After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World - Chapter 656

Chapter 656: Other Ongoing Wars
While Alterra was settling the aftermath of their first war, several other territories were still experiencing theirs.

Juno Village.

BANG!!

“NOOOO! HELP ME!” a middle-aged woman yelled, trying to shield herself from a blade with nothing but her arms. The woman sobbed as she saw her life ending before her, but—

SLASH!

A long sword appeared in front of her. It nicked her pointy nose, but feeling her head still attached to her neck, she definitely didn’t mind.

The blade that would’ve been on her skin was now guarding against another blade. The woman gaped as the familiar guard pushed away the aborigine enemy with all his might.

He was the captain of the guard in their territory—someone greatly respected, perhaps even more so than the lord himself.

Especially now that said Lord was missing, hiding somewhere.

“Gurnam!” the woman yelled, and he took a moment to look at her, though he was focused on his fight.

“Get away from here, auntie!” he yelled and the woman frantically crawled back to find the nearest cover.

Gurnam’s appearance added momentum to the various fights nearby. It wasn’t much—and definitely not enough to turn the tides—but it was enough to give more ‘fight’ to several teammates in the area, saving a few more lives in the process.

Gurnam was not particularly handsome but he was well-built. Most of all, the citizens knew him as their protector. All this time, he had been one of the many valiantly guarding the gate to minimize the enemies coming in.

It was impossible to win, but he didn’t run, hoping to save as many lives as possible.

He was a soldier from the country of Abu before the apocalypse hit. After so long, he alone survived among the people he had transferred with. Now, he was contributing to mankind by being a guard.

Gurnam used his entire weight to push the aborigine back, finally stabbing down at the man. He didn’t have the time to check if the enemy was dead and he immediately rushed to the fight he left to save auntie.

“Come here!” A teammate yelled, struggling to defend himself. Unfortunately, the level difference was too high and he wasn’t able to do much in the end.

Slash!

“GYAH!” he yelled, though he was able to avoid a lethal hit. Gurnam arrived just in time to shield him.

The duo slashed and waved to the best of their abilities, trying to avoid lethal shots though the number of injuries on them inevitably worsened still.

These aborigines were too strong! Each one of them had a much higher level than them! The highest levelled person in their territory was Gurnam at level 9, but this a level considered below-average among the enemies!

It was depressing. They had just won against a major beast tide. There, they had lost so many brethren—with Gurnam losing the remaining soldiers he transferred with. Half of the wall had also been destroyed, along with several establishments.

They had barely managed to hold on to their territory, but they did, and for a few days they were relieved. They also strived to rebuild, even if it did use much of the remaining funds.

As they watched the reassuring wall get repaired, they felt hope and they told themselves they would recover soon—like the wall did.

But what was this? After a week, they suddenly got the notification of a war declaration.

They didn’t even know what that meant before!

Juno was one of the territories that upgraded the village center a bit late. They also didn’t have the money to hire or maintain useful aborigines because of the lack of funds, which was worsened by the beast tides, so the hiring had always been deferred until now.

Or more accurately, the lord didn’t understand what it was for.

So, all this time, they knew very little about this world. Even when there were aborigines that landed some days prior, they were simply intimidated by their strength, not knowing what was to come.

SLASH!

“AH!”

Gurnam held out his sword to shield himself from an aggressive attack. He was pushed back and for a moment he thought the man would attack him and he was prepared to defend himself.

However, instead of going after him, the enemy turned his body, stabbing his only companion right at the chest.

“JOHN!” He cried, pushing himself to continuously stab the enemy until an opening appeared. The enemy’s level was higher than his, so he also received a lot of damage. With his grit, he managed to make the enemy lose grip of his weapon for a second, taking advantage to damage the bastard.

John was one of the last guards who could fight along with him!

Stab! Slash! Stab!

He led the aborigine in an alley, afraid that his companions—which outnumbered them—would come and help. The aborigine was busy guarding against Gurnam barrage, surprised by the strength a low-leveled man like him could make.

There was also the problem of pride. The aborigine thought: How dare he push him back like this!

He waved his weapon high for a massive and swift attack, not thinking Gurnam would be able to avoid it.

This arrogance would prove to be his downfall, as the larger opening created by his attack was taken advantage by Gurnam to finally slash his neck.

“!!!”

Gurnam didn’t bother with him anymore and turned to find the next fight or rescue the next person. At this point, the defending guards and citizens were focused on running for their lives, how could they possibly take down enemies?

For a while, Gurnam took advantage of his relatively hidden position in an alley, pulling weaker enemies that was a little away from his team, weeding them out bit by bit. He would pull and kill them as fast as he could, using his skill ‘Swift Slash’ for nearly every attack.

However, he soon lost energy and mana and knew he had to stop.

He looked over at the gate and saw that the guards assigned there had been taken down. Other than the sparse sentries, there was no obstacle for the enemies to enter anymore.

Gurnam knew he wouldn’t be able to focus the fight, however, and judging by the swarm coming through the door, it was a moot effort to try and fight them off.

They didn’t even know what counted as winning or losing in this war which suddenly alerted everyone!

Might as well save as many lives as he could!