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

Soon, they were surrounded by Fargo guards and their team immediately raised their weapons.

Crow narrowed his eyes at them, analyzing. Because their level differences weren’t high, it wasn’t easy to determine their levels accurately.

There was no guard in their temporary team, and he was the strongest one at level 8. Crow then looked at the enemies and the highest seemed to be around level 7, though most of them ranged from level 5-6.

Crow looked at the others and nodded at them, gesturing towards a narrow alleyway. They understood what he was talking about, and they immediately moved upon his signal.

They went back to back and targeted a random side to open a path to them. Sunny was one of the shieldsmen in the team and she held out her Class D shield, pushing forward along with others. Behind her were the spearmen and swordsmen who would stab through the gaps between the shields.

The plan was to weaken them a few at a time. The enemies had been damaged from the war, anyway. Even if they were outnumbered 1 to two or three, the Alterans didn’t falter at all.

And because everyone was so cramped, the hit rate was 100%.

”AH!”

”BASTARDS!”

Dog, a swordsman, was right behind Sunny. ”Hya!” he yelled as he stabbed and stabbed. When he was sure there’d be a critical hit, he’d even spend a bit of mana and use a skill.

[Used Stab! -2 Mana!]

”GAHH!!”

[Used Stab! -2 Mana!]

”AHHHH!”

[Used Stab! -2 Mana!]

”GYAHH! DAMNIT!”

Dog, along with the others, debilitated more and more people as the minutes ticked by, making it easier for them to go to where they wanted.

They hurried and pushed towards a better position, stepping on the men who fell along their path (tho not without a few Alterans stabbing again for good measure).

They pushed hard until they entered the alleyway, the prevalent type of pathway in the outer walls. Although still dangerous, at least in alleys, their sides would be covered and they only had to defend the front and back.

With this, they could focus less on defense and more on the attack. Combined with the dripping momentum of the enemies, this turned the fight completely to their favor.

John glared at the damned Alterans. ”Bastards!!” he yelled as more of their people fell.

How humiliating! To think he was struggling with a bunch of kids on the bottom rung of the enemy forces! Unlike the others, there wasn’t even a single elementalist here!

Would those bastards from the other team mock him when they found out!

However, it’d be more embarrassing to lose track of them so he yelled at the top of their lungs.

”HELP! ENEMIES HERE!” he yelled and soon his other teammates did the same, though mostly out of fear.

They didn’t want to be in the vanguard where you’re 100% sure you’ll get hit!

Crow and the others cursed as they heard a couple of footsteps, with another dozen guards heading in their direction. Soon after that, another small group arrived on the other side, and suddenly their attention had to be divided.

”Shit!”

Clank! Clank!

The enemies mobbed them from both sides. It was fortunate that they were in the alley so the enemies who could attack them at the same time was limited. However, after a brief period of confusion, John and the others snapped out of it.

”Wheel battle!” He yelled, and they pounded on the small group as hard as they could, simply exchanging hitters when they got too tired.

The Alteran group was compressed more and more, but they stood strong, stabbing those outside the shield with their Class D weapons, and defending themselves with their shields and equipment. At least at this point, they were far superior to their enemies and they held out even when the enemies had rotated.

They were still far too outnumbered and many of them received more and more damage, with some of their equipment showing signs of cracking. Despite all this though, the enemies were still losing more people.

One of the top killers was Crow himself, who was now standing on a wooden stool he had in his space to give him a better vantage point of enemies farther away.

Crow was the only archer in their group so he was also shooting away, targeting those who were farther to ruin the enemy pace. He was using a crossbow, too, so the amount of shots he could send in a minute was far superior to the Fargo archers, whose hits were often caught by the shieldsmen.

If they fell, then either they’d be kicked out of the way or stepped over.

The enemies saw that this could not go on. John couldn’t assume more of their side would find this place. The outer wall was so large and the guards were spread out thin. Most of them would be hunting for the bigger groups, for certain. This was especially true for those who hadn’t encountered those people’s strengths, and they’d be far too enticed by the lords’ rewards to use their heads.

He looked at his companions and gave a rough order before sending glares at the enemies.

It’s not over yet!

…

The battle went on for a while longer, with everyone’s mana was slowly getting consumed. However, the Alterans still stayed strong. They knew that if they maintained their pace, they would eventually finish this off.

But not everything would happen the way people wanted it to.

Crow’s ears twitched and he looked up to see the lone window of a house with a Fargo guard. He had a bow and arrow, directed at the back of their shieldsmen.

”Look out!” Crow yelled and immediately raised his shot, killing the man with his crossbow. Sadly the arrow was still released. Dog immediately went to catch it, but his sword was buried in an enemy’s body so he had no choice but to let go of the weapon and cover Sunny with his body.

”AH!”

”DOG!!”

Sunny sobbed as Dog’s weight rested on her. She couldn’t let go of the shield or else they’d be in more trouble. Further, there was no space between them to care for Dog.

She sobbed, yelling and pushing back the men.

She was a woman and ended up with shieldswoman not because she was super strong, but because she could angle well—that was, she could determine where the more efficient path of force was.

”HYAA!!” She yelled, adding pressure on the bottom, imbalancing some enemy up front, and immediately pushing the top to hit his face.

Bang!

She and the other shieldmen on her side took advantage of the inertia, pushing more and giving their side more space. They laid crow down as he was hit on the shoulder. Their armors were fine for now, but it didn’t have full-body defense, hence any visible opening was really an opening.

They did the first aid—something the guards were trained for—but he definitely needed a lot more space.

Sunny and the others worked hard to hit and push more. But unexpectedly… new footsteps arrived. Their hearts dropped.

They had a rough idea where the other Alterans were heading and it was definitely not here. This meant that people coming were from Fargo!

Should they run already? HOW!?

Crow frowned and saw that another group of people were rushing in on them from one side of the alley. They had roughly-made bandanas on their foreheads and very serious looks on their faces.

Their hearts turned cold, but they kept fighting.

The more he looked, the more Crow noticed the difference. He realized they were not guards!

Citizens?

Did the citizens start attacking, after all? They had heard Fargo put up a good reward for killing them. When no one went out, they were relieved and thought citizens wouldn’t be a problem.

The territory also had to pay a certain fee for oaths. The way things worked here wasn’t like in Terra where governments could draft people and force them to fight. Here, the power play was too variable and unstable—there was no unified ’government’ over all the territories.

But… seeing the citizens go in their direction with aggressive expressions out and waving their weapons, it seemed that they were still too complacent!

It was just that… when they were mentally preparing themselves to handle the new injection of force—the newcomers started attacking their own (Fargo’s) guards!!

Let alone the Fargo guards, even the Alterans were very confused.

What… is going on?