After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World - Chapter 808

Chapter 808: Finally Departing (Part 2)
For now, Gill and the others were not aware of exactly what was brewing. They were focused on planning the trip home.

“I got 490 goblins to agree to go with me,” Gill said. “Most of them would go to Limestone Valley, and the rest would head to Alterra.”

This was a good number and it still left at least a thousand more inside. According to the instructions delivered by the escorts, most of these would go to Limestone Valley, while about a hundred would settle in Alterra to help out with the Heat Wave preparations.

They nodded, dividing themselves into teams so the guards would have assignments. This was to make sure that all the goblins reached the destinations safe and sound.

The guards, though mostly normal guards within the level cap, were led by a few stronger soldiers like Mao and Luis. Silva went out early that morning to clear the way.

Among the guards, interestingly, there were two non-Alterrans there. They were both women, and the only female members of the Iron Mountains Guard team, Yllana and Mirea.

They looked a bit tense, surrounded by new people, but also hopeful.

The previous night, they were called on to his home by Master Gill. It was pretty late and the associations, considering their experiences, led them to make some unsavory assumptions.

A part of them thought they’d be asked to bed him. This made them a little sad, though they didn’t fight it. Master Gill was still a thousand times better than Baltimore.

However, they were surprised to see Miss Silvia there instead. She was waiting for them on the dining table, with light snacks and tea for three prepared.

“Come and sit. Let’s have a little talk,” she said. She was so beautiful and graceful, and the two women couldn’t help but admire her.

The two of them reluctantly sat down at the same table. When Silvia also asked them to drink and eat, they followed, though not expecting much.

When the drink touched their lips and the cookies melted in their tongues though, the two women went blank in a daze, absorbing what they had just tasted, and started eating the rest of it with gusto.

They flushed when they realized what they did, but Silvia just laughed at their reaction. “It’s a common snack in Alterra. As long as you have a job, you can afford to have that every few days. Maybe even every day.”

The two women blinked, longing but also puzzled.

“Now… I called you here because of that.

“Rest well and prepare your things, you’re going to Alterra.”

“What?”

“Really?”

Silvia smiled. “Yes, really.”

The two couldn’t help but look at the woman, pushing a few boundaries to ask the question.

If it was Master Gill, they wouldn’t have dared, but perhaps because Silvia was a fellow woman, they couldn’t help but want to try. “What is Alterra like?” Yllana asked. “I mean, for people like us…”

She pursed her lips when she realized her question was vague. However, Silvia understood. “Alterra… it’s a place where as long as you work hard and have the heart to contribute—you’d be able to live well.”

…

The time for departure finally arrived and the massive group exited via the Northeast Gate.

Before leaving though, the guards couldn’t help but look at the hundreds of goblins they had following them. They were really small and fragile-looking, and it triggered a few protective instincts among the few of them.

There were also a few aborigines who wished to come. Some were quite suspicious, but they couldn’t exactly keep them from following either. The Alterrans just made it clear that they wouldn’t be protecting anyone else so they’d be coming at their own risk.

There were a few people grumbling, though they followed anyway.

The large group headed out like so, and they travelled peacefully for about half an hour. The guards easily dealt with the mobs that came through, though there were few, presumably because of Silva.

However, because there were hundreds of them in this party, it was inevitable that quite a few mobs would still be attracted.

Fortunately, most of them pulled their own weight.

Everyone, when approached by monsters, would fight against it. Well, in the case of the civilians, they’d only defend themselves when it was right next to them, but they would not be putting much effort into it.

Sometimes, they’d even direct the monsters elsewhere, likely the guards or the goblins.

Fortunately, every Alterran was trained well and in all situations. They always kept their cool and handled it, though they did not forget to remember the civilians who decided to make trouble.

Even the goblins were more helpful than the human civilians with higher levels than they had.

Though they were small and weak, their cooperation was really no joke.

To be honest, it was a bit unexpected because their impression of them was that they were really… meek.

At the same time, they shouldn’t have been that surprised. After all, they saw how goblins performed during wars when they were fighting for themselves.

Anyway, their fights were quite interesting to watch. Sure, they still needed to be guarded and most of the monsters had to be kept away from them, but for the few monsters that came their way, they really handled it well.

For example, a group of goblins would immobilize the monster by taking a leg each, then the rest would mob and attack its weak spot—something that was hit with impressive speed.

In another area, a group would distract a monster while the rest barraged it with attacks.

It was really efficient, and the Alterrans soon realized that the goblins could also detect the weaknesses of creatures!

Mao and the others were a bit enlightened by this. It so happened that they hadn’t ‘mapped’ the monsters in this area yet so many of them weren’t too familiar with their weaknesses yet.

“Watch where the goblins focus their hits, and target that!” he said to the guards, whose efficiency spiked right after that.

Slash! Bang! Slit!

The small mob was handled after a few minutes with little to no injuries among the humans, and a few on the goblins’ side.

When it was over, Mao went over to the Goblins, handing over a few healing potions to the injured ones. Their large eyes looked at him in apprehension and curiosity, but they definitely did not expect a direct compliment.

“Good job little guys,” he said, smiling. “You really helped us out there.”