After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World - Chapter 898

Chapter 898: State of the Other Allies
All over the world, territories had started waging war with others. Whether they were the defenders or the attackers, no one escaped the tragedies of war this time.

After all, it had been two weeks since the disaster started. Everyone was parched, famished, and very, very, desperate.

The citizens had no choice but to join in these wars. Everyone within the level limit—that was to say, everyone—went through the array to attack.

Belluga was now undergoing war with their old enemy—Khlack Village. It made sense for this village to attack them during this time.

After all, one was for revenge, and the other was because they were the easiest target among the territories associated with Alterra, which had the resources these people wanted.

Raine rubbed her temple and looked at her confidantes, Suide and Orlande, who were Kimmy’s other husbands. They were currently wearing the insulation suits they bought from Alterra.

They could not afford to equip the other guards with the same suits, so they built wide makeshift roofs that hung on the battlement instead. It was still boiling, but the direct exposure to the sun was limited.

Suide sighed, his perennially sleepy eyes looking down at the battlement. His bow and arrows had not rested since the beginning of the war, and he could only fire arrows at whoever.

“They never end,” he said. His voice was droning but, if one knew him close enough, one could tell there was tension in his tone.

The dark-skinned Orland waved his weapon as he took down another set of enemies trying to climb up the walls.

He sighed, looking at the enemy’s poor states, feeling the desperation in their attack. “This is probably their last attempt.”

The war started a few hours in the afternoon with the enemies going full force from the get-go. This was probably in order to capture their territory before night time, where they’d have to deal with the monster mobs as well.

This meant that the sun was up when they attacked, and everyone felt like they were being boiled alive. Of course, they chose a time near dusk to minimize this, but the death count of the enemy was not small.

“It’s annoying,” Suide mumbled with that lazy tone of his, but anyone who knew him would see his annoyance. “Too hot.”

Naturally, a lot of the attackers didn’t last long even when they weren’t killed by weapons—the heat would get to them instead.

They managed to go for so long because there were so many of them. Specifically, so many slaves.

A pity that those bastards who attacked them before—the people who did that to Kimmy—weren’t even from Khlack, delaying their revenge.

Then again, it wasn’t the time yet. They were still so weak after all.

In the meantime, the Bellugans, including their new slaves, dropped rock after rock down the wall to deal with those who reached it. It was particularly fulfilling to see their slaves, whom they got from Khlack, helping them out.

Of course, the Bellugan citizens didn’t just stand under this dangerous heat unprotected.

They had bought a lot of heat-resistant hats and coats, effective sun lotions from Alterra, as well as some cooling packs. The slaves would make do with the shade, which was already much better than their former compatriots under the direct sun.

The Bellugans definitely had it much better than their enemies. However, how many items could they buy? Not to mention, these things could get damaged during the fight…

Anyway, they were, frankly, running out of sun protection.

When more people neared the wall, Suide immediately shot a few more arrows, killing more and more people who seemed stronger than others while leaving the rest for the sun or their own slaves to kill.

He realized that the people he had been killing lately weren’t even slaves anymore. The surviving Khlack slaves, who had been extremely weakened from starvation, had already died during the first wave of the attacks. The others probably already died before the war.

The ones in the vanguard now were proper citizens desperate for help. They had to admit that, even if Khlack was their enemy, they still felt pity for their fellow humans, especially the normal citizens.

This was especially true for the kindhearted Suide, who had to shoot down many people in the past few hours. However, he was not naive enough to hold back on them.

The mercy he could show now was to make sure they died in a shot, as painlessly as possible.

They could never get used to killing fellow humans, but they really didn’t have a choice did they?

Dark hands touched his shoulders and felt his tension. “Cover my back,” he said and Suide could only look at him worriedly.

“Be careful.”

The dark-skinned man nodded and their foreheads touched, before he jumped down the three-meter-tall wall, directly taking down people with his sword.

His sword was emblazoned with fire and he waved, burning several more. In this weather, another source of heat was particularly torturous!

As he swung, he cooperated very well with Suide, who shot people he missed with his bow and arrow.

Along with them, there were also hundreds of other guards and citizens fighting. This was in exchange for resources, especially useful as they had recently varied the purchase limits due to the dwindling resources.

They also had farms filled with drought-resistant plants, of course, but unlike the others they didn’t have as many agricultural talents, so they still struggled a lot.

Eventually, they finally reached the enemies’ final wave, with Khlack’s ‘main forces’ finally deciding to go through the array. It was dusk now, so the sun was less gruesome.

They sent other people there first to weaken the enemy while they waited for more favorable weather conditions to go out and fight.

They were disappointed to see their thousands of slaves and citizens useless though, more than half of them dying even before they could do some damage.

At this point in time, there was only about an hour before the sun completely died out. Regardless of the sacrifices they had to make, they had to get this territory!

Khlack knew that this territory had farms and a lot of wells.

They wanted it!

Unfortunately for them, the Bellugans were relatively strong and still had enough protection against the heat and the sun—a major advantage against the enemies.

The Khlack Villagers could only gape as they were still utterly useless against the enemies. Obviously, their average levels were higher, but because they had become so weak, their attacks had been reduced by a huge lot.

There was also the momentum problem. They were suffering from the boiling weather, but they would see the enemies under shade!

In the end, they won and gained a few more slaves. Raine had no qualms in making slaves out of the people who attacked them, deciding on using them to assist with the farming and the digging of tunnels.

In exchange, they would be given some food for their work, and even more if they were very productive.

When the slaves found out about it, they calmed a bit.

It didn’t matter to them that they were slaves now, as long as they had food.