After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World - Chapter 738

Chapter 738: Confusions
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At this time, the enemy’s leading team was waiting not too far away. “There’s no news yet, milord,” Piko said to his master, though internally he was already a little shaken.

It had already been more than an hour, but no progress had been made.

This had never happened before.

They had a multilayer plan for this territory, which was already a lot more than what they usually prepared. After all, they had seen a good part of its strength and they didn’t underestimate it.

At least, that was what they thought.

For the first part of the plan, there was Treck’s team who would cause some disturbance. First was to cause chaos while—in Alterra’s case—also determining who the lord was.

In the midst chaos, the lord would be the most guarded. Even if he tried to hide himself, his fear for his own life would make his identity obvious in the end.

After all, why else would the Lord hide his identity so tightly? Wasn’t it just to protect himself?

They would also attempt to entice the power-hungry people by telling them of the Lord Token’s detachment from the lord’s body during the war.

This was a taboo, actually, but Guia never cared for that—as long as they could usurp the lord even before the war began, then they’d consider it a win.

Historically, this often succeeded with varying effects, depending on how much power the other parties had. This place had so many Elders and the power was distributed so much. They had believed that it could succeed.

They had sent papyrus letters to all the elders except the person who was likely the lord—Mathilda. In the letters were information about the token’s detachment, and the fact that whoever held it by the end of the war would become the new lord.

They did so right after the war announcement, but there had been no movement at all!

Was it just because they didn’t know who the lord was?

Normally, people could just kill every other elder during the war right?

They also planted seeds of chaos by announcing the rules were null during wars, seeing as most of the citizens hadn’t known at the time. The people were worried for the territory but they were certain a few people had seriously thought of taking advantage.

But obviously, now that the war was ongoing, no one seemed to have taken the bait—or at least no one succeeded in causing any effect—and Treck got imprisoned so early for naught.

Speaking of Treck, the rules and regulations of the place were much more stringent than he had anticipated. Even attempts for hostile violence were to be sent to prison, and Baltimore had no choice but to tell the others to lay low.

Although their overall level was higher, the gap was narrowed because of the level limitations, and he couldn’t lose the insiders even before the war happened.

Not to mention, there was an extremely high amount of elementalists there for some reason.

Speaking of that, when they took over—or at least win—they would get hundreds of elementalists as slaves. When he did so, he swore to get to the bottom of it.

Maybe those experts and intellectuals back in the master city would be interested in these… subjects.

“The last time we received the report, the people were too peaceful and they had to be low-key in taking down important people,” Piko told Baltimore, a little shaken. “There is no update as of yet, I can’t tell what the reason is for now.”

They didn’t know this yet, but the reason no update had been made was because the aether letter on Heso’s team was dropped in the balcony, near the archer’s side.

Now, they were too afraid to go out lest there were other rules they weren’t aware of, that would get them hit by the damned sentries.

So, the small team inside the territory was at a standstill, completely useless for a while until they confirmed it was safe to go out.

Baltimore narrowed his eyes, disliking how nothing was on-schedule.

However, he thought of how much resources and money they’d be able to win in this war and—while his thoughts weren’t obvious on his face—he was fuelled by excitement and bloodlust again.

“Has Seto returned?”

Piko shook his head. “I followed his tracks a bit and heard an explosion in the direction he went to. I assume the war had begun there.”

Baltimore’s eyes sharpened at this. “Did we have explosives?”

Ero’s eyebrows met and he shook his head. “We used them up during the last war. Those buggers are expensive.”

“Then what exploded?”

There was silence amongst their team for a while and when no logical answer came, they immediately traversed the periphery of the territory, running in the direction of the sound.

They eventually reached the location and they were shocked by what they found.

Not only were their numbers down by a good fraction, but—except for those very confused people who had just gone through the array—everyone had some injury!

“What’s going on?!” Baltimore yelled, no longer able to keep his cool. Ero pulled one up, and saw the person’s ears were bleeding.

“HEY! SPEAK!”

The man only stared at them, disoriented. He obviously damaged his ears a bit and could only hear ringing. Unfortunately for him, Ero didn’t care and just shook him.

When he couldn’t be of any use in the end, Ero threw him away and picked another random person, though he was similarly disoriented.

“DAMNIT!” he yelled, but was stopped by the Lord’s deep voice.

“Stop it,” he said, though anyone who had been with him long enough would be able to tell he was livid.

Baltimore took a deep breath, his sharp eyes analyzing the chaos around. So much loss in just an hour, and they weren’t even close to the sentries’ scope yet!

He turned his head in the direction of the enemy territory, eyes red with anger and humiliation.

How long has it been since he felt so humiliated?! How dare they!!

‘Alterra…!’ he mused with gritted teeth. ‘I will take you down!’