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

Dune Town was one of the only towns in the area—unsurprisingly so. The resources outside of the vast desert were nice, why would anyone build something here?

When he arrived there, it so happened that their ’princess’ was about to leave. She was very beautiful and graceful. She also had lustrous hair that was of similar color to the sands that surrounded them, shimmering under the sky.

She was being sent off by her family, and they seemed genuinely reluctant to see her go. It was rare to see women so loved, so he couldn’t help but watch until the woman entered her beast car, heading who-knew-where.

Anyway, that episode was soon at the back of his head as he had to spend his salary of the previous month to get hired again in the Chancery.

He prayed to the late Elves to bless him.

Really, a normal village would be fine!

…

In contrast to his brother, Tambai’s final territory was a village located on the snowy mountain ranges of the Southeast territories.

This part was an area near orc territories, but unlike the orc-adjacent human territories in better terrain, humans were at an even deeper disadvantage in the mountains.

The number of human territories on this side was very few and somehow Tambai luckily ended up there. Fortunately, the temperature in Xeno was generally temperate for most parts except for areas like these, because they were affected by the extreme terrains. Hence, the coldness wasn’t so debilitating that no one could move year-round.

The nearest town was farther though so he sucked it up and decided to stay for a while longer, unlike his brother who went to the nearest town as soon as the month cycle ended.

Unfortunately, fate had other plans for him and they got attacked by an orc less than a week after he got hired.

Rather, it attacked every so often, and he was hired to deal with the damned thing!

The quality of hires for villages wasn’t very high, and he was apparently the strongest one they found!

His stomach fell to the bottom but as someone who signed a contract, he had to at least do his best, and his heart was beating loudly as he faced the beast.

Orcs’ fecundity may not be very strong, but a single one was no less scary than a small mob.

Orcs were huge with an average height of 2.5 meters, and their force values were equivalent to at least 5 men of the same level. And these were the weaker orcs—fighter orcs were much more formidable.

Only one attacked their village and he could cause so much chaos already. Anyway, Tambai was, unsurprisingly, beaten up after a short fight. He survived due to the Class D armor given to him (and his brother) by their parents using the remaining lifetime of their savings.

It was broken now though, and to be honest his heart broke along with it.

When Tambai shook off the dizziness of the hit, people were already screaming and fighting.

He was shocked to find that five more orcs had arrived. He didn’t know how many orcs would take to trigger wars, but apparently five was not enough.

In any case, he woke up to a horrible, horrible, sight of limbs flying and bodies getting mutilated. Unlike mindless beasts, Orcs wouldn’t eat people directly but they could definitely dismember them with a flick.

The lord was hiding in the Warehouse—the most secure place for a lord—but it wasn’t the orc’s first rodeo and they decided to attack it directly.

Because he and his brother practically grew up in mercenary halls, they had learned quite a few things that were not common knowledge.

For one, Tambai knew that the Warehouse was extremely safe for lords because not only were they the only ones who could access the building, but even the low-leveled ones were also said it be as sturdy as level 3 walls. Basically, before enemies could damage it, they would’ve been found by the defending guards and be dealt with.

The orcs were probably very hungry and looking for more resources in this cold place. Half of the orcs didn’t eat meat, and he wasn’t surprised that three out of the five orcs seemed to have the herbivore appearance (something he also learned in the mercenary hall).

They targeted the warehouse for some time, but the guards and citizens were too busy protecting themselves to care about it.

After about half an hour of continuous pounding at the doors, it finally gave way. The special aura around the warehouse disappeared and it slowly crumbled, revealing the resources their village lord had been guarding.

He didn’t quite know what happened when a warehouse was breached before, but now he knew.

”AHHHH!” The lord yelled as he was suddenly exposed to the world, extremely shocked by the development.

”NO! NOOO! HELP MEEE!” He yelled as he ran away, as if being so noisy would magically make the orcs not see him.

In fact, the orcs wouldn’t have cared about him as long as they got the resources, but the lord was an idiot and screamed at the people around, pointing at where the orcs were gathering resources.

”KILL THEM! KILL THEMM!!!” he yelled at the top of his lungs. He was so noisy and ’threatening’. It made one of the fighter orcs walk over him and raise his hand and—SLAM!—detaching the top of his body with a wave of his paw.

His upper half body’s projectile stopped when it hit a building, making the people nearby scream in terror. First at the horrid scene, and then at the realization of what it implied.

And so, the lord died, destroying the whole village in the process.

Tambai took this chance to run away as far as he could. Anyway, the orcs were too busy with their loot to care for him.

It took him a full month of perilous travel and many near-death experiences before he got to the closest town to get rehired. Once again, he had to use much of the month’s salary to register, praying for blessings while he waited to get hired.

Hopefully, the next village was decent. He didn’t expect much. They were used to bad lords and monster mobs, but…

Please, just please, nothing too weird!