an alarm, he was promptly shot down by Althea, right on the neck.

As for the fall on the other side, it couldn’t be as simple as just jumping down willy-nilly. First, they couldn’t have people jumping down 3 meter walls and ending up stepping on each other, right?

Jumping directly down would be too slow. The streets were narrow and there were hundreds of them, they would have to do so a few at a time. That would be too slow and also cause a lot of noise.

So they decided to add a slide of sorts to catch a long and continuous line of people, for efficiency, though they would still be spread out to jump down several adjacent streets if they could.

The only earth users in their team were her and Reno—who had a variation of earth that had adobe-like sturdiness.

It was just that neither of them was as strong as Oslo and the wall they made was much flimsier, so a lot of debris fell down on their way across the second wall. It was up to Reno to keep it stable for the others while she created a slide on the other side.

It was not easy as her level was still low, but she pulled it off.

And it also took the enemy by surprise.

While Gochi and those who had managed to enter dealt with the guards attracted by the noise, more and more people filed in.

Of course, Fargo wasn’t a normal village and had thousands of guards. Regardless of their skills, the quantity was there and was therefore troublesome.

More guards filed in from inside and the battlements. Fortunately for the Alterans, the buildings were built densely and there were plenty of places to hide and shield.

It was the battlement guards that simply had to traverse the walls through to eventually zone in on their entry points. At this, Reno and Luis tried to handle the first batch, but they would soon notice from their height that some guards were also approaching their area from the other side. They had to go back down to their teams, and another group went to deal with the battlement guards.

It was the Mauin team that settled in the battlement this time, expertly attacking the newcomers with their swords and spears, and guarding themselves with shields.

Bang! Bang!

“Class D shields!”

“Damn it!”

The battlement of a level three wall was barely enough for two people at the same time. Mauins were experienced in fighting—they fought wars every few weeks—and easily swiped the coming guards and made them fall down the ground, letting more and more of their people inside.

The few guards with guns also pointed at them, no longer caring whether they hit their own people. The sheildsmen mostly managed to block, while some did get past and slightly injured a few people.

One time though, someone was about to land a headshot and his eyes brightened in bloodlust, about to press the trigger—

Whoosh!

He fell down, an arrow straight through the neck.

The person next to him turned in the direction with wide eyes, seeing a gorgeous woman with a shimmering set of bow-and-arrows.

That was the last thing he saw before he, too, pummeled to his death.

On a roof was Althea, watching people as they filed in, also shooting arrows whenever she had to, protecting lives, and watching over her people as more and more of them entered.

So far, there seemed to almost be a quarter of them inside, making them already halfway to winning the war.

Her emerald eyes sharpened.

Just a bit more!