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

At this time, Althea was lounging in her living room, bonding with the children.

”You grow up so quickly…” Althea mumbled as she rolled her babies on the cot. Clearly only a month old, but they were already on the verge of crawling. (Well, if dragging one’s little butt to move counted as crawling).

”Hnghbgmm…” Little Pepper mumbled, her clear blue eyes looking at her, while Little Meatball drooled all over.

”Ghamnnngh…” Meatball drooled so much some started to flow to where Pepper was.

Little Pepper felt the wetness and her face scrunched, rolled over, dragging her body—almost crawling—stomach down.

Althea giggled.

She leaned down to place kisses on the two babies and pondered whether to guide them on their crawling journey or let nature take its turn.

Before she did so however, a blaring alarm sounded around the whole territory, followed by vibration of the walls getting hit.

Althea frowned, her spine straightened in tension, whipping her head to face a direction—

They’re here!!

…

”I’m counting on you…” she told Lola, who took her babies into her arms. Yana was already preparing the place they would place the kids.

It was located in the living room, but with a clean new cot added. It was filled with toys they bought a day prior, just for babysitting duties.

At this time, Mathilda had already gone out to her team, handling their scope, leaving the two old women there wanting to contribute somehow.

Fortunately, Althea knocked on their door, asking them for help, allowing them to do a bit more for the territory. Or, to be more accurate, one of the people carrying it on her back.

”No problem,” Lola said, but she couldn’t help but look at Althea worriedly.

She heard from Mathilda before she left that the monsters outside were far stronger than what they had encountered so far. No one was certain how they would truly fare against these monsters.

”Be careful out there,” Lola said, and Yana—who just returned from setting up the play place—nodded in agreement. She also took one baby in her arm, and Lola did the same.

”Please try not to get hurt.”

”Of course.” Althea said with a smile, ”Thank you for always being available to care for the kids. I can only fight with little worry for them because of this.”

”We love the children don’t worry,” Lola shook her head, feeling that they didn’t deserve so much praise. She then looked at the babies and let them face their mother.

”We are all waiting for you to get back safe and sound. Aren’t we, little kids?” She said, and the two old women held the babies’ hands to help them wave at their mum.

The babies had long been teary, as if sensing that their mother was risking her life.

”Mmmahmanggg…”

”Googmmmgmmm…”

Althea smiled and wiped the babies’ tears. They were so well-behaved to not be making a scene despite wanting to.

”Mommy will come back very soon~” She said, kissing them many times before reluctantly walking away, this time without turning back.

The two old women listened as the little babies whimpered, but were otherwise well-behaved.

It was amazing and it also broke their hearts.

The old women sighed as they watched Althea’s back—so lithe and brave—go farther and farther until she was no longer in sight.

”Such a wonderful woman,” Lola said, heaving a deep breath and lulling the baby in her arms to relax and not be too sad.

Yana also lifted a baby up and gestured to take him to the play place, hoping to distract them a bit.

It was just that as the twins lay there, seeming to have none of their characteristic energies, the two old women could only look at each other and sigh in depression.

”Poor things...”

”She shouldn’t be forced to risk her life like this, especially when she has such small little ones waiting for her to come home…”

”Alas,” Yana sighed, ”Such is the world now. We can only adjust.”

…

Althea watched as the newly arrived monsters attacked her territory from the walls, her emerald eyes looking at them deeply, studying them.

Thanks to the sentries, there were only about a dozen monsters left at this time, but they were large, about 2 meters high. They had large upper bodies, three massive fangs, and bluish scale-like skins.

At this time, a lot of guards were in this part of the battlement and they had continuously tried shooting at the monsters but they didn’t so much.

Fortunately, the sentries were reliable and the main walls had barely taken damage, keeping the monsters at bay and killing a few.

Studying the set-up more, Althea realized that they destroyed the outer fence, seemingly like stepping on a cake.

Jerks.

Annoyed, she used her ability to determine their levels. She flinched a bit when she saw them to be 8s and a level 9.

She frowned. This was far from what they were used to.

Althea immediately aimed her arrow at the bastard who did the most damage.

Although her Bellagio Bow could be used against much stronger monsters, that was in the hands of much stronger archers. As she was currently, she could only deal with a few shots against such a level of monsters before her mana ran out.

She tried shooting at a level 8, using Perfect aim to hit its weak spot.

[Killed! Sansha (Lv8)! +220 Experience! +220 Copper!]

One shot, and it fell down. Unfortunately…

Althea looked at her stats and saw that that one attack took nearly half her mana…

Tsk.

She did not continue what she had been doing and let the sentries fire continuously to weaken them.

She didn’t want to use any of the few bombs she made, either. They were so few, who knew when they’d really need the bombs instead?

Besides, the monsters now were troublesome, but still manageable. They were the perfect whetstones for her and her people.

Of course, the premise of something being classified as ’practice’ was that they wouldn’t die for it.

The monsters continued trying to hit the wall for a while longer, and her eyes caught a monster that was continuously protected from damage, shielded from the sentries by hiding behind the body of its companion.

She narrowed her eyes, feeling something different here. Was it because it was a level higher than the others?

It was at this time that Rowan, Oslo, and Drake joined her on the wall battlement, watching the monsters hit the walls continuously without regard for the sentry arrows shooting them.

Level 5 sentries could easily take on level 10 without taking much damage, with slightly discounted attacking damage with stronger monsters. This damage further decreased until the monster was level 30.

The dozen or so monsters were reduced to about seven. It was around this time that a smarter monster—the monster from before—seemed to have noticed the futility of their attacks and roared loudly.

The next moment, the weakened, but surviving monsters ran just out of the sentries’ reach.

Althea’s eyebrows rose.

So smart?