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

Outside the territory

The group ’trapped’ outside was led by Ansel. In this group, he was with the twins, as well as about a dozen civilians who joined the hunting team.

It started out quite nicely. They hunted monsters, defeated them, gained fair amounts of experience for each team member, and also got a lot of loot.

By the end, everyone had their space filled with resources. Sadly, a mob of hundreds arrived, and many level 7s, which was a bit dangerous even for them. Loki was there with them but he was only allowed to help them level up and save their arses from death, so he refused to clear the mobs for them.

Fortunately, Ansel had bottles of Beast Repellant potions and they managed to avoid the bulk of it.

Of course, Alterra’s potions couldn’t yet be compared to that of the city’s, so there were monsters that still went to attack them, but it was manageable.

They fought their way until they caught sight of the main walls.

It went relatively smoothly until someone got injured and the smell of blood attracted more and more monsters, which led to their current predicament of defending-but-can’t-move-forward.

”Yo—Ansel~ Been a while since we last fought a mob together, eh?” Luke said and Leo nodded, all while shielding themselves against the monsters.

Luke waved his spear and stabbed a monster in place, while Leo waved his sword to stab it through its eyes and through its head. ”I heard you got a new girlfriend.”

”You already heard about that already, eh?” Ansel said, sneering, a blaze of fire burning a weaker monster to crisp.

”Also, she is not my girlfriend!”

The twins would’ve raised their hands in surrender if they weren’t busy defending. ”Yes, yes, whatever you say.”

At the same time, both of them were eager to try out their new skills!

Luke and Leo both activated new skills during their rounds, with Luke getting the Fire Whip technique similar to Luis’ while Leo got a technique called Water formation, which was a faster and more efficient way to condense water from air.

In Alterra, all water users had a little water sac in their spaces, earth users had small boulders, fire users had oil, wind users had fans, and the like.

However, there were plenty of cases where the water wasn’t enough, and condensing water from air took a lot of energy as it was. This technique was very useful in such cases. With it, the normal energy consumption would be halved or reduced even more.

Luke couldn’t wait to test out his skills. He even had the audacity to grin at him, ”Imma try some techniques, help me practice later, okay?”

Ansel’s eyes twitched, ”Being in the middle of a monster mob is not the time to practice!”

Anyway, they continued fighting their way until they finally found an opening to move forward. It was small and they could only move slowly, but eventually they did reach the walls.

Immediately, they took advantage of the sentries—which was basically instinctual now—to kill several monsters from the get-go.

Ansel took an extra step and jumped up, his back on a sentry that was about to shoot. The twins gasped but then Ansel immediately turned away.

At this level, at the right angle, a single shot from the sentry could skewer 2 monsters no problem.

Like so, within the next few minutes, Ansel alone took down a handful of monsters just with sentries.

The twins looked at him with a smile, and he shook his head.

”Backs near the walls,” he said, ”Cover your backs well, I can only watch so much.”

”Aye, aye, Ansel~”

…

When the people found out about the mob’s manageable level, a lot more joined in. This was an easy level and would give decent contribution points to a lot of them. For those who were stuck in level 8 or 9, this was the perfect time to try and hit level 10!

So many people had began to awaken, and they were feeling left behind!

The two dogs also joined in and went around near the walls and killing what they could. Fufi was right by Snow though as the wolf’s level was limited.

They were definitely working well together though, with Fufi dealing brute force and Snow killing off the remaining leaks or weakened monsters.

Fufi was willing to give most of the kills too, like a good gentleman dog, so that Snow’s level would at least be high enough to handle or escape from higher levelled monster.

Meanwhile, in one of the corners, the good-looking Trio were fighting a small mob while practicing their elements. Leo had long given up because he didn’t do as well under pressure. He couldn’t even make a drop before almost getting bitten.

He decided to just practise the skill more in peace first.

Luke was different, plus he had the guidance of fellow fire user Ansel, so after a while of swinging his spear, he decided to try out the skill he just ’inherited’.

It wasn’t easy to do at will though, and he practiced so much so that after some point, his mana reduced so much that his fire whip could only be super small.

It would then get put out by a monster breathing on it.

Simple-minded Luke was still very happy though. ”Whoo! That was a total fire whip!”

Ansel’s lips twitched. Rather than a fire whip, that was a fire worm.

They continued to fight until the mobs had become visibly few. With the help of sentries and the dogs, the weight wasn’t heavy on anyone with a decent level.

It got to the point Luke recovered enough mana and finally created a fire whip the size of a kid’s belt!

”OHY—”

But then—

Drip, drop, drip

A single drop of rain killed it.

”...”

Ansel laughed as he swung, though his eyes twitched when he felt a few droplets on his skin.

Fortunately, the mob was almost finished so they didn’t have to worry about the rain too much.

It was just that with rain came mud, and mud meant muddy dogs.

The beast mob was dealt with but the massive canines ran to the familiar people—especially Ansel—and they shook their bodies to rid of the mud, splattering all over Ansel.

The redhead felt uncomfortable all over.

”FUFI! SNOW!”

…

Back in the villa, Althea and Garan looked out the window of their home to look at the sky, now a little darker from the rain clouds.

They were currently in the living room having a meeting with Eagle, who was discussing the plan for continuous exchange with Ferrol.

The bell on the veranda rang. ”A messenger bird has arrived!” Eagle said, standing up to take the bird, and placing it on its birdhouse to get dried and fed.

”It’s from Limestone Valley,” he said, and the couple nodded at him to read.

The man paled immediately as his eyes traced over its contents. This made the atmosphere a little stagnant, the couple waiting for him to speak.

Eagle heaved a deep breath, looking at the other two with a serious expression.

”Guia is coming!”