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

”GYAHHHHH!!!!” they yelled as they felt intense pain spread all over their bodies. Their bodies twitched and their mouths frothed a bit with saliva. When it stopped, they felt dizzy, forcing themselves to glare at the guards outside their cell.

”Bastard!!”

Stronger ones forced themselves up, kicking and punching at the metal. However, a System Prison weakened whoever was in the cells and it disallowed the use of skills and abilities, so how could they succeed?

There were also those who tried destroying the reddish mesh that surrounded them, but they were very ductile and the weakened prisoners could only do so much.

However, for good measure, Drake and the other guards decided to punish them for misbehaving. A mesh fell down on the particularly ’rebellious’ ones, so now they were completely surrounded by the cold, ominous, metal. They were even splashed with a bit of water again.

Without further ado, Drake used his ability again, sending a strong voltage, the subsequent pain embedding into everyone’s memories.

”ARGGHH!”

”STOP IT!”

”You bastard—wait til I get out of h— AHHHH!”

They peed and shit themselves due to the pain, humiliating themselves even more. It looked a bit pitiful, but any Alterran who knew what they were here for would spit at them.

The other ones who had wanted to fight froze and kept quiet. They could only grit their teeth as they glared, but they were too afraid of pain to do anything else.

They tried to be subtle in their rebellion. But because the prison forbade them from using any skill, and considering how they were weakened by just being in the Prison, it was difficult to just destroy the flexible copper mesh that ominously wrapped around them. It would just stretch and be drawn out instead.

The meshes were well-made, made to maximize the natural ductility of copper. The laboratory was also experimenting with creating an alloy or combining it with other discovered metals to make it even better, but that was a story for later.

Eventually, the prisoners learned to behave, and they could only lie down in their own sweat and pee. It was disgusting and horrible and it made their bodies hot with anger, but they had no choice but to keep it in.

They never had to keep their anger before! They were used to beating people up to vent!

But they maintained their sanity just by the thought that the situation would be reversing soon. ’Just you bastards wait!’ they would whisper amongst themselves. ’I will make you suffer a hundred times more than I did!’

Soon, it was quiet, with the prisoners waiting in anticipation of the screams. Maybe their companions would come and rescue them soon! Their eyes went red in bloodlust just thinking of it.

However, the minutes passed and they heard nothing. It was too quiet.

Another flaw of a low-level prison was that it didn’t have much insulation. So people outside would be able heard the screams from the inside. If there was chaos outside, they should also hear it.

This was one of the many reasons why the Alterran prison was built mostly underground. They had to dig up a large area at the side of the mountain before overlaying the prison building there.

After so long, they knew how the building worked and it would be building directly at the natural ground line of that spot. Similarly, if they would expand the prison someday, they would have to dig more before it could actually do so. Of course, that’d be a problem in the future.

Either way though, even if the prison was smack in the middle of town, they still wouldn’t hear the noise they were expecting to hear.

”Aren’t they still attacking?” one asked with gritted teeth. It was time for the attack!

So… why was everything so silent?

…

Outskirts of Alterra

Baltimore frowned. He and the other people beyond the level cap had been waiting just outside the sentries’ reach.

They were prepared for whoever came out, eager to take down people as they weren’t able to do anything before.

”They’re really cowards, calling back people before we can do anything to them. COWARDS!”

”Where are the others?”

”They should be attacking by now?”

Baltimore looked around. ”Go look for the array as well,” he said, and Seto nodded. He went to the other side though, as they already sent people to find the array even before.

He walked around the perimeter, until a kilometer away from the gate. The Teleportation Array of the attacking territory was always in front of one of its gates.

In contrast, the Array at the destination area would vary and was completely randomized.

Now, he was tasked to find it and assist the group to go through the walls. Usually, it was shielding them from the sentries, which was going to be difficult because this place had level 5 sentries densely packed together. He didn’t worry too much though, because they had a lot of meat shields for that.

Eventually, he heard screams and a few ground vibrations, making him smirk.

”Finally!” he yelled, sprinting towards the commotion to join in the fun. Besides, they were outside the walls now. This meant that he could join the torture.

However, before he could do so, he had to avoid a few monsters. He killed them effortlessly due to their low level, but he realized the quantity wasn’t few.

”A monster mob?” he mumbled but just killed the monsters anyway, not thinking much about it. He simply followed the sound of the fighting, realizing the density of monsters was increasing.

He frowned, having a bad foreboding feeling about the situation.

Sure enough, as he arrived near the array, he saw their people coming out were mobbed by monsters as they appeared.

And, because they were level 15 at most, the mob of monsters naturally caused them a bit of trouble, directly taking a few as soon as they exited the array!

Seto paled, barely avoiding a few teeth heading in his direction. One managed to nick him, but he didn’t have time to be angry—just confused.

WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON?!